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| hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny Everywhere]] | | hero(es)= [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny Everywhere]] | ||
| villain(s)= [[ARCHONET]]<br>[[Queen of Faerie|The Queen of Faerie]]<br>[[Wild Hunt|The Wild Hunt]] | | villain(s)= [[ARCHONET]]<br>[[Queen of Faerie|The Queen of Faerie]]<br>[[Wild Hunt|The Wild Hunt]]<br>[[Rider (The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)|The Rider]]<br>[[Archondroid]]s<br>[[Limbo-Wraith (The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)|The Limbo-Wraith]] | ||
| featuring= [[Laura Drake#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Laura Drake]]<br>[[Michael Moorcock|Moorcock]], [[Alan Moore|Moore]] & [[Grant Morrison|Morrison]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Emily Dickinson]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Virgil]] <small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Librarian (The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)|Unnamed librarian]]<br>[[Glendalf#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Glendalf]]<br>[[Mumblecore]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Jegrekk Gnashtooth]]<br>[[Draco Malfoy|“A certain wizarding bad-boy”]]<br><small>(mentioned; implied)</small><br>[[Billionaire (The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)|Unnamed billionaire]]<br>[[Absoldar]]<br>[[J. Barrington Boartusk]]<br>[[Agrzaan Lurgpin]]<br>[[God (The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)|Creator of the Orcs]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Lord Grallyx]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Octobriana#With Glendalf and Jenny|Octobriana]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[The Magician of Mars]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Amelia Midnight]]<br>[[Jenny Anywhere|Penny Anywhere]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Princess Katerina Corwin]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Princess Katerina's mother|Katerina's mother]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Julie Jacobs#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Julie Jacobs]]<br>[[Death#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Death]]<br>[[Jack Kirby]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Balding man (The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)|Balding man]]<br>[[Cashier (The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)|Cashier]]<br>[[The Fallen One]]<br>[[Chaos]]<br>[[Sir Thomas Rhymer]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[The Illumination]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Emperor of Mars|The Emperor of Mars]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small> | | featuring= [[Laura Drake#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Laura Drake]]<br>[[Michael Moorcock|Moorcock]], [[Alan Moore|Moore]] & [[Grant Morrison|Morrison]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Emily Dickinson]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Virgil]] <small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Librarian (The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)|Unnamed librarian]]<br>[[Glendalf#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Glendalf]]<br>[[Mumblecore]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Jegrekk Gnashtooth]]<br>[[Draco Malfoy|“A certain wizarding bad-boy”]]<br><small>(mentioned; implied)</small><br>[[Billionaire (The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)|Unnamed billionaire]]<br>[[Absoldar]]<br>[[J. Barrington Boartusk]]<br>[[Agrzaan Lurgpin]]<br>[[God (The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)|Creator of the Orcs]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Lord Grallyx]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Octobriana#With Glendalf and Jenny|Octobriana]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[The Magician of Mars]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Amelia Midnight]]<br>[[Jenny Anywhere|Penny Anywhere]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Princess Katerina Corwin]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Princess Katerina's mother|Katerina's mother]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Julie Jacobs#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Julie Jacobs]]<br>[[Death#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Death]]<br>[[Jack Kirby]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Balding man (The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)|Balding man]]<br>[[Cashier (The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)|Cashier]]<br>[[The Fallen One]]<br>[[Chaos]]<br>[[Sir Thomas Rhymer]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[The Illumination]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Emperor of Mars|The Emperor of Mars]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[The Bartender]]<br>[[Lockjaw]]<br>[[Anansi#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Anansi]]<br>[[Osiris#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Osiris]]<br>[[Tiresias#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Tiresias]]<br>[[Morgan Le Fay#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Morgan Le Fay]]<br>[[The Whore of Babylon#In the Collapsed Cosmos|The Whore of Babylon]]<br>[[Irene Adler#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Irene Adler]]<br>[[Achilles#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Achilles]]<br>[[Gilgamesh#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Gilgamesh]]<br>[[Loki#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Loki]]<br>[[King Solomon]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Octobriana#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Octobriana]]<br>[[Skadi#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Skadi]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[James Bond]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Stardust the Super-Wizard]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Butterfly]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Ace Harlem]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small><br>[[Trashman]]<br><small>(mentioned, mimicked)</small><br>[[Madam Fatal]]<br><small>(mentioned)</small> | ||
| setting= [[Collapsed Cosmos]] | | setting= [[Collapsed Cosmos]] | ||
| length= | | length= 9 Acts | ||
| writer(s)= [[Jeanne Morningstar]] | | writer(s)= [[Jeanne Morningstar]] | ||
| artist(s)= | | artist(s)= | ||
| dates= August 29th, 2021 - | | dates= August 29th, 2021 - May 8th, 2022 | ||
| original_link= [https://thejennyeverywhereproject.tumblr.com/tagged/thgje/chrono] | | original_link= [https://thejennyeverywhereproject.tumblr.com/tagged/thgje/chrono] | ||
}}'''''The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere''''' | }}'''''The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere''''' was a [[Jenny Everywhere]] webnovel serialied between 2021 and 2022. The work of [[Jeanne Morningstar]], it is divided in nine Acts. | ||
The storyline concerned the fallout from the collapse of [[the Multiverse]] into a single reality, dubbed the “[[Collapsed Cosmos]]”, and [[Jenny Everywhere (Collapsed Cosmos)|Jenny Everywhere]]'s journey through a very frayed reality as she tried to restore reality to its former infinite scope. The novel was heavily metafictional and featured references to a number of previous Jenny Everywhere works, as well as other public-domain media. | |||
== Contents == | == Contents == | ||
===Plot === | ===Plot === | ||
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=====Part VI===== | =====Part VI===== | ||
Finding themselves in a different aspect of [[Faerie]], which resembles ruins overrun with ivy, [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] and [[Glendalf#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Glendalf]] hear a roar in the distance. They realise that they are indeed being tailed by a modernised, motorcycle-riding version of the [[Wild Hunt]]. | Finding themselves in a different aspect of [[Faerie]], which resembles ruins overrun with ivy, [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] and [[Glendalf#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Glendalf]] hear a roar in the distance. They realise that they are indeed being tailed by a modernised, motorcycle-riding version of the [[Wild Hunt]]. | ||
=====Part VII===== | |||
The riders, who appear as burning skeletons in post-apocalyptic leather outfits, attack. Using her [[Jenny Everywhere's staff|staff]] and [[light-knife]], [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] begins to fight them off, ironically finding it to be one of the least stressful things she's done during this whole [[Collapsed Cosmos]] ordeal, but their superior numbers threaten to overwhelm her and [[Glendalf#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Glendalf]]. | |||
=====Part VIII===== | |||
Finding that brute force is doing little against these “creatures of deep magic”, [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] has a flash of inspiration and uses a martial art based on “striking the enemy's pressure points and using their own energy against them”. Using it against the particular [[Rider (The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)|Rider]] she is exchanging blows with at the moment, she successfully causes him to explode under his own “infernal energies”. | |||
=====Part IX===== | |||
After witnessing their colleague's explosive end, the other riders of the [[Wild Hunt]] disperse, but [[Glendalf#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Glendalf]] warns [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] that the Hunt will not give up so easily. Looking for a way out of [[Faerie]], the two explore the ruined city and stumble upon the entrance to a ''[[Red Lion]]'' pub. | |||
=====Part X===== | |||
As she stares at the door, [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] recovers her memory of the ''[[Red Lion Inn]]'', “one of the great disreputable interstitial bars and taverns of the hypercosmos”, which had the ability to change its location to evade detection by powers like [[ARCHONET]], and to connect to a number of universes through underground tunnels, and was frequented by “heroes seeking quests, criminals on the run from the law, queer people seeking hookups, and anyone looking for a place to stay”. | |||
=====Part XI===== | |||
The bouncer, [[Lockjaw]], readily recognises [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] and lets her and [[Glendalf#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Glendalf]] in. Inside, various other odd characters (including “cyborg soldiers and supermen, [[orc]]s and [[elf|elves]], detectives and witches, gods and [[demon]]s”) are socialising, including several mythical figures Jenny recognises, such as [[Osiris#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Osiris]] or [[Morgan Le Fay#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Morgan Le Fay]]. While she is taking all this in, Jenny hears a voice from behind her, which, instead of introducing herself, starts the conversation with a knowingly bad pun; Jenny whirls round to find none other than [[the Bartender]]. | |||
=====Part XII===== | |||
[[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] explains her and [[Glendalf#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Glendalf]]'s predicament to [[the Bartender]], whose name, as it transpires, is Mary. Although she states that she doesn't have the power to free Glendalf from the “mark” of the [[Wild Hunt]], she uses the [[Wisdom of Solomon]] to determine that there may be someone in the Inn who does have that power. | |||
=====Part XIII===== | |||
As they look through the crowd, [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] spots a familiar face: [[Octobriana#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Octobriana]]. [[The Bartender]] begins to tell Jenny to be careful around her, as she has a habit of getting into fights, but Jenny only sees an old friend. | |||
=====Part XIV===== | |||
A description of [[Octobriana#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Octobriana]]'s background is given. | |||
=====Part XV===== | |||
[[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] walks over to [[Octobriana#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Octobriana]], whom she greets as “Nadia”. Octobriana is surprised to see Jenny alive and quickly goes to pieces, with it becoming apparent that she has not taken the fraying of reality and her own part in stride as Jenny has done. Jenny tries to comfort her, but Octobriana recalls from her touch. | |||
=====Part XVI===== | |||
Having regained some strength from his mimosa drink, [[Glendalf]] comes over to greet [[Octobriana#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Octobriana]] too. Being reunited with two of her friends from the [[League of Liberation]] begins to make Octobriana feel better as she grows more confident that the reality she is currently in is in fact “real”. | |||
=====Part XVII===== | |||
[[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] tries to entice [[Octobriana#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Octobriana]] to join her and [[Glendalf#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Glendalf]] on their current adventure. However, Octobriana claims to have sworn of adventuring altogether, being haunted by her memories of how their adventures together at the League of Liberation ended, with the death of [[Trashman]]. | |||
=====Part XVIII===== | |||
It is explained that the death of Trashman occurred in 1968 during the events which also saw the final defeat of [[Stardust the Super-Wizard|Stardust]]. With Trashman, the “truest believer” in the cause, gone, and their primary aim achieved (albeit at a high cost), the [[League of Liberation]] had disbanded. Remembering all of this vividly, [[Octobriana#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Octobriana]] reiterates her refusal to help. | |||
=====Part XIX===== | |||
However, [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] tells [[Octobriana#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Octobriana]] about the [[Wild Hunt]] being on [[Glendalf#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Glendalf]]'s trail, persuading her that the best she can do to honour Trashman's death is to ensure that another one of the old gang doesn't die in vain too. Octobriana reluctantly accepts in principle but notes that her [[Wonder Machine]] is in a state of disrepair. Undeterred, Jenny resolves to find the [[Magician from Mars]] who she thinks will be able to fix it, also realising that, with the Wonder Machine, she would once again stand a chance of finding the [[Legendary Time Crystal]]. | |||
=====Part XX===== | |||
Their musings are interrupted when a group of [[Archondroid]]s enter the [[Red Lion Inn]]. While most of the guests make their way out through the back of the bar and into the network of tunnels, [[Octobriana#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Octobriana]] insists on staying to fight the droids straight-on, despite [[the Bartender]] urging her otherwise. | |||
=====Part XXI===== | |||
In an effort to exfiltrate her against her will, [[Glendalf#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Glendalf]] casts a <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Sleep (spell)|Sleep]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> spell on her. However, he finds that as she is quite heavy and significantly taller than him, he cannot simply carry her unconscious form out as he intended. [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] runs to help, but too late: the [[Archondroid]]s are in, alongside a small squad of human operatives. | |||
=====Part XXII===== | |||
[[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] freezes in fear for a few instant, but then realises she can use this to her advantage. She whistles on a frequency that only [[Fae]] can hear, thus summoning the [[Wild Hunt]] back to their current location, in the hope that they and the Archondroids will keep each other busy. | |||
=====Part XXIII===== | |||
The [[Wild Hunt]] and [[Archondroid]]s start destroying each other, with the confused and increasingly worried human enforcers joining in. In the confusion, [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] and [[Glendalf#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Glendalf]] managed to carry [[Octobriana#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Octobriana]] together, and the three head into the tunnels. | |||
====Act IV==== | |||
=====Part I===== | |||
After an indeterminate amount of time wandering the dark, cramped tunnels, [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] and [[Glendalf#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Glendalf]] find a stairway and climb it up into a new location. It is a forest reminiscent of [[Faerie]] but with a different “feel” to it, and covered in thick fog. | |||
=====Part II===== | |||
They realise that they are in a [[Limbo realm]]. | |||
=====Part III===== | |||
In the fog, the trio find a cabin, empty but with a warm fire in its hearth, which they deduce to be drawn from a dream that became a part of the [[Limbo realm]]. They settle there, having tea before going to bed. | |||
=====Part IV===== | |||
[[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] wakes up well-rested, feeling as though she has just been dreaming, but only remembering “a vague feeling of running around corridors and looking for something that was always out of reach”. She finds [[Glendalf#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Glendalf]] already up and making a hearty breakfast. [[Octobriana#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Octobriana]] is the last to wake up, immediately complaining about not having gotten to fight the [[Archondroid]]s like she wanted. Jenny and Glendalf promise her she'll get a chance to get in a fight soon enough. | |||
=====Part V===== | |||
Despite [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]]'s earlier certainty that she had not slept since finding herself in the [[Collapsed Cosmos]], she, [[Glendalf#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Glendalf]] and [[Octobriana#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Octobriana]] exchange words suggesting they now feel as though their adventure has been going on for a week. Jenny notes, however, that she feels almost completely like her old self again now, although her recovery is still fragile. | |||
=====Part VI===== | |||
With [[Glendalf#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Glendalf]] confessing that he has “a suspicion [the three] are in a stalling-for-time part of the adventure”, they decide to pass the time inside the cabin until they land upon an attractive idea of where to go next. [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] suggests playing some music, though the other two are less than enthusiastic about her initial suggestion of a symphony on [[kazoo]]. | |||
=====Part VII===== | |||
[[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] finds a more suitable instrument, a [[theriamen]], and soon “eerily beautiful electronic sounds, hopeful and mournful, fill the room”. [[Octobriana#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Octobriana]] begins to cry as all her tensions finally come unwound, which Jenny knows she needed. | |||
=====Part VIII===== | |||
After the song ends to a round of applause from [[Glendalf#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Glendalf]], the wizard notices [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] and [[Octobriana#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Octobriana]] holding hands and decides to go out and do some scouting of the limbo dimension so as to leave them their privacy. | |||
=====Part IX===== | |||
[[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] tries to begin a conversation, but instead [[Octobriana#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Octobriana]] leans in to kiss her. | |||
=====Part X===== | |||
After confirming out loud that they have the same intent, the two move to bed and make love — which seems to be the final push for Jenny to finally feel completely like her old self again, regaining the same breadth of perspective she had as a multidimensional being, even though the [[Multiverse]] itself is not yet restored. | |||
=====Part XI===== | |||
[[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] and [[Octobriana#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Octobriana]] remain in bed together and reminisce about their relationship in the good old days and their activities in the [[PPP]]. Suddenly, Jenny sits up, hit by a flash of inspriation. | |||
=====Part XII===== | |||
Given that “March” is etymologically “the month of [[Mars]]”, she realises that the [[Librarian (The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)|Librarian]]'s warning to “beware the March of Ideas” must have been a veiled reference to the [[Magician from Mars]]. She tells Octobriana about her suspicion after giving her the necessary background about her encounter with the “creepy Librarian” in the first place. She also says that she believes the reference to “[[God (individual)|God]]” referred to [[ARCHONET]] and that ARCHONET must be behind the [[Collapsed Cosmos|collapse]] itself. | |||
=====Part XIII===== | |||
[[Octobriana#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Octobriana]] asks [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] why she trusts the [[Librarian (The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)|Librarian]], with Jenny replying that somehow she felt as though the Librarian was “familiar. She was part of what I was, what I needed to get back to”. Their conversation is interrupted by a loud knock; [[Glendalf#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Glendalf]] has returned from his scouting. However, further knocking is heard even after he comes into the cabin. | |||
=====Part XIV===== | |||
[[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] hesitantly opens the door, revealing what appears to be an undead [[Trashman]]. [[Glendalf#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Glendalf]] warns Jenny and Octobriana that it's actually a [[Limbo-Wraith (The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)|Limbo-Wraith]] wrapping itself in their traumatic memories of Trashman's death. At any rate, the Trashman-like creature, its body seeming to glitch in and out of focus, threatens the three with a claim that “[they] belong… in the dead… with [him]”. | |||
=====Part XV===== | |||
[[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] is briefly paralysed by guilt, acknowledging to herself that she does not deserve to live when she's failed so many “people she couldn’t save, people who gave their lives for her”. However, when the [[Limbo-Wraith (The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)|Limbo-Wraith]] elects to attack [[Octobriana#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Octobriana]] first, Jenny's protective instincts overwhelm her self-doubt, and she pulls out [[Jenny Everywhere's staff|her staff]] to begin fighting the entity. | |||
=====Part XVI===== | |||
[[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]]'s berserk attack succeeds in beginning to dissolve the [[Limbo-Wraith (The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)|Limbo-Wraith]], but also destablises the [[Limbo realm|limbo-realm]] itself. Thinking quickly, [[Glendalf#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Glendalf]] warns them that the three of them will be cast off in Time, separated; he casts a [[Remember (spell)|Remember]] spell to make sure Jenny and Octobriana remember to try and find each other, as well as to locate [[Magician from Mars#In the Collapsed Cosmos|the Magician]]. | |||
=====Part XVII===== | |||
After saying his goodbyes to [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] and [[Octobriana#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Octobriana]] in case they don't meet again, [[Glendalf#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Glendalf]] raises his staff above his head and unleashes his most powerful combative spell, “[[Ultimate Destruction Wave]]”. Its pink fire dissolves everything around him, with the cabin and its realm disappearing as well. Jenny finds herself plunged in “infinite greyness” for an indefinable amount of time, then regains consciousness, waking up somewhere new. | |||
===Worldbuilding=== | ===Worldbuilding=== | ||
====Jenny Everywhere==== | ====Jenny Everywhere==== | ||
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====Death==== | ====Death==== | ||
* [[Death#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Death]] is referred to with “they/them” pronouns. They appear as “a gloomy-looking individual dressed in a black suit, with black lipstick and nail polish”, speaking in a “deep sepulchral voice”. | * [[Death#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Death]] is referred to with “they/them” pronouns. They appear as “a gloomy-looking individual dressed in a black suit, with black lipstick and nail polish”, speaking in a “deep sepulchral voice”. | ||
====Octobriana==== | |||
* The [[Octobriana#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Octobriana]] at the [[Red Lion Inn]] appears as “tall, muscular”, with “majestic” silver hair in a ponytail; “beautiful in the way a mountain [is] beautiful”her majestic silver hair raked up into an enormous ponytail. She wears cut-off jean shorts and a ripped T-shirt saying “TRANS RAGE”, and hears her usual tattoo of a red star on her forehead. | |||
* Octobriana, in general, is also known as “Nadezhda Pacenikov” or “the Spirit of the October Revolution”. Among her origins in various universes include her being a time traveller from an utopian Communist civilization in the far future to help guide us there, the daughter of a family of godlike beings that ruled an ancient empire who was cast out when she turned against them and slew her own kin, or even “a psychic manifestation of the will of the proletariat”. She is also described as a kind of “anti-[[James Bond]]”. | |||
====Universes==== | ====Universes==== | ||
* The story takes place in a “[[Collapsed Cosmos]]” where reality has become transient and friable. | * The story takes place in a “[[Collapsed Cosmos]]” where reality has become transient and friable. | ||
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* At some point, the [[Queen of Faerie]] was in love with a version of [[Jenny Everywhere]], although the “Collapsed” Jenny does not remember this. | * At some point, the [[Queen of Faerie]] was in love with a version of [[Jenny Everywhere]], although the “Collapsed” Jenny does not remember this. | ||
* [[Light-knife|Jenny's light-blade]] was a gift from [[the Illumination|the Abstract of Illumination]]. | * [[Light-knife|Jenny's light-blade]] was a gift from [[the Illumination|the Abstract of Illumination]]. | ||
* The ''[[Red Lion Inn]]'' is “one of the great disreputable interstitial bars and taverns of the hypercosmos”. There are many other pubs named after the [[Red Lion]] in other universes, however. | |||
* At some point before the multiversal collapse, [[Jenny Everywhere]], [[Glendalf]], [[Octobriana]], the [[Magician from Mars]], and several other heroes including [[Butterfly]], [[Ace Harlem]], [[Trashman]] and [[Madam Fatal]] were part of a superhero team known as the [[League of Liberation]], part of the “[[Sixth International]]”, a secret organization which opposed the [[Sixth Column]], a cult that worshipped the “fascist space god [[Stardust the Super-Wizard]]. | |||
* [[Glendalf#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Glendalf]] uses a [[witchlight]] to light his and [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]]'s ways through the tunnels beneath the [[Red Lion Inn]]. | |||
===Continuity=== | ===Continuity=== | ||
* [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] has memories of leaving a literature exam to partake in an adventure involving [[Cardinal Dracula|Dracula]] and [[the Three Musketeers]], something which occurred in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Preludes and Distractions (short story)|Preludes and Distractions]]'', as well as of engaging in a summoning ritual, a potential allusion to [[PROSE]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere and the Lord of Hell (short story)|Jenny Everywhere and the Lord of Hell]]''. | * [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny]] has memories of leaving a literature exam to partake in an adventure involving [[Cardinal Dracula|Dracula]] and [[the Three Musketeers]], something which occurred in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Preludes and Distractions (short story)|Preludes and Distractions]]'', as well as of engaging in a summoning ritual, a potential allusion to [[PROSE]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere and the Lord of Hell (short story)|Jenny Everywhere and the Lord of Hell]]''. | ||
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This story involves a number of open source characters and ones from public domain literature and Golden Age comics; all the attributions will be gathered in the final post.|Jeanne Morningstar}} | This story involves a number of open source characters and ones from public domain literature and Golden Age comics; all the attributions will be gathered in the final post.|Jeanne Morningstar}} | ||
The story is also preceded by a quote from ''The High History of the Holy Graal'', translated by Sebastian Evans: | The story is also preceded by a quote from ''The High History of the Holy Graal'', translated by Sebastian Evans: | ||
{{quotebox|Josephus telleth us that the semblances of the islands changed themselves by reason of the divers adventures that by the pleasure of God befell therein… For, when they had entered into a forest or an island where they had found any adventure, and they came there another time, they found holds and castles and adventures of another kind, so that their toils and travails might not weary them, and also for that God would that the land should be conformed to the New Law.| | {{quotebox|Josephus telleth us that the semblances of the islands changed themselves by reason of the divers adventures that by the pleasure of God befell therein… For, when they had entered into a forest or an island where they had found any adventure, and they came there another time, they found holds and castles and adventures of another kind, so that their toils and travails might not weary them, and also for that God would that the land should be conformed to the New Law.|3=“The High History of the Holy Graal”}} | ||
It contains a number of cultural references and allusions. For example, the transphobic British billionaire-writer against whom [[Glendalf#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Glendalf]] bears a grudge is transparently a satirical depiction of J.K. Rowling, while Glendalf himself and his twelve Orcs knocking at Jenny's doors are reminiscent of J.R.R. Tolkien's Gandalf and his company of Dwarves at the beginning of ''The Hobbit''. | It contains a number of cultural references and allusions. For example, the transphobic British billionaire-writer against whom [[Glendalf#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Glendalf]] bears a grudge is transparently a satirical depiction of J.K. Rowling, while Glendalf himself and his twelve Orcs knocking at Jenny's doors are reminiscent of J.R.R. Tolkien's Gandalf and his company of Dwarves at the beginning of ''The Hobbit''. | ||
Additionally, the title is a pun on '' | Additionally, the title is a pun on {{w|Airtight Garage|''The Airtight Garage of Jerry Cornelius''}}, or more specifically on its original French title (''Le Garage Hermétique de Jerry Cornelius''), playing on the fact that the French term “hermétique” (which actually, at least in this context, translates as “''airtight''”) resembles the English alchemical term “hermetic”. | ||
===Read online=== | ===Read online=== | ||
The story is [https://thejennyeverywhereproject.tumblr.com/tagged/tghje available] on Tumblr. | The story is [https://thejennyeverywhereproject.tumblr.com/tagged/tghje available] on Tumblr. | ||
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