Vickiepedia

Ladies and gentlemen, gentlewomen and laymen! It appears that the Vickie Diablos you know has rejoined Second Life at a very inopportune time. Then again given the way my life is going, any time is inopportune time.

What was I greeted with on the first day I re-logged in? Well, what else?

TP goes to a sex animation section

May I suggest dictionary.com? ??????????

And of course the bajillion people who have little clue about tasteful body proportions.

I was also this close to upgrading and buying a Linden Home because this time I actually have a semi-plan to use the house, unlike last time when I randomly jumped on a cheap non-Linden land deal and was greeted by a chatty neighbour who made a lot of small talk and spent a lot of time having a lot of virtual sex with a lot of sound effects with her male companion in her/their home, so I ended up leaving the ground barren and mostly hid in my skybox building random things and testing animations… And it just totally dawned on me that having a semi-plan to use the land kind of has nothing to do with the neighbours you get.

But anyway, say hi if you have a Second Life too, yeah? *crickets*

Cybil Covers Cleavage

… and I shouldn’t have. Not while I have 10 more papers to write.

But whatever.

My deviantART account is at least 3 almost 4 years old. I don’t remember what prompted me to register an account there seeing that I absolutely do not consider myself an artist and had no intention to upload anything back then.

Last night, I uploaded a rough, not-very-anatomically-accurate, digital sketch of the nosebleed-inducing Desire Demon from Dragon Age (NSFW) to my scrapbook, which is partially an excuse to draw naked women experiment to see if T&A on an unknown and otherwise empty dA account can really get the Mad Keen Hits™ Dee mentioned.

It’s been around 21 hours since I uploaded it and there are 32 views at the time of writing. Subtract the 2 comments/views and 5 possible views from the 5 people who read my blog, and taking diminishing returns into account… the resulting number should be a pretty accurate one of the Mad Keen Hits™ that scrap received on N days after it’s uploaded.

I marked it as mature content, by the way; you’d need an account to view it.

And then I realised that must be precisely the reason why I registered a dA account three four years ago.

Vickie, you dirty person!

There’s something about you and not getting with the times, Vickie; watercolour layouts are so 2008. But you know what? I kind of like it. This is also one of the rare layouts that actually resemble what I first imagined when inspiration hit, all the way back in December 2009.

All images used are “no attribution required” photos apart from the two small trees in the header image (those are from a brush pack that’s no longer available). The reused profile picture will likely be replaced with another one of me wearing a funny hat come April. Transparent PNG images and multiple class fail in IE6. Some items in the sidebar are slightly out of place in IE6 & 7 because of browser bugs. Text-shadow fails in IE6, 7 & 8. The solution is clear: IE users should switch to a better browser.

So, other than those issues and the layout possibly being too pale, or strange rainbow / birds / tree / trunk / triangular land mass thingy placement… comments?

People’s general comments about male public figures:

• He’s so gorgeous. Talented, too!
• He’s so gorgeous.
• He’s so talented.
• He’s a douche.

People’s general comments about female public figures:

• She’s so gorgeous. Talented, too!
• Gorgeous? She’s an airhead.
• Who cares if she’s talented if she’s fugly?
• She’s a douche. Fat and ugly, too. What? If she can’t handle the criticism, she shouldn’t put herself out there.

Discuss.