[12:00 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: Welcome to Safe Waters Foundation weekly aquatic support gathering. My name is Miranda. I will be leading today’s meeting.
Welcome new and old aquatics and friends!
[12:00 PM] Nyles Reef Storm: Hi!
[12:00 PM] Cordelia Tasselweed (CordeliaTasselweed Resident): Tala
[12:01 PM] Peaches2U Camino: Tala!
[12:01 PM] Tigermeat Aphrodite: Talllaaaaaa!~
[12:01 PM] Nicholas Hawthorne: ?~~ Tala ~~?
[12:01 PM] Dahlia Bouevier greets you in merish: Tala…
[12:01 PM] Nixie Apple: Me!
[12:01 PM] Nyles Reef Storm: HiYa!
[12:01 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: People seem to arrive late and depart early. Please don’t be offended but as leader I will try to keep the meeting going. We don’t repeat things for latecomers – a log is posted on our blog after the meeting. This is not a place for public debate – this is a helpful place. we all help each other slive an aquatic lifestyle.
[12:01 PM] Nixie Apple: Mine!
[12:02 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: Because we usually have good attendance – please take a moment to remove all extra attachments and huds. We’d like you to dress low lag. Big poofy hair and jewelry are big culprits, as are bubbles, script things, huds, and such. If we all cooperate, more merfolk can participate with less crashing. Thank you for your help with this.
[12:02 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: so how was yer weeek seafolk?
[12:02 PM] Nyles Reef Storm: Howdy!
[12:02 PM] Dahlia Bouevier: the weekwas good,went byquickly ^^
[12:02 PM] Peaches2U Camino: FAST!
[12:02 PM] Cordelia Tasselweed (CordeliaTasselweed Resident): was good, exploring as many water sims as possible 🙂
[12:02 PM] Tigermeat Aphrodite: Same here!~
[12:03 PM] Tigermeat Aphrodite: So swift
[12:03 PM] Nicholas Hawthorne: well i finally catch a meeting, as i usually am either busy or rl work
[12:03 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: lol welcome.
[12:04 PM] Nixie Apple: LovesYou!
[12:04 PM] Dahlia Bouevier: Applause !!!
[12:04 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: alrighty, if no other banter, we’ll start up
[12:05 PM] Nixie Apple: ILoveYou!
[12:05 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: Our priority today is support – we’re all here to help each other, cause we’re awesome like that.
[12:05 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: aww thank you
[12:05 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: okay so the order is my introduction-done, introduce the new folks, sharing questions, ideas, and support to help each other-ie; tails, hair, bodies, AOs, requests, etc, then PSAs and promotion of events, sales or what ever else needs to be shared, then I close us out with our goals, maybe a group hug and picture.
[12:05 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: So here we go!!
[12:06 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: Introductions
If you have brought someone new to this gathering, please introduce them now. If you are new and wish to introduce yourself please do so now.
just click on the podium to sit on it or sit were you are if thats just easier.
[12:06 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: A very short sentence is all that is needed – for example: hi, I am (your name) and I discovered aquatics (brief description of how you found us) and what I love about being aquatic is (explain here).
[12:06 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: so any new folk? raise a hand, fin, flipper, or tentacle
[12:07 PM] Peaches2U Camino: errrr
[12:07 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: so no?
[12:07 PM] Peaches2U Camino: just my babies
[12:07 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: awww go ahead and introduce them
[12:07 PM] Peaches2U Camino: 😀
[12:08 PM] Peaches2U Camino: Zooby creates three types of littles
[12:08 PM] Peaches2U Camino: Newbor
[12:08 PM] Peaches2U Camino: ugh
[12:08 PM] Peaches2U Camino: Newborn
[12:08 PM] Peaches2U Camino: Babies
[12:08 PM] Peaches2U Camino: and Children
[12:08 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: newborn mers now?
[12:08 PM] Peaches2U Camino: only Babies can become mers^^
[12:08 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: sweet
[12:08 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: oh okay children can’t?
[12:08 PM] Peaches2U Camino: these three have leveled up to babies
[12:09 PM] Peaches2U Camino: and can wear fins
[12:09 PM] Peaches2U Camino: not yet
[12:09 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: okay nice
[12:09 PM] Peaches2U Camino: and children are new
[12:09 PM] Peaches2U Camino: as of a few months old
[12:09 PM] Peaches2U Camino: Nyles is adopted
[12:09 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: they make avatars for kids too so
[12:10 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: I’ll get with you on that later though I need to ask you stuff
[12:10 PM] Peaches2U Camino: Nixie and Alizzia are natural mine
[12:10 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: oooh thats who I heard talking
[12:10 PM] Peaches2U Camino: 😀
[12:10 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: okay I better move us on though
[12:10 PM] Peaches2U Camino: ~~~Persu Em~~~
[12:10 PM] Peaches2U Camino: Thank you
[12:11 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: welcome Nixiie and Alizza, Let’s move on to next part of this meeting.
[12:11 PM] Dahlia Bouevier: welcome!
[12:11 PM] Dahlia Bouevier: Applause !!!
[12:12 PM] Nixie Apple: Want!
[12:12 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: oh since there isn’t a shout thingy, you guys might wanna sit closer to each other..
[12:12 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: Questions and support requests
Now – what general questions can we discuss here today? Where do our aquatics need help? If you wish to share here – please im me so that I can call on you.
[12:12 PM] Nixie Apple: Want!
[12:13 PM] Nixie Apple: Want!
[12:13 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: topics can be anything mer related.
[12:13 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: if you have any pressing questions about merfolking in sl now is a great time to ask.
[12:14 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: anyone?
[12:14 PM] Dahlia Bouevier: I do have more of a small announce around mermaid AO on MP
[12:14 PM] Dahlia Bouevier: is that alright?
[12:14 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: go for it
[12:14 PM] Dahlia Bouevier: Mermaid AOs
[12:15 PM] Dahlia Bouevier: I have noticed that there are many new shops, selling AOs. These particular shops seem to have high prices for basic and not very good animations. One store I came across and you want to avoid is Animora by Bonno Belgar. The AO was not great for the price, could have been a freebie for its quality. Please do not purchase unless you check reviews or there are demos in-world. Its a growing trend i noticed. <3
[12:15 PM] Milky Baby: Tala Bento AO if you wear a bento tail, if you wear a traditional 5J tail, there are a lot of options.
[12:15 PM] Nyles Reef Storm: Sure!
[12:15 PM] Milky Baby: I approached a creator last weekend, who was selling what they called a Bento Mer AO
[12:15 PM] Nyles Reef Storm: Yes!
[12:16 PM] Milky Baby: I explained the community would expect it to move the bento tail joints, but it didn’t and they should be cautious about it.
[12:16 PM] Dahlia Bouevier: The posters look AI generated and look like great products but they defintiely dont meet the standards
[12:16 PM] Nyles Reef Storm: Yes!
[12:16 PM] Nixie Apple: My!
[12:16 PM] Milky Baby: Lets just say the reply I got was pretty rude haha!
[12:16 PM] Peaches2U Camino: Awwww ª_ª
[12:16 PM] Dahlia Bouevier: :O
[12:16 PM] Peaches2U Camino: ~~~Persu Em~~~
[12:16 PM] Peaches2U Camino: Thank you
[12:16 PM] Milky Baby: Agree Dahlia, AO posters, upper body and leg animations, not bento tail joint animations.
[12:16 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: I hate ai product ads
[12:16 PM] Nixie Apple: I!
[12:16 PM] Peaches2U Camino: for venting that!!!!!!!
[12:16 PM] Nyles Reef Storm: Yes!
[12:16 PM] Tigermeat Aphrodite: lol thats not cool, talk about not being open to criticism
[12:17 PM] Milky Baby: I wasn’t rude in approaching them btw, I was pretty gentle as they’re obviously not in the community haha!
[12:17 PM] Hathor D. Cullen (HathorDarkLight Resident): Good to know
[12:17 PM] Nixie Apple: Miiine!
[12:17 PM] Dahlia Bouevier: Happy to protect others and save their good lindens, support your trusted shops
[12:17 PM] Nixie Apple: Mees!
[12:17 PM] Nicholas Hawthorne: Yup
[12:18 PM] Peaches2U Camino: Yesah
[12:18 PM] Hathor D. Cullen (HathorDarkLight Resident): for sure
[12:18 PM] Milky Baby: Agreeee Dahlia!
[12:18 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: ~~~Persu Em~~~
[12:18 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: Thank you
[12:18 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: Milky. anything else?
[12:18 PM] Milky Baby: I have a little promo, but no more ranting about AI and bad AOs 😀
[12:19 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: lol
[12:19 PM] Dahlia Bouevier: ???
[12:19 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: promos will be coming up soon
[12:19 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: anyone else with a discussion?
[12:20 PM] Milky Baby: only just a casual observation actually
[12:20 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: that too
[12:20 PM] Milky Baby: Matti and I were talking about how much we miss the Tuesday night live music and dance event at Creations Park from the old days.
[12:20 PM] Nixie Apple: Ma!
[12:20 PM] Milky Baby: It was so fun having a reason to put together a themed outfit for the competition <3
[12:20 PM] Nixie Apple: Maa!
[12:21 PM] Milky Baby: It could be a really fun thing to try to revive here potentially.
[12:21 PM] Dahlia Bouevier: ????
[12:21 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: well… can either of you dj? you can try doing it here…
[12:21 PM] Dahlia Bouevier: ?????????
[12:21 PM] Dahlia Bouevier: brb afk
[12:21 PM] Peaches2U Camino: ikr, i MISS that
[12:22 PM] Milky Baby: we were looking at all the silly photos, it was brilliant.
[12:22 PM] Milky Baby: I once dressed as a taco with a green tail that looked like lettuce for one of the rounds haha
[12:22 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: we still need merdances that keep up with the music
[12:22 PM] Peaches2U Camino: hahahahah
[12:22 PM] Nicholas Hawthorne: lol
[12:23 PM] Dahlia Bouevier: ??????
[12:23 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: okay shall we swim on to promotions?
[12:23 PM] Dahlia Bouevier: Applause !!!
[12:24 PM] Nixie Apple: LoveYou!
[12:24 PM] Nixie Apple: LoveYou!
[12:25 PM] Nixie Apple: LovesYou!
[12:25 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: okay
[12:25 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: Quick reminders/announcements
Ad boards are awesome because they can help newer merfolk and aquatics find places to swim. If you need mer traffic, please consider renting an ad board.
[12:26 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: Perks include helping the group and being allowed to post ads in the group chat twice per week. Add in the fact that anyone can ask for the stick and that is great exposure.
[12:26 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: You might also consider being a hang out.
[12:26 PM] Nyles Reef Storm: HeyYa!
[12:26 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: Be sure to visit the safe waters foundation web site and event calendar at https://swfsl.com/
please also remember to contact ???? (Tabitha Sirensong) if you have an event you want on the calender. she did send out a form I’ll pass it to you if you need it.
[12:27 PM] Nyles Reef Storm: Hello!
[12:27 PM] SWF Donation Chest: Thank you Dahlia Bouevier, for your awesome donation
[12:27 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: and now…
Public service announcements
Now we allow a limited time for publicity. Who has something fun to share? A store, new sim, event, or news? If you wish to share here – please im me so that I can call on you.
[12:27 PM] Nyles Reef Storm: Howdy!
[12:27 PM] Hathor D. Cullen (HathorDarkLight Resident): Telo
[12:27 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: When you are called on (and given our invisible talking stick) please swim up to this podium (so people can see you to im if needed) and share (very briefly and preferable in two or three sentences typed in advance as our meeting time is limited)
[12:27 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: tala
[12:28 PM] Dahlia Bouevier greets you in merish: Tala…
[12:28 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: please im me to share so I can keep you all in order
[12:28 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: our first speaker is Milky. please swim on up
[12:28 PM] Dahlia Bouevier: Applause !!!
[12:28 PM] Milky Baby: Hey everyone 🙂 I’m Neve from mermade, but I changed my user name (again) haha! I hope you’re all keeping well! 😀
[12:29 PM] Tigermeat Aphrodite: yay!~
[12:29 PM] Milky Baby: Today, I wanted to say hi. Those of you have known me and my store for a while will have noticed that I slowed down in releases over the last year, and I’m so sorry for that.
In July last year I had some routine blood tests and then I had a bit of a silly accident. Investigations done, I was ultimately diagnosed with Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia. Thanks to incredible medical breakthroughs 26 years ago, I take a daily chemo medication and I’ll live a long life alongside my blood cancer.
[12:29 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: hugs
[12:29 PM] Dahlia Bouevier: ????
[12:29 PM] Peaches2U Camino: huggles!
[12:29 PM] Dahlia Bouevier hugs
[12:30 PM] Milky Baby: BUT now, now things are getting a bit back to normal, I’m also back to SL!
[12:30 PM] Hathor D. Cullen (HathorDarkLight Resident): Huggles
[12:30 PM] Milky Baby: I’ve rebuilt my mainstore, shopping is simpler, prettier and easier! Nemissa’s downstairs, Riptides upstairs. If you’d like to visit to check it out, SLurl is here: Crystal Coast (http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Crystal%20Coast/29/46/2001) or IM me for a landmark! I still have the last nemissa vendor in SL if anyone is looking to grab it, too.
[12:30 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: welcome back ?
[12:30 PM] Cordelia Tasselweed (CordeliaTasselweed Resident): oh my, happy to hear you are doing well
[12:30 PM] Tigermeat Aphrodite: Thats awesome news ?
[12:30 PM] Milky Baby: The most exciting thing… is that as part of the rebuild, I’ve created a PHOTO BOOTH, especially designed for mers and aquatics! There’s over 100 poses, for up to four avatars, underwater or above it. If you take a pic and upload it to socials, and share the link, you’re in for a chance of winning 450L store credit. There’s an info board over the photo booth with instructions on how the posing and lighting system works. I hope you all love it and I can’t wait to see your creativity!
[12:31 PM] Milky Baby: The booth is just up the steps from the landing point here: Crystal Coast http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Crystal%20Coast/32/36/2001)
[12:31 PM] Peaches2U Camino: oooh1
[12:32 PM] Dahlia Bouevier: ??
[12:32 PM] Dahlia Bouevier: Applause !!!
[12:32 PM] Tigermeat Aphrodite: Thats such a great idea!
[12:32 PM] Milky Baby: and for the leggers, I included some human water poses too <3
[12:32 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: that sounds fun ?
[12:32 PM] Milky Baby: That’s me, thank you so much for your well wishes, and it’s really good to be back! xx
[12:32 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: ?
[12:32 PM] Dahlia Bouevier: welcome back, thank you for sharing, we ? you!
[12:33 PM] Tigermeat Aphrodite: So glad to see you back 😀
[12:33 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: okay who else has a share?
[12:33 PM] Peaches2U Camino: welcome back and keep kicking errrr luki buns!
[12:33 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: if you can’t move don’t worry we’ll point you out
[12:33 PM] Milky Baby: hehe I do have stome very stompy kickers when I’ve got my legs on haha:D
[12:33 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: ?
[12:34 PM] Nyles Reef Storm: HiYa!
[12:34 PM] Dahlia Bouevier: ??
[12:34 PM] Nyles Reef Storm: Hello!
[12:34 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: Amadine? you okay?
[12:34 PM] Nixie Apple: ByeBye!
[12:35 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: the lag monster is chomping her tail but she has a share.
[12:35 PM] Nixie Apple: ByeBye!
[12:35 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: I’ll take my turn while we wait
[12:36 PM] Nixie Apple: ByeBye!
[12:36 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: Tala I’m Miranda and I come from Antiquity.
we have 16 sims to swim through, homes available, shopping spaces, mer spots, and active groups.
[12:36 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: We are totally inclusive, kids, mers, furs, landers all welcome and as always, we’re LGBT+ friendly.
We still allow for mer toplessness under water.
[12:36 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: but we’re careful around humans because I’ve seen people faint at the sight of an ankle, which we established is around the fluke. yes humans are weird
[12:36 PM] Dahlia Bouevier: ( Y ) ?
[12:36 PM] Nixie Apple: SoLong!
[12:37 PM] Hathor D. Cullen (HathorDarkLight Resident): indeed they are
[12:37 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: we’re a light rp place. Set in a time loop between the golden age of piracy and the Victorian era.
[12:37 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: we’re doing a cool thing where you can write up an rp and suggest it. Antiquity Battle Dock http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Antiquity%20Battle%20Dock/38/119/2
[12:37 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: we have a system called TCS. its a craft/trade/rp system that allows you to trade goods with other mers or landers. You can harvest and create things.
[12:37 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: Please check out shops and houses to rent here,
Antiquity Bexar http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Antiquity%20Bexar/178/107/2
So if you have any questions, or need lms please shoot me an im. Persu em ?
[12:38 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: oh and my other share…
[12:38 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: at the lagoon at the surface
[12:39 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: a troop of willowsouts will sell cookies Sunday
[12:40 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: theres a little wax bag in the boxes so it should withstand the surf till you get them home
[12:40 PM] Peaches2U Camino: 😀
[12:40 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: any other shares?
[12:41 PM] Peaches2U Camino: may I please have the lm to coooookies? please
[12:42 PM] Nicholas Hawthorne Nahms. :3
[12:42 PM] Peaches2U Camino: aaaand the time^^
[12:42 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: hang on I don’t have the lm but I do have the slurl
[12:42 PM] Amadine Abonwood: Sorry I just came to remind everyone about the Halloween hunt.
[12:42 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: 9am to 2
[12:42 PM] Nixie Apple: ByeBye!
[12:42 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: just in time.
[12:42 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: Fanci Deep SW (http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Fanci%20Deep%20SW/133/237/21)
[12:43 PM] Nixie Apple: SoLong!
[12:43 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: okay go for it Amadine
[12:43 PM] Dahlia Bouevier: Applause !!!
[12:43 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: you can stay seated
[12:44 PM] Amadine Abonwood: Well….thgat’s it! Just remember I have a Halloween Hunt in January! If you want an application let me know!
[12:44 PM] Amadine Abonwood: ‘OCTOBER! Not January!
[12:44 PM] Amadine Abonwood: Janurary’s the 12 Days of Giving!
[12:45 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: okay the Halloween hunt is a fun thing we do in October where we shop keepers put out a gift for the kids
[12:45 PM] Fawn Cobalt: is this the same Halloween Hunt that Ishani does?
[12:45 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: yes
[12:45 PM] Amadine Abonwood: Yes. I just had to pick up some stuff so I’m on Ama instead of Ish.
[12:45 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: Amadine and Ishani are the same mer
[12:45 PM] Fawn Cobalt: ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
[12:46 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: ?
[12:46 PM] Nicholas Hawthorne: Yeah…yeah…that makes good sense!
[12:46 PM] Dahlia Bouevier: ?????
[12:46 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: so if you’d like to join the hunt please just ask
[12:46 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: any other shares?
[12:47 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: okay shall we adjourn then?
[12:48 PM] Miranda Barrowstone: This meeting is now adjourned. Remember our SWF goals:
- to assist those considering an underwater life
- to increase awareness in the general public that there is an underwater option
- to make mer resources (events, projects, groups, retailers, sims, designers) visible and easily accessible
- to assist, as possible, with the viability of mer resources so they may continue to be available to the community
- to promote the conservation of rl oceans, lakes and waterways and the nature that relies on them
Now go mingle and explore! Thanks for joining us this day!!