Schadenfreude Snake Statue Pair and Snow Snakes

Japonica has an extension for its last days, it will be open until the end of the month.  I've added a few more things in celebration of this extra time!

These snake statues are something I'd been vaguely planning on for the Year of the Snake (I don't get all of my yearly projects done, ever!  Usually I aim for the statues in the middle of the year because I know I won't get everything done by the beginning...but I've only succeeded once before with the cows!), and since we got extra time, I finished them up (I was trying to finish them up to release mid event, but man, PBR adds a lot of time to the entire process).  Texture change with four stone types, each with snowy and mossy options as well as just stone, the statues are a matched pair on top of pillars, just the stone snakes, and just the individual pillars.  There are unique textures for left and right- but you can secretly use the textures from the opposite side by switch the "l" and "r" at the end of the names (tell it it's left, and it'll use the left textures, tell it it's right, it'll use the right textures!), the textures will be flipped in the opposite direction on the other side (including the pillars).  It's not a bad idea for bandwidth and speedier textures, but it might be something you notice, so I've left the choice up to you!  Optional PBR and fallback textures for all options.

And there are two more gifts!  There is a souvenir Daruma for Japonica, and these snow snakes!  Piles of snow sort of made snake shaped-ish, also a matched pair like the statues.

At the final round of Japonica, open December 25 at 8am SLT - January 31 at 8am SLT.

Schadenfreude The Cone Lamp

The Cone of Shame, in animal lamp form, for this Uniquely Ugly Collabor88.  The theme was difficult- very much the sort of thing that I love, and the more I think about, the less I understand why anyone would think was "ugly" to begin with, so deciding on a thing was next to impossible!

19 bright and pop-y plastics to choose from, touch on and off (touch and hold for 5 seconds to set an access list to limit who can turn it on and off, if you need such a thing, to limit to just you, members of the group it is set to, or anyone).  Mirrored version included so you have both sides to face any direction you need.  There is a projector light on the basic version- it's a separate prim linked in there (sort of hard to find, made as little as possible to keep it out of the way!)- that casts the circular light out of the shade, and there's a soft glow on the lamp itself.  The (no cast light) versions do not have those light sources, so they will not conflict with your lighting scheme, but will light up the bulb and glow the shade.  Light is editable- edit while on to set the light color by changing the color of the bulb in Blinn-Phong texture space (it's accessible to everyone!), then touch it twice to turn off and on and it'll set allll the light bits.  You can also edit the radius, intensity, etc. by editing the light sources- they will remember all settings when turned off and back on, so if you need more or less light!

1 LI each lamp, all include optional PBR textures with fallbacks (you can choose PBR with fallback textures, or to use the Blinn-Phong style textures in a PBR viewer).  The lightbulb and metal fixture are both set to PBR, but you can remove the PBR texture to uncover the fallback textures in non PBR versions if you desire (they are less reactionary to the environment without PBR- PBR glass is pretty great though, when it works, and this time it actually works).  Remember to do that in a copy!

At Collabor88 January 8 - February 6.

Happy New Year!

I'm a little late on saying anything about this- Katakana Shrine is welcoming people for the New Year, as it does.  I've already been on my first shrine visit of the year, as well as traveling the entire Goshuin Project for New Year 2025 (see my travels on tumblr) to prepare for this Year of the Snake.  But, as I do, I've also set out a few free gifts at Katakana Shrine to go alongside the gifts and lucky boards that feature in the new year celebrations.

X kimono: !HONENOKE! Furisode (f) SHOUCHIKUBAI (RLFandNAMINOKE, chiki.vita & taiko.mccaw)

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Lucky Okobo Geta, with snakes and Daruma, with 4 strap colors,

and snake daruma dolls in 2 colors.  There is also a snake kokeshi doll, using the HBS kokeshi base, which is also a gift there, with templates to make your own!

And don't forget to get your Goshuin stamp and hamaya to commemorate your shrine visit at Katakana Shrine.