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Fashion Friday: Bridgerton / Historic Second Life Cosplay Ideas

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LK is a Flickr microblogger. This picture is Waiting for Bridgerton which is a great title since fans do not know when Season Three will begin. I love the dress and the dogs which are so perfect for the scene and marvel that she manages to take a regency dress and make it seem kawaii while she does it. The exciting thing about LK is she shows how to do more than just credits in a Flickr microblog.

• Dress: [Nobel Creations] Antoinette Dress This stunning dress is made 4 Maitreya and Legacy and comes in Cream, Floral and Gray, all with a pink or gold choice. Here's shown Floreal in the pink and gold option.

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Gorgeous SL Landscape Photos & Teleport Links from Mr. Badass (Yes)

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Since Mr. Badass’ hay bale sent me off on a hay bale tangent yesterday, I jumped back to his stream today to give it the attention it deserves. I love his stream, a mix of gorgeous landscapes and candid pics of him having fun. “Morning Haze’ is at Endless Birdlings Flat [To teleport, click here] and shows that even though we think of industrial sites as blights on the landscape, they have their own sort of stark beauty. 

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There's a Community of Virtual Photographers Inspired by the Famous Haystack of Walsh County, a Second Life Sim Inspired by Walsh County, ND

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After seeing Pedro’s haystack in “Walsh County” and recognizing it as THE HAYSTACK [See stories One, Two, and Three] I thought it might be fun to collect some more pictures of the famous haystack of Walsh County. I looked for the Flickr group devoted to it, with hundreds of haystack photos, and noticed that the sim was inspired by Walsh County, ND.

I know Walsh County. I lived there for four months when my sister was paralyzed by a spider bite from a brown recluse. I left fifth grade about a month early to go to their farm and take care of her, the kids, and the housekeeping. No wonder these images speak to me. I love Pedro’s picture because it catches the field when flax is in bloom. It’s such a beautiful sight to see these pale blue blankets of flowers extending for acres in all directions. 

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Today's Second Life Flickr Pick: Stunning Avatar Portraits by Yoli

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Yoli’s “Follow me down where the waters run deep. I’ll let you drown in the worst of me” is beautiful to look at, but the title suggests some malice that we can’t quite see. Still, just looking at the picture, we know there is a story there. Perhaps this is a female Narcissus, so drawn to her own reflection she drowns. However, there is a bit too much movement in the water, the reflection must be distorted or is that the “worst bof me.” The picture is inspired by Joy Oladukun’s “Breathe Again.” Click here to listen.

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Today's SL Flickr Pick: Autumnal Images from the Virtual World

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Isis Barom’s “Snow comes to Cherishville” is a pleasing introduction to the season, It has that storybook quality that suggests all stories have happy endings full of food, friends,, and family. It’s a slow, gentle snowfall that makes for fluffy snowballs. If there are no snow angels to be found, I will be sorely disappointed. [To teleport to Cherishville, click here]

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Celebrating the Drag Queen Community in Second Life

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Lady Arsenika Satanis’ shot this fab pop art self-portrait. I love her style -- and love to see that drag queens are active in Second Life. Her picture, “Pop Art Fantasy” is the apotheosis of drag queen glamor. It seems appropriate to amplify and honor the beauty and courage of drag queens after this weekend’s tragedy. 

Club Q’s drag show in Colorado Springs had just ended and the DJ had started playing when he was wounded, shot in the back, by a man radicalized and incited by political hate rhetoric. It is painfully ironic that the shooting was at midnight as the Day of Trans Remembrance began. While drag queens are not trans women, they are targeted along with people who are trans by a political party that centers itself on hate. The political strategist behind the current moral panic over drag queens and trans women advocates conflating the two because that makes them sound more frightening. 

As someone who has gone to countless drag shows, lurid is not the word I would use. Fun, glamorous, exciting, hilarious, friendly, warm, and welcoming are more apt descriptions. See for yourself at CLAT Drag Club [To teleport, click here.] The acronym stands for Club Legends Art Theater. Or you could try out the London club Madam Lala’s [To teleport, click here.]

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Friday Fashion: Fun & Fanciful Styles from SL Blogger Karalee Aeon

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Nobody Does It Like Karalee is a fun and fanciful blog, but I may never forgive Karalee Aeon for suggesting it be expressed as the Saralee jingle and introducing a vicious earworm that is going to trouble me for hours. Her post “Amantha” features a delightful woodland sprite, a dragonfly fairy perhaps. She does a marvelous job of making pieces from different creators look like they were made for each other. 

• Wings- [Vaak] Bento Dragonfly Wings
• Outfit- :[P&E]:– Keraves – MEGAPACK @ warehouse
• Umbrella- ~MR~Mushroom Umbrella
• Tattoo 1-+ Abyssal Flower Tattoo FATPACK + {Aii & Ego}
• Tattoo 2- [AERTH]  Saturnalia Body Tattoos @ we love roleplay ends 11/28

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We Love This SL Tribute to Anastasiya Dobrovolskaya's Viral Fox Photos

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I always love a photo tribute when someone recreates a photo taken by a real life artist or photographer. It’s much more impressive, though, when the person shows the original so we can all appreciate her effort to honor the original while asserting her own point of view into the picture. With “Ladies” you can see Misaki did not do an exact copy, but instead got her inspiration from the original and then changed it up with the poses, a full body shot, and a more subdued lighting with less contrast. If she had linked to the original, her work would have been even more impressive because how else can we recognize the homage? 

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This Artist Makes Second Life Screenshots Look Like Dramatic Movie Stills -- And Includes Teleport Links to Where She Shot Them!

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Sare’s photostream has remarkable verisimilitude. The pictures look like they are stills from a movie, a gothic movie like Jane Eyre or Northanger Abbey. Romantic-looking women staring out to see are the grist of gothic. I love how the picture is divided between the earth and the air and water in a nearly perfect diagonal line. The composition is exquisite. This was taken at Birdlings Flat. [To teleport, click here.]

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Second Life Landscape Photos That Look Like Real World Paintings

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“Lunaspina“ will have you asking is that real life or is it Second Life? Unfortunately, there are no teleports in life, but there is a teleport to this spot. Is this a She Shed? Is there some weird symbolism in a woman’s “room of her own” being outside the house in the yard.  [Teleport Link, click here] 

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