Yes, Somebody Is Home...

I was surfing through new members on the Second Life Bloggers social group on ning. I like to do that as it's a great way to find interesting blogs and I also think it's a nice way to welcome people to the network. Nothing like link love :)

I saw the new member, Arabesque Baroque and hopped over to her fashion blog and saw a link to her new blog that will list her Second Life adventures. I read her post, Is Anybody Home?

And it made me think back over the past of my Second Life. Yes, I'm a reinvented Second Lifer, like a few others. I remember my first month in Second Life and finding a "job" as a dancer in a club... as soon as I had a job, what did I do? I ran out and rented an apartment! And then went shopping! I partnered with a fellow and together we went through three homes. One was an oriental themed, one was a beach/safari theme, and our last home together was a giant ass castle.

I enjoyed decorating all of them. Naturally, I needed different furnishings and decor for each style of home we had. One thing though, and this is what I think Arabesque is alluding to, or perhaps I'm just off on my own tangent... is that it is lonely in a home on a sim when no one else is home. What do you do in an empty SL home if you aren't a builder or designer?

Does it feel a need of social togetherness to have a home but never be there or with "neighbors"? Is there a sense of community in owning a home?

For me, that sense of community is extremely important. If I wanted to be lonely, I'd sit on my couch and watch People's Court. Friends make Second Life exciting and fun, at least for me. I'm very social, very friendly, and I love to help people.

I met Rafe nearly hours after I came into SL as this version of myself. He had the Voice Sex group and tended to hang out with most of his friends at Devotion club. When we learned that Devotion might be on its way out of SL, we looked around for another spot to have our gang hang out in. Our friend, Anais, gratiously let us use some of her land to build a hang out club.

Because I was a reinvention, I had some funds and assets in SL that I just wanted to reuse and get some new land and maybe build a social area or shopping area. Rafe and I teamed up and worked together to build Incubus. It started as a small idea and turned into us owning 3/4 of an Open Sim and building shopping areas and a social hang out area.

For us, this is one facet of our community and our Second Life. It's important to us to socialize and be with our friends. First, we are both very sexual and open with that sexuality. Being sluts is such fun. Arousing people, building desire, sharing the passion.... we are totally into it.

Beyond that, with our friends, we want to know how they are. We want to know what's troubling them. We want to see what interests them. We will sometimes go shopping as a group 4, 5, or 6 of us... sometimes we'll all work on a project, each of us bringing a skill or idea to the table. Sometimes we just sit and talk about tiny empires and lament on yet another missed festival.

So, to end my long and probably boring, rambling... My home is where my friends are. Whether it's at Incubus, or Bound & Determined, or Fishing, or Shopping...

Hump Day! Hail Mighty Phallic Symbol

Ha, Ha, Ha. I made you look!

The other day a few of us were starting a new building project on Incubus and Cyphien Heart stopped by. He recently acquired my friend, Starr, and he is quite the catch. If you don't know him, he's one of the owners and designers of the Simboarding Arena and Lounge. They have weekly competitions over the weekend and those are broadcast on SLCN.TV. (Yes, that’s a shameless plug for him, go check him out.)

He’s a fabulous designer and I was mumbling, ok, complaining a little about the sculptie columns I had and how they weren’t very good and that I wanted a square one, not a round one. Cyphien came to the rescue and quickly made me a fabulous square sculptie pillar and even textured it for me.

He also made a cute little tshirt with the Incubus logo on it and the phrase, “I fucked Cherith” on the back. We plan on giving it to everyone who plays with her in voice. There are already quite a few we’ll have to send it off to. For those of you who don’t know, she’s our sub that we let any of the group members use.

Anyway, I can’t wait to use my new pillar.

New Friends are Always Fun!

We are a very social crowd, those of us who hang out at Incubus, and we always have room for more friends. I tease that Rafe and I are people collectors. We go out, find new and interesting people, and then just kind of bring them into our SL family. A few days ago, Rafe met a lovely lady named Ayana. She's delightful and over the past two days we've spent some fun times with her.

Although, Rafe and I did have some naughty time together where we went hopping between a couple of free newbie sex areas. It's always fun to be loud in voice in a crowd of newbies... just excites me so. I did find a few new friends along that little trip as well, *winks*. I have a list of "pick up" lines to say to men who voice in such places. Cherith has a list as well, we are always happy to test them out on people. I'll have to list a few of them, I suppose. Now that I've gotten completely off topic thinking about our naughty escapades, let me get back on track.

We also love to go shopping together, the bigger the crowd of us, the funner it is. Anyway, Ayana had longer hair and less black and white clothing... but after only a day or two, she's been through what Cherith and I call.... the Rafe makeover... :) She is not one of the voice sexers, but she is one of our family now. We totally went shopping at Twisted Rose and a few other spots!