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Version 2.9 Released April 30, 2010

Where to acquire: Right Here

What is this about:

Providing a list of designers selling either appropriately Victorian, Elegant Gothic or inspired (usually costume or imbued with a “Gothic” or “Steampunk” theme) gentleman’s clothing and accessories. While entire Gothic or Steampunk ensembles may not be appropriate for everyone in all scenarios, quite often select pieces can be paired with other pieces from various ensembles to create something both new and splendid.

This is by no means an exhaustive list, and vendors do change locations frequently. Moreover, if you know of a vendor who should be on this list, please contact Elric Anatine and I’ll quite happily make that addition in the next version of this notecard.

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Alkahest presents… Rich velvet, cool marble and deep wood furnishings. Luxurious and decadent for a Victorian parlour, vintage salon, reading room or absinthe den. Vampires and gothic children of the night may also find this an alluring addition to their domiciles.

The original Absinthe series was created for an Absinthe installation I was involved in. I thought it appropriate to add two other schemes: Serpis (red absinthe) and Bleue (blanche or blue absinthe).

Visit the main shoppe of Alkahest to view these and more.

OR, view some sets from XStreet.

Sets are discounted by 25% over purchasing each item individually.

• Low prim
• Low lag scripts
• Menu driven
• Quality animations
• Feature rich

Set images below…

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Visit the Alkahest’s Main Sky Shoppe

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Alkahest presents… Tentacles!

Visit the waterfront of Alkahest to view these and more.

Part of the Whimsical Candy Series for home & garden… and now sea…

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• 11 colour schemes
• 3 types of tentacles — each with a unique set of 6-7 animations

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And if tentacles aren’t your thing — how about a nice whimsical candy tree stump?

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Visit the land of candy experiments

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Alkahest presents… Experiments in Candy! Yes, Dr. Anatine has lost his collective mind and blames other medicinal experiments for this lapse.

New items will be created through Spring and possibly Summer 2010, so visit the inworld Shoppe and receive updates via the subscribe-o-matic.

These shiny whimsical creations may be perfect for those who love all things cute and edible. Fae and fairies may find some items to enhance their homes and gardens. Those who wish something a little more fantasy oriented, may find this confectionary whimsy appealing.

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This series of items are quite low prim, which should appeal to those with limited prims to spare.

Some items belong to the darker variant of the Whimsical Candy line of creations. These are perhaps perfect for you vampires with a sweet fang or Goth types who enjoy darker aesthetics.

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If you find these colours far too dark, I would suggest the more colourful side of the Whimsical Candy line, which is perhaps perfect for the colour-blind and lover of all things bright & cheery.

Visit the land of candy experiments

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Xstreet Listing for Whimsical Candy: Foliage Lamp Black Cherry — within the listing you will find links to other items on Xstreet in the Whimsical Candy product line (although everything currently available can be found at Alkahest in world).

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• Gazebos
• Trees
• Shrubs
• Lamps
• And much more coming…

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Special thank you to Lady Pipsqueak Fiddlesticks, my lovely partner, for beautifully vanquishing a griefer prior to my photoshoot on her photo-appropriate sim, Cake, which neighbours my sim of Alkahest.

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Where have I been?

First, I will lay the blame of this post entirely on my current course of medication. This, along with other events, will partially explain my absence from my blog and life in general. As I am not one to whinge about personal matters, suffice it to say that my health has been in less than stellar condition of late and we shall simply leave it at that.

Moving right along, I am grateful for my friends and one lady in particular (/me casts a sidelong glance at Lady Pipsqueak Fiddlesticks). A more recent friend, Kulta Hannu, has declared me an enabler with my suggestions of shops for clothing and landscaping — everyone should know that I am only too happy to help others spend their Linden Dollars on fine fashions and foliage. But I will now point my paw at Kulta-chan and cry out: “Enabler!”, for there is nothing more terrifying than two women conspiring against a poor old fox.

Attend… a travesty of epic proportions…

Once upon a time, as the snows melted and gave way to Spring, a lovely Lady suggested to her gothicly-inclined gentleman fox, “I believe it’s time to transform the Physic Garden and Apothecary into a place of dead things, as though abandoned, or that we went mad… very mad.” She continued teasing her gentlefox with delightful dark images of decadence and artful decay.

This gentlefox perked at the idea, very much liking dead and dark things (of the non-tacky variety, that is), and so set about to transform their lands.

A few days ago during a visit from the resident neko and recently made Grounds Manager of Syzygy, Kulta-chan asked with growing concern, “And just how far will the dead spread?”

The gentlefox wished to quip that the dead would spread far and wide across all the lands, but he bit tongue with his lengthy fangs, and merely smiled, pointing to the immediate vicinity.

Believing the neko satisfied with the answer, the gentlefox continued with his work, unaware of the machinations brewing in the cat’s head… nor his Lady’s.

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And so it came to pass this fine evening that the gentlefox’s Lady exclaimed in that come hither voice, “I have something GREAT to show you.”

As a result of Linden Lag, several minutes passed before the true horror of what befell the gentlefox’s dark work dawned upon his furry pale face.

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Flamingos. The Dark One could not have been amused, but it is difficult to say as his relationship is deepest with the Lady of this land, and he would likely do anything for her (even remain still in Winter as she outfitted him with a scarf).

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The Physic Garden and Apothecary had been quite successfully… flamingoed… by Lady Fiddlesticks… enabled by the neko, Kulta Hannu. The Lady was greatly amused, giggling happily like a victorious school girl prankster (which, incidentally, is one of the many reasons the gentlefox likes her so… although the flamingos may be going too far).

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Even Arnold, the gentlefox’s prized albino peacock, was cozying up to one of these frightful pink creatures! As if regular feedings of marshmallows were not enough, his head was actually turned by the bright invaders.

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Betrayer! Defiant, mocking peacock. “I know a nearby campire at the beach that will enjoy your marshmallows henceforth!” the gentlefox vowed.

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Alas, this gentlefox can only resign himself to his fate. And the flamingos.

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Please visit Syzygy Selene: Physic Garden & Apothecary — with flamingos to bear witness to this travesty.

Other Details:

Flamingos, cunningly fashioned: Yo, flamingo! nr1 *pink* by Antonia Marat of Artilleri (in the off-chance that my humour is lost on some readers, I do seriously believe that these flamingos are actually quite awesome and if anyone is every in need of flamingos, Artilleri is likely THE purveyor of flamingo love).
Ensemble: Viktor by Darwin Mizser of AVid
Monocle: GC-Monokel (Dark-Knight clock) by Grazioso Alekseev of Crie Style

Fox avatar

• Avatar – Male White Fox by Mephitis Jezebel of Aventity
• Hair – The Dauphin (Powdered) by Siyu Suen of Illusions

A wearable shopping tour HUD offering 10 locales to acquire “must haves” befitting a Gentleman of the Grid.

From clothing to accessories to gadgets and more — specifically for the well-mannered gentleman.

XStreet Listing

In World Acquisition

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We had a most enjoyable photo session and chatted about a variety of subjects including what being a fur means to me as well as my experiences. Ryan even includes relevant snippets of our conversation at the end of my article.

Thank you, Ryan, for this opportunity and for a fun photo session.

Enjoy the read.

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I have updated my list of gentleman’s fashion and accessory vendors. I verified landmarks, added new shoppes, removed defunct shoppes (the sad nature of SL), and have also added a new list which should appeal to those new to SL: Elric Anatine’s Top 10 Gentlemanly Must Haves v1.0.

Just to complicate matters, I offer several methods for viewing and distributing this list.

Both a coupon and book version are available inside my apothecary.  The coupon, once rezzed, will deliver the latest version of the book at all times.  You may distribute this coupon yourself if you wish.  The book is the latest version but in future, rez a copy to verify that you have the latest version (a new one will be delivered automatically) — if you do not, a new one will be delivered.

You may obtain the latest version via XStreet as well.

And finally, I have a folder in my inventory containing the book, coupon, and notecard lists (the main list of approximately 150 vendors, and the new top 10 list) that I am happy to send to anyone who requests (please send me, Elric Anatine, an IM in world).

Baron Klaus Wulfenbach’s and his attentive staff maintain an Internet copy of this information here.

I will be updating the blog copy here shortly to reflect the new information.

If you have any questions, concerns, shoppes that need to be brought to my attention and so forth, do contact me.

Have an excellent weekend and happy shopping!

I highly recommend Men’s Second Style as a great resource for anyone wishing to stay abreast of all aspects of men’s fashion.

Thank you, Ryan, for allowing me to grace your blog.

Last week I had the delightful experience of being photographed by Hya of Silent Sparrow and Ryan Darragh of Men’s Second Style (as part of his Guest Style Consultant series).

I will be completely absent from the internet as of next week until mid April (vacation). I will look forward to resuming my blogging and SL activities at that time.

Have a delightful start to Spring.

The suits in question can be found at:

FallnArachnidSuit

FallnRoesorSuit

FallnMorionSuit

The Arachnid suit is a favourite of mine and was actually the first Falln suit I purchased.