We finally joined the plurality chat on IRC, yay! It's good times talking with the people there. However, to keep track of who's who everyone puts their system name in their username. And it's making us really realize we don't like our name all that much. We've been wanting to change it for years but no one has been able to agree on anything better. We want to change it to just one word. I like Ethos (first used as the title of my comic and the band it was about), and a few people like that too, but we don't have a consensus yet. Any suggestions?

~Sati

in the glitter in the light
in and out
it's watching
spinning on tracts into the room lock the door we can't leave
the inside is in the outside tonight it is here we just have to find it
come take the soft fabric off from me silky lavender
remove it from the beast
the feels of fear can transcened that tomb
and now perhaps we just wait
keys and locks to get the music playing
it's all very important
we can't leave without this
plastic garbage
in piles here
there must be a way
shes right over there
watching
asking about you
the large fruit is spilling over
it's not from the right place. they just want to help
they want to know your world, your status
they don't believe us
the trees the cherries I see them but she's watching we need them in bags
fresh pine netting
to collect and store
the battle was difficult be we won
but now our land must be rebuild
these machines are so heavy... drags my head apart

Well, we haven't posted here in a while but we're doing alright! We anonymously contacted our psychology professor to let her know about us and invited her to ask questions to learn more about multiplicity. And she did! How wonderful! We are quite delighted to have such an open-minded professor. It is doubtful that we will reveal our identity to her, as we are not "out" on campus. But it still feels so nice to share things about ourselves to people who are in a position to educate others.

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Shiori has been waiting for a person who can be her friend, and who she can trust. She has been depressed lately and feeling lonely. She wants a special friend who she can trust with her most precious secret - her name. For whatever reason, she doesn't allow anyone outside the system to know what her real name is, and even in-system we only call her Shiori. But she wants to tell someone on the outside her name. She wants to be able to open up and give this part of herself to someone... It's sad. I don't think she'll ever find this person, but maybe some day she'll have a friend.

<.Daz.>

Something happened last night, in the A3 group's part of the world. It spilled over into ours for a bit. I can't give details, but it's very unsettling and a bit frightening. Oliver warned us that it would happen days ago, and tried to prepare... we weren't ready. A few people from the outside came and joined us, and they'll be staying with us for a little while. We're all a bit shaken up, but I think things will be alright.

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ok so today was SO AWESOME!! we went to the air and space museum and omg it was sooo cool!! all the planes and spaceships were SO SWEET! i was all omg lets go here, no lets go here! i got to do a simulator and toured a space shuttle and oh man, it was so cool. i wanted to buy astronaut icecream but they wouldn't let me. lame!! oh well, it was still awesome!

**SERIN**

Tomorrow will be a group outing into the city! I plan on letting Serin drive for a bit, he hasn't been out in a while. Hopefully we wont get too carried away with shopping - I'd say I'll try to keep us in check, but I'm guilty of overspending too sometimes. Also, we may have discovered where Sophie comes from, but it might just be a coincidence. I'll post more if/when we find out anything else.

-G

last night i was feeling... i do not know how to describe it, but it was... not good. shaky. off. not... right somehow. shi tried to convince me it was because our blood was restless, and that it needed to be let out... it is a strange thing, but, it has worked before. her logic, i mean. it has convinced me. but, that was years before, and i was able to resist this time. so no harm was done. the feeling did leave me... unsettled, perhaps. i do not like it.

.shiori

what are you waiting for
what are you waiting for written in the notebook
there are clues
to find ourselves
this may be fun
pulled apart over there theres too many here there too many here
i'll meet you half way
back against the stone walls
we can't breach the perimeter
you'll have to come here
can you manage it?
it can be done
join us, we'll have a room waiting for you
a room of light
we all live that way
feather on the sill
the sky never changes
not purple spoons
have to get imported
everything on your desk
time for a vector upgrade
what would you use it for?
the ring is... no one can undertand
in the jail cell the bars are made of cookies filled with cream
to not go back is frighening
sleep time, oliver signing out

i've been thinking about coming out... maybe... but i am afraid. already, one of us is disliked by an outside friend... i do not think i could handle rejection again. i have no confidence at all... i speak too softly... surely i would be disliked as well. i do not want to be perceived as frightening... that would hurt too much.

.shiori

Well, we talked it over and all is good now. I still want a cigarette though. Hmm!

-G

So I try to be a good big brother and look out for my little sis, and for what? She gets fucking pissed at me. Fuck that shit, yo. I do so much for that girl it's not even funny. I even quit smoking for her (and, omg, I want to start again but I WILL RESIST. Yes.) Oh well.

-G

lift the cone don't you see anything there's a little red string there the earth wasn't birthing a strong current
mysteriuosly doomed in the picnic stop being such a dick grape vines
riding around upside down trees oranges in the trees overhead the police are here
I don't want to play around with you ear shineres that's gross hoarding those balls in the bathroom waht are you going to do with them
hospital seems empty where are all the staff where did everyone go
an extra blanket fine but were are the people
fee fi fo fum a giant calls
above the table looking down
are you high my dear?
ask the maiden to dance
I wasn't about to hit her, you need a velvet touch
death at th etop of a rock
the rock swings and knocks off the next person
they line up to die
I sneak away, not my turn yet
what is the opposite of home?
shattered in the light the yellow bliding
rebuilt on the colors
the stream was there in a dream, it's still cool
destroyed and rebuilt
the wall surrounding us is far away
the stones old and cracked
but we've never gotten close
never tempted it
what's on the other side
we wonder this
there is a castle on a hill
that is where the dark one calls her home
but down here
it is beautiful
lost here so many times before
come to be the things of nightmares
looking for the right peron to help
I need a sword
the barrier could be breached and we must protect it
I sall take on that task
tedious resticting
over and out
a crackly voice am i such an emergency blow
we can't undrstand
bags of blood sorted by type
time for sleep, oliver signing out

Also, while out today I was told that I sound like a dude. Huzzah! That was a most excellent compliment as our body is female and rather feminine at that.

-G

So today I got to come out and actually be myself for the first time in... what? 2 years? More or less. I was nervous as fuck but I gotta tell you, it was a nice experience. Maybe next time I'll be able to relax more, and "be myself" as it were. We shall see.

-G

3 previously unknown residents have been discovered! On behalf of the group I'd like to welcome Oliver, Daniel, and Sophie. We don't know much about them yet, except for their epithets: The Creator, The Destroyer, and The Lover (respectively). Very interesting!


<.Daz.>

Hello, and welcome to our new journal! This is a new place for members of The Saturn System to write about our lives.


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