Rumour has it

Darlings, real life has taken a hold of us. All the lovelies we have missed are highly amusing. Fashion Blogger week drama seems to have been abound. Sweeties, we are sorry to miss such torrid drama but, alas, our first lives come first.

Rumour has it, a male freebie blogger is getting too big for his prims and making demands for more male freebie from designers. (True)

Rumour has it, Elle and Bianca sleep in the nude. (Wouldn't you like to know?)

Rumour has it, a fashion diva needs a reality check for believing that everyone truly adores her. (True)

Rumour has it, a pregnant goldfish is called a twit. (True)

Rumour has it, a washed-up fashion blogger has been seen licking arse with a sloshy designer. (True)

Rumour has it, a particular designer is retiring to live life as an alt. (Maybe)

Rumour has it, a snarky blogger is up in arms over criticism for their latest foray. (False)

Rumour has it, a child-sex play nutter is pleading with people to be their friend. (True & Gross)

Rumour has it, Plurk is secretly run by those at Linden Lab. (False, I hope)

Rumour has it, a C list designer was spitting mad over the current round of attacks from the nutball du jour. (True)

Rumor has it, our suspicion about the fake death turned out to be very accurate. (True)

Faking Death on the Internet: Part 2

Perhaps the idea came from our very blog last month on faking death on the internet but yet another denizen of Second Life has passed away. Or did she? The entire blog announcing her death is dripping with all those telltale signs of pseuocide. I am not saying she is not really dead and did not die under those tragic circumstances but I am saying that to take the word of a stranger with full access to her blog and her SL accounts is really taking a leap of faith.

Examining the blog that is not her, the man claims that this is not one of her "mind games" which right away should send off warning bells that this is in fact nothing more than a mind game. He goes on to remind the reader that no one knows him. This mystery man just appears today to announce that a woman who has been missing from SL for a month and a half has died. She is his good friend. They are so very close. They are so very close that he was not aware of her death until 38 days after her alleged death.

Something this tragic will always make the news feeds. They eat this stuff up more than the drama queens of the freebie hating horde. Bianca and I have done an extensive search of the news feeds in both English and French(bless you, Bianca). We have come across many tragic and pregnant French woman who have died within the last 4 months but none with details or names matching this instance.

If we go back my blog on faking death on the internet we find that this announcement of death falls completely within the Clues to a Detecting a False Death:
1. Tragic event with increasing tragic events.
2. A person blogs on their behalf to inform the friends of this tragic event and they have the same writing style as the newly deceased.

With so many cases of faked deaths, illnesses(terminal cancers)and fake heart transplants on SL, how can so many people just blindly believe this to be true without one shred of evidence? Show us the news article. Show us the obituary. Show us the death notice. Until then, I find this entire story hard to swallow.

It is sad to see such an outpouring of emotion from bloggers across the board that are relying solely on this stranger to confirm a death of their colleague.

More oddities: This mysterious person has logged into her plurk account. Why would she have given him her access to all of these things? This stranger who is not her husband has access to all of her online accounts. Most people do not go around giving their passwords out to their blog tech. This smells faker by the minute.

More oddities 2: A pregnant woman was hit by a van in NYC on the 27th of March just 1 week before this alleged incident. This incident received international news coverage with the latest update on the article just a few days ago.

These SL related article came out following our disbelief. We are please to see we are not alone in out doubts:
Another First-Life Death in Second Life
Open Letter to Rheta Shan
Faking Death: a tradition as old as the Internets themselves (apparently one of our readers because she cites many sources from our previous article)

Prom Drama Queen

Sweeties, I am glad I did not have to live through the teenage angst of the American prom. We simply had nothing equivalent. Our proms consisted of musical concerts of the classic variety. There is a drama brewing in the fashion world over this American right of passage in virtual form. I think it is safe to say that a majority of the secondary schools in the United States and Canada have these formal dances at the end of their final year. I see no reason why there cannot be many proms in Second Life.

The heart of the drama is simple: a co-team captain of a Relay for Life team tried to guilt a fellow blogger about their own blog prom. We were going to stand aside on this one but apparently Miss Vielle got accused of being yours truly and we cannot have that even if we agree with her on this one. This all goes back to the earlier blogs we had about hairstyles, glowing clothes, and paper clothes. These are all things that pre-exist outside of Second Life and to point fingers at someone for doing these things is just plain silly.

Who is this Miss Aquitaine to stamp her feet and pout because Shopping Cart Disco is having a prom? According to my inside source, she is neither an owner or an officer of this designer group she is taking Miss Vielle to task over. I feel sorry for these designers that are viewed by Miss Aquitaine as being too dense to know the difference between a notecard about Shopping Cart Disco and a notecard about Relay for Life. The members of this group should be insulted to have so little thought of their intelligence. These group members should be thanking Miss Vielle for exposing what Miss Aquitaine really thinks about them.

Miss Vielle was not asking for money for her event. She was asking the designers in a group she is part of if they were interested in donating items to be gifts at her event. It is my understanding that this is a common occurrence with this group and is not outside the norm. Why would she think that this was not allowed this for her own event when others have benefited from similar announcements in the past?

Reading through their commentary we discover that the designers group is completely different from the RFL team of the same name. We send a team to visit several stores from the designers in the main group and found many were on other RFL teams.

Teams found:
Designers In Seclusion
New Babbage
Passionate Redheads
Relay Wizards for Spunky
Relay's Raiders
Team Oakie Doakie
United Forces Against Cancer

As we can clearly see from the above, the group members are part of many teams so Miss Aquitaine made a bold assumption is believing that everyone was part of her elitist group. We did not visit all 200 plus stores but it gives you a general idea that she does not speak for the masses.

Darling, or if you prefer, Hon, you need to learn to step back from your computer and look at things from the perspective of others. Your actions were judgmental and rude to both Miss Vielle and your fellow designer group members. The damage your actions may have caused a charity event may be irreparable. Perhaps you should stick to writing.

Gaga Gag Me

Sweeties, there is a new trend in Second Life making its rounds throughout the fashion community. Alarmingly there is a fair number of designers taking their inspiration from Lady Gaga's unique flare. From her trademark sunglasses to her creative use of the hair bow the grid has become polluted with knock offs and coattail riders. Even more surprising, Darlings, is one store has the gall of name themselves after this dear fashion queen.

It is clear that designers are quick to jump on the current now celebrities so let us start seeing some Susan Boyle couture items at your latest fashion house. Is the industry ready for you to bring on the frumpy house dress, wild mess of thinning curls and thick caterpillar eyebrows? If so, it will rock the fashion world on its ear.