BelindaN

You want sausage with this? 🤔

A quiet dimension, by most

Just one quick photo of my new biker jacket. Ellie persuaded me to buy one, and my new leather hot-pants, Ellie persuaded me to buy a pair, and my red PVC top, which Ellie had nothing to do with, Haha!!!

The remake latest films based on the first series are just unmissable...……….and I can keep watching and re-watching...………...but the Star Wars recent stuff I tried but just don't get what's going on, although I like the female lead.

I never really got Star Wars. Can't see what the fuss is about. I'm a Trekky. Simple as that. And I'm still looking for Picard on here...……..

Nice look! The trouble with Alts is that they nag at you all day in your head. They want the same treatment. They want to look good. I have trouble with Ellie. She's constantly in my head saying "Let ME on, let ME on, let ME on....Pleeeeeease". So I give way to her and she goes in world and has a great time, and wants even more...………...

to take advantage. when given

Rare Opportunities

This was news to me. Never been interested in arcade stuff. I just watched the trailer...….errrr…..yeah funny I suppose, but I won't be watching that any time soon. The hedgehog doesn't look real. I know I know, but with today's tech surely it could have been made realistic, given that it plays out in real world...…...

Yeah, I know, a wall of text...……..please bear with me...…... Friday 3rd May is my first Rezz Day. Oh boy! what a year! I really didn't think SL was for me after my first day. Even making an account was a tough call. I'm not a gamer. That first day, walking round the newbie sims, not speaking to anyone, and scared of the shadows, (well, if there were any!) - it was all very odd. I came back the next day for a make or break. I nearly didn't bother. I don't know how I found Marketplace, but I was like a moth to a flame! Did I really want to spend money????? Pffft! that was never my plan...…….😜 Well, I jumped down that rabbit hole into Wonderland...…..and I kicked off with a cheap avi and some shoes. Soon after, an unknown guy took my portrait, and I love that image so much that I still have it as my forum image. I struggled with those mismatched ankle joins and clunky body shape, but I was starting to get hooked on this place. I hung out at the newbie sims a lot, when I wasn't exploring alone. I started to join in local, and use IM. I got some really weird messages from guys...……. I got on really well with one girl avi, it was like we'd always known each other. She taught me a lot, and bought me an animation....I had no idea what that was...…..until I stopped walking like a duck haha! We became great friends and still are, but she's not in world so much these days. She built my foundations with her help, and without her, I would have struggled early on. She let me use her skybox, which became a sky cottage, and then an apartment, which I still use sometimes (it has an orb!). Before that I was changing (and experimenting) in secluded corners of quiet places *shudders*. The Forum was my next test. I needed help. I was seeing these super-hot girl avis…….I knew this was mesh, but I knew nothing about mesh...……...I'm starting from zero. On the plus side, I'm a quick learner when I want to be! - especially if it means looking good! haha! I attended a mesh seminar and learned something. Just enough to realise what I didn't know. It all seemed so hard to understand. Here on the Forums I will always be grateful for the welcome I received as a total newbie. You showed me mesh bodies, and for me, it had to be Lara, and that was down to an image and advice posted by @Chic Aeon. And of course there was heaps of advice posted from the other Forum Angels. Big hugs all round for that!! This took place mid June 2018, so I'd been in world for about six weeks. Looking back, that seemed like a lifetime already, and although I'd made huge improvements to my system avi, nothing could prepare me for Lara! - both the look, and the hud! This was my first giant leap. I'd made some awful clothes purchases in my early days, but I slowly got the hang of how to chose, and found that my style was evolving beyond my RL tastes. I also learned how to unpack and rezz things, and I spent time in sandboxes doing all that stuff. It was all quite hard to understand at the time. I started buying clothes for system and mesh avis so that when I finally got my Lara, I was ready for action! I had also built up a big collection of mesh shoes in anticipation of that day! I have met some really nice people on my travels and some are now dear old friends, or maybe old dear friends! Not many, but we get on so well, and just meet up occasionally to hang out and put the world to rights. Some of these friends have showed me where to go and where to shop in world. Once I discovered that you can shop in store...well, that was like what??? In world???? That became my second giant leap. Deciding to buy Lara was a commitment which meant there was no turning back, for better or worse...…….. I've made some mistakes and will probably do so again. I've been really unhappy a couple of times, after encountering really strange people, but I've turned to the forum for help, and I have some confidantes here whose opinions I trust absolutely, and I know that they will help me out of my self inflicted holes. Thankfully this has been very rare. The mesh head was my next objective, but was a huge challenge! I wanted to keep my look. This is common thinking and I still hear this from people in the pre-mesh head situation. After loads of advice, and days on the sliders with demos, I settled on Lelutka Simone, and was very happy. I was happy until that minx @Ceka Cianci showed up here with a Genus head 😜 As I'd fallen in love with Simone, so I fell even more in love with Genus...…… Wow! it was really something! After a few days on the sliders I had my look. So after a few months, and a lot of advice, I had become who I am now. Once I discovered the art of taking photos here, I found this aspect of SL to be as addictive as SL itself, although I'm still finding ways to improve my photos! Probably always will be! Early on I was asked if I was an Alt. I had no idea what that was. It didn't occur to me that anyone would have multiple accounts. It gave me an idea. In testing appliers, I'd messed up my avi a few times, and also had two bake fails on log in, which really messed up my face, and made me really unhappy. Taking more advice from the forum, I wrote all my slider values down, and I keep that up to date, for emergency use, and includes a catalogue of my saved outfits. I figured that an Alt would make a good test bed, and that's when BelindaSalt came into existence. I called her Salty as a nod to who she is. I planned to keep her cheap and simple, but it proved harder than I imagined. The lure of mesh and more shopping pushed me over the edge and she became my sister. I tried to make her different but 'related' in looks, and she has her own friends and own life when she's in world alone. When I got a new laptop we started going in world together, and this has been amazing fun. In the meantime, some guy trouble had a happy ending in that I now live at @Zennessa 's place where there is easy access to a beach, and a studio close to my apartment. Big hugs for your generousity!!!! More recently, and knowing that some Forumites have multiple alts, I decided to make just one more sister. And so I made Ellie, the middle one, the rebel. Already she is taking up a lot of my time. I think Ellie is more of a "Liz"** than me! haha! We've only been in world twice as a threesome, because it's a big effort with three viewers over two laptops, but worth it for the photos!!! ** Google "He called me a Liz" (although we suspect he meant something else!!) So that's a summary of my first year in SL. I've posted it here so that anyone new, looking at the forums might be encouraged to stick around and make something of it! The forum is a great place to hang out, and with all the support here its possible to make huge strides! I really appreciate the people here, as friends, advisers and confidantes. It makes SL such a buzz!! I've discovered things about myself here which I never knew in Real Life, and SL has certainly changed the way I think in RL. Not radically, just around the edges. Two images. The first was of my first paid Avi, at around two weeks in. The second is from yesterday. This shows my journey in my first year!!

Agent Smith.

Yes every variation...…….even though our profiles tell the story, ok in an slightly obtuse way, more guys don't get it straight away. So some just hit on one of us...……..some on two. The ones who hit all three tend to copy and paste...……. One guy said "your sister said exactly the same"...…..Oh duh? really? When I tell them they are usually surprised. A few old stagers get it straight away....the profile readers.

Our second ever day out as three sisters, and we had so much fun. Because we were fielding so many chat up lines, it took forever, but was so enjoyable...…... Baywatch and lingerie themes...……..

So I've been out with the girls today, taking some sister shots, which will appear later when I have chance to sort them out. I can't have all three of us in world very often as it stretches everything.....concentration, IT, and so on, but we did some Baywatch stuff and some Lingerie shots. Here we are at Zennessa's beach...……………………………...

^^^^This reminds me of a hot tub story which I couldn't possibly re-tell here!!!!

Time Traveller

Getting tired and full of cold, but if there was a forum village sim where all forumites had a chalet (even a beach hut) and was only accessible to Premium it would tempt me. Yeah I love the hangout but its usually deserted, unless there's something going on.

Exactly Exactly Exactly. It has to be "monkey see, monkey want" and it just isn't for me.

Day Over (in bed)

Thing is, without self control (I have none when it comes to clothes), I end up with too many colours of the same garment, and too many outfits which are almost identical. So like for like in RL I wouldn't have as much as here in SL. And the stuff I never wear would be down the charity shop. Maybe SL should run a donate your unwanted clothing scheme, which could then be sold at a discount. I don't suppose the original sellers would like it much but it would help those with fewer Lindens to spend. Shoes are different and if I could afford my SL shoe inventory in RL I would have it, and more.

Mmm.. That wet cardboard smell.

called love, which kills, according

Do Good

Breaking News It has come to the attention of The Agency that a small number of undisclosed replicants, known as Alts, are infiltrating the Community Forums. Agent Smith has been instructed to investigate, and if possible, to round them up and bring them in. Enquiries are continuing, and several suspects have been detained and questioned. Intelligence reports suggested that a replicant might be holed up in a derelict building at Lutz City, where Agent Smith staked out the place overnight. We await further news on developments there. If you suspect that anyone might be an undisclosed replicant, you should immediately notify The Agency, who will despatch additional Agent Smiths into the field.

The thing we have here, is like a collaborative cooperative...…(big words for me ), but I agree that likes do mean something, it's like a thumbs up. I wish we had a double like...…... Flickr is good, but doesn't embed what we enjoy here. I was scrolling through some of the SL flickr pages last night, and some of the images are just Wow!!!!!, but I reckon a lot of the posters work alone, without a community like we have here...…... Long may it continue!