Bye-bye gor rp sims!  No one needs this level of bullshit.

Goodbye SL Gor

So...   I've pretty much removed myself from SL-gor sims.  I do show up from time to time as "eye candy" but the day-in-day-out I spend on my own land.  I'm making a gacha ('making' is a relative term and would indicate some regular progress LOL.)

Seriously though, my inventory is FULL of stuff to make - over full really, textures, mesh, lots of goodies.

I am making some small (and rather ineffective) attempts to RP outside of gor, but frankly, I've been in gor since about 2007 Yes, tuka isn't my first avi.  The first was killed by LL when I didn't renew my membership (the bastards) and my second still exists because there's a massive amount of inventory on it.  I do have some other alts, but I log them in very seldom, and frankly, don't RP them.  I made them intending to, but I'm not really wired to maintain multiple characters.

Master and I are RPing on the 'estate' as well, which is pretty much filling my RP appetite these days.  Though... with me as an elf often, he's adapting to being called "toppy dude"...  Sometimes "yo, bastard toppy dude!".  The elf is a bit sarcastic.

My long standing and finally overwhelming issue with SL-gor is 'the requirement slaves be a doormat'.  I got sent out of RP (yea, that again).  Got sent out 4 times.  Those of you who haven't rped with me, I tend to be quiet, content to sit at the edge and spectate if not allowed a more active role.  I understand that slave is a 'bit part' for the most part.  One of the times I was brought into the tavern, belted, to serve someone I'd been setting RP up with for over an hour.  We were having a good chat, discussing some gaming issues we could bring onto the sim as well OOC.  The tavern keep threw me out to an empty sim.  Was he entitled? Sure!  Have I gone into the tavern all the time?  Nope.  I wait to be ordered in or brought in.  I'd been in there twice without my Master in a few months.  The last time I went to the dock and tped out and haven't been back except as eye candy on very rare occasions.  My chain sister expressed that she had literally begged in group if there was some RP she could join.  I had a vision of her weeping in 8 years asking if she wasn't worth anything more, of me having set the example that this was all she was entitled to expect.  And I almost threw up.

Since the sim admins had been sending out notices every time someone sneezed, I asked for a notice that slaves are people too, and sending us out of RP.  These people sent out a notice when a new RPer (their IC daughter) got harassed by some asshat who wasn't even FROM the sim about appropriate behaviour.  And yet.. now?  Suddenly "oh, we've decided not to send notices".  1/3 of their rpers are being actively abused by being sent out of RP they were invited into or screwed up the courage to try to insert themselves into, but 'oh, we've decide not to send notices'.  Cool beans!  Glad to hear it.

So, not my sim.  I'm cool with that.  Note it's not THAT sim.  It's the culture of SL-gor that if you choose to RP slave, you have no right to OOC regard.  So... I've chosen to leave.  I've chosen to not set an example that this abuse is ok.  I've chosen to put my foot down and walk away from it, and hopefully give someone else the strength to see that I did it.  It isn't without cost, to me or the RP household, and not everyone agrees with me, but that's ok.  I agree with me and I refuse to devalue myself OOC to a worthless piece of cage meat.  That's ok IC - I can play that.  OOC?  No one has the right to devalue another to that degree.

This is a bit disjointed, and likely I'll come back and clean it up, but for now... it's out there.