marinathewitch

I am in SLT+11 timezone and always up to make a new friend. :3

Took picture with Santa while collecting advent gifts. :3

I love-love-love Madame Noir eyes. Using different sets with my Genus for few months now and still not over it.

From what I gathered it depends on picture proportions rather than actual size of it. Try increasing width of your pictures, but not the height and see if it will work for you. I am using free account and if I post really wide picture it usually takes the whole screen. As for likes - numbers you get largely depend on what kind of followers do you have. Number of followers is only one part of it. How active they are and if they are users who tend to like other's pictures matters even more. Same goes for groups - it helps if you post your picture in those, but if they are full of people who just post-post-post and don't take any time to see other people's work - that's not going to help you.

It happens. Or maybe it is my luck to run into mischievous characters. It is all good fun though, used to include a lot of me blushing, laughing and quickly fixing my outfit, while kids exercise in wit and humor. Sometimes a comment like this might come from adult avatar either just kindly letting me know about the need to fix alphas and stuff, or just being thirsty. Latter one is boring most of the time.

Umm, not so sure about it being generational. I am in my twenties and neither shy, nor prude. For me feeling uncomfortable without underwear mostly comes with places I am visiting. If it is G-rated area or, especially, family/child-rp oriented place I feel at peace knowing I did that little bit I could to not cause even minor disruption to other visitors experience. In A- or even most of M-rated regions I couldn't care less, but with my SL friends list I might jump from one to the other at any moment, so better keep those undies on. And you don't want to hear what SL kids have to say if they spot any sort of wardrobe malfunction. x)

Appliers, yes. Fit under almost any clothes. Almost. I don't like the idea of jumping into G-rated region and appearing naked to others until my avatar loads for them. Also, I don't have to think twice before removing my shirt if I want to try a demo wherever. Some dresses cut in the way that doesn't allow bra (or panties) to be worn underneath, and if I really really want to wear them, I will bother myself to mess with hud, layers, alpha cuts and all that. There is some pretty mesh underwear in my inventory. For pictures, mostly, and because "ooo, pretty!" But damn, I need to find me some places where I can just strut and hang out in all those frills. x)

I don't have any *pretty* pictures from Squishy Pickle Bar party, but I have this one, it's right when all the fun started, and it makes me smile.

Forums is a good place to reach out. You might get better results finding likeminded people if you'll expand on those though:

Hugs to Moles and future Bellisseria home owners ❤️

Finally made my way north to explore a little bit. There's no lakes in either Emerson or Palmer Lake regions. At least I wasn't able to find any. There is a pond on Rutherford though. Downing Falls - Bench on a hill, overlooking the hedge maze: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Downing Falls/195/195/44 Emerson Lake - Rocky hills with a few benches overlooking neighborhood: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Emerson Lake/229/196/59 Palmer Lake - Undeveloped land with some sort of flowery-grassy clearing and benches to relax: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Palmer Lake/147/98/42 Rutherford - Quite scenic fishing spot on the northern shore: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Rutherford/46/188/29 Rutherford - Tiny park with a pond: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Rutherford/131/118/34 Spector - Small gated park which looks like a part of someone's property, but isn't: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Spector/34/196/47 Spector - Picnic area next to the mountains: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Spector/117/144/47 Spector - Tiny garden, couple benches, pretty butterflies: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Spector/171/218/47 Shady Corners - Gated park area on a hill, overlooking the ocean (more or less, trees kind of cover the view): http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Shady Corners/100/154/44 Shady Corners - Small sheltered park away from the road: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Shady Corners/143/74/44

Not too many brick fences on Phinney. What do you know, turns out it is one of the houses I look upon every day. Reported. I would encourage pilots to report such incidents to LL though, even if you don't live on Bellisseria. That's you who suffer first and foremost from people setting out agressive orbs. Neighbors might not have the slightest idea, because they don't travel air, for example, or just prefer to explore regions far away from home.

It is there now! @Patch Linden can we keep the tombstone, please? Everybody grew attached to the little ghost buddy.

I met quite a few people and had a ton of random conversations in London City area.

A-and ghost of the Burning Bush is gone now. T___T RIP

I am... going to look for one right now. o.o Didn't occur to me somehow, but this is actually a great idea! upd: Now ghost watching area is set with guestbook and working ouija board. Also, Bellisseria Citizens group has Burning Bush Club tag for whoever wants it. X)

I am suspecting region restart will poof away our local ghost soon enough, so don't forget to come and say bye-bye. Help yourself to some cake too, I might have gone a little overboard with it. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Phinney/233/74/26

@Rachel1206 took me sailing. Never have I ever been on a sailing boat in SL before. It was a joy. ❤️

I am calling the Bay City Ghostbusters for haaaaaalp! 😭 On a more serious note though - it's amazing to see a new actual landmark to come to existence like this, and for stories to happen in real time.

And there's from one to three of them. I currently see two, but there was a bunch of people here at the same time and some reported with screenshots seeing three ghosts, some seen just one. Ghosts have different avatar Keys as well. And belong to some group, as they wear the same tag. And that's where I shut up about technicalities, as I would not understand what I am talking about otherwise. Not so artistic screenshot for context:

Ghost watching at Phinney. Not sure how long they will stay (almost) in my backyard, as the anomaly has been reported, but you are welcome to check: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Phinney/232/69/25 They seem to be haunting a particular rhododendron, so my current theory is that's how some bellisserian flowers are pollinating. x)

Corinth - A park lane: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Corinth/161/110/33 There's resident runned coffee shop in Corinth, so if you'll be there, don't forget to check it - LM is on a 1st page of this thread. Moretti - Loungers on a river bank: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Moretti/109/60/23 Arabella - Large community pool with lounders (and not much else): http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Arabella/90/145/28 Graff - Small public beach: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Graff/66/154/23

Not sure if it is reasonable or even possible, but a girl can dream - some waves somewhere not in a major sailing region, so we could actually surf?