Author: PeepSideshow Darkward

Tired of Waiting

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Just look at me. Gorgeous! Check out those shoes – aren’t they everything delicate and feminine and girly? I’m just spectacularly pretty in pink today!

Yet, here I sit, waiting. For…I’m not quite sure. But I’m tired of waiting. Time to get off my land or platform and DO. Something. Anything. (Besides shopping.)

Taking pictures has been great therapy, but I’ve kind of forgotten why I originally joined Second Life – to meet people, have fun, socialise. Well, not exactly forgotten…just forgotten how to.

I’m digging through my “Little Book of How to Have Fun” and reading the instructions. I’ll be there, I promise.

Soon.

Speaking of soon, if you want these shoes, you need to hurry! They are from fri.day and available at Festival of Sin II in the Vanity section until tomorrow.

Pretty stuff I’m showing off:

Top: Tee*fy Gianna Off Shoulder Top S Stripes/Pink by Azure Electricteeth
Skirt: Tee*fy Emily Mini Flare Skirt Pink S by Azure Electricteeth
*Shoes: fri.day fri. – Narcissa.Heels (Blush) – Maitreya by Darling Monday (available at Festival of Sin II through September 5, 2015 – HURRY!)
Earrings: Cae :: Labyrinth :: Earrings by Caelan Hancroft
Hair: Exile::Sugar and Spice: 3. Reds (Spice) by Kavar Cleanslate (gacha prize available at The Arcade September 2015)
Tattoo: [White~Widow] Midnight in Paris – Maitreya Mesh Body by Julie Hastings
Skin: -Glam Affair – Amberly II skin – America 13 C by aida Ewing
Body, hands and feet: Maitreya Mesh Body – Lara V1.0 by Onyx LeShelle
Eyes: IKON Promise Eyes – Maldives by Ikon Innovia
Lashes: Mon Cheri *MC* “Falsies” Eyelash by Freya Oliveri

Cigarette: ILO Blend Cigarette C+T by ZoZo Raven

Loveseat: dust bunny . camellia chair by Xlnoel
Rug: Kalopsia – Rugs by Isabeau Baragula
Curtain: Kalopsia – Flying Curtain by Isabeau Baragula
Lamp: Apple Fall Key Lamp (Nickel) by Warehousefifteendesigns (gift at mainstore)
Ladder: *YS&YS* Wardrobe Ladder 00 SOI by Monicuzza Babenco (gacha prize)
Frame: =Zenith=Vintage frame with dress (Milk) by Miffyhoi Rosca (gacha prize)
Build: L2 Studio The Boathouse by Lindin2 Lane

Pose included in chair

Photo taken using the LumiPro HUD by Stefan Buscaylet

Stunned

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Thousand-yard stare. Blunted affect. Stoned?

I wasn’t quite sure what to call this picture. It really was a photograph I stumbled upon while shooting this new sweatshirt by Apple May Designs. I wanted a set that was kind of dingy and dark. I rezzed the skybox and began pulling out stuff to furnish it. One of the first items I grabbed was a stool…which you can’t actually see in the photo. While digging through my inventory for more clutter, I plopped down on it. As I cammed around to find the box I had down to rez things on, I happened to see this image.

The angle was right. The lighting needed just a bit of tweaking. Click. Click. Job done.

Yeah, that was it. Shocked, aren’t you? I was.

So the title is actually quite simple:

Stunned.

*Shirt: Apple May Designs Quinn Sweatshirt *Female* (S) – Light Grey by Apple May (available at The Chapter Four – starts September 4th 2015)
Jeans: Furtacor Marketplace Store*Distressed Skinny Jean Pants Black by Marinahh Mayako
Hair: Magika [Hair] Itch by Sabina Gully (new release)
Skin: -Glam Affair – Amberly II skin – America 13 C by aida Ewing
Body, hands and feet: Maitreya Mesh Body – Lara V1.0 by Onyx LeShelle
Eyes: IKON Promise Eyes – Maldives by Ikon Innovia
Lashes: Mon Cheri *MC* “Falsies” Eyelash by Freya Oliveri

Cigarette: ILO Blend Cigarette C+T by ZoZo Raven

Stool/pose: :HAIKEI: My vintage art studio / Gacha {2} by qo0op

Build: junk. attic skybox. RARE by Tab Tatham

Photo taken using the LumiPro HUD by Stefan Buscaylet

Now He’s Just Somebody That She Used To Know

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He was a good man. A good father. He was a hard worker – maybe sometimes he worked too hard. He wasn’t a guy who went out with his mates after a long day on the job. He would much rather be at home. With them. His family.

He didn’t always get there in time for dinner, but he always tucked his boy in for the night. Sometimes, long after he had already gone to sleep. But he read him a story, anyway, touched his cheek and kissed him goodnight.

Many times, dinner was a bowl of cereal or a ham sandwich because she had angrily thrown away the leftovers when the hour grew late and he was still not done with his day. Often, he slept on the sofa with just his jacket as a cover because she had locked him out of the bedroom. Again. Always, he felt the loneliness of being an outsider in his own home. Always, he prayed he could be more.

He didn’t blow his paycheck on booze and bets on the game. He spent it on a roof and a full pantry and when there was enough left over, for a toy soldier or a model airplane or a scrapbook. He filled it with memories, hoping that the pages would never be enough to be filled with their life.

Then one day he came home to a nearly-empty house. Gone. She is gone. His boy is gone. His life is gone.

A few lonely pieces of furniture, some discarded clothes, a few toys she deemed unworthy and the sad, half-empty scrapbook are all that are left. No note, no warning. She just left with all that was dear to him. No forwarding address, no warning.

He used to be content. Not as happy as he would wish, but full of expectations for better times. He used to be filled with joy at the thought of holding his son, caring for his child’s mother. He used to be the one she turned to when times were tough.

Then, he was the centre of their life. He was all that he could be to them. To her.

Now, he’s just somebody that she used to know.

Pretty stuff I’m showing off:

On Chance:
Jacket/shirt: Legal Insanity – gas mask jacket by Datrip Blackbart (group gift)
Jeans: Cold Ash – Slim Fit – OCELOT Jeans by ColdAsh
Boots: V-Spot – Renegade Kombat Boots by Vertig0 Sands (group gift)
Sunglasses: 7mad;Ravens End o’ Summer Sunglasses by Poe Rozenberg (MOH6 Website gift)
Hair: MINA Hair – Mark (no materials) by Mina Nakamura (MOH6 gift)
Skin: 7 Deadly s{K}ins – DAMIEN Caramel by Moonspell Ghost
Hands: Slink Male Hands (AvEnhance) – Relax by Siddean Munro

*Chair: [hate this] [ht:home] covered armchair by Corvus Szpiegel (available for The Challenge Blog September 2015)
*Table: [hate this] [ht:home] covered table by Corvus Szpiegel (available for The Challenge Blog September 2015)
Books: 8f8 – 13. Our Secret Hideout – Crate of Wisdom by iBi (gacha prize)
Scrapbook: 8f8 – 17. Our Secret Hideout – Our Memories by iBi (gacha prize)
Small table: :HAIKEI: if I live in a hut _ gacha {4} by qo0op
Toy plane: -ATTIC- Wooden Plane Toy by Citta Wiskee
Toys: Alica Stella Designs Christmas Toys Boxed by Alicia Stella
*Gym bag: 22769 ~[bauwerk] Travelbag by Paco Pooley (available for The Challenge Blog September 2015)
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Clothes: :HAIKEI: look through the window gacha {4} by qo0op
*Lamp: [hate this] [ht:home] covered lamp by Corvus Szpiegel (available for The Challenge Blog September 2015)
Cranes: [DDD] Paper Cranes Trio by Anke Hatchuk
Build: [ba] paris penthouse 2.0 by Barnesworth Anubis (available at Collabor88 August 2015)

Pose included in chair