Virtual World "Problems"

This has nothing to do with anything, I just thought
the build was really pretty.

It was 14 months ago I launched the Unslutty and Undead marketplace shop to share my silly little gestures and poses with the virtual public. I did it for a giggle, for a small amount of validation (gosh, I'm needy!), and not for any remuneration (except for that Harold Lloyd clock pose - the clockface had been such a hassle to create that I demand an entire Llinden dollar for it). I really am pleased with the result. I get these nice little emails from the marketplace telling me who bought what, and I really do giggle over it.

The time for giggling is past, though. I'm getting tired of the emails. There have been 1,526 of them in the past 14 months. At first there would be one or two a week. Giggle, giggle! There's this gurgly feeling inside that I have shared something with someone - that they thought enough of what I created to get it for free. Pathetic, aren't I? Recently, however, I'm getting multiple emails daily. This is starting to wear on my Happiness organ, the Felix Organus Magnus. I can only be thrilled by something so many times in a week before I run out of mucus felicitas. It becomes a kind of burden to read the emails and categorize them (can't help myself - German ancestry). I can't imagine what it must be like to have to keep up with these in case of complaints. If anyone complains now, I just point to the "It's Free" sign and I'm off the hook.

All this leads me to believe that I couldn't possibly handle this as an actual business. There was a brief period recently that I considered making some full perm poses for sale for, I dunno, 5 Llindens. Forget that, Herbert! I don't need the money and it would stop being fun.

That said, if anyone wanted something full perm, they could just ask me and send me what they think it's worth, the final product, or just a photo of it in use.

Latest addition to the shop is a set of Amurrikin Football poses.

Photo above from Quiet After Evening - Fall at Leroy. Quark Fallen is someone else who just does things for free. Be sure to hit the subscribo because you'll get regular little gifts!

More Quiet After Evening - Fall.

That Daring Young Zombie

Lludmila has added some new poses to her marketplace shop that have been sitting around collecting dusty pixels for a while. As usual, they are free and these come with the extra fancy trapeze hoop you see pictured. The hoop is mod so you can shrink or enlarge it to fit your own av.

These are only made for fun. It's a great challenge just to come up with ideas, so I admire the content creators for their imaginations as well as their artistic abilities. Good on ye!

The Shop

Just a few things ...

In a previous post I talked about making poses - and how entertaining that has become (if a an expensive hobby after a while).  I have now got a tiny marketplace shop up and running with my mostly free poses and gestures.  I'm still a beginner with this, but I really enjoy sharing fun things with my fellow denizens of the virtual world.

Classical poses (spear not included)

The classic poses I made, which aren't perfect (some are wobbly), are also available for free either at my pied-à-terre in Awen or message me (Lludmila Mirrikh) inworld and I'll drop them in your inventory.

More are on the way - I'm doing some film star poses, mostly silent movie iconic poses like the Harold Lloyd hanging from the clock pose in the shop.

Unslutty and Undead, the Shop!

Now We Are Six

"Six" spelled out in Morse Code - a gift from a friend.

Can it be only six years?  It seems like a lifetime.  Surely that was at least 15 years ago I signed up for Second Life and spent forever just trying to find a name to go with one from the list of "family" names.  Info Island was still growing.  I wandered all over, desperate for someone to talk "library" with.  Then I gave up for a short while.

It wasn't until two social sites, LibraryThing and Bookmooch claimed a presence on the grid that I came back.  Maybe there was someone to talk about books with!  Bookmooch had a corner carved out of the Magnatune land and there were some spots that were no man's land where I could rez a box, open it, and hide behind some shrubbery to change.  There was also a garden behind a building near the library where I could change clothes in relative privacy.  And there were the weekly meetings!  I made good friends and, at the same time, I was making inroads at the library as well.

Ch-ch-ch-changes!

My avatar morphed over time - she was made shorter to fit into a space capsule and then never grew up.  I had tried to make her reflect me in the beginning, but was unable to show just a touch of grey, so I went full grey or white.  Eventually I thinned her down a bit, probably to fit into prim clothes better, although her butt still stuck out of some of them.

Then one day, a miracle happened - a chance freebie of a greenish zombie skin turned up and I had finally found the "look" I was searching for.  The skin maker eventually upgraded the skin, with my humble input, and named it after my avatar.  Although sleek (like a seal, not like some bony model) and cuddly, the skin and subsequent zombie persona rigged out in nice clothes acts as an on-going joke: the tension between attractive and repulsive in the same package.

Zombie Glamor

Now, however, I only see how cute and cuddly she is - and the green skin with the pinkish tinge looks normal, if not actually beautiful.  I have created other avatars, Kathy in particular is a regular (created to show that I actually could do straight attractive ... and also to give me a chance to show off outfits that didn't work on the shorter, stockier Lludmila), but I will always go back to the perky little zombie.

It's all just ephemeral code that could totally disappear tomorrow, but the friends I have made here are real -  I've actually met some of them in RL(tm)* - and as frustrating as technology can sometimes be, this has been a really enjoyable experience.

Now, go to my Marketplace shop and "buy" some poses/gestures I've made as a thank you to all who participate in SL and an homage to all the folks who have provided me with freebies over the many ... er ... couple ... well, six years!

Earliest known photo

*London, Columbia, Greenwood