Some readers here may know that my good friend Cajsa Lilliehook, one of the partners of It’s Only Fashion and a partner in MDR Photography in world, decided to retire for a time from the firm for personal reasons in Real Life. (For a look at what she and Gidge Uriza wore to her retirement party, see here and here.)
But Cajsa has not left SL; she still writes IOF with Gidge, and has opened a “blog office” in a small plot of land she owns. She dropped a landmark to it on me today; and so, after finishing putting up some new Edward Steichen photographs in my store, I jumped over to take a look.
Quick background: most of us have run into furries, of course, even without dropping in at Luskwood region. Quite a number of us know or have been mer-people. But how many of you know what a selkie is? If you don’t, you can get a detailed discussion at Wikipedia; but in short, a selkie is a creature that is a seal in the sea, but a hominid on dry land. The Celtic and Faeroese stories about the sluagh ron are often sad and tragic, as can be seen by a perusal of the article. How good it is to know that in Second Life, selkies can live in harmony with humans, upright foxes, Powerpuff Girls et al.
The lady in question is Divergence Magic, and she turns out to be a neighbor to Cajsa here. The shelf next door to Cajsa’s poseballs is her office or living room, I didn’t note which at the time. What you should note is that, though her legs do somewhat resemble a mermaid’s, there are not the fish fins of the merfolk, but more like the hind flippers of the phocid. Additionally, her facial markings are more like a seal than a human:
Selkies, according to Divergence, are rare in Second Life. Foolishly, I didn’t ask her where she picked up the creature package; I’ll remedy that in future if possible, and place an update here for any who may be interested.
Very cool. I am familiar with selkies, did not know there were any in SL. I can see that they must be rare :) ty for an interesting article about them.
Wow, I look forward to meeting my neighbor. How funny that you met her first when I spend quite some time there. The land is actually some of the original MDR office when Maht and I started it in 2007.
You know I love our new office, how many others have a Day Spa for an office?
It suits us marvelously.
Isle — You’re quite welcome; we aim to please here (grin).
Cajsa — (shrug). I just lucked onto the property at the right time. I appreciate her cooperation for the extra minutes I needed for a few shots; I’d just downloaded Rainbow Viewer, based on OhSo Graves’ plurked recommendation, and I had to set up the snapshot cycle to what I normally use.
Oh, and I’ve corrected my statement about you “purchasing” the land; it reads right now.
Gidge — I giggle at the concept of a day spa for an office. I just wish I’d had warning when I first jumped in; I materialized above the water, and then splash!
Aw what a great pic of me! Thanks so much! You were so interesting to chat with :D. AND you knew what I was yay!! The creature package is a soon to be released selkie land/water set that will be available at Atargatis very soon in three different shades. (I’m wearing white.)
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