Here I am at 21, when local runway modeling paid for my college books...
Here I am at 33. I wear less makeup now than then, go fig..
And today I am 34.Why show my RL pics? Because behind every avatar is a RL person. How and what we choose to present in terms of ourselves inworld could be dismissed as irrelevant, but we make very conscious choices about it--whether the year-old resident who clings to their newbie skin and hair, a model-like fashionista, a kid, a furry, an elf, or that buff guy wielding a sword. We all have our reasons for being here and last time I looked, we're all adults here. And if you are not over 18 and you're in the main grid (which is rare), you're wrong, you deceitful little idiots. Where the F are your parents?
I can't change this RL avatar, but inworld I can be literally anything. I know I reflect how I feel and who I feel I am through my inworld avatars. There are plenty of things that make me raise an eyebrow, but I respect a resident's right to be who--or what--they please. That's the way it is in RL, for good or bad. Why should our virtual life be any different?
My RL storm has lessened a bit and I'm going out. I get the feeling an inworld one is just beginning...
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Hooo! Thanks, Elle.
I'm totally fine knowing or not knowing about someone's RL. But all the same, the relationships I have with people in SL are real, and I do enjoy getting to know my friends better--and how we look in RL is, for better or for worse, part of who we are.
And I agree that another storm is coming in RL.
Someone's RL isn't important to me either. I'm more interested in how they treat me and others. I have made good friends inworld and I know that I myself have had things flow for the positive from one life to the next.
However, I am concerned about the sanitizing that has been going on inworld. Some things aren't my cup of tea, but does that mean they should be discriminated against?
Pfft, you're totally a babe in SL and RL. ;D
I understand your concern abut sanitizing. It's always bad. It even sounds almost like sanity, which I have thus far devoted my life to fighting against.
Nice meeting you, Miss Human. And bet you could still walk that catwalk! (be it in humanish or neko form! ;))
I wrote it in a previous post - "Big smiles on my side of the computer monitor ;)"
It's so nice to exchange photographs with you.
Wish I had horn in RL... sigh.
Meanwhile, here I am pulling a funny face on the way to work yesterday as the bus all but fell apart around me!
http://twitter.com/daftapeth/status/2745672324
horns... I meant horns! /me runs and hides!
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