A Glitterati, loja de poses muito famosa no SL, fecha suas portas esse mês, depois de 5 anos de sucesso.
E pra quem gosta de poses e de tirar fotos tem SALE de 50% off.
Vale muito ir conferir!
Segue Note original da dona da loja
http://www.flickr.com/photos/glitteratiphotos/8913423753/ -- Flickr link to this letter, for anyone who would like to comment.
For whoever wants to read this,
Glitterati is almost five years old. That's a really long time in real life, never mind Second Life. I started Glitterati as an accident, and was completely terrible at running a store for a long time, and still am. It began because I loved taking photos, and wondered what it would be like to see the stuff I had made through someone else's eyes. That's still the best part.
Running Glitterati has been the biggest honour I've experienced in my life so far. Being able to connect to so many people, who didn't think I was too weird for the things I did, or if they did, they appreciated it. I'd never felt like I was doing anything worthwhile until this silly little pose store in a virtual world happened. Today is a heartbreaking day for me, but it is time.
I've started writing this letter a hundred times in my head, because I want to get down on pixel paper how much Glitterati has meant to me, without being too boring so that people still read it. It may not seem like a big deal to many people, but this decision is huge to me. It is time for Glitterati to close its doors inworld.
I've known that this was going to happen soon for a while, but I've only known that it was going to be today for about a week or so, so if you have made any inworld purchases from Saturday 25th May until today, Saturday 1st June, please notecard me your transactions and I will refund the difference between sale price and non-sale price in store credit to your account.
From today until Sunday, June 30th (that's a full month long sale, lots of time!), all poses will be either 50% off, or 100L, whatever is cheaper. After that point, there will be no inworld store for Glitterati, and I will not be actively working on it.
The reasons for closing are personal, but my customers have always felt like friends to me, so I feel comfortable enough to share them. I've recently moved to Ireland in real life to be with my partner, and I'm really happy. He had a messy breakup before me, and was accused of a lot of awful things, and they were tied to Second Life in a way. Now that we have put that behind us, and we have a clean slate to start from, it feels like time for me to close the door on things that remind me of that period of our lives. There are a lot of awful bullies in Second Life, and I guess in a way I have seen both sides of that coin, from the witch hunt to the hunted. It's not something I enjoy thinking about, and while I'm no longer the main target, it feels like by closing my store I can break free completely. It's a sacrifice I'm willing to make at this point.
I will still be playing Second Life. I'm lucky to have a great group of friends, and they have known about my struggle with this decision for a while, and have been nothing but supportive of my choice and my reasons. This will probably have a huge negative impact on my real life, financially, but it's the right thing to do, though I will miss it and you all very much.
All items will remain on Marketplace, but not at sale price. I know what I'm like, and I'm not going to lie to you - I may still make things in the future, because I genuinely love doing it, but I don't like the pressure of feeling like I have to release something. When I do release something, it will be on Marketplace, I will tell these groups (copy these urls into local chat and click):
secondlife:///app/group/d5bf8251-6443-30e0-d62d-62baf3079efe/about -- the free-to-join inworld group for Glitterati
secondlife:///app/group/6fab5405-c84e-a8fe-f524-61a50bb1fd13/about -- the Glitterati VIP group, which will remain active and still receive gifts for as long as I feel like making them, though be aware they will NOT be as frequent as they are now. Cost to join this group has been lowered to 250L from the 500L it has been since I started it, almost two years ago.
But please don't expect these releases to happen often. I would like to retire (hahaha!) and enjoy my time in SL with my friends, and make new ones, and buy pretty things, and take photos, and do all the things I enjoy most, which includes making things. They may not be poses, and they may not be very good, but there we go. I can quite see me, for example, getting some mesh dresses and having a go at texturing them. I'd really enjoy doing that.
Call me silly, but I'd love to have photos taken with as many of you as wants me to indulge me. Just IM me, I'm generally on between the hours of 3am SLT and 4pm SLT, and tp me over with a pose for me to sit on ready. I'd love to keep a little folder of these and make a scrapbook to go in my house, where I'm also going to be an asshole and display the trophies Glitterati has won over the years. It will still have a huge soft spot in my heart, and I feel immensely proud of this labour of love.
Thank you for your friendship, your creativity, your loyalty and your stupid, stupid questions, which made me want to cry sometimes. I would not have changed a single minute of the last five years, and I hope I can be as happy in whatever I do next. It has been nothing but an honour.
Katey Coppola
PS. If you ever have any questions about any of my products, please do ask me. Even if I'm not logging in, I'll still get them in my email and be able to reply, though to be honest I can't forsee a day when I don't want to log in to this amazing place.
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