Otherworldly

Oh how I wish for some snow now, but alas none around here. At least Fanatik has me covered in Second Life with their new release of snow shapes with highly realistic PBR textures that glitter in the light just like real snow would. They pair beautifully with their Nordic Pines, also with PBR textures, to create a snowy landscape for two Christmas-themed items from Dictatorshop. The Gingerbread Conservatory is a fanciful decor building, perhaps not exactly the home of a witch but very charming for the season. This is not a brand-new release but part of a previous Christmas collection. New, however, is the Holiday Wishing Well which is out at Cosmopolitan. This well is available with either PG or Adult Vanilla animations and is beautifully decorated with holiday ornaments.

And last, but not least, we have a new round of We Love Role-Play that you do not want to miss, especially since every designer is offering a 50L item as a holiday special in addition to the usual new release at a discount. I am wearing a stunning gown by Ruxy that makes me think of Victorian Christmases, except for the very plunging neckline! My eyeshadow is from Rubedo, very sparkling and festive, and the lipstick from Poema.

The latest release from Dutchie may look modest but appearances are deceiving. This rustic chair offers 30 MF couple animations for BDSM roleplay across four menus: interrogate, tease, take and aftercare.  The chair is AV-sitter experience enabled and compatible boh with the RL Lovense sextoys and the Aeros and the Physics Cock in Second Life. It has Bento animations for hands and faces and optional RLV functionality. To allow the chair to fit in easily with your existing decor, it offers 11 different texture options and of course it uses PBR for maximal texture realism.

I decided to setup the chair in the Waterland House from Dutchie which I have decorated almost entirely with various other releases from Dutchie, such as the Modular Kitchen that also features in the video. Freyja is wearing new lingerie from Alaskametro for the SL Christmas Expo and both Ran and Freyja are wearing the latest Wasabi hair, Snow Bunny, which as you can see works very well on a male avatar too.

Below the video you will find some photos as well, teasing the adult animations, as well as the credits with slurls.

It is quite safe, I promise. The door is right over here.

Petrichor and Ersch have a new release for The Warehouse Sale, the Elian dress, and talk about something to turn heads in. You may (or may not!) want to add a pair of panties, but either way it looks fantastic. I used the Fabric hud and selected a deep wine colour which came out fabulously in the lighting. The lantern is also by Petrichor, a part of the huge Flareia collection of lanterns, orbs, candles and flames, all wearable on either your left or right hand and with options for the holding animations. There are also crowns and halos, for adding even more sparkle to your life. You will find Flareia at GothCore.

The long, high ponytail is a Truth Collective release by Truth and Wasabi for the Truth mainstore. A scrunchie holds up the pony tail and the style options include which shoulder it falls over and with or without bangs. For once, I went with bangs, I love how to side curls frame the face in that version.

A streak of light whips through the air, a familiar buzzing sound accompanying it. The third whip (so far) from DICTATORSHOP is called Lumina and the inspiration is clear when you see (and hear) it. But this is not for fighting duels but rather a tool of discipline, with a full meny animations suited to a mistress of the whip. However, when I saw the way it illuminated my avatar and my closest surroundings, I wanted to do a dark and fantastic photo with it. Fortunately, the November round of We Love Role-Play offered some spikey attire from Secret Witch as well as a suitable fantasy skin from Lumae, transforming me into a warrior maiden dark elf, stalking the depths of a strange forest.

To get a sense of the fantastic mocap animations for the whip, check out the post I did for the first whip in the Tempest series which includes a short video.

Lore has a lovely addition to their Oasis series out at the November round of We Love Role-Play, a rustic desert house and three types of large jars/amphorae, and I set it up together with the Oasis walls and well that were released some time ago. The house consists of a single room, with cracked and worn walls, and a ladder takes you up to the rooftop through a hatch. That is where I decided to setup the Djinn’s Rest, a little lounging area with animations that I picked up from Roawenwood during 25 L Tuesday.

The sexy Astra outfit by Salt & Pepper would perhaps best be described as fantasy lingerie, with ornate metallic accents on both the top and the boots. And these make excellent use of PBR, just like the Oasis house does.  With the fatpack you can mix and match all the colours and textures, allowing for a lot of different combinations.

Very sexy is also the extra long Bora hair from Wasabi for Kustom9. The HUD lets you switch between bangs or no bangs as well as a more windswept style. Here I went sleek and serene.

The inn was situated far out on a remote peninsula, with vast woods to travel through before one reached it. However, it was said to serve the best ale in the kingdom to the lonely travellers who would make their way there. How and why that had come to be, no one knew for sure.

Well, I needed some little explanation for why the tavern by NeonSheep—one of several related releases for the November round of We Love Role-Play—seems to be situated out in the middle of nowhere. ;) The tavern building comes in three different versions, with different layouts, and the other releases from NeonSheep provide furnishings and food props such as the oven, the various chairs and the barrels, mugs and plates of food. There are many, many more furnishings and props that I am showing here.

My lonely traveller is wearing two other WLRP releases. First, the Herleif outfit from Rakshasa, consisting of tunic, belt and breeches. As always very customisable in the fatpack, with tons of texture options. Over this outfit he is wearing the Noa cape from Stitched, which comes in two sizes for each body so it can be worn over clothing or over nothing but the body. I love how well these two items went together.

Oh, and look at the Chesnut hair from the Truth Collective, it works on a male avatar too.

Make sure you have a solidly built ceiling before you install the new Carriage Chandelier from DICTATORSHOP, especially if you get the version with the animations (it also comes in a decor-only version), as it might just put some strain on the construction once you start playing around with the 80+ different Adult Kink animations, which include both a MaleDom and a FemDom menu as well as some solo animations for when the poor submissive has just been left hanging there. The chandelier is stylishly made in black with bronze details and uses PBR textures. You can choose which lights to have on and also adjust colour, intensity and other parameters.  Here I picked red lights for an appropriately sinful atmosphere. As the Chandelier is part of the Secret Garden range, it might be meant more for outdoor spaces like pavilions, but I think it works in more rustic indoor settings too.

My avatar is not wearing all that much, just some minimal panties as well as sexy gloves and stockings from Miamai (all of it BoM, very handy) that I picked up from the sale at the Shop & Hop. However, I do have to mention the very sexy Chestnut hairstyle, a Truth and Wasabi collaboration for the Truth Collective, as well as the beautiful Esme skin from alaskametro and the sultry At Dusk eyeshadow, also from alaskametro. The skin and the eyeshadow are both from the Spookzilla hunt, which ends tomorrow so hurry up!

Celebrate the bounty of the harvest with the beautiful Vangsta table from NeonSheep, available both with and without the decor (the decor also included separately) and with and without PBR. It has a rustic elegance which works both for a more modern setting and for a role-play setting. Here I have also added apples in baskets and sacks from Lore’s Apple Harvest fatpack. I am also using the holdable basket and the holdable apple. Don’t they look delicious? Each item comes in four different apple textures to represent different apple varieties. Both of these great autumn decor sets are available at We Love Role-Play for a discount and you still have a few more days to get them before this round closes.

My outfit is also from We Love Role-Play, a very pretty Norse-inspired gown by Rakshasa with a coat that has a knitted look belted over it. The gown and the coat can be worn separately and there are also bracers included for wearing over the sleeves. As usual the fatpack offers excellent customisation options where you can mix and match all the available colours. And with it I am wearing the final piece from the event, the Yrsa necklace from lassitude & ennui, with runes inscribed on the central spiral piece. It comes in three colour variants, each of which also includes a blood-streaked version.

I love a well-stocked library, and a few grimoires are never a bad idea to have around. Well, they can be a bad idea if you are careless with them, but just handle them with the suitable precautions and all should be well. The set of Grimoire Books from Petrichor for Trick or Treat Lane come with a huge hud of customisation options (you can change both the binding and the edges) and also include several preset holding positions for each hand that will combine nicely with other poses. Now you will never be short a magic book when you need one.

Also from Petrichor are the Vaera Claws, here in a witchy black. These also have loads of options, both for different shapes and for various textures and bump maps. If you want to give yourself that cutting edge, these will definitely do it.

The rest of the outfit combines a cute hairstyle from Wasabi (the headband is of course texture change and tintable) with a sleek and sexy bodysuit from Miamai (on sale for L$50 at the Shop & Hop) and a necklace from Kunglers (a gift at the Shop & Hop).

Time to get in touch with my Viking roots and set sail on a longship. At least virtually and once this ship is ready to be launched. Right now, it is still in the shipyard and needs to be guarded against those who might steal or sabotage it. Fortunately, I have some wickedly sharp weapons from Angelicus on hand.

The shipyard with the in-progress longship is a new release from Moon Coven for We Love Role-Play. It comes in a handy rez box that allows you to easily adjust the positioning once it is rezzed out. This is a beautifully detailed build with ladders and walking planks that allows for proper roleplay as a worker on the ship and there is a room with tools and drawings of the design as well for added atmosphere.

The weapons from Angelicus are also from WLRP, a set of prop weapons with different options for how you hold the spear and on which side the knife and axe hangs. They are modifiable, which is good because I needed to size up the belt.

Finally, we have the Fosca dress from Les Encantades, also from WLRP. A bit of a ragged dress with some runic embroidery at the neckline and a raven design on the skirt, so very appropriate for the Norse theme.

Autumn may be here but it can still get hot outdoors, especially if you have added some extra features to your lovely new white fence. No one is going to wonder what those rings are about, right? The Secret Garden - Straight Fence Wallboard piece fits right in with the Secret Garden - Straight Fence Set, allowing you to tuck away a bit of naughtiness right among your otherwise perfectly innocent decor thanks to DICTATORSHOP. The Wallboard uses the AVsitter engine and has room for two submissives and one Dominant. In the Adult Kink version, it offers several different varieties of animations: solo and duo for submissives, femdom and maledom for submissive(s) and Dominant, and femdom and maledom also has several subcategories each. Both the Wallboard and the decor fence features 7 wood options and 5 metal options.

The outfit I am wearing is a Petrichor & Ersch collaboration for the current round of Kinky. It has a bit of a burlesque feel and of course it comes with a ton of texture options for both the fabric and the pearls/chains. Very cool look, I thought, though I suppose someone would wonder if you wandered about your garden dressed like that. ;) The short, sassy hairstyle which falls so sexily across one eye (though you can have it more away from the face too) is a Truth Collective release by Truth and Wasabi.

Time for an overhaul of your virtual kitchen? Then you should definitely be heading over to Uber for the current round, which happens to be their 10-year anniversary. Among the great new releases is one by Dutchie, a modular kitchen that will make it easy to setup your very own dream kitchen. Of course it uses the very latest in textures, meaning it takes advantage of PBR and requires a PBR-enabled viewer. This of course called for a video to really show that off as well as to demonstrate some of the animations.

The modular kitchen offers customisation of textures as well as how you arrange the set of base cabinets together with the additional pieces (sink, cooker, kitchen island, fridge and top cabinets). It comes in either a PG or an Adult version, 40 couple animations in the former and 100 in the latter. There are also over 30 animations rezzing scenes and props and the Adult version is compatible with Aeros and The Physics Cock as well as the Lovense Sex Toy. This is, however, an entirely PG video as I didn’t have Ran on hand for showing any of the couple animations. Too bad, because I think the Maggie outfit from Faida (here worn on Inithium Khara) is a really cute little outfit. And I like the attitude of Wasabi’s Starlight hair, with several thin braids and optional glowing bands woven into them.

The last weeks of summer are here, lazy and golden. I don’t have a swing in my garden, so I have to settle for lounging on one virtually instead, again courtesy of Dictatorshop who has released three different styles of swings recently. I already showed one suited to a beach and here is one of two intended for a garden setting. The other is a single-person swing whereas this one offers male and female single poses but also couples cuddles and a version with adult animations to take your swinging to new heights. Pun definitely intended.

This Loveseat Swing from the Secret Garden series includes texture options for both wood and fabric as well as foliage options for the tree for different seasons. There are 70 PG couple animations and 180 Adult Vanilla options.

The fanciful outfit is a new NextUp set from deviousMind, featuring a roses & thorns motif with swirling skirt attachments. There are several different ways to wear it depending on which sets you manage to win.  Worn with it is the latest Truth Collective release from Truth and Wasabi, a high ponytail which falls over one shoulder and can be worn with and without bangs.

What could be better than lazing about on a swing hung from a palm tree, soothed by the gentle sound of waves? Well, perhaps doing so together with your lover and getting up to something naughty? Whatever you prefer, the Palm Swing from the Bondi series by DICTATORSHOP has you covered. It includes sits and lays for a single avatar, PG couple poses for MF, FF and MM and Adult couple poses for MF, FF and MM. Texture options are included for both for the palm tree and for the swing.

A bikini might have been more comfortable, but I love the look of this Petrichor & Ersch release for Kinky Monthly.  As always, you get a ton of texture options via the HUD.

My hair is the latest release from Wasabi, a short, summery style out for Anthem.

I am heading off on vacation tomorrow and will only have my laptop for a couple of weeks, so I am not expecting to do much—if any—blogging. But before heading out, I just had to show a few more pieces from We Love Role-Play.

Alia Baroque’s Libertine brand offers decadent furnishings and the Swan daybed is no exception. Rich textures (there’s a variety of fabrics included) draw your eye, inviting a virtual touch. The Swan comes in Adult and Mature versions, with both single (male and female) and couple poses (cuddles, sex, vampire).  In the background, I added the rustic mirror from Constraint, well suited to the roughness of the bare castle walls. Finally having real mirrors can add so much depth and life to a scene.

I thought the Leigh fantasy lingerie from deviousMind was a great match for the Swan, seeing as its a fanciful mix of pearls and feathers. Very minimal and very pretty.