The first few days of second life were a bit of a struggle for me. Learning new software is never particularly user friendly though Second Life was a lot easier to figure out than most programs (though I'm still learning).
By the time i left orientation and help islands I had already made a friend (though I haven't seen him since), so I was feeling pretty good about my decision, both to join, and to do so as a woman. My first priority was to get some better looking clothes. The newbie avatars aren't bad but the last thing you want is to stay that way. After playing with my av's appearance sliders I thought i had a half decent shape, a little "Barbie"esque but then if I was gonna be a girl then i was gonna be a knockout.
My search for freebies led me to a beach and a warehouse. I picked up a few decent sets of clothes. Fairly slutty but I was ok with that. I still am most of the time. My search then led to a nightclub. It was my first experience with one in sl. They had a small collection of freebies in the back for newbies like me and after I checked them out and got dressed I joined in on the dance floor. A sexiest av contest was going on and I entered of course. I didn't think I would win with my newbie butt, but I figured it couldn't hurt to try.
I didn't win of course. But I did make a couple friends that i still talk to. It wasn't that long ago but in sl people come and go all the time.
My new friends helped me find better freebies and taught me how to open boxes in sl.
Never once did they give any indication that they thought i was a man. I was starting to like being this girl.
Thx for reading. I hope you gained some insight or were at least mildly entertained by my tale.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
A Little Background
First of all I'd like to say a big hello to anyone who reads this. I've found a couple similar blogs and was inspired to start my own. I've never really done this but I'll try to keep updating fairly regularly. Mostly this is just a way for me to feel slightly less guilty about a certain topic.
Who I am in the real world isn't that important. I'm a male college student at a college somewhere in Texas. Since high school I have been an occasional crossdresser never going so far as wanting to truly be a woman or even going all out to dress as one. The most adventurous thing I've done is wear women's lingerie to class beneath my clothes. But this is mostly fantasy for me. I have no plans to ever take hormones or have surgery. Why is this important you ask?
Because I wound up becoming a woman anyway. Sort of.
I saw an episode of CSI: New York which featured an assassin setting up meetings with her targets through an online world called Second Life. I had never heard of this wondrous place. It was like WoW but free with more to do. I was entranced by possibility and one night shortly after, during an intense fit of boredom I signed up and rezzed in world for the first time. Unlike the other blogs like this I've read, I did not start as a male avatar. I was a woman from minute 1. I rationalized it by calling it an experiment. Could I pass as a woman? Would I feel different? Speak differently? Could I feel attracted to a man as a woman?
I want to point out that i have tried to limit my lies to my gender. I didn't make up an elaborate backstory for my girl. She is me. Or at least as much as she can be. I say this because I have made many friends in sl, some that feel deeper than any friendship I can remember in real life, and I don't want to lose them. I hope that if I slip up and any of my friends read this and figure out who I am, that they will forgive me for my lies.
Who am i in sl? I won't tell. But if you figure it out please don't spread it around. Contact me first at least.
If anyone wants to hear about specific topics then leave me a request in the comments. Otherwise I'll try to simply tell my views on this world and my adventures in it.
If any of you want to try sl for yourself go to www.secondlife.com and you can start having your own adventures.
bye for now :)
Who I am in the real world isn't that important. I'm a male college student at a college somewhere in Texas. Since high school I have been an occasional crossdresser never going so far as wanting to truly be a woman or even going all out to dress as one. The most adventurous thing I've done is wear women's lingerie to class beneath my clothes. But this is mostly fantasy for me. I have no plans to ever take hormones or have surgery. Why is this important you ask?
Because I wound up becoming a woman anyway. Sort of.
I saw an episode of CSI: New York which featured an assassin setting up meetings with her targets through an online world called Second Life. I had never heard of this wondrous place. It was like WoW but free with more to do. I was entranced by possibility and one night shortly after, during an intense fit of boredom I signed up and rezzed in world for the first time. Unlike the other blogs like this I've read, I did not start as a male avatar. I was a woman from minute 1. I rationalized it by calling it an experiment. Could I pass as a woman? Would I feel different? Speak differently? Could I feel attracted to a man as a woman?
I want to point out that i have tried to limit my lies to my gender. I didn't make up an elaborate backstory for my girl. She is me. Or at least as much as she can be. I say this because I have made many friends in sl, some that feel deeper than any friendship I can remember in real life, and I don't want to lose them. I hope that if I slip up and any of my friends read this and figure out who I am, that they will forgive me for my lies.
Who am i in sl? I won't tell. But if you figure it out please don't spread it around. Contact me first at least.
If anyone wants to hear about specific topics then leave me a request in the comments. Otherwise I'll try to simply tell my views on this world and my adventures in it.
If any of you want to try sl for yourself go to www.secondlife.com and you can start having your own adventures.
bye for now :)
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