Horst von Starlustinberg State Penn

The prison overlooking Horst is the brainchild of Melatonin Hax, and is in fact part of the reason Horst came to be. We didn't have room for anything of any decent size on Lloyd or Floyd- although he did also serve the purpose of some extra space for some of the other things that were lined up, like the mainstores for Tres Blah and Hiccup (which is another story entirely).

The prison moved around Horst a bit while it was still in the process of being constructed (it started on the island Vintage and the drive in now inhabit), finally settling on that tall hill, overlooking Horst and Harold. I was a bit burnt out and needed a break (sim building is a lot of fun, but also a lot of work! And Horst followed not long after Floyd opened up, Floyd himself being in the planning stages right after Lloyd opened up), so I didn't have much to do with the prison. Gobo Guerilla, of Heartattack & Vine (which has an outlet in the Starlust Motel), and flopsie MacArdle, of Smersh (which resides in the big concrete duck on Lloyd, towards Herman Melville from the motel lobby), helped Mel bring her vision to life. Both of them excel at the grittier builds that befit the prison (whereas I'd be more likely to paint it pink and put a rabbit head on it...although I did have nothing to do with the giant ball gag that was draped on the prison before it opened).

In some ways, it's more fun exploring a place you don't know so intimately, although I did still get to peek in periodically to be amazed by the progress.

And at Christmas, flopsie and Mel trusted me to drive a toboggan off the top of the guard tower. They're pretty foolish, aren't they?

The current roster of inmates in the prison:
Cell 1001: Ekstras, Inc.- collars, cuffs, and jeans
Cell 1013: Pididdle- fun clothing, eyes, accessories, and poses
Cell 1017: Pixel Dust- hair for girls, rebranding as Little Bird
Cell 1025: Trixi Stix- candy colourful clothing, skins, and tattoos
Cell 1033: Pink Outfitters- trendy shoes, clothing, and skins for girls
Cell 1045: Rainbow Snail Designs- pastel graphic t-shirts
Cell 1053: Kid Asia Boutique- comfortable fun clothing
Cell 1067: Ticky Tacky- bangle bracelets, and a few other surprises
Cell 1071: Crimson & Clover- gothy and imaginative hair and skins
Cell 1083: Skanks R Us- pants, jewelry, glasses, gasmasks
Cell 1091: Attituede- poses especially for props and situations
Cell 2013: )]34[(- assorted eclectica
Cell 2027: Kess Creations- jewelry and comfy clothing
Cell 2033: The Sea Hole- bright and quirky girl's clothing, and trees
Cell 2047: Thistle Homes- adorable prefabs and accessories
Cell 2059: Sindecade- skins with bright and pastel makeup
Cell 2077: Karamia- skins for men and women
Cell 2085: Hourglass Shapes- shapes for men and women, designed around particular skin lines
Cell 2093: Thrashed- Sisters' sister store, with girl clothing of a slightly darker bent

Thimbles

Thimbles means a lot to the Starlust- for without Thimbles, there would be no Starlust. The new plot in Cubana, aside from being a bigger area to be able to play with and have more shops as well, was Thimbles' new mainstore. The Thimbles girls, Melatonin Hax and Apatia Hammerer, had had their mainstore on a little sliver of mainland (I have never made the plunge into land ownership myself- I've considered it, but the tier thing is a bastard), and the Starlust Motel happened when they decided they needed more space.

These girls are madly prolific (they don't even bother to announce new releases most of the time because they'd be spamming constantly!), and create fabulous wardrobe staples- perfect fun floofy dresses, all sorts of tops and pants and accessories (the scarves!), and the plaid, oh the plaid. Thimbles is my "comfort food" when it comes to clothing. I built the Starlust Motel in Cubana largely in a Thimbles hoodie, with plain black pants and my mohawk pulled back in a ponytail (and socks, without shoes most of the time).





Thimbles is also the building that's gone through the most incarnations- at Cubana it was the big yellow brick lobby with the huge awning. At Neverdie (which never saw an opening), it was a huge truck stop, with a giant round staircase entry. The first Thimbles on Lloyd was the two round domes, which were demolished to make way for a tower, which is turn was demolished when Thimbles moved to Floyd, in the huge pair of Thimbles (which might actually stick around for a bit! Although I expect the basement will fall prey to their desire to remodel, at least).

I have made it a hobby to park Curio Obscura Oui Coupes on top of most of the later incarnations of Thimbles- getting up to the top of the notboobs and managing to stop without overshooting was a challenge (so is getting up that ramp in the new one! But then, so is walking up it, which I dearly enjoy as I get dizzy and fall down repeatedly). (Sadly I haven't made a hobby of taking pictures once I DO get parked, and I leave my cars unlocked for people to drive around the sims.)

Thimbles currently resides in a pair of thimbles, with a huge flooded basement below, nestled in a corner of Floyd, behind the boardwalk and the Pudgeburger, in the shadow of Mount Lolita, covered in flowers. The biggest thimble holds the newest releases, the smaller thimble holds the slightly older but still rather new releases, and the basement entered from the stairs in the small thimble contains yet older stuff. They also keep a new release blog, but lots of things don't actually make it into it!

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).

Peace at last

The unicorn war has been heated, and spilled far beyond the borders of Starlustland, as people all over SL have chosen sides.

However, we do have peace at last. It was...uh...sort of my fault. Er, sorry. Who knew pregnant unicorn hormones turned you into a ticking glitter timebomb, waiting to go off? The glitter critical mass was so serious that it wiped out almost all of the unicorns, _and_ their opposition, from all of Starlustland.

There are a few survivors from the fallout, the alicorn over the Floyd rainbow came out almost entirely unscathed, and the horny seaponies still populate the 7Seas fishing in the waters of Lloyd and Floyd, I suppose the seawater protected them from the blast. For these remaining refugees, and in memory of love and glitter everywhere, I respectfully request that both sides please set aside their animosity, and kiss and make up as we did (also, some making out and there was the slapping, but I mean, I guess those are optional?)

We learned some important lessons from the war: some people don't like unicorns, some people don't like sex, some people think glitter in private areas is very uncomfortable, some people prefer their unicorn sex set off in a private corner, and some people prefer leprechauns and latex.


I have no idea what happened to all that glitter. I have to wonder if it really just dissipated, or if, somehow, we haven't quite seen the end of the fallout yet...


Khitten Kurka spoke out against the unicorn menace

Achariya wears pink to show her unicorn pride

Achariya's daughter also approves of unicorns

Candy Flanagan hosted The Sparkle Village Glitter Poof Show

Persephone Paine announced her support for the unicorns

Nivaya Barbosa chose Sparkle Village to unveil her new skin collection

katat0nik made memories at Sparkle Village with Adaire, who also featured their visit on Free*Style

Eden and Ashia extolled the virtues of MORE GLITTER on Free*Style, as pretty uniponygirls, coutesy of Sanu

Helena Stringer explored unicorns of the depths, on Free*Style

Fab Farah tried to choose a side on Fabulously Free in SL


I'm sure I've missed many of you out there, these are just the ones I remembered on the top of my head. Please feel free to post links in the comments to those I have missed.

Let us never forget the tragedy that almost tore us apart, and let us never allow it to happen again.

The Unicorn Wars

Some battle photography from the war.

Not taken on a potato:


Taken on a potato:

gathering for a raid

omgwtf barbeque and radio signals

crystyle's sparkly magic

at the campground

thend prepares to throw the tardis, narita is ready to dedazzle

juliette sings a rousing unicorn anthem

butch looks on, secure that unicornkind is well defended

chester tries to deny it, but he's obviously one of us

crystyle and chester make a lovely couple, dont you think

trilby and crystale hump fight lili into submission while appy hugs chester until he gives up

apatia and i survey the damage

The unicorns are here!

You may have heard about the battle raging at Sparkle Village (previously known as the Starlust Motel). The virtuous pro unicorn forces (led by myself and General Apatia Hammerer) are pitched in battle against the dire forces of the anticorns (led by Stein Shilova and Melatonin Hax...although Melatonin has voiced her affection to unicorns to me privately, it's all just peer pressure from Stein. The anticornal forces are crumbling from within, soon the unicorns shall prevail!)

The anticorns have been defacing the sims with signs and graffiti, because they oppose all that is pure and beautiful in the world. The pro unicorn forces have let the unicorns run free through the sims of Lloyd, Floyd, and Horst, free to bring happiness and love to all who visit our Unicorn Sex sims.

(horns and ears from Beloved's fantastic unicorn kit, which I've been wearing for days, wings and bum bow from ~silentsparrow~, both available in the lobby. The hoofies, hands and feet, are from Lazy Places, which has a location on the anti unicorn sim of Harold- but we know they are really on our side, and have been swept up in the anticorn sim through no fault of their own)

(here I am with fellow unicornians, Nivaya Barbosa and Achariya Maktoum. The sea unicorns floating around me are fishing prizes that can be obtained from fishing on Lloyd and Floyd, and the rainbow mohawk I'm wearing is by Helena String of the Stringer Shrine and Mausoleum, in her show of unicorn solidarity. Nivaya's horn is from Illusions, and her hoofies are Lazy Places, exclusive to their Axis Mundi location. Achaiya and I are both wearing the new ~silentsparrow~ vest, aesthete)

(Evangeline Schism poses on the back of the bed in front of the lobby, a testament to the love between Apatia Hammerer, myself, and unicorns)

Katat0nik has come out in support of the unicorn forces, and you can see the fantastic Making Memories dress here, modeled by Subversive Writer. Adaire DeCuir also wrote a feature on Sparkle Village on the katat0nik blog, and it should give you some idea of the magic of the new Sparkle Village.

You can see here how shabby the sim of Harold is, tarnished and without the magic that unicorns bring. It's very sad. This is why the fight for the unicorns is so important.

All is not lost on Harold though! Clawtooth by Clawtooth, overlooking Dogtown, is surrounded by a group of unicorns in tiaras, doing their best to stand against the anticorns!

(Yes, I am indeed pregnant with Apatia's unicorn child)

There is also a special new treehouse, high atop Mount Lolita in Floyd, for the brave revolutionaries that populate the I (heart) Starlust group.

Light, love, and unicorns forever!