Tulips... and more

You know the song, it all starts with a box...



or perhaps... with tori.



I love tulips, but they're not the only one you can find at the Glowing Fantasy Garden series...





Love these beauties... Creating, and painting them.

Angel

I've been said that here, I look like an angel.



For once, I'm taking those words and just believing them. It's tiring, so tiring, to keep all the time your guard high. I never know when to believe. Let's see.

I like...

... observing people and their inner contradictions.
... making questions whose answers contradict their behaviours.
... observing how they don't realize what you've just done... and the arrogance that emerges from the superiority they feel they can brag about.

Then I silently switch off the light, close the door, and walk away.

(This deserves a deep writing, but I don't have time now for explaining. A pity; I'd like to).

Don't say...

"I promise you..."
"I'll never make you..."

... because as soon as those words are spoken, the promise is broken.

The porcelain ballerina comes back to her dark spot, where she never should have dared going out from...

Yay!

Ok, no biggie. Except, that my slides projector now plays animated textures, particles effects, sounds, changes aspect ratio and even allows you selecting from a few transitions from slide to slide.

Woot!

\o/

(Now, it's time for working on the preloading pictures part, plus lists for loading and a nice, nice HUD...)

Abusers

You'll find them always behind a charming facade. They need to pretend they are something they're not, in order to trap you on their web.

They say you the sweetest things. They act like if they care about you. But there's always something strange, something unreal on their behaviour. Something that makes you distrust, be wary.

Then one day, the truth is discovered, and their real self arises. And their real self turns to be a monster: the nightmare begins.

It doesn't matter all your effort on listening and being listened. It doesn't matter anything you do, the chances you give. They all will be smashed, mocked on, laughed at.

You'll be insulted. Your judgement will be insulted. Your friends will be insulted. They'll try by all means making you feel insecure, dirty, worthless: They need you feeling insecure, dirty and worthless, they need that you depend on them so they can throw, furious, all their misery on you.

There are abusers in both lives. In both lives, they'll tell you that they're not a monster, they'll try always blaming you for their behaviour. They always try making you feel miserable, by promising a change that will never happen, and then saying that it's your fault if they've not changed, because you've not cared about them. In Secondlife, they will even be cheeky enough as for telling you that in their real lives, they're not like this.

They are.

Abusers can't hide they are abusers once the mask has fallen on the floor and revealed the monster that was behind.

So be strong. Don't listen at them. Push them as far as you can from your life, it's the only way you can "win". Never play on the playground for an abuser. It will be only your loss. Your time and your energies will be the only wasted ones.

Abusers never change.

As soon as you identify one... run away.

Unfortunately, I'm talking by experience here. And as expected, the abuser still has the nerve of blaming everybody because of his lies being discovered and his true colors being exposed again, with an increasing and never ending rage that shows, once more, that his sweet promises of change were the same lie that he is.

Abusers never change.

Repeat that all the times you need when you find one. And run away. Don't feel guilty: they won't feel bad about making you miserable, so you don't have to feel guilty for escaping from them. They never change. Never.

Halloween Costume

I've never celebrated parties, but this year, being here, joining a related event, has made me change my mind, look in my wardrobe for an old dark nun costume, and I've done the rest.

Yes, that's me resting on a broom with a builtin AO for keeping the static pose on all the time. Yes, I've done the pose. Yes, I've done the broom. Yes, I've done the AO. And, although the maps for the cute ghosts are acquired ones, I've arranged the circular set, made them rotate slowly around my head... Soon I'll create my own cape and jewelry.





The good of learning is that you grow, and depend less and less from others.