Schadenfreude at Hamster Festival

Way back in the olden days of the first round of Arcade, there was the breakout hit of the Beetlebones Drawf Hamster avatars.  They're cute, they're goofy, they roll around and flop, and we loved them.  Every year in the summer, there is a festival still devoted to them: even though suetabulous Yootz of Beetlebones has retired from SL, other people are making things to this day for her hamsters, and dressing up as hamsters and playing.  As they say: it's big in Japan, especially.  I look forward to the Hamster Festival every year- it's cute and goofy and full of weird and wonderful fun stuff, a departure from the more "practical" side of SL (SL isn't practical, but you know what I mean).  This year is the first year I found out about it being open for applications early enough to do something about it, so I did!

You will find a pair of stone hamster statues there- these are low key komainu statues, you know the guardian foo dogs that hang out in pairs at entrances, but they do not have to be if you don't want them to be.  One is stuffing his face, and the other one is more sedate, both in 3 stone options, with and without pedestal base to sit on (plus extra base if you have any need for that).

Hamfest also often has gifts, so a free gift of one toothed geta for hammy feet.  Those little feet are so not made to wear geta, but I prevailed.  (You can also try to fit them to some other feet, but I am not optimistic on your chances.)  Texture change with some solid strap options, you can also use other Geta Strap HUDs.

Hamster Festival is open July 31 @ 5am SLT to August 20 @ 8am SLT.  You don't have to be a hamster to attend: it is open to (and carries things for) all avatars, even non fluffy ones!

If you don't have a hamster avatar but want one: with the death of gacha, since sue is not still active in SL, you can't get them from a gacha anymore!  You can still find them on the secondary resale market on the marketplace though, and sue does have a little mainland spot she keeps that has a fatpack of all the hamster avatars: do NOT pay the gacha machines, they do not work, and some are not even scripted at all, it's just leftover menu stuff from when they were!

Schadenfreude Zadkiel Table and Windows

A round low table and wall hanging windows based on rose windows in churches and cathedrals for Midnight Order!  The table is 2 LI at table size (shrink it down a touch and it can be 1 LI), the windows are 1 LI each up to a bit over 2 meters wide/tall.  Texture change with 3 stone options (old and spotty, pale, and sandstone) and 5 wood options (light, medium and dark wood, plus black and white), with 2 stained glass options for the ones with panes.  The tables have optional "shadow" prims with cast light (adjust transparency and glow to suit your space), and the glass windows have optional projector lights.  Projectors are only partially scriptable under current tools- in ways that break them completely, so each glass is currently included separately instead of scripted texture change.  I'm hoping some day some Linden actually uses the permissions system that already exists correctly and implements that the rest of the way, but for now, it's just...not ready to be used.

Midnight Order is open July 20 at noon SLT to August 20.

Schadenfreude Speyeders

Creepy spiders with eyeballs to hang around at this Upside Down/horror themed round of TOKYO ZERO!  6 poses plus mirrors, 1 LI each at realistic eyeball size and a bit larger, plus lower LI versions at a larger size, with and without rotatable eyeballs to look where you want them to.  Texture change with red, brown, blue, and green eyes; and black and red bodies.

TOKYO ZERO is open July 10 @ 8am SLT to July 25 @ 8am SLT.

Schadenfreude Fresh Berries

Fresh strawberries and fresh cherries in green open weave punnets, at this Collabor88!  Each come with filled baskets, half full baskets, empty baskets, and 2 single fruits.  The strawberries are texture change with juicy red and pink strawberries, and white pineberries; the cherries are texture change with bright red and dark cherry options.  1 land impact each piece- descript and link to make 2 pieces 1 LI.

At this Collabor88, until August 6!

Schadenfreude Star Filled Japonica

A summery Japonica, filled with stars!

X hair: KMH - Hair F127 (kumibou.mayo)

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Kazashi 簪 hair sticks- a "round" Tama Kanzashi with a star instead, and Dangling Star Kanzashi with each charm editable to rotate if necessary to fit.  Both have star stones, each texture change with 14 stone colours to choose from, and 3 metal options for the hardware (gold, silver, and blackened iron).

A bottle of Celestial Sake and wooden masu cups to drink from, filled with the stars of Tanabata 七夕: Orihime 織姫 also known as Vega in the Lyra constellation, and Hikoboshi 彦星 also known as Altair in the Aquila constellation, separated by the river of the Milky Way.  The bottle comes in open and closed versions, including givers for your guests to hold masu cups, the masu cups also come separate for you in rez and hold versions.

X yukata by tomoto (tomo.wachter)

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X yukata by [Blossom_MeshObjectShop] (blossom.adamski)

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Plus starry platform geta 下駄 okobo おこぼ (also called pokkuri or bokkuri 木履).  Hoshi Okobo Geta feature 16 color options of bold large stars, with 24 solid strap options and 16 colors of large double stars straps.  Celestial Okobo Geta feature 12 colors of the Tanabata constellations- Orihime is the largest star on the right side of each geta, and Hikoboshi is the largest star on the left side of each geta- with 24 solid strap options and 16 colors of small scattered star pattern straps.  Unrigged and modify to adjust to your body and poses.

At Japonica, open June 30 at 8am SLT - July 24 at 8am SLT.