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Transcript of Ximena's journal from Omega Mart

welcome to ximena's journal

July 3, 2014-By-Fork

I'm trying to remember the farm. It's been 6 years since my parents sold it, and for the first time, I miss it. I was excited when they sold it but I was only 6. I thought it meant we were moving to First Earth.

There was the main house. When you came in through the front door, there was a staircase that went upstairs. The kitchen was to the left. The living room was to the right, down the hallway. My mom called it a "shotgun house," like if you were standing in the front door you could shoot a shotgun out the backdoor, because it was the end of the hallway. It was an old house.

Up the stairs was where our rooms were. My parents had the actual bedroom. My room used to be some kind of storage room, the ceiling was shaped like a triangle and I had to duck down to get to the edges of the room. The floors were wood and scuffed. The curtains were old and moth-eaten. I loved my room.

There was a shed out back I never went in because I was scared of spiders. There was a barn, but we only had chickens and a couple dogs. My mom says they had goats before I was born.

There was a little stream out beyond the pastures, and that was my favorite place in the world. The water was clear and cold, and there were crawdads in the shadows.

I've never had a journal before. I never really felt like I needed one. I still think diaries are stupid, which is why I've made my own. At least here in Seven Monolith Village the internet is better.

Anyway, the farm is all gone. There's a factory there now. My mom says the money we got from the sale will send me to college. In First Earth!

But I miss the farm.

Logging off.

November 14, 2016-By-Fork

Well I built this journal, I guess I should use it.

My parents are designing another damn house. We've barely moved into this one. My mom says Seven Monolith Village is a "shit hole" so now we're moving to another Forked Earth town. I keep asking her why we can't just move to Forked Earth, but she says something about contracts and Dramcorp and I just don't care.

My HTML has gotten so much better! I feel like it's the only thing I'm really good at, and we're not even taught it in "school" aka Rose or whoever else has time to teach us this week. I need to learn CSS next, but I'm intimidated by it, it seems complicated. But I know it will make this journal look better... and someday I might be able to get a job doing it in First Earth.

I keep walking in on my parents working on the blueprints for the new house and I get really annoyed. I'm annoyed we don't live in the farmhouse anymore. I'm annoyed the farmhouse got bulldozed. I'm annoyed the factory has destroyed the stream I used to play in. I'm annoyed st everything!

Charlie has an old stupid computer in his gross gas station that I hacked so that he can't access the internet anymore. He keeps going on about all his stupid conspiracy theories. Old people shouldn't be allowed on the internet!

Logging off.

January 4, 2017-By-Fork

So it turns out that CSS is really easy and I love it! It's like writing a magic spell. I type it. And there it is! So as a result this journal looks sooooo much better.

You know what looks like shit though? Our old farm. Or rather, the totally distorted piece of land that was once our farm and is now a Dramcorp factory. I can't not look at it everyday. It's right there! It makes me so angry!

My parents are fighting about the stupid new house. Money is a curse!

Logging off.

May 26, 2017-By-Fork

I can tell from my website analytics someone(s) is/are looking at this journal. Hello! I hope my code pleases you!

And whoever you are, don't tell my parents that I sent a protest letter to Dramcorp telling then they're fucking up our village! My parents LOVE their Dramcorp money!

Speaking of which, we're moving into our new house next week. Once again, all my stuff is packed up in boxes. I'm so sick of packing and unpacking that I think I'm going to throw away most of my stuff when we get there. I've outgrown all these stupid stuffed animals and toys anyway. I just want my computer, and the photos of the farm. I miss the farm.

Logging off.

December 24, 2017-By-Fork

It's Christmas Eve, and my parents are fighting again. They're always fighting over this stupid house.

I've never said this out loud, and I've never typed it out either but... all I want for Christmas is a friend. An IRL friend, I mean! I like my internet friends, but I can't hang out with them. I've never had an IRL friend, but I've read about friends in books, and I think I'd like it. My mom says I spend to much time on the internet but that's where my internet friends are. Is this what they call a catch 22?

I'm reading over the last entry. The photos of the farm got ruined in the move. So now all I have is the memory.

Logging off.

March 9, 2018-By-Fork

Today I got bored and walked down the highway back to Seven Monolith Village. I ran into Lora, and we actually had a fun conversation! I'd never really talked to her before, I thought she was kind of a bitch, I mean she's like always in a bad mood, but it turns out she's pretty cool. We exchanged email addresses. Maybe I'll send her the URL of this journal! Is this what having a friend feels like?

Honestly, I've been thinking that it's time to move back to 7MV. I spend most of my time there anyway, and besides, my parents are designing ANOTHER NEW HOUSE. I refuse to move with then again. I won't do it! If I'm moving, it's somewhere that I, ME, want to go. They're calling their new "estate" Dire Creek, The Terrace at Nula Ridge Estates, Vista Hill Estates, which, ugh. No thanks.

(But then I get to thinking about moving and I keep asking myself, why not just leave the Forked Earth entirely?? Why 7MV when there's an entire, NORMAL Earth where the sun rises and everyone isn't messed up in runoff all the damn time? I mean it's not like I'm ever going to find a job in 7MV, so... . !!!?!??!?!?!)

Logging off.

October 12, 2018-By-Fork

I have a secret. I'm going to hide it.

Yesterday Lora and I went to First Earth without telling our parents. We took a bus to the Strip and walked around. She showed me an Omega Mart, the store owned by Dramcorp, and when we went inside Lora stole something!!! She took a compact off the shelf and stuck in her pocket, and she said who cares, Omega Mart sucks anyway. I've always been a rule follower, but, I don't know. We walked right out of there and no one stopped us. It felt exciting. I liked that feeling.

Logging off.

February 19, 2019-By-Fork

I found a flyer in our trash can for a protest against Dramcorp and the Factory... and I went! I didn't tell my parents, they would probably be pissed if they knew I went. But there were a bunch of people there and we all gathered outside the Factory and someone even gave me some posterboard and a marker and I made a sign! It said "THE FACTORY DESTROYED MY HOME." I didn't tell anyone that I meant that literally, I think they just thought I was talking about the Desert in general. But it felt so good to be somewhere where my anger felt justified and nourished, and I got to yell, and everyone else felt the same way. Eventually Dramcorp security chased us away, but the protest still felt really important! The group invited me to another protest next month, and I'm going to go. My parents don't need to know.

I started doing some odd jobs for a few of our neighbors, and with the money I'm making I'm building a new computer! This one is so old and slow, I can barely do anything with it anymore. Maybe I'll make a website for the protest group!

I want my new computer to be as powerful as possible, so I joined a forum for people who do their own builds. There's one person there who's legit a hacker, and I'm tempted to reach out to learn some things...

Logging off.

May 28, 2019-By-Fork

The new computer lives! Oh yeah, it's fast.

Been hanging out with Lora lately. I took her to a protest in Las Vegas against Dramcorp, and I guess protesting isn't her style. She did tell me that she wants to help me fight them, but she doesn't think protesting is that effective. Like... ok, she has a point. I think protesting is more a "for me" thing than a "this is actually going to change the world" thing, but everytime I look at the Factory... I GET SO GODDAMN ANGRY. I just think about the little stream, and... ugh. It's hard.

Lora introduced me to Marin, who I sort of know through Rose but never really talked to until a couple of weeks ago. She's nice, but wow, if you could design a human being who is my exact opposite, you'd get Marin. Weirdly, she's somehow part of the Dram family?? I didn't bring I think Charlie is her uncle or something? I didn't bring up the Factory or the protests with her, I thought that would be weird.

So I guess I have IRL friends now? It was easier than I thought it would be! I still hang out on the forums, though. Oh, and that hacker? We've been in touch. I've been thinking about what Lora said, and I'm starting to think there's a more... direct way to disrupt whatever it is Dramcorp is doing.

Logging off.

June 24, 2019-By-Fork

Today I helped Marin clean up her blog. I like her, she's sweet. She's super excited to do "computer stuff" and I'm excited to help her!

So it turns out that Marin's mother is Cecelia Dram. I was hanging out in 7MV a couple weeks ago and I saw her. I so badly wanted to say something to her, to use some of the language I learned with the protest group, to tell her about the farm and the stream... but I chickened out. I couldn't do it.

Marin introduced me to Jesse, who is crazy, and I like her. She can weld, which is super cool. I'm awful at doing anything with my hands that isn't typing, so yeah, I'm impressed.

I told Lora about the hacker person, and how I'm learning how to do it, and how I want to plan something that's better than protesting. She's interested. I feel so scatterbrained. I want to do something big and important, but sometimes I look around the Desert or Seven Monolith Village and I feel very small. Like, who do I think I am? I'm nobody. I'll be trapped in this weird place forever. There's no way one small nobody trapped in the Forked Earth can make a difference in the world. But then I think, in the last year alone I've made a bunch of friends and I've learned so much. So maybe I'm onto something.

Logging off.

December 31, 2020-By-Fork

Wow, it's been over a year since I've written. I'm bad!

I'm writing this from my new home in 7MV. I'm living with Lora, and Jesse says she's going to move in with us soon. The place is small, but it already feels more like home than anywhere else since the farm.

Tomorrow is a new year. Tomorrow is a new me. No more planning. We're taking action. Last night I hacked into the library computer system and erased all my past-due debts. Don't worry, I'll donate to the fund drive. But... I'm getting better. Soon, I'll be able to handle bigger systems. Bigger security.

Here's to 2021!

Logging off.

January 5, 2021-By-Fork

Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I like to go outside in the middle of the night and just lay on the dusty ground and watch the sky. It's so weird here. It's always shifting colors. Sometimes I take it for granted. Sometimes I take the weirdness and the silence and the wideopenedness all for granted. I don't want to do that anymore. We live in a bizarre but special place that's worth protecting. It's worth it to fight the people that threatened it. It's worth it to fight for your rights and the environment's rights. No one is going to do it for us. We have to do it ourselves.

Logging off.

January 7, 2021-By-Fork

I'm looking at my analytics again, and there are even more people reading this journal now. Hello, strangers! Join us! Help us, uh, "inconvenience" Dramcorp! Help us free the Source! There wasn't always a big ugly wall around it. Once, not that long ago, the Source sustained the Forked Earth and this place was beautiful and everyone thrived. We can make that happen again, But we need your help! Join us!

Ok, I'm done proselytizing to internet strangers. Jesse wants to check her email, and Marin is literally throwing paper airplanes at my head.

Logging off.

January 12, 2021-By-Fork

Something happened. Marin is missing. Jesse is freaking out. I keep trying to figure out what happened but no one seems to know. Jesse said Marin went to the Source with Cecelia and someone else, some old man, and then only Cecelia came back.

Jesse keeps saying that there was something weird about Marin, something about her lucid dreams or something, and that's why Cecelia wanted to hurt her. I don't know anything about that, but Marin is definitely missing. We all went out last night to look for her, but we didn't find anything.

Something is up, and I'm certain Dramcorp has something to do with it, and I'm even more certain that I could find some answers on Cecelia's computer.

Logging off.

January 14, 2021-By-Fork

We still haven't found Marin. No one has heard anything. But, we found something in her room that seems like it could be a lead. She had a pamphlet for Cecelia's Leadership Ascension Track, and she'd written some notes on it, stuff about how the LAT steps seem like what she goes through when she's "glitter dreaming?" Next to the section for "Harmonizing With the Essence" (omg @ this bullshit jargon) she wrote, "I feel like I'm harmonizing with something unknown in the glitter dreams!! Like the vibrations of the harmonization are tearing something open, and I could jump through it if I wanted, but I'm scared!!!"

And then, next to "Come To Peace With the Infinite," she wrote, "I feel like if I could do this then I could wake up during dreams and actually... I don't know, jump through??"

What worries me is that it seems like the point of the LAT is to... not have a body anymore?? This seems like some truly batshit stuff, but then I'm starting to think that it's not batshit... it might be real. Back in November, Cecelia gave a LED Talk. We were there, to protest, but... there was someone on stage with her, someone invisible, and now everyone is treating the LAT like its real, and I'm afraid it might be.

Marin, what did you know? Where are you????

Logging off. Don't know when I'll be logging back on.

February 11, 2021-By-Fork

Dear Cecelia Dram,

Have you found my little journal? I hope so. I want you to understand me, and my friends, and our home. I want you to understand what you've done to hurt them, and to hurt the Forked Earth.

You didn't think word of your little stunt at the Source would get out, did you? You genuinely thought you would get away with it, didn't you? Well, guess what? Marin is one of our own. We're going to find her, and we're going to make sure your tenure as CEO is short and painful.

Oh, and that little Factory of yours? The thing that's been twisting and distorting our home for the last 14 years? That's my land. And I'm going to get it back.

You better change your passwords, Cecelia.

Logging off.

#omega mart #omega mart lore #wooow i forgot how long these can take. this one was 2.5-ish hours

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csvent-2 · 3 years ago

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Oh well here we go (Long text) This is the first time I use Tumblr so I don't know exactly how it works, I hope what I send is fine. I was looking for the other blog for this, but I saw that they closed it.

Anyway, I'm currently a member within several closed species communities, but a very inactive member.

-#1 The start:

The first time I saw a closed species I didn't understand it etc. (SFs, Nekois, other CSs I don't remember), it was around 2014 or 2015, they looked interesting but very expensive for the age I was back then, I wanted my own character of that species but it was impossible for me, I wanted to create one without the permission but after reading the rules and warnings that it could not be made clear to me that they would hurt me or harass me if I did not follow their rules, (I must clarify that I am a weak person to defend myself), since then I have I had this great fear, that I would be harassed if I created one without having their permission or a MYO, that's why I gave up hope of having any closed species in those years. But did I come back later in 2018? 2019? I don't know and I don't want to know, I finally got to enter a community of closed species (WoG) thanks to a friend, when I entered it was for a draw of a character of that CS, a lot of people participated but I didn't win, but that's fine, it's normal, by then I had saved a little money, maybe it wasn't much because I didn't have many resources but I really wanted a character from that CS and I did it , it was at the time the most expensive character I had bought ($70), I liked it and participated in activities, but oh no, my addiction to wanting more and more took over me, after making art for that character I managed to resell it for him double in order to continue buying more of the species, this escalated to a point of no return, I no longer had as much money and there were more of that species that I wanted, so one day under these effects of… addiction to buying? Idk, I took some money that didn't belong to me, no one even noticed and that's how I kept buying, ughh I stopped because I was constantly afraid that someone in the family would notice that some money was missing, thinking about it just made me upset, praying that they never found out and that's how it was, nobody really said anything and it will continue like that, because that card was canceled by another family member, after that I decided to stop, having entered my first community of closed species only made me take money that was not mine because it made me want to buy more and more since I had no other way to get characters of that species. Maybe it was impulsiveness? I do not know. And yes, I currently have a couple more characters from other closed species, some being obtained by my own hand and others through trades, but it is no longer the same as the problem of the first community of closed species that I entered.

-#2 Bewilderment:

This is part of the previous community, it bothers me that they resell such an expensive character just when its original price was much lower (and that it doesn't have extra art) because that community doesn't have rules like "don't resell it for more than the original price" well this makes it fucking hard to get one just because they resell it for more and it's like "How do you expect me to pay you $600 for a character that was previously seen to be bought for much less than that price, plus not having any extra art?" , I wanted to return to that community but damn, not anymore, the members inflate the prices when reselling them, there is no control, I feel sorry for the designers because they pay them less and those who buy them sell them for more. It was just that, I know there are people who resell characters for more than the original price and that's fine, there are designs that don't have those rules, and this sometimes makes me angry because other rules don't allow me to resell MY own character for more, It's like, why some people can and I can't? Everyone will have their own criteria when doing their T.O.S. But you see that there are other closed species where there is order in the price of their characters and I like that, order, don't cheat me by buying something expensive when it was something cheap (sorry if this part seems confusing) what I mean is that if there is a community that does have these rules I will follow them, but if another community does not have them and a member wants to resell something expensive to me when he bought it for less, I would take it as a scam.

-#3 Last time:

And so far this is my last complaint.

Years ago I decided to enter a community that I had visited in 2014-2015 (yes, one of the ones I had mentioned above), it is a species that I still love, but currently it is almost dead, anyway, I had money saved because by that time I knew that they were very expensive and very difficult to get, I was very attentive to the upload of a new adoptable of that species, every so often they made one and when reviewing other auctions I knew that I would not have one if I did not offer AB, that began to make me give horrible anxiety, what I experienced in the first community was consuming me again and my impulse to want to buy one was great.

Later, the day had come, a new adoptable of that species had been published, by that time I was so anxious that I didn't pay attention to the details of the design, I didn't care about anything, I just wanted to fill that need of wanting one at all costs, I paid for the AB as fast as I could, I was too anxious, so much so that maybe I should have thought about it clearly before and so… Days passed, I drew it, but… I stopped liking the design, that design had now become… a character that trigged-disco,fort me, I just looked at it and made me nauseous, its colors began to hurt me, I'm sorry for the person who designed it, but I feel that in the end it was not a pleasant combination, I did not know that a character could cause something of that magnitude in me, shortly after I tried to sell it for the original price and then I realized my mistake when buying it, nobody wanted it, so I had to lower its price and ended up losing a lot of money that time. So why didn't I redesign it or change what affected me? Because its rules didn't allow it, and even though it was the first one I had… honestly I feel much better without it, just thinking about what its colors were like It makes me nauseous, I'm so sorry. At least I'm still in the community, although I would like it to be more active. (Later, with the money I got from reselling it, I could have another one that I love very much to this day, but still lost much money that day)

And if I still have closed species it is because I know that at some point I will be able to sell them as an emergency, I am saving them in case something happens, so far I have not bought anything else.

And well, that was all I had to say, thanks for reading. And sorry if this vent seems different in any way? And sorry if I don't mention the full name of the CSs but I'm still afraid of harassment and besides that I'm still in one of those communities since I have some faith that it will improve… somehow. I will follow this blog in the shadows as I like to know what is happening in other CS communities!

Hope you’re doing alright, anon.

#csvent #closed species venting #no species mentioned #general cs

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suzanneshannon · 5 years ago

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Making Things Better: Redefining the Technical Possibilities of CSS

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