Hey folks!! It’s been an epic month so I’m back with a blog summarising some of the awesome stuff which has happened. I’ll try to waffle less – that’s probably a terrible promise lol – but instead I’ll share oodles of pics and links that are pride related 🙂
As always before we kick into the new stuff I’d love to pass on handy info if you’re new to my blog or Femboy Style Guide (the Second Life project I run/do with my besties Mady and Esmi). If you’d like to know more then please read my recent blog which covered our first FSG Fashion Show of 2023:
https://semysays.com/2023/05/17/semy-says-fsg-fashion-show-2023/
Also if you want to join the FSG Discord Server, our FSG Flickr Group, or our naughty Flickr Group (FSG-X) I’ll add some links below:
https://discord.gg/gGCkkU6Ccc
https://www.flickr.com/groups/femboystyleguide/pool/
https://www.flickr.com/groups/fsg-x/pool/
Oh and before I get into all the pride wonderfulness I’d like to mention my previous blog entry (I’ll add the link below) and thank all the folks who reached out to me following my less than positive experience. Friends whom I really can’t thank enough shared my blog link via Flickr and Twitter, the FSG Discord community and my friends in Second Life were all super supportive, and people I’d never met before contacted me to show solidarity with my stance as a customer/LGTBQAI+ community member.
https://semysays.com/2023/06/02/semy-says-pride-palette-disappointments/
One thing that experience and writing about it has made me realise is we need to highlight those creators who genuinely support our community, rig for as many body options as possible, and who ask for our feedback so they can make clothes we can wear. So starting from this blog entry every time I write a new one I’m going to include some info about a different creator. Shall we start right now? Check out these outfits ;P :
Ezra from Wraith joined the FSG server a little while back and has been asking for feedback from our members – we love to see that – which has resulted in more inclusive options for these recent two updates/releases including bulges and various flat chest options. If you want to check Ezra’s store out please peek the links coming up:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sixxstore
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Savage%20Unicorns/94/175/2186
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/213019
So pride stuff!!! As you can see our wonderful friends from the Blacklist Bunker celebrated pride with a whole week of parties. Each party had two DJs playing all sorts of pride party worthy tunes – plus Esmi and I had a Femboy Style Guide Takeover evening on the Wednesday :). As has become tradition the Blacklist Bunker Crew built a special pride party week location (at the Trouble sim so huge thanks to Julia!) and this year’s was a delightfully colourful fairground:
It really was a wonderful week. I found it truly uplifting to see so many Second Life residents come together to celebrate. It’s sometimes easy to forget that perhaps due to our real life circumstances/locations that openly celebrating pride might not be a safe reality for us all so having a place to be ourselves in Second Life really matters.
There was a particular good cause being highlighted during the event too as guests were donating to Roze Zaterdag (Pink Saturday) a pride event held annually in the Netherlands.
https://rozezaterdagen.nl/
Sadly due to all sorts of not fun reasons events like these (across the globe) are finding it harder to obtain (local) government funding so I’m super pleased to share the news that visitors to Blacklist Pride donated $320 in support. FSG was super proud to have our own info booth alongside the Roze Zaterdag one 🙂
Blacklist Pride 2023 was also sponsored by the awesome store SacredSquare who were giving away free pride sunglasses and tattoos. You can peek their store here:
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/133402
All of the Blacklist Pride pics I’ve shared above have been borrowed from the Blacklist Bunker Discord server and were taken by Daxia or Lupe. There are oodles of wonderful party shots there so you should go and check them out but I figure I’d tease you with a few more here and then give you the link to the server:
Join the Blacklist Bunker Discord server here: https://discord.gg/kJzjTZWP2q to check out the plethora of pride pics (I’ve honestly only included a small selection) or you can visit the Bunker (which has DJs playing banging tunes 5 days a week from 12pm SLT) with this SLurl:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Burning%20Desire%20Island/24/97/1524
Ohh and even my doggy Huan got included in the pics!!
There are even more awesome Second Life pics to come though… as on the last day of Blacklist Pride 2023 we announced the winners of our Pride Photo Contest 🙂 If you want to see all of the wonderful entries and the contest rules please head over to the FSG discord server using this link:
https://discord.com/channels/964898637190672495/1108354336523817021
I’m going to share the winners’ photos and what they won below though starting with the 3 special extra prizes each of which received L$250.
And here are the top 3 who received prizes of L$500, L$750, and L$1000 respectively:
All of the entries were so wonderful to see and it was such a tough contest to judge so I’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who took part. We’ll have another photo contest later this year; sooner than Halloween maybe? 😛
Semy Says…
It really was quite a week 🙂 I loved every minute. There will be more awesome stuff, things, and events to come this year though and if you were unlucky enough to have missed Blacklist Pride week hopefully you can be there for those (especially Halloween week which is always epic). Is there anything coming up super soon though?
I’m DJing this Saturday – along with Geo who is debuting at an FSG/Blacklist event 🙂 – so I’ll hope you join us at our beach for a super fun party 🙂 . We’ll share the SLurl and LM via the FSG Discord and in world groups on the day.
Ohh and I’m always looking for new blog entry ideas so drop me a message in the FSG server if you have something fun in mind. Take care xoxox.
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