LaTaea Rayna — Post 6 Grrrl
by Alphaville Herald on 08/07/08 at 10:02 pm
My SL brother asked me early last week if I had ever met his best friend LaTaea, a fiery and witty red-head, and told me she might be perfect post 6 Grrrl material. So I contacted her and we ‘clicked’ instantly. Though we had never met before, the evening of our photoshoot was like a typical girls’ night out, a lot of laughter and nasty comments about life in general and men in particular. She quickly changed from one outfit into the next and we hopped from one sim to the next to find the perfect settings. The places where the following pictures have been taken are Crimson Shadow, the artilleri sim and Tempura Island. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome LaTaea Rayna – Bunny Brickworks
I’ll never forget my “rebirth” into SL. That first day where everything is strange and new. The day where I meticulously worked to customize my gratis avatar into what I thought would look spectacular. And it did! That is until I stepped out of the orientation station and realized that the awkward gait and Elvis bouffant hairdo where NOT the standard of beauty which permeated the pixel paradise that was Second Life. No indeed, here was a place where anyone could be a super model with a few properly placed linden dollars.
I quickly said goodbye to the other avatars around me who wanted to find free things and figured out how to hook my new self up with some real linden dollars. With a few thousand burning a hole in my virtual pocket, and a love for design in my heart, I was soon popping from sim to sim reveling in all the choices that were only a mouse click away.
It wouldn’t be long until I learned how to combine my love of playing dress-up with my love of a great story. While searching for things to do one day, I stumbled upon a medieval role play sim called Lumindor. It was here that my love for role play was born. Where else but in SL can you really dress and talk like an all-powerful magician, Egyptian princess, sword-wielding neko warrior, or a simple slave girl and not get too many odd looks from passers by on the street?
My most recent role play is as a Gorean Free Woman in the soon to open City of Ti. The city of Ti is a part of Project Saleria: 30 sims connected together to recreate the Salerian Confederation of Gor in Second Life. While Gor can be controversial at times; the role play found in sims that stick closely to the books is wonderful and offers a chance to step into the shoes of a character in another time and place. So brush up on your emotes and head over to one of the many spectacularly designed role play sims to immerse yourself in a different lifestyle and perhaps learn a few things along the way.
Lastly and most importantly, SL to me is about the friendships you make. There are those friends that have come to me through role play. However, over and above those acquaintances are the special few that you have known since the beginning and seem to travel with you on your journey through the messed up relationships, the failed shop opening, your SL Wedding (often soon followed by your SL Divorce) or the times when “ruth” dogs your every step. I count myself lucky to have found just a few of those friends who mean the world to me, and make my personal journey through SL so much more worthwhile. (ben, Liv, Nate)
So what’s next? Who knows … it’s my SL … and I’m part chameleon.
Eye Korobase
Jul 8th, 2008
3 Words: Side boob Hour
Stephie
Jul 9th, 2008
Hello generic amazon with huge tits and ridiculously small waist.
anon
Jul 9th, 2008
this brings up an interesting point: in real life social identities are maintained through being static: the same person is the same person day to day, with some perhaps hidden interests that stagger between a business persona, a family persona, a romantic persona, a sexual persona, and finally an introspective persona (after all nobody knows you as well as you know yourself). sometimes they might bleed into each other (pictures of children at work or something), but they stay nonetheless separate
could the chameleon-like aspect of SL or any “virtual world” cause meaningful shifts or loss of group or personal identification? i’m not talking about recognizing someone visually, but if someone is constantly switching besides, for example, a “sword-wielding neko warrior, or a simple slave girl”, or other various “disguises”, doesn’t that hurt the overall…I guess the best word is their “credibility”? if someone changes day to day into various “avatars” that reflect parts of their personality, not only does this blur the lines between what persona is presented, it seems like it would deter someone from fully feeling that that person’s motivations, personality, and interests can be grasped in any meaningful way
this is theoretical but -_(o_O)_-
Aya Pelous
Jul 9th, 2008
This isn’t your greatest work bunny. But willing to forgive you if next post 6 is done well. Maybe its the model? Or the fact that she is boring, or the fact she looks like everyone else….K next.
Sigmund Leominster
Jul 9th, 2008
Nice to see a return to honest objectification of women as eye-candy. I vote for more pictures and less analysis of the “personality.” I mean, really, if you look good and wear very little, what more do we need? Let’s just stay on target here and stick with the superficial.
Carmen
Jul 9th, 2008
I think its a lovely looking Av, I dont think the breasts are excessive in the topless picture although the red top they look a little over the top. Very pretty face and nice clothes too. All in all i think she is pretty.
Maybe the shot angle was not right, im no photgrapher so cant realy comment but i say well done to both model and Photographer
like_ummm
Jul 9th, 2008
in the third pic – that pink thing in front of her breast looks like a shoop. Also – sharp hair is poking her in the eye.
The second pic is a very well composed and compelling image.
Chav Paderborn
Jul 9th, 2008
I like the last picture.
But doesn’t showing tits mean a Freewoman secretly wants to be a slave? Get back in the kitchen!
The Herald Should Be On FailBlog.org
Jul 9th, 2008
“Elvis bouffant hairdo where NOT the standard”
When are people going to realize that “were” and “where” are two different words?
Christ Almighty.
azdel slade
Jul 10th, 2008
the red shirt pic is nice. that shirt is great.
sheesh! what does a girl have to do to get nekked on this blog? i’ve sent a few emails… here are some pics:
http://flickr.com/photos/azdelslade/tags/neko/
believe me, i’ll show you more than just my nipples…
Bunny Brickworks
Jul 10th, 2008
@ Azdel: Applications to become a Post 6 girl should be sent to me – Bunny Brickworks – in-world. I have responded to your request via IM twice but you obviously did not get them.