Retiring Avatars

Jennyfur is retiring or rather I am retiring Jennyfur. She will still be here for ceremonius occasions where the old war horse needs to be paraded and for customer service problems that can't otherwise be handled. I will still have my designs up for sale in Indigo and a few other locations and on SLB. Otherwise, I am phasing out my presence as Jennyfur.

This is not to say that I am leaving SL permanently, however I am moving over to another primary account. Only a few people will know about that account. Jennyfur will still be around for a little while until I transfer inventories, which is taking a lot longer than i anticipated (Hey LL Why can't inventories be shared with accounts owned by the same person?)

So, why is Jennyfur retiring? This is a curious question in and of itself and here are the reasons:

1. Since I started SL in 2003 I have been Flipper's girlfriend/fiancee/wife. Its always Flipper and Jennyfur... like we are one person. While I love my husband dearly and thank him for introducing me to this crazy world, I feel the need to be my own anonymous unaffilated self. I need to not be associated with everything Flipper does in Second Life and likewise. I need to not have the things I do affect him negatively in a business sense. If I wanna tell someone to go eff themselves in the arse with a telephone pole then I will do so and not have a reign of drama fall upon Flip's lap -- which it has in the past. When I have had a conflicts, he gets tons of whining IMs from the other party about the situation and it pisses him off to have to deal with it. I am not a perfect person by any means, nor am I a consumate dramamonger, but you know shite happens and its not Flipper's job to take care of my messes and save the world. Granted, I am not one to hold my tongue for the sake of keeping up appearances either.

2. I'd like to be myself without any feted strings attached. I am only feted by association and I mostly find the whole thing to be a bunch of bullshit and really I am quite shocked as to how serious some of the purported FICer's take their status whilst pretending its all bullshit and doesn't matter. You either hate it or you love it. Don't wrap yourself up in a title that you continue to denounce because it makes you look like a pathetic ass. I will probably start designing again at some point in time and I wonder how it will be - not being Jennyfur Peregrine wife of FlipperPA Peregrine, friend of... yada yada yada. Well that and how big the world has grown since I started designing.
Fuck the FIC!

3. Clearly for me, SL had become a job at some point in time I would log in, design stuff, do customer service, log out, never talk to anyone, never hang out etc. I've taken the better part of this past fall/winter to figure out what I want from SL and this is it. The point is I don't want SL to be my job. I like to design as a hobby. I am not going to quit my job so I can do this stuff. Yah, I know SL is the wave of the future yackity schmakity. I used to think that I wanted to design in SL fulltime and not have a traditional job and now I know I need a separation between the worlds.

4. There are other reasons, but those are the primary ones.

The problem is that I have to revert to being Jennyfur in the real world since so many people have met me. Luckily, Jennyfur has been my nickname for many years so I can let being referred to as Jennyfur slide.

The reason I am posting this in general and not in notices and well wishes is because I am hoping that this will foster some conversation regarding persons who have felt or feel they are in similar circumstances. (You can private message me if you do not feel comfortable posting replies) The first person to post that this should be in the Notices forum is going to be introduced to my friendly telephone pole (see point 1 for details) Anyone wanna take a bet on who will be the first wiseass to post that???

*I apologize if any of the aforementioned points sound ranty and overly dramatic. They are not intended to be, but are uncensored (well as much as they can be) points outlining why I feel the need to retire Jennyfur.... If only there was a Boca Raton retirement community in SL, I could park my avie in a camping chair on the beach and complain about my hemmoroids, but I Digress *

Regards,
-Jennyfur

PS. I'll still be around the forums until I get my accounts switched over.

Shes talking about me


Sad to see the you/the-avatar go Jen!

Oh, and either the next ResMod who walks along, or Taco

Honestly, I thought Flipper would have done his husbandly duties by now and posted something wiseass

I'd take you up on the telephone pole challenge, but you know where I hide.

Seriously, have fun (the important thing) and I might run into you again sometime, was always nice seeing you on IRC, at any rate.

Fuck the FIC! <3

I was gonna say, when the word wiseass comes up, the word Flipper usually follows pretty quickly behind

I quite feel like a change too. Can I be Jennyfur? I think Flip is cute and I'd promise to look after him.

Can I have your account?

And hopefully the skills that go with it

Can I have your's? I need to ballot-stuff a few polls.

A nice boy like you would just improve Starax's reputation. No way! He's going to hell.

I can definitely relate to SL turning into Second Job (tm). I don't mind really since as a freelancer the extra income is a big help and one that I don't take for granted (I hate Ramen). I kinda went the other direction as you, Jennyfur. I stopped trying to have fun in SL (not that it's not there to be had.) I just don't really have the time or energy to do both and income wins right now. Plus I was never really very social to begin with.

*waves*

Have fun with your new anonymity!

FIC? What's that again?

I think it stands for "foil is crinkly." Some people hate it when the smooth shiny reflective surface is disturbed.

Come back as a guy, it's great fun.

Jen,

Can I buy your old account from you? Or at least rent it for a few pics?

Since Flip is one hella AmIgO...well I never..well...so how 'bout it?

huh? huh? Puuhhleeease!!

moved from General to Notices...

Jennyfur, i know your feelings on the forum that this has been moved to, but i'm trying to be fair across the board and this fits in it's new forunm home.

that being said, i'm sorry to hear you have to take this step, but i also understand why you need to do it.

the best of luck to you and your future endeavors.


side note: i was giddy about meeting you and Flip at SLCC '05 and hope to be ther on March 25th as well as SLCC '06. Flip was one of the first people i met in SL and i still renmember the tour of the castle in Indigo where he showed me his space and i asked who the pics on the walls were of and he mentioned you.. which, if i remember correctly, you guys were "girlfriend/boyfriend" at the time. there will always be a special place in my virtual heart for you guys.. even if i don't really know you guys as much as your close friends. the two of you a part of a VERY small group of people who had an impact on me early on.

"Fuck the FIC"

Well he is your hubby I guess you can do what you like

Good luck to you in the future.

Possibly because it's an effective way of increasing the demand for Lindens, by taking goods out of the economy. It's also one of the places I think they could create a new "Linden Sink" by allowing someone to make an "Estate Sale" of their account when they retire, with some per-asset charge in Lindens for the transfer.
I can surely sympathise, I've been there... not in SL, but in other cooperative worlds.

This is one reason I buy Lindens on LindeX rather than trying to make money from scripting. I want to be a player in he SL game, rather than one of the staff. I get a feeling that a good many of the people who post a lot in the forums are "staff" rather than "players", and all the drama that I see (particularly on the economy forum) continues to reinforce my decision to stay the hell out of the "not a game" side of things, and to contribute at the player and hobbyist level.

Don't let the door hit your ass on the way...

OH WAIT! HEY HEY!

Moving threads often kills them. Notices & Well Wishes is the death zone

I want to become a resmod for a day and move every single thread into other forums just to prove a point.

Good luck with your new Second Life!

I have recently gone through the debate of leaving SL. Selling my sim and stop playing my Tya character. I have been gone since my CBC interview, only to stop in once in a blue moon for a moment. SL did become a job. Something I once took pleasure in, I dreaded logging in. When I returned last week, I expected my djs, my sim residents and my models, gone. I was surprised to see them still there. I felt horrible for leaving them hanging, though it made me a lil teary eyed knowing that they did not up and leave, they stuck around until they heard from me and what direction I wanted to go.

My creative inspiration that was lost for so long is now back. What a wonderful feeling to be able to picture in your head what you want and see it come to "life" in 3D. This last week I have been putting the finishing touches on my sim. This weekend I know I will be working on new product for my store that I have not updated in at least 6 months!!

For those that are going through what I have gone through, sometimes is good to just log out and leave for a while. Your inspiration will come back to you when you are ready.


Enough of my ramblings!

~Tya

Why stop at one? I have four alts, it's four times the fun.

Oh, I have three other alts to use on top of my current primary and new primary accounts.

I am afraid you will have to stick a telephone up Cybin's a$$ *twice*, he moved your post AND talked mostly about Flip. Haha!!

Anyhoooooooooooooooooo I just love you for saying out loud what a bunch of us think:
people that say "oh FIC isn't a real thing it's not even that bad" but wear a FIC ring and title, yeah mmmhhhh... OH WELL UH!!
You rock, I love how you are the REAL independant and true person.
I can only wish you luck and lots of fun, and mostly, a peaceful mind. You derserve it.
HI5!!