Fourth of July Parties At The Sunweavers (And Mieville)

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By Bixyl Shuftan

Last week, the United States celebrated it's official birthday, the Fourth of July. A number of clubs celebrated, including those at the Sunweaver community.

 For Club Cutlass, the celebration came a little early on Saturday, July 2.

Liska was still in her pink avatar from a Relay "Bid Me," but this would be the last night.

Everyone had lots of fun, including DJ Cynthia.

Cynthia added to the fun with a few fireworks. 

The party continued at Xanadu with it's own Fourth of July party. 

DJ Jessie would dance alongside the "Muses" and some of the patrons.

The fireworks would be indoors. 

Club owners Perri Prinz and RECoyote Mindes dancing. Perri's had some rough times recently, but still keeps the club going, as of the writing of this article one official event a week.

The party at the Bouncing Bunny Beach Club on Sunday July 3 was changed to Come As You Are. But some came in red, white, and blue.

On Monday July 4, I heard about a party in the community of Mieville.

DJ Snowy, who is more noted for her sets in the Sunweaver community's clubs, was spinning the tunes for this party, with community manager Wyvvy (Wyvern Dryke) doing the part of hosting.

The "Mievies" are a mostly human community, but the "Flox" or "Floxmonster," as Wyvvy calls himself, is more-or-less in charge when the community land owner isn't around. As Wyvvy's a fun-loving character, it all works out for everyone.

The locals had a few furry visitors among them, many decked out in red, white, and blue.

That night at 6PM, there would be a Fourth of July party at the Happy Vixen, with DJ Khyra spinning the tunes.

A few outfits were from earlier parties. But they worked just as well.

Gil Otaared showed up as the Statue of Liberty.

 "You've got your hair in a bun."

It was a fun Fourth of July. Granted the country has plenty of problems, the news being full of stories of the country factionalizing, people having less faith that those from other political factions will honor commitments or respect them. But the USA has been through worse times, and each time come out in one piece.

Happy Birthday America,

Bixyl Shuftan

*Correction* Earlier I stated the Cutlass fireworks were from Chieftess Rita Mariner. They were Cynthia Farshore's.

Scenes From Easter

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By Bixyl Shuftan

For Second Life residents, Easter is a special time. For the religious, it's time to celebrate the Resurrection. For both churchgoers and the secular alike, it's reminders of memories as kids of the Easter Bunny, finding hidden eggs, and chocolate bunnies.

For the few days before, there were some Easter-themed parties at various clubs, as well as related themes. At the Happy Vixen's Spring event, a bunnygirl appeared, ridding a carrot like a witch on a broom.

Club Zero Gravity had recently renovated the club build. A few joked with the holiday, it now looked like an Easter egg.

Going about, I was seeing more bunny ears than usual.

Thursday April 14 had the theme "Candy and Chocolate" at the Happy Vixen, so out come some chocolate bunny avatars.

A dark chocolate bunny, and a milk chocolate wolf.

"Milk chocolate with a little bite to it."

Saturday April 16, Club Cutlass had it's Easter Party.

With numerous bunny avatars present.

Sunday April 17, it was Easter Sunday. And the Bouncing Bunny Beach Club would have an Easter event.

"Hangin With My Peeps."

There was something "egg" strordinary going on at Burning Man - Deep Hole.

There was an exhibit on Ukrainian Psyanky eggs.

But this egg broke easily.

There was a special egg, that was about to be cooked.

A bit more than over-easy.

Looks like it was all shell, and no yolk.

Group hug.

And finally, one Christian-themed sim, Peace Child, was having a party that night. The SURL look me to the sim's main entrance.

So I went down the path to the event. 

The party was outside the chapel building.

It was a party that was a mix of humans and some furs, one wearing a "Star Trek" uniform (The Original Series did have one episode with a Christian reference).

"The reason for the season."

It was a fun party.

On a final note, I was late in finishing this article. But better late than never.

Bixyl Shuftan
 

Scenes From The FCA "Christmas in July" Club Crawl

 

Saturday July 24 2021 was the day of the Furry Club Alliance (FCA) summertime club crawl. The FCA is made up of several clubs, numbering six at the time of this article, which support one another a little through some cross-promotion and in the case of the Sunweaver clubs that make up most of the members to prevent (or at least cut down on) schedule conflicts as they have much the same audience. 

The theme was "Christmas in July," which was felt would be a "cool" theme in these warm times. Things started out at Club Zero Gravity at Noon SL time. And the club had been colored a bit for the occasion with much red and green. The space-themed club is high above the Sunweaver Space sim at (129, 249, 3597).

The people who came in had all sorts of Christmasy looks.

DJ Lexi played the tunes for the two hour's of Zero-G's part of the event.

The contest was won by LiskaBystrouska Resident and, Dusk Griswold. 

At 2PM, the crowd went over to the newest club in the Sunweaver community, the Bouncing Bunny Beach Club.

The club came about in November last year, and has done far better than the hangout that came to an end shortly before it's construction. It's in the SunWaterThree sim at (75/56/25).

Tonight we are looking for your best Christmas avatars ,outfits ,and/or wearable pets !

Hop on over to our beautiful bunny beach club for this great event.

Come listen to the sweet sounds of DJ Snow Buns as we rock out for two hours at our wonderful beach club.

 "Only 154 days until Christmas !"

DJ Snowbuns played the music for the event in her reindeer avie.

At one point, Snowy had a mistletoe just over her tail. Which reminded me of the "enchanted mistletoe" in one online comic. 

The contest was won by Ginger (Dusk Griswold) and Jenni Greenfield.

 At 4PM, it was the Happy Vixen's turn for the club crawl. Outside of the main group of Sunweaver sims, the beach club is located in Purrfection Estates at (236, 219, 24). It recently celebrated it's tenth anniversary. 

Hey folks! It's time for the Happy Vixen's event in the Club Crawl. On this hot day, many of us are wishing for winter. So our theme for the Crawl is Christmas in July. Come in Christmasy colors of red & white and green, Santa hats, reindeer, elves, or anything else Christmasy you can think of. Our Christmas kitsune DJ Mattie spins the tunes.

"What does Santa do in his garden? Hoe hoe hoe!"

DJ Mattie, the star DJ of the Sunbeamer RFL team this Relay season, played the music for the two hours for this part of the event with a number of classic Christmas tunes and a few funny ones such as "Leroy the Redneck Reindeer."

I only took a few pictures of the event, so  the camera didn't pick up the crowd that would come over before, during and after halftime. The winner of the contest was Dusk Griswold. 

At 6PM was Club Cutlass. Unlike most of the other clubs in the crawl, it regularly had events on this day of the week and time. The airship club is located high over Sunweaver Bay at (114/117/757).

It may be hot outside, but we're celebrating the yuletide tonight at Cutlass. get in to your Christmas outfits and come out to party with DJ Geerkil and his crew. Doors open at 6 PM.

DJ Geerkil (who goes by a few nicknames such as "Sausage") played the music for the event. Some of his tunes were a bit on the twisted side for this Xmas-themed party. The club itself was decorated a bit, such as putting reindeer antlers on the pirate bunny logo on the dance floor.

Besides the dragon DJ, there were a few other large avatars. This guy "bear"ly fit through the door.

While usually 250L is up on each of the two contest boards, for this party it was 1500L each. Kylee Gracemount and AndrewFoxianArctic were the winners.

At 8PM, it was the turn of the Sunweaver's classic rock club, Xanadu. Like Cutlass, it also usually plays at this day of the week and time. It's high above the HV Community sim at (67/207/4051).

 Saturday July 24, 2021  Tonite, 8PM :Hey folks! It's Club Xanadu's event in the Club Crawl. On this hot day, many of us are wishing for winter. So our theme for the Crawl is Christmas in July. Come in Christmasy colors of red & white and green, Santa hats, reindeer, elves, or anything else Christmasy you can think of. Our Christmas reindeer DJ SnowBuns spins the tunes.

DJ Jesse was supposed to be the one making music for Xanadu. But her Internet was out. So DJ Snowbuns, still in her reindeer avatar, filled in.

The contest ended in a tie between Nikkita Sugar Lefavre (Aubrytia Resident) and DeniseUnicorn Toonie.

Finally at 10PM was the last event at the crawl, at Club Balance. The one club outside the Sunweaver community, its located at Liwei (113/23/53).

The club had an event going earlier, which had more people, but a number went to bed after it ended. So DJ Maliit played the tunes for a small but happy crowd. There was no contest, but the folks were happy just the same.

And so that was the FCA's summer 2021 club crawl. There will likely be another around Halloween, or perhaps Christmastime.

Bixyl Shuftan