Marianne Little

Oh my, that brings back memories. ❤️ It is my first Bellisseria home, and my first attempt to decorate. I am not sure if I was the first, but I must have been one of the first to use the Roost Palm View Kitchen. It is very low li, but it is not a true modular kitchen and not meant to be set up like this. It is no room for the dishwasher, so I placed the shortest kitchen part with cupboard and upper cabinets where the dishwasher is. I selected the cupboard texture only and set it to 100% transparent. I could then place the dishwasher there, and it fits. It is no animations in this kitchen. I have elsewhere talked about how I took out Maya's kitchen animations with other kitchens. But I do not think I had come this far in these pictures. So it is a kitchen to look at, not interact with. The Palm View kitchen has a transparent back, so it looks strange from the outside, unless you pull down the blinds for the window on that wall.

I believe LeLutka has several makeup slots, where one is covering the whole head and others cover areas like around eyes, mouth, cheeks and so on. So when you wear "double" of one, it is probably one makeup creator who decided to use the whole head layer for the makeup, and the other decided to use the slot around the eyes. It is confusing, and MUCH the reason I stopped using appliers and go for BOM. I can add as much as I want and if a layer does not look right, I click on it and take it off. No need to turn off things or find out where makeup is applied. After I turned on BOM for both Maitreya body and Lelutka head, my worn items can look like this: I am for instance always wearing nude colored pasties under crochet and lace tops. This would have caused an alpha glitch before, if I was wearing pasties on a applier layer and clothes with alpha (as in lace) over. Oh, and I can still use the head appliers if I want to. I can use both... tattoo layers and makeup appliers, as long as the base, the skin, is made for BOM and BOM is turned on for the mesh head/body.

I know you don't like videos, but I link to one from Gamer Sean. I like this video, because he says nothing. It is just background music I can mute. So I do not need to hear all this: Hiii you guys! So I... (10 minutes boring talk about uninteresting things) Uuh you guys so... ah, eh, sorry about that, let me find this again ... uuuh (mumble unintelligible)... uh ah ehem, so back to this... mumble... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie17_HJ0sac I know he sells the shape, but no one really need to buy it. He is kind and list everything he is using if you click "Show more" under the video. If you maximize the video and pause it to see details, you get enough info there to use another shape or your own. This is his newest video, and he is using BOM. That is short for Bakes on Mesh, and it means that the skin and other layers like tattoo and clothes is baked on the mesh avatar and visible. This is different from hiding the default avatar and using appliers on onion shells that cover the mesh body parts. For us oldbies that are used to adding layers, this is easy to use. Plus that we get freedom to use up to 66 layers instead of a few applier slots. EDITED TO ADD: If you use other mesh parts than just this one, the HUD is different and you may have to turn on BOM, or buy a BOM relay before BOM works... some very small brands does not support BOM.... Remember to use demos first. All mesh heads and bodies has demos. No matter if you fall for a head you see in a video, try it on first!

If the eyebrows are painted on the skin, you can't get rid of them. Try to look at your skins, can you find "w/o eyebrows" or similar descriptions? If you can't find this, you have to buy a new skin that has a browless option. Over that skin, you can use different kind of eyebrows.

I have seen many report this. They are told to submit a ticket to Linden Lab and have them restart the region. Or use chat when it's open.

You have time to get this for the Happy Weekend sale. And it is low Li too!

Buy appliers for the mesh eyes that came with the head. That is so easy. I have tried BOM with these eyes, but I prefer appliers. A lot to chose from.

No, and the windows there has a crap LOD. This is the house I wish I had not abandoned, and it is a mole ferry from the lighthouse to the Fairgrounds (Not visible in the picture). I took the ferry and almost shrieked. It looked awful from a distance. I put it away and try to forget it. 😱 So you don't want it. It is a proof of the difference between happy amateur and professional.

Yes, it is a walkway that follow the coast line. I love that. I got a Rocky Height on the release day, but abandoned it because it was up in the forest.

It sounds complicated. But the body is good for those who can't buy a full priced body. And are lucky enough to win. (Signature has a flash sale May 16 - 17 reduced price -30%) This one has well defined arm muscles, and may be an alternative to the Niramyth bodies. I can imagine those who want a very strong shape will like this. This one uses the SL UV, right? I only see different facial skins for Niramyth, no (human) body skins. I still prefer the dollarbie Meshbody Classic, since it is available without a having to win it, and it is more clothes for it. As posted by Ryan Schultz: "The Classic mesh body (the basic package, without the Advanced Material Editor) is going to be free “forever”, in the words of the person who reached out to me this evening." https://ryanschultz.com/2020/04/17/second-life-steals-deals-and-freebies-the-meshbody-offers-free-versions-of-their-classic-mesh-bodies-for-men-and-women/ I do not care about the Advanced Materials editor. The Classic mesh body has a good selection of alpha cuts, takes BOM and can use Legacy shoes. I have not tested more than one set of sandals, so demo, demo.

I think the nipple is used as a easy way to censor. It is impossible to say: "This picture of a topless woman is sexual, but this picture of a topless woman is not". It would take too much time to debate. Too much consideration and too much arguing. An endless list of different neutral posing, how to hold hands, is the look in the camera meant to be inviting? Is applying sun-oil not sexual? But is it sexual if the woman looks in the camera with hooded eyes and half open mouth? Is it not sexual if she has a neutral expression? If she licks an ice cream and is topless? So in the rules, the nipple was set as the hard limit. Does it or does it not show the nipple? It is a ton of images of oiled up bodies with three triangles of fabric and dental floss, and that is allowed. It is just how it is. I am talking about the laws that LL has to follow... I would hate to see LL get bad press or lawsuits over vanity threads. What hurts LL, will hurt us too. I, for one, think that LL should comply with the law and don't go on a crusade "Free the nipple".

I think it is better to try in the Creation forum part. (Scroll down) The majority of us who post in "Your avatar" shop for stuff... we don't create it. Is it inworld groups for the brand you will make textures for? That can also be a better place to ask for help. Learning classes in SL: http://www.buildersbrewery.com/calendar/index.php and http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/class_schedule.php I do not see classes like"how to make skins and textures" there, but if you contact some of the teachers, they can direct you to tutorials?

Nope, I have been very little in SL lately... health issues. It is easier to be on the forum. I have had a very quiet SL week. My latest alt creation got the male Meshbody Classic. And I found it is enough TMP stuff still on the market to dress it. I read about Exmachina here: https://ryanschultz.com/2020/05/10/second-life-steals-deals-and-freebies-exmachina-full-body-male-mesh-avatar-giveaway/ And when I saw how low clothes support is, I am in no hurry... But I noticed, on the image that shows the HUD, it is -/+ symbols on top. Can you click + and make the HUD bigger?

Ah, I think I understand what you mean, even if I don't understand how, technically. Free unused resources sound great, but I can't understand it. No, I did not really think you suggested removing homes, other than playing with ideas, as we all do.

The first time I noticed I was "Advisor", I could not understand why. I do not help people more than others that has "Resident" under their name. I thought is was embarrassing to have that. I have stopped to think about it, and does not notice anymore if it is "Resident" or "Advisor". It should be removed, it is pointless. And as @BilliJo Aldrinsay, it is no guarantee that it is a correct reply. It is really bad if people look at the profile and think "He/she is an Advisor, so it has to be correct".

Blue text - Is it official, no more development of Bellisseria until autumn? It is tempting to say Linden Lab could clean all the old Linden Homes continents at once. But it is too late, if LL mean to honor the promise that all Premiums can have a Linden Home. It is no more left. I can compare such an injustice, to LL making a decision that they will allow only one Linden Home per email, and then take back the other homes we have on alts. (No, I don't suggest they do it!) But we would feel violated if LL took away one of our homes. It is the biggest and most important reason to be pay Premium for me, and surely for many others. The other perks is just nice to have. LL is too late, they should have started to offer new homes to owners in the old regions in 2019. But it is all so easy to look back, in hindsight it is perfectly clear. LL would also had to have a system where those who abandoned an old home was bypassing the ordinary Home Page and was sent to a page only for them, where LL made sure it was first come, first serve, and abandoned Bellisseria homes was sent there first. In many countries over the world, the lockdowns start to open up, and as I understand it, states in USA will also begin with it. So the question is also, will this surge in new residents, and demand for land, cool down in a month?

I don't know what head you have, but at 1:48 in this video you see the hairbase is added to the head, with a pink squiggly symbol. If this is what you are wearing, you click it in your inventory and select "Take off". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie17_HJ0sac If you used a box symbol that attach to the screen and you click it, it applies the hairbase to a thin onion layer that is over your head. This layer can be "cleared" or the hairbase can be replaced when you select another hairbase applier, or you can turn off the hairbase, it will be hidden and invisible. If you have this kind of hairbase applied, you will see how the open HUD that came with your LeLutka head looks at 8:14. The hairbases is at the bottom of the hud, just turn the hairbase off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9-GmDSThdE Good videos to watch for creating male looks.

I remember I had very little money left. I think I was on the last 100 from the first purchase. I thought 2500 L was enough and that I did not need to buy more money when I had one good pair of heels and one pair of boots, a decent skin and a few things more. Like I should never buy more full priced stuff. 🤣 So I was searching stores for freebies and dollarbies, and in one store they were on a wall with ordinary priced things. I was like "Nooooo!" when accidentally I bought a belt for 75 L or something like that. It took most of the money I had left. 😢 So I can relate to people asking for cheap and free items. It did not take long before I bought more Lindens, and I do not dare to think how much I have spent... But I do not spend much on other things in RL, so this is my entertainment money.

That article is arguing two different points of view: A: "SL has been a salvation for many people. It’s their only thing that takes them away from looking around where they are and finally escaping." B: "They own a business and I’ve watched them reduce their prices to pennies just to get one sale a year. If you don’t know that billions of us on this earth lead lives of quiet desperation, you don’t know what the hell is going on with Second Life." So what is it, a salvation or a place where people lives in quiet desperation? To top it, the article is illustrated by a mesh house in a new developed Linden Homes region, while the article is about "I know a tiny shop hovering on a small parcel on one of the first regions, and it’s owned by a severely disabled woman who has had the 512 parcel since 2003 with her shop. It has the year 2003-2004 block furniture, block bed, some particle things, one of those red pins used for landmarks. It’s her pride and joy that she could make this while almost blind, with parts of her body missing while she is in a wheelchair." Why not use this as an illustration? Maybe I remember it wrong, but I heard that some of the very, very new users of Second Life got a parcel for life. Forgive me if I remember wrong. The stipend back from the early days, has paid the annual premium and still does, because it is higher than today's 300 L. (500 L) Even after the cost of Premium increased, the stipend cover that. Why pity those who has land in Second Life for free, they get back enough stipend to pay for Premium? Are they not a privileged class instead? If they still use SL, and it is their pride and joy, nothing better than that. Unless they do not log in anymore, and they are billed because they have forgotten SL. But in that case, they have enough so they do not notice it. With the latest free mesh avatar gifts, anyone can own a mesh body if they want. But why should they do it, when they are satisfied with a system body? Does not that make them powerful because they have self-confidence and does not care about outer beauty? That is what I have heard, not that people with ten - fifteen year old avatars are humble. Compare that to any other business who also has no sales, and has spent many thousands of §L on a brand new mesh build, vendors and landscaping around. And their land is not free. They pay and pay, until they are forced to close business. It is enough of them. I do not like articles like this one, in my brain they come out as just shy of cloying.

I am 100% sure that the title is a misleading. The original poster says: Emphasis mine.

I have the oldest Bento head, Simone, and it is updated to BoM. I am going to update to the new Evolution head as soon as Lelutka has a head that I like. Their Evolution heads are so far very, very different from Simone. I already see that there is no new makeup in events for other than Evolution heads, so I plan to update. I use the makeups that is pre Evolution for LeLutka, so I can wait until there is a head I really like.

This is why I buy secondhand gacha. Let us say I want to take a picture with my alts in Halloween costumes. I can send items back and forth. Gacha mesh clothing and accessories 1-3 years old can have great quality and very low prices. I think the majority want copy, in case they lose the clothes by mistake (deleting) or inventory loss. Every time we have gacha threads, the demand for copy is very strong. Especially when it is modifiable items. It is easy to tint and maybe mess with the texture box. I buy cheap gacha because I can afford to lose it.

It was both fun and sad to look at the Marketplace. I found things I have lost or deleted, and got a redelivery. But also so many things I do not have and the store is gone. I can guess very accurate what a "titanium rapier" had to be, but other things I have no idea what it was, and I will never know.

I am registered 5.Aug, but I do not save much from then. The oldest items I have is from Aug. 16 and 18. It is lingerie ~J~ Calliope from Szentasha Salome. The first snapshot and I had it as profile picture from Aug 18, 2007. And animations bow/curtsy made by Virrginia Tombola from Caledon Oxbridge. I had a poofy dress with lots of prims and walked around and curtsied to everyone. Sad that it is lost. I had camped to pay for the picture. It was easy to find camping chairs then. And the lingerie was a free under 30 days gift. Funny thing is that the store is still in Second Life, and still offer a gift to new residents. The store looks just the same. It is a walk back in time to what was expensive lingerie. It was one of the best freebies I got when I was new. I had bought Lindens in October the same year and bought black pumps from Shiny Things, because it was impossible to find shoes without bling, Cape and bonnet from Neferia Abel, some jewelry from Skye Qi, an updo from Miriel and a skin I have lost. I used hazel eyes from Miriel at least 1 year, maybe 2. The first Marketplace purchases is from July 2010. I have deleted all, but then comes Halloween decor, like the Big Red Barn in this picture: Bought October 9 2010. So I have the pictures to remember this purchase by. I have always liked to set up home in SL. I had deleted it, but I can have this redelivered from the Marketplace!

That neck fit makes me think.... It would look much better if mesh bodies was sold with 2 different necks. One for male heads, one for female heads. Both female and male bodies should have that. Too bad only one mesh head creator (Catwa) offer this. Her male fit neck has a strange cut in there under the chin. But I don't fault Catwa, she at least tries to do something about the "male body must use male head" and "female body must use female head". Like, why? And 2 neck fits on the bodies would look better, instead of having the head's neck widen unnaturally to meet the body.