Lysistrata Szapira

It's scalable from big boobs and butt to HUGE boobs and butt. The shoulders do not align properly, so it looks like the boobs are trying to eat the avatar's arms (almost would need linebacker shoulders to balance out that chest). The boobs get really warped at smaller sizes. I also did not see a setting to allow a more graceful transition from waist to hips. This is not a body for those who want their body to look like the creator knows what women's bodies look like. It's strictly for those looking for extremes. It's not even for Kardashian wannabes. No real world designers that they partner with create for a chest that large. I haven't seen a Kardashian look that EVER. And it costs 4k. Even assuming I liked the body, I would have to see the large amount of clothing they're promising for the premier tomorrow before I would decide. If it's the typical stuff aimed at the thicc body market, I'd still pass.

Salt & Pepper is always great for high quality Christmas-themed clothing in their advent calendar. Their items are usually are retextures of clothing that's for sale to fit the season. Pink Cream Pie is having one this year, and i don't remember them doing it before. Group fee for both but well worth it. I haven't heard whether Purple Moon will have one, but Poulet's advent gift clothing in the past has been great.

Doux did have bang packs out for the weekend sales for a while (can't remember if it was FLF or TSS or one of the others). I haven't seen them put out any recently though.

I took a few minutes to tinker with it. I found that I could get some of the more conservative (i.e. covered) Ison clothing rigged for Maitreya to fit it, but it will require alphas to do so. I don't think it's worth it to buy a body just to alpha it out and cover it totally with clothes. I don't spend much time nekkid so I really can't judge the body in its unclothed state.

I see that the Prima bodies have been released at the Ebento event today. Separate Petite and Busty versions are 3375L and a fatpack of both is 5625L. The vendor states that this price is 25% off. The discount price is a so-so price, better than the new Belleza bodies. I grabbed the demos so I'm off to tinker around with them. Has anyone else already got them and formed opinions? There's also a free gift dress from Prima at the booth if one joins the Ebento group. Without even trying the demo, it's, again, a matter of whether or stores will create for it. Their FB page shows some are already jumping on board. Apparently there are a lot of deformers that come in the package. I'll be back after I have time to play with it. EDIT: I see that it was released at Fameshed in October, so I'm slow, but I haven't seen a lot of chatter about it anyway.

I haven't heard any rumors about new heads coming. LAQ was promising new ones several years ago but never came through. Their old heads were cute, so I wish they would release new ones with newer tech. I wouldn't touch any Genus product with a ten foot pole. They failed at fixing the problems with their existing heads several years ago. They kept promising they would, but then they went radio silent. I don't waste my lindens on businesses that have sketchy business practices. Even if they come back with new heads, they're likely to follow the same patterns as last time. If they can't even fix a wonky eye-blink, then it's a big fat NOPE from me. I'm also not a Catwa fan. I picked up the free head they gave away, but I just couldn't make it look like I wanted. I don't like the HUD and there's just not much created for it now. I am firmly in the Evo-X camp. While I have picked up the gift heads the past few years, I always return to Avalon. it has a endless supply of skins and make-up, many of which are offered on the weekend sales. I created my own shape for Avalon because just about every shape sold with skins looks really weird (in the face). Avalon can go from a very juvenile look to a more mature one, from Caucasian to Asian to other ethnicities, depending on the skins one purchases. It's a very versatile head. Speaking of bodies, I wish Maitreya would surprise us with a new body for Christmas, but I'm not holding my breath. I still use that body exclusively, while I use my alts to experiment with the newer bodies. I'm not throwing out my inventory on my main to go with a newer body. I'd rather keep my massive inventory of Ison clothing than use a new body.

It's a no from me. I didn't think it could get worse than Kupra, but I was wrong.

@Quartz Mole Any updates after the hunt closed? I haven't heard anything about bear distribution (other than the witchy bear that is dispensed at the sign in Millbank).

That would also encourage peeps to leave their buckets out for the duration.

Hilly is pretty much an exception to the template rule. She gives out large texture HUDs, so I totally respect her for that. The rest? Meh. Call me a snob. I monitor the vast majority of events, and the aesthetic most stores create for Kalhene is not my jam.

I may buy the Classic, but none of my top stores have added it, so maybe not. There's no point in buying it if my usual creators are going to skip it.

Still not working. I guess I'm going to resign myself to the number I had when Google smashed our pumpkins. I'm really disappointed because I have Covid, and this was a good way to pass the time during quarantine.

@Quartz Mole FYI: As of Monday morning at 7:09 AM SLT, the candy buckets are still borked. Are there any updates from Google about an ETA for repairs? Or does everyone have to rez out a new pumpkin before they'll work? A lot of people aren't going to rez a new pumpkin since there's no way to mass notify.

LAQ was promising a new line of heads a couple of years ago, but I've heard nothing since.

@Quartz Mole Is there any chance we can be given an extra day to collect candy since Sunday was more or less a total bust? The buckets are still not working as of 4:49 pm SLT. I know one resident who is waiting outside and replacing their bucket each time someone clicks it, which is absolutely amazing and going above and beyond, but there are a lot of dead buckets out there right now. Google really needs to get its act together.

I have two: one Vic and one stilt on pier. My alt nabbed a location that was too good to pass up, so I guess she will stay premium for a while. I (Lysi) have the Vic of my dreams, so I don't anticipate leaving this spot either. I'm not getting any more premium accounts, and I doubt I'll go P+ unless those 2048s "soon" impressive me significantly. I do kind of wish that the Moles had offered one more one story Vic plan though.

No fancy photoshopping on these as I have the 'rona unfortunately.

Not as many as last year. Fantasseria has a lot of non-phantom objects so I tend to find it annoying flying through there. I'd say those homes count for less than 15% of my current bucket count. Chalets are probably under 10% because, again, of all the unreleased homes.

Per my entirely unscientific survey, the Chalet regions are the LEAST likely to have homes with candy buckets set out. There are a lot of unreleased chalets, so I think that's contributing to the low numbers. Even the ones with buckets aren't decorated much. I'd say that the houseboats and Sakura are the homes that have a better house/bucket ratio than other areas, but there are pockets of stilt homes that have multiple buckets in one region.

950?!?! 😵

If you're willing to buy pieces here and there, take a look at Toksik: https://www.flickr.com/photos/crxsxs/with/50630448827/ The Serenade and Bloodlust outfits could be used as a vampire outfit, but it's a more glamorous style than regular Dracula.

I haven't heard anything yet, but if Lelutka has free heads for Christmas this year like the past two years, they MIGHT repeat their 12 Days of Christmas promotion where a bunch of stores collaborate with Lelutka in offering gifts (skins, makeups, and what have you) for those heads. Those stores usually offer temporary free group joining during the promotion too. So if they do it this time around, be sure to look out for it. That was so much fun last year, and a really good time for noobies to get kitted out on the cheap. I picked up Lilly and Kaya the past two years, but I keep going back to Avalon. The skins and makeup in the 12 Days event worked for any Evo-X head, although YMMV regarding shapes.

We're all fake here.

You should also visit Kustom9 this month. They have gifts there too.

That skin looks like one of Velour's fantasy skins. This is their Dracula tone. I have a LOT of makeup layers on here, mostly picked up at the Fifty Linden Fridays Halloween event (FLF-O-Ween), but the base looks similar. Considering all of the Halloween makeup being put out on the weekend sales this week, it's very easy to put together a look like this on the cheap.