Robin Kiyori

When was this glorious time? No really. I want to know for when time machines happen

People typing in local chat. Mostplaces are dead silent now.

In a perfect, non captialist hellscape, nobody would be forced into having to work on holidays. There would be benfical, truly volentary (and not that crap "its totes optimal but well find a way to fire you or ensure you will have that onebad check away from homelessness volenteering) spots for those that don't want to celebrate so the wheels can keep turning. But we don't currently live in that world so we have this awful catch 22 situation of needing support. But customer service is often the most overworked and needing of holidays. My empathy is with both the workers and the customers in this situation. People need to have support when things go wrong because currently lesuire time and avtivties are in short supply and very needed. But the staff also need breaks and holidays. Paid holiday overtime without strings attached if you don't take it might be the best approach.

Its 7am and I still feel wide awake. Offers the kitty some sympathy cupcakes. And I have an apoinment in the real space at 2pm. And urgh double yes! Time is both lightening and turtlefast thanks to the world's everything. I hope things get less sucky for you.

Peeve: Insomnia at night leading to oversleeping and thus getting stuck in a loop. My inability to find a low prim house that isn't literally just one room masqarding as a house. Houses that are completely unlinked meaning you can't resize it all at once without sone sigficant amount of clicking. Or thinking you got everything only to miss half a dozen tiny details.

[Confused Non binary noises] But why would derrndering all male assumed avatars make things faster? Why just men. How do you even know?? Espically with men that use maityrea +flat chestof choice.

Completely understandable, explains why at my most depressive I can consume almost all cholcate like some terrifying edlrich god feeding on souls.

It's essential for my Dad, he is a diabetic and a choclate bar can sometimes be the difference between life or diabetic coma. Peeve: My body, excuse you body but it's rude to scareme with a cough and ear aches during covid time. Please cease and desist.

I have had brushes with death, from being a sickly baby to motorists who don't understand how zebra crossings and traffic lights work. To struggling with sucidal thoughts? I have also lost dear friends in sl and family in rl. The very first death in my inner family even occured just a few days after i had joined sl on my first long deleted account. I don't really have much to really make a will with. Being a disabled millennial who graduated from a tech just as the big golbal housing market crash means I have no real savings. But I am going to furtherwork on documents on alerting those i love online and canceling the few subscription sevices i have. My biggest worry is that when I die, Will my family respect my wishes and bury me under my real name and gender. Or continue to misgender me dven to the grave.

I think it might help to better understand why some people get passionate about appropriation by using analogies. First off, There's "this thing is apart of a relgious/spiritual practice or other significant marker that has to be earned, and not a costume." as a type of appropriation. For this type, You (General you.) would squint if someone claimed to be a priest, a doctor or active army officer without the proper qualification being earned correct? It's much the same with those tattoos. It's something that has to be earned first. Likewise with the feathered headdresses/war bonnets of many Native American tribes and so on and so forth. It's not that they can't be appreciated. It's that they have a set way of being earned and to not earn is to spit in the face of the culture and people who did earn it. Pretty reasonable right? in Sl there's the murkiness of Roleplay but that's a different kettle of fish. The second type's when something isn't a part of a closed/scared thing. But there's stigma attached for those from the culture. For these types it's not that nobody but X can wear/use it. It's that there's a genuine and understandable anger and frustration that when they practise or wear them. They're mocked, barred from opportunities/employment because it's deemed "unprofessional" or face harassment, even violence for it. But when someone outside of that culture wears/does it. Suddenly everything is hunky-dory and they're praised for their trendsetting style or quietness. It's like when you get bullied for a hobby or fashion style until it suddenly becomes popular and the same people that mocked you are now "isn't this the coolest"? but up to eleven in the obnoxiousness. We can agree that sucks right? The crux of it isn't that people want all things to remain in boxes and cultures can never mix ever. It's that people should learn to respect boundaries and not give people ***** for their appearance and then turn around and copy it (But often worse.) That said, I do have ...some issues with how some folks. (usually outside of those cultures) Use cultural apportion not for it's attended use as a "Can you please just x" and instead warp it into a bludgeoning weapon to silence nuanced discussion and wind up causing more harm then good.

My dog max doing what he does best, sleeping.

I haven't but I might have to try.

No..? That's not what I got from op at all and I am a light skinned/white non binary. They just described what they did so any curious could either: A: replicaite it. Sometimes thins turn out diffently if there's a randomised element so repettiin can help. B: correct op politely. Also choice paralysis is hardly going to kick in the moment other options for skintones are added? Like... that's a reach. Much like your whole post really. I am not seeing what you seem to see. Because I don't see the issue in letting people choose a starting avatar or having a selection of skin options. It won't make it too complex. Trust me, many mmos and other virtual places have managed just fine with selections.

Pet peeve: The fact that I can't eat bacon because of werid texture/maybe allergy issues that make me start to choke on the tasty but bad for robins food. ;;

I have to agree with you Scylla. The amount of hostility from some of the folks posting here is pretty bizzare and unessarcy. It's much more logical for there to be a selection and tutorial on how to change further then what op described right? Some of the reactions of afew posters are just.. You (general you not directed to Scylla) all do know that not everything related to folks wanting more choice for the start, even for alts isn't "playing the victim" or "sjws runing everything!!!!" Right? It's just good buisness sense for an international game like second life.

I am greatful for my friends, they are excellent people. For my dog max, the living serotonin dispenser. He is such a sweet, affectionate pooch and nothing cheers me uplike he does by simply placing his head on my knee or laying next to me. For my bed which is warm and cosy.

Jewell, You sorta missed my point I'm well aware of how it's not just older people. My furstration was the lack of awareness in those older people who bemoan the younger generations, While outright making the situation worse for everyone by ignoring rules. About a pandemic that could kill not just my father, but other family members.

Oh boy do I? I'm frustrated and annoyed at how I and others like me are Shielding, doing what we can, even as isolation slowly makes my mental health go further down the toilet. Only for old biddies to refuse to wear a mask, and then whine about "kids these days are making this whole thing worse." BISH YOU'RE LITERALLY UNMASKED IN A PLACE THAT IT IS MANDATORY TO WEAR ONE, YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE A MIDDLE DONKEY LET ALONE A HIGH HORSE. I hate that my dad, a Diabetic and there for high risk has to keep working at his security job at a hospital because of a *****ing clerical error. I hate how the people at the top care more about profit then the people sick and dying. I hate that I gotta deal with this loneliness because some morons can't even be bothered to do the bare minimum. But yeah, sure Jan, It's the kids that are the problem.

My pet peeve today is myself. I wish I could launch myself into the sun so i can dtop being a burden on everyone

Love is an interesting subject and I find the greek forms of love especially fascinating as someone who is asexual and doesn't need sexual intmancy in order to be head over heels with someone due to still experiencing Romantic attraction. My love language tends to be on the affrimation side and the physical. I am a big cuddler, I vocalise my love and my partners tend to be the few people that never exausght me in that soical energy manner. I think it makes sense that love is displayed differently not just by inviduals but who they dhow it to. Also I found that love is stored in the kitty and puppy.

While one friend from rl has a sl account I don't know her sl name. Aside from that I try to keep the two separate due to here being where I can present and be non binary in peace.

Avatar 2.0, Regulia, Kemono of the top of my head. Exteremly popular with the furry community.

See, this is exactly my point. As well as a common thread with you Luna. I get you too are disabled. But just as I don't speak for all of us in the disabilty community. Neithet do you. Pearl eventually got the message and stopped. But you kept going even when she confessed. Still going even now. Please realise that you need to listen and empathise with those who are hurt by that language. I know you're capable of it. People have explained why "I make [marginalised group] feel human again" is hurtful even if it isn't intended that way, multpile times. Accept that as Pearl has.

I have no issue with Sex work, I think that people who view it as lesser or hurl slurs and abuse at sex workers are disgusting and advocate in the first life for decriminalization of sex work and those who choose it as a viable option for employment. (Note, "what about trafficking-" people, That I said CHOOSE. Victims cannot choose or consent.) I have no issue with Pearl as a person, I have even defended her at one point. What I do take offense to. Is the attitude towards Disabled people and the non apologies. Even after admitting she has no disabled clients. It hurt to be devalued, it hurt worse to see that instead of mine and many other disabled speaking out. people where more focused on defending Pearl's feelings then the people she caused harm to with her words and actions. Saying that we where ganging up on her or no different from anti-sex work people. (It's an extra salt in the wound because many rl sex workers are disabled.) When one person outright left the forms because of it (and other reasons) I think those with disabilities are allowed to feel bitter. Espically when the biggest voices in defending her actions and downplaying are hurt are so called Defenders of the oppressed.

My pet peeves: When people double down on an assumption rather than admit that they got it wrong. When you get a photo/screenshot juuuust right, the pose is on point, the lighting is great. Then you crash or the region restarts. The crack that I have grey hair, creaky knees and a bad back...and I am only 31! 😧 Body why?