Johan, the new guy in Ispachi
Diarmiud Miklos is not only a good friend, he is also an awesome creator and owner of Ispachi. Johan is his new skin release for male (it was released yesterday, May 1st). I use to wear skins from Ispachi, has been using their Gabriel skin for long time, but once i saw Johan i was “really happy to meet him”. 
The skin tone is really natural (wearing Mocha tone in the pics of this post). Johan was released with several options:
- 8 Skin tones
- 12 Facial Hair options
- 2 Body Hair options
- Hair/Bald Base options
- Includes 1 free, scripted, sculpted penis which matches the skin tones.
Would like to give a bit hug from here to Diarmuid and Andred from Ispachi, because they are just too cool, and because i look great on this skin! 
*Promotional copies.
So what?
Does your avatar look like your RL one? Well, maybe that’s not the question… for me it should be some like: Is important if your SL avatar looks or is like your RL one?
I’m not only talking about physical appearance, also the question is about gender, ethnic group, clothing style, etc… For some people and for some unknown reasons all this seems to be very important.
Gender seems to be the big question anyway. Prok AKA “The Ineffable” seems to be really interested and worried about Vint Falken RLgender, the reason Prok is so interested about it just is over my imagination, the only possibility i have in mind is that Prok likes Vint or something…
Anyway, i wonder if all this together is so important. Personally i don’t have much problems to share my RLappearance, most of my friends saw pictures of my RLversion, even met with some of them in RL. Is not i have problems with my RLme, is just i prefer to have some privacy and share that only with some people who are important to me.
Why some people seems to get upset if your SLavatar has not the same appearance than your RL one? That is more than stupid, that would be like getting upset because people using furry avatars in SL are not cats in RL. For a lot of people, SL is a way to enjoy the possibility of being different, of being what you want or even hate to be. Is a world were everyone can be as beauty as he/she wants, is all that SO important?
Even if you want only to have SLex with someone, is the RLgender important? I may agree is important in the case you want to “export” that sexual relationship to RL, but if you only are “playing” with someone exclusively in SL, then you are not liking what is that person in RL (mainly because you don’t know his/her appearance), what you like is an avatar and the way he/she speaks. I think most of the bimbo-giant-boobs-oily-skin-a-bit-too-flirty girls in SL are men in RL Playing with stereotypes, possibly some of the bimbo-giant-boobs-oily-skin-a-bit-too-flirty girls in SL are men in RL, i know some of the gay guys in SL are women in RL… so what?
After all that time in Second Life i really thought we all were quite over this question but it seems i was wrong.
Beefy!!! (or the freedom to be what you want to be)
Beefy!!!, originally uploaded by Raul Crimson.
Using this pic I took some days ago I’d like to do two reflections, one about avatars, the other about sense of humour.
Yes, I’m quite beefy in SL. So what? I mean, most of the times I’m the guy you know, and sometimes I’m a girl, a tiny German Shepherd, a robot, a Japanese “manga” character or whatever. We all have the power in Second Life to look as we want to look, using the “Appearance” tools or with “Attachments”. We can create our own appearance, or we can use creations of other residents and mix them to create your look. It can be something common or exclusive, something “real” or fantastic, “furry” or “skinny”, an animal, an apple, a “cheezburger”…
But… is no that easy, because there will be always someone to criticise, and you have no possibility to avoid the critics. And I’m not talking about a ”purely aesthetic” critic (kinda “I think this is ugly” or “I don’t like it”), I’m talking about something different.
If you wear a furry avatar some people will say you are a pervert and a zoophile (or a freak), if you are a man (or a woman) and you choose to wear a female (or male) shape some will say you are a deviant and that you have some problem with your gender identity (and, of course, a freak), if you like “dark style”, “goth”, you like blood as a fantasy you are a freak.
As you can see there is a lot of reasons to be called “a freak”, much more than i wrote above. Anyway, if you choose to have a Second Life quite near to your RL, or like a fantasy of RL, you can be called a “boring person that doesn’t life his/her fantasies”, you can be called a “Barbie” or a “Ken”.
In short, if you decide, for example, to play some RP then some “non RP people” will say you are a freak, but if you decide not to play some RP then some “RP people” will say you are a freak. Do what you do you will be a freak for someone.
So my doubt is… why the hell we need to criticise the rest, the ones are not like us? Why to criticise the difference when is what make people special and interesting?
About sense of humour, well, part of the reason to make that image was to laugh about myself. I think is REALLY good not to take oneself too seriously, specially becuase when we take ourselves woo seriously we became ridiculous.
So my two conclusions are:
Respect other’s choices as you want yours to be respected, and start laughing (first at you… then at the others, but always with respect ).
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