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Charlotte Annette Weaver's LiveJournal:
| Thursday, June 5th, 2008 | | 7:08 pm |
Charlotte 3.0!
Hey, Kids! Been a while. My old Second Life avatar was snazzy, but a little too industrial to really be "me". For ages, now, I've had some ideas kicking around for limbs that look a little more biological -- or biomechanical, anyway. About a month ago, I finally sat down and kicked myself into high gear, squeaking evening and weekend time into an All-New, All-Different, All-MINE (almost) Avatar. So now, with no further adieu:
C'est moi! | | Tuesday, December 25th, 2007 | | 9:38 am |
| | Monday, December 10th, 2007 | | 5:45 pm |
| | Wednesday, July 19th, 2006 | | 3:31 pm |
Secret Origins!
Let's step out of character for a moment. My player created "Silk, the Anthropomorphic Black Widow Spider" as a Champions character, some time around 1985 or so. (That's right, kids -- Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider Ma'am is old enough to drink. As a character.) I got to play as a super-hero a couple of times, but my origin story never really gelled (or rather, never differentiated itself sufficiently from Jessica Drew to make me anything but a mirror-universe knock-off). When FurryMUCK came along, it seemed like an ideal opportunity to pull the spider-lady out of (ahem) mothballs and give her a place to play. Since few people pay much attention to "origins" on FM -- we have anthropomorphic everything else; why not a black widow? -- I just left a vague and tongue-in-cheek outline of my old origin in my pinfo. (Honestly, after eight years, nobody's ever asked.)( But in case you wanted to know anyway... )When I started on Second Life back in January, I didn't think I'd ever manage to get an avatar that looked like "The Real Me". Then, in short order, I lucked into the cyber-arms and eight-eyed goggles; then I stumbled across the shiny black skin texture. Pulling a half-finished abdomen out of my inventory, I popped into Nexus Prime, a cyberpunk city -- and fell right into a cyberpunk RP group. Boys and girls, Auntie Charlotte fits right into the cyberpunk milieu. When I started thinking about the backstory for "Charlotte Pertwee", it wrote itself. I'm not a gene-juggled lab experiment who grew up to play superhero; I'm not a cartoon character; I'm post-human. It all fell together: motivations, the black widow motif, everything. Of course, being lazy, it all stayed in my head for a few weeks until I finally sat down and rattled it off in-character. ( In Which Mad Doctor Pertwee reveals her Secret Origin to a nosy reporter... ) Current Mood:  bouncy | | Saturday, July 1st, 2006 | | 6:17 pm |
Why I <3 Second Life...
Because I can be
MYSELF!!
(Click on the pic for more of beautiful me, kids
-- including some desktop-sized pinups!
Be the envy of your friends!) | | Tuesday, July 12th, 2005 | | 8:57 am |
| | Saturday, April 2nd, 2005 | | 8:55 am |
| | Sunday, September 5th, 2004 | | 7:24 am |
| | Thursday, September 2nd, 2004 | | 11:03 pm |
Finally Posting Something!
I know, I know. "Charlotte, you never post, you never write, you never do anything with your Web site." I finally found a decent thumbnailer, and put a page together of all the art that folks have done of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider Ma'am. (The pics of me as a rat will show up later.) Charlotte's Gallery!It's pretty spartan right now -- but I did put comments and credits on each page! Current Mood:  sleepy | | Wednesday, December 17th, 2003 | | 6:44 pm |
It WASN'T a Brown Recluse.
This came up on the MUCK yet again: someone who lived far outside the habitat of the Brown Recluse insisted that they'd been bitten by one. Of course, their doctor told them so. Now, I have a great deal of respect for physicians. Medicine is a complex specialization that requires a great deal of study of human anatomy and physiology. Physicians are intelligent, dedicated individuals. They are not experts in every field, however, and outside their area of expertice, they can fall prey to misconceptions and poor information as anyone else. An M.D. is not an arachnologist, and if the M.D. and a Ph.D. in arachnology disagree about a "spider bite", I'm gonna listen to the guy who studies the right phylum. Those "necrotic bites" that get blamed on spiders in general and Brown Recluses in particular probably aren't spider bites at all -- and if they started that way, they're probably necrotic because of secondary infection, not spider venom. Here are a couple of links to peruse on the subject: I should note in conclusion that I'm not an arachnologist, either ("I'm not an arachnid, but I play one on TV"). I only discovered these sites a week or two ago, myself, thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) normanrafferty. However, I feel a personal stake as both an arachnophile and a scientist in propagating access to accurate information. Current Mood: concerned | | 6:21 pm |
| | Monday, December 15th, 2003 | | 3:25 pm |
Is this thing on? (tap tap tap SQUEEEEEEE!)
Well, here I am, equipped with a sylish new LiveJournal. All the cool kids are doin' it! I don't really know what to say yet -- mostly, I just wanted to read and comment on other the journals of other folkses. Movie reviews? Music? General live status reports? Depressing Goth poetry? ;;;;) We'll see... Current Mood:  chipperCurrent Music: Gene Pitney -- Town Without Pity |
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