Monday 27 September 2010

I am 2 today!

Today is my 2nd rezzday, I am 2.
I am in my 3rd version of "me" and am pretty content with it.

So, 2 years on where have I got to?
I happy being with Bramble who has been there for more than half that time and who is my rock.
I live in a tree castle and spend my time between that, dancing and roleplay.
Yes, roleplay - I have a love-hate relationship with Gor. There are plenty of days when i wished I had never strayed across it but I did and I do keep drifting back.
I joined a village, a small group, they helped me grow and find my feet but I'm no longer fully content there. I love the  people but it's a small group and that makes it all feel very intense. I'm ready to swim freer in a bigger pond.
So, we've been looking around. "we" because this is something we do together, also because neither of us is a body and soul Gorean. It rather begs the question "why"....well I am sitting here thinking that too. It is something I have been drifting back to everytime I drift away so what is it that draws me?
Well, i like the language-play. Language interests me, it is a fun thing to play around with, to paint with and sculpt with. I'm someone who largely avoids txtspk (yes ok, the odd brb and btw :) etc will occur but not the full-on vowel deprivation that many use).
With all this language play going on comes my second point, life moves slowly - yes ok, ok I agree sometimes painfully slow!
The third thing that attracts me is that it all hinges on a society, a structure.There is more than just breezing through for a dance or a chat with a mate and with that comes a sense of place and belonging.
Now the other side, like I say neither of us are fully card-stamped Goreans, we don't have slaves (and I am not one btw) and wince at the prospect of any of the grosser stuff surrounding all that, also I currently roleplay a Physician and will scream if I so any more slave medicals.
Consequently we are looking for somewhere where the demands are less and some aspects of roleplay easier to avoid.

We visited 2 places yesterday.
Place 1 a busy, attractive Northern port, very nicely laid out with plenty of people around so much less intense. Friendly people, fully Gorean.
Place 2 was very different and I stumbled across it entirely by accident. It is stunningly beautiful and rejects the aspects of roleplay that we struggle with. My fear is that it mainly operates in a different timezone to ours.
This week will be spent seeing how the evenings pan out in either/both and listening to our gut feeling.

We shall see.


I attached this track, a favourite of mine. There is no direct link but it sprang from some of my private reflections and memories while writing this.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNF5zmQPRfM

Before this.......

I've blogged before but decided a while back to give a Second Life blog a try.
It is mainly a picture blog and can be found herehttp://bletaverse.com/u/lacewing-mesmeriser

I now want to do more with it but want a sense of continuity to what has gone before, so here are some extracts




Saturday, 11 Sep 2010



My Morning's Work
Well maybe more than a morning.
The Roman Pavement was assembled offline from 137 tiles so that i could
make a 1 prim item.
I'm looking forward to dancing there in the sunset.



Thursday, 26 Aug 2010

  
The way forward...
Brave new steps into land and stuff like that.
A castle in a tree.

Magical


Sunday, 22 Aug 2010
On life being too short to stuff a mushroom (see footnote)
Changes.

I resigned my post as Physician 2 days ago. I haven't hung up my Gorean dresses yet but am taking some time out. It feels right.
You could say the irresistible force met the immovable object, not normally one to shrug and walk away, I decided on this occasion that life simply is too short and am on a break.
I do hope no one is reading this trying to divine my intentions – if so don't bother because I don't know them myself yet!

I am re-evaluating, re-discovering, looking forward.
How do I feel about old haunts?
Do I want the thrill of new challenges?
Do I want to buy land?
Can I resist the ultimate little girl's fantasy?

Creativity flows again. The woman who hated writing now has a dozen poems tucked away – life is strange, I thought by now I knew me and then my me-ness changes.

Bramble continues to be my constant, my rock, my treasure and my love.
You can know that you have something wonderful but when one of you feels under pressure, true mettle shows.
I hope I can be for him, everything he has been for me, should he ever need it.


Footnote
In 1975, the English writer Shirley Conran published the book Superwoman, aimed at busy women, and coined the phrase Life is too short to stuff a mushroom



Sunday 13th June
Time to reflect
I see I have had this thing running for almost 5 months - amazing how time flies.

When I started this I was still dealing with the events of the year before, still fiercely independent.
I left my home and took the Linden shilling when my landlady went AWOL for 3 months and I realised how fragile the whole renting thing is.

I got more involved in Gorean roleplay and became an apprentice Physician, made some good friends in a small village.

The thread through all this is Bramble, always there, constant.
We became partners on 11th May and Free Companions in Gor where we share a home on 11th June.
Some mock me for citing dates - well, it's who I am and what I do.
We have an unusual bond but it works for us and that's all that matters.


Friday, 11 Jun 2010


Free Companions
Farnacium

Dress from the wonderful "Curious Seamstress"
Greenwood Designs, Blisswood - Home of Curious Seamstress & GWD http://slurl.com/secondlife/Northern%20Lights/68/203/25


Sunday, 25 Apr 2010



Farnacium
The house on sim.....1st day with furniture.



Sunday, 17 Jan 2010




My baby!
My 1st build project, my pride and joy, my baby......ok ok it's a gallery!