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And So It Went

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Tunes

And so it went
The children lost their minds
Beggin’ for forgiveness
Was such a waste of time
And the bullets start to fly
And the bough’s about to break
When you hear them cry
It’s too much for me to take

[- Pretty Reckless -]

Lately I was thinking a lot about blogging in general. I do blog since 2008. In the very beginning it started with style-cards on Flickr only and a little later I got my first website on wordpress. That did last for years before I experienced some troupe and I decided to get my own webspace and pay for it. As soon as I had my own space, I felt I could do more than just put style-cards and I started to write descriptions and reviews of what I was wearing. After a while I felt brave enough to write about other topics too, which did fit to my pictures and my emotions when I was doing them. Back then it was not considered “blogging” when you just put a picture and a style-card. I am not saying it was bad, it just was considered different. If you wanted to blog for a brand, you had to write something about the items. Either what features it has, what color options or HUDs you get or what sizes it was coming for. Over the time more and more people started blogging and the photo style-card thing started to be ok for more and more designers. The range you had with social media and all that social networking counted more and more over the written word – I can see that reason and do understand it very well, do not get me wrong.

I tried it too – doing pictures with style-card and links to the stores – as it was way less time and work as if you sit down and write something too. As well I started to realize, that it might be boring if you write about something people can see anyway on the picture and have to go and try demos on their own.

I totally can understand if people blog for a lot of brands that they do not have the time, the motivation or the creativity to write novels to each picture all the time, but I have to admit I like reading blogs still, as you get the feeling of knowing others even if you do not talk to them constantly or how they work to create their pictures or styling. Certainly I can see that you might not want to do that every time for every picture – I am guilty of that too if my RL is so busy that it does kill time and creativity. But in the end I try always to have some tunes, quotes or lyrics to every picture that underline my intention, feelings, emotions, reasons about the picture.

Lately Flickr was sold various times and many experienced trouble for their pictures and artwork. That makes me sad, as I personally think Flickr was a great source for me the past 10 years to post on, as well as to discover things. I do not know how to say, but I like if I have everything in one place and do not have to click through various social media links and apps to find stuff I look for or use for inspiration.

I have no idea where all this will go, but I again learned you have to be flexible and adapt. I still will use my Flickr, but I as well started to post my links to Facebook, X(ex-Twitter), Plurk and primfeed. I am not against everything that is new, but as well I am not someone that jumps on every new boat, leaving the old one immediately *winks* – I am too old for that I guess and I am not a huge fan of that 100% / 24/7 social media horror *giggles* I do use all that social network stuff only for SL and not at all for RL. I had it back then with the band when I was sctivly playing in active touring rockbands – bad experiences – and stopped that completely since then.

I guess I told enough for todayy and do not want to steal your time any longer 😉 – LMs and links to all stores as always below.

Have a great weekend and enjoy “all of your lives”!

Clothing

Top: .{PSYCHO:Byts}. – “Lisbeth Top” (Maitreya LaraX)
Arms: .{PSYCHO:Byts}. – “Avril Arm Warmers” (Maitreya LaraX)
Pants: AVEC TOY – “The Angelique Shorts) (Maitreya)
Stockings: .:Avanti:. – “Ripped Nylons v12” (BoM)
Shoes: .{PSYCHO:Byts}. – “Avril Leg Warmers” (Maitreya)

Accessories

Piercings & Tattoo (Forehead): BodyArts – “Signum” (unrigged)
Earrings: .:E.A.Studio:. – “Earring Mads all linked” (LeLUTKA EvoX female/human)
Ear Lobes: .:E.A.Studio:. – “Inazuma Plug” (LeLUTKA EvoX female/human)
Piercing (Nose): Wicca’s Originals – “Jadeon Piercing” + “Tegan Piercing Set” (unrigged)
Piercing Lips: LittleFish – “EziliV2” (Lel. EvoX, Avalon)
Collar: .:Avanti:. – “Nayomi Collar” (unrigged)
Necklace: Wicca’s Originals – “Orchid Necklace” (Maitreya LaraX)

Hair & Makeup

Hair: no.match – “No Connection”
Eyemakeup: Hexed – “Blacky Eyeshadow – Green” (LeL.EvoX BoM)
Lipstick: BodyArts – “Ameline – Lips (green_black)” (LeL. EvoX BoM)

Head, Body & Tattoo
Head: LeLUTKA – “Avalon Head 3.1”
Tattoo Face: BodyArts – “Faceband Wicca” (LeL.EvoX BoM, custom made – take a look at the “Vere Flores” or one of her various amazing facebands)
Teeth: [CX] – “Strigoi’s Fangs – Silver Type.1 ( Size E / Wider )”
Body: Maitreya – “LaraX 1.0”
Tattoo Body: .:Vegas:. – “Tattoo Flowersoff” (BoM)
Poses, Props & Tools

Pose (incl. guitar): Animosity – “F-195-1” (Bento)
Backdrop: Paparazzi – “BACKDROP – Ramp Room 1”

Model, Stylist & Photographer

Wicca Merlin

Hide from the World Outside…

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As I look out of my bedroom window
I see the chaos that’s calling me
So the wind blows wherever it will go
It’s all too much for me

[- Pretty Reckless -]

Lockdown, lockdown light, back to normal, all open , all closed… This pandemic really becomes a huge mess as no one dares to make decisions anymore. I am not one of those denying that the pandemic exists, I am not one of those who tries to cheat and avoid masks and I see the danger of that virus very clear – I lost people to damn Covid already. What makes me crazy is the way how our government handles certain things. Why conferences, which debate about school rules and changes, have to be on a Sunday (and being alive already on Monday – the next day), when parents need to be informed and need plans to take care of their children on Monday? Why kids may play soccer on the school yard but in the afternoon the clubs for free time activities (as well soccer) are closed? Why kids must sit shoulder on shoulder in school with a mask, while they are not allowed to play with more than one certain friend in the afternoons? More and more doctors speak up saying that it is the kids that transport the virus without having any symptoms and our minister of education still preaches “Kindergartens and schools have to stay open!” I can see that there is a need of having a place where kids can go, if their parents have systemically important jobs or if the only have one parent that takes care of them – but why keeping schools open like mad while it is more and more clear that a huge part of the spreading happens through the classes where 26 and more people share one room the whole morning from 8am to 2 pm? This lockdown “light” crap destroys more than it helps as the number still go up and more and more small stores, theaters, cinemas, bands, musicians and bars/restaurants cannot even plan when it will have an end. A harsh 3 or 4 weeks lockdown might have been better and we know since September (school started over here by then) that we are running into that problem, because number started to go up when school started after summer and autumn came… it just starts feeling idiotic and despotic at the moment. It only feels like reaction to whats happening, but not anymore like intelligent action.

I as well could vomit when I see people going out on the streets wearing no masks and denying the pandemic would exist… did we not have enough death, not enough suffering and loosing people we loved? They claim they go out on the street for their rights – what about the right of  those who want to be protected, those who wear masks and follow given rules to get this pandemic stemmed? While they shout on the streets, people who care and try to protect themselves as much as they can, are forced to pass that crowd of people without masks. Recently they even started to use kids for their idiotic speeches making them say they would feel like Sophie Scholl or Anne Frank – I was so shocked when I heard that and my first thought was, what people would think who had to go through the cruel time of that times… for me an inexcusable affront to all those people!

All of that went trhough my mind when I was setting up the “Neclected Bedroom” from DRD. The idea of a messy bedroom, which you can hide from the world and read some books that even help with that – dive in a fantasy world and just forget all that madness out there and if you are lucky you have a little company from your kitty or the pet you chose for your life 😉 The kick ass cool boots I recently found at L’Emporio and could not pass them without getting my pair :p .

I hope you are well and afe and I wish you a wonderful pre Christmas time, even if it will be in a smaller circle than usual – it still can be nice and cozy ♄

Clothing

Shirt: ORPHIC – Layered Shirts – !Crop Only!” (Maitreya)

Bra: -:zk:- – “Kim/Bra/Black” (Maitreya)

Pants: Mossu – “Samanthe.Shorts – Grunge” (Maitreya)

Gloves: {PSYCHO:Byts} – “Riot Kidz” (Maitreya) – NEW @ The Warehouse Sale // November 2020

Shoes: L’Emporio&PL – “Wattie” (Maitreya)

Accessories

Piercing: .:E.A.Studio:. – “Vertebrus Septum MOD B” (Gacha, Rare) – NEW @ Kinky // November 2020

Collar: *PH* – “Knit Choker”

Nails: [CX] – “Fallen Filth Claws” (Maitreya) – NEW @ Necrosis // December 2020

Knees: .:Avanti:. – “Knit Knee Warmers – Black” (Maitreya)

Hair & Makeup

Hair: no.match – “No_Freak”

Eyeshadow: CAZIMI – “Holiday Glitz – 1 Silver – 95%” (BoM) – NEW @ Saturday Sale Dec 11 – 13

Lipstick: CAZIMI – “Delightful HD Lips HUD 03” (LeLUTKA Evo. HD Applier) – NEW @ Pretty // December 2020

Head, Body & Tattoo

Head: LeLUTKA – “Erin 2.5”

Ears: [CX] – “Ostium Impaler”

Body: Maitreya – “Lara V5.3”

Tattoo: .:Vegas:. – “Tattoo ( Dark ) Sweet as a Sin” (BoM) – NEW @ Kinky // November 2020

Poses, Props & Tools

Poses, Books & Cat: Le Poppycock – “Book Lovers” (Bento)

Furniture: DRD – “Neglected Bedroom”

Skybox: .:SkN:. – “Skybox Attic”

Model, Stylist & Photographer

Wicca Merlin