The time has come for me to close down my shop Kissed By Lithium. I’m doing this with a huge blowout sale. Everything is marked down to 25L, 50L or 75L and the gacha is only 5L a pop. If you want to snatch up something at last minute, now’s the time. Kissed By Lithium.
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From left to right;
Encora White, Theralen Amethyst, Stilnoct Red and Sobril Beauty.
Necklace & Earrings – Activella Silver.
There’s a special place in my pixelated heart for people who make an effort to spread positivity and happiness around our SL. Whether it’d be matching up avatars who have secret crushes on eachother or challenging us to do something nice for someone unknown, they make my fluffy parts even fluffier.
However, I have noticed that everytime someone does make an effort like that, someone takes a little time out of their day to makes things more fun for us, there’s a core of bitter people desperate to trample all over that.
I get being skeptic and I don’t expect everyone to jump for joy about everything, don’t get me wrong. But if you, every single time, choose to bitch, moan, whine and be generally bitter over these things, you’re on my mental black-list.
It’s not like you can even call it out in a frank forward manner even, you have to do it in vague snide ways, so that everyone really knows what you mean, but you can quickly back-pedal if the heat gets too much for you.
On the other side of the coin, there’s the anonymous snide “mean girls” who chose to put in writing the negative shit, who fuels the drama and having a blast doing so. Interestingly enough, people like described above never seems to see the correlation when they themselves are hit with the shitstorm in an anonymous manner. You reap what you sow, karma’s a bitch and all that jazz.
Yeah, I know, bitching about bitching may be somewhat counterproductive, but really I just can’t shut up anymore. Yesterday, with the launch of SLuicide Girls, I watched the same thing happen all over again. Here’s a group of ladies, all to my knowledge perfectly nice and happy girls, trying to do something fun and enjoyable. And, The bitchfest is on. You really have nothing else to do? Seriously, just shut the fuck up and let the rest of us have fun. We’re so over this attitude. We’re over you.
Previous Truths; #1, #2, #3, #4, #5
Truth #6; I’m really bad at math.
In scho
ol I’ve always been the person who gets good grades without really trying. It’s made me lazy, I’ll admit. So when something takes a lot of effort, I tend to panic and shut down. Math is one of those things. I’ve never been a friend with math, I’ve struggled with it for as long as I can remember.
Now, unfortunately almost all of the professions I find interesting need a certain amount of math. So it’s become like my Achilles’ Heel. I have this one class that is a must-do on nearly all degrees I’d like to take. I’ve done it twice and failed both times.
It doesn’t help that I live together with someone who’s taken every math course known to man. “This course is so easy, you’re smart, you’ll get it.” Drives me insane! Yes, I am smart, except when it comes to math.
Leave me alone already!
Previous Truths: #1, #2, #3, #4
Truth #5; I don’t like children.
And I’m not talking about just kid-avies in SL. I’m talking actual RL breathing and living children. I mean really. The first few years is just a big mess of slobbering, screaming, pooping and sleeping. What’s to like? You know, I don’t even think they’re that cute. A kid has to be exceptionally fluffy for me to think they’re cute.
You’d think it’d get better as they grow too. But no, I can’t even understand a kid under the age of 7. A lot of incoherent babbel is what I hear. How someone can find this adorable is beyond me. And go figure, as soon as they are understandable, they also start demanding things. And then they’re just a few years away from puberty. We all know what a big nuisance a teenager can be.
Anyway, this seems to be a truth that is very provoking to many people. But really, it’s not like I go around screaming “I hate you” to every child I meet. I give them the same initial respect as I do with any other person. I’m polite, I was raised well.
But, when asked one of the most moronic question in the world “Why don’t you have kids yet?” I’ll tell the truth. I don’t like them. Not even a little. Can’t think of myself as a Mother. And boy do people get their knickers in a knot.
And no, I’m not going to change my mind “when I grow up”.
I’m 25, I’m pretty damn grown, ok?
I’ve been a real-life blogger for almost 6 years and a SL blogger for little over a month. In this time I’ve already seen big differences in the two, the main thing being that the SL blogosphere seems so quiet. People blog a lot, don’t get me wrong. But not many comment.
There are a few who’s considered to be the “big” bloggers, those who’ve made themselves a name (a SLebrity if you will) blogging. Yet these blog are strangely empty of comments. (I’m not counting the official blogs nor do I count employees of LL or community/joint blogs, they have an obvious advantage.) Latest three blogposts by two of the biggest names in SL was 0,3,1 and 3,4,1. This is very odd to me. The top two bloggers (again, under the same premises as SL blogs) in Sweden have 87, 63, 62 and 118, 48, 83.
I know, you’re thinking “Well, you can’t compare the two, that’s RL this is SL”. Actually, I think I can and here’s why.
Second Life, according to Linden Labs, has roughly around 18,5 million users. We all know about the alts and the people who leave to never come back, so let’s say for arguments sake it’s roughly around half, 9 million. That’s the population of Sweden. Not all 9 million SL users blog or read blogs, but then again, neither does all 9 million Swedish residents. Even if my comparison is off, you get the picture, there’s potential here.
So, it seems to me that here we have a vast and mostly untapped resource. Where do we go from here? Is there a want/need for more active readers in the SL Blogosphere? If so, how do we engage people, how do we push them to be active? Think to yourself, how often do you comment? Are you happy with that or would you like to do it more/less? Why? When you do comment, why? I find this subject really interesting and I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
It’s hard to miss the fact that today is Saint Patrick’s Day, a holiday celebrated through-out Second Life. So, for today’s TP to I’m taking you to West of Ireland. It’s a sim that’s a little bit different from other sims, as stated on their website:
The mission of the West of Ireland is to promote Irish and Celtic culture within Second Life and raise awareness of Project Children, while providing guests and community members with an entertaining and welcoming environment.
So, while you can hang at a pub, shop or listen to live music you can also help contribute to a worthy cause.
Of course, Saint Patrick’s Day is a big thing on this sim and there’s a mass of things to do here today. It starts off at 11 am SLT with a live act and keeps on going the entire day. But it doesn’t stop there, nope, this is only one part of a Festival running until the 22nd of March. So if you feel like going out having a RL drink at a RL Irish bar, you can always go to West of Ireland tomorrow.
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!
TP to West of Ireland.
Prue over at Porcelain Diaries started a challenge a while ago. The challenge was to announce one truth about yourself once a day for a week. I’ve seen a lot of truths be revealed especially on plurk and I’ve enjoyed them, so… I may be very slow to jump on the bandwagon, but hey, better late than never.
So here’s Truth #1; I have extremely bad discipline and I’m a master of procrastination. I need either a bout of inspiration or extreme pressure to perform. I do my very best work the last few hours before a definite deadline.
Thankfully I’m very aware of my lack of discipline, so when inspiration hits, I produce in masses. Like for instance this challenge. I know that 7 truths in 7 consecutive days will almost certainly fail. I will be uninspired, tired or preoccupied.
So, when I’m inspired (like now) I’ll instead blog multiple truths and time-schedule them for each day. That way I don’t have to feel angst if I should want a day off-line.
Adelaide Forest is a commercial-free open to the public sim built by the talented Jasper Ashley. It’s a beautiful lush forest in autumn color with some great opportunities for exploration, relaxing or even romance. You can read a book by a waterfall, have a picnic in the grass or meditate by the lake. For the romantically inclined there’s couples dance-balls and cuddle spots all over the forest. Really just an excellent spot to to hang out in.
Tp to Adelaide Forest
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