DeepBlueJoy

Fabulous idea!

I'm not sure I follow you about Phillip Rosedale. Please share what he was he right about. Anyway, what you wrote otherwise makes a lot of sense to me... I do think people would like to be able to have a voice conference with two or three people and not have it be difficult to accomplish, even for experienced users. When it works. I type really fast, so I don't mind using IM most of the time... but even that lags at times... posts to groups or conferences get dropped altogether at times. A lot of things in SL break with regularity. It is annoying and it makes it very hard when someone is relatively new and they have no idea why stuff is behaving so oddly or what they should do about it. Even getting dressed is complicated... try understand when someone says you need to 'add' this, but 'wear' that... and all our instinct with clothing is to wear it... then of course, as a newcomer, suddenly, you're naked... or wearing a box AND naked. * Things that should be straightforward are not. * Things that should work smoothly don't. I haven't been here since 2007. I joined in 2015. A lot of the older empty sims seemed clunky and old fashioned right off the bat... remember, I'm already very experienced with a finely crafted visual world that can create reality inside a computer... both live action cinema and even some animated material -- and it flows well and even the hair on that fuzzy tennis ball creature in that advert moves when the ball shakes its 'head'. (the Cricket Ad). Everyone who is joining SL today has that same expectation of what 'animated' is and can do... we have mesh hair that doesn't move, or prim hair that looks lunatic. In movies and ads, the functionality isn't stuttery and it is often done so well, it's very hard to discern what is CG and what is real. What you know is CG still functions like 'real'. So here I am in 2015, looking at a world around me with textures that are obviously photographs pasted onto 'branches' to make a 'tree'... and clothing that renders slowly so people stand around with items attached to their hands and appear completely naked... or the whole world is gray... and stays that way for a while. It's disconcerting. I don't know how many people live in the games my friends play, but they seem to be a lot more responsive than SL. And some of them have lesser computers than mine. I am here for the social aspects. I learn a little bit about creating b/c I like nice stuff, but I don't have the time to invest in that side of it... and I have a little money to spend that I'm happy to give to those with that creative skill and talent. And I don't expect that end of things to be easy. And I don't want it to be 'too' easy... because frankly, I like being around people who have been self selected for at least basic problem solving abilities and often a degree of creativity. But functional and learnable by more would be nice. Uhm, no! You have zero idea what I was saying and you're throwing shade. I was NOT saying familiar. Familiar would mean I had some prior experience of it. I hadn't. I didn't have any 'expectation' that it would be something in particular. I was an online 'game' 'virgin'. So I did not expect familiar. I didn't expect it to work a certain way. I did expect it to work. I was saying intuitive because THAT was what I meant. Something that was created so that its very design would suggest ways to use it instinctively. NO, I did not say it should be facile and require no learning. I would not expect to learn to fly a jet in one day either. For that matter, I didn't learn to use a computer over night. The attitude that 'my SL take it or leave it... is going to result in SL being left. Eventually, something will replace it if it doesn't evolve. People who want to use it for fun will find something that works better. People with the skills to make a better world will create one. What I said was that it needed to be designed so that it is more user friendly and it needed to not break quite so often. Just because you're obviously smarter than everyone in the room, doesn't mean that everyone else is! Some of us are merely genius level smart. There's a lot to like about SL or we wouldn't be here arguing about it. But there is also a lot that could work a lot better. You think intuitive interface means nothing? Then tell me why no one is still using DOS and better yet, why everyone using a computer today isn't programming it in FORTRAN or COBOL? The end user has no interest in UNIX either. They just want to get their work done. No, writing a new version of firestorm won't fix it. The problems are deeper than a viewer. Certain things are structural, and Firestorm is like putting a lovely mesh body over a system one... underneath, there's still the same basic machinery... and the mesh body must integrate with it and interact with it or it doesn't work as an avatar. Same thing with a viewer. SL is like a foot... A good viewer is like a really great shoe... It's comfy and it makes walking easier, and protects one from pain when climbing on rocks... but if the foot is mangled and bleeding inside the shoe... the shoe cannot fix that. I cannot fix SL's underlying dysfunction. Neither can Firestorm or any other viewer. The reasons that stuff doesn't work need to addressed. I'm not a techie, nor do have have ANY interest in it. No more interest in it than the average guy who wants to drive a Mercedes wants to be a mechanic! I want to buy a nice car and I want it to drive well. I will even pay a premium for it. And if the manufacture of my car decides not to update for 10 years, eventually, I'll find a new brand. BTW, if I had the skill set to do the kind of world-building required, I'd build my own and leave SL in the dust, something that will happen to SL just as it happened to 'my space' and 'geocities' and 'the well' and a whole lot of other online entities that are either gone or irrelevant.

I don't think that is really great onboarding. Random visits to pretty 'destinations' (if you can figure how to teleport) when you have no idea how to function in even a basic way is not a rational strategy. It's more "throw them in the deep end and see who swims or sinks." Great onboarding would be an (a) intuitive interface and (b) a simple but structured learning experience in the introductory part of the process that makes it EASIER to know what you're doing once you muster out of the other side of the initial training program. It won't happen without a usable, uncluttered, intuitive interface and a PLAN for training. The issue is far deeper than just having 'cool destinations' and 'social islands for noobs' -- which social islands can be quite unpleasant if you don't end up lucky and meet good people. (or if said overworked good people are too busy to help you and aren't easily identifiable as helpers) Frankly, I didn't have a truly useful 'onboarding' until I found firestorm island - months into my random wanderings in SL, on a day where I was so frustrated, I was utterly ready to quit. I didn't find them until I went searching in desperation, because I could not get basic things to work. On day one, I had walked out of the introductory experience/newcomer island with a very rudimentary understanding of how to use the SL viewer or to do much of anything. It was overwhelming just dressing without ending up naked. Therefore, I spent my early days running between dressing rooms until I gave up. I found a basic outfit and figured out how to paint on 'tops' when I wanted to 'change'. Weeks went by without me changing my clothes. I spent most of the first six months badly dressed, with crooked hair, going from destination to destination and seeing lots of pretty stuff, but learning next to nothing on my own b/c the system was NOT intuitive and my attempts to take what classes I found felt like I was jumping into calculus without a basic understanding of arithmetic. I'm NOT technically clueless, though I had no prior experience with any kind of online multiplayer environment. On my first day, I taught myself how to build my own body shape and to color my hair blue. Some kind helper at NCI showed me how to get a skin that didn't have nasty white religious looking body underwear that I spent half an hour trying to remove before I figured out it was burned into the initial skin! Apparently, issuing a human body that looked marginally realistic was somehow immoral? Seriously? I found myself wondering what prudeville I'd landed in! To be clear: I was just hoping for basic barbie, rather than some kind of religious undies wearing dolly. Much of the rest of it... it was just as frustrating. I kept walking into things and falling off of things and getting booted to 'adult hubs' because I had no real idea of private property. It was embarrassing and I found myself confused most of the time. I met some knowledgeable people at the helper places (that I went back to several times) but for newbie helpers, many were surprisingly arrogant. Of course, I didn't have a clue! I was new!! That is no way to get people eager and wanting to stay. The initial noobville I ended up being spit out into was a meat market, full of almost new males, who harassed day old women. I got hit on repeatedly and I got griefed repeatedly. I didn't know what was going on. I didn't know what to do about any of it. No one did anything about it. I fled. I found some lovely places in the destinations guide... most of them utterly empty... (probably not, but I didn't know yet that people hid behind their property lines) still, they were gorgeous and that made me want to stick around to a degree. I spent weeks wandering around Whimsy and sitting on Whimsy beach listening to the surf. I joined Caledon on day one, and they were way more helpful than anything Linden ever had been, but you can only do so much when people are battling with an interface that is maddening and complicated. Still, I wish they had been my initial landing point. It was only when I joined Firestorm social and Faery Crossing within weeks of each other that I came to realize there could be newcomer friendly spaces where there were any controls over bad behavior. People got banned or booted for behavior. Faeries arrived on scene when a bad actor showed up where I was. There were classes. There was learning. There were activities. They were a world away from my initial noob intake via the Lindens The helpers were nice and some were knowledgeable, but most were overwhelmed. It was like walking into a pixel zoo. Chaos. I think maybe some of the settings should be locked by default until you learn enough to use them... But I think the basic interface is fundamentally clunky and too prone to misbehave even when you know what you're doing. In my case, I signed in one morning looking down on the top of my head... with no idea how it happened and no idea how to fix it. Fortunately, that happened with firestorm rather than the SL viewer (though logging in with that viewer did not fix the problem). Thankfully, and someone suggested I get firestorm help. That WAS actually helpful... their groups and Firestorm Social Island changed my SL experience from struggling blindly to within a few weeks, actually hanging around FS island and being able to help others a little bit. Sometimes, using SL is like using an unstable early DOS instead of Windows or mac OS... and like doing word processing using Spellbinder instead of MS word...(Spell binder was a program that came before Word Perfect, and which required that you use a floppy to run it, and then remove and replace it with the 'data' floppy to save your document.) It was a bear to use and losing your entire document happened with frequency. SL often feels like that. People do want to make things and create a livable world, but most of us want to do it with power tools, not a hammer and a dull knife. It is a testament to the USERS that SL has survived as well as it has and that so much has been done with it.

I've benefited by old stuff that I've managed to get, some of which is one of a kind or dirt cheap and I've never actually been burned by absent folk. I've been burned several times by people who are still active but who basically refused to be responsive or helpful even though they are around to hear my cries for help. I'm against doing anything that would hurt or make it more likely the account would end up being deleted (example: a last log on date on an MP account or an automatic account deletion after a certain amount of time). Much older (and sometimes quite exquisitely made) work that I loved but couldn't afford early in my time in SL is now gone forever and I can't ever find it again so I know that the losses outweigh the gains. Some of the pictures of some of the items are still on the web and I am just bummed I cannot have those lovelies for myself. If the vendor wants to say 'I may not be responsive b/c real life has made it difficult for me to give you service' that's not a terrible thing, however. People are absent for all sorts of reasons. One of my SL friends went missing for over a year and no one knew why. She didn't meet any of her obligations, but i"m grateful her accounts weren't deleted. It turned out she'd been in a serious accident and spent MONTHS in hospital and then recuperating. She did not have any way to reach out to SL -- don't think she was reaching out for much of anything for a long time. I am not unsympathetic about someone being frustrated they cannot get customer service, but considering that most items aren't more than a couple of real life bucks and often quite a bit less, I just would try to let it go and not try to get their work removed from MP or anything because of a missing item. I would probably leave a bad review so people were warned, however.

I agree. The beginner learning curve is not a high hill. It's a wall... a slick, very intimidating wall. This goes double if you're a) older b) not hugely technical. I like the fact that it is a place that anyone can so a lot with... eventually. I didn't like the first few months where I often felt downright stupid. I used to tell people that computers would become ubiquitous when they became as easy to use as it is for someone to learn to drive. (I've been around a while) My friends, most of whom were engineering students, were very enthused by the computers they were discovering/building and they were almost contemptuous of those who didn't want to follow them down the rabbit hole of a major computer build project... They (and I) could see some of the potential computers had (some of what we have now, they really probably didn't imagine). I think the problem is that the designers of SL are mostly of a similar mentality. If you don't want to learns to use the tools, then you don't belong. That is not a very welcoming attitude. I don't mind being a bit of a niche, but I think that SL has the potential to be a lot more than it is... I am frankly afraid that someone will take the idea from under Linden and turn it into a mass use space, the way Facebook undercut and made redundant its earliest competitors/antecedents. Because the ideas and the experiences here have such potential, I don't think the idea of Second Life will go away. I do think that if the Lindens don't open up to at least a small degree, it will be overtaken. Eventually, even if it doesn't go way, it will become less relevant. I hope I'm wrong but this is the nature of things. The first cars required a lot of their drivers... A lot more than current cars. Current cars are infinitely more complicated and may be lacking too much in the way of user serviceable and modifiable innards, but most people don't care b/c they can do so much with what a car has evolved into. The modern car has 'everything'. I think SL is in danger of becoming the 'model T' of environments... available in any color... so long as it is black. The model T was innovative... until it wasn't. The world is so big now.... and so small. There is so much new happening AND it is so easy for people to cross pollinate their ideas. I hope Linden doesn't drag its feet. Blue

Yeah, in my early days in SL the only reason I did not leave is that I found people I liked and really wanted to be around. That and the lovely places like Whimsy Kaboom and Inspire Space Park that were (and remain) just beautiful. I'm not a big game player and I had just quit Facebook, so there was a social hole in my online life. I have decent computer skills... I was using computers before there were sophisticated visual interfaces, but in actuality, SL comes very close to that experience in a lot of ways. In order to be usable to any real degree, you have to be persistent about acquiring a skill set... and it's not one that translates that well to anything else - even my hubby (a professional techie) who has some decent gaming experiences finds that he had a learning curve... That is NOT a good sign. I came really close to leaving a bunch of times. The day I logged in and was looking down on the top of my head and could not fix it... that day had me in tears and I was 'this' close to just saying F-this. That day I found firestorm island and help and also met someone who is still a great friend -- someone who has helped me a great deal over the years. (I will be forever grateful to the unknown person in the first couple days in SL who converted me to firestorm) It is too hard to learn. It is not intuitive. Not everyone here really wants to have a science and computing project. Learning to WALK should not require the effort it does. Some people just come to be social and wear pretty clothes and live in a pretty pixel environment... but just learning to wear clothes requires learning. Take my mom... no, no, you can't have her, even thou her capacity to annoy is legendary! But she's a great example. She's older, but she's bright and curious. My mom loves the beauty and creativity I've shared with her, though she really isn't a techie. She would probably do more on SL than she does if she wasn't so intimidated and frustrated by the learning curve. Since we are in two different countries, I cannot give her hands on teaching... But that's the problem. Were it not for us helping each other, this place would be seriously not fun. When I am helping others, I remember that frustration myself. At times, I (try to) help someone I know just know that I won't be seeing them again. Then, there's the demand on resources. I've a decent computer with dedicated graphics. My husband has a fabulous gaming computer. Both of us find that things bog down at times. I remember the prior (decent work grade workstation) that I had before... it just stalled. Yes, anyone who wants to run around in an editable and creative dynamic environment like SL must do some learning and there must be some degree of computing demands... but SL could be at least a LITTLE easier to START to use. I often liken things with computers to driving vs customizing one's own vehicle and/or becoming an automotive engineer. Everyone in SL needs to be able to 'drive' without it requiring the engineering degree. Some of us want to be weekend dabblers and that's fine... a handful of us want to be builders and engineers... and that's awesome... but I think SL would grow more if it were overlayed with more of the 'driver grade' experience. I don't think SL is going to die soon... because, like the internet, there's enough commerce here to pay for things... for now, anyway. I do think it would grow a lot more if it were at least a bit more user friendly. I think a lot of people who are using zoom and other interfaces would be here during this nasty pandemic were it a bit easier to use. I do have to say one thing... I'm glad it's not utterly simple. (I know, it's a bit selfish of me!!) but I think that it weeds out some of the people i come here to avoid. When I meet a person who has a decent grasp of SL's tools, I know I've met someone with a bit of determination, some intelligence and the ability to do some problem solving. Any idiot can use Facebook. It takes a special kind of idiot to use SL!!🤩🐱 I guess that makes most of you lot my kind of idiot! 🖖 Peace, Blue

There is another side to this. I have in inventory some items from dying stores or long abandoned MP stores, items I treasure. I only wish I had bought more from a place/MP store like Angelwing before it finally went away without warning. The risk to me was outweighed by the chance to acquire the exquisite work of someone who is long gone, who knows why. I write stories online, and several of my fellow authors have vanished without a trace. In a few cases, I found out that they died. I am in no hurry for their legacy to vanish and I am grateful that we have not lost all access to the work of people who may have died or become unable to come back. Once it is gone, it is forever lost. I read unfinished stories and i wear 'orphan' clothing too. I would encourage creators to have some kind of creative "will" - someone who can carry out their wishes, or in the case of stores, respond to customers, and to wind things down if absolutely necessary. In the majority of cases, i never need a response for purchases. I would rather have orphan stores for lovely creations than have them be scrubbed by some soulless policy from the face of 'second earth'. Of course, it sucks not to have a response, especially when you find something you love, but sadly, all things eventually pass.

You belong here. Don't let the rabid rabbits gnaw on your sanity. they're not worthy.

I like how she looks too. I would not be eager to give it up.

Indeed. Few things look more gauche than someone bouncing wildly down the road or actually VIBRATING...when you've someone's oversized chest balloons vibrating... Yeah. No.

look forward to meeting you all! I'm almost always on in SL on Thursdays and Fridays - the rest is utterly random.

I have to say there's still a handful of pieces in my inventory that came from there. Amid the forest of fugly are a few gems... and BOM has allowed me to wear some of them again! I have no shame. I have fabulous stuff from great designers... and a few old favs from freebie places as well.

Can we not turn this into the mesh wars? The gentleman wants to help his friend. We all shared options and we all have our favorites. He'll choose what works for him and from the sound of it, he's already got a preference for Maitreya. There are a lot of bodies in SL and there's a lot of clothing for many different bodies in SL. I checked. MP had more than 25K for ebody and about the same for the Altamura. There's clothing for Tonic, Eve and Legacy even though I don't know many people who have those at this point. The truth is that there are so many sources of decent clothing in SL that I don't think anyone with a body that's been around more than a year will have trouble finding clothing unless that body is terrible and has no traction... We all know of a few of those! btw, as a wearer primarily of a slink physique body, I find that it is actually easier to find clothing for it than for the slink hourglass... also, I can usually wear hourglass clothing in a pinch, but the reverse is seldom true... hourglass bodies cannot wear physique clothing.

Were? I think i'll find 'em right alongside the blinding eye yellow and screaming electric green painted on T shirts on the upper floors of that place... alongside the galactic hair, and atmospheric bling shoes...

betcha he still looked better than the guy with the prim hair and painted on jeans from 2011

When i first came to SL I wasn't sure I wanted to be here, and I was between jobs, so I didn't spend any money for six months. Then someone gave me 250L -- and that lasted me months!! I did just fine. I enjoyed myself and met cool people. I discovered lots of lovely places. I collected both great and crappy free stuff. 🤪 Eventually, I decided I wanted to be here. I got some money and decided to spend it on things i liked. I now support the creators whose work i like, and frankly, tend to give more money to people who've been generous with free or cheap stuff, as long as they make things that are decently made and that I enjoy using. Occasionally I spend outlandish amounts of money of things I just 'cannot live without'. SL will continue to exist as long as people collectively make enough money to keep paying tier and the LL continue to find it in their interest to keep the grid up. I therefore hope that there will be enough people buying and selling things, and creating things and affording tier so SL continues. There is NO one right way of doing it. I have a sneaking suspicion that all that sex stuff I ignore is a large financial contributor to keeping things going. So... pay or not. create or don't. Just enjoy life, first and second. None of us gets a second go round on the mortal coil. Life and let live. I see no point in shaming or trolling others. We already have first life for that. As the bumper sticker says: Enjoy life, this is not a dress rehearsal -- though in SL you can definitely wear a multitude of costumes.

I have to admit that I don't really care about events or high fashion all that much. SL is a lot more than 'top tier' design events. I could dress my avi for free forever if I wanted to, and look decent, though I wouldn't have all the bells and whistles out there, I could have a lot of decent stuff -- yes, even with altamura or ebody. I guess it will depend on why this person is in SL. If their friend is customizing their body, I suspect their interest in lots of fancy fashion is not that high. In my experience, most females who are interested in fashion will want to do that customization and choosing for themselves. To each his own. There's no wrong or right answer, but there are a lot of options out there and I think it's sad to lock people into one idea even if it works for US. We've given him options. He will then go and do what he wants and use whatever of our answers suit him best or ignore them. The nice thing about both ebody and altamura is that there are free nearly FULLY functional bodies that are much more than demos that they can use for extended periods if they want to figure out what works for them. As he's stated that she wants to be a slender person with a slim avatar, most of the well made bodies will probably work. Decent options include: Belezza, Slink, ebody, Altamura, tonic and more.

I have never had trouble finding clothing that fits either and I have both. There are more and more people (including some of the bigger stores that are actively updating their clothing) are making clothing specific to both bodies, but the decent proportions and the great HUDs of both bodies make it easy to fit pretty much any fitmesh and if you don't do huge breasts, some five sized clothing fits fine too. I find that clothing made for slink tends to fit best but maitreya or one of the others occasionally fits better.

I like making shapes, so I have never and will never pay for one. I've gotten free shapes in almost every head or body purchase I've ever made... and I never use them. That said, I know exactly how much work it takes to create and tweak a shape (and to design a new shape when you get a differently laid out body or head or even when you change your skin). So, if someone is good at it and you aren't, you should definitely pay them for taking the trouble to do it well. Too many people in SL walk around with HIDEOUS proportions -- not the deliberate ones, the ones where people don't know they have bad proportions... short necks, tiny heads on huge bodies, and flippers instead of arms... I just shake my head. I've spent time studying anatomy in the various iterations of my life, so I'm very sensitive to what I consider 'human' proportions and in SL, I see a lot of improbable, impossible and downright fugly shapes. So, should you pay for someone to do well for you what you cannot do for yourself? Definitely! Most of us don't make our own clothing, houses, or skins either... but we don't think we shouldn't pay because the magic of creating those things APPEARS sufficiently more complex than just sliders on a shape... The truth is that creating a good shape is non-trivial. I can rebuild a toilet. But mostly, I don't. I can do a lot of practical stuff other people cannot do... so i do it when it suits me. Sometimes, it's easier to have someone else do it or they can do it better AND quicker. BECAUSE I know just how much my knees will hurt when I'm done crawling around under my sink or behind my toilet, I know it's worth the money to pay. Good shapes are worth paying for. How much you should pay for them? That depends on your budget and how much effort you want to put into looking for a good shape that suits you. The best shapes are customized for particular bodies and heads. This means the maker had to have access to that particular combo. Someone who is making shapes for a 'living' has to invest in various bodies and skins and heads... so there's a cost involved in doing it well. There are generic shapes, but at best, they're just basically proportion templates. You can find these cheap or free on MP. There are shapes customized to specific bodies and heads, and those are the ones that will look best if you have that same body/head. There are completely custom shapes - created to make a unique look that fits your body AND the look you want. I would not expect this to be cheap. Every mesh body I own has a customized shape. Same for every head. Same for my system body. (The mesh body I wear most has 3 slightly different shapes for different types of clothing I tend to wear) This represents a considerable investment of time and the development of skill that started on day one in SL when I decided I wanted to create my own look even if i didn't ever learn how to build, or make clothing or anything else. Every now and then, I work on someone else's shape for them and invest minutes to hours on it... and I wonder if I should charge for the work of shape making. For now, i do it just for friends, but it's still real work.

If you don't want super curvy, I would avoid the curvy bodies such as Belezza freya and slink hourglass and ebody curvy. Those bodies are great for the beach, but if you're a person who wants clothing that is easy, then you're best off with a slim body. More clothing is made for Maitreya and Slink than other bodies, but ebody, altamura and bellezza have little trouble finding clothing that fits well. Most Slink shoes fit all those bodies except Maitreya and most free shoes in SL are slink.

You should demo more than those three. There is a lot out there now, besides those three. And it's easier to fit slink physique than hourglass -- i have slink. I like it a lot. it's a very neutral, human shape (great proportions). Not all mesh bodies come with great proportions. I'd try a bunch. And the HUDs are also very different from body to body. Freya and Hourglass are great choices if you want to be super voluptuous. If you want to be average (and even somewhat above average curvy), I would consider other bodies, even in the same manufacturers. The super voluptuous look can be hard to fit clothing, but if you're going to spend lots of time naked, it may be perfect. It really is worth experimenting with lots of different options. ebody and altamura have the advantage of truly free (not demo) bodies that you can wear out of the box. So if your friend isn't sure how much they are ready to invest, one of these will allow you to experiment and see what you like. The ebody free HUD is easiest to use of all of the freebies and it is very well thought out.

There are lovely ebody and altamura bodies out there... if you want to consider alternatives...

Well, I am into being magical and just being me, which is pretty much a shiny iridescent purple torx key in a beige flat-head world. I spend a bunch of time with some random (mostly unaffiliated) fae and we have a great time dancing and flaunting our lovely faery wings! I don't really want to 'play' at being a child. Been there, did that, wore the uniform, got bullied, pretty much hated school (and yes, I did go to school under the same sort of British inspired system that Hogwarts is, so...) But... I love Harry Potter (I don't even hate Ron Weasley🙃). I write fanfic (mostly Buffy related) and would love to be in contact with fans of things like Buffy, Harry Potter, Lucifer and (non magically) Criminal Minds and other cop shows... and newcomer to the Outlander fandom (jury is still out as to whether I am a 100% fan of outlander, for... reasons). FTR, I detest and abhor and revile all things Twilight, just so you know! Anywhoo, if you're interested in being in contact with someone who has an eclectic interest in fantasy and things full of color and wonder... drop me a line via the forum messages, or simply IM me in SL (I will get it in my email). If you send me notices, they will likely get buried in my black hole (my name for my terrifying inventory) and though I will know someone sent me a notice, I won't have the content. I'm on Eastern US time. Peace, Blue PS: I like to think of myself as Ravenclaw, but my most recent times doing HP sorting tests I've gotten Griffyndor and Slytherin. I'm fond of blue and green, not so much red. Who knows? Maybe the Shadow! OOOPS... accidentally necro'd. Did not notice the dates. Hope no one minds...

so... i went to an event and tried on a nice dress with a hud. Liked it but I was not 100% sure if i wanted to buy but the hud is always a big draw and there were lots of colors. Got thru about half the colors, then found myself naked. TP'd home. Needless to say, I won't be buying the dress... or anything else at that event. I am pretty sure it was NOT an adult sim.

I spent the first six months of my time in SL basically alone, exploring and learning how to take pictures of beautiful places, some of which aren't around anymore. I am so glad I got to do that. I learned a lot and did a lot of the frustrating/embarrassing things by myself... but it was actually needing help that started to connect me with others. Two of the first three women I became friends with were people who helped me or rescued me. I spend a lot of time with people now. Sometimes I wish I had more alone time, but i would not give up my friends for anything.