twisting around

I have been playing around in my head with moving this blog from wordpress to blogger, and now I have done it for realz.

I’ve imported all the old posts and made it kinda spiffy. http://twistingaround.blogspot.com/ (Very original, I know…)

I made three kinds of particle flower emitters. One prim each, touch to start/stop the particles.

Find them inworld at my shop, Oddment or on Xstreet.

This post is late, I know.

So it was my dear, dear friend Boni’s rez day the other day. Her first. And mine is coming up. I can honestly say I would not be here, in SL, as Helix, doing any of the things I am doing, if it were not for Bonibaru. I came inworld on a whim, inspired by one of her posts. And I definitely stayed because she forced me to go out and–GASP!–meet people.

Sometimes I don’t know whether to thank her or curse her for that. Haha.

I’ve been sort of questioning my SL for the past few weeks or so. Doing a lot of overthinky navel gazing. To use one of my favorite words, indulging in omphaloskepsis. Wondering if a year in fakepixelfairyland was enough. Should I–and I’ma flash my nerd cred here–pull a Bilbo and just walk away, down that road, on my rez day? Could I, even if I wanted to?

I don’t know. I do know that Bonibaru is a bright presence in my life, real or second. I made her a giant human egg surrounded by sperm that you wear on your head for her rez day. She’s the only person I know who a) when I thought of it, I KNEW would love it and b) would actually wear it.

Here it is, modeled by moi:

She makes me laugh, makes me go out and INTERACT with PEOPLE, makes me explore new places (with amorous velociraptors, no less), she encouraged me to no end when I opened my store, and is just all around fun to hang with.

We’d been tangentially acquainted/at least vaguely aware each other existed since around 2003. But it was in SL that we really became friends. And for that, I am profoundly grateful.

Made some treeeees. They are bright and cheery and happy, and not at all realistic.

First, there’s a freebie tree out for the 4th of July!

Boom! Red, white, and blue fireworks tree. Buy it for 0L in either of my shop locations: Main store or @ the Shopatorium in Gallinas.

Other colors are:

Candy

Graaape

Tang

and Sugar.

Available inworld at both store locations, or on xstreet. A fatpack is also available! Note that I’ve set the 4th of July freebie for 1L on xstreet, for easier gifting. But it is available for 0L inworld.