Thursday, February 6, 2025

Press Release: PBC Black History Month

 
 
 February is Black History Month in the United States, Canada, and Germany!  

Everyone is encouraged to explore the Black History Exhibits at the PBC Cultural Arts Center!
SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/PBC/98/90/3001

Let's take some time to raise awareness and reflect on some of the many significant, life changing, innovative achievements, and contributions made by African Americans that have significantly impacted the world.

Black History is OUR history! BLACK HISTORY IS WORLD HISTORY!

MUSEUM HOURS: OPEN DAILY 24/7

Visit the PBC Cultural Arts Center (Black History Museum) to learn about some of the many contributions and achievements by black people that has shaped the world and changed the way that we ALL live.
 

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

RFL Living Expo Begins Today

 
 
 The first of the Relay for Life major fundraisers, the SL Living Expo, is starting today. From February 5 to Friday February 14, the event will be taking place across six sims west of the American Cancer Society sims.


Join us for the SL Living Expo, a vibrant virtual event within Second Life dedicated to supporting Relay For Life of Second Life. This expo brings together communities from across the virtual world to raise funds and awareness for cancer research and support programs. Experience a shopping event with booths from creators across the Second Life grid, enjoy live music performances, participate in exciting contests, and take part in raffles and auctions with fabulous prizes. Your participation helps make a difference in the fight against cancer. Don’t miss this opportunity to contribute to a worthy cause while having a great time in Second Life!

 

To check the event blog, Click Here: https://sl-living-expo.org/
 
 

Isle of View, Linden Lab's Valentine Area, Now Open

 

 A few days ago in the official Second Life blog, Linden Lab announce that their Valentine-themed island, the Isle of View would soon be open. On Monday February 3, it was open to residents to drop by.


The Isle of View, which opens on February 3rd, is our annual tribute to all things romantic via four regions filled with forested walks, cozy nooks for cuddling, and romantic swan boat rides.

Visit one of the Love Pavilion gift kiosks to browse through a variety of gift selections that you can send to your friends and loved ones on Valentine’s Day. The selection of gifts includes heart lollipops and balloons, an adorable teddy bear, a chocolate box with rings, cutesy cupcakes, love lanterns, and, of course, romantic roses. We even have a special Plushie you can have sent to your special Valentine or just get one for yourself! To select and send your free gifts, follow the directions on the sign adjacent to the kiosk. Or alternatively, click on the help buttons on the gift kiosks. 


As mentioned, there are gift kiosks to get a special someone a romantic gift, swan boat rides, places for a couple to snuggle, and some great romance-themed scenery.

It should be noted that on Valentines Day itself, Friday February 14, from 1 to 3 PM will be the "Hug a Linden" and "Dunk A Linden" events, your chance to show some of Linden Lab's finest either a little appreciation or some minor mischief.

Isle of View 2 (84/79/107)

Bixyl Shuftan




Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Events This Week at the Sunweaver and Montecito Bay Clubs, Furry Fashion, and Club Scorn

 
 
Here's what's going on at the Sunweaver, Montecito Bay, Furry Fashion, and Scorn clubs.

Club Cutlass: Enough of Winter, Black and White, Formal

Happy Vixen: DJ Malit, DJ Arooo, DJ Charlee, DJ Scratch, DJ Squeaks, DJ Khyra

Club Zero Gravity: DJ Snowy
 
Bouncing Bunny Beach Club:  DJ Snowy 

Xanadu: DJ Jesse 

Club Squeaks: Closed to regular events
 
Montecito Bay:  CAYA, After Dark

Club Scorn: DJ Charlee, DJ Shadow, DJ Juana, DJ Gwen, DJ Aldi, DJ Poison, DJ Charlee, DJ Malit, DJ Gwen
 
Furry Fashion:  Red, Under The Sea, CAYA, Wings
 
Read the schedules in SL Clubbin'

Monday, February 3, 2025

Tiki Linden Homes Appear on Map, Quickly Grabbed by Residents

 
 
 
Earlier today, the new Linden Homes, the Tiki and underwater Groto homes, were made available, the sims open and free to people to visit. There were several varieties of Tiki, and two types of the underwater groto.

Even though the homes were limited to Premium Plus residents, within hours, every single one had been grabbed up.

More on the homes later.

Bixyl Shuftan

 

Mole Day At Bay City

 
 
 Yesterday was Mole Day at Bay City, Second Life's largest urban area. Celebrated every year close to, or on, Groundhog Day, it's when this community takes a day to honor Second Life's Moles. To those who don't know, they are residents of Second Life hired by Linden Lab to work on various projects, and Bay City was one of their first. 

More on the story later. 

New Valentine-Themed Last Names

 
 
 A few days ago in the official Second Life blog, Linden Lab announced they were offering some new surnames people could change their accounts to. And as part of the Valentines Day celebrations, they are themed for the holiday.

The eight names are: Amour, Lovejoy, Crush, Smitten, Siren, Cutie, Sizzle, Gyatt 

The names will be around "for a limited time" and may or may not be available again next year. 

Changing last names is not free, but costs from $49.99 to to $34.99 to $14.99, depending on the level of one's Second Life account.

 
 
 
 

Sunday, February 2, 2025

Cartoon of The Day: Driven Shopper

 
 
 Taken at the Shop and Hop. Someone was going down the sims in a pink jeep. Guess it takes a certain "drive" to shop all those sims.

By Bixyl Shuftan

Saturday, February 1, 2025

SL Video: "If I Had You" (2015)

 
 

From Nydia Tungsten in Dec 2015, ""Just me and a few Angels having fun at 'Primal Passions.' I would like to thank the owner Rayven for the use of her fantastic club and urge you all to check it out. And again, as always we make No money from these videos we just do them for fun, we hope you have fun watching them." Sadly, Primal Passions would close a few years later.
 
 

Friday, January 31, 2025

Valentines Day Shop And Hop Opens Today

 

Yesterday, Linden Lab announced that the Valentines Day themed "Shop and Hop" shopping event would be opening today, Friday January 31.

The 2025 Valentine Shop & Hop is almost here with 280 participating merchants across 14 shopping regions. All are offering their best to inspire your Valentine's fantasies from a romantic evening with your bae, to a party with your friends, and everything in between. You will definitely find something to suit you! 
 

As the announcement stated, there's fourteen sims with almost three hundred stores, with plenty of romantic-themed items. Each store has at least a 20 percent discount on it's wares, maybe more on some, and there's at least one free gift for shoppers whether or not they're in the store's shopping group, or a 300 Linden dollar gift certificate. 


For those wondering, all of the sims are rated Moderate. There is no separate area for adult-themed stored as there was in the recent past.
 
For a list of the sims, click here to check the Destination Guide page.

For a list of the stores, click here to check the Linden's blog post.

To just jump in, head here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Snowflake/128/129/54  

Bixyl Shuftan

Online Cartoonist Tiffany Ross Hospitalized

 
 
Sad news for fans of Tiffany Ross, the artist behind "The Cyantian Chronicles" and a number of other online comics. A link posted on her Discord stated she was recently admitted to the hospital for problems with her lungs.

Tiffany became very ill the second week of January and it’s serious—VERY serious. She’s in the ICU with extensive respiratory issues, and is having a difficult time. Which is, to say the least, expensive.

We’re in a bit of a holding pattern as Tiffany works to pull through and her family decides what further help they might need—but in the mean time, we’re asking if you would share the link to her books and build up her sales.

She’s a talented artist, a killer beta reader, and an excellent author. ... She is warm and funny, generous to a fault with her edits, and a stellar human. 

It's been posted on her Discord that she is improving, but slowly.
 
Tiffany Ross started the Cyantian Chronicles, originally titled Satin and Silk, in the late 1990s (check the review of in in this article). Over time, she would start others such as Alien Dice. She has also gotten into writing, describing herself as an "urban fantasy" author, having written a novel, "Rex Regis," and has contributed to several anthologies. 

Bixyl Shuftan

This Saturday at The Science Circle

 
 
Saturday February 1
 
    ~*~
 
    At 10 AM PST   

    Seasons in The Solar System
    https://www.sciencecircle.org/event/seasons-in-the-solar-system/
    By Phil Youngblood
    Auditorium
 
    ~*~
 
    NOTE: Non-members required to register once
    IM Jes Cobalt or Nymf Hathaway


╚══════════════════════════════ The Science Circle (72,129,30) ═╝