"Ladies & Gentlemen!"

....and the rest of you strange people in the back....

I am proud to announce that after three years of playing SL, (and several months of research and development) I have finally become....insert jarring chord here....A Content Creator!

My first foray into running an SL biz, "Gesture Wars!", is finally up and running and can be found at my new store in the Whiskey sim for your amusement! :)




Why make gestures?

You see, there are occasions when I will log out of SL and into RL (sometimes even voluntarily). When that happens, external stimuli will come into contact with my real ears, some of which cause my real counterpart to sit up and say, "That would make a great in-world gesture!!" And I am then inspired to "make it so".

This, then, is a compilation of some of such stimuli, turned into gestures, packaged up and ready for you to try out. However, if you would like to save some Lindens, there is a Gesture Wars! fatpack of all the items that are in the vendor, which will save you 50% over buying the gestures individually. This fatpack is available on XstreetSL, and at my store in-world.

Heartfelt thanks go to two very dear friends of mine for their support throughout this process: The Grand Poobah, Hasuko Kuramoto, of Midnight Lotus and to The Big Kahuna, Zak Volare, of ZV's Yard Sale. Both were kind enough to carve out niches in their merchant areas so I could set up shop before I got my store in Whiskey.

Now a few words about the permissions themselves...actually two words: "Transfer Only". I thought for a long time about what perms to give the gestures. Maybe it's because Rich Palmer's clever Bob Marley filk, \"No Copy/No Mod\", is playing in my head like a broken record, that I decided to deem the gestures as such.

Demoing the gestures on the vendor is very simple. In the immortal words of The Fonz, "just sit on it". The vendor will play the gesture that is currently in the queue. When you wish to advance to the next one, simply click the arrows. Otherwise the vendor will continue playing the same gesture over (and over). When you find the gesture you want, right click on the vendor and select, "Pay". That's it!

If you follow this blog, you'll be able to find out when I add new gestures. In the meantime, thank you for visiting Gesture Wars! I hope you have as much fun playing them as I have had making them. :)

Besos!! :)

"Staaaar Trekking Across The Universe.....!"

"....Always going forward, 'cos we can't find reverse!"

It came as no big surprise to me when one of my friends and former Tiny Empires subjects, Neferon Nevadan, tossed me a copy of Ultralite Soleil's newest version of MMPG crack, "Tiny Empires 3000" this past weekend. After all, Ultralite took the grid by storm last year with the original TE game and its add-on, "TE: Federation". Both of which were wildly successful, and were like some virtual HUD-based renfaire, with all the customary fun and drama of the real deal, minus the expensive ticket prices and overcooked turkey legs. So it doesn't shock me all that much to learn that Ultralite came out with a new generation of an MMPG.

Now, unless you've been living in a cave, you yourself played TE at some point. Or, you at least heard of TE, if empire-building games are not your kink. The last time I played TE: Federation, I had made it all the way up to the rank of Princess...and stopped. My decision to not advance to Queendom status was based on the fact that I am already a spoiled brat of a princess in both SL and RL, and there isn't a hat big enough in either Life to fit my already swelled head.

Cue the "futuristic sequel" to TE: Tiny Empires 3000! I'll call it "TE3K" for short, or, maybe I should call it Mystery Science TE3K, for it is indeed a space opera/science fiction themed game. However I refer to it, it's here, in all its addictive plug and play glory, ready for me to expand my own trading dominion, "by purchasing ships, joining a guild, gaining subordinates, cultivating colonists," and potentially starting a guild of my own! Muahaha!

So what does all this mean for me? It means the genius MMPG-making crack dealer known as Ultralite Soleil has turned the former corset-wearing, castle-dwelling Perilous Princess Penelope....



into none other than the arse-kicking, semi-automatic weapon totin', HMS Hawkwing-commanding heroine Honor Harrington!



With her trusty treecat, Nimitz, by her side, of course.

So off I go, into the great unknown, to cultivate my trade empire, build up income and defend my starships against evil space pirates...



Bring it, Bishes!

My Very First Blawgsite!!

Better men have realized alone is not a venture,
A decent man would realize alone is not a venture,
Just to hide away, hide away.

~"A Venture" by Yes

Yay!!! \o/

For various reasons, I've been wanting my own blog for some time now. I searched various sites, tried different formats and finally decided that Blogger's layout and interface suited me best. Considering how much I play, shop, write, and, most recently, create in SL, I felt it was time for me to get my own darn blog. ;)

In the not-too-distant future, hopefully, there will be many, many posts here. Posts that will span the gamut from my new in-world gesture biz, "Comic To Tragic Gestures!", to entries about fashion, or about cool builds, or about friends, or.....well, quite frankly, about any bloody thing in SL that inspires me! :)

So do keep watching this space. More exciting content to come....honest! :)