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  1. Scylla Rhiadra
    Well, the gap between my post numbers and my reputation points currently stands at about -5,500. If I apply myself, I'm hoping to turn that into a positive number by about, say, Tuesday. Besides, they seem to have nuked the most recent archives here (at least, I couldn't find them), so a LOT of my old posts are now irrelevant. And I can just get my press secretary to deny them, anyway.
  2. Scylla Rhiadra
    Well, that would be a little like role play? I suspect that there are people who essentially RP here on the forum, and there are a ton who, while eschewing conventional RP, do consciously fabricate new "selves" for themselves in-world (in the old days, we used to call them "immersionists"), but I think for most people self-fashioning is more subtle, and probably less conscious, than that? And we're here to tell you! Volunteers, anyone? ?
  3. Scylla Rhiadra
    Stealth! It's all about sneaking up on them unawares. I'm trying (as you can see) to accrue great power while subtly flying under everyone's radar. By the time they notice the threat I pose to their complacent, comfortable, suburban forum ways -- I figure about the time I hit, oh . . . 275 or so -- I'll be unstoppable!! (But let's keep this just between you and me, ok? Thanks.)
  4. Scylla Rhiadra
    This is a really great idea! I bought some the other day that have an unrigged version included with the set; I'll have to give this a try! (Thank god for phantom system feet!) Thanks Marianne!!
  5. Scylla Rhiadra
    Noted! They DO look good! Nice price, too! Thank you!
  6. Scylla Rhiadra
    202! How "reputable" am I? Sooooooooooo reputable.
  7. Scylla Rhiadra
    AH HAH!! It has begun. A NEW ERA DAWNS OVER THE FORUMS!!! Fools! Did you not understand what you have been about?!?!? Did you not see who I am? TEN YEARS in the making, I have begun my inexorable ascent to Queen of the Forums! All shall behold me and both love and fear! Great shall be my bounty, but greater still my wrath! And @Chase01 shall serve at my right hand as favoured regent! Rolig Loon? Bah! Pamela Galli? Hah! "Maddy" McMasters? Pfffft. You have met your match.
  8. Scylla Rhiadra
    At some point within the next 24 hours -- or less -- some unknowing but vastly fortunate soul will have the HONOUR (and a small but significant place in history) of awarding me my 200th community reputation point. Will it be some pathetic n00b, unaware of the momentous events they have precipitated? Or will it be YOU? History holds her breath as she awaits the answer!
  9. Scylla Rhiadra
    *sigh* I'd say that that kind of thing was very 90s, and below us, except it sometimes isn't. Myself, I think we should all just interrelate as humans. I mean hu-persons. Or, um, hu-per-offspring. (And yes, before the pedants descend, i KNOW that the "man" in "human" has nothing to do with the Anglo-Saxon word "man". So shut up.)
  10. Scylla Rhiadra
    Similarly, I suppose, my own writing has been informed/deformed by academese. (Most academics are gawdawful writers, and academic writing is the best soporific I know.) I try to control that -- maybe I'm more "bloggy" here? But it's a struggle sometimes. I hope I don't come across as . . . I don't know, low-rent Judith Butler or something. Typing is a really important part of the equation; I hadn't thought of that! I'm a pretty quick typist (except when I let my nails grow long, like now), so maybe that makes me sound more voluble? Yeah, perfect. One of the contexts in-world, of course, is fast-talking banter: my mind definitely outruns my grammar and spelling then! I wonder how much my text writing style (ALL of our text writing styles: SMS, etc.) have impacted on our real world conversation (or way of thinking)?
  11. Scylla Rhiadra
    Must you? MUST YOU??? You can remove whatever commas you like, Maddy. I'm granting you perms even as we speak to do so.
  12. Scylla Rhiadra
    Yes, me too, mostly, I think -- although less here than in-world, because I have more time to consider before hitting "send." I hadn't thought about the impact of mood and context on IC role play, but of course, that makes perfect sense: you're not reading a script, but rather responding in character to a developing narrative and situation (and others). It's entirely logical that you'd still be influenced by such factors! I actually wish I had more. It might have assisted in avoiding becoming "overwrought."
  13. Scylla Rhiadra
    Hugs are always, of course, appreciated (although I'd like to be sure I'm wearing a turtleneck first)! Fortunately, overwrought me doesn't appear too often, and not in SL for years and years. But thank you!
  14. Scylla Rhiadra
    You are, I think, a very wise vampire. That has also been a lesson that I've (almost) learned.
  15. Scylla Rhiadra
    There's far too much good-natured and amusing banter going on here. Please cut it out, and get back to the DEADLY SERIOUS business at hand; namely, reinforcing my unquestioned assumptions about how text works in SL Thank you.
  16. Scylla Rhiadra
    Thanks Ariel! I haven't specifically checked out Blueberry yet, but I will. I don't know Reign at all. Thanks in no small measure to the help here, and to additional assistance (and a giftie!) from @Rhonda Huntress (thank you so much Rhonda!), I've cobbled something pretty satisfactory together, but the quest for good boots, and things to wear with them, will continue unabated! I am VERY grateful to everyone here who contributed! Onward and bootwards!
  17. Scylla Rhiadra
    This is really useful! I'll check out *COCO* (who I'll also be looking at for jacket/top combo, so that's handy: one-stop shopping!) Thank you!!
  18. Scylla Rhiadra
    Mostly, I do. Except in certain contexts, which is one of the reasons why I created this thread. It was odd to suddenly realize that there were situations where I frequently didn't. I've often thought that a sign of the importance of text communication in SL is the degree to which people who are reasonably articulate (and correct) writers often dominate social situations. Anyone can be "beautiful" or "handsome" in SL: the most that is required is a modicum of taste and deep enough pockets. But the ability to communicate well by text isn't something everyone is capable of mastering. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king?
  19. Scylla Rhiadra
    Ceka, honestly, you have (for me) one of the most expressive and distinctive voices here. It's one I've had a long time to get to know, and one that always makes me smile. And part of that is most definitely your "heheheh"s. Whatever you're doing, it works. ?
  20. Scylla Rhiadra
    I think I agree. I'm not really big on gifs and so forth myself. But I suppose if they were in private IMs only, and not in public chat, it would be tolerable. I do sort of wish there were a way to format chat more precisely than emote, shouts, or whispers though. It might make it a bit more expressive.
  21. Scylla Rhiadra
    AH HAH!!! And yay! But I have no idea how to find applier jeans. Hmmm.
  22. Scylla Rhiadra
    Oh wow. Ok, these are pretty close. Addams and Blueberry are both makers I've been looking at for jacket/top combos, so this is useful! Thank you!!!!
  23. Scylla Rhiadra
    Hi, I'm not sure if I'm asking this in the right forum, but etc. etc. etc. Ok, so. I've just decided to leap ahead 6 or 7 years, and actually try mesh. I've got myself a Slink Physique body, hands, and feet (*yawn* amirite?), but I'm having some problem with the clothing. What I want is knee-high or mid-calf length boots (Doc Martens sort of things, perhaps, flat or with low heels) and jeans (preferably worn and/or a bit ripped. But not with the butt hanging out or anything). I know that it's next to impossible to "layer" mesh clothing, which is why the jacket/top combos I've been looking at make sense. But I can't seem to find jeans/boots combinations. Surely I'm just not looking in the right places? Or do people only wear high boots with bare legs??? Your highly knowledgeable assistance would be GREATLY APPRECIATED. (As payment, please feel free to laugh at the 10 year old avatar who is only now trying mesh. Go ahead: all of my friends are!)
  24. Scylla Rhiadra
    Yes! And even if we do "see ourselves," we may be deluding ourselves by reading our intention, or what we know to be an underlying emotion, or intention, or truth about ourselves, in what we are saying and how we are saying. We are really, even the most self-aware of us, trapped in our own subjectivity (as Maddy more or less said above). So, sort of "public" and "private." Probably true of me, but with variations within those two categories.
  25. Scylla Rhiadra
    That, I guess, is true probably of most of us. Most of the time, anyway? Does that mean that "Bree" here is different than "Bree" in-world, in some way? (I don't think I've ever met you in-world.)
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