love going 2 parties for an excuse to be glamorous n overdressed !!! happy birthday !!!
✧༺♥༻✧ Pollyx's Birthday Ball (Fashion Contest) ✧༺♥༻✧
love going 2 parties for an excuse to be glamorous n overdressed !!! happy birthday !!!
i dont struggle w autism im actually very good at it
Men need more Floral #politics
Suddenly the lights in the hall begin to flicker, and the music wavers. Thick black fog begins to fill the hall and some of the guests begin to look around in alarm. There's an abrupt crack of lightning. It wasn't even raining?
"Who has summoned me?" Booms a voice amidst the fog, echoing in the Antitheocra hall. The fog clears, revealing what appears to be a woman, with large dark horns protruding from her crimson hair. Her white eyes scan the room, taking in the unfamiliar surroundings. She blinks in surprise. "A party?"
"Oh you've made it!" A woman with long dark hair and a colourful dress approaches the stranger, unflinching. She holds out a red poppy pin. "This is for you, wouldn't want you to feel left out."
Wordlessly the stranger takes the pin and fastens it to the front of her dress.
The woman smiles and gestures to a man that has appeared by her side. "Nikandr will take your cloak if you wish."
"I'd rather keep it on. But..." The stranger reaches into her cloak and seemingly pulls a black shoebox out of nowhere. Something slides around within the box and it gives off a faint burning smell? She looks up to see the woman is gone, but the man, Nikandr, is patiently waiting. She carefully places the box in his hands. "Consider it a gift, Polly will know what to do with it when the time comes."
Nikandr nods solemnly and hurries away.
The stranger pulls up the skirts of her dress slightly and makes her way in the throes of the party, an almost imperceptible clopping sound as she walked. It'd been ages since she enjoyed a good party anyway.
FREE PALESTINE
happy birthday Polly!!! i brought you flowers i hope you like them :))
i decided to use your items in my look (the candles and earrings) and also i'm celebrating your iconic style with plum purple hair <3
This turned into a long one sorry for that. And a warning beforehand I didn't chek the grammar so bear with me.
My day started like usually. Hit the alarm, made my first cup of coffee, did my morning routine. With 2nd cup in hand opened my mail and my ou my what a surprise was waiting for me in there - invite to Polly's surprise birthday party.
Of course the rest of plans was canceled on spot. I wouldn't miss Polly's party for anything in world!
Omg what I will wear !?
*Chaotic closet clearance. Clothes flying left and right. Poor cats are worried and scared, and decided to leave the room for their own safety. Who would want to be burried under pile of dresses. Definitely not one of them.
After an hour that seemed way less than that for the culprit of the disorder in room.
For love of Xod how come there isn't anything suitable in plum color. What's the point of such huge load of clothes if there isn't anything close to what I need! Ok there still is time. Breathe Blecky breathe.
*You can hear breathing sounds and mumbling of numbers mixed with just calm down you will figure something out.
Hmm Katrynah in invite has sent a poppy pin to wear together with gown for the party... yes I can go on from that. Play with the color scheme of the poppy pin - red and black. This will work for sure!
*Happy clapping and excited jumping noises.
So the pin is my starting point. Hmm what could go well with it?
*Scanning the chaos in bedroom.
Yes this is perfect occasion to wear Edvitch's sheer sleeves! So happy I have been wanting to use them since I saw this masterpiece in store. Seems we will go with black for most and some red for accent. Yes Bimbl6 dress so beautiful but isn't this to predictable and simple. Hmm what could make this pop.. ou let's go with my go to polka dot skirt. This time red ones. Still not what I wanted and Polly deserves more effort.
* The scanning of the chaos in room continues.
Is that a pair of tights on my lamp?! How did it get there? F*** cleanup will take an eternity.. well will worry bout it after the ball.
O yes this pleated Visc's skirt on top of the polka doted one. Perfect combo. Now need to figure how to combine the dress and skirts together to make it seemed like they are one item.. times like these calls for drastic measures - Poisons underbust. Who cares bout breathing as long as you look good.
* After trying on 100+ socks and tights glances at the tights that is hanging on the lamp.
Yeah why not could look interesting. I like this but it don't look like ball gown.. needs more volume. Hmm I wonder if this Queens dress would do the trick.
*Twisting in front of the mirror. Nods affirmatively.
Definitely not regular gown attire for ball but Polly will love the creativity. Now the most hard part for me.. the shoes... aaa. Why do people need shoes why not just go barefoot? Social norms be damned. Well these could work .. not perfect but the color scheme works. Good enough for me.
Need to put some jewelry, paint nails and do my hair and I'm ready! Almost forgot my makeup - Pollyx's extreme lashes is a must have for this look.
Now the most important part - the gift. It needs to be something meaningful for Polly. Something they will actually love.
*Someone almost broke their brain in thinking process and lost all hope going through pages and pages of gifts that wasn't the right ones for them.
Wait I know the perfect gift but I can't get it by myself. Thank Xod for friends.
*Looking for phone in all the piles of clothing.
FOUND IT !
*Dials the number. You can hear calm voice on the other end of the phone.
Melp I need to ask a favor. I figured out the perfect gift for Polly but I need help to get to it.
You know what they love to use the most is a sketchbook. But in all the stores sections there isn't a single sketchbook! Can you please make one for them?
* Answear on the other end.
Thank you so much! You are the best Melp!
Final twist in front of the mirror. Last chek on the gift - sketchbook with 'Happy Birthday' wishes, a paintbrush that will go along with other gift they received from someone else, bottle of fancy juice to share with their husband and a nice cozy sweater bundled up in gift bag.
Hope Polly will love their gift ^_^ and have a blast at their birthday ball.
Happy Birthday Polly once more !
P.S. The best part of the gift comes from Melpomene. Thank you to her for making the gift come to life.
My day started like usually. Hit the alarm, made my first cup of coffee, did my morning routine. With 2nd cup in hand opened my mail and my ou my what a surprise was waiting for me in there - invite to Polly's surprise birthday party.
Of course the rest of plans was canceled on spot. I wouldn't miss Polly's party for anything in world!
Omg what I will wear !?
*Chaotic closet clearance. Clothes flying left and right. Poor cats are worried and scared, and decided to leave the room for their own safety. Who would want to be burried under pile of dresses. Definitely not one of them.
After an hour that seemed way less than that for the culprit of the disorder in room.
For love of Xod how come there isn't anything suitable in plum color. What's the point of such huge load of clothes if there isn't anything close to what I need! Ok there still is time. Breathe Blecky breathe.
*You can hear breathing sounds and mumbling of numbers mixed with just calm down you will figure something out.
Hmm Katrynah in invite has sent a poppy pin to wear together with gown for the party... yes I can go on from that. Play with the color scheme of the poppy pin - red and black. This will work for sure!
*Happy clapping and excited jumping noises.
So the pin is my starting point. Hmm what could go well with it?
*Scanning the chaos in bedroom.
Yes this is perfect occasion to wear Edvitch's sheer sleeves! So happy I have been wanting to use them since I saw this masterpiece in store. Seems we will go with black for most and some red for accent. Yes Bimbl6 dress so beautiful but isn't this to predictable and simple. Hmm what could make this pop.. ou let's go with my go to polka dot skirt. This time red ones. Still not what I wanted and Polly deserves more effort.
* The scanning of the chaos in room continues.
Is that a pair of tights on my lamp?! How did it get there? F*** cleanup will take an eternity.. well will worry bout it after the ball.
O yes this pleated Visc's skirt on top of the polka doted one. Perfect combo. Now need to figure how to combine the dress and skirts together to make it seemed like they are one item.. times like these calls for drastic measures - Poisons underbust. Who cares bout breathing as long as you look good.
* After trying on 100+ socks and tights glances at the tights that is hanging on the lamp.
Yeah why not could look interesting. I like this but it don't look like ball gown.. needs more volume. Hmm I wonder if this Queens dress would do the trick.
*Twisting in front of the mirror. Nods affirmatively.
Definitely not regular gown attire for ball but Polly will love the creativity. Now the most hard part for me.. the shoes... aaa. Why do people need shoes why not just go barefoot? Social norms be damned. Well these could work .. not perfect but the color scheme works. Good enough for me.
Need to put some jewelry, paint nails and do my hair and I'm ready! Almost forgot my makeup - Pollyx's extreme lashes is a must have for this look.
Now the most important part - the gift. It needs to be something meaningful for Polly. Something they will actually love.
*Someone almost broke their brain in thinking process and lost all hope going through pages and pages of gifts that wasn't the right ones for them.
Wait I know the perfect gift but I can't get it by myself. Thank Xod for friends.
*Looking for phone in all the piles of clothing.
FOUND IT !
*Dials the number. You can hear calm voice on the other end of the phone.
Melp I need to ask a favor. I figured out the perfect gift for Polly but I need help to get to it.
You know what they love to use the most is a sketchbook. But in all the stores sections there isn't a single sketchbook! Can you please make one for them?
* Answear on the other end.
Thank you so much! You are the best Melp!
Final twist in front of the mirror. Last chek on the gift - sketchbook with 'Happy Birthday' wishes, a paintbrush that will go along with other gift they received from someone else, bottle of fancy juice to share with their husband and a nice cozy sweater bundled up in gift bag.
Hope Polly will love their gift ^_^ and have a blast at their birthday ball.
Happy Birthday Polly once more !
P.S. The best part of the gift comes from Melpomene. Thank you to her for making the gift come to life.
AAHHHHH this is amazing!!!! LOVELY outfit and such a great story, blecky, and a huge huge thank you to you and the ever-talented melpomene for bringing amazing sketchbooks to the shop, haha i mean the birthday ball, so exciting and i am really looking forward to using them!! what an amazing birthday surprise <33 feeling so full of love for everyone right now ;;;;
(full version with links in other tabs of my profile as well as my xeets) Hey all, this is your Minister of Fashion
Pollyx! I can be wordy, and am here, so here’s a TLDR for those who
trust me and just want to know the gist of it: Seriously, for real,
actually this time, cancel your Senatorships. Do not spend money on the
site. Remove the site’s access to your paypal. Do not volunteer for the
site or run for public office. This includes designing for the shop! Designers and prospective designers, I absolutely love you all to death, but this has got to stop.Anyway, the longer version:SweetasNuts,
the owner of this site, is an abusive person and known cheapskate who
refuses to hire new staff or adequately pay his existing staff in favor
of exploiting free labor from his users. Those who DO volunteer for him,
sometimes paying for the privilege of doing so, are treated
abhorrently, subjected to gaslighting and emotional abuse both publicly
and privately. I have personally experienced rampant mistreatment from
SweetasNuts (as have many others) as recently as today!If
you want an example, check any SweetasNuts thread and read it. I don’t
feel a need to drop a bunch of receipts below when it’s overwhelmingly
clear, but I hope those of you who know the love I’ve put into this site
will take me at my word. I have loved Ximboland and love it
still. At various points I have put more than full time hours into this
website and the shop in an attempt to make things better—usually
completely unpaid, as I did a lot of work before I became Minister of
Fashion. The saddest part, at the end of it, is that no matter how much I
work and how much love I put in the site will always get worse on
average or nosedive into oblivion (as we are seeing right now) due to
actions of trolls, hackers, or most primarily—Chris himself.There are numerous sources online which discuss Chris’s behavior as a business owner in-depth, both on this site and on its previous iteration, Miss Bimbo. It’s pretty clear the guy is a troll who likes when people get upset and throw a fit. In that sense, he may love this post!If
you’d like one recent example of someone bringing up issues to Chris,
being subjected to abuse, and being unable to sway Chris away from
terrible decisions, here’s one from a little over a year ago!
And yet nothing changes—the same cycles continue. New people join, they
see the community is lovely yet has a few flaws, perhaps some bad eggs
(rampant trolls), or maybe someone in the Pink House seems like they’re
abusing their power. They work really hard to rise up, join the
government, fight the “enemies” of the day, etc. and the whole thing
just causes chaos and misery for the most part and the site owner sits
back with popcorn.Oh wait, I forgot when Chris put numerous
ximbos (some who disagreed with him, others unprompted to my
understanding) on trial last year for having “bad fashion”! Here’s the trial for Melpomene, renowned designer, shop worker, and previous Antitheocra SM. Here’s the trial for KittyOnyx, who criticized Chris’s behavior. This one’s for Dean Winchester,
who made the grievous mistake of wearing a pink thong as a himbo.
Egregious, right! How dare a man dress in pink? Anyway, moving on.
Anyone care to share older “Chris is consistently a huge jerk to his
players and volunteers and never listens or fixes the site” examples
below?Now, when I talk about “volunteering” for the site
(aka what I am trying to convince you not to do), here are the positions
I mean:Partially paid (larger treasury cut, in theory, but extremely overworked):Prime XimboPartially paid (meager treasury cut —pennies on the hour):Minister of Fashion (gets meager treasury cut—pennies on the hour—so still a volunteer position)Minister of Entertainment (gets meager treasury cut—pennies on the hour—so still a volunteer position)Minister
of Foreign Affairs (gets meager treasury cut—pennies on the hour—so
still a volunteer position, plus you’re doing marketing for free. Not
super fun!)Minister of Justice (gets meager treasury cut—pennies on
the hour—so still a volunteer position, plus you’ll be absolutely
exhausted by the effort of moderation and part of the userbase will hate
you no matter what you do)No promise of payment/unpaid:Fashion Police (exhausting moderation work, now with kneecapped abilities to even stop abuse thanks to SAN)Fashion Worker (the people who upload items to the shop)Fashion
Designer (those who design for the shop—believe me, I have tried very
hard to convince SAN to reward this position in any way but was
unsuccessful)Not only unpaid, but PAYING to do this position:State
Minister (have to pay for Senatorship plus pay for all of the prizes
out of their own pocket—when you receive prizes from an SM, it’s because
they paid for them with real-world money)Please don’t do any
of this! I have been in the Pink House since October 2023 and am very
close with those who have been in or around the PH even longer or in
different time periods. Nothing changes. Talking to the site
owner doesn’t work. It doesn’t matter how you explain it, he won’t
listen and he doesn’t care because he continues to make enough passive
income to ignore people’s complaints. So what now?Well, first, let’s stop giving him that passive income, especially
given the recent major hacking incident has proven AGAIN that the site
is not secure. Chris is a liar—do not trust him when he says your
payment information is fully secure just because of Paypal, that is not
necessarily true. Remove your Paypal from XL (on the Paypal end) and
consider removing your bank accounts from Paypal for the time being,
better safe than sorry.When you spend money on this site, it
does not go to the people running it, to those who put in love and time
into moderation, the shop, contests, and even advertising the site. It
goes to Chris, who does not pay his staff properly and does not improve
the site. He only makes it worse based on his agenda. A small amount of
Senatorship goes to the government ministers, sure, but the amount is
not significant enough to matter (and there’s decent evidence that the
treasury doesn’t even reflect what it should be—⅓ of the cost of all
Senator subs). Besides, half of the treasury this term will go to
KatieBoutique (since she and her alt Slayyyocrates are both ministers),
and if any of you have been paying any attention to Katie that will
likely ruffle your feathers.It’s not worth contributing to
this place financially. It does not help the site grow. It does not go
to fixing bugs. It does not go to adding a mobile scroll bar. It does
not pay your favorite designer. It does not fix minigame glitches. It
likely won’t go to refunding people’s State Wars purchases after the
hack or restoring corrupted outfits (IF restoring them is even
possible). Cancel your Senatorship, never buy top-ups, don’t volunteer
your time for the site, and turn on ad block! Don’t let Chris get your ad revenue either!That’s
pretty much it. I do have some last thoughts if you’re interested, but
if you don’t care feel free to leave. It’s up to you to decide what to
do now. You can still help the site if you want to, but I strongly
believe it’s really only going to degrade, and as shown by the hacking
incident, this site really isn’t secure. It’s built on popsicle sticks.
You could lose all of this at any moment. Are all these users who lost
their outfits ever going to get them back? It’s really hard to say.Secondarily,
if you want to make a difference in the world there are a million
better places to do it than on XL. If you want to make art in a
community, lots of ways to do that too. Art Fight, a yearly event, is
great for this. You could make a game, write a novel, make outfits in
the Sims, join another dressup game (I hear some people here are making
one), generally touch grass. We should all touch grass. If it’s about
making the world a better place for you, maybe you could join a local
chapter of an organization that means something to you or donate what
you WOULD have spent on top-ups to a good cause. Join a rally, write an
op-ed, talk to people you love about what matters.If you want
to keep in touch with me, feel free to message anyone on XL you have on
Discord and they can probably connect us, I’ve got a lot of people
added.Alright, and now that we get to the end I just
want to shout out the users who have spent a lot of time showing love to
the users and uplifting the site as a whole. None of them asked for
this or even know that I’m doing this, so I won’t list them by name as
much as category. I may have individual personal issues with some people
on this site (not most), but I think this is kind of beyond that. We
are all victims of an exploitative site owner who constantly sets the
site up for interpersonal conflict because he finds it hot. He gets off on all these sexy bimbo avatars going at each other’s throats. So this is kind of an act of solidarity in that.Thank
you to all past and present government ministers, prime ximbos, state
ministers, fashion police, fashion designers, fashion workers, and
anyone else who has run contests or events.Thank you to the
active duelers staying up late into the night, the state generals and
citizens fighting for their state, those who help others get their
curious badge, those who leave comments on all the new players’
profiles, those who share gifs on weird gif wednesday, those who share
support when someone says they’re struggling or upvote posts in
Reputation Points Helper thread. Thank you, even, to those
I’ve fought with, those I’ve made up with, those I still dislike, those
who grate at my nerves. You’re part of the site, too, an ecosystem we
all exist in—this insular little community. Though of course I
will be leaving this community now, probably permanently. Not sure
about emigration yet—we’ll see. But I’ve got big things coming up soon
in my life and I can’t have this site’s nonsense messing with my groove.I’ve
loved growing as a person through my interactions with each of you and
I’ve loved designing and adding for the shop and running events and
making outfits and all of it, but I hate the way the site is run by
Chris (which is: generally not run at all, and if it is it’s done
maliciously). I hate receiving constant abuse from the site owner and
trolls and hackers and I hate seeing other people experience that too. I
hate that this site many of us feel is a second home has become so
foul, is rotting from the inside because of neglect and mistreatment
from the site owner. I had enough mold in my real life home last year,
as many of you know, and find myself uninterested in choking on the
spores here.Anyway, so much love, care about you all (except
in those few cases where the feeling of dislike is mutual, in which case
I say one last hearty “fuck you!”). Stay slutty, babes.
Pollyx! I can be wordy, and am here, so here’s a TLDR for those who
trust me and just want to know the gist of it: Seriously, for real,
actually this time, cancel your Senatorships. Do not spend money on the
site. Remove the site’s access to your paypal. Do not volunteer for the
site or run for public office. This includes designing for the shop! Designers and prospective designers, I absolutely love you all to death, but this has got to stop.Anyway, the longer version:SweetasNuts,
the owner of this site, is an abusive person and known cheapskate who
refuses to hire new staff or adequately pay his existing staff in favor
of exploiting free labor from his users. Those who DO volunteer for him,
sometimes paying for the privilege of doing so, are treated
abhorrently, subjected to gaslighting and emotional abuse both publicly
and privately. I have personally experienced rampant mistreatment from
SweetasNuts (as have many others) as recently as today!If
you want an example, check any SweetasNuts thread and read it. I don’t
feel a need to drop a bunch of receipts below when it’s overwhelmingly
clear, but I hope those of you who know the love I’ve put into this site
will take me at my word. I have loved Ximboland and love it
still. At various points I have put more than full time hours into this
website and the shop in an attempt to make things better—usually
completely unpaid, as I did a lot of work before I became Minister of
Fashion. The saddest part, at the end of it, is that no matter how much I
work and how much love I put in the site will always get worse on
average or nosedive into oblivion (as we are seeing right now) due to
actions of trolls, hackers, or most primarily—Chris himself.There are numerous sources online which discuss Chris’s behavior as a business owner in-depth, both on this site and on its previous iteration, Miss Bimbo. It’s pretty clear the guy is a troll who likes when people get upset and throw a fit. In that sense, he may love this post!If
you’d like one recent example of someone bringing up issues to Chris,
being subjected to abuse, and being unable to sway Chris away from
terrible decisions, here’s one from a little over a year ago!
And yet nothing changes—the same cycles continue. New people join, they
see the community is lovely yet has a few flaws, perhaps some bad eggs
(rampant trolls), or maybe someone in the Pink House seems like they’re
abusing their power. They work really hard to rise up, join the
government, fight the “enemies” of the day, etc. and the whole thing
just causes chaos and misery for the most part and the site owner sits
back with popcorn.Oh wait, I forgot when Chris put numerous
ximbos (some who disagreed with him, others unprompted to my
understanding) on trial last year for having “bad fashion”! Here’s the trial for Melpomene, renowned designer, shop worker, and previous Antitheocra SM. Here’s the trial for KittyOnyx, who criticized Chris’s behavior. This one’s for Dean Winchester,
who made the grievous mistake of wearing a pink thong as a himbo.
Egregious, right! How dare a man dress in pink? Anyway, moving on.
Anyone care to share older “Chris is consistently a huge jerk to his
players and volunteers and never listens or fixes the site” examples
below?Now, when I talk about “volunteering” for the site
(aka what I am trying to convince you not to do), here are the positions
I mean:Partially paid (larger treasury cut, in theory, but extremely overworked):Prime XimboPartially paid (meager treasury cut —pennies on the hour):Minister of Fashion (gets meager treasury cut—pennies on the hour—so still a volunteer position)Minister of Entertainment (gets meager treasury cut—pennies on the hour—so still a volunteer position)Minister
of Foreign Affairs (gets meager treasury cut—pennies on the hour—so
still a volunteer position, plus you’re doing marketing for free. Not
super fun!)Minister of Justice (gets meager treasury cut—pennies on
the hour—so still a volunteer position, plus you’ll be absolutely
exhausted by the effort of moderation and part of the userbase will hate
you no matter what you do)No promise of payment/unpaid:Fashion Police (exhausting moderation work, now with kneecapped abilities to even stop abuse thanks to SAN)Fashion Worker (the people who upload items to the shop)Fashion
Designer (those who design for the shop—believe me, I have tried very
hard to convince SAN to reward this position in any way but was
unsuccessful)Not only unpaid, but PAYING to do this position:State
Minister (have to pay for Senatorship plus pay for all of the prizes
out of their own pocket—when you receive prizes from an SM, it’s because
they paid for them with real-world money)Please don’t do any
of this! I have been in the Pink House since October 2023 and am very
close with those who have been in or around the PH even longer or in
different time periods. Nothing changes. Talking to the site
owner doesn’t work. It doesn’t matter how you explain it, he won’t
listen and he doesn’t care because he continues to make enough passive
income to ignore people’s complaints. So what now?Well, first, let’s stop giving him that passive income, especially
given the recent major hacking incident has proven AGAIN that the site
is not secure. Chris is a liar—do not trust him when he says your
payment information is fully secure just because of Paypal, that is not
necessarily true. Remove your Paypal from XL (on the Paypal end) and
consider removing your bank accounts from Paypal for the time being,
better safe than sorry.When you spend money on this site, it
does not go to the people running it, to those who put in love and time
into moderation, the shop, contests, and even advertising the site. It
goes to Chris, who does not pay his staff properly and does not improve
the site. He only makes it worse based on his agenda. A small amount of
Senatorship goes to the government ministers, sure, but the amount is
not significant enough to matter (and there’s decent evidence that the
treasury doesn’t even reflect what it should be—⅓ of the cost of all
Senator subs). Besides, half of the treasury this term will go to
KatieBoutique (since she and her alt Slayyyocrates are both ministers),
and if any of you have been paying any attention to Katie that will
likely ruffle your feathers.It’s not worth contributing to
this place financially. It does not help the site grow. It does not go
to fixing bugs. It does not go to adding a mobile scroll bar. It does
not pay your favorite designer. It does not fix minigame glitches. It
likely won’t go to refunding people’s State Wars purchases after the
hack or restoring corrupted outfits (IF restoring them is even
possible). Cancel your Senatorship, never buy top-ups, don’t volunteer
your time for the site, and turn on ad block! Don’t let Chris get your ad revenue either!That’s
pretty much it. I do have some last thoughts if you’re interested, but
if you don’t care feel free to leave. It’s up to you to decide what to
do now. You can still help the site if you want to, but I strongly
believe it’s really only going to degrade, and as shown by the hacking
incident, this site really isn’t secure. It’s built on popsicle sticks.
You could lose all of this at any moment. Are all these users who lost
their outfits ever going to get them back? It’s really hard to say.Secondarily,
if you want to make a difference in the world there are a million
better places to do it than on XL. If you want to make art in a
community, lots of ways to do that too. Art Fight, a yearly event, is
great for this. You could make a game, write a novel, make outfits in
the Sims, join another dressup game (I hear some people here are making
one), generally touch grass. We should all touch grass. If it’s about
making the world a better place for you, maybe you could join a local
chapter of an organization that means something to you or donate what
you WOULD have spent on top-ups to a good cause. Join a rally, write an
op-ed, talk to people you love about what matters.If you want
to keep in touch with me, feel free to message anyone on XL you have on
Discord and they can probably connect us, I’ve got a lot of people
added.Alright, and now that we get to the end I just
want to shout out the users who have spent a lot of time showing love to
the users and uplifting the site as a whole. None of them asked for
this or even know that I’m doing this, so I won’t list them by name as
much as category. I may have individual personal issues with some people
on this site (not most), but I think this is kind of beyond that. We
are all victims of an exploitative site owner who constantly sets the
site up for interpersonal conflict because he finds it hot. He gets off on all these sexy bimbo avatars going at each other’s throats. So this is kind of an act of solidarity in that.Thank
you to all past and present government ministers, prime ximbos, state
ministers, fashion police, fashion designers, fashion workers, and
anyone else who has run contests or events.Thank you to the
active duelers staying up late into the night, the state generals and
citizens fighting for their state, those who help others get their
curious badge, those who leave comments on all the new players’
profiles, those who share gifs on weird gif wednesday, those who share
support when someone says they’re struggling or upvote posts in
Reputation Points Helper thread. Thank you, even, to those
I’ve fought with, those I’ve made up with, those I still dislike, those
who grate at my nerves. You’re part of the site, too, an ecosystem we
all exist in—this insular little community. Though of course I
will be leaving this community now, probably permanently. Not sure
about emigration yet—we’ll see. But I’ve got big things coming up soon
in my life and I can’t have this site’s nonsense messing with my groove.I’ve
loved growing as a person through my interactions with each of you and
I’ve loved designing and adding for the shop and running events and
making outfits and all of it, but I hate the way the site is run by
Chris (which is: generally not run at all, and if it is it’s done
maliciously). I hate receiving constant abuse from the site owner and
trolls and hackers and I hate seeing other people experience that too. I
hate that this site many of us feel is a second home has become so
foul, is rotting from the inside because of neglect and mistreatment
from the site owner. I had enough mold in my real life home last year,
as many of you know, and find myself uninterested in choking on the
spores here.Anyway, so much love, care about you all (except
in those few cases where the feeling of dislike is mutual, in which case
I say one last hearty “fuck you!”). Stay slutty, babes.
Happy Birthday again, Polly!
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Oh yeah. Coming outside is definitely the right call. After all the dancing (or the writhing about that my dancing resembles) it is just waaay to hot to in there. Hmph, maybe I should take off the shawl just in case? No, nope, no. Too chilly for that in April - but it'll still be nice to stand in the garden for a second. A moment to take in the gentle breeze and a lone finch singing somewhere in the trees. Big crowds aren't really my thing, nor is the noise for prolonged periods of time. I also feel a tad underdressed compared to some of the elegant guests I've seen tonight - but hey, I like this casual hat I found in the back of the closet. Just gotta take a small break before I rejoin the bustle of the ball.
Still, for all my complaining, how could I have possible missed out on this party? A fancy party like this doesn't come around often. It's been a lovely night with excellent catering, gorgeous decorations, and wonderful people. An excellent use of the townhall. Remind me to send my regards to Katrynah later for the excellent hosting. ... And more importantly, I do have to go and find Polly again later. I sure hope she'll get lots of use out of those present and fill the sketchbooks with a collection of wonderous, lovely things! Only the best for Polly - our creative and kind SM. Her birthday shall not go ignored, so I'm so happy I came!
A moment later I'm spooked out of my thoughts by a whistling sound at the other edge of the yard. A searing light punctures the darkness of the light and explodes above the roof. Are those... fireworks?
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Oh yeah. Coming outside is definitely the right call. After all the dancing (or the writhing about that my dancing resembles) it is just waaay to hot to in there. Hmph, maybe I should take off the shawl just in case? No, nope, no. Too chilly for that in April - but it'll still be nice to stand in the garden for a second. A moment to take in the gentle breeze and a lone finch singing somewhere in the trees. Big crowds aren't really my thing, nor is the noise for prolonged periods of time. I also feel a tad underdressed compared to some of the elegant guests I've seen tonight - but hey, I like this casual hat I found in the back of the closet. Just gotta take a small break before I rejoin the bustle of the ball.
Still, for all my complaining, how could I have possible missed out on this party? A fancy party like this doesn't come around often. It's been a lovely night with excellent catering, gorgeous decorations, and wonderful people. An excellent use of the townhall. Remind me to send my regards to Katrynah later for the excellent hosting. ... And more importantly, I do have to go and find Polly again later. I sure hope she'll get lots of use out of those present and fill the sketchbooks with a collection of wonderous, lovely things! Only the best for Polly - our creative and kind SM. Her birthday shall not go ignored, so I'm so happy I came!
A moment later I'm spooked out of my thoughts by a whistling sound at the other edge of the yard. A searing light punctures the darkness of the light and explodes above the roof. Are those... fireworks?
Over-dressed and over-served, cyprienne made their way up to one of the estate's many balconies, waiting in dull excitement for the firework ceremonies to begin!
cyprienne had always been something of a wallflower- though not by total definition. Rather slutty, it was perhaps more accurately an anti-socialism quirk. Low tolerance for people, high preference for alcohol. The rest goes on as the evening does.
Although aware of their low blood sugar, they couldn't help but indulge in a cigarette- having just pilfered an exquisite ivory holder from another guest that was removed for raucous behaviour. Hehe…
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oh
uhoh
whoa. Woah.
Nicotine sick and vertiginous, cyprienne leans backwards over the marble alcove, boobies sky-cresting and eyes all but crossway'd.
Their cigarette, unceremoniously slipping from the decorated holder, no doubt lands within the opened crate of yet-to-be lit fireworks below!!
BOOM !!! POW !!! KA-CHOW !!!
At first, a look of minute arrogance, and then quickly followed by a loud humility in realizing this was my own fault.
cyprienne quickly finished her martini (too heavy on the vermouth, and please tell the help they are out of gin) and began stumbling, bumbling down the balcony, using her tights and the eaves of her gown as a rope to drop to safety.
They landed on somebimby's car, bonnet-first, and left a single sparkling heel behind, embedded in the lusciously ass-dented aluminum.
Fortunately they had enough wits to remember to leave the birthday bimbo's present behind!!!
[HAPPY B-DAY! Mine was on the 17th! Serving aries yaaaa♥♥♥]
Smut Me - Haezer
Groco, being the forgetful ximbo she is, misplaced her invite under a pile of Monster High doll receipts and forgot to remember the date! She whipped up something quick to wear-thank god ediblegoats just released a new dress line in stores- in her favorite color, pink, with splashes of red to match her poppy brooch. She's been feeling romantic and dreamy lately, what can she say! Arriving at the party, she greets Polly, chatting for a while about fashion design and cats. After depositing her gift- a gift card to Ximboland's premier plum hair salon - she wanders off outside into the moonlit garden. She likes to have moments of quiet to herself, especially at big events like this. Looking at the beautiful garden and all the flowers, she wonders if she'll meet someone out here. Maybe she will.
jesse we need to cook
Miss Laulina Valdere, of the esteemed Valdere Fashion House, had been in a tizzy planning her outfit for the celebration of Pollyx. Knowing fashion designers from abroad helped her designs stay fresh and it was always nice to talk shop with someone who really got it! But would they judge her? She worked out of Korea these days, the major seat of youth and beauty it had become.
She was frazzled, in her heart and in her hair. What does one wear to a fashion designer's birthday ball!? In a puddle of gowns on the floor of her closet, at last, it dawned on her! She was attending this gala as a guest, as a friend -- not to represent the House of Valdere! And so, Laulina chose to wear Ximbo designer fashions, rather than concern herself with being scrutinized as a designer. At last, she could let her hair down both professionally and literally. Laulina was relieved that the party started so late at night, for after all, she was a vampire. Many in the fashion world were, in fact. That's what Amanda Lear sang about all those years ago.
She wondered if Polly remembered that time, so many years ago when they met outside of Studio 54, and Laulina used her vampire persuasion to get a young Polly past the bouncer without a valid ID. And they danced the night away, though it was bleary through the haze of champagne and power powder.
What to bring -- that one was easier.
As she arrived, and the glamorous lady at the door tried to take her gift, she clutched it close to her petite frame possessively. She had been preparing this for months -- a custom cocktail gown, in the finest plum satin and lace. It was a one of a kind, designed and inspired by Polly herself. She hissed, holding up her pincushion -- "did you think this was just a twee clutch!? no! tell Polly to find me in the back garden when she has a few free minutes so I can finish tailoring this for her. Thank you." After the perfunctory glass of champagne and kissing her hellos to other designers she recognized, she waited between the flower beds, the lights from the disco inside casting sparkles.
"Happy Birthday, dear Polly!"
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nullplayer
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Legal Alien - lvl 44
mbbybbby
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CarCrashBimbo
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Susan Slutzky
- 275409 points
Senator - lvl 260
Eunyce
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Fashion Manager - lvl 253
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Citizen - lvl 281
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Citizen - lvl 207
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Fashion Manager - lvl 253
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- 3337892 points
State Minister - lvl 270
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Senator - lvl 210
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Senator - lvl 301
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- 8359 points
Senator - lvl 260
Slick_D
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Citizen - lvl 114
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- 3495 points
Citizen - lvl 61
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- 181 points
Citizen - lvl 58
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- 178 points
Senator - lvl 301
califlower
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Fashion Designer - lvl 75
AikiraSora
- 135 points
Senator - lvl 74
Sophia_Aliza_01
- 126 points
Citizen - lvl 61
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- 135 points
Legal Alien - lvl 30
Kyele
- 119 points
Citizen - lvl 196
califlower
- 96 points
Fashion Designer - lvl 75
Lyah
- 64 points
Citizen - lvl 58
Isolde
- 60 points
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