Semy Says… Goodbye 2023, hello 2024!

Welcome to 2024 folks! I wonder what it will bring… well how about we see what the end of 2023 brought us and then we’ll tease what’s coming in 2024? :) Before we get there I ought to share some FSG related info if you’re new to my blog though.

Here come the links…

https://discord.gg/gGCkkU6Ccc – FSG Discord Server.

https://www.flickr.com/groups/femboystyleguide/pool/ – FSG Flickr Group.

https://www.flickr.com/groups/fsg-x/pool/ – FSG-X (NSFW Flickr Group).

https://semysays.com/2023/11/25/semy-says-riddles-spooky-birthdays-changes/ – My previous blog entry.

Ohh and if you want to visit our location in Second Life:

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Burning%20Desire%20Island/30/206/1259 – Femboy Style Guide SLurl.

If you want to explore all the different areas at our parcel look for the signs and handy teleport pads then select your destination from the menu. As demonstrated by this mysterious cat who will return soon…

So what was our awesome community doing around Christmas time and New year..?

Well to start with Esmi Claus arranged our largest ever group photo (with help from Dia who built an awesome backdrop)! Thirteen of our wonderful community members – and my doggy – in our favourite festive looks; so organising it must have been like herding cats lol. It turned out so great though! The question is what can we do to beat the record number with a future group pic?

Dal’s Riddle Hunt also returned for the holiday season!! With an array of deviously difficult rhyming conundrums to tease our server members. They just had to be the first to take a pic next to the hidden gingerbread men to win a prize; plus whomever found the most during Dal’s 12 days of Christmas questions won an extra L$500 :) If you want to see all the riddles I’ll share the link below but I’m also going to feature some of Dal’s best…

https://discord.com/channels/964898637190672495/1164208826883526819/1184224501442035762 – FSG Riddle Hunt Discord Channel link.

Golden liquid, glistening bright
Bubbling up with a ferocious might
It cooks as if magic, the scent doth rise
Filling the air with a savory surprise
Savor this moment before I’m plunged in the heat
This cookie will come out smelling like potatoes and meat.

Floating in a world of wonder, where the impossible reigns
A sight to behold, beyond mortal chains
There’s living gold on the ceiling, it’s so serene
Bodies glimmer bright, like precious gems from a dream

Their round gold bodies dart and dance in an endless spree
Swimming across the ceiling so effortlessly
While I just sink and get soggy
These celestial beings just wiggle their bodies.

In this metal cell
I find my own personal hell
A bell will mark my doom
Through thermal convection
I’m baked to perfection
While the beans start to bloom
So please liberate me
Don’t have me with tea
I’m stale and not fit to consume.

It was a close contest and Dal had to come up with a devious tie-breaker to end it all but Cuteboy won in the end. A huge well done to everyone who took part though! I have a feeling we might see that mysterious cat again; hiding Easter eggs maybe…

There was also a huge milestone moment for one of our very own FSG team just before Christmas (December 14th) as Esmi reached 1000 followers on Flickr!!

If you want to see more of Esmi’s stunning shots peek his Flickr here…
https://www.flickr.com/photos/esmiel/

Oh and speaking of stunning shots in the lead up to Christmas we had our annual FSG Festive Photo contest! If you’d like to see all the rule info and all the superb entries then scoot over to the discord server with this handy link but I’m going to feature the prize winners here too 😉

https://discord.com/channels/964898637190672495/1038914821187440660/1178741402805481492 – FSG Festive Photo Contest Discord Channel Link.

We had two extra prize winners; both of whom scooped up L$500 prizes.

The top 3 prize winners were awarded L$500, L$750, and L$1000 respectively. Although I have to share something that we totally missed whilst judging…

Cuteboy took a super lovely pic and won a third place prize; it’s a super cute shot but when you scroll through the channel the resolution looks different to all the other entries. That’s our fault as judges we totally missed it; usually we spot it and just ask the pic taker to resubmit in 1024 by 1024 as per the rules. We fucked up though so we thought it would be fair to choose an alternative co-third place prize winner and also award them L$500 (I’ll send it their way later today!). Congrats to river who gets the extra prize 🙂

Most importantly the FSG Admin team has chatted and when we announce the next photo contest we’ll relax the resolution rule so you can all enjoy extra creative photo taking freedom! OK here come Second and First place…

Bwian defended his Festive Photo contest crown and became our first ever two time photo contest winner; huge congrats!! Oh and honestly a huge well done to everyone who entered; the standard was seriously high, super tough to judge, and we’re looking forward to announcing our next photo contest and seeing what you all come up with 😛

We made it to the new year though! Hello 2024 🙂 . What’s been going on though? Well London posted this in the FSG server…

That’s a pretty uncanny Funko Pop London right?

So anyhow I instantly became obsessed and headed over to the site to create some of us 😛 (I’m not a huge AI fan but this seems like the harmless fun type of thing that it’s amusing for). Here’s the link (if you want to make your own) plus I’ll follow it with some of our server members in Funko form (some generated by me and some by themselves):
https://designer.microsoft.com/image-creator?p=Funko+figure+of+%5Ban+activity+or+role%5D%2C+%5Bfemale+or+male%5D%2C+called+%5BName%5D%2C+wearing+a+%5Bspecific+clothes+and+glasses%5D%2C+%5Bspecific+hair%5D+and+has+%5Baccessories%5D.+Holding+a+%5Bsomething%5D.+The+Funko+is+displayed+inside+a+Funko+box+with+%5Btext%5D+text+and+%5Blogo%5D+logo+for+the+box%2C+allowing+visibility+of+the+figure%2C+typography%2C+3D+render

Dal also organised a special FSG group outing to a surprise sim – which turned out to be “Just a Dream” by Cica Ghost – this will hopefully be the first of many little extra FSG event, mission, quest, er things… So keep your eyes on the server to see what Dal comes up with next 😉 . Here’s a little gallery of snaps which members grabbed whilst they were there…

Dal has also been catching up with members of our community and taking some gorgeous shots with them; here’s a few examples…

If you want to peek at more of Dal’s pics you can do here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dal_niente/

Ohh and if you missed the announcement in discord Dal has joined the FSG Admin team!! So you know there are going to be loads more cool ideas to come.

Semy says… Have we caught up on everything? I think/hope so. But what’s coming next you’re asking right? Well… Some things I can only tease but Mady is currently rebuilding her club at FSG which is super exciting; once she’s finished we’ll have a relaunch party for sure. Plus Esmi and I (mostly Esmi really) are currently hard at work on another secret project which we think folks will love; we’ll have more news in the coming weeks.

What I can tell you more about though are the FSG connected events coming up at the epic Blacklist Bunker! 

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Burning%20Desire%20Island/36/97/1524 – The Blacklist Bunker Slurl.

https://discord.com/invite/kJzjTZWP2q – The Blacklist Bunker Discord server invite link.

Later this month (the 27th) we’re co-promoting a special music and quiz party (I’ve written some devious quiz questions) which will have prizes!! Ohh and I’ll be DJing on the 17th with a very different set to my usual so I hope you can join us for that.

And of course this Saturday the 13th it’s Lupe vs London at 12pm SLT in a Blacklist B-Girl DJ battle live @ Trouble!!

But before all of those events our very own DJ Esmi makes his return to the Blacklist Bunker!!

See you there on the 10th at 12pm SLT!

All my love; Semy xoxox

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