Wonderful Video

So, I been quiet the last months. First busy with building the Village/Island of Sarona, then getting a bit too much involved with the G&S Roleplay System. But now trying to focus more on RP again.

Yesterday we had a visitor filming and today my lil sunshine found this Video on youtube. Unfortunately it doesn't allow to be embedded, so here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vK4chru45k

It's beautiful and very well done! Thanks to Tel Somerley!

Getting closer

... to the finish. Hopefully in about 1-2 weeks we're done!

 

 

yeah,.....

... busy building again

Happy Anniversary, my lil moonbeam

I wanted to post this earlier, but as usual busy, busy, busy.....

On sunday it was the 2-year-collaring anniversary of my second boy Endy. Calling him "my lil moonbeam". Two years ago I bought him in RP at the docks of Hrimgar. It was a good decision, which I never regretted.

 

I'm lucky with my two boys. There are only a very few relationships like ours around SL. My boys mean so much more to me than just a Gorean roleplayed collaring. They are my friends, lovers, partners. We are family. They deal with my moods and deal with negligence, when I'm lost in building-spheres. :-)

 

We celebrated the day at sunday's Tabor OOC dance. River made a wonderful decoration. I took some pictures too... at least I thought so, but for some reason, the singularity viewer with which I struggle atm after firestorm didn't save them on my harddisc. So, here's just one of my most favorite pictures with my lil moonbeam, which I took long time ago, even before I collared him.

 

Thank you, for being mine, my lil moonbeam, and I hope you always wear my collar with pride! Love you, mine!

no fun

First of all, even if a bit belated: HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Didn't post much (again!) these days, but SL is just not much fun at the moment. Since the xmas-season I got one technical issue after the other. Inventory not loading, friendslist not loading, groups not loading, crashing again and again in teleports etc. etc. etc.

First I thought it might just be because of the season... many people online, but it continued and continued. So I thought it might be the Phoenix-viewer, as "they" (LL, Firestorm-developers, the governments, whoever....) want to force us to the new viewers. So - although I already knew it would suck - I did a clean installation of Firestorm. And voila! Now the issues continue and I added just a few more to it.

Not to mention, that Firestorm per se already sucks! It expands your inventory with about 3.500 more items to load (well, at least it's fast in fetching the inventory after a cache-clearing, which is good, because I have to do it at least 5 times a day... compared to maybe every two weeks in Phoenix) , because you can't get rid of the Library (the bridge loads from the library, so it's always loaded) and of the most useless Calling Cards. Nothing is at it's place anymore; either hidden so well, that you are searching half an hour for it, or gone completely. The well visible blue pop-up notifications now are some tiny squares which make your top right corner useless for HUD-attachments, and make you click 3 times where in Phoenix you just had to click one time "OK". And it places a squad for every open IM, which is utterly useless as well. It's slow. Snapshots even in "high resolution" are crap. ... The list is endless.

However - the issues continue. Still crashing in TPs. Still friendslist and groups not loading. And some more issues like prims vanishing before my eyes ("Oh, another cache emptying.... Yay!") or the whole appearance (skin, shape, eyes, clothes....) not attachable... Well, the latter at least brings my lil moonbeam Endy some joy, as he likes to draw in Picard-like manner little smileys into the orange clouds, I am so often.

 

So, if anyone got any suggestions to solve at least the one or other problem, let me know. Either in comments or contact me inworld. I'm the third cloud from left.

Merry Xmas

So, we sent out our xmas-cards the last day(s) with the cute little pressies in it.... As it showed the "open me!" mouse, when you hovered over it, we assumed, that our friends will know what to do (O-tone me: "Oh, our friends are no noobs. They will know!").... ha! We had to tell 3/4 of our friends: "Open it! Copy into inventory! Follow the instructions!"

 

Inside they'd find our little snowglobe. Took me a while to build it so little, as SL is restricted in the minimum size. But I think, it's quite cute:

touché

 

"Touché" - that's the name of the new gallery in our store. As mentioned before: We're doing some rebuilding at the store. So we moved the gallery with the (mostly Gorean themed) paintings up into a skybox. The building was quickly done... a bit Art Deco.... I know, I could do better with more time and more prims, but I did a lot with sculpts to save prims. And for 23 prims or so it's not a bad building at all, I think.

 

 

 

Sooooo, we thought about a name and finally agreed to "Touché" as it means as well "brush stroke" (in painting) as also "Touched", used in sword-fighting, when someone landed a hit on the opponent (you know... Goreans and their swords - duh!), but also means like "Good arguement!" in a debate as well as a kind of "counterattack"- as I like to see it as counter to some greedy guts...

 

 

For now it's mostly Gorean-themed paintings, but sooner or later I'll add some others too, especially in the second floor (which for the moment is mostly empty)

 

 

I also started to experiment with animated pictures. The dancing Santa and his reindeer, the bouncing cat and the buttnaked Santa are some of the first results. We offer them as freebies (copy, but no trans), so if you want them, come to the shop and buy them for zero! And tell your friends about it!

 

 

You find the gallery here!

 

 

 

Next thing will be a reconstruction of the shop itself on the ground. Still lots of work upcoming....

 

Room with a view

I just like the view from my office-window... especially at twilight... especially when it just snowed... especially when I don't have to drive to work and got a surprising day off, because of the snow!

Winter Hut

Yeah, finally I got my snowy log-cabin ready for the MP. Friends will think it kinda looks familiar, when they open their xmas-pressies... *winks*

the season

The Xmas-season started and we started decorating our house last weekend.

Afterwards Santa and his sexy lil helpers went to our traditional Tabor OOC dance:

After a weekend full of RL-work, work, work I'm always enjoying the sunday evenings, looking forward to two days off.

I started to make animated pictures and offered this one for free at the dance. If you missed it, don't worry! - We're working on a rebuild of our shop with an extra gallery for the paintings. Next to selling paintings we will offer some freebies too.

boys and their toys

The Boys got new toys... well, pets. Addiotional to Hafnir, the desert fox, and Binx, the giani, they got two wolf-puppies: Haku and Nanook. And if that's not enough... *grumbling*.... they dressed them up in xmas-costumes. Too much cuteness to bare!

 

Yeah, they are primmy and use high script-time, but oh my... so cute! And hungry all the time! Love it, when Binx falls asleep with his head in the food-bowl!

However I have to watch my steps now, as every few meters a pet is lying around snoring....

... and because some of them seem to be not yet trained to the litterbox and leave some "presents" on the floor.

So, hmmmm... what's that smell???

freezing

We did a quick photoshooting for our xmas-pressie. - Yes, we are early this year! The pressie is almost finished... boys say, it's finished; I say, it's not as purrfect yet as it could be... Our friends will get it soon and build their own opinion.

 

However.. here are two pics:

 

Did the same pose in the Central Park. People looked a bit strange at us. I wonder why!

Winter is coming

No, not Game of Thrones! We just started to decorate our SIM around the house winterly....

Two Years ago...

.... I collared my beloved lil sunshine!

What a happy day that changed my life!

 

 

 

Happy 2-year anniversary, my lil sunshine!

(And welcome home!!!!)

Particle Show

Our friend Kahvy invited Endy and me last night to a particle show. It was one of the most amazing things I've seen in SL! I had no idea that you can do such wonderful things with particles! I took some snapshots, but the pictures can't express the beauty of it. I wished I could have filmed it!

 

 

Vonda

After more than half a year Gor-break we decided to give it another try. This time we moved to a straight SIM: Vonda. After months on gay Gor SIMs, where people pass by without even greeting you IC or OOC, we were first totally surprised by being RPed on every step we took. Such a big difference!

Of course you find pricks anywhere... homephobic pricks too. Trying to justify their personal homophobia with "By The Books"... *rolls eyes*....

However, we RPed a bit there, but didn't spend too much time on the SIM yet.

The city is.. hm... okay... not too bad. Seen worse. Seen better too, of course... like my own or Misha's. The towers (cylinders) are the attempt of adapting Gorean architecture described in the books of John Norman. Nice idea. Could have been build better though. Much better actually. Maybe I'll make one.. some day.

So, we rented an apartment in one of the towers. Sorry, but inside it's aweful. The proportions are bad, the textures not aligned. The sculpts are blurred. No offence meant to the builder; I think she done better jobs in other parts of the city; maybe she was in a bit of rush to get it ready quickly?

 

However, it looked like this, when we moved in: (Yes! black floor and ceiling!)

After 2 or 3 hours decorating it looked like that:

Painting walls, changing floor and ceiling... much better.

Well, we don't know, how long we will stay. Our first enthusiasm damped a bit. And we still consider to get our own little island for RP again. My lil sunshine is away for some weeks at the moment; we will see, how we continue after his return....

Pixies

Love the new petite-AVs. Here we are pixies sitting on the shoulders of Sky, a friend of us. Nice picture too, I think

A humble boy

 

Long time since the last post. And not planning to write about all the stuff that happened. So, I just going to update with some pictures.

 

This is me sitting on the garden-bench with my lil moonbeam, after we decorated the garden around the "Humble Boy" statue, bought by my lil sunshine. Nice statue from XCite, way too primmy though. The statue itself is not so primmy, but the chains. I wonder, why they didn't make it mesh/sculpted. We offered XCite to do it, but they declined. Pffft....

 

 

 

love it

These days you hear in German radio often a remix of a song from a singer from Israel. The remix is done by Wankelmut and I like it:




Now I finally looked up the original singer - Asaf Avidan. And OMG - I LOVE IT! I always expected an older man... dunno why. But that guy is hawwt and his voice amazing. Janis returned in a male body?

Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr