Luna Lunaria^✦ @lunalunaria

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

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.

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 :-)

After the OSGrid 15th Birthday Party events end on Sunday, the OSFest 2022 BURN Party starts at 7 pm grid time on July 31st! The countdown to the BURN Party has already begun. We are kicking it off with over 48 hours of free action at the Zombie Quest! get the details here:

https://www.opensimfest.com/post/osfest2022-burn-party-cou...

Rounding out our OSFest merchants this year are those from various other grids around the hyperverse.

Start here: grid.opensimfest.com:8022:HG-Welcome, then look for the merchant teleport board

Find out more about OSFest 2022 here: https://www.opensimfest.com/ See the entire events calendar here: https://grid.opensimfest.com/website/grid/calendar

There's a Merchant Sales Event going on all this week on OSFest 2022 with great sales prices and lots of freebies! Of the nearly 25 merchants participating, there is a nice group hailing from Discovery:

Uniquely Quintessa by Jillian2000 Quintessa
Kitty Love by 'Kittylove' Stillwater
The Blooming Lady by Blooming Lady
Loose Cannon Shipyard by Modee Parlez
Ocean Engineering by Kayaker Magic (also on Kitely)

Start here: grid.opensimfest.com:8022:HG-Welcome, then look for the merchant teleport board

Find out more about OSFest 2022 here: https://www.opensimfest.com/ See the entire events calendar here: https://grid.opensimfest.com/website/grid/calendar

There's a Merchant Sales Event going on all this week on OSFest 2022 with great sales prices and lots of freebies! Of the nearly 25 merchants participating, there is a significant group hailing from Kitely, one of my home grids:

Dixy's Darlins by Dixy Dreamscape
Gods of valor / Club Depot by Filipa Thespian
MultiverseMasters by Salie Davis
Lunaria Emporium by Luna Lunaria (also on Mobius and Wolf Territories)
Sarvonne Creations Etc by Sally Cherry
Veri's Vagaries by Veritas McMaster
Ocean Engineering by Kayaker Magic (also on Discovery)
Virtual Vignette by Kimm Starr

Start here: grid.opensimfest.com:8022:HG-Welcome, then look for the merchant teleport board

Find out more about OSFest 2022 here: https://www.opensimfest.com/ See the entire events calendar here: https://grid.opensimfest.com/website/grid/calendar

There's a Merchant Sales Event going on all this week on OSFest 2022 with great sales prices and lots of freebies! Of the nearly 25 merchants participating, there is a significant group hailing from Digiworldz (I have a couple of small stores there as well):

Emmalena Damour Designs by Emmalena Damour
Dinkiewear by Llola Lane
LL Designs by Loriann Lamore
Tari's Creations by Tari Tari
Nebby's Naturals and Weelandia by Nebby Newman
AJ's Designer Fashion Store by NurseAJ Hotshot
Birds Nest Studio Designs and Glamourpuss by Shalheira Nailo

Start here: grid.opensimfest.com:8022:HG-Welcome, then look for the merchant teleport board

Find out more about OSFest 2022 here: https://www.opensimfest.com/ See the entire events calendar here: https://grid.opensimfest.com/website/grid/calendar

There are nearly 25 merchants, hailing from multiple grids around the Hyperverse, that are participating with me in a massive sales event all week - sales prices and freebies galore. Supporting is caring, and encourages more quality creators to set up shop in opensim to provide us all with the things that make outfitting our avatars and regions easy. For instance, I'm not a clothing maker, so I get all my clothes from original opensim creators.

Start here, then look for the merchant teleport board: grid.opensimfest.com:8022:HG-Welcome

Find out more about OSFest 2022 here: https://www.opensimfest.com/ See the entire events calendar here: https://grid.opensimfest.com/website/grid/calendar

Read the full blog post here: https://www.opensimfest.com/post/day-11-osfest2022-huge-me...

The merchants at OSFest2022 have banded together to create a unique merchants sales event from regions all across the grid! It starts right now on July 18th and runs through the 24th. The good thing in virtual world tech is inventory is never an issue but time can be... unless you get in world as soon as you can and start using those Merchant TP boards placed seemingly everywhere. Merchant Organizer Luna Lunaria gets things started with unbelievable giveaways!

Start here, then look for the merchant teleport board: grid.opensimfest.com:8022:HG-Welcome

Find out more about OSFest 2022 here: https://www.opensimfest.com/ See the entire events calendar here: https://grid.opensimfest.com/website/grid/calendar

Today starts my Opensim Appreciation Giveaway, and it's happening all this week at OSFest from Monday July 18th through Sunday July 24th. Everything I have out on my four merchant regions at OSFest will be free, with the exception of two structures still under construction that I will debut in the next month. Freebies include castles, entertainment venues, statues, landscaping, airships, and decor of all kinds - if you see it you can get it for free. I have four parcels on the OSFest grid: one on the Chlorine region and three on Unobtanium.

DON'T MISS THIS

In addition, there are nearly 25 merchants participating with me in a massive sales event all week - sales prices and freebies galore. Supporting is caring, and encourages quality creators to set up shop in opensim.

Start here, then look for the merchant teleport board: grid.opensimfest.com:8022:HG-Welcome

Find out more about OSFest 2022 here: https://www.opensimfest.com/ See the entire events calendar here: https://grid.opensimfest.com/website/grid/calendar

You know it's a special moon event when I do a true Opensim Appreciation Giveaway. It's been two years since the last one. That is happening all this week at OSFest from Monday July 18th through Sunday July 24th. Everything I have out on my four merchant regions at OSFest will be free, with the exception of two structures still under construction that I will debut in the next month. Freebies include castles, entertainment venues, statues, landscaping, airships, and decor of all kinds - if you see it you can get it for free.

DON'T MISS THIS

In addition, there are nearly 25 merchants participating with me in a massive sales event all week - sales prices and freebies galore. Supporting is caring, and encourages quality creators to set up shop in opensim.

Start here, then look for the merchant teleport board: grid.opensimfest.com:8022:HG-Welcome

Find out more about OSFest 2022 here: https://www.opensimfest.com/ See the entire events calendar here: https://grid.opensimfest.com/website/grid/calendar