twisting around

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.

So I may be a slacker when it comes to blogging, but I do update my flickr fairly regularly. So what happens is, I update there, add notes (I LOVE putting notes on pics!) and then I think, “Well, now it would be redundant to blog this….”

My latest obsession: Fishin’

Holy smokes, I hit an H on the Silent Sparrow group-only lucky chair!

The pink skin is a dollarbie from Kleineschwein!
Shoes 20L in the Dilly Dolls sale, hair 50L from Celestial Studios.

And I made a ginormous obnoxious engagement ring dollarbie just in time for Valentine’s Day:

You can get at Oddment or on Xstreet!

Celebrating another year of not being devoured by Great Cthulhu!

Friend Raeyn got a dragon avatar. A BIG dragon avatar. See if you can spot Helix talking to him:

White dress that Rosie sneakily stuck in my inventory. It makes me happy!

Standing in some tinted light beams I made. Just thought it looked pretty:

Larimar has an amazing hat:

Saying goodbye to the waterfall on Rae’s island:

Playing a tune while the island falls around us:

Next pic is behind the cut for work-safeness. I got a new full body tattoo, and I love it. I just LOVE the image of writing on bodies. (Pic is set to ‘moderate’ on flickr, so you might have to allow something or other to look at it.)
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Sometimes SL feels like junior high–he likes you, but you like her, but she likes someone else, and can you pass that other guy this note saying that she said that he said that that one girl likes him?–and sometimes it feels more like a… higher place of learning.

When I was in college, my little corner of the dorm got into a kind of prank war. It started small, just little embarrassing items pinned to people’s doors… then moved on to things like secretly signing people up to get bed wetting literature in the mail. One of the biggest pranks happened when one girl went to take a shower. There were about ten of us sitting around in the hall chatting. In the space of time it took her to shower, we all ran down the hall and carted every single book in the dorm library up into her room, stacked them all over her bed, floor, desk, etc., and then all sat back down in our original positions just as she was getting out.

And this is what happened to my little patch of SL yesterday:

But that’s not all. A CERTAIN SOMEONE created a little tableau of n00bs enjoying themselves… on my BED.

And then there was this guy, chained to the bed and forced to watch his love get it on with another. He brought a rose and everything! I *almost* took pity on him.

I suppose I should mention this attack was not entirely unprovoked. *ahem*

Facial expressions in SL can be weird. Avatar teeth for some reason just creep me out–maybe it was that time I accidentally cammed into my head and found nothing but eyes, teeth, and hair…. not a brain in sight.

Get a free HUD to play with facial expressions at the House of Curios. Lots of other cool and inexpensive stuff there too! I got Easter Island heads. Heh.