Mysti Starchild

Apparently, trolls get far more responses than posts that actually are on topic. /me gives up on posting on forums again

Decided to come out of lurkdom and reply to this thread as it is one of my favorite topics about SL and the reason I joined. Years ago I found out my RL husband was using a female avatar on SL so I wanted to learn more about why people did this. I am a female in RL but did joke about joining so I could practice being more feminine. For the first year or so we hung out together, both as females, and people would assume that I was a male in RL and he was the female - we told people we met that we were married in RL. Well, we told people we were married in RL after some drama with a friend finding out when we hadn't told her at first. As I got more comfortable in SL I went out on my own more and met various people and enjoyed chatting with the girls who mentioned in their profile they were guys in RL. I met a guy who played mostly as a female in SL and he admitted to wanting to meet a girl to play a guy so they could RP together. So, I decided to try gender swapping as well. To my confusion no one ever doubted my RL sex when I was presenting as a guy in SL, but I got doubted all the time when I use a female avatar. I wonder if it was because guys with female avatars are more common than girls with male avatars. Or do I naturally act more like a guy?! One of the reasons I suspected guys might like to use female avatars is because it is more acceptable in RL for females to dress and act like guys, but still not very well accepted for males to act and dress like girls. In SL they can get in touch with and act out that side of themselves.

Must be a busy day for the moles! I just noticed there is new land showing south of my camper on Decker. It is not showing up on the map yet, at least for me.

I am sorry if my post was taken the wrong way, I wish I could have deleted it but it had already been quoted. I did not intend to insult anyone or call their parcels sub-par. I will not attempt to post on the forums again and have lost my desire to read them.

A solution to the rounded end of the Shenandoah trailer

I think it is sad that people are trying to make the trailer areas look 'trashy'. They are beautiful natural areas, more like a national park than a mobile home park. Glad to see that so many people are helping to keep the regions beautiful!

This thread does help people to know when a new region was released, so they can stop watching for it!

Have you tried tinting your rocks to help them blend in better? It can help them to blend in, though still not match exactly. As another rock collector I would love to see some mole rocks and/or textures available to purchase!

It is a theme that is centuries old - are you familiar with the story from ancient Greece about a sculptor named Pygmalion? He created his dream girl, too - though in stone because computers had not been invented yet

A couple weeks before the new houseboats came out, I tried abandoning my houseboat so my friend could get it. We were both waiting right there on the parcel and she refreshed the page repeatedly - for 45 minutes! After refreshing for 45 minutes she got a houseboat but it was not the one I abandoned, and someone else got the one I abandoned a few seconds earlier. I think it is very unpredictable