Clara Hollyberry

I like your pergola. I wouldn't be looking at them (or anything) any further away than 100m anyway. What's close to me is what I am focused on. I would keep the pergola.

To the OP, it's good to vent about what upsets you. You'll find some support but also a lot of "what did you expect"s in the process, no big surprise. And also as no big surprise, a lot of the "perks" Linden Lab offers to premium account holders involve increased privacy and increased means to live the life you want to live without necessarily being subject to "others" to the same extent that free accounts are. Better sandboxes, a tier-free 1024 plot to live on or build on... Etc. Privacy means money, alas. Sad but true. Not everybody in the general public is a jerk, of course. But unfortunately you can't rely on everybody to be kind or understanding either. For your sanity it is wise to not rely on public goodness but to nevertheless commit to public goodness even so. Just never be that guy who knocks around afk avatars and keep being a safe place for others in your surroundings.

You may have answered your own question at the beginning of the post 😁 With your excellent pictures and travel logs it's easy to see why staying home for the view AND leaving home for the view are both easy to do in Bellisseria.

Shi: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/19438

My thought are "handle SL ok" is vague. The refurbished HP Pavilion handles SL ok If you don't make high demands on it. The Macbook pro on the other hand handles the high demands. How demanding is your SL experience; shadows? High draw distance? Long stretches of texting with no real visuals? Lots of crowds and lots to render at once? Or hairtrigger pew-pew battle sequences? Fun times though, getting new tech is exciting.

Ahhhh see, I have a different take on it. 'Twas not her attractiveness being tested there but her modesty. He'd have kissed her no matter her visage, simply to test her responses. One must be sure one is taking a modest wife, after all. Will she let some stranger enter her private quarters and have his way? Yes and no... she knew her place well enough not to struggle but also gave every indication of being disinterested and without encouragement. Fine line walked and test passed. Really I do believe that she was simply older than he had been promised and, alas, possibly even beyond child-bearing years though her brother and his court spent great costs trying to forge and disguise it. That Henry retired her as is dear "sister" was perhaps indicative of age as well as less-fortunate looks. Post derailment level Ninja Warrior, your honor: amateur historical nonsense and balderdash! It is head-canon to me at least.

........... since Anne of Cleves sent back a portrait of herself to Henry VIII centuries ago that was more than generously flattering and sufficiently unrealistic for Henry to be unable to consummate the marriage for months after meeting her face to face. Or, ever. Or, well, that's his excuse and he stuck to it. Carry on.

I used to play Tiny Empires with my alts; a whole line of avatars representing the Buffyverse, at one time. Buffy, Faith, Willow, Giles, Xander, Tara, Spike, Angel, Dark Willow, Kendra. Ahh 2014. Where does the time go. They outgrew that game. I retired them with honours and a nice bonus for a job well done.

oh do give it a go; it will contribute to your experience and knowledge, and you'll have something in your pocket for certain situations. I think a fluid approach to photography works best for me so I keep all these techniques on standby in case one or another is simply the right way to go. Group shots are different from single portraits. Sometimes I just like the shape of the subject's own AO. Unlike when I was shooting sales boxes for women's clothing, when I used a Deeposed posestand and poses, green screen, same setup each time, same procedure to get model onto poster each time, dull dull dull predictable stuff.

When I am out in public I just play a static pose animation and take my time angling the camera. Or, I photograph the scene and then impose my image onto it later in post-production. I do not worry about scripted huds when a click of the animation pose does it script-free. Therefore I purchase or create single poses myself. (Purchased a lot in the past; created more often myself recently.) There's pose-ability in a third party viewer, also; make your own pose on the fly. There's a hud that will let you do that too, angle your limbs howsoever you wish. I think photography and how you arrive at the final image is as personal as each person; there isn't a right or wrong way to do it but really just "how you prefer it." Hopefully you get some good ideas from the thread.

Speaking personally, not me, no. Those comments you describe sound like marketing ploys or "ulterior motive" riddles from people who either know the target and enjoy messing with them or strategists who are trying to pimp product to people they assume spend big money inworld and would be easily shamed into changing their look. Shame is a powerful motivator to change looks. I'd say shame walks hand in hand with vanity; the extent to which you can be shamed by someone else ("you look like a whore, try this instead") is the extent to which you try hard (and spend lots of money) not to be shamed by others. Shame is lucrative and insidious. I differentiate that specimen of vanity/shame from the creative impulse to play with looks and experiment with layers and fashion art. That isn't vanity; it's delight in creativity. It's not touched by shame; it's shameless and wonderful to observe. That's how I see it, anyway.

This is awesome. I learned so much today! Thanks for this thread.

I'm tempted to start selling baggy jeans just to use that for my ad-copy

cocoro Lemon makes a straight-leg bluejean (in lots of colours) that you might demo. There are also lots of skintight jeans in that store that could create the thigh gap sitch but if you check out the straight-leg ones and the baggy ones they are all fairly generous in the cut and true-to-shape. I feel comfortable in those jeans, anyway, without ever really noticing an insult to my personal shape. I hope that helps a little.

I laughed out loud at that; that's absolutely right!

Do you use Firestorm? At the five minute mark of this video might be what you're looking for. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&ei=MfBnXdvxB4q7ggeh_JKoCQ&q=firestorm+save+camera+position&oq=firestorm+camera+save+po&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0i22i30.4114.12538..14628...2.2..0.125.2503.20j6......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i71j0i131i67j0i67j0i131j0.kpDFwjI-gy8#kpvalbx=_QPBnXc-GL4Gl_Qbii4-gBw5

I see no shade Just a whole lot of excitement about numbers that is mentally occupying me while I do some things today. Regardless of who responds, now I'm looking at numbers. And I have such a phenomenal respect for writers in general (especially the one who inspired this thread) that this thread pleases me on many levels.

Yes, the variation is considerable; from Tolstoy's War and Peace to Richard Bach's Illusions and everything in between... that's why I gave my metric as my measuring stick for this one.

If you love to write, and so many of us do, how many words have you written in recent history? I've suddenly become obsessed with inadvertent achievements and I have come to the conclusion that within the SL forum alone one of the esteemed contributors has written the equivalent of 7 novels. Edit: 7 Excellent novels. Words matter, and this is wonderful. So, how many novels have you written? Are you a roleplayer who churns out 5000 typed words a week in-scene? Are you a forum contributer who churns out a pile of good advice every day? Are you a data-entry specialist who churns out screen after screen of essential visual data over many months at a time? I was using Pride and Prejudice as my novel-word-count anchor, a novel with 122,189 words. I figured out that in my 3 years of roleplay, such as they were, and within my SL presence generally since 2012, I almost achieved what RaeLeeH has achieved in the forums alone.

There are some full-perm mesh creators that continue to make mesh apparel for classic avatars, not just for mesh bodies, and those creators do include an alpha texture for you. With that alpha texture, now you can include an alpha layer for your customers. It's how it used to be done when classic avatars were wearing mesh clothes in the beginning (2011/2012/2013). I remember when mesh clothing was offered in one size; and then it became offered in five "standardized sizes" with alpha layers to help hide the body peeking through the clothes. An alpha layer was a standard offering in the clothing bundles for sale; and sometimes merchants even offered the alpha texture itself for knowledgeable customers to tweak it further if they wanted to.

If you downgrade now, you lose your house and your stipend. If you upgrade to premium again sometime later (in the week or month or year or decade) then you will begin to get your weekly stipend again as of the following Tuesday; and you will have the opportunity to claim a Linden Home (not the one you have right now, but whatever one is available then). "Original benefits" are the benefits you currently enjoy right at this moment (and those benefits include access to the sandboxes, priority access to full regions during major events, whatever current gifts are available to Premium Account Subscribers, etc...). The wording is because those benefits may or may not change in future and so whatever "original" benefits you enjoy today (i.e. your current specific home, your current specific gifts) might not be the same benefits that are available to you in the future when you upgrade again (i.e. a different home, different gifts). Is that what you wanted to know?

That big circle in the corner is actually -- in my imagination -- a giant polkadot and there should be more of them in the other corners because that's the kind of picture it is! It demands big happy polkadots. I love the shot; that's a great face.

I LOVE kitchens with electric guitars in them!

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Divine Corruption/218/54/26 I have been fooling around with On1 as Alonya suggested it was a good program; fiddling about on a landscape shot from Erebos. Normally I don't really treat landscape shots. But it was fun seeing what I could do with the colour palette in On1. This is definitely a region that requires more moody, dark atmospheric shots, and here I've gone and rendered it bright and vibrant, ruining the mood entirely. But as a watercolour painting it would have been a great success lol