I'm in an interesting and confusing position. I'm a vampire. Sometimes I'll go so far as to brag that I'm THE vampire. And yet...  we don't really celebrate Halloween in Australia. Thank god for the global community of Second Life, eh? Because that gives me a chance to waltz around the graveyards with an Undead beauty on my arm and celebrate all that is witchy, wicked and wild. I had three Halloween costumes for this year - one for Role Magazine, one to make Achariya wet herself laughing on her personal blog and finally the one that I actually ended up wearing for the day. Yes, I crossed to the even darker side for the Samhain and became a World of Warcraft elf for a day.

I am wearing mythic things today. My hair is SLink's Ophelia, drawn to float around one's head as if your avatar is immersed in a watery grave. The lines are beautiful, thick strands interspersed by floating ones, a nimbus of messy beauty. It sits above a dress with a number of lines and options, Schadenfreude's Striga. Striga has a mermaid skirt in two kinds, an a-line skirt, and a system skirt or dress option, a plethora as usual from Allegory. The outfit is beautifully constructed, and named after an ancient evil. The Striga looks human enough, but preys upon the life-forces of young children, leaving them in a death-like coma...

It seems to me, our SL avatars are expressions of our idealized selves.  The person we may have picked to look like had we had the choice.  And we are only limited by the tools and materials we have available in game.  Always wanted to be a redhead?  Hair store, click, buy, wear...red prim hair.  Short in RL?  Appearance, height, slider to right.....mmmm tall.  No more climbing on the kitchen counter to get that glass on the top shelf.

As I travel the grid, 90% of all the avatars I see are tall thin human hardbodies persuasion.  The perfect picture from a fashion mag.  Of the remaining 10% there are the:

Step right up! Step right up! You sir, with the mustache? Madame, how about you? Yes, you! No? Oh, well, how about you! Yes, you! You right there! You have a curious glint in your eyes! Have you come to stimulate your senses? Have you come to shatter your mind, smash into it into little powder and float on a tide of creativity? No! Wait, what, no? Seriously? You just want to hear about the Carnival of Doom? Well, fine, I mean, I’m not judging you or anything. Why would I? I'm a friendly, laid back sort of a guy. The kind that does not stab random passers-by with sharp objects when they give me the stinkeye. The kind that doesn't bury their bodies in shallow graves out by the chicken coop. No sir, no ma'am, no gender-neutral pronoun, no way.

As part of the Halloween specials we have released 5 new Evil Clown Avatars complete with sculpted heads, bloody costumes and

errr yes knives and all .

You can find them now in Carnival of Doom for 400 lindens. Don't forget to check out many freebies speacial to halloween while you are there.

If you are looking for some bloody skins for your seasonal look you must check out these ever popular skins from the CoD. My favourite is the autoposy but you can find others that are  quite dark and bloody along with clown skins in Carnival of Doom at 350L

Go to Carnival of Doom now...

Last week, I had the pleasure of meeting Takeshi in Crimson Shadow as I introduced him to our new line of male skins in Crimson Shadow. He has taken this beautiful photo and yes I do look really pretty in that dress. Dynasty dress will be on sale in Crimson Shadow today. Please read more on Shop with Takeshi and see more of the gorgeous photos.