Tracing the Threads of History and Fantasy

A House of Healing

March 25, 2025

One of the buildings in the new Rome Series from Del-ka Aedilis is the Hospital Celsus, a combined residence and hospital for a medicus or healer.  The build features a beautiful garden, for relaxation as well as for growing medicinal plants, flanked by barracks with rooms for patients. At the end is a two-story building serving as a residence for the medicus. The build features PBR textures and the light from the fires illuminates it beautifully.

For a suitable outfit, I decided to make use of the newest release from Rakshasa for We Love Role-Play. The Fineas Camisk is…well, part of a Greek or Roman outfit, with a draped cloth that covers half the body and leaves the rest bare. In contrast to the rich fabric, it is tied with a rope that is matched by the ropes around the wrists. There are also matching laced sandals and those as well as the outfit are available for both male and female avatars. We’ll just say that the medicus of this hospital may believe in a bit of sexual healing as well. ;)

My hair is a brand new release from Raven Bell for the Engine Room. With the floral ornaments removed, I thought it could pass for a Romanesque style. Either way, it is a very pretty updo.

Dive Into Dutchie’s Pool

March 21, 2025

Dutchie’s Swimming Pool is the latest creation from Froukje Hoorenbeek. Suitable as a luxurious addition to your Second Life home or as part of a spa, this pool offers beautiful PBR-textures and top notch animations, including custom swimming and diving animations. Naturally, I had to dive in and explore the options, and you can see some of the results in the video.

As I note in the video, there is a PG and an Adult version, with the Adult supporting Aeros and Physics Cock for automatic tilting as well as being Lovense Sex Toy compatible. I also mentioned the additional tiles available to landscape around the pool, but I forgot to note that there are also two landscape surrounds with cut-outs for the pool, so that you can more easily use it on land where you can’t landscape. My setup is in the sky and I used one of the surrounds to create a little hill around the pool.

Luxurious Heritage

February 27, 2025

Step back to the 19th century with this beautiful evening gown from Grasshopper Street. A corseted waist, impressive ruched sleeves and a drapery across the bust are the defining features of the gown. For Second Life, it includes both legacy and PBR textures and you can see how fantastic the latter can look in the lighting I setup for this shot. The texture HUD offers a range of preset textures and colours but each part can also be tinted, so here I made the coppery colour a few shades darker than the default.

The gorgeous chair is from DICTATORSHOP’s Heritage series which includes several other matching furniture pieces. It comes in PG G with 40 animations, Adult Vanilla with 180 animations and Adult Kink with 225 animations. Plenty of variation, but I must admit I would have loved some solo sits that worked better for a long gown. In terms of customisation, it offers 7 metals, 23 leathers and 9 fabrics.

Winter Haven

December 10, 2024

A cosy winter skybox, furnished with a couple of elegant new pieces from Libertine’s collection, offers the perfect place for a lady to receive a special visitor. Garbed in a long gown with matching jacket, both decorated with luxurious fur, she lights a red candle that spreads a spicy scent in the room. Then she moves to lounge on the sofa, coyly hiding her face behind a lace fan.

There are so many goodies at this round of We Love Role-Play! Starting with the skybox, it is from Tirrany Design and features a beautiful fireplace at one end of the room and windows that overlook a snowy landscape at the other. The style of it is vaguely 19th century but could fit a broad range depending on how you furnish it. Here, I am using two pieces from Libertine, a new version of the Cheshire Pouf (which includes animations for decorating a Christmas tree) and the brand new Alice couch in an Adult edition.

The gown and jacket is by Luas and if you get the fatpack you can mix and match the colours between the pieces and also pick different fur colours. The candle comes from Jinx and includes a basic holding animation as well as either closed or open eyes.