Sitting at the Cool Kids Table and Wiggling My Pixel Booty

This is my thinking face. Or maybe I smell something. Could be both.

It’s been a weird couple of weeks for me in SL.

Back on the 2nd, I attended a Zoom meeting with Philip Rosedale. Linden Lab was announcing the launch of the web-based Second Life experience (which I’m sure you’ve heard about by now). There were many bloggers there, including some whose work I’ve admired for a long time, like Strawberry Linden. I remember when she was just an SL blogger like the rest of us.

I felt like I was having lunch at the cool kids’ table.

I stayed off camera and stuck to text. It was my very first Zoom meeting ever, so I was careful not to click anything.

After more years in SL than I care to admit, it was also the first time I felt like Linden Lab really wanted to know what we, as residents, thought.

Fast forward to yesterday. While wiggling my pixel booty at Wet Willie’s, I checked in on the forums to see what was new. I happened to see a post from Darcy Linden saying he’d be in-world at 1 PM to talk more about the Character Designer project. It was almost 1 o’clock when I saw the message, so I TPed over.

There was a nice turnout—maybe 10 to 15 of us—plus Kali Linden and Viola Mole. Darcy answered lots of questions and shared a bit more about what to expect in the coming weeks. Granted, most of it was over my head, but I learned a little and it was cool to see the avatars of people I’ve read about on the forums.

Afterward, I went back to my little house, sat on the porch with a hot cup of coffee, and thought, “What is happening? Am I hobnobbing with the cool kids now? AM I A COOL KID???”

And then I got excited, splashed hot coffee down the front of my dress, and realized that no, I’m still the same clumsy, awkward Mahala I’ve always been. I’ll probably have to stay on my sky island for a few days to get back to normal.

I hope y'all have an awesome week ahead. We'll talk again soon!

They Only Come Out at Night

Late at night, after the kiddies are tucked in and the sun has slid beyond the horizon, they gather under the stars and dance in a hidden forest. The fae, the witches, the two-spirit and the free-spirit. 

Their bodies move and the worries of the day fade into the darkness. New friends are found, old friends are greeted with excited cries.  Their wings shine under the moonlight, their fur moist with the evening myst.

They dance alone, they dance with their loves and some, dance with the moon. After a full day of proprieties, their business facade and polite society, they are free to be themselves, hidden in the trees, deep in the forest.

So when you sit on your porch, late at night or beside the open kitchen window, listen closely and you may hear the beat of distant music, the flapping of wings, big cat roars or the joyful chanting of witches, deep in the forest.

We only come out at night.

~*~

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