Outlander
Book Lovers
Outlander Season 3 Trailer - We still have ages to wait!!
Forum Activity for @tatiana-dokuchic
QH Co-op: The News ~ Apr 13, 2017
QH News
Happy Easter ~ Happy Spring!
Congratulations! We survived our first winter!
Personally I didn't know if I would make it through to the warm weather. As most Co-op members know, I basically barricaded myself in one of the Hamlet cottages and ate large quantities of goat cheese to keep my strength up. As it was hard to move while wearing all that woolen clothing I only ventured out to tend the goats. I did get a lot of reading done (until my store of candles dwindled) as the farm slept through the short days of the year. Kudos to all our farmers who managed to tend their winter crops, get some ice fishing done and take a turn or two around the frozen pond on their ice skates. Special thanks to those that checked in on me even though I tended to yell "GO AWAY" more often than not, it wasn't personal 
Today the sun is shining, the birds are singing, and one year into our Co-op experiment we're well established! There are goats everywhere and Donkey is still keeping watch over them.
There's also news about our mines which will soon be transitioned over to newer versions. We have until July to empty the old ones out. The QH iron mine is almost empty and when it's gone I'll replace it with a new version. As an added bonus, a Gold Mine has been set up at the back entrance of the Market. If you ever wanted to mine for gold, now's the time!
So how did you manage to survive the winter? Any stories you'd like to share with us? What are your plans for this new year?
Tell us your tales!
Tat
updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 01 May 2017 10:26:30AM
Show off your Place Pages
Communty News & Events
REGION: Provence Coeur
PAGE: https://places.secondlife.com/regions/57163/provence-coeur
There's still a lot of work to do on the Provence Coeur page. Adding in all the stores is going to take some time, but I'm really liking the results so far!
Show off your Place Pages
Communty News & Events
I'm loving the whole Place Pages experience so I thought a discussion to show off our efforts would be fun.
Please feel free to share your pages here. Both Regions & Parcels are good as are commercial parcels (stores). Include a link to the Place Page and an image (optional). Just a reminder that the image width can be a maximum of 600px (otherwise it messes up the post formatting).
Looking forward to seeing everyone's!
updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 13 Apr 2017 11:03:51AM
Site News: 2017 Fundraiser
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Many thanks to Jerit Weiser (@jerit-weiser) for becoming our latest site sponsor!
In Praise of Female-Driven Stories: Jane Austen to Liane Moriarty
Book Lovers
I quite enjoyed Big Little Lies (Movie Tie-In) 
The different media offered different pleasures as they so often do. I thought that The "real" story, from the book of course, was better than the TV version but it was most enjoyable to see the characters brought to life. Then there was THE OCEAN. I spent most of my time watching those waves - I mean how can anybody live a sad life when they live right on THE OCEAN!
When I came across the article mentioned in the OP it gave me more to consider including:
"exposing the classless struggle of compartmentalization and internalization that women in general—and mothers, in particular—are forced into."
and
"In addition to being a key marker of Austen’s stories, miniaturism was also invoked by the Brontë sisters, George Eliot, Edith Wharton and anyone else whose contemporaries would be shelved in the “women’s fiction” section of Barnes & Noble."
Most of the time I like to blithely go about my life agreeing with Stephen King that a good story is a good story but I also love digging a bit deeper and seeing all these connections.
What do you think?
In Praise of Female-Driven Stories: Jane Austen to Liane Moriarty
Book Lovers
Why Big Little Lies Is a Jane Austen Fan's Modern-Day Dream
One can hope that the overwhelmingly positive and therefore profitable reception to the TV adaptation of a story like Big Little Lies will persuade at least a handful of industry higher-ups to work on more female-driven stories outside of whatever the male gaze is churning out for the marketplace feminist audience these days. There is a reason that women have been responding to stories with the narrative focus of Jane Austen for literal generations extrinsic to the appeal of Colin Firth or cute dresses. Big Little Lies cuts to the quick with its compassionate and nuanced portrayal of a woman’s emotional experience by creating something big out of something seemingly—no, I’m not going to do it—miniature.
Thought this was an interesting article. Perhaps we can persuade @merry-chase to include it as one of her Foray discussions!
New & Improved in Second Life
General Discussion
Tiamat Windstorm von Hirvi:
Not yet, but I will.
Good for you! I'm actually finding it a really good exercise in organization. It's great to see all my regions & parcels in one spot so that I can evaluate what's still working and what needs improvement. I tend to lose sight of things, especially as the years roll by.
Place Pages aren't perfect but LL has made a good start. For more community discussion see Check out the Place Pages Beta! or you can see all the Jira's Filed for bugs & improvements.
New & Improved in Second Life
General Discussion
Personalizing Your Place Page is Now Available to all Landowners!
Place Pages are Linden-hosted web pages every SL location listed in Search, which landowners can customize and make their own. These pages make it easier to discover great places in SL and give Residents another way to promote their destinations.
I quite like the new Place Pages, so much so that I was inspired to start filling mine in (and that's saying a lot). I'm anxious to see how these pages are connected to SL Search etc. so that they're easily found.
Has anyone else tried them out?
@tiamat-windstorm-von-hirvi I hear you! I'm always greedy for more 
Learning to Design Mesh Clothes
Off Topic
Here's an interesting discussion to follow: Understanding the clothing of mesh avatars
I'm guessing that many historical rp avatars aren't using full mesh bodies just because it's currently very difficult for them to get period correct clothing. Is this true or has anyone converted to full mesh?