These are notes and ideas about the different things I have done in SL. They are, more or less, in the order that I discovered them.
MODELING / RETAILING
Probably the easiest job to get in SL, especially for a female avatar, is as a club dancer. Our job is to spend time in our club, generally on stage and/or on a dance pole, and let the dance animations move take over our bodies. We talk and emote to customers, getting them engaged and excited. (OK, and aroused!) Very few clubs pay us for our time; we have to depend on tips from those customers. Some are quite generous; many just watch and/or flirt with us, but don't pay for our trouble. The last place I danced as an employee was at Purple Xtasy, a wonderful BDSM sim.
UPDATE February 2009: Not much dancing for a while, because I'm spending so much time on the next thing you see on this page:
MISTRESS
MODELING / RETAILING
I used to model at Kayliwulf Kingdom! Kayliwulf was the largest latex fetish store in its time, and latex is something I love in RL. I was sad to discover recently that KK is gone; I guess the owners finally burned out.
PONY PLAYPony play is a fascinating and, I think, misunderstood branch of BDSM (which is pretty misunderstood anyway). The human pony is a beautiful creature, and we take great pride in our equipment, animations, appearance and deportment.
I am a Stable Mistress at Frilly Filly Farm, a large ranch. This is not a ranch where the primary activity is "serving the stallion." (In fact, our "Moderate" sim status prohibits most overt sexual activity.) The trainers spend a lot of time with the ponies, teaching them the many things they need to learn.
I've also tried my hand at Puppy Play. The puppy AO is so cute! And because nobody expects anything from a puppy except play, it turns out to be a nice way to relax when I've been really busy.
MERMAIDI am a Stable Mistress at Frilly Filly Farm, a large ranch. This is not a ranch where the primary activity is "serving the stallion." (In fact, our "Moderate" sim status prohibits most overt sexual activity.) The trainers spend a lot of time with the ponies, teaching them the many things they need to learn.
I've also tried my hand at Puppy Play. The puppy AO is so cute! And because nobody expects anything from a puppy except play, it turns out to be a nice way to relax when I've been really busy.
I often tell people in-world that there is nothing as beautiful in SL as a mermaid, and I really believe that. Artists make tails with incredibly beautiful and complex patterns, color combinations, and fins that move gracefully as we fly or swim. (Air and water are the same to an SL mer.) There are fantastic underwater sims throughout SL that legged humans are not even aware of!
My favorite place for mermaid play in the early days was Beek Haven, which was really a pirate sim! The owners created both above- and underwater environments where humans and the mer could interact. Beek Haven is gone, but several new mermaid groups and lots of new mer sims have come online.
One problem that mers have always had is that our tails are basically tight skirts with fins attached, along with an AO (Animation Overrider, a complex script that causes us to move differently than a regular human would). That means our tails can bend only the way legs bend, and you can see where the knees are. In August 2008 Erluen Twin developed and incredible new tail that really IS a tail! It curves smoothly, and in all directions! Erluen gave me one of her very first prototypes, and I have been wearing it ever since.
Of course, "leading edge" sometimes means "bleeding edge." I'm running into issues with other mer animations, which don't understand this new tail at ALL. But it is still so wonderful to truly be able to swim like a fish.
Nowadays it is possible to create Mesh tails that curve naturally much more easily. But I still like my original Erluen tail the best. And since Erluen left SL shortly after giving me my tail, I think I have the only one like it anywhere! It's nice to feel unique.
Please read the "Little Mermaid" Ballet post in my blog! Click here.
DANCINGMy favorite place for mermaid play in the early days was Beek Haven, which was really a pirate sim! The owners created both above- and underwater environments where humans and the mer could interact. Beek Haven is gone, but several new mermaid groups and lots of new mer sims have come online.
One problem that mers have always had is that our tails are basically tight skirts with fins attached, along with an AO (Animation Overrider, a complex script that causes us to move differently than a regular human would). That means our tails can bend only the way legs bend, and you can see where the knees are. In August 2008 Erluen Twin developed and incredible new tail that really IS a tail! It curves smoothly, and in all directions! Erluen gave me one of her very first prototypes, and I have been wearing it ever since.
Of course, "leading edge" sometimes means "bleeding edge." I'm running into issues with other mer animations, which don't understand this new tail at ALL. But it is still so wonderful to truly be able to swim like a fish.
Nowadays it is possible to create Mesh tails that curve naturally much more easily. But I still like my original Erluen tail the best. And since Erluen left SL shortly after giving me my tail, I think I have the only one like it anywhere! It's nice to feel unique.
Please read the "Little Mermaid" Ballet post in my blog! Click here.
Probably the easiest job to get in SL, especially for a female avatar, is as a club dancer. Our job is to spend time in our club, generally on stage and/or on a dance pole, and let the dance animations move take over our bodies. We talk and emote to customers, getting them engaged and excited. (OK, and aroused!) Very few clubs pay us for our time; we have to depend on tips from those customers. Some are quite generous; many just watch and/or flirt with us, but don't pay for our trouble. The last place I danced as an employee was at Purple Xtasy, a wonderful BDSM sim.
UPDATE February 2009: Not much dancing for a while, because I'm spending so much time on the next thing you see on this page:
I discovered my "Inner Domme" in SL, in the last part of 2008, but perhaps in an unusual way. I had grown my list of friends (and sexual partners) and found it impossible to try and make time for them each one at a time. My small house, with its one bed, was a private space just perfect for one or two Av's. How could I possibly give each of these wonderful people the time they deserve?
The answer came to me as quite a shock--I would rent a larger house, and open it to loving women. (Somehow, the men just did not fit into this plan; men always complicate things.) Emerald, a beautiful young slave who had been orphaned when her own Mistress suddenly dropped off of SL, became very close to me. Her Mistress' house was still furnished, so I paid a month's rent and we made it our own. I invited many of my female friends to our new "House of O" (named after the "O" sim where it was located), and they came! They brought their friends, and our new house was a reality.
But the house had problems. It was already too small for our growing tribe. The landowners were unresponsive in transferring the tenancy to me so that I could move out the old furniture and add our own. I set out on a search for a new house, or land, that I could afford to rent for us.
A wide search generated some possibilities, but all would have stretched my budget. My women, I'm sure, would help with whatever money or labor they had available, but the responsibility for their care was mine.
I ended up back at the Purple Xtasy sim, and asked the owner if she had some land to rent. Before I knew it, she had flown 700 meters up and was building something. In five minutes, there was a beautiful 2-story house with a pool on the roof! She turned around (we were both flying) and said, "It is yours."
I was blown away, but did not fall to the ground. I knew the layout of the house; it was identical to another skybox (SL name for a floating building) that I had visited often. It was big, and bright, and perfect.
An announcement went out to all my House members that we had a new home! The next several weeks were filled with shopping--buying furniture and equipment. Those weeks also saw us grow tremendously in numbers! As I write this, in early December 2008, we have 33 women in the new "House of Trina" group.
Being the Mistress to these women has come to be my main activity now. The group has subs and dommes and switches; it also has women who do not place themselves in any of these categories. They are all beautiful, and intelligent, and loving. They all respect each other's likes and dislikes, kinks and turnoffs, and that respect is the only rule I enforce (other than the "invitation only" privacy of my Throne Room). They come from around the world, speak many languages, and have unique personalities.
I find myself loving them all. And, as was the goal at the beginning, I can now spend time with several of my wonderful girls at once.
UPDATE February 2009: The House has grown to near 60 women! Although I see some very seldom, they nearly all check in with me or come to the house occasionally. I encourage them to go lead their lives, have all the experiences they can, and bring those back to me.
I am very happy with the success of the House (even though caring for so many beautiful women can be exhausting sometimes). The membership is almost to the point that there is someone there all the time. The more that happens, the more the girls will come for fun. At that point, the house runs on its own, a nexus of female energy, radiating out into the virtual world.
UPDATE July 2010 (and about the same January 2014): Now we are at 95 women and holding pretty constant. The House is now on 6,000+m2 that I own, and I have several other dommes who come by from time to time. We are still open to girls of all different kinks, with Respect for each other our overriding rule. Although I see a small number of my girls at any one time, it feels wonderful when one that I have not seen for a while returns to see me. The world changes (sometimes crashes) around them; House of Trina is the refuge.
BANE / BANE OPERATORThe answer came to me as quite a shock--I would rent a larger house, and open it to loving women. (Somehow, the men just did not fit into this plan; men always complicate things.) Emerald, a beautiful young slave who had been orphaned when her own Mistress suddenly dropped off of SL, became very close to me. Her Mistress' house was still furnished, so I paid a month's rent and we made it our own. I invited many of my female friends to our new "House of O" (named after the "O" sim where it was located), and they came! They brought their friends, and our new house was a reality.
But the house had problems. It was already too small for our growing tribe. The landowners were unresponsive in transferring the tenancy to me so that I could move out the old furniture and add our own. I set out on a search for a new house, or land, that I could afford to rent for us.
A wide search generated some possibilities, but all would have stretched my budget. My women, I'm sure, would help with whatever money or labor they had available, but the responsibility for their care was mine.
I ended up back at the Purple Xtasy sim, and asked the owner if she had some land to rent. Before I knew it, she had flown 700 meters up and was building something. In five minutes, there was a beautiful 2-story house with a pool on the roof! She turned around (we were both flying) and said, "It is yours."
I was blown away, but did not fall to the ground. I knew the layout of the house; it was identical to another skybox (SL name for a floating building) that I had visited often. It was big, and bright, and perfect.
An announcement went out to all my House members that we had a new home! The next several weeks were filled with shopping--buying furniture and equipment. Those weeks also saw us grow tremendously in numbers! As I write this, in early December 2008, we have 33 women in the new "House of Trina" group.
Being the Mistress to these women has come to be my main activity now. The group has subs and dommes and switches; it also has women who do not place themselves in any of these categories. They are all beautiful, and intelligent, and loving. They all respect each other's likes and dislikes, kinks and turnoffs, and that respect is the only rule I enforce (other than the "invitation only" privacy of my Throne Room). They come from around the world, speak many languages, and have unique personalities.
I find myself loving them all. And, as was the goal at the beginning, I can now spend time with several of my wonderful girls at once.
UPDATE February 2009: The House has grown to near 60 women! Although I see some very seldom, they nearly all check in with me or come to the house occasionally. I encourage them to go lead their lives, have all the experiences they can, and bring those back to me.
I am very happy with the success of the House (even though caring for so many beautiful women can be exhausting sometimes). The membership is almost to the point that there is someone there all the time. The more that happens, the more the girls will come for fun. At that point, the house runs on its own, a nexus of female energy, radiating out into the virtual world.
UPDATE July 2010 (and about the same January 2014): Now we are at 95 women and holding pretty constant. The House is now on 6,000+m2 that I own, and I have several other dommes who come by from time to time. We are still open to girls of all different kinks, with Respect for each other our overriding rule. Although I see a small number of my girls at any one time, it feels wonderful when one that I have not seen for a while returns to see me. The world changes (sometimes crashes) around them; House of Trina is the refuge.
What's a Bane? The word "Bane" derives from "banished," and this role comes from a fictional story called Eudeamon downloadable at www.evil-dolly.com/txt/Eudeamon.pdf . (Clicking that link downloads a 200-page PDF file, so give it a little time!) The Bane has been convicted of committing a crime, and has chosen to undergo Banishment rather than go to jail. The Eudeamon story is fascinating, well-written, and recommended.
There are several inworld providers of the Bane experience. An Av who submits to this will be sealed in a black latex skin or catsuit and have a specially-modified black helmet locked on her. She will be assigned a sentence (generally at least 30 hours of non-contiguous inworld time) that must be served in an active mode; no AFK or BUSY. Inappropriate behavior will increase the sentence. Although the experience can very, the Bane is generally banned from speaking, IM'ing, flying, accessing inventory, touching, running and sitting. Which basically means the Bane is out there in SL, on her own, and limited to wandering around, friendless and helpless.
Doesn't sound like much fun. But I created an Alt Avatar so that I could have this experience without compromising my responsibilities at House of Trina, and the Alt's experience was powerful and very meaningful. It was also full of love. I will not tell more about the experience than that, including what the title word "Eudeamon" means. Read the story.
After finishing the sentence, I had a long conversation with Madang Alter, owner of Alter Technologies who did KaTrina's program. A week or so later, Madang IM'd and asked if I would like to be an Operator, the Avatar who performs the Banishment conversion roleplay, and is then the Bane's sole speaking contact in the entire SL world during the experience. I'm honored by the request, and accepted. That happened the day I write this, May 11, 2009.
There are several inworld providers of the Bane experience. An Av who submits to this will be sealed in a black latex skin or catsuit and have a specially-modified black helmet locked on her. She will be assigned a sentence (generally at least 30 hours of non-contiguous inworld time) that must be served in an active mode; no AFK or BUSY. Inappropriate behavior will increase the sentence. Although the experience can very, the Bane is generally banned from speaking, IM'ing, flying, accessing inventory, touching, running and sitting. Which basically means the Bane is out there in SL, on her own, and limited to wandering around, friendless and helpless.
Doesn't sound like much fun. But I created an Alt Avatar so that I could have this experience without compromising my responsibilities at House of Trina, and the Alt's experience was powerful and very meaningful. It was also full of love. I will not tell more about the experience than that, including what the title word "Eudeamon" means. Read the story.
After finishing the sentence, I had a long conversation with Madang Alter, owner of Alter Technologies who did KaTrina's program. A week or so later, Madang IM'd and asked if I would like to be an Operator, the Avatar who performs the Banishment conversion roleplay, and is then the Bane's sole speaking contact in the entire SL world during the experience. I'm honored by the request, and accepted. That happened the day I write this, May 11, 2009.
UPDATE JULY 2010: I was an Operator for close to a year before having to give it up for time's sake. But I stay connected to AlterTech through one of my girls who is an Operator, and who sometimes meets her Banes at our home.
HER GRACE, THE LADY TRINA, DUCHESS OF DUNNYLUN
This new adventure began in mid-July 2010, at the 1888 London RP sim. I have rented a house by the river, and two of my girls are there as maids and ponies. The sim is active with interesting, intelligent people, and my knowledge as a pony trainer has generated great interest among some of the servants and nobles there.
I am enjoying it immensely. The worry, as always, is stretching my time even further. My hope is that, although it does pull me away from my physical home in Dunnylun, that this environment will attract some of my girls and give them a new way to interact with me, with their sisters, and with other people here, 132 years ago. Some time will tell.
UPDATE December 3, 2010: 1888 London is now where I spend much of my time in SL, dividing between here, Frilly Filly Farm and my own home. The community has embraced me and the girls (including puppies and ponies) that I've brought to the town. I held my Third Rez Day Party here just yesterday; you can see photos of that right here!
UPDATE January 2014: I've been away from 1888 for about a year now. Once again, the task of being a Mistress, plus new responsibilities at Frilly Filly Farm, just stretched me too much and something had to give. But 1888 is still going strong with lots of activities!
HER GRACE, THE LADY TRINA, DUCHESS OF DUNNYLUN
This new adventure began in mid-July 2010, at the 1888 London RP sim. I have rented a house by the river, and two of my girls are there as maids and ponies. The sim is active with interesting, intelligent people, and my knowledge as a pony trainer has generated great interest among some of the servants and nobles there.
I am enjoying it immensely. The worry, as always, is stretching my time even further. My hope is that, although it does pull me away from my physical home in Dunnylun, that this environment will attract some of my girls and give them a new way to interact with me, with their sisters, and with other people here, 132 years ago. Some time will tell.
UPDATE December 3, 2010: 1888 London is now where I spend much of my time in SL, dividing between here, Frilly Filly Farm and my own home. The community has embraced me and the girls (including puppies and ponies) that I've brought to the town. I held my Third Rez Day Party here just yesterday; you can see photos of that right here!
UPDATE January 2014: I've been away from 1888 for about a year now. Once again, the task of being a Mistress, plus new responsibilities at Frilly Filly Farm, just stretched me too much and something had to give. But 1888 is still going strong with lots of activities!
UPDATE March 2017: These past years are all about taking care of my family. New girls come and some stay. There are several slaves I've owned for years who have stayed with me, and every now and then an old one, gone for months or years, returns home. ALL of them are very special to me!
UPDATE April 2019: Happy to say that things have stayed the same in the past two years, except for having some very beautiful, sensual and creative new subs and slaves. Our home sim has some new neighbors but there have not been any lag issues, and it's kind of nice not to feel so isolated.