Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Events this week, July 1st

Wednesday: Casual meet 'n greet to discuss new events, new items on the sim, networking etc. 6pm @ our nude beach.

Friday: 11:30pm for midnight fireworks meet at the mansion, several locations for viewing. Wear your red/white/blue swimwear.

Saturday July 4th 11am: come get your morning wood in the naturist's woods of the sim with Laylah hosting a sexy little picnic and i'll leave up the fireworks over the lake as i'll be traveling irl. dresscode is casual!

New Stuff!

Please read your group notices!
I have sent out a notice explaining the new online indicator system just now.
This is a paging system that allows members to page you if they want your company at the sim for play or whatever.
You should send me a photo full perms and a bio notecard along with your avatar's key (there's a box in the notices notecard that you rez and touch for this info) so that you can have your very own indicator.
Any questions just ask me!


ALSO NEW: NETWORKING
http://subversions.ning.com/
This is a nifty little site for chatting, networking and making friends within Subversions group.
If you enjoy things like Plurk, this may appeal to you!

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Today's big announcement...

Today was both a good and bad day...
I got virtually zero response for the Sunday Swinger's Orgy and got really frustrated.
It has occurred to me that maybe I need to narrow the focus of our group back to my ORIGINAL intent.
Which was a large group of friends and lovers and couples who come here because they LOVE IT and want to be here to participate on many levels.
I miss the days of Eyes Wide Shut where we fucked all day long frankly... and that's what we're going back to.
Friday night a small group of us got together in zero lag and had what developed into an orgy over dinner.
It was beautiful and picturesque. It was classy and nasty. It was what I want to see happen, and what this group is supposed to be for.
So.... I sent out this notecard:
Dear Member,

The group has grown leaps and bounds over the last few months. I've enjoyed having you as a member. Things have changed in the way that I want to spend my time in SL.
If you have not been using the sim, if you have not been participating in events, if you have not found what you are looking for there, then this letter is for you:

I want to go back to a tight knit group where there's no pressure for me to keep holding daily events that no one comes to (or very little).
That was not my original intent for the sim, because, I have a life too. I held more events at the group's request, and was horribly disappointed.
The sim is not closing down, i'm not going anywhere, and I'm not shutting down the group.
However, if you are counting on me to have events every few days instead of perhaps once a week on weekends (not counting Skylar's Wed. event),
then i'm sadly going to have to ask you to leave the group at the end of the month.

Whoever stays beyond July will have to be in agreement of the following new "plan":

Events are from here on out going to take place after 6pm M-F and after 2pm Sat/Sun. No exceptions.
come whenever you feel like it and there will be online status profile boxes for any member who wants to utilize this function to meet other members in July
use those boxes to talk to each other and make your introductions, these are like customer service boxes you see in stores, and will be members only.

tell me what events you want to see happen by reading the upcoming posts on the blog and commenting which ones you like, and think you can attend (attendance is not mandatory)
those of you who aren't shy and can chat in group to invite other people over to play- please do it- if you can't do that simple thing- this isn't the group for you
play openly on the sim, rez what you like, ask me for what you want- otherwise i'm going to continue doing what I like here
weekend events are going to become more RSVP, if you think you want to come- write me- the events will be larger, they will be held Saturdays usually after 2pm- midnight and they will be STRICTLY sexual from here on out.

All free memberships with the exception of my performers are now null and void...the people who belong for free for the most part don't participate in the sim at all.

Group membership fees are now going to a straight 2k per month no exceptions starting July 1st and day passes are going to remain at 1L. Please leave the group if you can't afford this, if you can't participate. I'm not trying to be rude- I want this to be a serious group of players who avidly participate and not just hope that something is going to happen.
I'm very very frustrated right now, and may lose some friends over this... It's been a tough decision to make. I care deeply about you guys, and I hope you'll return the sentiment <3

sincerely,
subV

I've also reworded the intro notecards at the telehub to read:

Welcome to the private estate of Subversive Vavoom. You are in a 'free area' that is open to our non-members and may use this freely.
Subversions is a private pleasure sim where private parties take place and small groups of friends gather together to play in many different ways, at their leisure, amidst beautiful and comfortable builds.
What is a pleasure sim? Is it a sex sim?
A pleasure sim is for people who think that sexual pleasure is comprised of more than poseball hopping. Our members are mostly partners who consider themselves swingers, bisexual, exhibitionists or voyeurs. We come here as a retreat from the hectic SL lives that we lead.
By creating realistic humanoid staging areas, including both homes and outdoor venues, I have made a gorgeous sim that is designed for a certain mindset. It's elite, it's private, and it's for people who can get along and enjoy the art of sex. It's not a museum, or a library, and it's also not a dungeon. It's a huge, elaborate private estate with mansion, lake, mountains, forests, waterfalls, beach, spa, and special skyboxes for posh events.
If you find most sex sims ugly, boring, dirty, and full of noobs who are too shy- this may be for you! There is an application included at the bottom.
If you troll around looking for sex anywhere you can get it- this is NOT for you. I'll be looking at your profile, if you're too young, or only belong to stripclubs-sorry.
We have an open event every Wednesday at 6pm that is hosted by Skylar Smythe for erotic poetry and short stories. Please come by and visit with me. I'm here every day.
We would love to meet you, and your partner, lovers or friends. If you want to tour the sim afterwards, please feel free to!
During all other times we are otherwise MEMBERS ONLY and their guests. I handpick all members who ask to join- and I turn away more than I accept. I do this because, if this weren't private or elite, it would be just another place on the grid.
Membership costs a flat 2000L per month to join per person. Too much? Have you ever rented a full prim sim for that fee that is already furnished with over 500,000L worth of merchandise? This is like a land rental program- you can rez poseballs here permanently or temporarily- and you can eject people who are breaking the rules (this has never happened a single time). You cannot rez homes, and will be ejected for doing such. Horses, boats, and small vehicles are OK. Just pick those up when you're done.
You get the WHOLE SIM for that fee, and the sim is packed with builds, toys, and sex items that are considered well made, elite, new, and high quality. In addition to that you get a network of really great people to chat with in group and who will play with you on occaision if they like you. I encourage group chat, you must leave on notices, and attend 1 event per month in order to participate and be invited back. Just because you pay your dues doesn't mean that is all I expect.
On weekends we have special events during the afternoons of SL time and evenings. These are RSVP events, and they are often sexual in nature. Come here anytime, but events are at my convenience, which is usually late afternoons and evenings. I announce to group and if you miss the message, you can check my blog. http://subversivevavoom.blogspot.com
Yes, you can bring people here to the studio. Yes, you can ask other members to play. Yes, you can invite guests to use a daypass for 24 hours so that they can join you once you're a member. Yes it's ok if you are GLBT, we don't care- most of us are bisexual.
No, you will not find many people here- it's private. No, you won't find people standing around looking at each other and not interacting. No, you will not see blood, Gor, rape, incest, murder, snuff, goldenshowers, scat, ageplay or such RP.
No, you will not find vampires, spampires, noobs, furries, or other nonhumanoids here, or be solicited. Nope, no stores, no vendors, no XXX RL porno, no snobs, no jerks, nada.
Events are limited and should not be the reason that you join. Please do not come here based on how many people that you want to meet. We use this sim for our private sexual play, as well as horseback riding, swimming, fishing, surfing, hottubbing, dinner parties, hanggliding, watching movies/porn, playing inworld games together (cards, etc), and having orgies!
If you don't have the time to participate and use the sim, please don't ask to join.
The rules are simple: be nice. Play. Enjoy.

Please fill out the application below and send to me, Subversive Vavoom, thanks!

(of course this is for new members only to read, but I wanted to share it with you nontheless)

So...for those of you who say MORE EVENTS, MORE PEOPLE, MORE SEX!
I say....
Better events.
Interesting people.
Ask for it, bring it here, share or be shared.
And if you still don't love it, don't come to the events, ask members to play with you, participate on SOME level...
I will miss you and I wish you the very best that SLife has to offer you with kind regards.

Sincerely yours,
subV

Friday, June 12, 2009

Coming this weekend

Tonite, Fetish Friday's- tonite will be our first FF at Oral Fixations 7pm, and coincidentally we're looking at Food Fetishes as well as oral in general. Next Friday will be needleplay in a new location and will be by invitation only that requires RSVP.

Saturday, LAUREN WEYLAND LIVE Comedy @6pm -Lauren's look at sexuality, humor and the enigma that is Second Life. Being held at the Private Boudoir to kick off PRIDE WEEK

Saturday, GenderBender Ball- 7pm to follow Lauren. Men show us the hair legs in stockings and panties (be sure to tuck) and ladies put on those strapons!!

Sunday, Swinger's Orgy- 2pm Playgirl's Mansion hosts the Swinger's Sunday Orgy in true Heffner style. Wear your Playboy Bunny costumes or lingerie for the ladies, men- smoking jackets, pajama pants, sexy boxers and be prepared to SWING. Voyeurs are not welcome at this event- it's all about participation!

COMING NEXT WEEK: MORE PRIDE EVENTS FOR GLBT!

P.S. Events are expensive to host if done properly- and done the way that I want to do them through my creative vision, so if you cannot attend, I am not going to expend the group's resources in having them for zero participation. If you are asking for more events and not able to attend, please tell me what timeframes (be somewhat general) are better for you, but please be aware that you may be the only group member in your timezone. I will be averaging out the suggested times so that I can find ones with most appeal. Please take this into consideration- as I may have to either omit all events during certain time periods to focus on when I can offer them and do the best job on them as possible instead of spreading myself too thin.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

A response to the survey from SubV

I've read over the responses and chatted with a few of you inworld.
I know that more events are the big thing.
Two probs:
1. low participation at some events, massive at others
2. lack of able bodies to host
If i could find hosts who would work for tips + a small salary and free membership I would gladly hire them. So far, a couple people have said they would in their spare time. I hope this comes to fruition.
In the meantime, I hope to have an event every Wed/Thurs/Fri/Sat/Sun and daily unhosted events (like 2pm Surfing).
Lasch is helping me now with poses, so that's good too! We're going to start doing more thematic areas so that you'll know where to go for what.
The castle is now gone, we have a lovely beach in it's place that i'm working on in my spare time.
Look for more specific parties like Singles Only, Bisexual Bliss, Swinger's Sunday Orgy and so forth. I hope that by stating very clearly what these events are for, you'll get more out of them.
Lastly, in an attempt to make more introductions, I have hired a scripter to make a special paging and visitor alert. Hopefully if it goes as planned, you will be presented with the opportunity to subscribe to a visitor alert notification system that is similar to a customer service pager. When someone is looking to play while on the sim and alone, a line of green text will go out to subscribers. The problem is of course if 10 people show up and no one likes each other LOL, but i think that's a small hurdle in the scheme of things. It's much much easier to say in group chat "come play at the mansion" but this rarely happens to any great success.
I'm also looking at giving members the option of posting their picture in a private area of the sim (perhaps the mansion) with an optional online status, biography notecard giver, and pager.
If any of this appeals to you please let me know :)

That being said, I want you all to know that what I need most of all is participation. If you enjoy sex, come to parties willing to hop on a poseball with *someone* and don't be shy. Fetish Friday's is going to become less about dancing and more about..well..fucking frankly.
Swinger's Sunday Orgies are obviously all about the sex.
Surfing nude @2pm daily is an unhosted way for you to just come hang out, and not feel the pressure to slex it up, but you can!
Daypasses are back to 1L and working MUCH BETTER with a new script. This is only temporary as usual.
Open House will be this Saturday for the kick off of Pride Week. The sim will be wide open, so bring your friends to our events TBA such as Lauren Weyland Live Comedy and subsequent Gender Bender Ball. Prizes for best costume will be handed out.
Thursday night of this week we'll be doing a BYOB, bring your own boy, at the beach with Truth or Dare (that evolves into slexing) and hopefully the lovely men of our group will be joining us to slather on the suntan lotion ;)

Now for my last comment. Those who are not happy with the group and continue to not participate, complain and cause discord, will pretty soon not be welcome anymore. I think we can all agree that we're here to have a good time- not to sound harsh but- if you aren't enjoying it why bother? Sure, I can continue taking your lindens, but it's not worth it to me. Only the happy, sexy and strong participators make this work. If you haven't been to an event and you rarely visit the sim- you are missing out. If you come but don't participate- you are missing out. If you come, participate, relax, and let your gaurd down a bit and still don't like it....? what can I say? I'm having a good time, all my close friends are too...People whom I love and trust tell me that it's growing and catching on. And if nothing else, it's just a great place to BE and enjoy regardless of how much tail you're getting. I started this as the backdrop, the canvas to your adventures. I am not here to play matchmaker or whorehouse madame. I have delivered on all that i've promised, and built upon that. I can only do so much :) Thanks to all those who continue to support the group, the sim, and myself!

xoxox,
subV

This week's events!

STARTING TODAY EVERY DAY 2PM UNHOSTED SURFING & MEET 'N GREET

Wed Night 6pm Some Like it Hot : Short Story Edition 1000 L for best short erotic story
500L for best poem

Thursday 3-6 BYOB (bring your own boy) Beach Bash

Friday 7pm Fetish Friday's: Oral Fixations location Fetish=food, oral

Saturday TBA LAUREN WEYLAND LIVE COMEDY, GENDER BENDER BALL TO FOLLOW
Sunday: TBA Swinger's Orgy and Playgirl's Mansion

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Please answer at least one question of this survey, ty :)

It's time to change up the sim, and look at some areas of improvement.
Since i don't get to chat with you guys inworld as much as i'd like to, i've written out some questions here to send out as notes and would like to get your responses here at the blog.
IF you do not wish to answer these on the blog in the comment section below, you can either notecard it for me inworld, email it to me at subversivevavoom@gmail.com or send smoke signals to the east coast- whatever works! Please feel free to be anonymous if you want, or if you're up for some discussion let me know that too.
I *need* your involvement, participation, opinions (good/bad) and input, because without YOU this is not a 'group', it's just me playing with myself ;)
If you have just joined and not attended an event, please answer what pertains to your needs.
Any and all answers are so appreciated!

1. What do you like the BEST/LEAST about the sim?
2. Do you use the sim, and if so, how often/why?
3. What would you change about the events (themes, types, locations, times/dates, # of attendants)? Would it help to have more roleplay events with set rules like Eyes Wide Shut?
4. If you had to pick a build to come down, and have something new in it's place, would it be the castle or mansion? What type of building would you like to see take it's place?
5. Do you find it comfortable to have sex at our sexual events? If not, why?
6. Do you often come to the sim looking for others? Where do you go and how long do you stay?
7. Would you attend an unhosted event where people just agree to meet, hang out, play if it met your schedule and you were in the mood? If so, can you suggest a timeframe?
8. Do you look to see what toys are at the sim? Do you use them? Do you want to see anything different and if so, why?
9. Do we need to have events during weekdays (secondlife time) weeknights (other than wed/fri) or overnights (10pm-10am)? please choose only one preference.
10. If you are not satisfied, can you say why? This is *the* big question, and if you only answer ONE, please answer this one. (you might want to email me this one if you feel shy or uncomfortable and wish to remain anonymous)

Thanks again, ever so much, for your valued time and energy,

xoxox,
subV