yes, some of it really is free. here's exactly what's free from stelarhoshi, and what isn't, no dancing around it.
what's genuinely free from stelarhoshi
no catch, no email required for most of it, just three real places.
- my telegram channel. free to join, always, no card, no email, no catch. i post previews and updates there between sets, so it's the fastest way to see a new look before it's finished, or to just say hi. want the full breakdown of what actually goes into that channel? here's everything on it.
- the preview inside every post on this site. every set post here has real photos from that exact shoot sitting right in the post. not stock images, not a teaser from a different set pretending to be this one, actual frames from the actual production, so you can see the wig, the costume, the lighting, before you decide anything. the full list of sets lives here if you want to browse them all at once.
- reddit. i post tease shots there too, one look, one character, enough to know if that world is for you, no login and no account needed to look.
that's the free tier, and it's not a trick to get your email either. it's real previews, real updates, and a direct line to me if you want to use it.
the one dollar option
if the free stuff has you curious but you're not ready to commit to a whole set, there's a middle step. the preview pack is 10 photos across 5 sets, for one dollar. that's it, that's the whole ask.
it exists for exactly one reason: so you can check the quality yourself before spending real money. ten actual photos, five different characters, not a compressed thumbnail and not a cropped preview. you see the wig work, the lighting, the editing, on more than one look, and you decide from there if a full set is something you want.
you can grab it straight through gumroad, same place every set lives, one time payment, nothing recurring, nothing that auto renews on you later.
what is not free, and why
a full set is a real production. 120+ photos in 4k, plus 10+ minutes of 4k video, one character, one world, built from scratch. i fit and adjust every costume myself to my own size, nothing comes off the rack ready to wear, so there's sewing and adjusting before a single photo happens. then the shoot itself, then sorting hundreds of shots down to the ones worth keeping, then editing every single one. all of that takes weeks, not an afternoon.
that's just the honest shape of the work, said plainly. i'm not going to pretend it should be free, and i'm also not going to lecture you about supporting creators or any of that. you get to decide what's worth paying for, and i'm genuinely relaxed either way. if a set is something you do want, here's exactly how buying one works, one payment, you own it forever, no subscription attached.
a quick word about the repost folders
you'll find folders out there claiming to have my "leaked" content for free, usually a wall of thumbnails promising a full set behind a click or a survey. open one and it's the same previews i already posted myself on telegram or reddit, just recompressed down a generation or two, watermarked over with somebody else's name, sometimes cropped weird to hide where it was taken from. nothing exclusive lives there. nobody who runs those folders shot anything, edited anything, or built anything. they grabbed what was already public and reposted it worse, usually with ads and popups stapled on top.
so if a page promises my full set for free, it's lying to you before you even click, and the quality will prove it the second you compare a repost to the real preview. the real free stuff is the telegram channel, the previews on this site, and reddit. everything past that is genuinely mine, made by me, and it's fair for it to cost something.
that's really it
free is real here, it's just previews and updates, not the whole set. a dollar gets you ten photos and an honest look at the quality. after that it's yours to decide, no guilt attached either way. i'll be around either way, so come say hi.