Purple Pony Creations

Linden Labs did something smart! One of the biggest complaints people have had over the years Second Life has been around has been that there aren't enough group spaces. There have been a whole host of reasons why this can't be increased. It started off at 10, went to 15, then up a bit more for a while until finally capping off at 42 several years back. This is made all the more painfully obvious since InWorldz allows 100 groups per user, and other OpenSim worlds have similar group limits. But word on the grape vine has been that LL has been doing testing involving group limits, as well as looking further into limits on max number of avatars available on a sim. Intel had been working with them on that some years back, but nothing has come of that... but that's a story for another time. Today, Linden Labs announced that Premium Account holders can now be in a maximum of 60 groups. If they follow suit to many other companies, this is somewhat of an extended beta test, and this may eventually trickle down to non-premium users (one would hope). In the mean time, the reasons for keeping my premium account just got better. Second Life is the one "fun" thing I pay for monthly.

It should be no secret that I am a nerd and love me some anime. One of the first to get me into anime, like many Americans, was the DIC dub of Sailor Moon. There's some good nostalgia there still, even if they were awful. So, with the re-release of the uncensored version on Hulu, and then the release of Crystal, I've got those nostalgia goggles strapped on fairly tight.

Over the years, I have, on a few occasions, drawn both Snowhawk and Nytehawk as Senshi. Hell, when my hair was long enough, I wore odango.

But now, I'm on SL. And I just happened to be browsing through the marketplace, looking for a particular Sailor Moon-related thing. And I came across a store called Shiro Tsuki.

I visited the in-world store, and found a spring version of the basic fuku for just L$50. I needed an outfit for an event at the Fairports the next night, so I grabbed it and was pleasantly surprised at the quality. system textures and attachments, but well done. And you can't deny the appeal of flexi-prims for some skirts. I had grabbed the info for custom orders while at the store, so the next day, I filled it out. I sent the notecard off a little before 3:30pm SLT, and got a response back a little before 7:30pm SLT. In approximately 15 minutes, details were finalized, and I logged off a bit later. About an hour after finalizing details, the creator contacts me and says my outfit is done.

I sent a reply via email back saying I would be at work all day, but I would get in touch when I got home. So I worked today, and then got home and fired off an IM to them. I confirmed the amount, and paid them, and I got my outfit. I switched over to my unicorn (as I'd been in the Raawr fennec), and wore/attached all the pieces. It was awesome! Better than expected, and certainly better than I could have done myself. Now, granted most of this was a re-color/re-texture, but I still appreciated the ease of the whole process. Instructions on the notecard for orders were clear, communication was STELLAR, and turnaround time could not be beaten.

The custom color fuku, with my requests, was L$500. I sent a more than 50% tip as well, because of all the reasons above. One off the wall at the shop of this type (excluding the seasonal ones) are L$200 for your basic type, and $250 for Crisis style.

Overall, I cannot recommend them enough if you are looking for a custom fuku. Try one of the seasonal ones if you aren't sure about fit. I had to slightly adjust the choker (typical) and skirt (also typical, my av's ass and hips are huge).

But, yeah, here's what I got, based off my original art, and my Senshi Maker reference.







My original art, with Crisis-style shoulders...


DollDivine version, also with Crisis-style shoulders instead of the Saturn-styled ones I requested (this is due to a limitation of the doll maker)

(Senshi Maker link)

I have found and textured boots, in two colors. Trying to decide if I want the stockings or not. Not a big deal either way.

But yeah, awesomeness.

I spent a good portion of Sunday in the National park, took a lot of pics...

Here's one, and a link to the Flickr album. ... I don't really have much else to say, lol.


Full Album

So I'll let you in on a little secret.  For the past couple weeks, my boobs in SL... have been mesh.

Yep, they're Lolas.

I've fought with the idea of picking these up for... well over 6 months. I hemmed and hawed and finally said "f-it!" and got them.

Why? Well, I'd slowly been accumulating clothes with appliers. And I know, if I ever start creating skins or clothes, I'm probably gonna get asked about them. So I stopped over at the Lolas store to see if they had anything for creators set out. Couldn't find anything but... Well, what's done is done.

And lo, the boobs came with a developer's kit.

And it was stupid easy to make appliers for my own personal skin. Like... holy shit easy. Easier than typing a blog. Didn't even have to upload a new texture, just used the UUID for the existing texture(s) and boom, boobs!

I did scale them down significantly. But yeah, new boobs.

This post has not point, I'm just trying to get my mind off some stupidity.

So Erin delivered this to me tonight, and, omg, I'm so happy!



For a refresher, this is the new Mesh Thoroughbred av in SL, in a one-of-a-kind skin, made just for Fantasy Faire 2014. I'm wearing the zebra tattoo over it because... I want to rock some stripes.


Here it is with the filigree you saw in the other picture. :3

And, this is post teh 200! Too bad I don't have anything else to talk about, lol.