Not me: Gabby Panacek

Gabby Panacek

I lay down by the river
The shadows moved across me, inch by inch
And all that I heard
Was the war between the water and the bridge

Turn to me, turn to me, turn to me
Turn and drink of me
Or look away, look away, look away
And never more think of me...

I heard the many voices
Speaking to me from the depths below
This ancient wound
This catacomb
Beneath the whited snow.

-- Nick Cave, Carry Me


***Dress: couverture*Strawberry dress V.3
***Jacket: MichaMi Noomi Jacket in Sky
***Shoes: Pretties by JB Boho Chic Mules in Mocha Leather
***Socks: Fleur Fair Isle Over The Knee Socks in Rose
***Bracelets: Pretties by JB Moxie Hues of Brown Bangles, Mustang Trading Post Wire Rope Large Oval Turquoise Bracelet
***Necklace: Genesis Sterling Silver Locket
***Ring: Canimal Novelty Ring - Seal with a Kiss
***Hair: Truth Morgan in Brownie
***Skin: Genesis Eden Nutmeg in Lazy Morning (freckled)
***Eyes: Glanz Eyes mid FreshBlue

Introducing Drowsy!

I am not a big t-shirt person, but when three of my favorite designers get together to make a t-shirt shop, I can totally be convinced. BettiePage (of BP*), sato Yifu (of Kurotsubaki), and Mai Runo (of Zero Number) have gotten together and created a t-shirt shop in Koenji named Drowsy. It has a selection of about fifteen completely adorable t-shirts, including a few that had me pondering the eternal zen of English translation. I hope they expand to create other sleepy-time products!




***T-shirts: by Drowsy -- lemon, stars, and No15
***Hair: Hal*Hina (almond) Hair - priscilla - Bunny Hop hunt gift
***Avatar: DP**yumyum story of a bunny / white
***Shorts: Vette's Boutique custom_shorts

Not me: Yukio Ida

Yukio Ida of Gauze

Shizukana youseitachi yo ...subete no ikari wo shizume
Shizukana youseitachi yo ...tsumibito wo yurushite okure

Kono utagoe wa soyokaze to tomo ni
Mori to daichi wo kakenukete inori wo kanaeru

Shizukana youseitachi yo ...watashi no okashita tsumi wo
Yurushite moraeru made watashi wa utai tsutsukeru ...
Kono koe ga nakunaru made

-- Malice Mizer, Bois de merveilles


Yukio Ida is wearing:
***Hair: Rock Candy - F***face in Midnight
***Skin: *Illuminati* - Unreleased (WIP)
***Ears: [Gauze] Elf Ears
***Eyes: Nomine Stained Contacts - Anime Blue
***Shirt: [Gauze] Torn Gauze Tops - In Black
***Pants: CE Cubic Effect Flare Trousers in Black
***Shoes: [Gauze] Myaku Stomps - Black
***Gloves: Taped Fingers - Sinistyle

Not me: Flippa Stella

Flippa Stella of FlipSide

Enduring Success

I stand amongst the courageous,
who've rallied despite the rain.

Who've succeeded and prevailed,
ignoring all the pain.

Marking each of life's lessons in totem and ink.
Making souls soar, making minds think.

For it has not proved enough to survive, to bow down or demure...
So we mark ourselves and boast, our achievements...we've endured.

-- By Kat Nelson




Flippa Stella is wearing:
***Hair - Red Queen: Envy
***Skin - Redgrave
***Top - FlipSide (coming soon)
***Jeans - Decadent Design
***Face and Body Piercings - ::FlipSide:: (surprise surprise)
***Tattoos- ::FlipSide:: Coloured Sleeves , & Etchd: Guns
***Necklace - ::FlipSide::

Not me: Persephone Paine

Persephone Paine

Slowly, gently, night unfurls its splendor,
Grasp it, sense it, tremulous and tender,
Turn your face away from the garish light of day
Turn your thoughts away from cold unfeeling light
And listen to the music of the night...
-- Andrew Lloyd-Webber

Hair : Deviant Kitties- Sawa in Black Taffy
Pants: Sn@tch- Latex Pants - Black (Female)
Earring: Redgrave - Long Silver Earring
Top: Pixeldolls - Marzipan Corset (Black/Red)
Skin: Curio/Gala - Sundust [light] Pin up Jitterbug 1

I saw the Black Dahlia at the Angelica when I was fifteen

I love clothing. I love putting something on and seeing how cool it is; I think this is what's so damned addictive about Second Life for me, the hit -- the rush -- when a designer makes a teensy perfect pixellated set of doll clothes that makes my avatar look awesome. I especially love clothing on days when I feel stressed out in other ways; it's my moment of morning happy to dress up and take pictures.

I'm wearing a hunt item from amerie's Naughty today, the ocelot hat with attached hair. The Isle of Tranquility sim has reopened (and it's just gorgeous), and they've got a hunt to celebrate it. Go and look for the golden apples! I'm wearing it with the curio Gold Foil skin and an awesomely textured jacket from Kurotsubaki. I bought it while looking for furniture and garden items with Dove the other day, and stumbled across it this morning in my frightening 'inbox' folder. I like how worn out it looks; it comes with four options for different patches. The scarf is from The Closet, perfectly filmy. Now my avatar is ready to head to an art film at Angelica (followed by a browse at the Strand) while I go teach class... Darn that avatar and her fun life.

Edit: Ahaha, I re-read all this just now and thought do not write while tired.


***Bracelet: Kunstkammer Romantigoth bracelet stack - L
***Little knee ribbons: from J's thigh highs
***Pierce: FlipSide Kitteh Bell mouth piercing set
***Socks: from the ~silentsparrow~ (fawn) maida
***Belly cover: from the ~silentsparrow~ omg my belly shows bit of the wraith suit
***Skin: Curio Pearl-Gold Foil
***Jacket: DP**yumyum naughty jelly besns/black
***Scarf: The Closet HempScarf 2 brwn
***Shirt: Kurotsubaki Poofy Sleeve Shirt black
***Pants: Sn@tch Swagger Laced Leather Pants
***Hair: amerie's Naughty Ocelot Hat with Hair -- iTuTu hunt prize
***Nails: Schadenfreude Copper Glitter Manicure
***Shooz: First Flower Cynar with color changing rose

Like it or not

Yes, more colors of the DP**yumyum bunny! I'm in the Cocoa color in this photo. Mina Jun has a few lovely photos in her Flickr stream! Find them here at iTuTu's new build. (The slurl sends you a little outside of the shop. Walk upstairs and pause at the landing.)

Not me: Strawberry Singh and Elusyve Jewell

Elysuve Jewell and Strawberry Singh

Eris took the apple of war into her hand. Whirling her arm she hurled into the banquet the primal seed of turmoil and disturbed the choir of goddesses. Hera, glorying to be the spouse and to share the bed of Zeus, rose up amazed, and would fain have seized it. And Aphrodite, as being more excellent than all, desired to have the apple, for that it is the treasure of the Erotes (Loves). But Hera would not give it up...
-- Apuleius, The Judgement of Paris




Berry is wearing:
***Skin: Lelutka - LondonTan - makeup7b
***Shoes: Armidi Barcelona Slingback Gold
***Hair: Truth Sehra Mocha
***Sari: {Zaara} Menaka red
***Jewels: {Zaara} Suvarna white (fat pack)
Elusyve is wearing:
***Sari: Menaka Bronze from Zaara
***Tat: "to all eternity" from Inflict
***Nose chain: "silver nose chain with bells" from Studio Sidhe
***skin: "Grace natural" from PXL Creations
***Hair: "Sehra" from Truth
***Necklace: "Harvest Bronze" from Shine
***Bracelet: "Beautiful Slave Bracelet" from EarthStones
***Bangles: "lines styles" from Mezzo

Not me: Aisuru Reiko

Aisuru Reiko

It was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back again, and looking anxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something; and she heard it muttering to itself `The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers! She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets! Where can I have dropped them, I wonder?'


Aisuru Reiko is wearing:
***Eyes: (Miriel) Standard Eyes - Silver Screen (miriel sim)
***Hair: Nightshade Designs-Lenore Grimm Hair- Moonlight
***Skin: Genesis Eden, Ginger, Nekophelia skin
***Bewbs: Ayumi cleavage v2.6 Light (tinted) -Ex Vita Un Nex-
***Bunneh ears: Katat0nik bunny ears
***Nails: Vain darksider nail polish (old group gift)
***Corset: Sn@tch Tainted corset in black
***Shirt: Nightshade Designs Blacklist Funeral Stripes lowcut top
***Skirt: Katat0nik Buckley skirt in white
***Sleeves: Katat0nik dollie dress sleeves in white
***Shoes: Nightshade Designs Datura's Night shoes in Beetlejuice
***Choker: Ultra Kitty NANA choker (from Bunny Hop hunt)
***Lip ring: Fairy Tail face jewelry

Stabby stab stab

Thanks so much to Fab Shangreloo and Chic Aeon for writing about the Tekeli-li dollarbie in honor of Lovecraft day. It's properly diabolical, and it has so many options for the metal, gem, lens and tentacle colors that I was diverted for quite some time by playing with it... Continuing the color-scripted theme, my new shoes from First Flower have a pretty scripted flower on the toe!

This Tekeli-li store is located on an interesting sim, a vampire steampunk sim -- I assume roleplaying? I like the idea of steampunk vampires, and want to see someone's take on a costume for such a thing. I can see cogwork vats of blood, mechanical wings, great-coats and very complicated spike throwers. Hm. Perhaps I'll begin a vampire hunting occupation in SL. Surely the growing population needs some thinning out. Check out the other very cheap items at this Tekeli-li location, including dollarbie earrings and hair.

I'm wearing it with new hair from Philotic Energy that surely gives me cuteness bonuses to my dice throws, the Odile, and a jacket from Blue Blood that goes nicely with the skirt from Y@ni. My poses are from the new Queen of Emo pose set by Pffiou, meant for wielding dual blades.




***Lip ring: ellabella skully lip chain
***Necklace: Schadenfreude Koijini necklace w/ skull
***Skin: Boneflower Designs Whispers of Night Deathly F Ebon Twilight Stalker
***Socks: Tintable white cancan stockings from Reasonable Desires
***Knives: Kyoot Army from the Knife Thrower Suit
***Jacket and shirt: from the Blue Blood Immortal outfit
***Gloves: from Umi Usagi's Bunny Hop outfit
***Eyes: Hybrid Productions Eyes Reverted (Grey) store freebie
***Skirt and glitchpants: from the Sn@tch Horror Business outfit
***Bangles: Sn@tch Royal Bangles
***Earrings: Tekeli-li Lantern Earrings store dollarbie
***Monocle: Tekeli-li Lovecraftian Monocle store dollarbie for Lovecraft day
***Hair: Philotic Energy Odile White Red Tipped
***Shoes: First Flower Cynar shoes with color changing rose
***Poses: Pffiou Queen of Emo poses set -- see pose sidebar

Not me: SarahtheRed Aurbierre

SarahtheRed Aurbierre

Sleepy ramble. These photos have been fun, as always! I've gotten to meet people and see where they live... SarahtheRed has a cosy little cove with a dog and a one-woman shack (complete with Communist poster). I kind of loved her small nook of peace and quiet, which I thought reflected her relaxed yet posh style. She's wearing a falling-down updo (Kyoot's hot mess, a great hair) and a fancy shirt over a pair of jeans.

I've also been playing with Photoshop a whole lot. I'm trying to figure out how to make naturalistic photos look all spiffy with blurring the background and playing with light. I'm not fabulous yet, but I'm working on it! For some reason, in black and white, Sarah looks like she's got formidable bewbs!

I've been donning a different 'roving reporter' look every day, and wonder of wonders I kept the same outfit on for a twelve-hour span today. It was kind of nice to build an outfit and keep it on for a change (of course, I've been keeping track of these outfits on Flickr, simply because I'm a photo ho like that. Sarah called me fast, today, in fact, but I hope it's simply because I snap shots quickly...) :D


***Hair: Kyoot Hair - Hot Mess - Chestnut (tinted)
***Skin: Genesis Eden Sugar - Rockstar (F)
***Eyes: Genesis Au Naturel Eyes in Hazel
***Tattoo: Aitui Tattoo - Fire Fish Sleeves - Method - Faded
***Bracelet: Fresh Baked Goods Black & White Sugar Silver Thumbprint Cookie Cuff
***Shirt: (part of) Bijou Absinthe - Black Set
***Jeans: Naive - Grunge Jeans - Blue
***Shoes: ETD Starley Pumps in Ostrich Pewter

Not me: Katat0nik Pidgeon

Her next doll was a fairy
With funny almond eyes.
Her brother thought this doll would like
To sail up in the skies.

He tied her to a small balloon
One fourth day of July.
She never came to earth again;
She's still up in the sky.
-- H. Brooke Levering

(*katat0nik* is in her new release Animal Cracker dress!)


***Shoes: *katat0nik* ghostfire boots in yellow and red.
***Gloves and stockings: from the *katat0nik* mortido outfit (gloves) and le cupcake (stockings).
***Dress: *katat0nik* Animal Cracker dress in flamingo
***Hair: Philotic Energy Fern in charcoal
***Skin: Minajunk Kiku

Not me: Grady Echegaray

Grady Echegaray

The crescent lights
The misty ground.
Buckwheat flowers.

I'm a wanderer
so let that be my name –
the first Spring rain

-- Matsuo Bassho


Grady Echegaray:
***Hair ~ "Elisa-white" ~ Amacci
***Skin ~ "WL Ultralight-geisha maiko" (custom version) ~ Nomine
***Eyes ~ "Purple Sunflower" ~ Tacky Star
***Earrings ~ "Hybrid Angel set" ~ Slade Onizuka
***Kimono and accessories ~ "Reien" ~ Sweetaholic
***Katana ~ "Cursed Spirit" ~ Ashes

Not me: Belochka Shostakovich

Belochka Shostakovich
She left the web, she left the loom,
She made three paces through the room,
She saw the water-lily bloom,
She saw the helmet and the plume,
She look'd down to Camelot.

Out flew the web and floated wide;
The mirror crack'd from side to side;
"The curse is come upon me," cried
The Lady of Shalott.
-- Tennyson


Belochka Shostakovich:
***Dress: Kyoot Army Swirly Antique Lace
***Hair: Calico Ingmann Coronis II Obsidian Copper
***Skin: Mia Dahlia 9
***Shoes: Maitreya Mishima Dawn Ruff Leather Puce
***Eyes: Philotic Energy Grey Blue

Y@ni

Two weeks of rain and my child looks a bit like a caged hamster (with the same big, cute, mad eyes). I think I'll set up a hamster wheel and harness her energy to power my laptop.

I'm in a pair of absolutely perfect fluffy bloomers from Sn@tch today. I've been bothering a few of my poor designer pals for bloomers like this, and now they can evade me, because these are just the sort I'd been looking for. Mourna wore them to gorgeous effect over here (along with new Philotic Energy hair), and I couldn't help putting together a contrasting look. I'm also wearing a new hair (Fern) from Philotic Energy. I like the shape of it, the way the bangs and forelocks fall, and the flow when I move. Can you tell Mourna and I were at the same fashion show?

The show was quite a lot of fun. I got to meet a number of people that I'd known remotely, like Yukio Ida of Illuminati. Adaire was the completely raunchy MC, and she did an entertaining job.


***Hair: Philotic Energy Fern in Charcoal
***White top: Sn@tch Daisy Top in White
***Shirt, fishnets, neck tie: Sn@tch Horror Business
***Bloomers: Sn@tch Bloomers in white
***Skin: Schadenfreude Alabaster Langwidere Diamond Dogs Ruby, black nail
***Boots: Sn@tch Misfit Boots Spiked
***Gloves: Schadenfreude Noir Geraldine Gauntlets
***Tattoo: -Demise- Devote my heart
***Pierce Deviant Kitties Antic Set
***Tail: Wingless Emoto's free animal avatars, black wolf tail
***Ears: Atomic Kitty black wolf ears
***Poses: Flowery and Analu (please see my pose sidebar)

Not me: Brandy Rasmuson and Sakuradawn Lei

Slow down, you movin' too fast
You gotta make the moment last
Just kickin' down the cobblestones
Lookin' for fun and Feelin' groovy ...

Got no deeds to do
No promises to keep
I'm dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep
Let the morningtime drop all its petals on me...
Life, I love you, All is groovy ...
-- Paul Simon

It's rainy outside, and I long to hang out with a faun (Brandy Rasmuson) and a bunny (Sakuradawn Lei) on a warm rooftop.


On Brandy:
***Faun - Titania's Court Female Faun Chestnut
***Skin - :: Genesis :: Eden Clove (custom makeup)
***Hair - Exile Amanda cheyanne
***Top - Butterfly Princess Camo Bikini top
***Jewelry - Shine Harvest cuff and necklace
On Sakuradawn:
***Bunneh: Curious Inc. Splotchy Kani - Celestial (Female)
***Shirt: Schadenfreude MORE GLITTER tee
***Jeans: BP* flare leg jeans/vintage
***Hair: Gritty Kitty: WHITE Marlei
***Pose: Rest With Me, Lazy Places

Not me: Candy Cerveau

I am continuing the "not me" series this week, and I've begun with Candy Cerveau. I caught her yesterday in the middle of working on a new build for her shop, Eye Candy, and she was kind enough to snuggle into a bunny for me. I like her style, very sleek and simple for building work, and in green (which reminds me of the Emerald City where her shop is located).

I have a deep and abiding love for trickster holidays like April Fool's Day. Opinion is stratified -- some of my friends love it, and some are the soft-hearted easily-taken-in sort who hate it. I was almost taken in by FashCon and Violet Voltaire, but I thought to myself surely nothing posted on April 1st can be taken at face value. I did score a pair of pretty poo-themed earrings from Violet out of the bargain. :D


Candy Cerveau is wearing:
Skin: Aden - Fair (Naked)
Eyes: malContent - Blue with Hazel
Lashes: Cake - Bedroom Lashes
Hair: Exile - Ursula - Candy Melt
Sweater: ibizarre Knit pattern tank (olive)
Jeans: Zaara jeans (moss)
Necklace: .::eyecandy::. Hellenic Gold/Jade Necklace (Armoire gift)
Shoes: Shiny Things - Lady Zigzag (chocolate)

Me, myself and Elusyve

Last night I was at the Sn@tch dance and said something totally ridiculous like I know I post a lot in my blog, I just hope y'all aren't getting sick of it." Of course, Winter chimed right in with "Too late!" After the usual round of insults, Winter and I whispered quietly that a blog war would be fun for April Fool's day... Which we accomplished early this morning.

Except, here's the fun part, Winter posted the one in his journal, using my shape and taking the piss out of my writing style (you rat bastard), and I posted the one in mine, using Winter's shape and writing style. (Did you like the sparkles? I totally added those just for Twilight fans.)

We had fun putting this together. Elusyve sat between us gleefully saying helpful stuff like, "Your hair isn't white enough" "Use the Trap skin" and "can I bonk both of you at once?" Her assistance was most necessary. In thanks for her help, we put together a small gay photo montage of Winter and Himself, and me and myself.

Now I have Winter Jefferson's shape. Whatever shall I do with it? *evil cackle*

This is Winter. Yes, Winter.

Yes, it's Winter, and yes, I've taken over this blog today. We all know that Achariya bores us to tears with her frequent posting on the fashion feed, so I went to her skybox to see what exactly powers all of that spurious creativity. Then I realized she'd left her username and password written on the wall...

So you get me in here today. We all know I'm prettier, dress better, and have more attachment points than that poseur will ever have. Plus, I'm a vampire, and we just naturally sparkle. If you want to see a REAL fashion blog, mine is over here.

Looking around Acha's skybox, I realized the secret to her frequent blogging: ... Wait, Elusyve, get off me, I'm trying to type some... .fff ls sodjlaskl; ELUSYVE! Everyone will figure out why we don't blog as often as Acha!

Hey! That's my...

Fine, I'll wear the kitty ears, just let me type a moment!

So yes, the secret to her frequent blogging is 234lk5lllllllllllllllll

ELUSYVE! Get your hands off my .... You've got to save some for the other girls!

Women. They simply can't keep off me. Anyway, it's her

Edit: Pfffft, some revenge. You'll never sparkle like I do, and my freenis is MUCH BIGGER, and it's PINK