Cancelled Due to Lack of Interest

The 6th International Kiss-A-Swede Day in SecondLife, which was scheduled for tomorrow June 6th, 2017, on the National Day of Sweden has been cancelled due to lack of interest.

The otherwise completely shameless Bock McMillan, laird of Southern Charm, prince of Cascade Falls etc. etc. is pouting.

Get Ready: Second Pride 2017 Is Coming

Basic information on the upcoming Second Pride event as supplied by persons close to - but not on - the board.

The amazing Second Pride Festival is coming to the grid again, ✯ ✯ June 23 - July 2, 2017 ✯ ✯! 

For the 12th edition of Pride we are going to be better, stronger and faster! One entire sim filled with Parties - Shopping - Amusement Rides - Lounging in cafe's and parks and much more! Amazing Content Creators - The Best DJ's and Hosts - Superb Live Vocalists and more, this years Pride cannot be missed!

Get your outfits ready as free pride outfits emerge all over SecondLife - Mark your calendar - Get your avie in shape and JOIN us to show Pride! LGBTQ+ - Gay - Straight - In Between or anything you want to be, come show support and inclusion! 

Help Pride and the charities we support, together we are stronger!

Check our the Second Pride Website or this Facebook page Second Pride on Facebook for updates, schedules and sponsors when the festival nears. Check these page for more info in the weeks to come!!! 

JOIN the in-world Second Pride Festival Group today!

Parties from as early as 10 am till as late as midnight, all we need now is YOU!

DJ slots and Vendor Spaces are sold out. We can always add more sponsors though! For more information please visit us in-world: Second Pride HQ (SLurl).

LL Launches Preview of Sansar This Summer (Update)

Linden Lab has announced that it is going to let skilled content creators to be among the first to preview and work in Sansar. The preview version is - after some delay - to be launched during the summer of 2017.

Sansar is supposedly an improved and much more advanced version of SecondLife and is said to be based on a completely new and powerful platform.

For more information please visit: www.sansar.com.

Those of us that aren't skilled content creators can meanwhile enjoy the official preview video from YouTube.


Update
This is a comment from Lee McKay on Google+. I think it is very informative and would like to share it with you.

A couple things to note about Sansar:
1) There is no connected world like with Second Life. It's all separate "experiences". You can only log into one "experience" at a time. So for example, you want to go to a club or community, you log into that specific thing. If you want to go somewhere else, you log out and back into the other place, or at least back to a menu. Don't look for "world map" or teleporting from place to place. It's not there.
2) Experiences can be instanced. So you might go to your favorite club, but be in a different "instance" of that club than your friends, and therefore you won't even see them there. You wouldn't even see the DJ or staff if they aren't in the same instance as you. Certainly this gets around the user limits, but spoils much of the reason for being there in the first place.
3) Sansar is "usable" on a computer and monitor, but is aimed at VR gear and headsets. Most of us SL'ers will probably never have the stuff to use it properly.
Even by Linden's own admission, it isn't mean to be Second Life 2.0. It's something else entirely, aimed more at the younger generation of gamers. It operates more like the things they are used to.

Update 2

Lee McKay+Bock McMillan And not meant to be negative in any way. I'm sure Sansar will be a fun experience for those that it will appeal to. I'm just not sure that will be us old time SL'ers. :)

Bock McMillan Not to worry, +Lee McKay it didn't come off as negative at all, just constructive information

"It Gets Better" in SecondLife

Petr yesterday announced that he is continuing his SecondLife project "It Gets Better" for the Second Pride festival, read more on his blog Confessions of a Digital Daddy Bear: As Pride Season approaches I want to share this again….

Please contact Petr a.s.a.p. and join in his project.

A Silver Daddy Is Born

Mark this day in your calendars, readers, because today hell froze over!

Today my much, much, much, older brother Dejerrity Mycron took a giant leap and moved from 2006 to 2017 in a matter of a few hours with a big smile on his face.

SecondLife has finally and at long last achieved a Meshified Dej. He has acquired a Signature Gianni Mesh body and a Catwa Daniel Bento mesh head.

Now doesn't he look simply adorable, even if we just started? Give him a little more time and he will find his new look and the young men in SL will be drooling in his trail. (On the wall over the fireplace you see a portrait of my sweet brother as he has looked since 2006 until today.)

Happy 10th Rezday, Kahvy!

Mr. Kahvy Smith, nee Sands, is my oldest existing friend in SecondLife.

Kahvy (left) with his husband Garrett

Although I had the honor of sharing my decade-rezday bash with him on March 18th, today is his actual 10th rezday!

Happy rezday, my very-very old friend, and I hope to be with you still when they pull the plugs to SecondLife in San Francisco.

I am going to include a message I sent to him on his 34th birthday (June 9, 2015), when he had complained to me that he then only "had another year left of being a young man".

"Kahvy, my dear friend,

Age is but a number, but always remember that ageing is mandatory but growing old is optional. You need not worry about being 35 in less than a year, because you actually have six more years until you are "old" as the official age of becoming old in the straight culture is 40.

However, on the other hand in the gay culture, you have already been old since you turned 30 as that is the official age for turning old among us gays. Enjoy the rest of your life as an old queer and get the f-u-c-k over it!

Many happy birthday wishes, my dear old friend!"

Ricco Saenz: A Decade of Transformations

Read Ricco Saenz great retrospective post on his 10 years in SecondLife, Second Sighting: Being 10 years old in Second Life: a decade of transformations

I particularly agree with this quote from Ricco´s post: 

"I am in SL because it gives me a good time, because I’ve met, and keep meeting, some great people on the grid, because I have developed an intense relationship with someone there to the point of calling him my husband, because I feel marveled at the possibilities of the virtual world, because I still see its potential and its positive reality."

Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Not Today...

The Easter Egg Hunt at The Land of Rainbows starts tomorrow, April 1, 2017!

Amazing gifts by some of SecondLife's top designers. The gifts contain furniture, decor, clothing, accessories, tattoo's, gadgets and poses!

I would particularly like to direct your attention to the amazingly holy, decorative and beautiful piece of handicraft supplied to the hunt by myself, my master piece, the Easter Candlestick (see picture to the left).

The poster above shows you all the other amazing designers and content creators that are participating!

Join us for a fun round of Easter Egg Hunting! Take this teleport to The Land of Rainbows' Easter Egg Hunt (SLurl).

Oh, What An Amazing Party!

That was one helluva a party we had last night, to celebrate Kahvy and my tenth rezdays.

I would like to thank Garrett and Tomais for organizing it, Lee McKay for supplying us with great music and everyone who turned up for giving us the pleasure of their company at this momentous time in Kahvy's and my own SecondLife.

So, to be quite honest, Kahvy is a snarky little bitch sometimes, but then again so am I! I have known him for some 9,5 years and he is my oldest remaining friend in SecondLife. We are well-suited to each other and there is no one else I would rather celebrate my anniversary of a decade in SecondLife with.

Here are some pictures from the party supplied by my loving brother JJ Goodman. Please enjoy!

 

For many more pictures please visit my brother JJ Goodman's timeline on Facebook and check out the pictures in his album from the party.

Thanks everyone for making this a wonderful time! As my darling Tomais said, "How many other people can say that Madonna came to their birthday party?"

Hugs and kisses to you all!

Ars In Memoriam 2017

Joseph Douglas Wilson Jr., 

in SecondLife a.k.a Ars Northmead

★ April 21, 1953 (First life)

★ October 25, 2006 (SecondLife)

† March 12, 2010

Hip Hip Hooray, It's My 10th Rezday Today!

How time flies! It amazes me to think that today I am celebrating my tenth anniversary in our wonderful world of SecondLife.

Bock 2017 by Richard De Grataine Suoh

It's been a wonderful and amazing journey and I wouldn't wish to be without it. In those days we were born ugly and we stayed ugly. We duckwalked and had our clothes plastered to our bodies. Some days we would crash 45-50 times a day and still we would soldier on through those bad days and log right back in again. After each teleport you had to check yourself, so that you hadn't ended up with your shoe sunk into your ass or your hair stuck to your groin.

But we sure did have fun, even when we and watched the number of logged in residents getting close to first 5,000 holding our breath and waiting for SecondLife to crash. Then that number rose to 10,000, 20,000 until we no longer thought about it.

Bock 2007 by Bock McMillan

Life improved gradually - and at times very fast - but most of the time there was some improvement that gave us all hope and energy. Well except for under the reign of M Linden, those years were a total waste and we were all rather despondent until Philip Linden took the reins again. At the moment we are experiencing another golden age with great improvements under the benevolent rule of Ebbe Linden.

I am going to stick around for a couple of years more to see where this whole exciting adventure ends. It's going to be a thrill!

Check Your Clothing, Darlings!

In my early days in SecondLife, it wasn't at all uncommon that I after a teleport found one of my boots jammed up my ass or my hair stuck to my crotch.

Our virtual lives have been lacking of such easy and immediate entertainment the last several years, but I still - to some extent - miss these bonding experiences shared by all residents. Well, they may be back according to my friend Zim Gunsberg. This is what he posted on his fan page yesterday.

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Now doesn't that make your imagination run wild?

Imagine having to check if you - every time after a teleport - had to check that you still had all your clothes on. Or maybe this phenomenon only happens if your clothing is "copy", so that while you leave a pair of your pants behind you are still wearing another pair?

This will be interesting to follow!

My Husband - New, Improved & Updated

"Tomais" by Tomais Ashdene

It's amazing really, how we as residents of SecondLife can update our appearances with the latest developments by Linden Lab and the content creators.

Following the introduction of mesh a few years ago, most of us got new mesh bodies and some even got mesh heads.

After the launch of Bento recently, my Tomais and I waited eagerly for the release of the Bento enabled Catwa head.

Although Tomais has been playing around with other mesh heads, I was still skeptical and holding back. (I'm not as willing as others to change my appearances radically.)

The picture shows my husband's new look with the Catwa head. Not that he wasn't good looking before, but now he is definitely both divine and mouthwatering!

Happy 10th Eddi!

Today we celebrate the tenth rezday of the one-and-only Eddi Haskell, my dear friend and my mentor in blogging.

I hope you have a wonderful rezday, buddy, and then I'm looking forward to ten more wonderful years in SecondLife with you!

Big hugs and lots of kisses on your cheeks. 

Booty Galore

SecondLife capitalism at it's best can easily be seen by scrutinizing what's being sold at the SL Marketplace.

Of course one could discuss if it's in good taste, but as already the old romans said, "De gustibus non est disputandum", the implication being that everyone's personal preferences are merely subjective opinions that cannot be right or wrong, so they should never be argued about.

I hear that straight men, according to themselves can be divided into "boobmen" or "assmen" depending on which of the body parts that gives the biggest thrills.

So this delicious booty is sold at the Marketplace for L$49.

I asked Tomais if I should get it, but he told me "Your booty doesn't need any enhancement, babe", which kinda made me very happy.

Content Creators, Listen Up!

I got a request from my friend Kahvy Smith to help, him and his husband Garrett, with this call for content creators and promoting the upcoming Easter Egg Hunt at The Land of Rainbows.

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"Want to promote your product? Your store? Get some free attention and traffic? Keep reading! 

The Land of Rainbows Gay Hangout wants to invite YOU to our annual Easter egg hunt!

Become a participant and let people hunt for your eggs! 

We will be hiding Easter eggs all over our sim and are hoping YOU will help us give out cute gifts to our visitors! Let them search for the eggs! 

What do we offer? 


🐥 A fun and entertaining event for your (potential) customers from april 1 - april 18 (the day after Easter) 

🐥 Entering is Free of charge. You do NOT have to pay anything to join! 

🐥 Well visited destination guide featured sim that draws over 100 unique visitors a week under normal circumstances

🐥 We will list this event in the destination guide (Provided Linden Lab picks up the suggestion, we cannot control that but have been successful in the past.)

🐥 Regular promotion in-world and on social media before and during the event

🐥 Your logo in promotions for the event if you like.

🐥 Full freedom as to what you want to give away (* please see notes below on adult content) 

Petr, Older Than Dirt Avatar Celebrates 5th Anniversary

Despite adamant denials and extensive pixel-surgery that has him looking younger than a two year old Petr Hastings-Vanbeek recently admitted to being older than dirt, although still maintaining that he is much younger than the venerable old man Dejerrity Mycron.

ok i am officially older than dirt but younger than @Dejerrity. My 10th Rezzie was yesterday.  @BockMcMillan @TomaisAshdene @JaggyNaughton

— Petr Vanbeeck (@Petr_V) November 28, 2016

@Petr_V @BockMcMillan @TomaisAshdene @JaggyNaughton Happy Dirt-Day old man 😱

— Dejerrity Mycron (@Dejerrity) November 28, 2016

Happy Dirt-day, you grumpy young avatar, and may you also have many, many more! And also congratulations to you and Tasty on your fifth anniversary.

Superheroes - The Party, Today at 1-3PM SLT

"Deadpool" by Tomais Ashdene

Why
We are celebrating Dejerrity Mycron's 10th rezday & Tomais Ashdene's 8th rezday

When

Saturday November 5, 2016, at 1-3PM SLT

Where

The Superhero Venue at Southern Charm (SLurl) sim in SecondLife

What to wear
Any kind of superhero or - heroine outfit

Presents
Don't worry about them, just share the happiness. If you must there will be birthday-jars set up.

Music, dance and pleasant conversation
DJ Kahvy will be playing the tunes with sexy host Garrett.

Euro friends, please note, that due to the change in DST the party starts at 21.00 CET!

All our friends are welcome!

Prim Limit Increase!

Clip description - Published on Nov 3, 2016
In this special edition of Designing Worlds, we present a special announcement from Linden Lab that will change your Second Life for the better. Watch the show to learn more!

This episode of Designing Worlds with Saffia Widdershins features Patch Linden - talking more in-depth about this new perk.

You can also read all about this in Inara Pey's insightful article: Living in a Modemworld - Second Life Mainland LI / prim allowance increase

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Did I ever tell you that I love my friends at Linden Lab? Well, if you haven't seen it before, here goes

Bock ❤ My Friends@Linden Lab

Multiple-Teleport Fail!

This is what is liable to happen in SecondLife if you teleport more than one person at a time somewhere. My brother JJ lands on-top of my husband Tomais.