Gothic life and anachronism...

Since I have been away from pixel world for awhile, and feeling the dire need of analysis on virtual life and purpose (*laughs), I examined some of the aspects of it as a whole.

creative outlet: one of the main purpose on either side of the realm

Actually, many of the aspect can be just explained as a part of creative outlet.
*The utter refusal of the repetition of real life
-aesthetics (both in styles and philosophy)
-anachronism (classical, gothic, romantics etc)
-inspiration (occasionally, I meet interesting people. )
hmmm....

I was having a vague idea of forming my own realm. However, it will not be solely based on superficial social relationship (fake friends and fake families) nor based on business interests.

The core members consists of exceptionally talented content creators, the intelligentsia, and they will be all trusted by me on the base level. Since I am reluctant to shed too much money on this side of the realm, it may be small as it is now, unless my business would expand and have enough profit to support such household/court/kingdom /empire. It will not be some fake democratic paradise where everyone agrees with everything.

Any visitors would be welcome, however, not everyone would be accepted in my immediate circle. The maturity of each character will be scrutinized, as well as the individual talent and abilities.
If the individual demonstrates talents, loyalty and maturity, I would be offering as much support as I can. And moreover, they will be given an opportunity to hold their own household and expand, if they agree with same philosophy of the realm.

There are no points to collect. It depends on your own intellect.

And no, it is not fair, as any life.

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Above was scribbled some days ago. (I do that a lot. Many simply will not make it to this blog because subject matter has nothing to do with pixel realm.)

Yet more random thoughts came up.

Pixel realm can be some fantasy outlet. Of course it is a part of creative process, however some of the anachronistic ideals that I described above, needs group/community of similar minded people. I am not talking about aesthetic point of view here.

There are so many period based sims around SL. Mostly building and RP/fashion oriented. yet, I hardly ever meet anyone who is even remotely knowledgeable with period society or classical/romantic/gothic, literary/artistic idealism.

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One of my hero(happens to be real life historical figure from late 19th century), Kinmochi Saionji, prominent political figure of early modern Japanese government.
More like, he is one of the key figure of establishing modern Japan, after Tokugawa shogunate was relinquished.

He was born in prominent aristocratic family, which are traced all the way back to emperor and Fujiwara family who served emperors. Since young age, he served in emperors court(this, takes days to explain how or what it is, so I will not do this in here), then became governor of few key areas when he left positions as military officer when he was only 19.

Around this few years, he romantized being samurai, therefore he used simpler, ordinary sounding aliases to prevent others to see him as aristocratic blood. (Both of his last and first name has very distinctive royal ring to them)
He established private school inside Kyoto palace estate, which later became Ritsumeikan college. (This, was all accomplished in between age of 18-21)

after a few years, he moved to Paris, to get degrees in Sorbonne. Next decade or so, he studied and after a several years, he became official Japanese envoy to European courts and governments.

He never married mostly because the marriage would be dictated by aristocratic custom which has to be princess of prominent family, however he had numerous lovers and mistresses (social norm back in the day). There is a written report that one of the literal figure had the picture of him adorned her nightstand.

Japanese delegates to the Paris conference of 1919, proposed racial equality among the League of Nations (precursor to UN). It was voted in favor of the propse, however British and US delegates did not recognized stating that it has to be unanimous. Interestingly,this deepened conflict left unresolved between British/US and japan, resulted to WW2. Equality of the nations clause was included in UN pact after the WW2.

** Well. Not just Saionji, who built modern Japan, however, I am strongly identify his forward free thinking and his interest in learning the cultures outside of Japan. He was accused of Foreign sympathizer, however, that is wrong. He was clever enough to know how much catching up we (Japanese) needed, and almost singlehandedly establish the modern foreign policy. (He was also became prime minister several times.)

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Now back to the pixel realm...

It is something possible in virtual community which includes great minds from different cultures. Yet the cluster is somewhat linked by similar ideals.