entranceway | [text] By The Sounding Sea: the blog of Buffy Meissonier

My name is Georgette Marie Meissonier. Buffy to my friends. I'm a licensed fiction blogger with After the End Times. I'm using text format because, frankly, the video quality on the tech here is personally offensive to me and whoever designed all of this needs to sit in a corner and think about what they've done.

But, okay, enough of the tech tangent. For now.

[ She's not done with this subject, Wonderland. Not by a long shot. But she has bigger issues than the abysmal level of tech you're all working with. You'll be hearing more about this in the future. ]

I'm a little uncomfortable with this because facts aren't my wheelhouse. I make things up. On April 17th, 2040 I legally died because of well.. the usual reasons. Viral amplification. I shouldn't be talking. I shouldn't be doing anything.

I've looked at this network and in between being appalled at your complete lack of security I've read up on things. Everything about this reads like bad fiction.

[Private to Georgia and Shaun Mason; Unhackable]

I know you're both here, I looked. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

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[ Georgia what have you done to the people here that this is the question she's been asked the most... ]

George is the queen of factual news. I'm the one who writes stories, poetry and edits all their videos and so George and Shaun look good.

Edited 2017-02-16 05:19 (UTC)

and she doesn't consider editing to be a form of lying?
it's hard to tell with her

[At this point he's mostly just being facetious. Bear with him.]

It's not a lie if I'm just splicing together footage so everything looks clean.

She's generally unbiased but she's still human. Her editorials can get mean when she's in the right mood.

never would've guessed.

[And yet bizarrely enough, he has started to warm up to her. Kinda. For...some ungodly reason.]

she just kinda gets intense about some stuff
though the way your world is i wouldn't blame her i guess

She has her reasons for that and they aren't really mine to tell.

yeah.
that's fair.

hope you don't hate the place too much i guess.

I'd rather not get fired immediately after showing up because I talked too much.

And that's a heartwarming endorsement for living in fantasy land.

fantasy is not the word most people would use
just as an fyi.

Fantasy doesn't have to mean heartwarming. It just means the impossible is happening.
We're living in genre fiction come to life.

not sure i'd call alice in wonderland fantasy so much as just
weird.

A girl tumbles into another world and has an adventure before being sent back home? It's a fantasy staple.

except the adventure reads like it was made on acid

I'm guessing you aren't a big fan of Wonderland. Are you more a Narnia sort of person?

i'm more of a "i didn't sign up for this shit" kind of person really

I don't think anyone ever signs up for ending up in... another world? I don't even know.

Edited 2017-03-03 03:39 (UTC)

guess not.
it's just that some people seem happier to be here.

[Can't say he blames them.]

People can get used to almost anything if you give them time.

Are you part of the the "happier here" group or would you rather be home?

[He's guessing "I'd rather be dead" isn't on the docket.]

no third option?

I'm always open to alternatives. What's your personal preference?

~~is "a bullet to the brain" too morbid?~~

[The moment he types it out, he deletes it, pressing the backspace key over and over until it's erased utterly. Let's not, today.

Let's not.]

find out what happens after you die 5 times

[ There's a pause as she processes that response and types out a few aborted responses before settling on something. ]

Are you okay? Is there anyone you can talk to?

i didn't say i'd take it, just that the option's out there

[That's a shitty excuse and he knows it.]

That isn't an answer. Do you have someone you can talk to?

why are you so worried?

[BECAUSE YOU WERE JUST EXPRESSING LOWKEY SUICIDAL IDEATION, TIMOTHY.]

Because I spent the last three weeks waiting to die and not having anyone to talk to only made things worse.

[ The dead girl you've been texting is worried about you, Tim. Maybe this is a sign. ]

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