I... I just like to play dressup, okay? This is why I like Gaia Online. It's not because it's pixel-crack or anything like that. I just want to wear really awesome clothes but I'm 1. too poor, 2. too fat and 3. too obviously don't live in the middle of a Square-Enix game. I deeply regret all three. So I do it on Gaia for a fraction of the cost and let my Gaia avatar wear awesome clothing for me. It's the closest I'll ever get to being an awesome style queen and for that, given my taste in clothing and the state of my body, the world should be truly grateful.

It also lets me own a virtual owl, a virtual polar bear, and a virtual stuffed cat. DON'T JUDGE ME.

Anyway, it being my Livejournal, I have decided to post a load of pictures of my Gaia avatar playing Pretty Princess Dress-Me-Up. If you ever wondered why more men don't use Gaia, well, here's your answer: because a large part of the appeal is that it allows you to play with a virtual paper doll and take it shopping and buy it clothing. There is a small part of me that's still ten years old and wants a pony, but unfortunately for her I sold my Fausto's Bottle to raise the gold for the Gothic Veil...


Wow, what a filler. I knew saving all those would come in useful someday, and not just because I get way too much enjoyment out of playing Pretty Princess Dress-Me-Up and I like all the shiny pretties. I have deduced from this exhaustive study of my Gaia Online avatar's wardrobe choices (the little bitch has more clothes than I do, and they're all far more interesting, and she can wear hats) ever since she's had any wardrobe to speak of - see, I haven't posted pictures of my avatar in her starter outfits but I wasn't saving them then and they were all pretty boring anyway - that I am obsessed with girly shi my avatar is fond of the following:

• Being snowed or rained on.
  
• Pink things.
  
• Virtual wigs.
  
• Small gold hearts, on chains or off them.
  
• Umbrellas and parasols.
  
• Shiny shit.
  
• Skirts and showing off her dumpy chibi legs.
  
• Glasses.
  
• Scarves and gloves.
  
• Doll joints.
  
• Leg warmers.
  
• Butterfly wings.
  
• Lace.
  
• Animals and animal-shaped accessories.
  
• Virtual stuffed cats.

I would like my avatar to be obsessed with bags, too, because I like bags a lot but Gaia doesn't really have much in the way of interesting bags unless you count the panda rucksack which I already have. You could probably say something pretty deep but also rather boring about my psychology as a result of all that, never mind my playing with paper dolls on Gaia Online at all, but it would be much kinder on me if you didn't.

... yes, I do have to work the stuffed kitty into all my avatars at the moment. It is a very expensive stuffed kitty and also it is adorable and it is called Daisy because the best cat in the world was called Daisy, too.