Sara deserves a lot more credit than i think we've given her for being the first one to want to express herself as an individual - not as a member of the Outlands Community - on the internet. Accordingly she set herself up on MySpace as Sara Synaptical and had a lot of fun...for about two months. When "Tom" sold out to Rupert Murdoch the place went totally to the dogs and she left, Stro left, leaving Llam, Seima and myself, but myself as representing the Community.

In expressing herself as she did in those days she was slutty, raunchy and terrifically funny by turns, and the material that consists of the "Succubus FAQ" over at the Succubi Girls originally saw the light of day there. Next to go was Stro Moon Daglo but as a musician, and he had garnered quite a number of other musicians on his page. When I got onto Blogger as Morion, Sara followed suit down the road, then Terrence Ausweiler. Meanwhile Stro set up house over at Getablog, followed by Irlene Davis, Joan of Arc and as of late, Reth. Michael Archontas set Himself up at Phlog.net, where last night a post that he worked on for seventy-five minutes disappeared; the Community has its Everybody book at Fotopages, and Llam has his at the same place. Then SonShon got into Xanga the other day. I have a journal, sort of anonymous, at a well-known blog-host, and we have one in reserve at MyOwnJournal, which seems like a clone of MySpace. By the way, Reth listed a fairly comprehensive list of URLs at his blog the other day.

For me personally I can see how it has changed us. We are certainly no longer insular as a Community, and Sara was the first to assert herself as a striking and forceful personality apart from the Community and apart from our relationship. This was scary for the both of us at times - she's laughing as I write - because when you get "out in the world" you very naturally see your home differently. And the people in it. But I must say, no-one has turned into a stranger, or ego-maniac, or turned on us and left.

Irlene I think is the most prominent example of how the changes beong in the world have affected us. She left here as a little girl with two other little girls, along with Hurrain, and when she comes back now for a visit, which she did the other day, she is a grown woman and something of a neurophilosopher as well, she can eaasily go on about neural pathways and energy-waves in the water, about different brains in different species; I don't think she could tell everything that she's come to know in the last six months. And, y'know? YOU hang out with dolphins and be in telepathic communication with them for six months, your brain would be different also. At least you'd be using it differently!

My experience of the Community members has changed as well. As we grew we were all packed into one little mental space - my head - which periodically got dosed with LSA and LSHA until the boundaries opened, or the gate got cracks...and Sara leaaked out. I was intimately aware of the presence of virtually everyone here, which was interesting...but I was drowning in the closeness, and to be honest, wasn't aware of it. When I see any of them now, they are very definitely individuals, and not cocooned or nascent or anything. Marraket is running around all over the world. "Kathy," one of our few non-terrestials, is combing this part of the universe for other sentient life-forms - as if there aren't a number here! (cetaceans, equids, corvids) Dor is still seemingly nascent but Alfedas recently indicated that he is communicating with us...we just do not know WHAT he is communicating, or how, for that matter. I know them know them all as people now, which is what I wanted, not fearing that I would never have the time to do that before I died. It just seems that every day, someone wants to say something. I got my latest chance to be Original Thinker when Naseni unwittingly got me going last week. And Michael Archontas indiciated that he is ready to go at it again at Phlog - which means I shall close and let him get going. Roy out.

Oh yeah - Michael is at http://phlog.net/user/michaelarchontas