Muscle...

After a lot of pomp and flare, of being properly marketed in order to get everybody excited -or at least talking about it- Mesh is here and is here to stay. It has slowly and inadvertently made its way into all areas of our lives -mostly fashion- and I have found those who swore would never wear anything mesh for a number of very valid reasons, at least wearing a pair of shoes or hair or a tank once or twice.

What has caught my attention recently and which is the main topic of this article, would be mesh avatars or to be more precise, overly muscular avatars; I have to hand it over to the designers that put time and effort into it, but I have a number of questions in my head when it comes to the use the average SL citizen is giving them.

I haven't really verified this fact -so if I'm wrong do feel free to correct me-, but when a designer makes a muscle avatar, it also includes a well proportioned head to go along with the rest of it, something most buyers seem to opt out of, must be clearly the fact that the "head" and face of our avatar is the one thing that defines who we are, but this trend of not wearing the matching head with your newly acquired musculature has made a new community emerge, I personally call them the "pin heads" -or the shrunken heads if you need to get the picture & not feel this pet name is derogatory to the less intelligent-

What I find most amusing would be the fact that these people strut around, showing their purchase proudly while your head is clearly out of proportion and friends even compliment them on how great they look; it really reminds me of the emperor's new clothes, he was naked and not wearing anything, but people were too nice or too afraid to prove him wrong, same applies here.

My two cents and advice? customized matching avatar heads, it might end up being pricey, but if you are willing to make an effort and create an entire mesh avatar, a matching well proportioned head to match the customer's looks, would certainly put an end to this newly emerging community of cranial size challenge.

Then again that's just my opinion

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I like dem toes

There something about the human anatomy we as avatars don't get to enjoy and as humans we take for granted, which would be our toes; some would argue and say that we are also missing our genitalia, but that would be one of the first things -apart from decent looking hair and a skin to match- that we as newborn avatars hurry to purchase, but toes in my opinion are very unsung and most of the time ignored as irrelevant.

Guess that with the wide array of footwear available in second life offered by very talented creators, the need for toes or even going barefoot is negated, but in my own particular case I missed having toes -for those uninformed avatars don't have toes, all you have are cutout feet which simulate them-, so after long and thoughtful consideration in trying to find a pair of feet that looked right on me, I settled on a couple from Kima designs.

I have spent the last 24 hours finding excuses to insert my toes in any situation or conversation -no pun intended- and I have even indulged in small pleasures such as getting my feet wet or close to a campfire while wiggling my toes. I am loving my toes, I sure missed having them, guess there are some small pleasures that are taken for granted in RL that when transferred to second life, do make a difference.

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