This Shade Throne ‘Sex Sells’ Necklace is an impressive 253 prims! I’m wearing the ‘pink on gold’ version but there are so many different stones to choose from! Get the SEXPACK, it includes all the stones choices 🙂
Tiny Bird is on fire cos this new Soon Enough hairstyle is hot hot hot! I like the casual beachy updo with the Reek sunglasses attached. The default color is Red, but if you purchase the Denton Shades from Reek, you can use the Shades HUD to change the color on the one attached to this hairstyle.
I tinted my shades Pink and made the lens clear to match the outfit I’m wearing (or barely wearing). Ohh, and I also have the Calculator Watch from Reek to match (which I’ve also tinted Pink!).
One of the greatest mysteries in Second Life to me is why so many Third Party Viewers eventually stop development. I wasn’t always looking for something beyond the official Second Life Viewer, so I stuck with that for years before finally giving TPVs a chance. The first one I really used was Black Dragon Viewer, and while I eventually figured out things like the annoying WASD controls, I could never get rid of that music that played every single time the viewer launched. Maybe there was a way to disable it, but I never found it, so when Alchemy Viewer came along, I happily switched over. Alchemy ended up becoming one of my favorite viewers, but then development stopped. After that I moved to Aperture Viewer, and wouldn’t you know it, development there stopped too. Just recently I told you all about AyaStorm Viewer because I thought it had a lot of potential, and now they’ve removed the Windows version, so I guess you can consider that one effectively dead for most people too. At this point I’m starting to think TPVs are cursed. Every time I get excited about a viewer, development suddenly comes to an end. So now I’m sitting here wondering what I’m supposed to use next. How long do you keep using an abandoned viewer before enough little things break that you finally give up and go back to Firestorm?
The curse of Third Party Viewers continues.
Another mystery to me is all of these collaborations Linden Lab has been doing lately with residents and community groups. We’ve had SeraPlus, MadPea, Essential Inventory, and now The Collab Circle. The whole point seems to be adding value to Premium and Premium Plus memberships by giving members exclusive freebies. I’m Lifetime Premium Plus, so maybe I’m the wrong person to judge whether these promotions are working, but I haven’t been impressed with probably 90% of the gifts. The funny thing is, when an event has freebies, I’m so focused on grabbing them that I never actually shop. I teleport in, collect everything, teleport home, open all the boxes, decide what’s worth keeping, and delete the rest. It gives me the exact same dopamine hit as shopping because, really, shopping is just acquiring stuff. By the time I’m finished opening gifts, I’m completely over it and have no desire to go back and actually spend money.
One of the gifts I did like was the balloon pack from SKVOST. The balloons themselves are really cute, but they’re meant to be rezzed as decorations. The only attachable version was the boxed package, and that included a no-transfer attach animation script, so I couldn’t even modify it the way I wanted. I ended up resizing one of the decorative balloons, wrote my own animate on attach script, and now I have a holdable balloon in exactly the color I wanted. It just made me wonder why they didn’t include a few holdable versions in the gift package to begin with.
I do hope these collaborations work out because Linden Lab is obviously putting money into them. I came across a Facebook post from one of the Seraphim founders who mentioned they were paid by Linden Lab for SeraPlus, so these aren’t just casual community projects. That makes me wonder if Linden Lab is tracking conversions from these collaborations. Are Premium memberships increasing because of them? Are people actually spending more money after visiting these events? I honestly don’t know. When I visited The Collab Circle on opening day, I was literally the only person there. Even with Second Life promoting these collaborations constantly across social media, I wonder if residents are simply burned out on shopping events. At some point, another event with another gift bag just doesn’t feel exciting anymore, especially when so many of the freebies feel more like promotional add-ons than gifts people genuinely wanted.
That brings me to the bigger issue that keeps sitting in the back of my mind. Concurrency has been trending downward for a while now, and I really appreciate Daniel Voyager for continuing to track these numbers because it’s one of the few ways we can see the long-term trend instead of just going by how busy our favorite regions feel. Whether Linden Lab wants to acknowledge it or not, the charts are showing fewer people online, and if that trend continues through the rest of the year, I think Christmas is going to be a really important test. Hopefully things turn around, because I’d much rather see those numbers climbing again than continuing to slide.
Yes Truth has new hair, but that’s expected! I honestly think the grid might melt if Truth didn’t release new hair every week.
But what I really want to talk about today is this t-shirt. Wilma sent it to me awhile ago, but I’ve always felt that if I wore it, some people might get the wrong idea that *whispers* I really think I’m a Princess or something 😛
And besides, princesses don’t swear!
It was brought to my attention that my writing is “not professional” because I use “cos” instead of “because”, and all I have to say to that is, if you’re looking for The New York Times, click here. KTHXBAI!
I WUZ JUS INFORMD DAT SECOND LIFE FASHION BLOGGERS SHUD BE WRITIN IN MUTCH MOAR PROFESHUNAL MANNR. NO USE OV SLANG OR ABBREVIASHUNS R APPROPRIATE 4 USE IN DIS LOFTY PROFESHUN. I SAY PULL TEH STICK OUT OV UR ASS AN LIGHTEN UP PEEPS. DIS AR TEH 4 FUN – Y MAK IT ALL SERIOUS. 4 SUM BLOGGIN IZ BOUT HAVIN CERTAIN STYLE AN IF DAT STYLE IZ FULL OV SLANG AN COLLOQUILISMS DAT SO BE IT. WHEN TEH NYTIMEZ CONTACTS ME AN ASKZ ME 2 BLOG PROFESHUNALLY 4 THEM, DEN IM GONNA BECOME MOAR, LULZ, “PROFESHUNAL”. TIL DEN JUS CLOSE TEH PAEG U R HATIN ON AN PROCED 2 TEH NEXT BLOG.
Click to read the rest of Lizzie’s article on Ruthed.
A lot of people on my friends list have given me mod rights, maybe because they know I’m too lazy to go mess up their stuff? I like having mod rights to close pals, cos when you’re hanging out at their place (or they’re at yours) they don’t have to ask you to get them a chair, they can just drag one of yours over. Isn’t that the ultimate lazy hostess thing to do? hahah!
How do you feel about mod rights? Do you give it freely or guard it carefully?
Do you know what I want more than mod rights though? MAPPING RIGHTS! Let me see where you are, bishes!
The yummy BAX Prestige Boots are now available in Suede textures too! I’m wearing Black, Brown, Blue, Green and Purple above. Bax Coen really went all out this time, there are twenty different colors to choose from! I’m only show you a small sample, visit the shop to see the entire collection.
The BAX boots has 6 different tops to choose from — this is my favorite feature!
I woke up late and didn't make it to the Lelutka show, but I am anxiously waiting for the grand re-opening!!! More London skins, here I come! I'm wearing the LondonSunkissed-makeup4b, a slightly darker tone than I normally wear but it's perfect for a beachy look! The hair is 'Erin' from TRUTH and fantastic Stone Bead Choker from Sable Rose by Rosie Barthelmes.
Visit Sable Rose, a new shop to me but their line of necklaces are really cute!
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