The Starlust Motel

I know, we're being mushy today. But it's the one year anniversary, and that gets you all teary eyed.

My name is Allegory Malaprop, and I'll be your tourguide to Starlustland for a bit.


(left to right: Crystyle Bukowski, Stein Shilova, Melatonin Hax, Apatia Hammerer, Allegory Malaprop. Not pictured is Kiki Cunningham, as sadly we weren't able to schedule her into the group shot)

Once upon a time, there was a group of girls who had a dream. A dream to create a strange offbeat little shopping area that wasn't quite your typical mall. A strange little motel, a bit rundown and out of the way, in which we could hawk our wares and have a fun little place to hang out. Thus, the Starlust Motel was born.





I was astoundingly lucky, and met this group by chance shortly before this all got started (through a chance meeting with the unpictured Kiki, I ended up running into her and she started up a conversation and we stood around talking for hours that first night, and the rest is history), and when offered the chance to do some building for it, I jumped at it. Building spaces was something that really appeals to me in this world of ours, and the stars aligned just right for me to be a part of something amazing.



One year ago today, the Starlust Motel opened in a little sliver of a sim named Cubana, after a while of building (and swearing) and texturing (and swearing) and setting up (and swearing). At the time, it was just a little one story motel with Bagley, La Sylphide, Amplify, SD Wears, GG Couture, Ki-Squared, HotBox, and Schadenfreude. Thimbles' new mainstore was in a big two story lobby on one end, Pudge was in a cafe on the other, and Violet Voltaire was in the same little violet traingle building she still inhabits. We had a weird selection of neighbors: this large Italian mall behind us, a German furry enclave to one side, and an open area of sea that had been occupied by a castle (before she decided that we looked far too scary and ran away). Apatia mentioned her a bit more- we really did love Lolita.

We've come a long way! Currently the motel is occupied by:
Room 1: Swallowtail, with a fabulous selection of fun and chunky jewelry, as well as shoes
Room 3: Bagley, with comfortable unisex casuals
Room 4: SD Wears, with alternative clothing
Room 6: Lotta, with quirky Japanese furniture and poses
Room 7: katat0nik, with fluffy lolita and casual clothing bedecked with original paintings
Room 8: Alchemy, with a selection of dresses for casual and dressy
Room 9: GiGi Couture, with stylish womenswear
Room 10: Gypsy Creations Photography, with art and custom photography, shapes, and poses
Room 11: Amplify, with edgy clothing and tattoos
Room 12: Kurotsubaki, with cute Japanese fashions
Room 33: Edelweiss, with frilly Japanese Lolita dresses
Room 13: Random Fashions, with bright hand drawn clothing for men (ladies, some is unisex, and Random Fashions does carry women's wear at other locations)
Room 16: Toy Hanauta, with interactive fun objects and furniture
Room 17: Draconic Kiss, with a selection of goth, lolita, and historical clothing, and skins
Room 23: Balderdash, with exquisitely detailed delicate jewelry
Room 26: La Sylphide, with gorgeous skins
Room 77: Long Awkward Pose, with a diverse selection of poses
Room 32: So Many Styles, with bright and fun womenswear
Room 33: lamb, with beautiful sculpted hair
Room 39: Periquita, with fun colourful shoes (there's an outlet with discounted shoes towards the rocking horse! Look for the quicksand!)
Room 42: Heartattack & Vine, with fun clothing for men and women

Thimbles, Pudge, Ki2, Violet Voltaire, and Schadenfreude occupy other builds in greater Starlustland. We were sad to see Hotbox's shapes close, leaving the motel last month, however Stein has moved on to focusing on other enterprises in Starlustland, including moving to prefabs of buildings like those she has created around the sims.

Happy birthday, Starlust!

An open letter from Apatia Hammerer.

Dear Renters of, and anyone who's ever been to The Starlust Motel (except those of you who've rezzed... looked around and thought "ugh" and left).

It's an entire year - today - since we cut the tape and cheese and clicked the settings to make The Starlust Motel public. Allow me please to ramble and be all wistful and sentimental and foolish while I type here. Get yourself some coffee and/or potato salad because unless our respective attention spans give out... we both might be here a while. Except of course I had to go take the dog out. I'm back now, and I've completely lost my train of thought. Also I have a headache. Also it's not actually today for me... I'm writing this on Thursday night... did I just blow your mind? No? Yes?
I think it was sometime in 2007, late 2007... very late 2007, in fact probably 2008... but Anyways. I think it was then that the idea that eventually morphed into Starlustland was born. It was in a conversation that kind of went something like "Hey, I wish there was a way to put your junk with my junk. Then maybe if people come because they like my junk... they'll see your junk and maybe like your junk too." And lo... the idea was birthed from the addled recesses of our minds. We went looking for land. We didn't know our heads from our butts about buying land in world. That land on Cubana... the plot next to the "German Yiff Paradise" and across from what we tenderly referred to as "Mount Lolita"... the parcel that Lolita the Gor Sex Princesslave had her castle and sex dungeon on... but had banned us from... ignorant that we could *totally* cam in and appreciate her art choices and sex machines from our plot, until she terraformed her entire parcel into a sort of mountain and plopped her castle on top so we couldn't cam in from the ground, no we had to fly up to be perverted peeping Toms, and we so did... Anyways. That was the most awesome thing ever. That parcel of land that was ours and we could put out as many blow up dolls and prims as we wanted (until we hit 2k, of course). And we did put out prims and blow up dolls. It was a lot of trial and error. Trial on Allegory's part. Error on mine. And a LOT of laughing.
And then The Starlust Motel on Cubana opened. And it was crazy. Stein had gotten Lolita's parcel after she put it up for sale in what I like to think was a self righteously incensed fit of Gorpower... Though dunno, she could have been ordered to. We had to move our skybox over to that parcel because we were rapidly eating up those 2k prims. Cubana was about to burst. It simply could not contain the force but we couldn't afford anything bigger and we started a fundraiser. Good god that was touching, I think we were all humbled and surprised at how much was donated to the Starlust Expansion fund. I'm not sure if it was ever mentioned publicly... but to those of you who donated to that - Thank you. You will never know how much it was appreciated. We were able to buy the land on Neverdie (which was also next door to a pre-existing sex dungeon castle, a rather nice one at that).

There is a chunk here missing about Lloyd and memories between here and there and what Starlust has kind of grown up into... It's late and I will save my ramblings on Lloyd, Floyd, Horst, Herman Melville and the new and gorgeous Harold... for another day.

"Hey... what about..." and "Holy shit I spit coffee" are probably the most over used sentence starters if you were to go through chat logs and tally them up.
I have a pretty shoddy memory sometimes. I wouldn't call these last few years of my real life sparkling wonderful times... and my brain tends to try to smoove badness over like a blur brush in photoshop. We're all going to remember the early days of Starlust a little differently, or remember more or less things than the other person. But it's been something we've all done together in one way or another. And that was the goal, mission: accomplished (i hope).

Its Coming....

Thank you Garbage for the pix!

Sisters is having a Sale!!

*Sisters* on Halflust Harbour is having a huge clearance sale! A TON of items, normally priced 100l and up, are now 10L - thats right 10L! Dream Fizzle, the owner of Sisters, is making room for some new items! Sale will end when she's ready, so you better hurry before its too late!

TP to *Sisters*

Deliciously Repressed

I wanted to finish my store at the wonderfully quirky Starlust Motel and my new line of Deliciously Repressed shapes before I went away for a few days and WHEW, it is done! Ok, I'm off to sleep a bit before I head off to noooo yaaawk cittay.

Take this taxi to (HOTBOX) for the Deliciously Repressed Collection, including a special for the coupon-clipper. Each shape comes with eyebrow shapers and facelights. Demos available in the cookie jar!!

Say HI To Polly Jean!

Oh Dear. That 'Marlys' woman has found her way onto the Starlust Motel blog!! 

DUN dun DUNNNNNN

I just wanted announce that The Starlust Motel will be opening it hearts, minds and Melatonin's pants to Polly Jean. The 4th sim installment to this glorious mecca of design, pagentry and procurement is filling in nicely.

Part A: Pleasantville
This is a old slash new "look" at residentials in Second Life. Fashioned after the 1950's suburbia, the genius prefab designers of Nook & Cranny put this community together lickity split!  Now, it has been quasi-infested with a bunch of weirdos... heh. god bless 'em.... and their prozac.

Part B: Polly Jean - The Reckoning
I am delighted to announce ONLY SOME of the amazing vendors that have joined the Starlust Motel community: JuJu’s Closet, Naith Smit Designs, MayaMaya Creations,Unzipped, League and the ever delicious after-dinner-mint BLONDE. As in the Starlust Motel fashion, we are building these vendors unusual shops that are magically enhancing in every way! 

Here’s a picture of JuJu’s Closet, which is now open for busines on Polly Jean: 

There will be more prettyness to follow as stores are built and Melatonin's pants loosen in my mighty grips! Stay tuned for more news!

Sisters at Halflust Harbour

One of my favorite shop owners is Dream Fizzle. She owns the cute shop called Sisters and is probably one of the friendliest people I've ever met on Second Life (and her sisters are too!!) Not only has Dream been with us at Starlustland since day one, she also create some really interesting clothing. Her creative styles are super inexpensive and because she updates on a regular basis, there is always something new at Sisters (and lots of freebies).

Wearing in top picture:
Dress: *Sisters* Sammie dress
Hair: BP* girly bob hair/dark brown
Skin: ::Tuli::Celeste [light/1] ~ smoke (freckled)
Pose: PUDGE: Droppin' it like it's luke warm


If you've never been to Dream's store, now's a good time to take a visit. Sisters is located on the sim of Floyd and is in the area known as Halflust Harbour. If she's there, say HI and give you loads of kisses!!

Bottom picture:

Dress: *Sisters* Ophelia Dress
Hair: Holy Mother coif- Pale Blonde
Skin: ::Tuli::Celeste [light/1] ~ lumina (freckled)
Pose: PUDGE: Old School Olivia Pin Up