Once upon a time in the land of a frilly filly farm...
FFF stands for Frilly Filly Farm. It was started by a wonderful woman named Faye Kawabata. I like to think that it could have
been called Faye's Frilly Filly's.
Do not let the name of our farm fool you; we do have stallions here as well.
All our ponies have full run of the farm. IF you or your pony has a fear of male ponies, please contact me to help you
work through this. I have learned over time that so many of our ponies come to our farm to heal. So, always remember that
the pony right next to you may have had an even worse experience than you, and remember your manners.
Now, about the farm, everyone needs to understand that this is a training facility. We train ponies to use carts ride
under saddle, slalom, jump as with the Steeplechase and Dressage and with a lot more being witten as you read this.
You may ask what value this has for you if you are not competitive. My Darlings, this teaches you submission and to understand
what you can and cannot walk over or how to free your carriage from being stuck. It gives our ponies the sense of pride. They
start towards something that they think they can never achieve, and then one day they realize that they are REALLY good at
it.
Then, as they go around in human lives, they know how to deal with lag and how to jump areas to get along. It is really
amazing how much you can do once you can work your keyboard and mouse in a cohesive way to move your body smoothly and gracefully.
Farm History- by Miss Button Wright:
| This is what FFF looked like when it all started. |
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I came to Frilly Filly Farm in November of 2006 to learn to train ponygirls. Miss Faye Kawabata, FFF's founder, was running
the stable. She had sold the stable to Marissa Akula of Questionable Virtues Stable but had stayed on as manager. I understand
that FFF was once part of a large BDSM sim in Oraenji called Tortured Dreams. That is why the group name is still Tortured
Dreams to this day. When the original Tortured Dreams sim broke up, Miss Faye moved FFF to Bulgogi. where it look up 5/8ths
of the sim. Being a hillside sim and pony fields needing flat spaces, Miss Faye built FFF on three levels of prim floor. A
large barn that housed the stables connected the upper mesa fields from the lower training fields. A lower third level contained
silo trainers quarters.
I moved into one of the silos and studied under Miss Faye. My fellow trainers were Lucius Tuque, Ranma Yamabushi, Lexi
Lock, Vaya Talaj, and June Piedpiper. Miss Faye promoted Ranma and me to stable mistresses to help her run the farm. The
sim was plagued by lag monsters that were encouraged by nightclubs and free-sex sites catering to large numbers of newbies.
So although FFF was more than half the sim, the smaller sites were flooding the sim with customers who lagged it to a point
where ponyplay was impossible.These sites also attracted griefers who were onthe sim and looking for ways to make trouble.
As these nuisance sites went up for sale I bought them up and rented residential lots to the BDSM community.
In the spring of 2007 Miss Faye couldn't spend much time online so she asked me to take over running the farm. Ranma also
had RL commitments that limited her involvement. Then Marissa told me she had to sell the land and wanted to offer it first
to FFF. I told her I couldn't buy it but would ask around. The community support for keeping FFF alive was tremendous. When
I asked for contributions to help buy the land, the donations poured in from FFF members and others in the SL ponygirl community.
These contributions allowed me to purchase the farm, and FFF went from being a privately owned farm to group ownership. The
late Kathryn Jackson offered to pay the tier of $125 US each month, and FFF was saved.
With the confidence of financial security, Vaya Talaj and I decided to redesign FFF, removing the vast prim floors and
nestling the farm into the curved hillside of the Bulgogi sim. We terraced the land and placed the outdoor stalls designed
by Vaya and built by Hessa Hausdorff. Also large competitive fields were placed on prim floors in the sky to reduce the lag
created by nearby objects. I merged my rental lands with the original FFF holdings so now FFF is almost all of the sim. In
Bulgogi FFF has one large neighbor who has let us run our cart trail through their land, a couple of private residences and
a small adfarm.
This fall Kathryn died and her support ended. Our group ownership and large member base has allowed us to keep our tier
low through the donations of member excess tier to the group. Tier contributions, combined with the generous tips of members
and guests, have allowed us to maintain the original dream of Miss Faye: a ponygirl stable where everybody was welcome and
no one was asked to pay for training, stalls or vendor space.
2007 also saw the creative team of Sandy Strabel, Lexi Lock, Sha Babii, Hessa Hausdorff, and Yhis Khorana develop two
of the finest steeplechases in Second Life. These have helped us to have some of the best steeplechase trainers and ponies
in SL.
As the farm has grown I have been joined by two other stable mistresses. First Lexi Lock brought her long experience with
the farm, her love of steeplechase, and a willingness to help. Then Atheena Hyun, who has RL experience with online gaming
and horse farms, has added a depth of role play and an eagerness to support the community.
Most recently, Miss Faye has decided to leave FFF to pursue new interests. She sold me her lot in neighboring Oraenji
(the site of the original Tortured Dreams) and Atheena has built us a new tack shop and recreation area there. Moving the
vendors to another server has improved the response of the Bulgogi server and reduced lag substantially. The dream is to concentrate
essential farm activities in Bulgogi and to move other things like the shop and recreation centers next door to Oraenji.
