Charlotte Whimsy

I might as well do this one. *ahem* Greetings and salutations! I'm Charlotte Whimsy (formerly Lethe Soldumaagh, and even more formerly Lenora Firesong lol). I am a proud SL resident who generally goes back and forth between the fairy and steam realms, and everything in between. I (speaking as my typist) have been on and off of Second Life since 2011. This account has only been here since Aug 2017. Full disclosure, I burned my previous account because of a shameful love triangle I was involved in. I'm never doing that again, lol. I am in a much better place now mentally. I frequent The Faery Crossing, Rosehaven, Caledon, Solar Moons, and too many nature/scenic sims to mention. I am a Bellisserian shapeshifter. I say I'm a shapeshifter because that takes less time to say than "I can't decide if I want to be a human or a fairy or an elf or a mermaid or a faun or a drow or a pixie or a crow or a dinkie bunny." I use Second Life as a creative outlet. I love spending hours putting together outfits, organizing my inventory (a virtually thankless and pointless task), and rearranging my living quarters to soothe my ADHD. I really like to "inspect" things and find out when they were made, who made them, who placed them, and what these people are like. I stalk profiles a lot. I love learning about the history of Second Life, almost as much as I love learning about the history of real life! And you bet your buttcheeks I go see SL replicas of historic buildings, towns, and cities. To give you an idea of how much I love history, I recently dropped almost 6000L on a gacha that contained a historically accurate Saxon dress and apron set. I have a particular affinity for occult decor. I used to identify as a witch, but these days... I honestly have no idea how to label myself. Regardless, I fantasize about being a forest witch in a cottage with my beloved. This fantasy bleeds heavily into my Second Life. Also, I'm, like, super into celestial art and Art Nouveau. I've seen others here mention their favorite music. I love folk music from all over the world, but usually stick with pagan/New Age stuff. More mainstream, I enjoy rock, 70s funk and soul, classic R&B, Fleetwood Mac (they really deserve their own genre), and classical (Romantic and Baroque). My two favorite bands/artists are Dead Can Dance and Aurora. I grew up influenced by late 90s through 00s music and culture, so I'm a sucker for that stuff as well. But I was also influenced by 70s music and fashion because of my awesome mom and aunt. I feel like that's about it. Looking forward to meeting you all.

Yay, another medieval girl in here! Pleasure to meet you!

lol It's beyond me how I managed to do it myself! I was tweaking one of my bodies and it came out looking like this. I'm really happy with it. Thank you.

Yes! I agree that she is a talented photographer. I feel like she has a mindset where she thinks everyone is out to get her or something. Some people are petty enough to not "like" something out of spite. Those people's opinions don't matter though. And as soon as she figures that out, she might be a-okay. Life is really nice when you just go about your business. I don't care how talented or beautiful someone is. If they got a crappy attitude like that, I don't like them. But if they do happen to post something I resonate with, I will like that post. It's not a hard concept.

Headed for the Fantasy Faire soon! This is my low lag outfit.

lol I'm fairly certain my ex was a stereotypical Neanderthal! All jokes aside, he needs some serious development, and I'm very fascinated with the different Homo species. You will definitely see more pics of me in historic settings and costume. I love this stuff. That's one of the main things I use SL for, is to pretend like it's the Middle Ages, and I'm a forest nymph.

I can't speak for everyone, but your picture doesn't resonate with me, therefore I didn't "like" it. That's all. And if you're worried about people not liking you, have you tried changing your attitude? You seem kind of toxic, from my brief interactions with you. Maybe do some meditating. Let go of some things, it's really freeing.

I love the period of history after the collapse of Rome where you see all these chiefdoms everywhere. It's like the storm of the Roman empire was over and there was a period of strange calm afterwards. I like how "quiet" things seem for a few centuries. Honestly, I love all of European history, especially prehistory though. Like when we were mating with the Neanderthals, kind of prehistory. I love the different cultures that popped up here and there, and the art that came out of it. Now, this isn't European, but it's my top favorite cave painting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cueva_de_las_Manos. Sorry, I could gush about history and anthropology for hours. I just love it so much.

I was actually going for the Saxon look. I do have a few Viking dresses in my inventory but I saw this in a gacha at Sweet Kajira and was like, yeah. I'm about to spend dummy lindens on this.

I'm sorry that that's your observation. I hope things start looking up for you.

Only 900AD babies will get this.

I don't know about that, man. I haven't been on these forums very long and I think I got quite a few likes on my picture here from plenty of people who I don't know and they don't know me. I don't even pay attention to who is posting their pictures unless the picture in question blows me away. If I like a picture/post, I'm going to "like" it. If I don't like it or am simply indifferent to it, I will simply scroll by. And I'd venture to guess that everyone else more or less does the same thing. And as someone else mentioned, this isn't about the quality of photographs. The question was asked: "how does your avatar look today?" Some are posting really well produced snapshots and photoshops. Some are posting just regular snapshots with varying degrees of quality. Every single one is valid, regardless of how many likes they get. And it is up to each viewer whether or not they like that picture. If they do, great. If they don't, it's not that big of a deal. Second Life, inworld and out-of-world (like the forums), is a really great experience if you don't try so hard.

That happened to me during one of the boat parades in Bellisseria! lol I crossed a border, my boat was returned to lost & found, and I was neatly placed at 0,0,0 for a minute.

I'm going to agree with everyone else here, I love this version a lot. The PS version is very nice, but I really, really love what you've got going on here in the raw version. You are very talented! Can I actually use this one in a photo frame for my apartment? I'll pay you if that's a problem, you know, with rights and all that. But this is one of those SL photographs that really speak to me. Also, do you display your photography anywhere like a gallery? I just scrolled up and saw your Flickr. Followed. Sorry if I'm obsessing, this is amazing to me. Absolutely stunning. Bravo!

I recently discovered I like SL boating. That is not something I thought I would particularly care for. I said, "boating in SL does not sound exciting." Turns out that if I turn my draw distance up past 32, it does become more interesting and--dare I say it--FUN!!!

I got nostalgic today, so here's my system avi. Hufflepuffs represent!

YES! A fellow word-lover! There are literally dozens of us! DOZENS!!!!

I hopped on the last name bandwagon last week. Whimsy is the only last name that I felt fit me. And Charlotte is a callback to an old account I had back in 2013 that I miss and can't get back into because I don't know the email or password, and all my email addresses from that time of my life are deleted. lol I have made some poor choices in my life. Anyway, the name of that account was Scarlot Charlotte. Scarlot Charlotte was the name given to a pirate ship my college light RP group made up. My old name was Lethe Soldumaagh. Lethe is the name of a river in the Underworld that when you drink from it, it helps you forget. I forget everything constantly. Obviously, that's a different, more shallow story, but I just like how it sounds, and I love Greek mythology. Soldumaagh is of my own making. I'm not a linguist, but it's supposed to be Proto-Indo-European (or was it Old English... 🤔) for Salt Maiden. I did a research paper on salt once in the 8th grade because I was lazy and that was the last listed topic I could do one on. I now have tons of useless information about the history of salt swimming about in my head, ready to burst forth and and drown any innocent bystanders in K N O W L E D G E TM. I feel like this is way more information than what was asked for. I grant you all permission to chase me with pitchforks and torches.

I love your updated avi! That looks beautiful! Can you tell me where you got that skin from though? I love the way the lips look. I've gotten a few skins where the lips look frankly awful, at least to me anyway.

I use both my system and mesh bodies. Since Bakes On Mesh came out, I've been using my mesh body more, due to the novelty of using my favorite system skins on my sleek new mesh body. I like the system body because it's fun to try to make it look as smooth and as realistic as possible. And there are a ton of old clothes I love to wear that I couldn't wear with a mesh body before, though that is possible now. But sometimes I feel really nostalgic and walk around as a system avi for a while. I tend to go mesh-free at events where there aren't any mesh bodies there. I like to use the mesh bodies/heads/attachments for photography. Currently, I feel like I'm in limbo with mesh bodies. I've used Maitreya Lara exclusively since it came out. I love it as a body, but I've always had issue with the breasts. I don't like large breasts, but Maitreya Lara's breasts don't work well when I move the slider down. The Legacy Perky body fixes that problem for me. I love how the Legacy Perky breasts look. Unfortunately, the body doesn't work with any of my clothes or body attachments. When I demoed the body, I (being an idiot) just demoed it naked. But hey! At least now I can look good naked! 👍 Edit: After reading this thread, now I really want to go in and edit my system avi now. lol

So this is from an old account I made in 2013. RIP to that account, I miss that one, but I can't login anymore. 💔

Yeah, I went to relog for smoother sailing because things were lagging where they usually don't, and then it was taking forever to log back in. I checked the grid status and was like, welp.... I'm all dressed up for a steampunk tea party and now I have nowhere to go!

I love this!!!

Ms. Winston's 3rd grade class represent!!!!