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[blookmallow]

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[tellurian-in-aristasia]

Additional Thoughts on "Additional Thoughts"

It appears that Miss Sarah has been posting some very interesting musings on her time with Aristasia. You can view her blog here. Her blog states she would prefer not to be reposted, so I will respect her wishes and limit myself to very small quote snippets for context. These are all my personal thoughts and musings as well, think of them simply like blog comments, but since she doesn't have comments turned on, and doesn't want to be contacted, they're just thoughts to no one in particular. Well, I guess they are thoughts to Miss Sarah, technically.

Thoughts on the entry aptly titled "WTF?!?!?!???" in which Miss Sarah learns how many people were possibly Miss Priscilla Langridge. I have sort of come to the conclusion that every influential person in Aristasia (and associated acts) was Miss Langridge. Looking back on what we have uncovered, it seems that nearly all of this whole thing is Miss Langridge being propped up by Miss Martindale at various times, in various ways. There is one exception to this, a few ancient Madrian texts from the 1970s (and the BBC Podcast, which interviews the St. Bride's neighbors!) point towards an even more mysterious Maureen Evans who seemed to be Miss Langridge's cohort before (and after) Miss Martindale showed up. I suspect that she is the current spiritual leaderess of the Chapel at the moment, and perhaps was also during the Second Life era as well. People have said they sound very similar to each other, and maybe this is on purpose. I don't actually believe that Miss Langridge was played by multiple people, I suspect that the whole "shared personas" thing was not nearly as common as quoted, and perhaps was mostly just for published works of fiction (as in literary fiction, not just lies). I believe that the inner-Aristasians liked it when people were confused about who is who, but I think they were actually fairly firm on who was who. On Miss Langride's transness, I really can't say what I believe to be true. But I do know there are many different accounts of people coming to the independent conclusion that she was a trans woman, some believe very firmly on this and are supportive of it, others believe very firmly on this and were shocked. And yes, she would have been quite old as Cure Dolly, this has been hinted at by Aristasians of the day, as well as those who knew her later. How this went over during her vacations I do not know. She seemed very eccentric, so perhaps it was just one of many things about her.

"I realize how little I knew, and more importantly, how little I was allowed to know."

This particular quote gave me chills when I read it. It is deeply sad, in a way, that Miss Sarah was simply not allowed to know these seemingly important and basic facts, like who was who. My understanding from archived forums was that Miss Sarah seemed very involved in this era of Aristasia. And to be frank, it sucks to feel this way. To know that you're not on the inside of a very special club of people you thought you had kinship with. But maybe no one really was allowed to know this, not even the inner circles, maybe just those who were there since the beginning (Miss Martindale, Miss Langridge, and Miss Evans if she is real). The excommunication letters were only found very recently, just last year. This was a secret the Aristasians were keeping for decades. A brief reply to "A resurgence of activity at MGC?" It is quite possible that Raya Chancandre was actually Miss Evans, it is also quite possible that the role of spiritual leaderess has been taken over by Miss Evans.

A reply about Miss Sarah's influence on the Aristasian schism of the late 2000s, early 2010s. A response to the post "Did I have that much of an influence in "Bridgehead-era Aristasia"?" I don't know if this entry is directed at anything I may have said, but I have talked a lot about Miss Sarah, and her angry Tumblr posts of that era. If it is directed at me, I do not think that Miss Sarah caused the Aristasian Schism of 2013ish, I actually think that the group mostly responsible for it was the Miss Martindale Yahoo Group (archived on the internet archive, in PDF form). They seemed just as hopping mad as Miss Sarah at the backsliding into silly kawaii aesthetics and anime episode discussions, but the difference is they purchased the lapsed Aristasia domain names and vividly remembered when early Aristasian Elektraspace was selling upskirt photos and hosting spanky forum discussions and they knew how to use the Way Back Machine and started putting all that old stuff back online, right on the Aristasian domain names! If you look at the discussions in both Aristasia and the Miss Martindale Yahoo Group at the time, you can see that the Chelouranya urls were purchased and the great official rebranding happens days after their old dirty laundry is aired. I think the rebranding to Chelouranya was inevitable, but I think the antics of the Miss Martindale Yahoo Group hastened them and they were quick to officially drop the name "Aristasia". A conclusion. If you made it all the way to the end here, wow! Thank you for listening to these miscellaneous thoughts. If you made it all the way to the end here and you're Miss Sarah: I have never made it a secret that I am a fan of your criticism of Aristasia, and I even appreciate your early efforts to archive the Filianic texts, even if it seems like it's something you no longer believe in, and it's not necessarily something I've ever believed in. I would love to be able to chat with you one day, I'd love to be able to gossip with you one day too! About the things I can't necessarily just write a blog post about. As I've made it clear on this blog, I'm just a Tellurian who has been fascinated with the Aristasian subculture since back when they were still Aristasians, and was surprised to see one day to see them up and gone, and when I went looking for where they went, and what they called themselves, instead I found a weird 50 year old jumble of confusing and strange puzzle pieces.

[kafka030]

Please excuse me for this ridiculously fancy stationery, It was... the only paper left in my room.

So I've been meaning to ask:

What's your favorite food? And your least favorite?

With all due respect:

Iris

Magister Kafka: ...

(he gently picks up the fancy letter... with such delicate handwritings and reads it... Slowly... He rubs his chin... Thinking... Of what his favourite food is...)

Magister Kafka: It's alright... Miss Iris... ... This is... quite a tricky question... I am... Quite a picky eater... So... ... Nowadays... I like Sweet foods like some desserts and... Salty foods... Fully avoiding Spicy foods...

Magister Evangeline: AND I FLIPPIN' LIKE ALL OF THEM! SEND IT TO ME-- I'LL EAT IT ALL AND THOSE FOODS WILL BE THE ENERGY SOURCE FOR ME TO KICK HYPOFIENDS BUMS! AHAHAHAA--

(he almost falls from the couch when her voice is booming... Yet again... From behind him...)

Magister Evangeline: Also, ALSO-- WE LIKE TEA! AND DISLIKE LIQUOR!

Magister Kafka: ... Indeed it is...

(he nods his head and gives a small smile while she smiles brightly at her statement!)

[tellurian-in-aristasia]

From: S.A. Morrigan June 5, 2024 While I no longer actively follow whatever the chatters may be found among the detritus of the internet as

It appears as if Sarah Morrigan herself has stumbled across my post about her version of the scriptures and made a blog post to clear up some misconceptions and discuss what her place within Aristasia and, later, the independent Filianist community exactly was. I appreciate this post immensely, as I was previously only left with a few scraps of the old forum posts, book reviews by other people, and the aforementioned apology to fill in the information. So perhaps there wasn't nearly as much strife as it seemed like there was. I am also aware that Sarah Morrigan was one of the first people, in the internet age, to bring the Filianic scripture online and make it available to people. Even if it's something she no longer believes in. But, truthfully, the Aristasians/Chelouranyans/original Filianists themselves have done a lot to dissuade others from pursuing Filianism. Miss Sarah Morrigan's linked blog does point out that nearly all of those who were leaders in the earlier online Filianist movement, who fought hard to compile their versions of the scripture and learn the history and authorship are simply no longer Filianists. Their own research into what was taught at that big old house in Donegal seems to have turned them away from Filianism. If Miss Morrigan is still poking around my blog, I would love to talk to her about her time in Aristasia, if it's something she's still willing to talk about. It's no secret on my blog that I've admired her old posts, where she was so vocal about her distaste for where Aristasia went after Bridgehead. My inbox is always open.

[tellurian-in-aristasia]

The controversial Sarah Morrigan version of the Filianic Scriptures are up for viewing on archive.org. I admit to being fairly clueless about the scriptures at large, let alone the differences between the versions. But I am familiar with the strife that Miss Morrigan caused among the Filianists and Aristasians.

I do believe that she was the same Miss Iris who publicly condemned Chelouranya and the changes made to the game of Aristasia, after being a fairly important player in the early days, immediately post-Bridgehead.

For reasons that seem lost to time, it seems like in her post-Aristasia days she was Hell-bent on reviving Filianism, and truly did seem to be responsible for a pre-Eastminster boom in independent Filianism groups. What exactly went down, I'm not quite sure, but remnants of her apologies for it can still be found online. What I have gleaned seems to be that she was perhaps too competitive about starting her own branch of Filanism, to the point of attempting to squash other branches, without actually being a believer. But I wasn't there, I'm not a believer either, and I'm only left with a few pieces of the puzzle.

[tellurian-in-aristasia]

Infra-Quirinelle is sort of strange place in the world of Aristasia. It represents the first handful of years of the 1960s, before the Eclipse or Telluria's counter culture change that began to happen with The Beatles, social revolution, and the Hippie movement. In Aristasia Pura, its represented by an island off of Quirinelle. Depending upon which map you are viewing, this is either an island in the Golden Sea, or The Void. It seemed there was a little bit of rebranding and rewriting of history of Infra, post Bridgehead, where they tried to not only change the name, but imply that "Infra" is a disparaging name. You can view some conversations about that in this old blog post here. Here are some choice quotes: "It is worth noting that one of the ancient names of what is now Infraquirinelle (i.e. Lower Quirinelle, the island off the western Quirinelle coast) was Isle of Sapphire, though through a chain of sad incidents in a relative recent century caused the somewhat disparaging ‘infra’ to be in a preferred use by mainland dwellers." It is interesting to note that "Lieutenant Fiona Gregoire" is the infamous Miss Iris, who later went on to criticize the weeaboification of Aristasia and then later went on to form an independent filianist group. Here she seems to have an authority on Aristasian Pura geography, and Miss Sushuri Madonna defers to Miss Gregoire's knowledge on the subject, which is interesting because usually Miss Sushuri is one of the only ones allowed to "invent" Aristasian lore, along with the woman also known as Miss Martindale. However, this information about the island's "ancient" name was available on the Aristasian website, so perhaps Miss Gregoire is just repeating that same information, and wasn't an originator of it.

Or at least, this is what it appears, to a Tellurian tourist like myself.

[tellurian-in-aristasia]

An interesting discussion about Aristasia-in-Telluria in 2005. I believe the usernames are alternate personas of the following: Lady Aquilla: Miss Marianne Martindale, the most well-known whip-wielding mistress of them all Princess Mushroom: Sushuri Madonna, Miss Priscilla Langridge, Cure Dolly, Miss Falconer, prolific authoress of many Aristasian and Pre-Aristasian works of spirituality and fiction Sarah-Andrea: The infamous Miss Iris, who spoke out against the weeabooification of late 2000's Aristasia, then who later went on to found her own independent branch of Filianism, then step down after admitting she only did it to cause strife.

There are just so many interesting people in this single forum post!

[blookmallow]

so a really long time ago i intended to do a series of antis and their origins but i never got around to it 

here’s iris and christina, i may or may not get around to doing the others :’)

christina’s probably not ever going to show up in canon, she’s completely uninvolved with iris and refuses to acknowledge her existence at all and iris is the same toward her