Akane Nacht

perhaps... that's where the Money Tree idea came from 😮

I don't smile.. but I'll help with the lighting

Try !gO!, Luas, and Silvan Moon 😄

finally got around to exploring the lovely Rocca Sorrentina sim

okie dokie. I was just sharing my own experiences - make of it what you will. ☺️

"Lift up your house for a minute so I can level the ground"

Hypothesis rather than fact. I've already thrown a monkey wrench into it. Sorry 😁

No worries, you do have a point with regards to some of the population. One of my favourite RP storylines was entirely PG, and revolved around a half-sibling relationship that crossed the rigid caste systems of Gor society. Another one dealt with a smalltime tavern owner's (and his band of conniving tavern girls) rise to power in a scummy pirate enclave. Again, legit by the books. There's something delightfully challenging to see how much influence a "powerless" character can wield through her own ingenuity. It wasn't perverting the genre anymore than telling an indepth story of smallfolk and lesser nobles not mentioned in GoT would be. I will concede though, that you need to find compatible RPers. You can't walk into Random Gor sim #23 and expect instant epicness. It takes some searching and some effort. This is true for other genres too.

If you go to your menu World>>Destinations there is a category for Newcomer Friendly places. The Editors Picks section also have some cool places to explore, when you're ready.

whoa you did run with a rough crowd 😁 Pro tip - all SL RP is consensual. Set your own standards and stick to 'em.

Well, I played there for years, multiple sims, both sides of the coin, and every sim was consensual RP. You may have fallen in with "lifestylers" as opposed to roleplayers. There was always that tension at play in the community, but both were consensual in their way as some people liked the "lifestyle" kink and sought it out. And then there were the all female Panther bands who did horrible things to male captives (reputedly, I never actually played in those). There was, in short, a kink for everyone. I only had one bad OOC experience - a sim owner said I could not be a mod as I am a woman. Guess what.. the sim owner was female 😋

Yup, it's waned. Most of the old communities are no longer active, and the genre itself has morphed a lot. They had their oddballs for sure, but most of the oldschool players were actually really nice people OOC. Big supporters of SL charities too. Gor novels are terrible tripe, but Gor RP in SL was pretty tame and selective about the lore. It was just an easy to grasp fantasy world with dancing girls and swordplay. Nothing darker than that. And, the female to male ratio was pretty high. The guys mostly came for the combat.

Now that's a cause I can totally get behind..

I don't mind. 😎

Thanks Erwin unexpected but very posh

I dunno.. I still feel a bit oppressed. I'll feel better if someone buys me a houseboat... 😇

Pretty much this. The L I buy now and then goes to creators who in turn pay for land so it does support the service in that way.

I really like that idea too. Though I'd prefer a 19thC village with a pub, town square and trails for horseback riding... eh, I can dream... I've rented in themed communities before but it's inconvenient to pay weekly rents and, they may close or change management with little or no warning.

A one time fee to set up a MP shopfront might address that.. but if premium was necessary it would kill small hobbyist shops. 😟

It would be real nice to have a scaled-down premium membership just for a (new) Linden home. That was my favorite part of premium anyway.

some people call us the space cowboys..

Majilis al Jinn, Sands of Time 😊 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sands of Time/74/103/55 And here's my red dress:

Jomo shop has been redesigned.. time to climb on things and take pics 😁

It definitely makes a difference in whether I want to initiate a chat with them. I make it a point to compliment people who have obviously put in effort and thought into their avatar, or even if it's just something that takes my fancy. They may or may not want to engage with me beyond that, but so far everyone has been happy to get a compliment. As others have mentioned, how we present ourselves in SL also communicates our interests and, to some degree, our personality. We can't force people to be our friends.. if some wants to set specific parameters on who they will socialise with, that's their call. They'll naturally have a smaller pool to interact with, but if they are happy, good for them.

Anime & cosplay has been a thing in SL since I joined in 2008 at least, probably well before. It was just dressup fun. I named my avie after Akane Tendo, and my friend made me the whole schoolgirl set costume - no nastiness involved. Maybe it's morphed into something else in some circles but people still enjoy some innocent cosplay too 😁