Wednesday, June 27, 2012

The Dead Muse Challenge - Challenge #3



Now that challenge #2 is over with, I figure it's time to change things up a bit!  Stretch your imagination a bit...

Challenge #3:  Urban Legend
Challenge ItemChallenge Start Date:  June 27, 2012
We have all heard ghost stories and urban legends.  It's your turn to write your own!  There are no specifics that you need to follow in this challenge...  Just make it yours.

If you need help with ideas as to your urban legend/ghost story, you can take a look at Snopes.  If you use Snopes to find a legend, please let us know which one you're using.

Challenge End Date:  July 4, 2012


Feel free to join the in world group The Dead Muse Challenge  and join the Flickr group The Dead Muse Challenge!
Share your posts!  I want to see what you come up with.

The Fate of Aislinn - Dead Muse Challenge

I had originally planned to illustrate my challenge submission with SL images.  I had planned to take and edit the images last night but when I got home but when I got home from work, my roommate had disappeared along with my electronics.  So, after calls to the police and the home owner's insurance, I didn't feel like doing much else than having some wine.

In other words, forgive me for just giving you another block of text for the current challenge.


Challenge #2:  Cards
Challenge Item"Okay, I paid the twenty bucks.  What do the cards say?"
Challenge Start Date:  June 20, 2012
Challenge End Date:  June 27, 2012


Wednesday, June 20, 2012

The Dead Muse Challenge - Challenge #2



I hope you enjoyed the first challenge.  I enjoyed reading the challenges that I did get to see!  So with that, welcome to Challenge 2!  Hope you enjoy these as much as I do.

Also, would you rather see the challenges run for two weeks at a time and have a new challenge every week?  This means that two challenges will always run concurrently...  What do you think?


Challenge #2:  Cards
Challenge Item"Okay, I paid the twenty bucks.  What do the cards say?"
Challenge Start Date:  June 20, 2012
Challenge End Date:  June 27, 2012


Feel free to join the in world group The Dead Muse Challenge  and join the Flickr group The Dead Muse Challenge!
Share your posts!  I want to see what you come up with.

Jiggaknapa Pheromones - Dead Muse Challenge

Challenge #1:  Wicked
Challenge Item:  "Hold onto something.  This is gonna be wicked."
Challenge Start Date:  June 13, 2012
Challenge End Date:  June 20, 2012

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

The Dead Muse Challenge - Challenge #1



The Dead Muse Challenge is simple.  You'll get a prompt (it could be a simple line or a picture or even something else) to which challenge acceptors will create a short story and illustrate it with images from SL.  Alternatively, if you do not wish to write a whole short story, you may just create an image that will tell the story for you.  Heck, you could just write a story and not illistrate it at all!

Simple, right?  Great!

Each challenge will run for a week and a new challenge will be released every Wednesday.  This is not to say that you must do every challenge or that you have to do the challenges in order.  The idea of the Dead Muse Challenge is to awaken your muse and allow you to be extremely creative.  Embrace it!

Feel free to join the in world group The Dead Muse Challenge  and join the Flickr group The Dead Muse Challenge!  Share your posts!  I want to see what you come up with.

So, we should get started, shouldn't we?

Challenge #1:  Wicked
Challenge Item:  "Hold onto something.  This is gonna be wicked."
Challenge Start Date:  June 13, 2012
Challenge End Date:  June 20, 2012

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

The Blacksmith's Wife

My friend Aydryan purchased a parcel of land last night and is going to be moving Sublime Shroud Kreations from the De La Soul store to his own place!  I've been holding on to his wonderful clothing line for some time and thought that...  well, what better way to celebrate his successes than to blog about them.

The problem was, I couldn't pick what outfit to wear to blog.  So, I started putting on this and that and the other thing.  I took pictures and as I took them, I realized that I was telling a story.  If I just move this image before this one and that one after the other one, well...  Look what we have.

So, Ayd, in honor of your new store, I present you with 'The Blacksmith's Wife'.  Ignore the crappy storytelling.  I'm sick and I woke up at 2am to work on this.


The Blacksmith's Wife

(Lady Waiverly)

She was the Blacksmith's Wife.  A gentle soul that believed in love and fairness and hard work.  She was both humble and royal in her bearing but that was to be expected given the path she took in her life.

You see, she was once a fixture in the hierarchy of the castle.  She was of a noble caste but had given it up all for the love of one measly commoner.  The Blacksmith had won her heart.

(Lady Drianna)

He would come to the Keep daily and leave her gifts at the fountain.  At first, she had no idea who it was that was leaving these gifts for her in her special spot.  But when he revealed himself at last and had begun wooing her, the Blacksmith won her heart.  So, she gave up that life of privilege. cast aside the opulent dress and became his wife.

(Lady Paisley)

For a long time, she was happy.  She moved about her day with a gentle grace that most were in awe of but there was always something about that Blacksmith's Wife that put people a little on edge.  Most would pass it off as the idea of her being noble born.  But some housed their suspicions silently and in the backs of their minds.

(Lady Drusilla)

As for the Blacksmith's Wife, she soon came to realize that there was something that just seemed to be missing from her life.  She found that she could not concentrate on the simplest tasks and that having to make choices was a chore.

The only thing that seemed to calm her nerves was being in the forest, hunting.  While hunting was not generally thought of as a woman's sport, the Blacksmith was happy to see his wife out and about.  It made her happy and all he had ever wanted was to make her happy and to make her his wife.  He had thought that he had both of those goals down but she had been changing lately...

 (The Hunter)

One day while out hunting, the Blacksmith's Wife came across something that she could not explain to anyone later.  She just couldn't seem to remember it.  But she remembered being shocked and amazed, frightened and enthralled.  In the end though, she passed it off as the work of the little people.  The townsfolk always did say that the wee ones liked to play tricks when you were out in the woods.

But the Blacksmith's Wife continued to change.  Her behavior became erratic and her eyes shifted to and fro as if she were waiting for someone or something to attack her.  The words that left her mouth were often startling and always completely unlike her.

(RenFair Chic)

So when the Blacksmith's Wife began staying out in the woods more and more often, the Blacksmith was saddened but mostly relieved.  The townsfolk had begun to suspect that his wife has been possessed or worse yet, was a demon herself.

The Blacksmith's Wife could not help the call of the forest.  She had to be surrounded by nature at all times.  If she wasn't, if she had to stay in town, her mind would addle and she would become more and more withdrawn.  Her words would come of their own bidding and mothers would keep their children from staring into her face, superstitious as they were.

(Xithanen Silks)

What those women did not know, nor the Blacksmith for that matter, was that when they were away...  The Blacksmith's Wife would come calling upon their homes.  She would dance for their husbands and enthrall them with her movements.  She would spend hours with these married men, giving into their fantasies and their darkest desires.

The men would not speak of this of course.  They all had made a silent vow unto themselves that if their misdeeds were found out, they would blame the Blacksmith's Wife for being a demon and bewitching them.  What the men did not know was that the Blacksmith's Wife could read their thoughts.

Her powers had been growing by the day and she knew that it was only a matter of time before everyone knew exactly what she had become.  Possessed?  Perhaps.  A demon?  Most likely not.

 (NecroWitch)

A witch?  Most definately!  An evil one?  Well, that remains to be seen.  All that the townsfolk would know was that the Blacksmith's Wife was no more and that she had been replaced with...  other.



Credits:
Skin - [Atomic] - Grace Skin - Buff - Irish Green
All Hair - Wasabi Pills in the Chocolate shade
Eyes - IKON - 'Sunrise' Eyes - Celtic Green
Lashes - BEETLEBONES - Mesh Lashes V.01 - Dainty Black
All Outfits - Sublime Shroud Kreations (Store to come!  For now, visit SSK at De La Soul!)

Monday, June 4, 2012

Rue Tunic

When I received these promo copy of De La Soul's Rue Tunic, I about squealed with joy!  First off, if you know me at all, you will know that De La Soul happens to be one of my favorite fantasy clothing & skin stores...  So this was a huge deal for me.  Then, you add in that these are colors that will be released tomorrow for 25 Linden Tuesdays...  What could be better?

The three new color packs begin with one color and fade into another.  The packs are so beautifully done that I didn't want to edit the images in any way.  They are only cropped so that you can see what they look like in world.  Only raw images with windlight and shadows...  You just have to check them out!

The Ranger tone fades from Copper to Khaki.


The Lady tone fades from Rose to Plum.


The Lord tone fades from Indigo to Aqua.


As with all of De La Soul's clothing line, the details are to die for.  You can pick out each individual stitch, the delicate embroidery and even the texture of the leather in the pants and belt are fantastic.  And if you look at the buckles on the belts, you can see the leather straps lifting, the holes for the buckles and even a shadow under them.  You cannot deny the attention to detail.  And if that weren't enough, you get this amazing witchy hat with your purchase that will match your tunic.


Credits:

Skin - Illusory - Love Milk - Organic
Hair - Wasabi Pills - Claire Mesh Hair - Chocolate
Eyes - IKON - Utopia Eyes - Pale Mint+Gold (M)
Lashes - BEETLEBONES - Mesh Lashes V.01 - Dainty Black
Outfit - De La Soul - Rue Tunic - Ranger, Lady & Lord tones
Shoes - Shiny Things - Old Laceup Boots (No longer available, that I am aware of.)
Makeup - [mock] - Cherry Red Aqua gloss - Lip 1
Pose - marukin - viola - harem 2