If you want a darker holiday theme, with stores, a really good music stream (I may be biased here) then you should pay Gothmas By Gaslight a visit. We’re talking steam/dieselgoth and dark Victoriana here.

Gothmas By Gaslight is now in its fifth year and by running the event in December they produce a more low key affair because Second Life concurrency in December isn’t great. This is obviously due to the fact that many of use are embroiled in holiday season mode outside the virtual world, which is a good thing, no really, it is!

However, just because the event is low key, don’t be fooled into thinking nothing is really going on here. Well over sixty merchants have a presence here, including, but not limited to; Avatar Bizarre, House of Rain, The Dark Fae, Deadpool Fashion, Cherry Blossom Designs, DemotiK, Get Frocked and NSP Florals & [MUSE].

Some of those with a merchant presence are also sponsors of the event. The sponsors are : Beautiful Freak Cosmetics, Black Tulip, drbc – deathrocker bettie crocker, Eclectica,
Fallen Gods Inc., Gothika *, :{MV}:, Roawenwood, -{ZOZ}-, Atomic Faery, Bliensen + Mai Tai, Chaos, Panic and Disorder, Couture Rock, Dark Passions, Pin Me Down,
~*Souzou Eien*~ and Spyralle

For a full list of merchants and to view maps of where the stores are go to this Merchant List page on the Gothmas By Gaslight website.

As I said this is a low key event, but there will be DJ’s, as The Gothika Mobile Unit will be running its regular schedule during the run of the event:

• Monday 8-10pmSLT (Lokii Violet)
• Monday 10-midnight SLT (Bronxelf)
• Tuesday 8-10pm SLT (Pie Zipper)
• Wednesday 8-10pmSLT (Lokii Violet)
• Wednesday 10-midnight SLT (Bronxelf)
• Thursday 1-3pm SLT (Cruel Britannia)
• Thursday 10-midnight SLT (Bronxelf)
• Sunday 8-10pmSLT (Pie Zipper)

The spirit of Gothmas is described by Axi Kurmin :

Gothmas is a darker, more beautiful holiday season.

It is the time of year when darkness fully takes hold, keeping daylight at bay as long as possible. The night air is cold and crystal, and the smell of cloves is in the air, though you aren’t sure if that’s someone’s cookies or the clove cigarettes you passed a moment ago.

Weather is unpredictable – snow dashes the ground in drifts, making the contrast between light and shadow ever more vast.

It is a time of velvet and lace, of jewels and silver. The time of fireplaces and mournful melodies to be shared amongst those that understand the beauty of the almost silent.

Please note that the event spans two sims and one of the sims is adult. Whereas I did not see any overtly adult content whilst visitng, there may well be some.

For more information about the event, visit the website : https://gothmasbygaslight.wordpress.com/

SLURL To Gothmas By Gaslight : http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cursed/169/128/1001/

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