Tuesday, 14 July 2009

Playing with Windlight

For ages I had sulked about people taking super awesome pictures of places and when I went there the places/I sucked. So I thought "Meh", and decided to take my withered photoshop skills and hide them in a box to be forgotten. Then I remembered Torley had made a buttload of windlight presets and decided to have a play.

Now I'm not saying there wasn't some sort of awesome photoshoppery, but in some cases you can see that they'd just used some pleasing presets. One of the problems however is that there is a huge selection of presets, and it's hard work going through them all. So I'm mostly writing this for me to remember but you can all look at it too cos I'm nice like that!

All these were taken at Error, cos it's a bloody lovely sim and has lots of water which is helpful.



Up first, Holy Romance sky setting and Subtleties in the water. Kinda of a generic purty sunset thang.
This is Das Fog and Coral Reef, it looks kind of bleak and windswept, but with awesome reflections in the water (oh I should say, scuse me for sticking my arse in all the pictures, but I was lazy and lagged and couldn't be bothered to move)


This one is all alien and mystic, you can almost see Mulder and Scully burrowing in the undergrowth like voles. Obtained using Metal Gear Solid and Meridian Verde.

Fairytale Glow and Subtleties, I prefer hazier settings, and FG is very crisp, but it does look farkin cool. Would also work well with Ice-Like...

Which is seen here in combination with Use On Fine Ships. Ice-Like is prolly my favourite preset. You can get some really cool walking on clouds sort of looks with sky settings like Pink Sink and Peach Peche.


This one is Ice-Like with Purple Wisps and Egg Yolk (names ftw)


If you've ever used these settings you'll prolly have noticed most of them don't work very well on avatars, bleaching them and making them look like they're in a microwave. So I went through the whole list to try and find some cool ones.


From left to right: Evil Machinery, Planet Xmas, Phlogiston, Pale Incabon and Holy Romance.

Some of these are pure arty, Evil Machinery looks like crazy popart, Planet Xmas is green, very green. And kinda bronzy in a green way. Phlogiston would be good for darkened silhouettes. With slivers of light on the edges. Pale Incabon is just very nice soft light to look pretty in. Also loving the light with Holy Romance, kind of a stripper setting (I think about stuff in terms of strippers, ok?)


Set 2 from left to right: Ramshaguld, Rimmerthal, Sky as Canvas, Das Fog and Deep Blue Sky 2.
Ramshaduld looks like you're standing by a bofire on a very dark night, in world it even flickers which looks very very cool. Rimmerthal in my small opinion would be great with really bright clothing or if you love playing with contrast, SaC is another stripper one and Das Fog works the same as Ana Lutetia's Studio 2 Whiter setting which if you don't have you are FAIL. Deep Blue Sky looks very cold, which I like.


Last Set left to right (again): Farmotropic Sepia, Where Were, Slips Through Walls 6 and Climacontravasty.
FS is another good contrast one, although less darker than previous although can be iffy on faces, Where Were is another stripper one but more vibrant. STW6 is just crazy funk and Climawotsit has a really nice bronze effect on the bewblies, so go and take pictures of your tits.

If anyone has any ossm settings please let me know, I love playing with this stuff!

(Oh and here's a >> link << to Torleys settings if you don't have them!)

Sunday, 5 July 2009

Is cupid ok?


Some aeons ago a male friend of mine helped (made) me join an online dating site for shits and giggles. After whiling away the time doing quizzes such as The Slut Test (64%) The Whore Test (80% Whore) and Disturbing Movies (100%), I promptly forgot about the whole thing and ignored it from that day forth.

Last night when speaking to that same friend, I went to poke at it and lo I discovered various lovely emails addressed to my good self. I would particularly like to share one here:

here i go first chat and i am in your bad books befor i start however i do need to ask you this i see you talk about going out on fridays drinking a lot having lots of girly fun with your friends it must be hard for you seeing there is no good guy in your life this is where i get in to your bad books who look after you kid when out every friday night , is it no guy keeps with you as you have a kid , and are you running away at night on a friday hopping you find a nice guy who like you for who you are in life with a kid , i feel it must be so hard for you in life at this time having no one to go home too but just your kid . can i say this to you why not remove the bit about going out each friday seeing you got a kid i say this as my sister who is 35 yers old dose this and it is not good for the kids she has 2 girls 7 the other 11 . if you wish to find a good nice guy on here just say when you can you like to go out on a friday and have fun seeing you have a kid or 2 this way it show you have things right by saying what you have it gives the wrong out look of you i am only happing you here ok

Charming no? Having spent much time guffawing over this, my friend decided to send a little message to my would be suitor. While I don't have the exact message I know it went something along the lines of 'wanting to explore my curiousity with an older gentleman'. Hey, I never said we were mature.

Anyhoo fast foward to this morning, and I had a little missive lurking in my dating site inbox, Mr Overly Concerned About Children had obviously noticed I'd visited his profile (stupid me) and wanted to connect... Again.

hi kitty sometime ago i sent email to you . i understand there would be lots of guys you send emails to your self i hope you with good resons that is . we all act in away bad some times we talk but do not mean it we all can act with words not nice that is with others around us i do my self . we cant like all . and even the ones we like and love can get hurt by us in words , however when we do like some one we like we can hurt them but this should not stop us likeing them or being in love with who they are . so you up set people in life we all do that . to others around us do we not . any way i see you had a look at my page i have to say i had to change it why it is this i had a guy as to get to know me . i cant beleave this guy was looking at my page when i am only in to women girls that is . i feel so ill over it . that a guy feels i am in to men even when it says on my page i like women only . that is it on this so how about a chat on here who knows we may just find friends at first and if we do get on my be more i do hope we can talk to each other more al the best ken hope yopu hve a noce day with the kids

Aside from the obvious fact that I had been very clearly rumbled, if you didn't think I was particularly evil after my last post you'll certainly have thought twice now eh?

Toodles

Wednesday, 1 July 2009

Gullibles Travels


Just to set the scene... Tie had just returned bulging with joy at having bought many many many skins at Curio.

[12:29] Kitty Lalonde waves at you
[12:29] Kitty Lalonde: Are you skint again now?
[12:29] Tiernan Serpentine: Mmhmm
[12:29] Kitty Lalonde sighs
[12:29] Tiernan Serpentine: Hehe
[12:29] Kitty Lalonde: Whatever am I to do with you
[12:30] Tiernan Serpentine: You could buy me many presents
[12:30] Kitty Lalonde: I could
[12:30] Tiernan Serpentine thinks
[12:30] Kitty Lalonde: But I have to go to cake
[12:30] Tiernan Serpentine: FINE
[12:30] Kitty Lalonde: They just released new skins
[12:30] Tiernan Serpentine: WHAT?!
[12:30] Kitty Lalonde: Right at the top of the feed
[12:30] Tiernan Serpentine breaks down in tears
[12:30] Kitty Lalonde: They look ossm too
[12:30] Tiernan Serpentine: Oh christ
[12:30] Kitty Lalonde bites her lip
[12:30] Tiernan Serpentine: on extendable crutches
[12:31] Tiernan Serpentine: Can you teepee me when you get there please?
[12:31] Kitty Lalonde: No, I don't think that's very fair on you
[12:31] Kitty Lalonde: Cos they're also on sale
[12:31] Tiernan Serpentine curses the day some numpty decided that system skins just weren't good enough
[12:31] Tiernan Serpentine: WHAT!
[12:31] Kitty Lalonde: Half price for ONE DAY ONLY
[12:31] Kitty Lalonde: And buy one get one free
[12:31] Tiernan Serpentine shouts: WHAT?!!?!!!11!!!!
[12:31] Kitty Lalonde: On fatpacks
[12:31] Tiernan Serpentine: TAKE ME THERE
[12:31] Kitty Lalonde: NO!
[12:32] Kitty Lalonde: IT'S FOR THE BEST!
[12:32] Tiernan Serpentine: RIGHT THIS INSTANT
[12:32] Kitty Lalonde: Go yourself
[12:32] Kitty Lalonde: BUMDER
[12:32] Tiernan Serpentine goes
[12:32] Kitty Lalonde: You know I'm lying right?

Tie tp's away (to Cake)

[12:32] IM: Tiernan Serpentine: SLAG

Edited to add


[12:50] Willow Caldera: I don't see the cake skins *cries*
[12:53] Kitty Lalonde: ...
[12:54] Willow Caldera: I don't!
[12:54] Kitty Lalonde: I seriously thought Tie was merely playing along
[12:54] Willow Caldera: oh arse
[12:54] Kitty Lalonde: I don't believe you
[12:54] Willow Caldera: I just got to the bottom of the post
[12:54] Kitty Lalonde: ...
[12:55] Willow Caldera: I read right to the last two lines
[12:55] Willow Caldera: and tpd over there to rez while i finished

Friday, 29 May 2009

The All American Challenge

Taking the boundaries of pervesion out of the metaverse is something I enjoy. A previous blog post of What's in my bag? will show you a small part of my sizable collection. Anyhoo, today I got something new and exciting that I've wanted for a VERY long time (Love you Tie!) and I thought I'd share my new addition with you!


Called The Great American Challenge this thing is obscenely big.. I mean huge. I really hope the posty didn't peer inside the box...


Just for verification, that's a two litre bottle of lemonade next to it. I was going to put it next to the cat as a comparison but it ran off (the cat, not the dildo, although if the dildo does try to run off I'm not going to be the one that gets in it's way).

And now I'm going to sit and stare at it in a nervous eye twitching manner.

kkthnxbai

Wednesday, 25 March 2009

On the Subject of Roles


Rhishanna Regina did a blog post recently on the subject of roleplay, and this reminded me of a blog post which I had been sat on (in my mind) for a some time. In the comments of the post is a comment by Saffia Widdershins asking at what point does roleplay become roleplay?

While it may be surprising to some, in RL I do not swank around in various scanty outfits drops hundreds of pounds on a pair of shoes that I will probably only wear once. Nor am I a noted member of the community (I'm claiming my wikia entry as my notability in SL, so nyer). I also don't occasionally drop and suck for complete strangers (although tempting). Therefore in SL I am playing a role, essentially me, but a more improved me with less constraints.

But by the same token I'm not making out to be something I'm not, I don't know diddly squat about RL fashion. I can't tell you this seasons colours, and I wouldn't be able to spot a trend if it slapped me in the face. I just like my jeans, DC's and occasional titty top. This is (I hope) reflected in my 'fashion' blog posts. I don't tell you what something could be paired with, or attempt to name the 'cut' of a skirt, because I don't know these things. I just tell you that 'ZOMG awesomeness' and have done with. However there are a lot of people out that do these things, and cynical lil me calls shenanigans on their credentials.

One example that springs to mind is the whole 'what's in my bag' thing. I generally don't carry huge inflatable dildos in my bag, so are people in SL really swanning around with retardedly expensive make up and Louis Vuitton purses in RL? Are they actually like me, with a couple of expensive things that the never use but worship quietly? Or are they the scary girls who had long gleaming hair and a pony back in school?

I think it all boils down to me missing the olden days of SL, you didn't get supermodels who design skins in their spare time. Everyone could pretty much be expected to be a RL social outcast in one way or another. People with problems finding solace in a place where they could be who they wanted to be and learn new things and achieve some sort of greatness for it.

Monday, 23 March 2009

Broadly Offensives Guide to Fun Sex Toys in yadda yadda random number.

Picture blog! Nice and easy cos I r lazy. And it's SEX TOYS, just for Shockwave who has IM'd me incessantly asking for them *grins*








At least thats what happens in communal mens showers in my perverted mind!

Scores on the 'wait, are you sure that's just soap residue' floor

Hilarity 7/10
Peverseness 3/10
Makes you horny 8/10
Liability to get you
banned from places 0/10 Unless they allow rez

You can get happy fun time soap (just my lil nickname) from Necronom

Friday, 13 March 2009

Meme addiction..

I love these things far too much, from Tymmerie Thorne.

1. Who was your first prom date?
Bah, I live in the uk and we didn't get a prom. Or dates. Or guns... Sucks to be us huh?

2. Do you still talk to your first love?
Nope.

3. What was your first alcoholic drink?
Well, there are photos of me glugging sherry at the age of 1ish so I'd say then!

4. What was your first job?
It was a newspaper round, and it sucked so much arse, I had to deliver them all at 6am and they were great big heavy things AND I only got £8 a week.. Bastages.

5. What was your first car?
Technically it was an old unworking BMW with no keys that I was given. First car I bought was a mahousive transit van (a Talbot Express Hightop) which I intended to do up and take around the world. However it rusted to death before I even got around to fixing the alternator.

6. Who was the first person to text you today?
Ummm no one, although my bessie mate from London Town texted me last night.

7. Who is the first person you thought of this morning?
Myself, going back to sleep. Didn't happen though

8. Who was your first grade teacher?
Oh god. I dunno, I have vague memories of teachers, but I moved schools a lot.

9. Where did you go on your first ride on an airplane?
I haven't!

10. Who was your first best friend and do you still talk?
My first best friend was a girl called Zoe, and I never spoke to her again (moved across the country) although my mum still speaks to her mum I think.

11. Where was your first sleep over?
At a friends house. We climbed out the window to smoke on her roof.

12. Who was the first person you talked/will talk to today?
That would be Tie, who was possibly attempting to cajole me into getting up.

13. Whose wedding were you in the first time?
I think I went to my mums and step dads, but I don't remember, I'll go with my Aunties then, where I was bridesmaid and all I remember is the egg mayonaisse and prefiteroles (pretty much in keeping with all my weddings then).

14. What was the first thing you did this morning/first thing you will do when you log in?
Sift through the mountain of crap from subscribe o matics and groups

15. What was the first concert you ever went to?
I went to see Jamiroquai with my foster sister in Plymouth, and it was fricking awesome!

16. What was your first record/tape?
Oh god... Michael Jacksons Bad... Now fuck off.

17. First hospitalization?
I never got admitted to a hospital til I was 19, but I went in for a broken nose one night when I was 12ish

18. First foreign country you've been to?
France

19. First movie you remember seeing?
Ummmmmm........ I'll go with Labyrinth. I still love that film.

20. When was your first detention?
I was 14/15. It was for not coming to school or some such bollocks.

21. Where did you first meet your spouse/partner now?
In Second Life

22. Who was your first roommate?
Never had one, I don't play well with others.

23. What did you do with your first paycheck?
Spent it on crap knowing me.

Feel free to tag yourselves, or get one of them little price sticker thingies and stick many prices on your face, that's fun too.