Ferro @Ferrovore@mastodon.social

I picked up a package of cherry cola Oreos at the store the other day because why not, some of the Dr. Moreaureos are at the very least a fun experience.

I did not realize that they have "popping candy" integrated into the extremely sweet-scented creme (if you've ever had cherry cola bubble gum, you know exactly how these cookies smell).

Cid does not enjoy the sensation, I kinda like it but ONLY as a separate section from the crunchy bit. It's very strange on the whole!

One of these days I need to sit down with one of the tees Parv owns and make him a "no smoking" shirt, since dude is absolutely a total weiner about being hewn from smokeless fire and all that.

Anyway, here's some glamor shots of everyone's least favorite thirsty ifrit, Parvaiz, modeling his brand new outfit I've dubbed "Vampire Hunter P."

There's also a belt I could've gotten for this thing but I opted not to purchase it just yet. I've still got three weeks to decide if I want to go grab myself one, after all!

Firestorm Windlight setting: "Fine Day"

Oh, good, there are new episodes of Nailed It! on Netflix. Hopefully nobody has to make a 45 cake this season!

It took literally over an hour of banging into full-sim/cannot-complete-your-movement messages but I made it into Crystal Heart and it was, indeed, a fudgefest of lag. Some really nice goodies, though, most importantly being the demo of some really nice feathered wings from Murder of Ravens that I suspect might end up another Often-Used Furry Accessory much like their demon wings and tail.

The glimmer of hope when you see a friend make a goof about a character with blue innards and you briefly think they mean something you made recently, not D:BH robots.

Not exaggerating, BTW.

"Isn't that a niche interest?"

Friends I am browsing the gallery of an event that is themed heavily around shoujo/magical girl stuff and they are straight up selling Utena outfits here, it's only niche if you can't market yourself right.

Still seems like a super-missed opportunity that you don't see more furry-focused SL sales events. So long as you have goodies that'll work for non-furry avatars (wings, tails, horns, ears, assorted unrigged goods, props) you could easily get some non-fandom slopover interest as long as you theme it well.

The Second Life Event-Browsing Experience goes something like this:

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SON OF A BITCH WHY DOESN'T IT FIT ANY OF THE BODIES I OWN
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oh, it comes in purple!

Looks like commiss.io is interested in trying to be an alternative to people getting done dirty by Patreon. Will be interesting seeing how they handle the bugbear of “payment processors hate dealing with porn because porn consumers can be incredibly turdy re: actually letting their money be processed.”

Things have calmed down enough that goofing off feels good again. Here we can see me trying out some freebie horns from the Sinful Needs VIP group (home of some very nice people who just like making demon avatars). The brighter part of the horn texture animates!

The Addams Family movie is sort of a gloriously timeless flick that is simultaneously EXTREMELY nineties, and the fact that they made a novelty MC Hammer song for the soundtrack is probably the most 90s thing about it.

Next stop will probably be figuring out how orcs fit into VTU because I can't in good faith just copy/paste how the Rhoanish work.

Also Rhoanish orcs have pointed ears, which are associated with different blood typings (generally faebloods, also some urgebloods or people with extraplanar juice) in VTU. So THAT'S out.

In modern society, a dwarf's brain is set up well to be a specialist, particularly if they do contract work or are otherwise working for a client. They shine at QA. They're going to have an awful time figuring out what to draw if you say "oh, do whatever you want to!" but the instant you say you want to see a fancy picture of a cat in these two colors you're going to see some Mucha-level stuff coming out of the dwarven artist's pen (assuming they know how to draw, anyway).

They're not exclusively cave-dwellers (barring cultures where that's just what everybody does, like certain deep-mining orgs), but they do have a species-wide tendency towards agoraphobia and kind of "ehhh" distance vision, so operating in enclosed spaces just feels right for the typical dwarf.

While not as prone to monomania as high elves, dwarves do prefer a LOT of structure and focus to their day-to-day lives.

Axes, alcohol, and hating elves are all entirely optional.

They're on average about as magical as any other ironblooded species, but there's a higher chance for a magic-positive dwarf to just not do anything with their ability because it doesn't really fit into any of their interests (aside from maybe manifesting some spare tess crystals for their friends).

They make, they build, they repair, and so long as they can figure out the concepts from outside sources dwarves can make some wonderful art. You want them on your QA team.

A young human needs to be stimulated to encourage their curiosity, creativity, etc. so that they can approach the world from an adaptive standpoint. Humans are dreamers, innovators, tool-users, and survivors.

A young dwarf needs to be given basic building blocks with which they can approach the world. Their brains aren't too great for innovation, but what they CAN do is improve upon what they've been given. Dwarves can work with what you give 'em and do so quite well.

When you have a typical faeblood imprint on the "real world," you get the original genetic material for one of many different flavors of elf. When you have a jotunblood do the same, you get proto-trolls, who also come in a zillion weird phenotypes. If you take the typical ironblood resilience and adaptability and have it try to adjust for otherworldly stimuli, you get dwarves.

They're compact to save energy, and their proportions generally don't map to little people.