On Playing Fair

You may have seen the book “Everything I Ever Needed To Know I Learned In Kindergarten”.

You know, things like “Play fair”, “Don’t hit people”, and “Don’t take things that aren’t yours.”

We’ve told you a number of times about the Freedom Continent and Serjourn Daxter, a well-known SL resident who supports adult content - specifically, BDSM and fetish - with pretty much her every hour in-world.

Search for the first name Serjourn in SL and you’ll see exactly two people; not what you’d call a big crowd. (In contrast, there are seven pages of Deirdre’s).

So running into someone using a two-week old account called SerjaurnDaxter Resident was a pretty bad surprise.

We saw her at a fetish hangout, with an avatar looking a lot better than most two-week olds we meet. No great powers of deduction were needed to guess the account is an alt.

What is this person thinking? It’s difficult to tell. It can’t be fraud, or other deception - it won’t work on any but the rankest SL beginners.

What do you call someone who causes you a loss but gains nothing from it? Well I know how professor Carlo M. Cipolla calls them.

The Lindens, as usual, were ponderously unhelpful. Pray, pray, wherever you live, that the police never starts treating muggings as a “dispute between residents”. Serjourn has abuse reports open, but she’s not holding her breath.

So. “SerjaurnDaxter Resident”, go back to kindergarten, hm? And learn not to take things that aren’t yours.

SLB10 A(dult!) - Adult Hub Will Celebrate Too

While SL10B will not have adult content, they will definitely point to adult celebration sites; I think that’s cool, and a decent way to handle things - we’ve been posting in a PG manner about adult content since the start of this blog, so I definitely understand the position of the SL10B organizers.

We heard today from Serjourn Daxter, the prime mover at the Freedom Continent: she’s setting a sim aside for adult content exhibitors, so if you would like to be an exhibitionist, give her or Lexi Lock a call to reserve a parcel.

Inara published the full details, so I’ll point you to her post: http://modemworld.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/your-gateway-to-an-adult-celebration-of-sls-10th-birthday/

This year, we won’t only report news, we’ll also be making them: lelo and I pounced and reserved a parcel.

I still intend to visit SL10B and report on it, so for your convenience, we’ll have two labels: SL10B for posts referring to the community celebration, and SLB10A for the adult ones.

Come see us at SLB10A, and show your support for adult content in Second Life. As I said before, fetish is a valid part of the world :)

Tish Celt Free Pony Gear

Lelo caught this notice in the SL Ponygirls Club this week :

Tish Celt's pony boots, carts and pony tails are now available for free at a vendor stall at the FFF Tack Shop. Use the landmark below to get there or walk west into Oraenji from FFF

The SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Oraenji/234/112/84

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And I was sitting there when suddenly :

a small bird flitters in the room (or is that a bat? whatever) and lands on your shoulder, pecks your ear and whispers "something strange is happening over in Pirandello Bay" and then flutters off and will deny ever saying a word about anything.

The SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Pirandello%20Bay/128/98/21

Identity of the small bird hidden to protect our sources, or as Bart Simpson used to say “I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, you can't prove a thing.” ;)

Have a great weekend,

Deirdre and lelo

Deirdre and lelo’s Fetish Spot is Open!

We arranged, with a lot of help from our good friends, to secure some land in the middle of Freedom Continent for a new fetish hangout.

What’s more, another awesome friend came to us with a very neat suggestion:

"Put up cheapies from the best fetish designers as a draw, so visitors can chat, people-watch, and lay hands on cool inexpensive outfits all at the same time." 

It took time - we have busy first and second lives! - but we’re finally almost there.

In the coming weeks you’ll see the walls fill with items, all on sale at the same insanely low price of L$10.

We’ll announce new cheapies on the Friday post every week, so keep an eye on those even if you’re not a lolcat lover.

But that’s just a start! We’ll have events such as fashion shows and meet-and-greets with famous designers, and more, as soon as we think them up!

The theme will be fetish, of course.. and if I see someone wearing jeans, they better have a matching denim hood, is all I have to say on that subject ;)

Here’s the SLURL:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Thunderbird%20Island/217/166/22

See you there!

Deirdre and lelo

Club Le Fetiche Is Now On Adult Hub

A few weeks back, I was at Freedom Continent and Serjourn called me over to meet some nice folks as she was setting up their new location: Kennedy Trang, the new owner of Club Le Fetiche, and friends.

They seemed quite nice and I made a mental note to drop by soon and have a peek.

Tonight was a good time and we met Jenna, the co-owner of the club.

We agreed to do a better post soon, and to mention that Saturday nights are full of cool events.

Here’s tomorrow’s lineup :

4-6PM : “THESE BOOTS WERE MADE FOR...”
6-8PM : “CREEPY CRAWLIES w/ SMOOCHING SERPENTS”
8-10PM : “OVER THE EDGE”

Prizes, gift cards, live DJ’s and what sounds like a lot of fun :)

That’s all for now, but more very soon!

Have a great weekend.
Deirdre and lelo

The SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Adult%20Hub%20SEX/100/54/28

Think Kink Reorg

More changes at Think Kink. You’d think bondage bunnies wouldn’t squirm around so much, but there it is ;)

First, if you have old no-copy toys that you want to trade in at a rebate, the deadline is July 8th.

Second, Serjourn Daxter, our friend from the Freedom Continent, joins Think Kink.

Along with Serj’s arrival, Think Kink becomes Think Kink Lifestyles; that is, the shop separates into boutiques which will serve specific interests.

Here’s the list :

• DungeonWorks
• PeopleWorks
• GhoulWorks
• PipeWorks
• TechWorks
• PetWorks
• DollWorks
• PonyWorks
• Classics

Note the pets, dolls and ponies; pretty exciting stuff!

Stay tuned for upcoming new toys, and have a great weekend!

Wild PonyGirls Valley Farm and Ponybound

We blinked, and Freedom got a new sim ;)

Well, almost. The Wild Ponygirls moved to the Farthest Shore. The sim looks really spectacular, with intricate cart tracks I can’t easily do justice to in one pic.

Things are still getting built - a move is a big deal. But there’s already sky platforms for cart racing and steeple being put up.

A lovely, lushly green addition to the Freedom Continent - hey, maybe the pony taxi will resume!

The SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/The%20Farthest%20Shore/125/124/22

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We got a nice call from Dragan Nightfire, tipping us to the Ponybound training field.

It doesn’t appear to be related to the PonyboUnd store we reviewed before, but let’s face it, it’s a pretty good name ;)

Very clean, lovely place (when you visit, note the beautiful mountains), and as advertised, very low lag.

There are boards showing script use, memory use, and lots of good info any big pony event should consider to minimize lag.

The SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sweet%20Surrender/36/136/28

Places: Adult Gallery at Blacksilk

We called Serjourn, expecting a few good updates on Freedom and the Adult Hub.

Seems a few updates is what we’d get if we called every other day. New sims, new projects.. and a new and improved map, once again!

The one project Serj took time to show us around in is her pet project, a new adult art gallery at Blacksilk Forrest.

The gallery is quite big, spreading on two floors. All original art (or soon to be), which will be certified by an in-world art association.

There is some RL photography, which I was a little surprised to see, but Serjourn sees it as belonging, so long as it is original art belonging to the displaying artist.

The art is for sale, so don’t hesitate to support the artists.

The SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Blacksilk/63/75/55

Adult Hub - Freebie Store

Kat Fetisov was telling us about a very cool project in which she was invited to participate : freebies from a good number of good bondage and fetish stores made available at the Adult Hub.

Seems Jenniferz Vita is behind the project - thank you Jen!

Here’s a quick list of things we saw there tonight. I have a feeling this will go up and change, so do drop by, or bring new residents who don’t have too much cash.

Jennifer’s Jewelry - Jennie’s RLV HUD & Evil Voice-over
PoC - Latex
Kcreation - full latex outfit
Restrained Freedom - Assorted restraints
Cozy Chaotics - settin’ stump le
Cool Products - assorted cool products, no pun intended... well yes just a bit *winks*
Chorazin Creations - Airlock cage
RLV Fireworks
Hybridz - stocking rustle
Bondage Witch Project - Metal cuffs

near the water:
Thinkink - Free tkPBA
Dark Elf Manufacture - cuff set.
The Velvet Thorn - Fire Brigade outfit

It’s a dangerous walk, though.. if you keep going you land in the mall ;)





And speaking of freebies, here's a fun note from Salid Sewell, of KaS :

Yay - tomorrow is St. Nicholas Day... Monday, 05 Dec 2011 20:57:44 GMT ...and we have the tradition here, that on 6th December, St. Nicholas surprises people with small presents. My gut feeling says, it might be a good idea to stop by at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sandor/96/187/36 between 6th December 6.00am and 7th December 6.00am (SL-times). If you spot a gift-box, it's probably for you. Greetings, Salid Sewell

Zindra Prime : New Adult Hub

It’s good to have friends. Especially the kind that know the cool, new, exciting stuff going on in Second Life.

For a few weeks now, we’ve been hearing rumblings and rumors : a new adult hub is coming to SL.

Well Freedom Continent is it. A new five-sim extension now adjoins it, with Zindra Prime at its center (the one with the nifty pyramid) and Zindra North, South, East and West around it.

Hub, gateway, door : a place for people interested in adult content in SL to begin their journey, managed by established, responsible people. Sounds pretty smart to me.

Of course, we’ve been telling you Freedom Continent was a nifty place for a while, so we look pretty darn well-informed ourselves ;)

(Click here for a bigger map)

It’s my intellectual snobbishness, perhaps, but I believe there are people who are doers, and they definitely bear keeping an eye on, because they’re going places, and usually taking a lot of people along with them.

Serjourn Daxter is a doer. The solid crowd she gathered around her is going places, and we’ll be telling you the details as they develop.

Inara Pey, another extremely well-informed blogger, has this post with much good info - you know, actual facts ;) - about Zindra Prime : http://modemworld.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/freedom-continent-develop-adult-hubs/

More as it develops :)

Deirdre and lelo

Dark ELF Manufacture - Think Kink Free Cuff Set

Deirdre
Nihal invited us to come have a peek at a new freebie cuff set at Dark Elf some time back, and as we’re doing some fun toys this week, I thought the time was right.

While these cuffs look a bit plain, they’re meant for you to discover the excellent scripting they contain, and to entice you to come buy some of the prettier DEM collars.

There are 2 scripts in each cuff, so 8 scripts total, not counting the collar. Each script is 16KB, for a total of 128KB.

For a comparison, it’s not unusual to see one pair of cuffs with scripts adding up to 5000KB.

Throw in some good poses (the leg cuff shuffle walk is really good!) and the TK III fit-everywhere system, and you have a fine set of RLV toys for the price.

The Dark Elf Manufacture is at the rear of the Think Kink store. This is a very full store, bring a bit of patience along when you visit ;)

lelo
We are spoiling you rotten this week another freebie tonight.

The script in the collar is based on the now freeware Dari House script, but Chloe did quite a bit of scripting on it herself.

It has the same options as the DEM Collar we tested a while ago, so no cheap tuned down version of the script for the freebie.

The look is quite plain, suffering a bit from what Mistress calls the black on black problem.

But remember, if you want great looks with the script check out what DEM has in the Think Kink store.

Now the cuffs, have the same look as the collar, but again this is about the script not the look.

The cuffs offer the wearer 2 option re-size and owner, the owner can lock and bind the cuffs.

Be aware that the cuff poses are set to the lowest priority so better not wear your AO with them.

Name : Dark Elf Manufacture
Owner : Nihal Quan & Chloe1982 Constantine
The SLURL :
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Blacksilk%20Forrest/220/145/25

	Deirdre	lelo
Quality	8	8
Price	10	10
Service	9	8
Store	7	7

HybridZ - Freedom Continent Uniform

Deirdre : Four years ago, I met lelo at Desperation Isle, and we began an astonishing journey of discovery and friendship, which soon grew into deep love. In a world where two months is not unusual for a D/s relationship, I feel blessed to have met such an extraordinary person. We stuck together through happy and difficult times, in first and second world... and I believe we’ll be seeing many more anniversaries in Second Life together. lelo : Four years already, how time flies, don't know how i ever got so lucky but in Deirdre i found my, by lack of better words, soulmate. And as i've been well coming her back to heaven each night for the past 4 years, it's truely a match made in heaven. Still don't know why she picked me on Desperation Island, but i'm still glad she did. I love you from the bottom of my heart and i always will.

Deirdre
When we visited the Damsel mall last week, lelo immediately spotted the cool freebie Hybridz put up there, called simply the Freedom Continent Uniform.

Serjourn definitely seems to be a genius at getting win-win cooperation from people: good exposure for Hybridz, and a free fetish outfit for Freedom visitors.. it’s hard to do better.

The outfit is a classic Hybridz, with inflatable hood and sex-toy mouth hole. Some fun Freedom logos on the shoulders and a big Hybridz stamp on your behind will let everyone know where you stand ;)

Next time you drop by Bondage Ranch for some S&M (you know, Stand & Model), stop at the mall and have your slave pick up this classic little black dress.

The fixed landing zone at Damsel puts you at the top of the stairs of the mall, but if you use this slurl, you’ll see where the vendor is located with the map marker :
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Damsel/209/127/22

lelo
What’s better than a pair of ballet boots? do i hear you say two pairs? well yes, but these are even better, these are FREE!

Ok lelo calming down now... *winks*

From the people how brought you quite a number of rubber isolation suits, Hybridz, this is all you need to start your life in rubber bondage.

Opening the box reveals 3 prim items, did i mention two of those are ballets, and two catsuits, one for boys one for girls.

You get a good looking prim hood with a gaping suck mouth and a nice looking zipper on the back.

A zipper that continues down the back of the catsuit.

The hood and the boots offer you simple RLV lock and gag options.

Ohh and did i mention that you get these lovely, and may i stress, free ballet boots with the outfit.

Name : HybridZ
Owner : Fyre Furse & Natalie Serapis
The SLURL :
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tasmania/64/234/23

	Deirdre	lelo
Quality	8	8
Price	10	10
Service	8	8
Store	8	7

Freedom - Damsel Dungeon

Lelo
Something new was created under the Damsel sim, and it’s slowly growing.

Reports say it already undermined Pirandello and has reached Bondage Ranch... and rumors even hint at tunnels being dug under Blacksilk.

Serjourn took us on a long tour of the newest attraction on Freedom Continent, the extensive underground (duh) dungeon complex.

In the entrance of the complex you get a choice of your RLV restriction for the dungeon.

Yes, as you might expect of a modern dungeon it’s full of RLV goodies and traps.

Serjourn assured us that when you take your restriction serious, you might spend quite some time in the dungeon, so you have been warned, not that that will change your mind one bit i’m sure. *winks*

Presently there are 11 themed rooms in the complex, ranging from an ice-dungeon, hell, the bridge of the bondage ship Enterspice and especially for my Mistress, a leather room.

We won’t go into full descriptions of all the rooms, because that would take all the fun out of the discovery.

As Serjourn is a collector of BDSM furniture, the displayed toys are all top class and at times pretty much unique in SL. Ohh and all free to be used, just please clean after use.

A special mention should be given to the test lab of Think Kink, if you want to try the newest from the - in our humble opinion - best toy makers in SL, this is the place to go.

Serjourn is still working on little last minute items, but the dungeon is open for use and abuse.

So go have a look at the biggest dungeon of SL, and try not to get lost, it is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to this dungeon, listen...".

The SLURL : http://slurl.com/secondlife/Damsel/162/53/22

Freedom - Blacksilk Academy

Next on our tour of the Freedom continent is an education facility called Blacksilk Academy.

The brainchild of Ravena Decuir, it sits on the Blacksilk sim.

Roman architecture seems particularly well suited to outside classes - if a philosopher in a toga walked up, I wouldn’t blink.

Ravena has made available a collection of informative notecards in the library (the round-roofed building) on a number of good D/s subjects.

Classes are mostly one-on-one with Ravena, and she has some good instructors joining her.

One of them is Forceme Silverspar. She has been giving her own classes in SL for over three years.

Her curriculum of 10 classes is given every week on Wednesdays at 11:30AM, SL time, and repeated at the same time on Saturday. See her full schedule here : https://sites.google.com/site/forcemesilverspar/

You’re invited to contact both ladies directly for more info or to make an appointment.

The SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Blacksilk/125/176/71

There are huge changes coming to Freedom, so here’s a little scoop, courtesy of Serjourn Daxter : The three “winter” sims are going. Bye bye Sine Qua Non, Ravenia and Fetish Network, we hardly knew ye. So does North Star, the westernmost sim. Blacksilk and Pirandello Bay move north of Damsel/Bondage Ranch. This is already under way, we nearly didn’t have pics to show you of the academy tonight ;) New sims are joining Freedom : Vesta Amor will be north of the newly moved Blacksilk. Blue Spirit, a pony sim, will be east of Forbidden Sins - and our new friend Ponybound Resident will set up shop there :) Billie’s, the popular jazz club, will remain on Blacksilk. Basically, I’d say check the map frequently ;)

Freedom - Slaver Bay

First stop on our tour of the Freedom continent is Slaver Bay. The intro notecard starts with this paragraph :

“Welcome to Slaver Bay, a Kidnap Roleplay SIM with two big (RP) angles in the city: "Hornywood" a casting agency and movie studio, and "SinQuisition", the most dangerous nightclub in SL.”

While we haven’t touched upon it a lot, kidnap roleplay is popular in quite a few sims.

There is a sharp distinction between IC, in character play, and OOC, out of character communication.

Basically, if you don’t understand this distinction, heavy roleplay sims are not for you at this point.

(But don’t despair - classes are available, and we’ll cover them soon!)

You arrive in a small sky mall - yes, sim owners have to pay their tier - and a New York City Yellow Cab takes you to the streets of Slaver Bay.

The sim has a “good” dark feel and is best viewed with the world set to midnight, which is the sim standard.

There's a lot of streets leading to dark nooks and crannies in this inner-city sim. You can rezz your own vehicle, so we took a look around on a Dark Jewel chopper, seemed like the best way to stay somewhat in character.

There are quite a few live RLV traps on the sim so better beware or you’ll spend more time here than you would like.. or would you?

The rules are on notecards available in the center of the mall, and this Web site has the latest version. It points to a forum where you’ll find a lot of useful information.

The SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Slaver%20Bay/152/124/31

Places : Freedom Continent

We hinted at Freedom last Friday. As we considered how to introduce it, we decided it was too big for a single post.

So we’ll start covering each sim over the coming weeks after this brief intro.

What is the Freedom Continent? It started as an idea by Serjourn Daxter : many isolated kinky islands were not doing so well individually, so why not gather them into a continent, and let like-minded folks who found island A simply walk into island B?

The growth was gradual, and is now snowballing nicely as sim owners are asking to join and become part of the phenomenon.

It’s not free : Linden Labs charges 100$ US to move a sim. Clearly sim owners see the benefits and make the move, recouping the expense quickly in increased visibility and traffic.

Bondage Ranch, the old meeting place for the BDSM crowd, was one of the bigger splashes in this coming-together movement. Huge stores like Think Kink and Latex Station moving in were also indicative : here’s a project that’s going places!

I took a moment to copy and paste a map of the continent - note that if you click to enlarge, the result is big. I like big maps :)

Note that Blue Spirit is a member, and simply hasn’t moved in yet.

The slurl points to Pirandello Bay, the heart of Freedom Continent (and home of the pony taxi!)

Drop by the info center and wander around. There’s a clever teleporter map that will let you explore this awesome place. Have fun!

The SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Pirandello%20Bay/117/90/60

The Pony Taxi

Hi everyone.. Deirdre and lelo here, as Jaydana is taking a short break - we hope she’ll be back soon with cool pony goodness for you.

As a preliminary to an upcoming Freedom Continent post in the regular blog, we’ll give you a pony-related foretaste by mentioning a neat service at Pirandello Bay : the Pony Taxi.

A neat presence board tells you what ponies are available to give you a tour of the continent. You click to page a pony, she comes over, and takes you on a guided tour.

If you’ve never been on a pony cart ride, you’re in for a treat :) As a vehicle, I have yet to find something in SL I like more than a cart.

It’s fast enough to cover the relatively short distances on a sim, and in fact, fast enough to miss some of the scenery if you don’t make occasional stops.

The pony we called was friendly and helpful, and took us on a long tour, hitting the interesting spots of the continent (we won’t list them here).

As the sign says, ponies work for tips : if a ponygirl takes you on a half-hour tour with helpful comments, I’d say she definitely deserves something for her time.

Sin Ushimawa is the pony in charge - sadly we weren’t able to reach her in time for this post. There are a number of vacant spots on the board, so I believe she’d be happy to get ponies calling to offer their services

Pirandello Bay has a fixed landing zone, inside the info center. When you get there, walk to the big map, take the door at the right, and once outside, take the right-hand path, it leads right to the taxi stand.

The SLURL:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Pirandello%20Bay/190/97/56