Sunday, March 28, 2010

Fantasy Faire 2010

Let the countdown begin. With only 3 weeks until the opening of this years Fantasy Faire - creators are busy designing new products specially for the Faire. With 8 sims packed with the top designers of SL, there is bound to be something for anyone.

Need an excuse to fight the lag and go shopping - The fight for a cure for Cancer. Come show your support and buy a Relay For Life product at the Fantasy Faire.

Most of you are probably wondering who is going to be there this year. Well hear it here first . There are only a few empty spots left but we envisage these to fill up soon.

The outfits you see below are from just a few of the designers that will be at the fair this year. (Outfits shown are not necessarily going to be on show at the faire but can be found in the main store.) The full list of designers showcasing their products can be found at the bottom of this post.


Harlequin Boots, Belt, Gloves, Neck Ruffle, Cap and Marotte from *~*Illusions*~*


Nathalie in Green from Evies Closet


Lysi from ~silentsparrow~


Fire Salamander Skin from Fallen Gods Inc.


Tied with a bow in Snowy White Ears & Tail, Starry Lip Rings Set, Starry Belly Ring, Pocket Cort Shorts {Black}, Starry Halter Tank {PURPLE} & Diamond Bow Buckle Collar from *Dreams*


Garfield Cute Cat complete outfit with Shoulder Odie, Tigger Cute Cat complete Outfit, Hello Kitty Cute Cat complete outfit & Pink Panther Cute Cat complete outfit and skin from `*~Zanzibar creationZ~*`


Andromeda Hair from Tekeli-li Dark Artistry & Briony Dress from Evies Closet


Archer Outfit in Tan from RIPPED

Just a teeny sample of the items you can expect to find at the faire.

A big thank you goes out to two of the designers participating in the Faire this year; Evangeline Miles - Owner/Designer of Evie's Closet & Sanura Snowpaw - Owner/Designer of *Dreams*. Thank you ladies for not only joining in such a great cause but for lending me your bodies and outfits to photograph.

Another thank you to Victoria Sabra for "trying not to have a fan-girly moment" and letting me use her as a model as well.

A HUGE thank you to all the designers that are putting their store in the Faire this year and helping us to raise funds for Relay for Life.

The Fantasy Faire is SL's largest gathering of fantasy designers, enthusiasts & performers. Join us for a week of commerce, special events, live music concerts & fundraising across 9 sims to benefit Relay for Life and the fight against cancer.

Proudly brought to you by
Friends Fighting Cancer
Strong! Together!

'Elvencourt' sim

'The Mer Market' sim
SIRENS SONG

'Neko Industrial Park' sim

'Wings Wands Wonders' sim

'Via Obscurium' sim

'Dark Realms' sim

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Big Is Beautiful

As the title suggests, this blog post is about shapes. We are all unique and each have our own different idea of an ideal shape and size.

RL stereotypes us and labels us depending on what we wear or how curvy we are. SL gives us a chance to be something we are not in RL.

When I first joined SL, a few years back, my avatar was very much just like the RL me. I'm not ashamed of the way I look, but I am labelled as "voluptuous", "curvy", "full figured" and sometimes just plain "fat". I have curves. I have a bit of meat covering my bones. I'm just plain old average me. I would rather have this body than that of most of the top paying supermodels of the world.


And yet I was ridiculed even in SL as being "big". So just like most of the people I know - I followed the crowds and I made my avatar, what I thought, sexy. She had a nice perfect skin with no blemishes or scars. She looked like she needed a feed of a good cheeseburger or 10. She was attractive, or what SL classes as attractive. I followed the clothing trends, depending on what was big in the blogs. I "kept up with the Jones'".

Only recently have I started dressing just like me. Wearing the daggy jeans and tops and not caring if I'm colour co-ordinated or if I even have shoes on. I've started to regress back to the old me. And the best part - I really couldn't care if someone thinks my avatar is "fat".



I have hips, a belly, there is no defineable gap between the tops of my thighs, my boobs aren't exactly perky - but I'm me. I'm still the same person that has fun with my friends. I can still joke and carry on. Does it really matter if you can park a semi between my thighs, bounce a coin of my flat, taught stomach, fit into a child sized T Shirt or if my stomach overhangs my panty line and my boobs sag a little. What about if I were dressed as a unicorn or a dragon? It does not matter what my avatar looks like, I am still the same person.

I was having a conversation with a top "model" of SL recently who, I admire for not being afraid to speak her mind, came out and made the comment "OMG you're ass is huge". Now I was in my normal avatar at the time. For those of you that have seen my avatar or even pics on my blog. Is my ass 'huge'? So if my everyday avatar was classed as having a huge ass. I would hate to see what she said about the more realistic me avatar.

We are all individuals and the joys of SL is that most clothing prim attachments are mod or have resize scripts. So even though you would normally look in the window of a fashion shop and wish they made their clothes in your size - you don't need to worry about that now. Make it fit you. Don't make you fit the prim.

Be who you want to be. Be you. Don't just follow the crowds and become a neko if wearing furry ears and paws makes you feel funny. Don't wear pointy ears if you are conscious of people staring at them. Just be yourself.

I am.
This is me.
Curves and all.

Wearing:

Skin: Acorn Frex [Dark] Elf-Soot 2 from Curio
Hair: Haver, Cinnamon from .:[Tiny Bird]:.
Eyes: Kaleidoscope Dragonfly from Eponym
Underwear: Belle Red Satin from Blacklace
Shape: Made by myself
Poses Used: Fashion Blogger #5 and Female #1 from ~Sinsity~
Model #58, Model #74, Model #215 and Model #217 from SEmotion Studio

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

YumYum

I'm a comfort shopper. Some people are comfort eaters or smokers or drinkers when they are down. Me - I shop! And I'm so glad I did this time. Check out my awesome new buys.

I was on the hunt for a hoodie. A cute hoodie that wasn't "too girly" but wasn't "too masculine". Low and behold I end up buying a dress and a complete outfit including shoes and a hairstyle to match.

I TP'd to this cute little shop I have never heard of, **DP** yumyum. (is it wrong that my mind instantly went to the gutter?) This place is AWESOME with a capital everything! In such a small, quaint little setting this place manages to grab your attention with their attention to detail on their surroundings and decorations AS WELL AS their products. I had to do the walk around twice. Once just to check out the area and the second time to shop.


My first buy(s) is this neat little Autumn/Winter outfit - yes it is that time for me in my part of the world. The **DP**yumyum romantic sweater (navy colour shown) comes with 2 sleeve prim options - short, with no shirt underneath showing (above) and long with frilly shirt sleeves (below). It also has the same options for the collar - plain, high turtleneck collar (above) and plain, high turtleneck collar with frilly shirt collar underneath (below). There is also the option of a belt tie in the same colour as the shirt prim layers (below). The textures on these sweaters is very high quality. Slightly faded around the seams and with a worn look about it. It certainly made me feel all cozy and warm. [also available in black, red and green]

To accompany my new jumper I grabbed a new pair of jeans. My instant reaction was to purchase the standard blue or black jeans. But then I had a second thought and went for something different. The *yumyum jeans: set05 are a faded tan stone-wash colour. The best part - you get two lengths in the pack. You can choose to wear them as shorts - with the prim cuffs for an autmny feel (above). Alternatively wear the standard length ones for a more rugged up wintery feel (below). The long length jeans come with prim cuffs - wear the jeans without the cuffs and your boots fit right over the top. Wear the cuffs on your jeans and your slip on shoes peek nicely out from underneath. There's a multitude of ways to wear just these two simple items. I was going to leave it at that and put on a nice pair of plain black shoes to finish off my outfit so went for a peek into some of the little stores on the side of the building. A leisurely stroll to complete my shopping trip - Hello KAO!

Small store with only a few items on the shelves - the likes of bikini's, dresses a skin or two and my KAO Suede Fringe Boots. To die for! And a perfect addition to my outfit. There are four colours to choose from and like the bad person I am I forgot to write down the proper names for the other colours. I purchased the ash colour to match my jeans but there are black, brown and a grey as well. Just like my sweater and my jeans the boots had two options to choose from. Tall or Short. The tall coming up to just under knee (shown below) and the short being lower mid calf length (shown above).

After feeling slightly better for having done my comfort shop for the day I figured I was safe to wander a bit more to look at the furniture and accessories scattered around the place. They were crying out to me I tell you. "Rors, buy me...buyyy meeeeee". How could I resist?

My last two purchases were the **DP**yumyum rose petal dress (in black) and the *barberyumyum* 19 (in black) hair style. I could almost just walk around with no shoes on in these socks/stockings that come with the dress. They are soooo cute with one being a little slouched as it has slipped over the knee and scrunched up material around the ankles. The dress itself is simple yet stunning. This can easily be a casual daily dress or dressed up for evening wear. With little shoulder frills and simple flowing skirt layers - it's just perfect. Also available in many other colours - plain and two tone.

Finding a hair that fits around my ears can be a challenge at times. I find I either have to go for a long style and just have my ears "poke through" the length hanging down over them. Or I need to modify a fair deal to not be growing hair "inside" my ear. I modded one piece on this hair style. That's right....ONE! It's a bun style with the bun being a hair-bow perched nice and high. a simple straight fringe with flexy strands falling gently from the temples and the base of the neck.


I still haven't found my hoodie though.


The what's and where's:

Skin: Lovely: Racoon by Curio
Hair: *barberyumyum* 19 in black from **DP**yumyum
Ears: *~* Mystic Ears *~* Elfin/Natural from *~*Illusions*~*
Eyes: Basic Blue Deep from Eponym
Sweater: **DP**yumyum romantic sweater in Navy from **DP**yumyum
Jeans: *yumyum jeans: set05 from **DP**yumyum
Boots: Suede Fringe Boots in ash from KAO
Dress (incl socks): **DP**yumyum rose petal dress in black from **DP**yumyum
Poses used: Female Pose #1 from ~Sinsity~
Fashion Blogger #3 from ~Sinsity~
Strut your pose #1 from ~Sinsity~
Model Pose #224 from SEmotion Studio
Prim Skirt Stand #6 from Couverture
Diva Pose #11 from SD Designs
Shoes Pose #13 from *Luth* ((DSN Free Gift))
Attitude Model Pose #6 from Studio Sidhe

Friday, February 26, 2010

If I could be anyone for a day......

I would be Sanura Snowpaw. I cannot express just how much this woman means to so many people. She had a dream....and she made that dream come true in the form of her store, *Dreams*.

Not only is she talented in her designs, she is beyond a doubt on of the most loyal friends I have met in my time in SL, compassionate, kind, caring, funny, adorable and sexy.

To walk a day in her shoes in SL would be an experience and then some. This post came about from someone starting on plurk the - "If you could log in as me for a day, what would you do". It got me thinking about the friends I had on my list and what I would do if I were them. That's when I came across a folder I have set aside of blog packages received. Can you believe the generosity of this lady. She hands out her latest designs to god knows how many bloggers she has in her little black book. Just gives them away. All that hard work and hours she puts in.

So I find myself staring a folder full of the latest goodies at *Dreams*. Sanura has branched out from her collars and Tee's into piercings. This pack of lip rings are just too cute, with a charm to suit most styles, occasions and likes.

Sanura was asking the other day questions surrounding "Less Than Three". Now when she does this it is usually in regards to a new design. So she had me stumped as to what that could have to do with a new design. So I eagerly awaited the new release. And I love them. And of course as with all her designs she releases them in a wide range of colours to suit all tastes.


To match your lip rings why not grab a belly piercing. I'm not belly piercing kind of girl normally. I find most of the belly piercings in SL just don't suit me, are too big, too small, could stun a blind man with their bling or are too dull. Sanura hasn't gone overboard but these stand out.

If you could walk a day in anyones shoes I suggest you try this lovely ladies. Of course make sure you aren't allergic to cat fur since she has paws not shoes.

I "Less Than Three" you Sanu honey. Thank you for being an awesome designer and a truly wonderful person.


Hair: Punk in Black by ((Junwave))
Skin: Acorn, Dark Elf Soot by Curio
Eyes: Basic Blue Deep by Eponym
Bra and Boxers: Valerian Dahlia picked up on the Boxers or Briefs Hunt
Poses: Model #205 by SEmotion Studio
Strut your Pose #1 by ~Sinsity~ (only available on Xstreet at the moment)

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

I Just Wanna Curl Up & Dye

Ever have one of those mornings where you want to curl up under your blanket and let the world pass you by? I've had a few of them lately.

After doing my post about the copybotted hair I was determined to go check out some of the shops that had been mentioned. One in particular was Curl Up & Dye. I went there for one purpose, and that was to buy myself the outlandish hairdo with the giant curlers.

Not only did I get my hairdo that I wanted but I had a look around the store, which by the way is like a little maze of corridors and stairs all leading to another room that you didn't see before, and ended up leaving with two outfits as well.


Considering I have been having "one of those mornings" almost every day lately, when I saw this outfit I just had to get it to accompany my new hair. The outfit itself does come with a hairstyle not quite as 'big' as the one shown.

The 'Angry Housewife' bathrobe and slippers comes with curling iron and hairdryer. And these little weapons are even scripted to draw (held in each hand as shown) or sheath (siting in the pockets of the robe as shown) and will even cause damage in the right sim.

My choice of hair was the 'Tangles' in cherry colour. You can have the brush hanging from the side tangle or not. Obviously the name gives it away, but this is the messy option of the curler looks at CU&D.

This is one woman you do not want to cross first thing in the morning before she has her coffee.



Now even though I was out shopping for hair I couldn't pass this outfit up. I have absolutely no idea where or even if I will ever wear it again. But I couldn't leave without taking it with me. The 'Confused, Man I Sorta Feel Like a Woman' comes with a male/female skin and the clothing - Dress/Suit top, Skirt, Pants and shoes. CU&D also have a hair for this outfit in the store call Boy-Girl but I opted to wear my own. You don't have to wear the skin it comes with, as shown it still works perfectly fine with my normal skin.

Curl Up & Dye have a large selection of hair styles to suit just about any outfit plus clothing and accessories. You can pick up the outfit and the hair to match all in the one store.



Angry House Wife

Hair: Tangles - Cherry by CU&D

Skin: Acorn Elf Soot by Curio

Outfit: Angry Housewife Robe by CU&D



Confused Man I Feel Sorta Like a Woman

Hair: Jimmy Whitewash Chalk by Bryce Designs (colours modified by myself)

Skin: Skin from Confused Outfit by CU&D
Acorn Elf Soot by Curio

Outfit: Confused Man I Feel Sorta Like a Woman by CU&D


Poses: Model Pack from SEmotion
Prim Skirt Pose from Couveture

Saturday, February 20, 2010

An Apology

No more drama queen freak out from me. I would just like to formally apologise to Skills Hak for the way this turned out. It was not my intention to bring the system down as I have been saying from the beginning. Merely to get to the bottom of why I was branned wrongly.

After finally getting in to SL last night I was able to speak to Skills - who was very polite and understanding and we spoke at length about the situation which I am happy to say has been rectified.

I can resume my shopping without fear of being sent home again.

Friday, February 19, 2010

I have been banned!

This may very well be my last post here. Since I have bee labelled as a copybotter/griefer according to the new Gemini Cybernetic CDS that was released on Xstreet within the last couple of days.

Apparently all that work I did for my previous post - the rezzing of over 200 hairstyles, inspecting to check who the creators were listed as, checking their profiles for legit looks, taking photos of all the unknown ones, sorting the photos for blog post, writing the blog post, chasing up original creators to alert them that their hair was copied......RALLYING AGAINST COPYBOTTERS!!!! - was all for nothing.

I'll start at the beginning so grab a coffee cause this is going to be a long read if you are really interested in reading from top to bottom.

As some of you may know - yesterday I freaked out in plurk (link will not work if you are not on my friends list..sorry) about being banned from a sim (which I left un-named for that persons privacy at the time) due to this new Gemini Cybernetics CDS. This is a system that I myself was passing the link on to friends to show them. This is a great tool - IF it works properly and fairly.

After all that time I spent staring at the copied hair I fell in love with a couple of them. And since I had done a horrible post about all this copy botting nastiness I wanted to do a nice one and pay the credit to the original designers. So shopping time it was. Btw - Shop Seu....awesome freckled skin and the cutest hair do's suitable for kiddie avvies. Curl Up and Dye - OMG at those curlers and the fantasy hair....WOOHOO! These were two names I had not heard of until someone spotted their designs in the list of botted hair photos. After checking them out I was most happy with my new purchases.

Another store that I had heard of in the past but always forgot to get there and check it out myself was Deviant Kitties. Helyanwe was alerted to my blog through a friends plurk and I was sad to hear her say that she spotted over 20 of her designs in there. It made me feel sick for her. I can only imagine what she was feeling at seeing the blog. Time to go there and grab a few more hair do's...afterall....the 100 odd hair dos I have already is clearly not enough! >.<

Requesting TP, arriving at location.....black screen. Hmm this can't be good. Requesting TP...what???? I didn't hit TP. Hover mouse over 'cancel TP', click......wait a second, what's that. A blue box pops up as I click and all I managed to catch was 'being teleported home from Gemini CDS' - or words to that effect. I sat there staring at my screen thinking....noo that can't be right...WTF!

Now it was only THAT DAY that I had spoken to Hely in plurk about her designs being botted and said that when I logged on I would send her a notecard with the details. Which I did. So when I saw this I was most confused. I don't have Hely on my contact list in SL or in plurk. She was not online in SL - so I went to plurk to send her a PP (private plurk, basically like an IM in SL) hoping she might be around. I struck gold...she was online.



So there you have it....I was banned using the Gemini Cybernetics CDS at Deviant Kitties. Great huh. So now my name is spread across SL to ANYONE and EVERYONE that rezzes one of these systems and I am instantly banned on their sim/parcel too. I mean that's such a great and awesome tool to have and the knowledge that a botter will no longer be able to hack your designs or that of your friends.....but me....an anti botter??

Some of you may also know that I live with my SL sister, Ember Farina, in RL. As soon as this happened I was swearing at my computer and going "what the hell is going on". Naturally being in the same house she asked what was wrong. Upon telling her she instantly went into help mode, as she does, posting a question on the emerald users forum. Now as you can see, Ember did not name me, nor the sim I was at. But she did offer to give the details to an admin in IM. The creator of this Gemini Cybernetics CDS replied to her post there - using my name, naming a viewer and a sim that I was apparently at. Not only that....and I quote - "so your friend is either confusing Neillife with Emerald or lying straight into your face. Sorry if this is causing you grief but it is her own fault if she is using tools like that". Publicly accusing me of lying and using tools on a copybotting client. Defamation of character does not go down easily with me.

Now whilst this was going on on Embers computer I myself had been pointed in the direction of a blog. A blog written, which I now know, by an apparent friend of the creator of the Gemini Cybernetics CDS. Now I say apparent as I have no idea who either of these people are. I don't know them from a bar of soap and I can only go by the words of one person. And that one person, Fine - mentioned they knew the creator and backed them 100%. Alas I only knew this information after I posted a comment on their blog. Seems a waste of time publishing a negative comment on a blog if the person who owns the blog is friends with the creator. Hindsight is a marvelous thing folks. In any case I was confused as to why I was banned and ejected while using the Emerald viewer. I stated this in my post and left it at that. A little while later I went back to the blog to see if anyone had replied and looky here.

Again...lets go and spread my name, not just my first name...but my full name this time. Oh and lets tell people I was using a copy bot viewer and that I was at a well known sim. FAIL! Defamation of character a second time on a seperate forum. Oh and false information. I was not using neillife and nor was I at Magika.

At this point in time I was furious. I had been flitting between blogs, forums, plurk Xstreet and SL reading up on this system trying to find some answers. And in the meantime writing a notecard to the creator as they were showing as offline in SL asking for an appeal as this was entirely false and tarnishing my name unfairly.

I tried to put it all behind me and just sit for a few hours for the rest of the evening with my SL daughter and hope that in the morning I would have a response from the creator in regards to my appeal. Or that it was all a bad dream or something. We decided to go look at some clothes together so my daughter TP'd to Babydoll's. If you haven't heard of it and you have a daughter in SL. I highly recommend it. Very high quality clothing there. And affordable too.

TP from daughter - Join me in Starlight Starbright.....click.....requesting teleport...arriving at location. Bounce...was that a building...why am I upside down....requesting teleport...little blue box "You are no longer allowed at this location. You are being teleported to your home location". O.o *laughs* and IM's daughter thinking she may have been facing someones parcel that was home security orbed so when I landed I got sent home. TP again....arriving at location....why are there ban lines 3 inches from my face. WTF....I am now parcelled off and stuck in a small box surrounded by banlines. Interesting. IM the owner and wait for a response. We both chatted for a bit and it turns out that she too has a Gemini Cybernetics CDS rezzed. She was more than happy to remove me from the ban list after I had explained all the ongoings of the night. I gave her the links to all the forums and blogs and plurk that had been talking about it. One thing that stood out though.. She had no idea why my name had a timer count down beside it. In the about land options my name was added to the ban list and it had a timer down of some 8000 odd seconds remaining. She removed my name from the list...ban lines disappeared and my daughter and I went shopping.

What confuses me though is why the pop up box was like a home security orb message than the one I had received at Deviant Kitties telling me it was the Gemini Cybernetics CDS. In any case I was bummed. My SL life is now tarnished and it is going to be a matter of hit and miss as to the shops I can now visit. All the big name stores will no doubt be getting this new system to safe guard themselves and I don't blame them. But those are the stores I shop at. They will no longer be getting my business. Which totally sucks. I know I am jut one out of how many thousands of people....but still...I blog about my findings...I tell my friends about great new outfits I buy...I can no longer pass on those good news vibes.

Time to go to bed I've had a horror of a night and I still have not heard from the creator of the system. Even though they have made a couple of comments on the blogs in this said time frame....my issue is in SL...I sent them a notecard and I wait for a response to my problem.

Good morning world....ahhhh....*stretches*....last night was just a bad nightmare right.....a voice from the door way "Morning sleepyhead. Skills replied to the blog"....ugh.....*roll back over and bury head under pillow*

Ok but good news maybe....the creator has apparently replied to the blog...maybe with some good news. Hopefully they have also accepted my notecard and replied to that too. All important morning rituals done...time to turn on the box and see what damage has been fixed.

Now this time the creator...on two of the previous mentioned forums has changed their wording slightly and also lied. On the 'Fine, thanks you' blog (as mentioned a few paragraphs up) the creator now says that they checked again and low and behold I was detected weeks ago at magika. Right...so the "my system can't produce a false negative" theory is in fact.....false? Considering this person was telling everyone the night before that I was banned at Magika last night. Hmmm....*scratches chin in thought* Now here is the interesting thing....According to the creators comments I was at Magika on the 30th of January. I went through my transaction history....because believe me if I am in Magika then I am sure as hell spending money there. The last time I was at Magika was the 20th of January purchasing hair for my blog post on a Bloggers Challenge.

I'm confused....if I am a copy botter...why am I buying hair? Why have I spent around $3000L at Magika on skin and hair? I am an honest person. I buy what I want. I out people who copy. Not only that on the 30th of January, when I was supposedly at Magika, I was elsewhere being wooed by a gentleman. And then proceeded to go traipse around SL with him and my SL sister and ended up at a quaint little dancing spot. The transactions for that day in my Transaction History show no mention of me being near Magika at all. And that is because I wasn't. It was also the day after I had bought my new sim...and was deep in rebuilding/terraforming it. As also shown in pictures on my blog.

The creator has also made mention on the Xstreet item discussion thread .....again I quote...." still have to hear back from someone though, who hasn't tried to contact me". I guess this person does not want to read the notecard with all the proof that I am innocent and chooses to lie about it instead and hope that I will be like all the other REAL copy botters and fade away into the distance and they won't have to admit that ok maybe there is a hiccup somewhere.

I am not out to prove this system does not work. I am all for it. I want to stop the botting going on in SL. But what I do want is my name, that has now been tarnished across the Emerald Forum and this Fine persons blog, removed from this accusation that is put against me. I want to be able to continue to SHOP at the places that I love to shop at. As I have done for the previous 3 or so years I have been in SL. (yes my avvie is not that old but I still have my original account. And no it was not closed I am not running from being caught out before or what ever people may want to think for me changing accounts. People do it all the time. I went through a bad breakup with my partner on SL who I was also with in RL so I changed because of that....ok).

I am innocent here. The proof is all in this blog post. Transaction histories, accounts of where I was, what viewer I use. The defamation of character is uncalled for. The pointing fingers and accusing me before actually finding out the facts is uncalled for.

I guess there was always going to be a bug somewhere and something would go wrong sooner or later. It's a computer program...all computer programs are susceptible to a virus, bug, downfall SOMETHING sooner or later. I guess I pulled the short straw in pointing out said hiccup. Lucky it was early on so that this can be rectified and the system can continue to work effectively in the future.

As for now???? I feel a victim of grief and wrongful accusation.