Semy Says… Festive Fun & Photos!

So it’s been a minute… Happy holidays though!! I hope you’ve had an awesome festive season however you celebrate it. We’ve been having fun – as you can see in Esmi’s sweet picture above – and on the 26th of December we even had a little unplanned surprise party at our Femboy Penthouse 🙂 I DJed for almost four hours to a wonderful crowd!! We also partied with our epic friends from the Blacklist Bunker in the run up to Christmas so it’s been a super fun month and there’s more to come. But more about all that later…

So if you’re new to my blog, FSG, The Blacklist Bunker, Mady’s Playground, Sheboys, or our Femboy Penthouse you should totally check out my collection of blogs for more info. Like this one right here…
https://semysays.com/2022/10/27/semy-says-the-fsg-penthouse/

If you want to see more FSG content -such as our Flickr Group where members post super fashionable photos – or if you want to join our Discord server I’ll post links next:
https://www.flickr.com/groups/14811328@N23/pool/

https://discord.gg/gGCkkU6Ccc

You’ll find we have a really active and engaging LGBTQAI+ community – it’s not just for femboys – and loads of handy Second Life shopping links and info in our server 🙂

Oh and if you want to visit us here’s the SLurl to the Femboy Penthouse:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Burning%20Desire%20Island/32/209/1259

So what else has been happening? Well we had our first ever FSG Festive Photo contest 🙂 Our server members submitted all sorts of super seasonal shots and our special judging panel (it was Mady, Lupe, and myself) chose a top 3 plus we awarded some special prizes. Before I show you the rules and the winners if you want to peek previous photo contests you can find those in my previous blogs. Earlier this year FSG had a Summer Photo Contest and The Blacklist Bunker had a Halloween one…
https://semysays.com/2022/08/27/semy-says-summer-photo-contest/

https://semysays.com/2022/11/03/semy-says-halloween-pics-parties/

I didn’t enter of course but I did get to pose in a sweet winter themed outfit. Pretty much all of my clothing in the shot is made by Muse by Moon Elixir; you can visit their store using this SLurl: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Moon%20Elixir/210/252/431

And you can peek more of their stunning clothing by peeking their Flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/muse-sl

Time for the contest rules now though!!

The theme was Festive of course; so the photos had to have stuff like wintery backdrops, seasonal festival elements, or even have festive film stylings. All photos had to include at least one avatar and could be as fun, naughty or even as naked as the photographer wanted. Pretty simple right :). We had lots of awesome entries and here are the ones which won special prizes…

Firstly we had a joint prize for “Most inventive use of a Candy Cane” which was won by Moira and London.

Both won L$250 🙂 if you’d like to peek their Flickr pics here are the links:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/188207567@N05

https://www.flickr.com/photos/london_callin

The next special prize went to Dia – who also won L$250 – for “Most Tim Burton-ish Christmas”. You can peek Dia on Flickr here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/diavkha

Keebs took the prize for “Most bulging packages under the Christmas Tree!” plus L$250. Here’s their Flickr for peekage…
https://www.flickr.com/photos/192970010@N07

Next was Esmi who won L$250 and “”Most Inconveniently placed Ribbon”. His Flickr is here (you might see me there too :P):
https://www.flickr.com/photos/esmiel

The final special prize (L$250) was awarded to Daxia for winning the category of “Most Extreme Gingerbread Man Photobomb”. Daxia’s Flickr is here…
https://www.flickr.com/photos/daxiadarkbyrd

Coming next we have our official top 3 contest winners!

River won L$500 coming in third place 🙂 go have a look at his awesomely cute Flickr pics here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/159507766@N06

The superb contest runner up came from Kyarii who won L$750. I’m not sure if I found the right Flickr so rather than link the wrong one if you’re reading this Kyarii please send me the link and I’ll add it 🙂

And finally – last but by no means least – our first ever FSG Festive Photo contest winner Brian!! He also won L$1000. I don’t know who looks more shocked in the picture; Brian or his little shoulder pet? I think you’ll all agree it’s an epically fun photo though 🙂 If you want to see more of Brian here’s his Flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/152947508@N02

We’ll have more photo contests in 2023 for sure!! Plus if you haven’t entered one yet and want to learn more about Second Life Photography please check out our handy new discord server channels for advice and tips. Oh and also we’ll soon have news about in world FSG Photo classes so keep an eye on the server announcements.

OK I had to include another photo of me – and my super cute doggy Huan – I can’t take pics as awesome as our contest winners but I do love to pose for them 😛 (I’m wearing the Sweet Treat set from Muse there along with some other accessories).

So what’s coming next for FSG? Well New Year’s partying firstly of course 🙂 We’ll be joining our friends at the Blacklist Bunker on Saturday 31st of December from 12pm SLT to celebrate whilst DJ Kalli plays awesome tunes. We’ve got some more plans in the works for 2023 including a super fun party idea for a joint party with the Blacklist (but I won’t spoil the surprise yet) and of course in a few months we’ll have our next Fashion Show! Oh and our next FSG Meet-up is on Saturday 7th of January at 2pm SLT with our awesome returning guest DJ Zely 🙂

A few of us also got to pose for a FSG New Year’s pic the other day – which was a lot of fun – as you can see in the shots I’ve included from Dia and Esmi. With luck in 2023 we can arrange some more group shots so watch out in the discord for info.

Semy Says… 2022 really has been an epic year and I think I speak for Mady and Esmi too when I say that we really couldn’t have dreamed how wonderfully everything FSG wise has worked out. Thank you to all our amazing friends: parcel neighbours (the Blacklist Bunker Crew and Brian from Sheboys), the Troubles (who hosted our Fashion shows), our server members, and all the amazing fashion creators and photographers for being part of the journey 🙂

I hope 2023 will be just as an amazing a year as this last one has been!

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