Story Time, children!

It's been far too long since we last told all of you a story. This time, let's make it a Christmas story! It has grinches, and angels, and stories of dastardly deeds and goodwill.

Our story... is also full of brutal honesty. (Except we do it with style and class. --Pierre)

You know, we've become quite sick of seeing certain people scally up the fashion feed at World of SL. They were recently booted there from the main feed, their sad arse confined. We have a bone to pick with them, really. They're trying to steal our limelight! The bastards. Plus, they screwed over a nice group of people, who we'll call the angels. The bad people we'll just simply refer to as grinches.

Now, see, one of our little angels spied a stolen present once upon a time, and she wrote about it at the local newspaper. The present was hijacked straight out of the mind of someone more grand, more spectacular, and the grinch chose to use the creation to gain copious amounts of money from the poor town citizens - he sold it "limited edition", but one will never be aware of how many he actually still holds and sells privately.

Our angel was sad - sad for the people that were being taken advantage of. She wrote that article, and not long afterward our favorite internet piece of poo, Brutal Honesty, was founded with three new characters no one had ever heard of.

Their first story was about denim. Their second story? Our girl. They took something she had fashioned with her own mouse and keyboard, and dug hard to rip it apart. They had to dig hard, because it really wasn't a bad creation - but she's not awfully experienced yet, so we will allow her this injustice.

This upset our angel, and rightfully so.

The grinches continued to harass our little angel, harangue her, and it got worse and more (for lack of a better word) BRUTAL with time. Classless. Now, our little angel isn't perfect - but she'd never done anything like that to anyone she took down for lying, cheating, or stealing. The grinches were, and are, merciless.

Then the first clincher came - we lost a beautiful angel, a beautiful angel creator, to a sad occurrence not long back. Their friends didn't want to speak of it yet, because it still hurt so much and they feared that the community might turn against them for revealing this information.

It turns out their fears were right. The grinches wrote about the disappearance of what we call "The Quad", and allowed commenters to absolutely have their way with the death. No respect, no class. Utter failure on their part. The grinches even supported the running commentary... in favor of more hits, more than likely. They said that Oh, everyone deserves a right to grieve in their own way. Some just feel this is lies fed to us by the Quad.

What person, in their right mind, would fake their own death? We would expect fake deaths from the grinches, but not from our fellow designers. No, the grinches were wrong and showed their lack of morality and respect in one short day.

A few weeks went by, and then we suddenly had more movement from the grinches, this time asking for "real pictures" of the angel we mention in the beginning of our story. They never say her name, but it was more than implied. However, the word in question was "real" - do they want real SL pictures, not faked in Photoshop? Or do they want real, honest photographs from the physical realm? One thing is for sure, it's best not to make the wrong assumption with these sorts of fanatical attempts. We will continue to assume, as many other people did, that the grinches were looking for blood: real blood. God only knows what their "special bonus package" entailed; it's best to keep them at arms length.

Hiding behind their assumed intelligence, their hidden agendas, their friends... our grinches thought they were safe, that no one would ever figure out who they were. Unfortunately for them, some of our friends in high places became angry, even agitated, and began digging. They overturned one rock that our grinches had been hiding under... and if you unturn one stone in a field, chances are the single one next to it is related.

My friends, Tina Travanti, aka Amelia Abernathy of Ame True designs, is the female end of our grinch family. She has been tracked via IP (not smart enough to use a proxy) which reveal both her alternate character and her true identity. Of course, she left other hints too. If any of you are familiar with shapes, you will more than likely notice that Amelia was so in love with her shape, that upon creating Tina she gave her alternate a copy of it. "But Giles," you may cry, "I can't see it! I can't tell, the skins are different!" Use your eyes.

Now, that leaves Lothian. Who is Lothian? Well, who do you know that's an egotistical arse and has Amelia hanging on him like her very life depends on it? Yes, you've probably got it. He's the one the original article at the local paper was about.

Of course, if you don't believe us on that end, simply ask yourself why neither of them has been releasing anything lately... In fact, he simply retextured some crummy old earrings from last year that he had hanging around and set them out for sale again. A year old? We think that qualifies them as free merchandise now - out of style, out of touch!

As for Lisbeth Darcy, we've heard rumors that this is their little pet, Bethany Heart. But, we can't make accusations when we have no stable information on that part... let's just say that Lisbeth is ALLEGEDLY the alt of Bethany.

(Oh, we decided to delete this bit. The commenters appear to be having more fun chewing on that bit of info rather than the point of the christmas story... shame on all of you! Let's just say that our grinches have friends in -semi- high places.)



What is the motivation behind all of their spittle? Well, we figure that they're foaming at the mouth simply because our little angel might have dented their sales. It's so sad to see that a middle aged man and woman, one from Washington, one from Seattle, can fall so far. We mean... dont' you think that Amelia should be off taking care of her family instead of spreading malicious rumors, lies, and stabbing everyone in the back? We're just saying.



*Disclaimer: Yes, we know they will sit there and try to deny this, cry, whine and harrass everyone, "NO it's not us!" Well, you can choose for yourself if you want to, but we know our evidence is true - and the coincidences are just far too... coincidental.