NSFW, eh?

Bunneh Brickworks Kawashima is an SL blogger and one of my sweetest Flickr friends, but she is also a bad influence. In a good way. This week, Bunneh is shooting a series of photos featuring public nudity. I had to see if I could do what she does. (These two pics will have to last a whole week, so look at them slowly. Or frequently.) I admit that while shooting these pics I was afraid that I would be caught and banned from my fave sim. So I appreciate the risky thrill of public nudity. At the very same time that I enjoyed doing something wrong, however, I also felt the rightness of the beauty of the naked human body, of the SL creators’ imaginative ways of enhancing that beauty, and of my own effort to create an erotic image rather than just a nude shot. I had to shoot many vanilla pics and many upper-body images before I was absorbed—or committed—enough to find a sexier pose and show Portia’s pudendum. If we are easily shocked by erotic imagery, it is because we are too distanced from the naked body rather than too close. Our determination to keep the body, and sex, private is a symptom of our inability to embrace the body in its erotic aspects. (Don’t get me started on body-as-bourgeois-private-property. That way lies Marx.) Having said this, I did decide to censor the pic with some soap bubbles. If you want to see the uncensored version, you will need a Flickr account with preferences set to see restricted images.
In addition to Bunneh’s example, I was inspired by Umazuma Metaluna’s new Lolas Tango appliers for The Skinnery. These are the sexiest nips on the grid, their appeal to the fingers as strong as their appeal to the eye. Ms. Metaluna has done appliers for old skins as well as new, so customers aren’t forced to abandon the old skins as obsolete. She is putting her customer first. This I like.

Credits to creators
[theSkinnery] Byuri-Foxy Lady(toffee) DB CL1 (this was a special edition of the Byuri skin)
[theSkinnery] Tangos Skin Applier and, in the same package, Tangos Nipples Applier [there's a nipless version of the applier so you can avoid nip-slip]
Lolas ::: Tango ::: Mesh Breasts
[Aura] Grimm – Corset – M – Antique
first pic: Magika [Hair S] Stumble
second pic: Wasabi Pills, Christy 2 Chocolate
- .HoD. – Chained – Slide
.:ellabella:. Saint – Jet
Yummy, Boho Rings – Maroon
Graves, G329 Cuffs
poses: Glitterati
GIMPed for your pleisure, but the applier is not retouched (enjoy my signature jagged shadows)

Luxuriate

These pictures obviously go together.

Ladies stretch out their arms in them.

And look very pretty.

Credits to creators
Look impish
{Meghindo’s} ~ Chy Dress [comes with fringed clutch and many different flexi skirts] (VIP Gift, which also contains a skin in multiple tones; fee to join)
*BOOM* Dame Elbow Gloves (antique) xsmall (NEW, mesh, in many many many colours; ty Aranel Ah!)
Glam Affair – Renee – Fairy Tales 01 RAV (Arcade gacha)
MEMIL eyes 06_orange brown (from Marketplace)
Clawtooth: Louise Brooks – Red eye flight
Eclectica Deco Knot set in pale silver
Addictia, METRO Sandals – Silver
BENT, Posebox (old hunt gift)
Lightly GIMPed

Look admirable
Zibska, Amelie set of colour and size change earrings and necklace (ty Ms. Skaggs!) UPDATE: Still available at TGGS until December 19.
Luxury[87] – Snakeskin sheer catsuit (former Lyfe of Style item; no sign of an inworld store)
/Wasabi Pills/ Skye Mesh Hair – Pancake with /Wasabi Pills/ Hairbase included
MONS / Sunny Skin -light brow-soft makeup- light tone V1 (at TDR Fusion; includes a freckle version; love this hard)
[sauce] ka-pow! : lashes (not available)
MONS / Shocking eyes – blue
Yummy, Thin Boho Ring – Maroon (Nov. Collabor88)
Glitterati, Boxed
I GIMPed thie beejezus out of this one. Okay, maybe only the bejeez.

Pleisure apologizes for the quality of today’s comments and wishes to assure readers that we will fire whatever unpaid intern let an unpaid intern assign an unpaid intern to write copy.

This sh*t just got real

Here’s a fantasy. This is what I would wear if I owned a chic boutique in Paris and life was so perfect that cats and birds could hang out together without getting into an argument about Léos Carax’s latest film. In this fantasy, my outfit consists of a mesh hippie blouse from Shine by ZD and a wearable demo dress from Solita. There’s also fur from Bliss Couture, which is running a sale on fur and ruffles until December 16th. The cuffs Portia wears here come with a matching poncho.

Here’s a reality. I’ve just gone through the toughest four months of my life and things may get worse before they get better. I don’t actually cry on my knees under a table. I prefer to stand, bend over and hang upside down till the rush of blood to my head distracts me from the despair. (If I called it yoga you’d try it yourself instead of thinking I’m weird. Which I am.) When I look at the SL feeds, I occasionally come across a post from someone who has been suffering from depression, may have attempted suicide, and may feel terribly alone. One of the wonderful things about SL is the anonymity that allows us to acknowledge pain without the risks that come with real-life declarations. I keep this blog a secret from all but my closest friend, so it remains a place where I can be some of the things I am not allowed to be in my daily life. I can, for example, play with a pair of giant bübs. I can also be honest about emotional pain. I can’t claim to have caught every post SLers have written about depression and despair, but I want those who have written such posts to know that I’m grateful for your honesty. I wish you all the strength and support you need to get you through the dark periods of your lives.

Credits to creators
shine by [ZD], MESH BATWING BLOUSE Hippiestyle plum – M (ty Cecilia Blanchere!)
[solita] Fin de Semana Dress M
[UMEBOSHI] Pabu tights -Peach- (a pack available at TGGS for a couple more days; ty Keiba!)
! Bliss Fur ! Lecker Fur Sleeves (50% off)
Schadenfreude, Amargosa Boots (Nov. Collabor88)
Yummy, Boho Rings – Maroon (Nov. Collabor88)
((JUNWAVE))MIKAKO*APRICOT-BROWN*hair
Glam Affair -Renee- Sinless 02 D (at the Arcade Gacha event)
PIDIDDLE – My Special Treasures – Some Teeth I Found (at the Arcade Gacha event; ty Brutus Martinek!)
The first pose is by dfo! from the Gala fundraiser pack and the location is Cupcake. The second pose is part of the Falln furniture and the location is Contraption.

The Zomneys are coming

The man behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer explains why a vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for a zombie apocalypse. Says Joss Whedon: “Romney is ready to make the deep rollbacks in health care, education, social services, reproductive rights that will guarantee poverty, unemployment, overpopulation, disease, rioting: all crucial elements in creating a nightmare zombie wasteland.”

I stand with Mr. Whedon on this—at least I do until some zombie bites me and I can’t afford a trip to Emergency—and I urge you to vote for Obama on November 6. Before you do that, however, you ought to shamble over to Cinema, which closes on the 31st, and pick up Brutus Martinek’s brilliant Undead Perfection ensemble. You can buy the elements of the outfit separately or as a set that also includes dagger-like nails not shown here.

Credits to creators
PIDIDDLE – Undead Perfection Bodysuit (at Cinema; ty Brutus Martinek!)
PIDIDDLE – Undead Perfection – PlasticSurg Marks (at Cinema; ty Brutus Martinek!)
PIDIDDLE – Undead Perfection Mask (at Cinema; ty Brutus Martinek!)
:[P]:-LionHeart-Skele-Porcelain-Bare/Bone and SkeleBones Tattoo (group gift from random gift giver; see yesterday’s post)
::DT:: ::sTeRRe:: Shape (Copy/Mod)
(Yummy) Whatever Ring (old gacha)
- .HoD. – Compassion Piercing Set Prt. 2 – Razor
pose: Miseria, Creep pack (may not be available)
location: The Attic at Petruchio
Damn that full-bright brain! I had to GIMP and pimp again. Somebody stop me…