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Archiving Aristasia

It appears that the Filianic Studies website is down again, but I've been back to working on uploading the Madrian Literature Circle pdfs to the internet archive. I have also stumbled across a large assortment of older web pages, saved as pdfs sometime in 2012 or 2013. A few of them were corrupted files, but the rest I have uploaded in one big, messy, file on the internet archive. This is a combination of pages from the old Aristasian Encyclopedia as well as saved forum discussions. I'm not sure who saved these originally, as they appear to have been archived in 2012, but they appear to have been later used by the Filianists who were involved in the Filianic Studies website and in research on their Eastminster editions. You can view the archive here.

You can view the Madrian Literature Circle papers I have uploaded here.

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Stewardess and other -ess words

Q: How did English, a fundamentally nongendered language, get the word “stewardess,” a gendered term that’s now being replaced in our gender-sensitive era by the unisex “flight attendant”? What’s wrong with using “steward” for both sexes?

A: We’ll have more to say later about the old practice of adding “-ess” to nouns to feminize them. As we’ve written before on the blog, the current trend is in the other direction.

Modern English tends to favor the original, gender-free nouns for occupations—words like “mayor,” “author,” “sculptor,” and “poet” in place of “mayoress,” “authoress,” “sculptress,” “poetess,” and so on.

But first let’s look at “stewardess,” which is probably a much older word than you think.

It first appeared in writing in 1631 to mean a female steward (that is, a caretaker of some kind), and it was used for hundreds of years in caretaking, managerial, or administrative senses.

Only in later use did “stewardess” come to mean a female attendant on a ship (a sense first recorded in 1834), a train (1855), or a plane (1930).

“Stewardess” was of course derived from the gender-free noun “steward,” which is very old.

The Oxford English Dictionary dates written evidence of “steward” (stigweard in Old English) back to 955 or earlier, and notes that it was created within English, not derived from other sources.

“The first element is most probably Old English stig,” which means “a house or some part of a house,” Oxford says, noting that the Old English stigwita meant “house-dweller.”

In its earliest uses, the word meant someone who manages the domestic affairs of a household, and it later took on more official and administrative meanings in business, government, and the church.

The femininized “stewardess,” defined in the OED as “a female who performs the duties of a steward,” was first recorded in The Spanish Bawd, James Mabbe’s 1631 translation of a “tragicke-comedy” by Fernando de Rojas:

“O variable fortune … thou Ministresse and high Stewardesse of all temporal happinesse.”

We might be tempted to attribute that example to rhyme alone. But we found two more appearances of “stewardesse” in a religious work that was probably written in 1631 or earlier and was published in 1632.

These come from Henry Hawkins’s biography of a saint, The History of S. Elizabeth Daughter of the King of Hungary. Because Elizabeth gave her fortune to the poor, the author refers to her as God’s “trusty Stewardesse &; faithfull Dispensatress of his goods” and “this incomparable Stewardesse of Christ.”

Until the early 19th century, “stewardess” continued to be used in the various ways “steward” was used for a man. For example, the OED cites an 1827 usage by Thomas Carlyle in German Romance: “She was his … Castle-Stewardess.” (The book is an anthology of German romances, and the example is from an explanatory footnote by Carlyle.)

But as the old uses of “stewardess” died away, a new one developed. People began using “stewardess” in the 1830s to mean (like “steward” before it) a woman working aboard a ship.

The OED defines this use of “stewardess” as “a female attendant on a ship whose duty it is to wait on the women passengers.”

The earliest example we’ve found is from an 1834 news article about a shipwreck that left only six people alive, a passenger named Goulding and five crew members:

“Mr. Goulding and the stewardess floated ashore upon the quarter deck.” (From the Oct. 16, 1834, issue of a New York newspaper, the Mercury.)

The OED’s earliest citation is a bit later: “Mrs. F. and I were the only ladies on board; and there was no stewardess” (from Harriet Martineau’s book Society in America, 1837).

The use of the word in rail travel came along a couple of decades later. We found this example in a news account of a train wreck:

“A train hand, named Miller, had his leg broken above the ankle, and seemed much injured. Margaret, the stewardess of the train, was likewise bruised.” (From the Daily Express of Petersburg, Va., Oct. 30, 1855.)

Soon afterward, on July 29, 1858, a travel article in the Wheeling Daily Intelligencer in West Virginia noted that on the Petersburg & Weldon Railway, a “stewardess travels with each train to wait on the lady passengers—serve ice water to them—hold their babies and other baggage occasionally.” (Note the reference to “babies and other baggage”!)

The earliest example we’ve found of “stewardess” meaning an aircraft attendant appeared in the New York Times on July 20, 1930. The reporter describes firsthand his experience aboard a flight from San Francisco to Chicago:

“And then there is Miss Inez Keller, stewardess or rather traveling hostess. The Boeing system has solved the problem of looking after the passengers by putting girls on all the liners.”

Later that year, an Australian newspaper ran this item: “A successful trial flight was made with the finest and largest passenger air liners in the world, each having luxurious accommodation for 38 passengers, with smoking saloon two pilots, steward and stewardess.” (From the Western Herald, Nov. 18, 1930.)

The OED’s first example appeared the following year in a photo caption published in United Airlines News (Aug. 5, 1931): “Uniformed stewardesses employed on the Chicago-San Diego divisions of United. The picture shows the original group of stewardesses employed.”

Oxford defines the newest sense of “stewardess” this way: “A female attendant on a passenger aircraft who attends to the needs and comfort of the passengers.” It adds that the word also means “a similar attendant on other kinds of passenger transport.”

This brings us to the larger subject—the use of the suffix “-ess” to form what the OED calls “nouns denoting female persons or animals.”

The ancestral source of “-ess,” according to etymologists, is the Greek -ισσα (-issa in our alphabet), which passed into Late Latin (-issa), then on into the Romance languages, including French (-esse).

In the Middle Ages, according to OED citations, English adopted many French words with their feminine endings already attached, including “countess” (perhaps before 1160), “hostess” (circa 1290), “abbess” (c. 1300), “lioness” (1300s), “mistress” (c. 1330), “arbitress” (1340), “enchantress” (c. 1374), “devouress” (1382), “sorceress” (c. 1384), “duchess” (c. 1385), “princess” (c. 1385), “conqueress” (before 1400), and “paintress” (c. 1450).

Some other English words, though not borrowed wholly from French, were modeled after the French pattern, like “adulteress” (before 1382) and “authoress” (1478).

And in imitation of such words, “-ess” endings were added to a few native words of Germanic origin, forming “murderess” (c. 1200); “goddess” (some time before 1387), and obsolete formations like “dwelleress” and “sleeresse” (“slayer” + “-ess”), both formed before 1382.

As the OED explains, writers of the 1500s and later centuries “very freely” invented words ending in “-ess,” but “many of these are now obsolete or little used, the tendency of modern usage being to treat the agent-nouns [ending] in –er, and the nouns indicating profession or occupation, as of common gender, unless there be some special reason to the contrary.”

Some of the dusty antiques include “martyress” (possibly 1473), “doctress” (1549), “buildress” (1569), “widowess” (1596), “creditress” (1608), “gardeneress” (before 1645), “tailoress” (1654), “farmeress” (1672), “vinteress” (1681), “auditress” (1667), “philosophess” (1668), “professoress” (1744), “chiefess” (1778), “editress” (1799), and “writeress” (1822).

Still seen, though rapidly going out of fashion, are “hostess” (c. 1290), “authoress” (1478), “poetess” (1531), “heiress” (1656), and “sculptress” (1662).

Of the few such occupational words that are still widely used, perhaps the most common are “actress” (1586) and “waitress” (c. 1595). These “-tress” endings, the OED says, “have in most cases been suggested by, and may be regarded as virtual adaptations of, the corresponding French words [ending] in -trice.”

In conclusion, “stewardess” was created at a time—in the 1600s—when English writers created all sorts of what the OED calls “feminine derivatives expressing sex.” It was also a time when educated English speakers regarded their native tongue as inferior to French and Latin, the gendered languages that were the lingua franca of nobles, clergy, and scholars.

Now “stewardess,” like so many of those feminized nouns, is rapidly becoming obsolete. But unlike the others, it hasn’t been replaced by a unisex “steward.”

Why? We don’t know the answer. But for whatever reason, as “stewardess” has fallen out of favor it’s taken “steward” down with it—at least in reference to air travel.

The usual replacement, “flight attendant,” showed up in the late 1940s, and passed “stewardess” in popularity in the late 1990s, according to Google’s Ngram Viewer.

The earliest example we’ve found for “flight attendant” is from the Jan. 26, 1947, issue of the Santa Cruz, Calif., Sentinel about a Hong Kong plane crash in which all four people were killed:

“The company listed those aboard as Capt. O. T. Weymouth, an American pilot, and a crew of three Filipinos, including Miss Lourdes Chuidian, flight attendant.”

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How Other Researchers Can Help

I got a question about this a few days back, and I've been thinking about it a bit more. The more people researching Chelouranya, Aristasian, Romantia, and Lux Madriana the merrier. And there are certainly some things that exist out there in Tellurian that I just can't get my hands on, due to the fact I don't live on the same continent. I would definitely suggest making a Tumblr side blog and just adding the appropriate tags and tossing whatever you find out into the ether. If you tag it with Aristasia, I'll certainly see it.

The following list will hopefully be helpful in finding those lost bits of history, both for digital researchers, as well as researchers in the real word (the physical, right-now, tellurian real world, not the other type), I will perhaps be updating it new things to find are discovered to be findable:

❧ Finding archives of lost websites, or even fragments of websites and forum discussions that are still online.

❧ Even just digging through the archives of known Aristasian websites for interesting bits of discussion is useful! If you don't know where to start, the archived Aristasian Preservation Project page is a good place.

❧ If you're in the UK, there's still hope that some old Madrian literature is out there, gathering dust in used book stores. Even if you're not in the UK, we know for a fact we know for a fact that many of their publications were sent all over the world!

❧ If you're near Glasgow, there is the Glasgow Woman's Library that has the full Artemis run. They're currently unable to digitize it, but allow researchers to view their archive in person, and are fine with you making copies of snapping photos of pages (at least they were the last time I messaged them!). You could be the heroine that puts these volumes online for the first time ever!

❧ If you're in the US, and have access to a college library, there are a handful of colleges that have Artemis listed in their LGBT+ archives. These may be the already archived copies (vol 5 and 6), or they may not be, it's hard to tell from just the online listings.

❧ The more eyes looking for related books, magazines, and even news broadcasts the better. The following media have been mentioned before, in some relation to Aristasia, but no known copies are archived online, or readily available to be purchased. These may have useful information, or it may just be a rehash of what we know already. We simply have to find them first to discover that: ➳➳ Joanne Carminhow, The Light of the Goddess: Lux Madriana

➳➳ Original Rhennish language copy of The Crystal Tablet

➳➳ March 1982's Behind The Veil broadcast

➳➳ 1988's Issue 9 of Odin magazine with an article by Wolfheim Coll, who was the lone male of the original 4 Madrian founders.

➳➳ The Chap magazines from September 2004 through Bridgehead in late 2005, where Miss Martindale apparently had an advice column.

➳➳ Any of the Miss Martindale TV appearances from the mid-to-late 1990s.

➳➳ Any of the number of cassette tapes they sold in the late 1980s and 1990s. These had a number of different names, such as "Imperial Home Service" "Audio Dreams" and "A Feminine Journey". I would be willing to take a chance bet that any of these tapes would have one of their BM Elegance/Labrys/Perfect London forwarding addresses printed on the label, so it would be easy to spot, even if it had a different name.

❧ There are also some much more vague periodicals out there that may, possibly, mention the girls from Aristasia because they previously were mentioned in similar magazines, so it's worh poking around if you happen to stumble across any of the following:

➳➳ British computer game magazines from about 1984-1987 that may feature interviews with any of the St. Bride's girls.

➳➳ Pagan or Goddess magazines published in Oxford from 1975-1977ish that may mention the beginnings of Lux Madriana

➳➳ Hebden Bridge newspapers from 1981-1982 when there were several Madrian households in Hebden Bridge and they frequently appeared in local newspapers.

➳➳ Late 1970s to early 1980s new age, feminist, and pagan resource listings. Many of the different projects that Lux Madriana can be found in these.

➳➳ Late 1980s to late 1990s fetish and alternative lifestyle resource listings. This appeared to be the start of their active, not just accidental, involvement in the fetish scene. It's rumored that they advertised their services in the late 90s in adult magazines, and we can find evidence of them advertising such things during the Wildfire Club era.

If you're doing digital searches, there's a seemingly infinite list of search terms that will bring up results that may be related, and these include the unusual nom de plums used by the Madrians, the known phone numbers and addresses they used in their advertisements and published correspondence, as well as unusual terms that they frequently used. At some point I will make a list of some of the terms I search for.

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I’ve been digging deeply into the history of Lux Madriana lately, and have found some particularly interesting things that I hope I’m allowed to report on very soon.

Previously, I had found the idea that they were able to start an electricityless occult community based on a fictionalized history of the world, and were able to maintain that a fairly large and wide-spread community throughout the 1970s, quite far fetched. I mean, I knew they did it, I didn’t believe that that part of it was fictitious. But it still seemed like an impossible task.

But, the more I learned about Lux Madriana, the more I learned about the spiritual landscape of the UK in the 1970s, and I learned that Lux Madriana was just one of many such groups. They weren’t even the only matriarchal spiritual group at the time! To me, this made things make a lot more sense.

In the next few days I hope to be able to share some findings, in their entirety, although they are only a few pieces of paper. If I’m unable to do so (as I need to get permission from a library to share the source), I’ll be sharing as much as I am able to about Lux Madriana’s history and their relationship to the larger UK pagan community.

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I have 53 posts in my drafts! Some of them are just duplicates of posts I've already made, but many of them aren't. I'm perhaps going to work on posting some of them.

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The Many Names of Miss Martindale

To answer the anon message I got just recently: Yes indeed! I am aware of the former Miss Martindale's name and her current projects, I allude to one of them in this old "Condensed Timeline of Aristasia" post, but I do actively try to avoid saying her mundane Tellurian name on my blog. At this point, I think it's just superstition on my part! Her name can be, fairly easily, found in some of the other modern articles about Aristasia, the one about their video game company on Flexible Head is a particularly good one, for those who are curious.

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New Year's Resolution

My New Year's resolution is to read through all of the Coming Age magazines, as well as the Romantia publications, as much as I dislike those. I have skimmed through large portions of both, but much of what I read was before I understood some concepts of either. Reading through them straight, knowing what I know now, should hopefully make it a more interesting read. As always, I will share any interesting bits I find and perhaps make some brief summaries of each issue.

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Aristasia is long gone, even if traces of it still remain today in a few dedicated individuals or among the Filianic faith, but browsing through the late 2000s and early 2010 forum archives, I can't help but wonder what form Aristasia would take if it was around today. Oddly enough, they were always on the cutting edge when it came to technology, from their days of creating computer games in the 80s, to their embassies in Second Life and wholly embracing the virtual world, to the proto-Vtuber of Cure Dolly teaching the world Japanese with a 3D avatar and voice changing software, even to their masculiminated video editing to make up-to-date Tellurian videos more in line with their visions of Aristasia. I can't help but wonder what they would think of the advances in modern tech if they were still around, and just as dedicated to carving out their niche in Telluria, today. Would they use AI software to their advantage to create wholly unique visions of Aristasia Pura? Would they use the same AI software used to make retro parody songs to make songs about Blondes and Brunettes in love in Aristasia and hymns to Dea? Would they use Vtuber software to host online sermons, or even just to stream Aristasia-approved light games on Twitch?

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I'm trying to catch up with this today! As i only managed to catch the first 40 minutes or so while it was live. It seems very well researched and seems to cover the Rhennish/Lux Madriana days pretty extensively. I believe part 2 will be about their online activity.

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I come bearing a small mountain of old newspaper article clippings about the mysterious ladies from Aristasia. I'll be adding them to the queue over the course of today and tomorrow.

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This is a scan of an article from 1987's Your Computer Magazine called "Ding Dong Belles" about the upcoming Jack the Ripper game by the game mistresses at St. Bride's. This is of note because it's similar to the Spanish language gaming article from the same year in that it shares a similar unusual bit regarding who's who at St. Brides.

This section is clearly talking about Miss Langridge, who is undoubtedly the masked woman who was frequently shown in newspaper's by Miss Martindale's side, who also has a mention. But it also names Jenny Faulkener, and also calls her "Languid But Deadly", the same as the Spanish language magazine does. Since I first found this magazine, I've since listened to the BBC podcast about St. Bride's School, which reveals that the computer games of the 80s weren't created by Miss Langridge and Miss Martindale, but Miss Langridge and a mysterious Miss Evans, who the presenter, doing much more homework than I'm even capable of doing, says was an equally shy woman who lived at the school. There seems to be first hand accounts that this woman was both real, and a separate person from Miss Langridge. Was Miss Evan's the mysterious Miss Faulkener? The woman who's credited as starting all of Aristasia's endeavors with her creative story telling and wit? Whom Mary spoke of with fondness up until the end of the days of Aristasia? Whom even Miss Langridge mentions by name, and says she calls "Jennypops"? I'm going to maybe make a bold stance and say: nope. I believe that Miss Faulkner and Miss Langridge were one-and-the-same. I believe that she was a different persona of Miss Langridge, and that is why she's sometimes referred to has "a friend", or otherwise referred to as a different person. even by Miss Langridge. Because to the Aristasians, she was a different person. Even in this very article we see Miss Scarlett being mentioned as a separate individual from Miss Martindale, the Spanish language version of this even referring to pictures of the woman who used to be Miss Martindale as Miss Scarlett.

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I've recently added a contact page to this Tumblr blog, because I realize it may perhaps be difficult to contact me if you don't have your own Tumblr page, or simply don't care for Tumblr's messaging system. The contact page includes my elektrapost address as well, if you prefer to contact me that way, as well as my Wordpress (work in progress) mirror of this blog, if you would prefer to leave comments there. I am particularly interested in hearing stories from former Aristasians, or friends of Aristasians, even if you just hung around their embassy in Second Life or posted occasionally in their forums. I would love to add your story to these archives, even if you think perhaps your memories are mundane and uneventful. There is no need to share with me which persona you inhabited in the world of Aristasia if you do not wish to do so. You are quite welcome to tell your story anonymously. I'm dying to hear from you!

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Today is the first day of the Filanic year! If you are using the Aristasian/Chelouranya style of dating, I believe this is year 3345? But I always get incredibly confused about this style of dating and have to reference old calendars and second-guess myself.

Culverine 1 - Eastre (March 21)

Eastre is the Filianic New Year, the day when the year rolls over and a new calendar starts. Which, confusingly enough for a Tellurian like me, is on March 21st and coincides with their version of Easter. Filianic Eastre appears to be a similar concept to the Christian Easter. It's both a celebration of the coming of Spring, as well as a celebration of the resurrection of God. While the Christian mytho tells of Jesus getting crucified on Good Friday and raising from the dead on Easter Sunday, Filianic Easter tells of the Daughter descending into the underworld on the last day of the year (March 19th) and returning on March 21st. You may have noticed there is a missing date between those two, that day is Hiatus, the day outside of the 13 month, 28 day Filianic calendar, this is the day she was in the underworld. You can read more about Filianic Eastre here: https://web.archive.org/web/20220115183742/http://www.mother-god.com/easter.html https://aristasia.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/the-first-day/ The Eastminster Critical Edition has the following to say about Eastre

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Hmm just thinking about creating a little Aristasia-in-Tumblaria colony of racinated blogs.

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Your humble editress is usually quick to say "No, of course Aristasia wasn't a cult!", usually. But sometimes, I feel as if perhaps it was a bit too close to being a cult for comfort. It definitely varied from what you normally might think of as a cult, in that they didn't really recruit, and they usually played all their weird cards first thing, right out on the table. They didn't keep their strange secrets until after you were already invested in them, they wanted everyone to know, right up front, that they were aliens in exile. But maybe not in so many words. They were, of course, very happy to cozy up to girls who shared their interest, and see who were willing to to play their game (see Operation Roriita and their Femmekin/Otherkin blogging), but once they hooked you with their weird ideas, they didn't seem to want anything from you beyond your willingness to engage in long-term life theatre with them. Of course, it's also apparently true that certain girls, with certain positions of power, have allegedly used their spiritual and social power to act out what seems like obvious kinks (viewing it from this century, with what we understand now about kinks, even if it is just a bongo Tellurian's understanding) against seemingly unwilling members of their community who apparently were willing to subject themselves to such treatment because they apparently were lead to believe it was done for spiritual reasons. Maybe it was printed in bongo tabloids, but the events certainly seemed to transpire, one way or another.

To make a long post even longer, I would like to go through many of these and speak a little about my thoughts on them.

Chanting Chanting is used within the religious aspect of Aristasia/Chelouranya, but the religious side was never particularly pushed to any real degree. Instill guilt about not living up to potential This seems to be something that comes up a bit when ex-Aristasians (particularly of the Second Life era) tell their stories, and mostly it relates to feeling guilty that they're not really living a racinated life outside of the internet. No happiness outside of group The idea that the rest of the world was in an eclipse, and the world outside of Aristasian hearths was The Pit is a big one. Almost everything about the modern world was deemed disgusting. Forbid critical questions about leader The leaders (if that is what you could call Miss Martindale and Miss Langridge) had so many different personas it was almost impossible for them to have answered any critical questions about them. It's very possible that whole people have been invented, for the purpose of deflecting questions about who really founded Aristasia. Information deliberately withheld Now this is one that doesn't seem to actually have been a thing. Aristasians seemed to play all of their strange cards right at once. They wanted you to know they were aliens. If you didn't like that, you were free to leave. When, how, and with whom you have sex dictated While Aristasians generally didn't seem to care about your relationships outside of the group, it was indeed stated that if you were to be a full, inner circle, Aristasian, you were expected to give up relationships with em-ee-en. The old Artemis zines also have a lot to say about how intimacies between women shouldn't be regarded as "sex", and that "sex" should mean gender. So there is a lot of redefining what sex even entails in Aristasia, and more importantly, what is and isn't sexual. Which has lead to some behavior that is distinctly sexual in Tellurian life being regarded as nonsexual within Aristasia. This blurring of lines between sexual and non-sexual has lead to, to put it very lightly, misunderstandings. Encourage only good and proper thoughts This seems to be largely a Chelouranya idea, but encouraging their members to always be sweet and happy was important. Some emotions deemed evil See above, and also see this old Poppitops comics. Outsider vs insider doctrines Aristasians vs the rest of the world was a central theme to their lifestyle. There were a number of names for non-Aristasians, and even different Aristasian words for mundane objects. It was generally regarded by Aristasians that there was a war on, and they were fighting for the winning side. Instill fear of outside world See above. Control information at different levels within group This is something that they didn't really practice. While there was definitely the idea of inner and outer circle Aristasians, there seemed to be no secret information that would be revealed to the inner circle. New name/identity Creating a new identity was a central core of being Aristasian. If you decided to use your Tellurian name, you were at the very least encouraged to choose if you were a Blonde or a Brunette. Many Aristasians had many different names, identities, and even sexes. Distort information to make it acceptable There was a lot of information bending within Aristasia. Reading Aristasian musings often feels like it's very obvious that they're working backwards from whatever point they're trying to make to make it fit around their world views. This ranges greatly from science denial (for there's no belief in evolution in Aristasia) to their own history revision (They only ever got involved with all that Silly Monkey stuff to make money to fund their embassies, but also what they did wasn't Silly Monkey stuff anyways, because, remember, what they did wasn't sexual) Impose buddy system This one is a little bit vague, but pairing up blondes and brunettes or forming communal households was always a priority with Aristasians.

So, while it may seem like this Bingo card has a lot of marks, I still don't necessarily think that Aristasia or Chelouranya was a cult. I think that it was potentially a very toxic community, with some toxic views, run by some girls who maybe were not suited for running a community, members were free to leave if their faith in the game wavered, were not really expected to give up anything besides aesthetics, and were not actively recruited. However, I was never part of any Aristasian circles, so perhaps I'm very wrong about this.

I would like to make special note that I'm speaking strictly of the Aristasia that later transformed into Chelouranya, and not at all about the Filianic, Madrian, or Deanic religious community, which have made much effort over the decades to distance themselves from whatever Miss Martindale and Miss Langridge were doing after about 1982.

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I have always considered myself a Brunette, but perhaps I was a Blonde all along, because I just realized that, while I had several mirrored posts up, I never actually published this wordpress blog! But the website is currently up, with a few posts from here, there. I hope to get the bulk of this Tumblr up, with better tagging, over the next few weeks. Now, I'm off to find a big pink ribbon to tie around my wrist so everyone knows how Blonde I really am.

With the news of Tumblr being on shaky ground (as it has been for over a decade, really), I am working on mirroring large portions of this blog to a Wordpress blog, as a more permanent home. I'm doing so because the Wayback Machine doesn't do a great job of saving images from Tumblrs, and most of my posts are screenshots. Mostly I'm just copy/pasting large amounts of text and media from here to there, but some things are being condensed into single posts and I'm being a bit more deliberate with my tags so it will, hopefully, be easier to search once I get it up and functioning.