Maitimo

OMG those trees around the walls are gorgeous. Where did you find them?

Caligula still has a lot for TMP but demo - quality is hit-and-miss with the older stuff. GAS is pretty good. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/133273?search[category_id]=10&search[keywords]=TMP&search[layout]=gallery&search[maturity_level]=GMA&search[per_page]=24&search[sort]=rating_weighted_desc&search[store_id]=133273

Magika does still have all their old stuff available at outlet prices, but that doesn't look like one of theirs. Mina is more likely I think.

As far as I know, no-one is making anything for that chest size except what's in the Kalhene wardrobe pack. Even Artis Fashion hasn't picked it up and they do dozens of different fits.

I wish this trend for overly-long sleeves would be over already.

I just landed a trailer in the most amazing location ever. I've literaly got water on 3 sides. I will definitely be staying here a while.

I love Felix Shepherd's stuff. I have a couple of his castles, as well as the flying dragon rezzer. They're prim-built and a bit dated these days, but still lovely.

Thanks for the suggestions. The Clank looks perfect but at a land impact of 445 there's no way I can even rez it. However, my lovely landlord @Lewis Luminos has loaned me one of his; it's not quite as big as I was hoping but it will be enough, I think. And it looks great. Pity it's no longer for sale.

Right, but... why would you follow the profile of someone you don't know, and why would you not recognise them if they confront you about it?

Doux has one called BYOB, but the braids at the back are short.

I need, urgently, a steampunk style club/skybox or platform that will fit on a 32 x 44m parcel, and has an open danceable area of at least 24m square. Good quality please; I've found plenty of old prim builds that look like they were made in 2008 with freebie textures, I don't want one of those. Maximum LI is 150. I need this by Saturday morning... can anyone help? Point me to a store or MP listing?

To get the full effect of Safe Hub drama, you need to turn voice on.

You know what I think will kill Second Life, in the end? Years from now, a major fascist government (and we all know which one) will ban it, because there are openly LGBT+ people here.

YES! Do eeet! Sure, but once you do that, it's no longer an "anime avatar". It's a regular avatar cosplaying as an anime character. The issue within SL is that avatars made with Utilazator or Kemono or Kuroo or Avatar 2.0 cannot be made to look like grown-ups, even if the characters they're portraying are in their 30s or older. Most land-owners won't recognise the character or know how old it's supposed to be. They will just see an avatar with a body and face that looks like a teen or pre-teen. I run an M-rated community on M-rated land. This means that, in my community, nudity is allowed. I also allow child and anime avatars. But I do not allow both together. If a child or anime avatar is present, everyone must be clothed. (and by "anime avatar" I mean those made with Utilizator, Kemono etc. parts - you could make one of those above grown-up characers with a Reborn body and Lelutka head, and be as naked as you please).

But how, within the confines of what's available for purchase in SL? The only way I can see to make avatars looking like that, is to make them non-anime. IE don't use the Utilizator heads and bodies, or anything similar to them.

There's always something like this. But I' ve never seen an avatar like that in SL.

I don't think I have ever seen an anime avatar in SL that was "clearly" an adult. I can't even imagine what that would look like.

You can't really follow someone "in" SL, except by constantly walking behind them, teleporting to everywhere they go etc. You know, the typical stalker-y type behaviours. You can follow them here on the forum, and you'll get a notification every time they post. And you can follow their profile feed (or at least you could, I'm not sure if they've scrapped that yet). But.. I think that as @Lewis Luminos and @Ceka Ciancihave suggested, this isn't about actually following, this is a scam to get you to click on a phishing link and then you'll lose your account (along with your linden balance and your payment info) to hackers. That person who you already know... I'll bet you a dollar that he/she already clicked, and now someone else is controlling their account.

Get a job at one of those clubs where all the staff are part of one big SL "family". And refuse to join said family. Actually even if you do join, it'll be the same drama either way.

This indeed is a major problem. I was informed that the proper route is a support ticket. Which I raised, only to have it fobbed off and closed with no resolution. There is literally NO WAY that any SL resident can openly and transparently raise concerns. Our options are to either accept without question, or close our accounts and walk away. And that is really, really terrible business practise (and potentially illegal - not sure what the CA consumer laws look like but it would be illegal in Europe for sure).

Apparently you can use imgur without an account (thanks, @Wulfie Reanimator) but alternatively, when you have enough forum posts, you can just upload the image directly here.

Upload your image to an image hosting site like Flickr or Imgur or Gyazo or something like that. Grab the image url from there, and paste it into your forum post. It should embed automatically, if you've got the right url. And now I understand why that bodysuit is just plain white. It's a full-perm template kit, made for designers to create their own textures for it. The pack includes a texture file called "AO Map" (or something similar). Open that texture in your inventory and save it to your computer. Then open it in a graphics program such as Photoshop or GIMP, and you can edit it, colour it, add layers etc from there. Once you've got a texture you like, re-upload it to SL (this will cost L$10). Finally, rez a copy of the bodysuit on the ground, go into edit mode on it (right click, choose edit) and open the Texture tab. Now you can drag your newly-uploaded texture into the square Texture box on the edit window, and Take the bodysuit back into inventory.

To complicate things even further, different bodies have different defaults. Maitreya, Isis, Freya = applier by default. Reborn, Kupra, Erika, Belleza genX = BOM by default. In fact, actually BOM only, no appliers anyway.

The best body currently on the market for muscular bodies is Inithium Kario. There's Niramyth Aesthetic which is VERY old and no longer updated. Signature Gianni can go pretty muscular but maybe not as much as you intend. But it has the best availability for clothing out of the three. None of these bodies are free. There are no free options for this kind of avatar. You'll need to watch this: Note that whichever option you go for, none of your previous clothing will fit (except for system-layers - which will still not work with Niramyth because that body cannot do Bakes on Mesh). You'll need to purchase new clothing based on the body you eventually decide on.

I am unclear what you mean when you say "bodysuit". Do you mean a garment that is a bodysuit, or a mesh body? Have you made the mesh body yourself or are you wearing one you purchased, like Freya or Maitreya? If you made the body yourself, then yes, you will need to make the skin texture yourself too, and you'll need to make it specifically for the UV map of your own body; a skin made for any other body almost certainly will not fit. If you are wearing a body you have purchased, you will need to show us exactly what you are wearing; a list of every attachment and every system layewr, so that we can see what may be causing the whiteness, because that is not normal. The reason you can't move the nips and VJ is because they are rigged mesh. Rigged mesh cannot be moved or re-sized; they can only fit the body they are made for, The ones made for Lara can't be worn with any body besides Lara, etc. The male bits are (usually - not always) unrigged, which means their position can be adjusted. If your nips and VJ are in the wrong place, you're wearing them with the wrong body.