Luna Lunaria @lunalunaria

In addition to creating things in Opensim, my other passion is a series of novels I'm working on. Here is an excerpt from one of those books titled Eos Renascent:

"There is only one moment in all of time that matters."

"And which one is that?" Kaia asked, looking into her glowing yet serene face.

"The moment of Renascence, when you remember and time vanishes, with all that it created.”

Kaia looked away, disturbed. “I thought you were here to help me prevent that from happening.”

“That is not my purpose, for that moment is inevitable and it is not within my power to prevent it. You can only hold it at bay and only for so long. The entire universe yearns for its coming and collectively holds its breath in anticipation.”

“Then why am I here? I don’t understand,” Kaia asked, holding her face in her hands.

“Nothing is required of you but your acceptance,” she replied, stroking Kaia’s long, white hair.

“But I love them,” she sobbed, “I love them all!”

“Then cherish those present moments and the love held within them, for only Love transcends time,” she answered quietly, holding Kaia close. “You cannot understand how much you are loved, for there is no parallel in your experience to help you understand it. There is nothing on Eos to compare it to, or that even faintly resembles it. Every act of love on your part will live on, and not one little smile you gave or willingness to overlook even the tiniest mistake will be lost to you."

-from Eos Renascent

Many of you have asked for my Victorian Club since I first unveiled it at Opensim Fest last summer. It is now available for purchase exclusively at my main store on Wolf Territories Grid at a reduced price. Paste this HG address in your world map, then click the Entertainment Venues sign in the lobby: grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Lunaria Emporium - Main Store

This venue began life a year ago as the the Fetish Fire Club on Utopia Skye Grid, which is closed to the hypergrid. It is my most detailed build offering so far, pushing the boundaries of what can be done with materials especially.

The Club covers a 52 x 80 square meter plot, and is a mix of mesh and prims with a 1924 land impact. The build can be copied as much as you like, and everything is modifiable with the exception of the lighting control scripts in the switches, as per my agreement with Mike Chase of Utopia Skye who wrote those.

This build is not yet available at my other store locations on Mobius Grid or on Kitely Grid. I am currently working on a version for the Kitely Market, but that is taking time, since that market forces me to retexture everything before I can list it there.

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR FIRST TIME VISITORS TO WOLF TERRITORIES GRID COMING FROM SMALLER GRIDS OR DREAMGRIDS: Set your graphics low before you arrive, since it takes time not only for your viewer to cache the region, but also for Wolf Territories to establish new communication links with your originating grid. You may need to relog and return. For this same reason, purchases using Gloebits may not show in your inventory until you return home and relog. You can always contact me here if you have any questions or issues.

Exploring Karima Hoisan's beautiful galleries at AI Dreams in Art in Kitely. You can reach her region here: grid.kitely.com:8002:AI Dreams in Art

The following is one of her blog posts:

https://karimahoisan.com/2022/09/04/ai-dreams-in-art-is-he...

Here's another pic of additional cemetery items

You can view my complete line of cemetery items on the Kitely Market here:
https://www.kitely.com/market?store=13957705&q=cemetery

You can see the full cemetery on display at both my store regions by using the hypergrid addresses below:

Lunaria Emporium on Kitely Grid: grid.kitely.com:8002:Lunaria Emporium

Lunaria gloebit store on Mobius Grid: main.mobiusgrid.us:80:Lunaria

Thinking about getting your place ready for Halloween season? If you're going for a visceral, realistic look then I have a full collection just for you. This is the first part of my collection.

You can view my complete line of cemetery items on the Kitely Market here:
https://www.kitely.com/market?store=13957705&q=cemetery

You can see the full cemetery on display at both my store regions by using the hypergrid addresses below:

Lunaria Emporium on Kitely Grid: grid.kitely.com:8002:Lunaria Emporium

Lunaria gloebit store on Mobius Grid: main.mobiusgrid.us:80:Lunaria

Another look I like. Ruth2 RC3 mesh body with my own hair, skin, and shape as in the earlier post. Clothes and shoes from the Kitely Market. Blouse is by Rune, leather pants are by Dadiellas, and my favorite boots came from Dollys, which has since closed due to constant fighting with the never buy in opensim crowd. She got tired of it and left opensim, closing all her stores.

I just wanted to party in opensim, hang out with friends, and make nice stuff that I could sell to pay for my land. I never wanted this fight but it came to my door anyway. If there are those who want give away a bunch of stuff stolen from SL then that's their decision, I'm not going to call them out over it - that's a bigger question for people far more important than I am in Opensim to grapple with. But I'm not going to let anyone dictate what I can and can't do with my own creations.

My Ruth2 and Roth2 avatars. Luna on the left is wearing Ruth2 RC3 (I don't use RC4 because I don't like the alpha hud for that version). The dress is from the Kitely Market and made by Pacifica. Hair, skin, and shape are mine (no I don't sell these or give them away and haven't made any others since - not my thing). Apelles on the right is wearing the latest version of Roth2. Clothes and hair are from the Kitely Market. The glasses and shoes I made. Each one's complexity is about 55000 to 60000. Just so you know you can get a nice unique look with Ruth2 and Roth2

So this post was left on one of my regions and is fairly representative of the mindset original opensim creators will grapple with if they want to sell their products here:

"It looks nice but I like the whole sharing is caring idea. So many places in OS that offer free stuff. Not here, too bad."

I don't blame this shopper at all for wanting to find quality items for free - who doesn't? I was grateful that they visited in the first place and cared enough to leave a comment. It's for that reason that from time to time I do exactly that - offer most of my stuff for free as I did this past OSFest.

No, the ones that make life for opensim creators difficult are those freebie mills continuously churning out stolen content from Second Life and calling it 'sharing', and who aggressively push the idea that merchants in opensim have no right to exist.

As I replied to this user: Sharing is truly caring only if it's the original creator giving it away free, or if they have explicitly given permission to others to do so. And that only works if they don't have to pay for their regions, which is not the case for me.

My region costs average $20 per month per region, and the money I make from sales covers that most of the time. There are months I take a loss with my opensim stores (my Second Life store has never posted a loss in 14 years). But because sales do cover most of my rent I can keep doing what I love: making original content for Opensim.

Paying for regions of course is my choice - I prefer to be on well-run grids that truly respect creators rights. I know that you can easily find quality items for your regions for free all over opensim, so no one is more grateful than me when you choose to purchase at my stores :-)

One of the reasons I love Wolf territories - nearly all regions are connected to each other, and there are tons of them. This is from my newest store region under construction, and this view is looking west toward one of the several large mountains you can find across the grid that are not mesh - they are actual terrain. I could literally fly from here all the way to the other side of the grid. The venue in the photo is the Victorian Club that will be ready for sale soon.