Meh

So started moving from texture sales to building sales as textures don’t seem to be selling very well with my limited visibility.  I know what you are thinking, “Maybe your textures aren’t very good.”  Sorry I hate to contrary so early in the morning but my texture work is pretty damned good.  Distinctive and of a high caliber, it adorns several impressive spots on the grid.  That being said, unless I take corporate customers I don’t get tons of new business.  A building I have gone.

 

My first “done” building is a medieval border keep.  It is as period as I could get it with my current level of skill and the abilities of the SL tool set.  It is two stories and a usable attic space.  Great texture work and as far as I can tell almost no showing seams.  It hits the market for a spiffy 500 L$.  Now it doesn’t have many bells and whistles, in fact it doesn’t really have any yet.  What it does have is a great look and a good price.

 

So when some asshat asks me if I can pop over and show him the building before he buys it, I figure I can be a good little SL entrepreneur and oblige the person.  They TP me to a piece of property which will not hold the house.  Apparently their idea of 10 x 30 is different than everyone else’s.  So I pop us over to the Isle of Wyrms sandbox.  Most of the crowd there really won’t mind a groovy medieval building popping up.  I rez the house (yay for rez foo) and move it so he can poke around inside.

Now the vender in my shop has pics of the inside the outside and both floors.  Pretty decent little advert basically.  I mean that is what I do in RL, graphic design and what not.  The first thing this chode says is “No windows?”  Ok call me weird.  There are no windows on the first floor and I am not one of those people who will put a solid wall on the outside and an alpha mapped window on the inside.  I really can’t stand that little trick.  I like my windows to match up and I take great pains that they do so.  No, no windows on the first floor, I would think that since you had to walk around the building to get to the door you might have noticed that.

 

The next thing he says is, “I really hate this checkered floor.”  What the shit?  Big tip for you shoppers out there, if the builder is kind enough to come and show you the building, taking time from whatever else he is working on to pander to you, don’t use the word hate.  Just a little social courtesy there.  So yeah, it was a learning experience.  Dropping what I am doing and running over to do a favor for some newb looking bastard with zero taste is not worth 500L and no I did not make the sale.  I won’t lose and sleep over it either.

The building is built and textured to be pretty damn close to period which means it is a lot more colorful than people think the middle ages were.  Some how we ended up with this impression that castles were ugly, damp, dreary, nothing but stone boxy buildings.  The fact is that even the meanest castle had carpets and hangings and tiled floors and wall coverings if they could get them.  Stone can be painted and often was.  Plaster applied over rough stone can smooth a wall and brighten the room.  The point of this?  The building is no mod.  Why?  Because I went through a lot of trouble to build it that way and I am not going to let some cheese ass drop it onto his parcel then screw up the texturing and send me a dozen IM’s to come fix it.  I know this is not a customer oriented attitude but the damn building is only 500L.  Any who, rant done.

 

So Ella has her farm house and is content.  It isn’t my cup of tea but I have a vast space underneath to build a basement/cave/dungeon.  The situation is not exactly ideal.  I honestly don’t like the farmhouse.  It is buggy has mismatched textures, zero shading and loads of wasted space.  Walls don’t match up and the interior is so white it hurts the eyes.  Last night the back door went weird and I didn’t get a chance to tell her cause she was sacked out already.  It is a really cute build but not worth 2500L.  But like I said, she likes it so I am content with that.  I will figure out something else, maybe toss a pup tent up on the building platform or something.  Of all the buildings she has this is my least fav.  Jay is giving me shop space on Orkney though so I won’t complain.

 

I have been drastically not productive in SL lately.  No new texture sets for ages and no finished builds.  I built a little water well last night that I will texture tonight.  I have a template I was planning to use for a gypsy wagon that will look awesome on a well.  Lately events have conspired to make me feel like an outsider in SL again.  The whole thing with the pony training, this thing with the farm house basically sometimes I just feel like I don’t have a place to be.  Then I start wondering why I am spending so much time online in SL.  Not that it isn’t always a kick just that it has become a big social outlet for me (mr anti-social) and when I feel disconnected I feel REALLY disconnected.

Happy rez day to me

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . .”

Yesterday was one of those oddly nervous days. Despite still battling the whatever it is in my system that is causing my some grief I was still jonsing to get home and log in. This of course made the day grow longer. It was my first rez-day anniversary and commemorated by addiction to SL. Truthfully I did not become addicted until seven months after I initially logged on. A friend showed me the ropes, helped me look less newb like and introduced me to the potential of SL. I have been online nearly every night since June.

The Orkney folks either tolerate me for my wit and good looks or because Ella adopted me. I don’t know which but I am content to call them my friends in any case. They whipped up a honey of a party for my rez day. But I don’t want to get ahead of myself in my narrative.

I logged on about 5:30 last night, as soon as I got home (a habit I need to break so that I get more done around the apartment) and immediately got in touch with Jase who asked if I could take a few snap shots of her for her profile. I figured it would be a good way to kill time until the celebration and I knew that Ella had something sneaky going so I needed to give her some space. Jase is a doll. We hit it off like ham and eggs. One groovy chick, to be certain.

About 6ish I popped over to another RL b-day celebration for one of the pony girls at AK. It was a shot to be social and hang out with Ms Cherrie a little till my own party. I should have known that the evening would be a bit off from the first moment I showed up. One of the in charge types told me to remove all weapons. Ok I rarely make a habit of wearing weaponry unless I am exploring a place where weaponry is appropriate. I said I wasn’t wearing any weaponry. She asked what was in my hand. Oh! I tend to carry a groovy little walking stick from a freebie pack I found in Caledon. It is a dapper walking stick with a light on the tip. It makes a groovy face light has ZERO weapon scripting and is purely decorative. I dug my heels in as I usually do when people make irrational uninformed requests. I told her it wasn’t a weapon, just a decorative walking stick. They insisted and Ms Cherrie told me in IM to let it go. It was one of those moments when I nearly turned around and left. The damn stick wasn’t a weapon, wasn’t hurting any one and didn’t have the ability to hurt anyone. But I hung out, danced a bit then went back to Ms Cherrie’s sky box so she could change to come to my party.

I popped back into the Kilt and the gang had gone nuts with the décor, FUN, FUN, FUN. Ella had put up some photos of me, Jay had recycled some of the décor from K’s birthday party and it was good fun. Ella was wearing a stunning outfit of boots and corset with mini ruffle skirt. Jase wore a couple of outfits all hot. Ez looked awesome in steampunk style finery and various guests wore interesting things. There are three pics of my avatar on the stage and the two cages I had bought for Ella to use on me. The center piece was me in my pony rig with cart big and unmistakable. The funny was on of my profile pics with a penis poofer in the appropriate spot. I didn’t notice that until the night was mostly over. There were spankings of course delivered by Ella and Jase and most of the night I was dancing with Jase as I seemed to have a great many IM’s happening. She and I conversed a lot. Very similar personalities. The down side, was that Sarah had planned an even t. . . a geek event for that night. Didn’t really bother me as I was just happy to have my pals around me but it miffed Ella and it was inconsiderate of Sarah since the plans for my rez day had apparently started last week and Sarah’s events are planned the day of. I just let it go, there were deeper things afoot.

It was good fun and very warm. During the course of the evening though Ms Cherrie got way distant and the long and short of it is that she won’t be my trainer because the chance of she and I getting too close are too great. She said she wanted me all to herself and I can understand that as we really hit it off. But my first loyalty is to Ella. At one point we had agreed that Ella would come to AK with me and Ella would get the knowledge to be a pony owner but by the end of the evening it was obvious that Ms Cherrie needed the distance and if that was the case so be it.

So now not only am I looking for a pony trainer, but also for someone who can train Ella to be a pony owner. I don’t want to stay away from AK as I really like it there but I don’t want things to get weird as I despise drama. We are all adults and communicate in a rational manner. That being said, what a cluster fuck. L

The evening progressed and was way fun, including dancing, much good conversation and some very generous gifts. Jay is going to give me enough space for a store front in Orkney. That is the best. I will pay him back to the best of my ability, but the visibility of a store front in a nice little area like the Orkney shops is going to rock. We went to a store that had a Santa set up. You sit on his lap to get free stuff and he said if you were naughty or nice, goofy fun. Paid a visit to Sensations because the last time I was there they had a ton of stuff I had not seen before. That was a delightful 15 min of Ella, Jase and me running about and jumping on pose balls, being violated by tentacle monsters and snapping pictures.

We ended up back at the tree house and we showed Jase my little cottage and the last I saw we were all sitting on my couch. I am certain Ella ended up at KK and Jase probably logged off to do that sleep thing. I may still be online so long as nothing minimizes SL.

So, much fun and a little sadness.

Literary or annoying?

I really enjoy lyric poetry.  Verse in song or the written word or even just extemporary speech can be a moving, evocative, emotional experience.  Word smiths with the gift of gab will always hold a place of respect in my mind and heart.

 

What I do not understand is the desire of someone to quote an entire damn song in their blog.  Even if it is a good song do we really need to be bombarded with it?  Also, when all they post is the song with no original thought of their own it makes me wonder if they are not capable of original thought or maybe just find that they are not loquacious enough to express their feelings in a coherent manner.  Fine I totally understand that, it doesn’t make perusing other blogs less annoying but I understand it.

 

Following my own advice to net born critics I say this to those people, especially those people who feel the need to post two plus pages of totally unrelated quotes.  Take a look at what you are posting and really pull out the significant bits.  Drop those onto paper or into your word document and make an attempt to explain why those words affect you.  An example I often site is a rather cheesy yet endearing song.  “You’ve Got the Touch” from the soundtrack of the animated Transformers movie that came out in the 80’s.  I would never post the entire damn song verse and chorus to a blog entry.  It takes more time to arrange the thing on the page then it does to compose an entry of original thought.  However, the song has always had a significant impact on me.  When I saw the movie as a kid it was combined with the heroic theme of the film and trust me tacked on a lot.  Strength, courage, integrity, sacrifice and hope were crammed into wailing 80’s guitar riffs amidst blasts of laser fire gouging the air from the muzzles of super future guns wielded by anthro mechanoid transforming warriors.

 

 You never bend, you never break,
You seem to know just what it takes
You’re a fighter

It’s in the blood, it’s in the will
It’s in the mighty hands of steel
When you’re standin’ your ground 

Now I probably wouldn’t post the rest of the song.  Like most 80’s power ballads it was short on lyrics, big on message and delivered with slamming guitar and bright visuals.  If you honestly feel that the entire song perfectly expresses how you feel at any given moment, great.  Do yourself a favor though, listen to the song then write down how you feel about it and why that song has some meaning to you.  Even quote a few lines but just posting the entire song makes it seem like you don’t have the ability to express yourself.  Worse than that is that every song means something a little different to every person who hears that song.  You may want to get across a certain message only to be utterly missing your mark.

 

Don’t take my word for it.  I am over educated, opinionated, loud mouth.  But your words will have more meaning for your readers if they are, in fact, your words.  If you aren’t blogging for other people to read then stop the process.  Go buy a blank book and keep your journaling private.  Most of us blog because we feel we have something to say that is worth reading.  Some people blog to review products and services and some to be critical of others.  Some people drop little blogging fire bombs all over the net just to garner some attention.  But if you are using an online journal to write out your “private” thoughts then just stop go to the store find a blank book with a cool binding and a little ribbon book mark, buy a nice pen with good ink go sit under a try and copy the lyrics of your favorite songs into your blank book.  Because while I am scrolling through the blogs of interesting people who have something to say that is worth reading I really despise having to scroll past some inane pop lyrics from a generic band who will be history in a year.

 

But if you want to pull a stanza from that, explain that it makes you think of so and so your long lost love and how she/he died a vile tragic death and it still rips out your guts when ever you hear the song, groovy.  Awesome.  I can totally respect that.  Not only are you making a contribution but you are putting yourself out there on a limb for people to see, saying, “Look I hurt, this song makes me feel like boiling acid has just been tossed in my face.”  More likely than not once you state why you post a lyric and what it does to you then someone else will reply because they can empathize with you.  Then you have a connection and are no longer guilty of literary masturbation which 90% of all blogging is.

To the person who posts the 90 million quotes.  Get over it.  Pick one and re read it until you have it memorized and can use it in conversation.  Not only will you appear far more erudite but you may actually learn something.  Otherwise all you are is a monger of bumper sticker philosophy taken out of context and tossed up on a web site where self appointed half wits can copy and paste the whole damn page into a worthless blog post.  But like I said, I can be a real prick about these things so don’t take my word for it.  Just keep on scrolling, nothing to see here.

clop clop clop

“Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.” – Freud

Please take my illness away!  I don’t want it.  Last Wednesday I left work totally sick to my stomach not feeling well, drowsy and unable to focus.  Mentally I mean.  I made my way home and ended up sleeping most of the afternoon and my stomach settled down until I ate something again and promptly became ill again.  No work on Thursday either.  Also, no net for most of the day which is an annoying way to be stuck at home sick.  I am certain that Cox was tired of hearing from me.

The down side to having stomach/bowel issues is of course that I am hypoglycemic and it is necessary for me to eat on a fairly regular schedule.  Thursday night I have some food, something I figure will be nice and bland yet filling.  No good sick again and stayed home Friday.  The solution was soup and some bread.  Ate that, didn’t feel sick after.  Needless to say even when I did feel well enough to consume, I haven’t eaten a lot since Wednesday.  Which is probably ok as I am a bit on the chubby side.

Interesting developments in SL did happen despite my not being online Wednesday night most of Thursday and most of Friday.  Last week I took it into my head to get a full set of pony tack for the purpose of engaging in pony play in SL.  Wow is there a lot to choose from.  I got myself squared away with the help of a few very excellent people.  The next step, find out how to be a pony.

Now this is the thing, in the D/s community there are easily ten subs to every one dominant so how do I find someone willing to take on a totally new pony boy?  The answer was much simpler than I had thought, just ask.  Apparently pony boys are a rarity in the SL pony community.  Although evidence may show that the Forum has a high population of pony boys.  But I was dealing with the folks at Alikat Stables.  This is an awesome place.  Despite my overwhelming desire to re-texture some of the structures it is great and the people in charge there are very friendly.  When I enquired about pony boy trainers I was referred to Ms Cherrie Opus.  I contacted this lady with a polite note and we met on Sunday evening.  Instant chemistry.  Friendly, tasteful, intelligent and quick witted, we discussed where I was coming from and what I was looking for.

We had my first training session that night.  Wow and then some.  Ponies don’t get to speak so no chatting in the open chat channel.  Yeah, I know in an environment where the chief form of communication is in chat this was rough.  There is a pony speak HUD with whinnies and snorts and what not and you can emote all to blazes if you can do it in character.  This is some fairly heavy role playing and honestly if you know nothing about horses I would think it would be difficult to do well in the RP aspect.  Thankfully I grew up around animals in general and horses in particular.  That night we went over the whip commands that Ms Cherrie uses, the pony basics and too a turn around the cart track which is fun.  We took some discussion time after to go over the feelings and impressions, mostly from my end of things since this is totally new even to my D/s experience.  It was also very hot.  I was blushing constantly and so far is one of the best D/s experiences in SL for me.

Monday was a holiday for me as my company observed Veterans day.  I spent a great deal of time finishing a pseudo Egyptian temple and bouncing around looking for a new store location.  I love my local in the Isle of Shadows mall but I need more visibility and I need to have my own store again.  Monday evening was more pony work.  I learned to run the steeplechase track and a slalom course.  After some practice the jumping will be lots easier and while I feel confident that I can do the slalom course without faulting often, my speed is bad.  One of the pony girls has a speed of 18 something and my best time was 21.3.    Ella was spending lots of time with Ez, go figure yanno her b/f and all >=)  So I was at odd ends much of the weekend.  We did talk my RL g/f into trying SL for an hour or two this last week and that was much fun.  I think she will really enjoy meeting the other people I hang with.

Thursday the 15^th is my rez day and despite my overall feelings that it is cheesy to do so I am going to have a rez day celebration that evening.  Despite catching up from being ill I am going to try and prep the 3 sets of stained glass windows I did a while ago and texture the temple I built this weekend. 

Sarcasm

Don’t you just love it when the fashion critics go off on some poor bastard, newb or not, who commits a “fashion faux pas”?  Yes not everyone has the good taste to present their avatar in an exceptional manner but if you are going to take random snapshots of what you consider “accidents”, post them and then cut them to ribbons, at least have the good taste to provide a few helpful suggestions.  This will make you much less of a social parasite, improve your overall outlook on life an maybe even get you laid once the preferred gender realize what a gracious and philanthropic soul you really are.

Remember that critics, no matter what their other contributions to society may be, will make excellent fodder to feed the teeming masses of flesh eating revenants when the zombie apocalypse comes to be.

negative vibe?

Ok so I happened on this groovy little dungeon, Extreme Bondage is the group, and it was comfy, not huge and over crowded.  In fact when I was there poking about there was no one there at all.  Paying zero attention I wander across this bitchin little tripwire deal and it asks if it can animate my avatar.  Gas bomb, unconscious for three min! How fun is that so I say yes and it says a message has been sent to so and so the owner of the tripe wire.  Oh damn.  I didn’t want to bug anyone as I was just poking around.  Before I could decide if I wanted to flee in embarrassed terror or stick around and brazen it out, someone showed up.  A very nice blonde in latex, we said hi, I made happy noises over the trip wire and apologized for bothering her.  I think she is Dutch or German as English isn’t her language and I seem to recall her speaking German to someone later on.  When I clicked on the dealy bobber to get the group info she asked if I wanted the slave tag.  I said that would be great.  Now I had no idea if I was ever going to spend any time here but I had a good vibe about the place.  So while she is setting me up in the group we are chatting, there is some sort of pRon playing on the freeview style screen and I ask about the tripwire cause I wants it precious I wants one of my very own!  She gives me a note card with the creators name then asks if she may give me a kiss.  Ok, talk about a warm reception but I’m cool and don’t go all fan boy on her.  I say certainly and thank you.  She has a freakin’ HUD on that does something similar to the tripewire! Badass.  She was able to give me a copy of that one.  Loved it, loved being tricked like that too since it was pretty harmless.  Much fun.

So I think most of the group members are European and as a result there aren’t always a lot of people in there, so I pop in every now and then and see if anyone is there.  Met a few nice people.  Yesterday I ended up stuck in one of the groovy cages they have.  Yes I know it’s a matter of choice but as I said before I prefer not to cheat, it’s just how I am.  So just for reference, if you are looking at a cage especially from Monica’s Jewells, do not set it to group lock or unlock as you will not be able to unlock it even if you are in the group.  Someone else in the group will need to do that.  But I have never claimed to be overly bright.  I figured I was in the group so I would be able to unlock it.  No dice.  I was stuck and like a pitiful bastard asked if anyone in the group could stop by and unlock me.  Got horrendously teased, which of course I enjoyed since I am a tease and humiliation slut and the same nice blonde showed up and let me out. (Thank you bondarina)  One of the other group members gave me a hard time about doing my time to learn my lesson and I would have totally gone along with that if I were not obligated to be elsewhere 20 min later.  I begged off and assured them that I would be totally willing to come back later and “do my time”.

So late last night I am getting ready to hit the sack (about 12:30 am) and I figure I will deck myself out in tasty fetish attire and leave my avatar in the dungeon sort of on display in one of the cages and I leave a note for the group to that effect so no one freaks out.  Well someone did freak out, got negative and a little insulting about it.  Totally killed my vibe before I even got situated.  In a fit of pique I ended up going to my other fav cage store and buying yet another cell (I had been looking at it before) and went to set myself up for the night.  Keep in mind I gave my Sensory Dep chamber to MWK and my Wicked Cell to Ella.  I would have asked Ella to lock me up but she had to go and MWK was offline by that time.  So I tried out my usual with the new cell.  Yeah it has an idle setting I wasn’t aware of so the timer didn’t run down by the time I was awake this morning. Grumble.  So I popped that back into inventory and got read just to leave my fetishy body in the trick bookcase I bought from Ms Alyssa Jessop.  Ended up in a little chat and was still around when MWK showed up online.  Very odd since I was not accustomed to seeing Her in the morning.  So I asked if she would lock me up for the day while I am at work to which she acquiesced with lascivious glee.  So my avatar is in the evil kitten sensory dep chamber, which forces you into busy mode and mouse look.  The last I saw I had wracked up 40+ minutes in penalty time due to inane questions on my part and the timer was at 8 hours 38 min.  Yum.  I was late for work today because I was getting all that situated but it was kind of worth it.

I really need to drop Ms. Lowell a note to see if She plans to add all of the awesome control features to her line of cages.  They really are some of the best looking product in SL but I don’t think they are as restrictive as the other 2 brands I really dig.

On another note, it seems like SL friends are having relationship issues right and left.  I have commented before both from observation and from my own experience the depth of emotion that SL residents can come to feel for each other.  Yes it may be “only a game” but SL regulars, like devotees of various chat rooms build some pretty strong ties and in an environment as expressive as SL well it can affect you in RL too.  I have had some ups and downs too, no doubt about it.  I like to think that I am well balanced but in truth I am pretty angtsy and at times it takes me a while to balance what I know with how I feel and what I want.  That would make a hell of an algebraic equation.  I am just really glad that I have made from good friends/acquaintances that dig me despite my oddities.  Yeah even for this group I am often the oddball I think.  It was really weird last night at the Kilt we were all dancing and joking as usual but I realized that everyone there was part of the Orkney family cept me.  Really I am just a hanger on that they let be there (at first because of Ella) but now because we are all goofy friends and pals.  I asked Jay if he could give me the title Vagabond of Orkney.  Probably won’t happen ever but I thought it was funny.  So to you folks that are having a rocky time of it, I empathize and I hope it turns ok for you.  Just remember that communication is key to conflict resolution.  Yes, screaming “fuck you!” as you walk away is a method of communication just not always the optimal method.

More cages then you know what to do with

   Ok, fun and frolics last night!  Ella took a turn to organize her inventory (something I need to do as well) So I went to hang with a friend, ostensibly to offer homework help if needed.  We spent some time chatting about this and that and I had passed over the Sensory Dep chamber I bought from Evil Kitten since Ella had bought the same earlier in the week.  I didn’t know I could give her mine or I would have.  Now I will just giver her the Wicked Cell too.  But in any case, MWK had me in the Sensory Dep cage while she went to work on more homework.  She loaded it with time and trust me folks this is a serious control toy.  If you don’t set yourself to busy and go into mouse looks it starts adding penalty time.  She loaded that sucker up with an hour and thirty and of course I had to test my bounds so I tried an emote.  Know what?  It senses emotes too!  Ten more minutes on the clock.  No ability to chat at all and must stay in mouse look or it starts screaming at you and the owner.  Now I must stress that this is all an honor system and unless you are basically honest it is no good.  I found it totally hot to hand over control so you can guess I’m pretty honorable about things.

   Unfortunately I did cheat, and right before MWK came back.  Felt like a total bastard too but I had to touch bases with Daphne Goodnight of Kayliwulf Kingdom.  Yours truly is going to become a KK fetish model.  It doesn’t pay in L$ but it does pay in free latex for the ‘ol avatar.  20hrs a week and voila this little perv gets more pretty things to wear.  I lucked out, KK doesn’t have nearly enough male models.

    So as much as I love the Evil Kitten cages I think I found some slightly better.  They are menu driven, very user friendly with many of the same functions including forced mouselook and no chat features.  I saw them at a nice little dungeon I found so I looked up the store.  Sure enough they are wicked and unrelenting.  They don’t look as nice as the Evil Kitten product and not nearly as nice as Ms Lowell’s cages or the Foo Roo cages.  One of the key bits of awesome on both new sets of cages is the auto feature.  You can set it up how you like set the timer and hit auto to lock yourself in.  A virtual dream for self bondage enthusiasts.  I may ask the group owner of extreme bondage if is acceptable for me to spend a night in one of these in the dungeon, since you can set the controls so that the whole group has control.  Even just thinking about it is yummy. Oh the name of the vendor for the new cages I found is Jewell something.  I know I am rotten with the names but it was 1:30 am when I traced them down.  I was not at my best and brightest.  I will start taking snap shots of stuff too since I am blogging about it so often.

More than you want to know

So my friends and compatriots all know that my love for the SL kink is strong.  My best friend and online snuggle buddy commented that it is amusing when we go out together as my avatar is not exactly what one would consider “submissive” on first glance.  Under her tutelage and some tweaking of my own, my AV looks really good.  Yes vanity, I know but even I like to look at my virtual self, especially in the new cuff set from Marine Kelly and spanking new gag from Dari’s Haus and some wicked yet inexpensive latex from the Bug Shit vendors at the Prancing Harlot.  Did I say prancing harlot? Yes I did and yes I took the step and invested in all manner of pony gear.  I spent myself silly this weekend on satisfying the pony urge.  Now I am totally set up with wicked gear.

 

I didn’t spend all of my moola on virtual pony play.  I encountered a vendor named Evil Kitten.  Oh my gods.  Best cages ever!  The only thing that could possibly make them better is some custom texture work, which I am going to talk to the creator about ASAP.  Otherwise, these are superlative.  What, you may ask, makes this line of cages better than any other?  There may be other cages with this particular set of gadgets built in but this is a very user friendly product line.  Voice commands in main chat channel set the products up and at the moment they are owner controlled although I would bet good money that the near future may see them with an access list for owners, or a group setting. Don’t get me wrong, I still have a massive loyalty to the products of Lilani Lowell (apologies if I misspelled that) which also led to me meeting the excellent Emmalyn Wei, but this is comparing apples to oranges.

 

I bought three cages from Evil Kitten for myself to play with and talked someone else into buying one last night and another tonight.  The sensory dep cage controls chat, forces mouse look and it totally opaque.  It has all manner of alarms and sensors to tell if you try to cheat and harsh time accumulation settings.  It also has a spiffy brushed metal space look.  At only five prims it is very friendly.  The Wicked Cell is small version of the Wicked Cage, shares many of the same features as the sensory dep cage but more as options.  The fun bit is that you can lock it down, set a timer, set punishment times, force mouse look and no chat options and you can auto lock it.  Here is were part of my freakiness shines through. 

 

Being a total glutton for punishment I adjusted my new Scorpion Gasmask, which has all the best features of a locking owner controlled blindfold/gag combo, familiarized myself with the controls and programmed the wicked cell.  Eight hour timer, mouse look, no chat and auto lock.  Whamo, there I am stuck inside with an anti idle deal, just in case the idle setting doesn’t work.  Is that all?  Of course not.  Recall I am a total freak.  I set self lock settings on the mask for eight hours as well.  Tossed on all the no chat settings and left the masks anti idle off.  Both of these lovely tools have an anti idle option to make certain the sub doesn’t go afk and let the time wind down on the timers.  If you set the anti idle they have got to interact somehow with the environment, for the mask it’s every two minutes by default.  The cell has an option to set the anti idle.  So there I am, locked in a cage, locked in a gas mask, half naked (I am topless) for the eight hours I am at work.  I am tempted to put this set up in my shop and spend a day there like this now and then.  Seeing as it is in a mall geared toward BDSM, I will essentially become my own camper and help to up traffic for the mall.

 

On to the pony stuff!  Ok so there are like zero pony boys in SL.  Ok I exaggerate, but there are damn few.  It was a challenge to find gear and recommendations as popping into any given pony play area landed me in the midst of a bunch of female ponies.  Basically I started dropping notes to content creators asking if their product could be modified to fit boy avatars.  Let me again say that my avatar is pretty hot for a guy.  Proportionate and distinctive without looking too apelike, which is common to SL men’s shapes.  Don’t believe me?  Look at my snapshots, I am cute so nyah.  However, for an SL male I am a bit short and a little stocky so some gear just plain fits weird even when adjusted.  I picked up hooves, cart and bridle from Alyssa Jessop’s Prancing Harlot.  A great store with some well done dungeon furniture as well as the pony gear.  I also ended up buying a pull harness from Brodicil. . whatists. .  I can’t remember the spelling now that I am at work but its Brocil- something.  They have some great stuff!  I haven’t checked out their play space yet but they have events and stuff.  I also picked up an over the shoulder saddle from this vendor.  With a little tweaking I think it will look awesome.  I found a nifty, inexpensive, multi passenger multi pony chariot too and ended up buying the pony boy racing cart from Alyssa Jessop as well as the pony walking ring.  So add that to my Avinity Equine shape and I am set for pony training.  I cannot even begin to say how much I am looking forward to pony events.

 I have a whopping 500L in the bank after this spending spree so I won’t be uploading any massive new texture sets for a week or two which may be a good thing as I think I need to customize my vendor even further than it currently is.  I may end up breaking things down into more distinct categories.  I did put up some art for sale in my shop though.  One wall has some abstract digital art pieces and the other has D/s related photo work and 3D renderings all original all done by me.