Parading the Colors

When I put in my order for the McMillan tartan with full regalia for my buddy sirhc DeSantis, the beautiful designer Elle74 Zaftig ordered her seamstresses to work at full speed. With the delivery of sirhc´s present she also gifted me a full new outfit of the newly designed version.

I absolutely love it, so after the photo exhibition I took a walk around the estates. Although it was a windy evening the cold breezes didn´t get at my ba...uhmmm testis, not much anyhow. All was calm on the sim and all the animals were accounted for.

On the picture you see me parading the clan-colors next to a jar made by the artist Second Renoir. She is according to rumor actually a well known artist in first life also. She is also the first life sister of Mrs. Blanche cbreak.

I have quite a few of those jars placed around the sim, they are great focal-points.

An Honorary McMillan

On this day H.R.H. Wild Zepp, spokesman for the McMillan household made this declaration.

"The Much Honored Bock McMillan, Laird of Southern Charm and prince of Cascade Falls etc., etc. today wishes you all a very merry Christmas.

To celebrate the day the laird has decided to name an honorary McMillan. As this is a very special privilege which grant the receiver the full rights to wear the family colors at any occasion he or she chooses and thereby becoming in effect an ambassador for clan McMillan it is no joking matter (although no voting rights or other clan privileges come with this honor).

After due consideration the laird has however found a very worthy recipient and has therefor on this day bestowed the honor upon his Sergeant at Arms sirhc DeSantis. Sirhc is well deserved of this honor due to his support in times of need and distress and for his successful efforts to keep the peace at his and his dear wife units premises and ever where else in SecondLife. 

It so happens that it is also said persons birthday in first life today, but that has had no influence on this decision by the laird and is merely coincidental. 

This kitten is courageous and kind and can go to venues and sims to which no other McMillans have dared to venture in many months. He will carry our offer of peace and goodwill to all!

An order will today be placed with the tartan maker extraordinaire of SecondLife mistress Elle74 Zaftig of the Bellissima establishment. Delivery of the tartan with full regalia should be expected as soon as the holidays are over.

All hail to our newest brother sirhc DeSantis-McMillan!"

The gathered McMillans cheer jubilantly and echo Wild´s final cry and start chanting at the top of their voices, "All hail sirhc, all hail sirhc newest brother of the McMillans" and "Three cheers for brother sirhc, hip-hip Hooray, hooray, hooray!!!"

Dressed To Kill

I am going to a wedding today. So I threw on my old family rags, the McMillan tartan.

This tartan was made to order for me by my dear friend Elle74 Zaftig, owner and designer of "Bellissima", the best tartan makers in SecondLife.

The best thing about a tartan is that you can wear it anytime and anywhere and always be appropriately dressed as well as looking stunning!

Pictures from the wedding will be posted tomorrow.

Lawyers, Makeovers & Housewarmings

Well, I am feeling a bit strange today. Nothing at all has pissed me off or irked me enough to make me rant and rally in a post. All has been just humdrum in a sort of calming way.

So I´ll just go ahead and tell you about my day in SecondLife yesterday.

First of all - just to warn you silly buggers who may try to mess with me - I retained a lawyer in SecondLife yesterday. Yeah, I know I am one myself but only a bad lawyer acts on his own behalf.

My lawyer is an American and one fierce cookie I can tell you from the start. She is totally fearless and protects my ass like a lioness protects her cubs. Hell, I even had to stop her from slamming a restraining order on some people for looking at me weirdly the other day. (Note-to-self, remember to pay her 1 L$ when you get in-world, so she doesn´t try to weasel her way out of our attorney-client relationship.)

A good part of the afternoon I spent giving Matt McMillan, nee Gaboian, a well needed makeover. Matt is an alt I use in the Tiny Empires-game. Although he is an alt of mine by some freakish accident he has turned out to be straight, the poor man. Well I started off by giving him my shape with a few minor differences and then he got new skin, new hair, new eyes and a brand new tartan. The tartan was from Elle74 Zaftig of course, nothing but the best would do!

This is what he looked like as a Linden-noob and here he is after the makeover. It´s a big improvement I think.

Later that evening I was invited to a friends housewarming party. It was Ewa Aska who had built a new house for herself, she is an awesome builder in SecondLife. The house was beautiful but the coolest thing was the dance floor, I thought, we danced over flamingos and crocodiles. You can see it here in a picture I stole from Blanche Argus´s blog (please note the capital B in Blanche).

The other guests at the party were mostly from the Tara Hill-collective, so I was left pretty much to myself except for the "Hi´s" and "Bye´s".

I had a few clarifying IMs during the party though. I managed to tell a woman I had been pissed with her but that it was passing now and also a guy that I had never been pissed with him just with a female friend of his, but that that was also passing now. And finally I managed to talk nicely with another friend whom I hadn´t met for a while, to her I was quite pleasant I think, no bitching at all - would you believe it?

There you go, parts of my day all summed up in one post, and those were the interesting parts.

Feeling Like Greta

Greta Garbo portrayed by Einar Nerman

"I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference."
Greta Garbo

Feeling the way I do today the only thing that will help my mood is getting my ass inworld, going to Elle74 Zaftigs store "Bellissima" and getting myself a few new tartans. That works wonders for me, rather like ice cream for others.

Erotes Highlander Winner

When I logged on to Second Life today I got this notice!

Photo: Kent Hutchinson of KH Photo

Erotes Highlander Winners
Sunday, 29 Aug 2010 09:48:02 GMT


Hi guys!


I am pleased to announce our winners for the Erotes Highlander Contest! It was a tough choice for our judges and the final three had very close scores. I want to thank all of you who participated in this, our best ever contest.

The winners are:
1st Place: Bock McMillan,
Equal 2nd Place: Dario Waddington, Dex Vayandar.

Congratulations and well done!
Your prize money will be sent out to you when I see you online.

Chade
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Wooooooohooooooooooo! Thanks so much Chade and all the other judges and Club Erotes!!! Anyone that knows me will know how much this means to me!
 
Congrats also to Dario and Dex!

I owe it all to Elle74 Zaftig of "Bellissima", I could never have done it without her awesome tartans!!!

My First Vampire Wedding

Of course I know a few vampires in Second Life, who doesn´t? Vampires, ogres, demons and all kinds of scary creatures are rampant in SL, along with some angels and furries too. But tonight was the night I was going to take part in my first festive event among the creatures of darkness, rather than just visiting a vampire sim.

The dress code
I had been thinking of this function ever since Orchid Arado and Yannis Martynov sent me the invitation to their wedding. The bride and groom asked for goth clothing in the invitation, but both of them told me to turn up in my family tartans anyway. They both know me well, and are accustomed to my tartan fetisch.

As a good guest always should, I wanted to follow the guidelines anyway and had thought out a brilliant plan to accommodate both the asked for attire and my fetisch. I was going to buy the beautiful Balmoral tartan at my favourite tartan store in SL, Bellissima. The Bellissima store is owned and operated by the supreme tartan maker Elle74 Zaftig. She has been a friend of mine ever since I first custom ordered my family tartan, The McMillan.

The Balmoral tartan is black, white,red and grey and would fit the goth theme nicely I thought. Unfortunately when I went to the store I found that Elle had moved it and had not yet set up all her tartans at the new location. What a blunder on my part, I should of course have talked to her when I got the idea instead of waiting til the last hours before the ceremony! Anyhow I ended up going to the function in my family rags.

The gift

I thought long and hard on this issue also. What was a good gift that both of them could enjoy? Then I remembered the "TenderLove 3.0 Animator" by Kizmet Kidd. (Uhmmmm no, she is not a friend of mine - yet!).  This was the perfect gift I thought.

My heterosexual friends, both women and men, praise it highly and tell me it is the most realistic, thoughtful, intimate sexual experience.

I found it on Xstreet, yes I am shopping there again altho I swore never to do so when they decided about the new rules, but I am simply to lazy sometimes.

Now I encountered a new obstacle! The damn thing was no transfer, which meant I just couldn´t simply buy it and wrap it up and give it to one of them. Instead I had to wait for one of them to come online before sending it. But to whom should I send it, Orchid or Yannis?

I called for a crisis conference in the swedish group chat "Swedish People in SL", the people there are awesome and have always come to my aid whenever I needed it. After some discussion I was told by the girls it would be best to send it to Yannis, as the guy needs to get on the HUD first anyway.

So when Yannis came online about two hours prior to the ceremony I sent the gift to him. I also made two gift boxes to give to each of them after the ceremony. The gift boxes only contained a congratulatory message and informed both of them about the gift I had already sent to Yannis. The message ended with the three rules I think should guide every relationship in SL, or RL for that matter.

1. Respect yourself

2. Respect your partner

3. Respect the love you have for each other.

There! All preparations were done and I was finally ready for the event.

The ceremony
I arrived to the venue of the ceremony about 20 minutes early, which was lucky because the lag was terrible from the start and didn´t get better as more guests came into the sim. I was at the venue in total about 120 minutes and still after all that time some of the textures and avatars hadn´t loaded.

I had to pull down the drawdistance for fear of crashing, which had an adverse effect on the quality of the pictures I took but I will post them anyhow.

Entering the church I met the largest assembly of vampires, ogres, demons and other monsters that I have ever encountered. They all looked amazingly beautiful with some of the most creative avatars I have seen. I felt a bit like "fresh meat" or "fresh blood" but they were all in non-combative mode and very nice to me. There were a few others in human avatars, but all of them had the vampire-titler over their heads giving their health status so I guess I was the only non-vampire present.

The master of ceremonies (above)

The ceremony was rather traditional, albeit with a few minor deviations. Not unlike many other similar events in SL, the guests found the need to constantly interrupt the ceremony with "emotions", speach or sounds, even if they had been asked to shut up already at the beginning.

Still it was a very beautiful and touching ceremony! Orchid and Yannis looked stunning, as they always do. I was happy and relieved to see my hero finally taken into safe harbor in the loving arms of Orchid!

Love you both, guys!

Have a long and happy partnership for many, many years to come!

Vilken nation tillhör du i SL?

Vampi och hennes OrmDricka gäng anordnade i söndags en fest på temat "Klä dig i din nations färger".

Vilken nation tillhör jag i SL och vilka färger har den som sina, tänkte jag en del på. Jag behövde dock inte tänkte länge. Redan när jag skulle välja efternamn till SL övervägde jag bara de skotska.

I SL är jag skotte av clan McMillan, Jag kastar på mig "familjetrasan" ´i alla möjliga och omöjliga sammanhang. Den är en utsökt McMillantartan med alla nödvändiga attiraljer skapad efter min beställning av den underbara kiltdesignern och klädskaparen Elle74 Zaftig. Elle äger och driver också butikskedjan "Bellissima".

Så efter kort betänketid blev det alltså "familjetrasan" som åkte på, och jag kände mig som alltid stolt när jag fick den på mig.

Väl på OD fick jag en massa frågor om min härkomst egentligen. Jag svarade med att jag i själ och hjärta var en skotte och brydde mig sedan inte om följdfrågorna eller invändningarna. En väl inövad teknik som jag har fört över till RL, den fungerar lika bra där som här.

Efter en stund gled det upp en mörk skönhet brevid mig och ville haka på mina som vanligt lite vilda danser. Millimina Salamander hade valt att klä sig i en vacker skotsk klänning i Royal Stewart-tartan. även den designad av den underbara Elle. Hennes korthuggna försvar på de frågor hon mötte var att hon minsann kände sig skotsk för att "jag bor i ett skotskt stenhus".

Vi dansade och hade trevligt ett tag, men som vanligt skulle den kära Millimina gå och lägga sig tidigt, så jag blev lämnade kvar med en massa människor i gult och blått och Blanche, härligt nog klädd som en jordgubbe. Blanche försvarade detta tilltag med att hon minsann bodde på Fruit Island i SL och där fick detta betraktas som nationaldräkt! ¨

I tävlingen röstade jag naturligtvis på jordgubben! Tyvärr röstade resten av gästerna på de andra blågula och ingen av de djärvare alternativen så Blanche kom inte ens på prispallen. Helt felaktigt tyckte jag.