Fantasy Faire: A Traveller in Twilight Illusion

Twilight Illusion is a place of contrasts, and a broken angel seemed like a perfect traveller to go through these unforgiving and extreme environments. The demonic angel part could only come from BluPrintz (Twilight Illusion). The horns are part of a gacha - commons get you horns of various colors and the shown rare adds a halo for a really confused creature. The severed wings on my back come in black or white - I chose white but the black is equally well done. Finally, the Cerafina Heels are striking in their focus on just being the heel part, except for a band over the ankle, leaving one in a precarious if pretty situation! There's matching armor, and one of the RFL vendors sells a prism set that includes the heels.

Genre: Belle Epoque

Genre is visiting the Belle Epoque this month; that glowing time before the first world war shook most of Europe to its bones. In a time of almost undreamed of violence, the previous few decades gained a rosy glow which wouldn't soon fade. That's often the way with the past during times of trouble; thirty, even fifteen years ago seems like a balm to the soul when confronting a world full of the evils that people do. This is an individual thing which becomes magnified through shared experiences - and when all who experienced it have gone, we who remain remember their stories and make our own, imagining and re-imagining times we can never know first-hand.

Genre: The Rainbow Zone

Any world can be created in Second Life, even a rainbow version of the Twilight Zone, and the furniture and sets available at Genre this month make creating your own land of improbable geometry both easy and fun. Personally, I started with an amazing chess-and-clocks base from Black Tulip, which is stuffed full of poses as well as personality. The combo of lines and curves make taking pictures from every angle a blast, and I adore the tip-toeing across the top edges of things in particular - it really makes it charming and fun. It comes in black and white but can be tinted to many colors and is easy to dress up if you want a less minimalist style. I'd love to see it with chess pieces in particular, or perhaps some giant clocks. The details I added were similarly surreal, though - 22769 ~ [bauwerk] has both a ladder to nowhere and a stack of chairs to nowhere in their offerings this Genre, and each have a ton of thoughtful, reflective, and silly poses.