Avatar Blogger Month

Camping Out Beside A Roofless Cabin

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I told you I would be posting more from the Arcade, and this time it’s not a fashion post! Although I’m wearing my skin, hair, headband and top from The Arcade, this post is all about the fun stuff! I spent AGES setting up these shots, and I still didn’t manage to capture all of the goodies I put out. And I’m embarrassed about how much stuff was left in my inventory!

I’m not going to say a whole lot, except a thank you to all of the creators who participate in The Arcade. The quality, creativity and whimsy of these items are the reason I fight the lag and “Region Full” warnings every three months to try my luck at this capricious, fanciful event.

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Arcade items (creators only):

*Art Dummy!
floorplan.
Scarlet Creative
Tableau Vivant
Apple Fall
Silent Sparrow
Intrigue Co.
Elate
Pink Fuel
Wasabi Pills
Emery
Noodles
Sleepy Eddy
OhMai
Commoner
Olive.

A Regret

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Just stepped under the gazebo, waiting for a shower to pass.

I should have kicked off my heels and danced in the rain.

Single Frame Stories: Community – A Gaggle of Bloggers

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ACK! I know, I know, this photo looks eerily familiar 😉 I was actually going to make my previous post a double-shot for Avatar Blogger Month and Single Frame Stories, but then I remembered Whiskey asked us to use a landscape format. So…I went back and did some more editing on the same raw shot to make sure my entries don’t cause her grief!

I’m getting this in a bit late – the post for this week’s prompt, “Community” has already been published, but we have a grace period, since this is part of the display for SL10B. If you want to participate in Single Frame Stories, you can get in now with any of the three selected prompts: Identity, Community, and next week’s, Creativity. Just upload them to the Single Frame Stories Flickr group by Friday of next week.

While blogging is often a solitary endeavour, there is a huge number of bloggers in Second Life. Many may never meet another SL blogger. Yet there is a true sense of community through blog comments and other social media platforms. A blogger’s words can be nothing more than a personal online journal, or it can reach hundreds of thousands of readers. But no matter where on the spectrum yours sits, it’s a bit frightening – yet empowering – to realise that once that post is published, even if you delete it, there is still a copy cached somewhere on the interwebs. It’s a connection we all share and links us together.

A gaggle of bloggers – a group of individuals who face the same hurdles with every post they write – constitutes a community where I am happy to belong.

Just as an aside, neither thesaurus.com nor synonym.com have another word for “blogger”!