"Dedication to Crim" Video Updated

 

 A few days ago, the Newser posted a "Dedication to Crim" video by Bain Finch, the song sung by Empress Luna at the memorial service to Crim Mip on October 4 with a number of screenshots. Since then, the video was taken down, and redone, giving it a new address and making the old link unviewable. It has been corrected.

 

On another note, the Newser is doing an article about the funeral, but a combination of the writer's real-life plus writing about Halloween has delayed it. It should be done soon. 

 

SL Video: "Dedication to Crim Mip"

 

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 From Bain Finch on October 23, "Dedication to the one known to us as Crim Mip. 'The Starfish and the Sky' by Empress Luna."

 

*Addition*  The video was updated, and briefly unavaibale. It's been corrected and should be seen without trouble now. 

 

Crim's Memorial Service: Saturday at 2PM

 

Memorial service for Crim Mip

Saturday October 4th 

 

2pm slt
 

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wooburn/89/142/43

Semi Formal Attire Requested
 

"All will be on the Green, and after...refreshments at the Falcon Pub"

Video: "The Missing All"

 

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From Merryjest Starchild on September 16, " On Thursday, I lost a dear friend. On Saturday I spent a sleepless night with the words of Dickinson's poem in my head. I sat down to compose and this took shape in his memory. Composed for piano and a choir of most likely very nervous sopranos. Rest well, Crim."

 

Crim Mip Honored At Sunweaver Memorial

 

Yesterday, Monday September 15, Shockwave Yareach informed me the Sunweaver Memorial, where members of the community who passed away have permanent candles burning in their memory, was expanded and a marker placed for Crim Mip whom died last week. :"A grim day," he commented, "The Sunweavers memorial had to expand to hold so many.  I didn't plan this thing to hold over 10 people."

 

Crim's marker is next to Lacy Musketeer's, with whom he was partnered with in the past. 

 

The Sunweaver memorial is located at:http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sunweaver Eclipse (68/240/21) 

 

Bixyl Shuftan 

 

Performance At The Varro in Honor of Crim Mip

 

 On Saturday November 13 at 3PM, there was an event at The Varro high above the Queue sim. About every week, Merryjest Starchild has a performance there. But after the recent death of Crim Mip, he dedicated the concert to him in his honor. 

 

 Merryjest, a trained opera singer in real life, would perform for about an hour, with an occasional moment of commentary. Crim's partner Kari was among the people there in the audience. 

 

Details are still being worked out for the date and time of the memorial service

 

Bixyl Shuftan 

 

Announcement: Crim Mip Has Passed, Memorial TBA

 

Crim Mip, known in the real world as Karl Meyer, was a person whose ripples extended to many ponds. From the Memphis Furmeet, the MLP community (Trotsdale, Nisa, Ibex Empire, etc), the spiritual and Pagan community (Arashiryuu Yashiro, Practicing Magic for a time, and others), the SL boating and aeronautics communities… and others I probably don’t know of as he was very active.

I first met him in Nisa while exploring, seeking my home in the Second Life’s MLP community. There I met many others in a heavily mythologically influenced sim. The Nisean sim grouping, with Crim Mip as one of the several co-owners, grew to a landmass of Nisa, Thessalia, Exmoor, The Ibex Empire (aka Ibexia), Los Qwhilla, Qwhildrasil, and many other locations of the rp world. For a time this landmass resided north of – and joined to – Trotsdale. Later, Trotsdale eventually moved to join Neighberry’s landmass, before Nisa finally became Dreaming Twilight and moved instead to reside in a plot in Ontario due to funding.

Crim is/was the second of the strongest pillars of the Dreaming Twilight. Now another of the trees of the sacred grove has lost its leaves, reminding us of how tightly Life and Death are interwoven.

Crim leaves behind a loving girlfriend, Karla Voilpa, the remaining members of the Dreaming Twilight and Arashiryuu Yashiro groups, his real life friends and relatives… and countless members of the many communities he was part of.

He will be missed. He is loved. He is gone… Yet he now blows in the wind, creeps in the vines, falls from the sky in raindrops, dances in the tides of the sea, and warms us in our hearths.

 

Our thoughts are with all his loved ones. The Dreaming Twilight will continue. The memories will be maintained.

Please contact Amehana Arashi (Amehana Ishtari), Oscelot Halaan, and KariaKae Karu for more info.

You can also join the Dreaming Twilight [ secondlife:///app/group/c20ee681-8a58-6d0b-4f84-03c7aeece461/about ] and Arashiryuu Yashiro [ secondlife:///app/group/b6fef2dc-b13f-6da5-3561-7b3bc92efd07/about ] groups to be notified of any upcoming planned events and sporadic gatherings.

There will be an in-world memorial at the Dreaming Twilight plot

Date: To Be Announced

Time: To Be Announced

Pool of Life Url: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ontario/179/158/56 With the graves of our other departed

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I'll send a picture of his MLP character as well when we have the memorial scheduled. I need to look through several disk drives to find those photos.

Teresa Garcia AKA Amehana Arashi
Owner/Operator of THG StarDragon Publishing
TeresaAmehanaGarcia@gmail.com 

More on Crim Mip's Passing

 

 After word began to go around about Crim Mip's death yesterday, people were moved to do different things. At his new home Wooburn, a wreath was placed at the church in his honor.

 

 Inside was a small table with Crim's picture, candles, and a book for people to place notecards with any words of well wishes. The church is at Wooburn (101/128/43). 

 

At the pub near church, friends of Crim gathered to talk about him and some things he did.  

 

The date for the memorial service has yet to be announced, But there is one event going on today in Crim's honor. When Merryjest Starchild heard the news, he announced his event today at the Varro at 3PM SL time would be dedicated to him. Queue (192/238/2493).

 

More details to come.

 

Update: People have been telling me that they talked to Crim just a few days before his passing, and he seemed just fine. So it seems whatever happened was sudden. 

 

Bixyl Shuftan

 

Breaking News: Crim Mip Has Died

 

The Newser has been informed resident Crim Mip has passed away. His partner Kari (KariaKae Karu) stated he was found deceased yesterday, Thursday September 11. The exact time and cause is still unknown. He was 62 in real life. 

 

Crim has been in Second Life since January 2007.  He was the real life and SL partner of Lacy Musketeer until her passing in July 2019. In October 2023, he would marry Kari. He was a resident of the Roshaven community, and more recently Wooburn. In the past, he was a DJ at the Sunweaver's Club Cutlass. 

 

Stay tuned for more information.

 

*Correction:* Earlier it wasn't known Crim had recently gotten a place at Wooburn. or his RL age.  

Wedding Bells

 

Saturday October 7 was the day of a wedding in Second Life. It was when Crim Mip and KariaKay Karu exchanged marriage vows. The event began at 3PM SL time, and after about eighteen minutes, the ceremony began.

[15:18] Kara Kitty Cat Lady Foxdale  (Kara Foxdale): looks at Crim and Kari
[15:18] Crim (Crim Mip) takes Kari's hands and looks her in the eye
[15:18] Jessie (Jessie Kiopak) pauses dancin'
[15:18] Crim (Crim Mip): May we be bound by threads of silver
[15:18] Kari (KariaKae Karu) looks deeply into his eyes
[15:19] Kari (KariaKae Karu): May we be bound by roots of blood,
[15:19] Flora Sperling (Sepdilia Resident) commands her fawn to stand still.
[15:19] Crim (Crim Mip): May we be tied by false holly
[15:19] Kari (KariaKae Karu): May we be held together by green ivy,
[15:19] Crim (Crim Mip): Seven switches of yew seven times knotted
[15:20] Kari (KariaKae Karu): Seven switches of yew seven times knotted,
[15:20] Kari (KariaKae Karu): Bound together until Ouroboros lets go his tail.
[15:20] Crim (Crim Mip): Bound together until Ouroboros lets go his tail.
[15:20] Kari (KariaKae Karu): So mote it be!
[15:20] Crim (Crim Mip): So mote it be!
[15:20] Oscelot Haalan: *claps*
[15:20] Kara Kitty Cat Lady Foxdale  (Kara Foxdale): so motie it be
[15:20] Jessie (Jessie Kiopak): May they connect together through their divine nature, bringing the best they have to offer each other both physically and spiritually ever reminded that, "As above, so below."

BLESSED BE!
[15:20] Kari (KariaKae Karu) grins at her husband...
[15:20] Jessie (Jessie Kiopak): Weeee! ^.^

The crowd, which included a number of people such as Oldesoul Eldemar, Grease Coakes, Merryjest, Bain & Panza Finch, and others, gave their congratulations. "Cheers the couple!" "Yay!" "Wonderful." "Abbondanza!" "Congrats you two." "Best wishes to you both, long life and happiness." "CONGRATULATIONS CRIM AND KARI!" "Congratulations Kari and Crim  blessings (smile)." "May each day be as happy as today for the two of you." As the well wishes were sill being sent, people went back to dancing.

May the new couple spend many happy years together.

Bixyl Shuftan

Lacy Musketeer has Died

There was sad news announced today. Lacy Musketeer of Nisa/Dreaming Twilight died earlier today. The news was first announced by Amehana Ishtari.

It is a great sorrow to make this announcement but there will be no story stream tonight. Lacy Musketeer, from Rocket City and Nisa/Dreaming Twilight has passed away very suddenly from what they believe was a heart attack this morning.

In her profile, Lacy described herself as:

1. A mom. A real female. With a real kid.
2. A science brain. Science is my big intellectual turn on.
3. An artist. Nuff sed.
4. Taken. Spoken for. Not available for romance.
5.Nursing a rather unhealthy obsession with Q and Z.

My world is amazing and wondrous, as well as frustrating/maddening/trying: from my day job to my endeavours in SL, creating nice things as I can, from graphic design to drawing, from discussions on physics to quiet nights under the stars; each day is new, each day is different, each day is fascinating in its own way. Thank *you* for being part of it.

Lacy is survived by her child, and her real-life/Second Life partner of nine years, Crim Mip. Crim is known in the Sunweaver area as a DJ.

Following the announcements of her passing, a number of her friends gathered at Dreaming Twilight in Ontario (219/213/57). People talked about how they missed her, and how they could best honor her memory.

Lacy's Nisa was a sponsor of the Newser in 2014 and 2015 when it was in Exomoor.

Addition:  Amehana Ishtari and Oscelot Haalan were Lacy's SL sisters in her inworld family

Addition 2 :  Over a year after this was published, the Newser was messaged by someone, stating he was Lacy's real-life husband. Talking to someone close to Lacy, she stated the two were married in the past and he was the father of her son, but the marriage had ended years ago.

Bixyl Shuftan