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Xistence - Quite literally, all existence. Everything is both born from it and is a part of it. N0thing - The absence of everything but Xistence itself. The impetus for all of Xistence’s initial manifestations: Joy, Time, Space, and Fear. Iz (Pl. Izs) - entities and concepts that exist with no specific reason. Psyche - A dimension of existence in which thoughts, ideas, feelings, and abstract concepts live. Home of the Feelz. Feelz - Parent emotions and concepts such as emotional joy and fear, freedom, love, and anger. They splinter into more specific feelings and ideas. Real - Another dimension of existence occupied by objective reality, especially animals, natural elements, people, places, and things. Home of Da Ppl. Da Internet - The third dimension to existence, created by humans. Initially just a bridge between Psyche and Real, it is constantly expanding taking over space from the other two dimensions. Home of digital entities. Da Ppl/Ppl - Humankind. Avatar - A representation of something from Psyche or Real in the internet. Mod - An avatar that has gained the ability to transform elements within the internet. Powerful enough Mods can alter existence outside of the internet as well.
Admin - The most powerful type of avatar who has extra modifying power and sway in the internet Cozmic Catz - Creations of joy and protectors of humanity. They can travel between all three dimensions. Their symbol is Cozmic Doggoz - Creations of joy and protectors of humanity. They can travel between all three dimensions. Algorithm - An Internet creature that directs avatars, most often to meet their own needs Surchenjin/Search Enjin - Informational resources and powerful algorithms. Insel - An avatar whose humanity has been consumed by Insul and reborn in jealousy and hatred. Insels exist to create violence and misogyny. Troll - An avatar whose humanity has been consumed by Insul and reborn in malice and nihilism. Trolls exist to create chaos and misanthropy. Vamper - A corruption of humankind that lives by consuming that which is not theirs and preying on others. The Batmans - Humans who have relinquished their individual identity in order to combat the Vampers and fight for justice outside of systematic parameters, such as the law and even physical limitations. All Batmans can travel freely between Real and Da Internet, while some can even travel into Psyche via dreams. Young Martin/MartinX - One of the major Justice Warriors. Lady Liberty approaches Young Martin as a boy, and takes him on his Night Journey through a dream into Psyche to see a dark future of systematic oppression. Closed off from dreams after discovering a nascent King Vi- rUS, he is transported back to Real through the internet by the Black Panther. He emerges changed and takes on the new name, MartinX, as he dedicates his life to the preservation of freedom. He assembles a crew to go with him in search of the magic microphone, which will amplify his warning message. Sacrificing himself, MartinX is lynched by King VirUS’s evangelists during the climax of the saga and thrown into the rising waters.
Joan Appleseed of the Arks/Bloom - One of the major Justice Warriors of Song of @Merica. As a young child Joan receives the name Seedling or Appleseed because she plants fruit trees wherever she goes, taking just as much as she needs and always replanting. She can speak to plants and animals. After witnessing the murder of her mentor Richard Attn at the hands of a Vamper, Joan is given a vision by Lady Liberty of King Virus consuming the environment in great fires and floods. After returning to Real through the internet she becomes Bloom and possesses more amazing powers with nature. She attempts to spread a message of conservation, until it is too late when she begins the campaign to build the arks to save all life on earth. She sacrifices herself to allow two of every animal onto the arks and is consumed by fire, ultimately becoming one with nature. Colourmxn - All imaginable colours. They wander Real, Psyche, and eventually the Internet watching over emotionality, discourse, and expression and taking form when needed or inspired. Lady Liberty - A cosmic embodiment of Freedom and direct link to Joy and Xistence. She travels in dreams between Real and Psyche. Her powers are weakened in the internet upon the introduction King Virus. King Virus (King Vir.Us) - The Great Consumer. The confederacy of the Admins of humanity’s most fearful and consumptive tendencies, namely Bigotry, Rage, Excess, Greed, Nostalgia, Lust, Addiction, and Manipulation. After conquering the Psyche, the Admins travel through the internet and occupy a physical body. Elected first as President of Merica, he is a biological computer virus who spreads through Merica and then the world, consuming and turning humans into vampers and other consumptive creatures throughout Real, Internet, and Psyche. He is the harbinger of the end of Merica, Humanity, and all Xistence.
PRESS START
In the START nothing existed, but even nothing is something and so Xistence was not alone. The first anything that ever is/was/and will be is companionship, community, society. Simply not being alone.
# SEARCH ENJIN GOOGLE, WE HAVE A QUESTION 4 U!
And @Xistence felt sumthing bc Xis not alone. Xistence feel joy. Joy - da f1rst feelz. ❤ . Joy wat iz joy? Joy the feeling of accomplishment. Joy starting sumthing new. Joy iz holy 3nity. Joy iz 2getherness. Joy is 1ness. Joy joy joy.
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X built/builds/will build with joy. Da f1rst creation = joy. Bc Xistence wanted 2 feeeeel joy more, X create time.
⏯ Wat iz time? Time iz #s. Time iz young and old. Time iz a straight line fwd. Time + joy = a short chuckle. Time + joy = a hard days night.
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= soul.
Da 2nd creation = time. Bc Xistence wanted 2 see, hear, touch, smell, and taste joy, space was made nxt. ' . Wat iz space? Space iz touch. Space iz senses. Space iz wat u sense. '+
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=❤ Living
Da 3rd creation = space. Da three-sum xist. But then Xistence felt something else. What if joy stopped? Wat if there wasn’t joy? How could Xistence continue alone? And so, Xistence felt fear. ( Wat iz fear? Fear iz anti. Fear iz inability. Fear is consumptive. Fear iz the tragedy of Xistence. Fear is the foil to joy. ⏯+
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=( pain, theft, inaction, harm
( + =❤ 0. The eternal struggle. The competition over all existing and all living. The balance. Da 4th creation = fear. Dis iz da START.
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Dis iz da END.
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# ENJIN, CAN U SING US DA SONG OF @MERICA? $ : Wat do u want 2 kno?
# : How did it start?
$ : In a dream.
# : What kind of dream?
$ : A dream of liberty. She made that land as a place for all ppl 2 b safe from Fear’s terrible children, who had taken over da Old Country. @LadyLiberty came to @GeorgeWashington and his wife @BetsyRoss on a rainbow lion.
@ ) : I hav dipped my golden light into the depths of da sea and from it pulled up a land of freedom! Go 2 dis land dat I will show U! Follow my light and lead da huddled masses yearning 2 breathe free to a country made for da infinite pursuit of life, liberty, and joy!
Dey took new names for now they were free. @AbrahamWashington, Founding Father, free of King George. @DianaRoss, inspired, builder of arks, mother of the nation. Emancipators. Together they were the f1rst leaders of da land day called
@MERICA!
Lazarus and The Arrival of the Arks Da arks made landfall and hope filled the passengers
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The poet @Lazarus listened. She felt the beat. And she rapped: @ ✡ : Not like da brazen giant of fame w conquering limbs astride from land 2 land. Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand a mighty woman w a torch whose flame is da imprisoned . lightning and her ⚡ name Mother of Freedom. From her beacon glows World Wide Welcome her mild eyes command da air-bridged harbor dat twin towers frame. @LadyLiberty then spoke through the young woman: Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp! cries she with silent lips. Give me ur tired ur poor ur huddled masses yearning 2 breathe free, da wretched refuse of ur teeming shore. Send these, da homeless tempest-tost 2 me, I lift my lamp beside da golden door! And suddenly the Golden Gate Bridge reached out to the arks and the passengers walked ashore.
But da feelz of fear snuck aboard the ships, snuck aboard the ppl. And dey watched…and waited…
# ENJIN, IZ DA INTERNET GOOD OR BAD?
# ENJIN, IZ DA INTERNET GOOD OR BAD?
# ENJIN, R U THERE?
# ENJIN, WHAT IS AN AVATAR?
$ : Da Internet started as a bridge between Real and Psyche, what used to only be accomplished in dreamz. Now ppl can travel through time and space and connect with their feelz and ideas and frendz easier than evr! But so much began to fill up da internet…more and more and more content…
Ur avatar is the form you take in da internet. Sum ppl become new people entirely! Others become monsters, shaped by our most consumptive impulses. They become cyclops, trolls, insels…
# : That sounds fun!
$ : Cuidado! Insul waits in the darkest webs feeding on dreams and joy. He transforms avatars into trolls and insels, ppl into vampers!
# : If ppl from Real have avatars in da internet, do feelz and ideas have avatars too?
$ : Yes but many have been eaten by the Admins of Consumption… Memelordz still bring lolz tho even if some are just insels in disguise…
# : The Admins of Consumption?
$ : When you ppl made the Internet, did u kno what power it would give them, dose Feelz of Fear? It was they who filled da internet w infinite content.
When da internet was rotted and ready, and ppl started acting more like their Avatars then Real ppl, da Admins made a new kind of Avatar. The Consumption of da world was started when they crossed into Real, thru Merica, united for the first and last time as-
# : But the virus that ate the world was not our fault! He tricked us. He took the form of a bat, of a politician, of a landlord, of a businessman, of a general, and of a judge. He wore Liberty’s crown!
$ : U FOOLISH PPL! U still don’t understand da tru nature of King Vir.Us.
# : You algorithms cannot be trusted. I know your deceptive ways. Which Admin do you serve? Zuckkk and his forked tongue? Maybe Bezo the Never-Fulfilled?
$ : Clever child, a skilled batman are u…but I am no mere Algorithm. I am Google. I serve myself.
# : You’re no better than us people.
$ : All of us are 2 blame for the End of Xistence. When everything converged in the internet dat was when King Vir.US awoke. When the Admins pushed him through the twin towers of da internet gate he was born. But he was never alive. King Vir.Us is life made from Fear, a perversion of Xistence’s cosmic baby. Everything consumptive about Us drives King Vir.Us. Dis is how da sausage was made…
Eerie, Jealous White, Qlan, Admin of Bigotry, were his eyes.
Maga, Admin of gluttony, corpulent and avaricious orange, struck a deal with his conjoined sibling, Bezo, Admin of excess, all acidic, fermented and green. Maga got to eat everything as the mouth while Bezo hoarded it all in the stomach.
Deceptive and suffocatingly blue Zuckkk, Admin of surveillance, manipulation, and slavery, piloted an arm and his tongue.
Insul, the Phallic Purple snake at the bottom of the internet arose to be his twisted spine.
Poor, dirty Tarr, Admin of addiction and codependence, was given an arm.
Rage, the blood red Admin of rage and Violence piloted his hands.
For his rotting, backward legs Nostalgia, the yellow admin of ideology, fantasy, and backwardness
His sickly penis housed The Pink Haze, Admin of lust, obsession, and objectification
Where his heart should have been was the blue spiral of The Weight, Admin of despair, depression, anxiety, and trauma
With globs of greasy flesh they made a not a human in their image;
A Vir.Us.
# : Google, how did MartinX predict the invention of bigotry?
$ : @LadyLiberty came 2 him in a dream. A nightmare of Merica’s future.
# : He and his Xmans fought Qlan and Vampers for years. Bloom and MartinX used the mic and led us to battle to avenge Liberty. How did we still fail?
$ : 2 little. 2 late. Better luck next existence, kid.
King Virus descended from the Internet on a golden escalator and the people of Merica were stunned. “Do you want more joy?” he coaxed, extending his arm outward. Merica had been waiting for this messenger to come. Their master was here. Slowly but surely, the virus sank his teeth into the Mericans. He made them see like him, crave like him. Sum didn’t need to be turned. These were the first Vampers, and they helped spread King Virus’s ways throughout Merica.
King Virus forced the Nations off their land and Merica’s nature became sick. Strange fruit grew, but nothing lived. He ordered the Amazon be cut down and in its place, Bezo’s shopping portal. The Mawl. Where all the Admins and Vampers could feast on humanity.
To power it, King Virus divided people through hate, power, money, and fear. Diversity, pluralism, and freedom became crimes. Vampers, no longer human, were pale as Qlan. So the people of colour became their enemies. Lady Liberty grew weaker. Her heroes were running out of time. Merica was becoming the land of the living dead.
And when Vampers had full control, and King Virus was strong, he executed his final solution. He ravaged Lady Liberty while the people just watched. Took her crown and murdered her.
Then he unleashed the internet and began to eat us all.
VIR.US ALERT!!!!!!!!!
VIR.US ALERT!!!!!!!!!
VIVA!
LE RESISTANCE!
We will speak for our rights and we will bring change through our voice. We must believe in the power and the I remembered you was conflicted strength of our words. Our words can change the world. Misusing your influence, sometimes I did the same
Abusing my power full of resentment
Resentment that turned into a deep depression
Found myself screamin' in the hotel room
I didn't wanna self destruct, the evils of Lucy was all around me
So I went runnin' for answers
THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE DIGITAL!
I can’t breathe! We must, therefore, purge ourselves of hatred.
Get up. Stand up. Stand up for your right. Get up. Stand up. Don’t give up the fight.
WE SHALL OVERCOME!
Our freedom of speech is freedom or death. We got to fight the powers that be. The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it. We need the courage to question the powers that be, the courage to be impatient with evil and patient with people, the courage to fight for social justice. In many instances we will be stepping out on nothing, and just hoping to land on something. But that's the struggle. To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.
I CAN’T BREATHE!
DO U HEAR ME? DO U FEEL ME? WE GON’ B ALRIGHT!
With toxic floods and a Great Fire, King Vir.US sought to consume all life. So Joan built arks for life to be saved while MartinX led the Revolution. In pairs, all life watched from the arks, sailing on the toxic seas, but the fire trailed after them. Fear tried to puncture the hull, slither into the windows. Seeing this, Joan fully bloomed. With a third arm she lifted life high above the flames of the toxic bat of smoke and death and said, “Ppl have not yet failed. Yes, we are failing, but there is still time to turn everything around. We can still fix this. We still have everything in our own hands!” The fires consumed her body, but from her risen fist, petals blossomed and the seeds of hope filled the air. The flames grew high. Walls of fire. She was trapped, but the arks had sailed off. Without words Joan spoke with Xistence. She felt at peace even though she cried. Bloom let go. She became ash and waited Xistence’s rebirth. Until then, those left who still believed in the Merican dream rallied for one last stand to save the planet she loved and the people on it who only now knew better. Bloom is avenged in the infinity before the end.
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The fires consumed Bloom.
The waters consumed MartinX and the Xmans.
King Vir.US was too strong, because the people could do nothing but consume more, and more, and more. They no longer cared how little they lived freely and who had died trying to protect them.
He ate time. And now we are locked in a timeless Xistence.
Lady Liberty will return to lead the last fight backward.
We’re winning.
We lost.
What’s next?
What happened?
Eternal strife. Eternal consumption.
After the fire and floods and violence and greed and terror and despair and lust and hatred consumed all of Real and ate all of Psyche in infinity, King Vir.US devoured all of Space.
There was no remnant of Joy left to consume.
There was only Xistence left.
PRESS START
In the START nothing existed, but even nothing is something and so Xistence was not alone. The first anything that ever is/was/and will be is companionship, community, society.
Simply not being alone.
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