Of Blue Skin & Moon Elves...

Anyone who truly knows me knows that when I'm not my steampunk kitty self, I shapeshift. Phin has said that he never knows which Elle he is coming inworld to. I love different skins and avatars and thanks to fellow Plurker Peter Stindberg, I am finally blue. I have always wanted a really pretty blue skin like this and I am tremendously happy with it. Even has freckles! Yay! Thank you Peter!Lunar is wonderful to me and I thought I'd repay that kindness by making a surprise for him. He had been talking about wanting elven armor. I've never made any before, but armed with RL references of Chinese, Russian, Japanese armor and medieval platemail, I decided to make a go at it. He, like I, was pretty amazed at how it turned out. It is named "Lunar Yugao" after Yoshitoshi's "100 Aspects of the Moon" woodblock engraving inspired by the Tale of Genji. A part of the engraving is embossed on the metal. I think it is one of the most beautiful things I have made in SL so far...

The Builds at Abyss...

I was recently at Abyss looking at their great skins, but it was the build that made me gasp. Everything is softly lit and it is easily one of the prettiest places I've been to in SL. I am going to have to explore the sim itself more another time...

Tiny Olympic Week 3: Green Team GO!

We've hit Week 3 of the Raglan Shire Tiny Olympics and the Red and Puckle teams are putting the pressure on us! Here I am getting ready for a pie toss... I got bumped for the bronze at the last minute, but Morti took the silver for Team Green (gold went to Etheria and Bronze went to Chow). look at all the yummy pies! Nom nom nom...
I thought I'd take a practice run for the mounted puppy races...
It was puppy pandemonium at the starting gate!
And later, snakes in a rickshaw as Reign sat passenger for a moment before I did the Rickshaw Pull Relay Race w/Angel!

Elle's Guide to SL Sims...of the Fuuuuture!

I recently had a discussion about the futuristic sims of SL and here are some of my faves...

Suffugium
This cyberpunk sim is laid-back and filled with interesting, talented regulars. A fantastic build unto itself, explore its buildings, get lost in the sewers or chill at the basketball court and listen to music. Look out for those probes!Extropia Core
Most futuristic sims I came across were dystopic or post-apoc in feel. Extropia was like a retro breath of fresh air in that space age optimism kind of way. Home to Sophrosyne's Salon--where the audience is as interesting as the topics discussed there on Saturdays--Extropia is a bright shiny Tomorrowland vision of the future and well worth a visit...
The Wastelands
This collection of post-Apocalyptic sims is renowned for not only the ingenuity of its citizens and builds, but their true individualism and talent. Not to mention, where else can scavenging turn into survival of the fittest?
Future City
Like a Blade Runner vision, Future City's multilayered, sky-grazing, incredible builds will have you coming back to see it again and again...Please open officially soon! PLEASE.
Insilico
The future is now and evolving at this new high-in-the-sky cyberpunk build. Keep an eye on it as its community grows...
Midian City
Gritty dark urban RP and one of the best builds on the grid to me...
City of Lost Angel's
One of the now biggest (with new sims recently added), oldest and "baddest" of the dark urban future RP sims where demons, angels, lycans, vampires, humans and everyone else roam and use the CCS combat system. When the RP's good, the RP is good there. And if you're squeamish or think you should have lots of limits or if you don't think something bad could happen to you here, why the hell are you there?
Toxian City
Like CoLA, a dark urban future sim, but personally I found the RP a bit easier to get into as a newcomer. Wear an observer tag or go ahead and put on the DCS combat system and jump right in. Maybe you'll even get to join the rest of the citizens in trying to take down one of Toxia's infamous toxic waste monsters...
Space Colony Necronom VI
This futuristic sim is set on a space station filled with slaves, cyborgs, crew members, aliens, traders and pirates. Very much a mature sim and RP experience, but it also has a very interesting HUD called NeMit, which allows you to accomplish missions without necessarily being a part of the overall RP.

Feeling Retro in Emvee Cuba

I thought I'd put on one of my little 1950s bombshell dresses and visit the Emvee Cuba sim today! It was so beautiful that I thought I'd excerpt a lovely poem--"Mariposa" by Cuba's late national poet Nicolas Guillen...

...Quisiera
hacer un verso que tuviera
toda la fragancia de la Primavera
y que cual una mariposa rara
revolara
sobre tu vida...sobre tu cuerpo...
sobre tu cara...

Particle Fiascos and Exploring the ISS Yamato

Inventory should come with warning signs...Was I suppose to WEAR this thing? All i know is that I rezzed it on my skyplat and this happened...I got a tp from GoSpeed Racer (thankfully after I got all of the expletives out of my system from having to derez my platform) to come and see the ISS Yamato in the Yamato sim...
GoSpeed served in the Navy in RL and we were both tickled to see this fantastic carrier...
You can also take a tour around the build and the plane ride itself is a LOT of fun! You can even choose between a plane for humans OR tinies!
Of course, we dragged Zoe over and checked out the shipyard on the other end...

Steampunk Kitties & Questionable Bears

I am almost never seen without my brass ears and tail. I can't remember the last time that I didn't sport them, so it was a treat to meet fellow Plurker and steampunk neko Michael Cela, who is a DJ. I love his steel version of them...Oooo...While cleaning inventory, I finally got a chance to rez CoCo and Kaylee Linden's Linden Bears. For those of you who don't know, all Lindens have these collectible little bears that they will give to you if asked and some are created for special occasions too, such as the SL5B one I have in my inventory o' doom somewhere. Um...one of these bears is not like the other...