Lelutka has recently put out a nice sized release, this is just one of the many fabulously sweet outfits. Unfortunetly for me, my shape doesn't make outfits like this every day wear, but for pictures, you cant beat a beautiful scuplted dress like this one. Coupled with a pose by Tuli, I am delicate, sweet, and look almost innocent. Hey, who is laughing? I do!
One of the best things to see come across my time line on plurk are new creations from my favorite stores. Naive is, without a doubt, one I watch for! Each release brings out pieces that are an awesome addition to every inventory, even the over cluttered like mine. My favorite piece this time is the 'Awesome' shirt! Yes, the word of the day here at GI is 'Awesome'!
(Photo Below) Clothing: Pixeldolls Hair: Truth Pose: Diesel Works
The last photo here was just a bit of creative expression on my part tonight. I haven't been spending as much time wandering the grid just snapping pictures as I once did, mainly because I have so much else gong on, online and off. This was just a stolen moment of escape. Escape from all the people that are pulling at me, not intentionally of course. These are people I want to be there for, and help as much as I can, I once in a while just need the small escape to collect myself else end up no help to anyone. So many have things going on in their live(s) that I wish I could fix, but the best I can do right now is simply to be there for them. I have strong shoulders, but even strong women need someone to lean on once in a while. I don't think I would get through my days nearly as well as I do if not for Sands and his amazing support. I have a feeling we are going to end up needing new cell phones soon, for how much time we spend talking! The best part of my day is just getting to talk until we fall asleep, and I don't think I tell him or my other very dear friends just how much I love them for all they are, and all they do for me. To him directly, I love you, and am amazed by every day we spend together. So, I took my moments of escape, and look forward to another fabulous week with you all!
Just a small sampling of the things that I 'had to have' from Sugarcube yesterday. Every once in a while I stumble upon a store that people have probably known about for forever and a day, but its still my fabulous find! I obviously have this bad habit of neglecting my accessories, as seen in the above pictures, but later I did manage to get my lazy self into my inventory to hunt down the awesome bag from ETD and jewelry from Cursed for the last image. Looks like a great outfit to do what in? Oh yes, more shopping!
Just a quicky today, went and picked this dress up over at :Bijou: because I simply could not resist it. If I could spend every day wandering around in dresses like this, I so would! Using my normal Redgrave/Zero Style combination for skin and hair and the ever amazing Diesel Works poses.
I've always been known as a quiet observer. Ask almost any of the poor souls pictured here, and they could each probably tell you I often spend time just silently watching, taking in my surroundings until I feel safe enough to be open and myself to the people around me. If I never reach that point, I tend to stay the quiet one in the background, feeling the situations out or retreating all together. Far to often I let others take the control, waiting until they approach me to ensure that I am never presumptuous or rude. This can often be good, though not always. I miss out on a lot of opportunities sitting on the sidelines doing my own thing. As a side note, this blog entry is me doing that again, my own thing. There will be no fashion credits (save for the fact that everyone from below the first image is wearing Cursed Jewelry) but this is at the very least a complete SL related post. A very long winded one...
The more time I have spent on plurk lately (findable through my left sidebar) and reading blogs, and being that quiet observer in SL, the more I have come to realize that the community I have been rather quietly watching lately, is not a community in SL that I am often proud of, or want to be a part of. There are some amazing people within said community, people that are very caring and giving. They are some of the same people that others often will take quite a particular pleasure in insulting and degrading, and emotionally it kills me to watch and makes me extremely sad. These people are the part of the community I am silently stepping further and further away from. As far as I know, the adult grid and the teen grid have not merged so far, and yet daily I feel like I am watching a really bad after school special or the antics of people in high school. There seems to be four sides of this 'community' (over use of a word yet? Its only going to get better lol) and I have been trying for the last few days to work them out in my own mind.
First we have those that are far to kind and giving for their own good, and I adore them for their bravery of putting themselves out there. There are those designers, every day bloggers, residents, clubbers, shopping addicts (which could be any of the others too, someone stop the shopping!) photographers, the list goes on and on. These people are here to truly make friends and enjoy SL to its fullest, without partaking (willingly, that is) in the massive amount of shenanigans or otherwise negative aspects of SL. Sometimes they are pulled in, often times for simply doing something they thought was good, only to be insulted and treated like they had ulterior motives, and they get left behind in the dust of drama. Oh noes, I said the D word. Heaven help me now!
Second, we have those that are here to be what they probably wouldn't in RL, yet they find a massive outlet for it here in SL. Rude, abrasive, cruel, gossip whores, rumor mongering individuals who often times seem to have nothing else going on so they need to get involved in everything. Everything, that most times has nothing at all to do with them. I have to wonder, what is there to gain by that? What does one get out of being cruel to others, to tearing them down in order to feel better about themselves? About being 'feared' and fooling themselves into think this fear is respect by the community, because I can promise you...it isn't. Knowing that people wont speak against you because they don't want you to turn on them is not respect. Knowing that the same people are discussing your actions and know of you, yet don't really know you does not make you a SLebrity (most ridiculous word in the SLorld, tyvm). Having friends that are willing to jump on the bandwagon with you just to build up themselves or their business, isn't a real friendship either. I have no idea why these people survive so long in SL, or why the community lets them even, other than the fear of being their next victim, but they marvel at their power here and abuse it (and other people) daily. I don't understand it because I treat everyone as I would want to be treated, was cursed by being raised that way. Even when someone does something that I should stick up for myself about, I stay in the background and still refuse to say or do things that might hurt someone because I value peoples emotions. Perhaps, more than I should?
Third, there are the people somewhere in the middle ground. Those that are some of the most amazing people I have ever come to meet, but are stuck being frustrated and fighting against the hypocrites and the fiasco that the second group causes. These are the people that can come out and try to defend the first group, by doing things that don't even come close to measuring up to the cruelty or abrasiveness of the second group and yet somehow be ripped to shreds for it. They are the ones that come in and point out 'hey, you are ripping person A up for defending themselves against person B who just did far worse than you are accusing person A of' and then they, as person C gets the brunt of the seconds group amazing amount of anger and cruelty. Even better, because of the fear they have instilled in others, they can do whatever they want, no matter how mean, only to be supported by their groupies. By default, in case its confusing, the groupies become classified as the second group. They could easily be the first, but by supporting and being cruel in the ways of the second, they fall in line. Followers that also flip between the second and third group, depending on where it benefits them the most. Ok even I am getting confused at this point...
Um, did I insult someone? I am by no means pointing fingers here. If you see yourself in one of those groups, then it isn't by my hand but your own, though I do think there is a fourth group, that would be the people that have *no* idea that this community in SL even exists. Oh, to be that fourth group again! So no, I am not here to tell anyone what they are or are not, I am just simply sharing some of my observations as a fly on the SL wall for years now. I have always stuck to my own small group within the community (ok its just word of the day now, use it in a sentance too, its fun =P) and have been really happy that way, as a person who lingers between the first and third group. These are also the people I surround myself with, even though some might even think one or two should be classified as the second group. I can honestly say, without any doubt or fear of saying so, they would be wrong. Amazingly, I don't have a single person that is truly close to me or that I love that I would ever consider of that group.
Hence the pictures within this entry. These are just some of the most amazing people I have ever met, in my SLife or otherwise, and am ever thankful that there are even more that I wasn't able to include. People that daily make my life better, who love me for who I am and embrace me even with my faults and failures. Who have never once walked away from me or taken the opportunity to rip me apart because of them. Who have spent so much of their time building me up, and letting me build them up as well. Life in SL and with me isn't always perfect, I can admit that I am difficult, stubborn, far to sassy and feisty, but I also know that I would do almost anything for the people I love, and often times let more things go than I should to that second group. Experiences change people though, and I find myself drifting more and more to the third group...wanting to stick up for people that are being ganged up on, yet not sure my one small voice is ever going to be loud enough to be heard. What part of the SL community are *you* a part of? What aspect of this SLife do you enjoy, brings you joy and makes you want to stick around? Like I asked on my time line a while back...what makes you stay? I know who I am, where I belong, and who with...do you?
Just a quicky today, weekends are always extremely busy now that its summer. Then again, weekdays are busier now that it is summer too! The results are more simple LOTD type posts, such as this one. Mixed pieces from Apple May (Top & Bangles from Willow, Jeans as a separate) and some of the amazing newer shoes from Shiny Things and this fast became one of my favorite outfits. I think I spent two days wandering in it, and thats unheard of from someone with a massive shopping addiction and inventory!
Just a quick note included here about the Grand Opening of Cursed scheduled for Saturday, 6-27-09 at 6pm SLT. I will be offering a free photo with every set of jewelry purchased of you in the set you chose! Looking forward to a lot of pictures, and a lot of people finding some amazing jewelry. Also, [42] just put out a new release so look forward to that coming as tomorrows LOTD! I hope everyone is having a fabulous SL/RL weekend and see you tonight!
Dina's Duds Shirt & Bangles: Apple May Shoes: Shiny Things Skin: Redgrave Hair: Yuki Pose: to be updated upon log in!
Contradictive, anything -but- simple, mysterious, intense, sarcastic, sassy, passionate & obviously on the fiesty side. I'm a pain, obviously.
Grand Illusion, to me, is a great many things. A place to share my adventures within the grandest illusion I know, Second Life. Exploration, friends and loved ones and best of all, fashion and the addiction that is, shopping!
