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 | other_titles=
 | 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]]<br>[[Rider (The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere)|The Rider]]
+| 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><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)</small><br>[[Madam Fatal]]<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]]
-| length= 4 Acts
+| length= 9 Acts
 | writer(s)= [[Jeanne Morningstar]]
 | artist(s)=
-| dates= August 29th, 2021 - November 12th, 2021
+| dates= August 29th, 2021 - May 8th, 2022
 | original_link= [https://thejennyeverywhereproject.tumblr.com/tagged/thgje/chrono]
-}}'''''The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere''''' is a [[Jenny Everywhere]] webnovel currently being serialised. The work of [[Jeanne Morningstar]], it is divided in several Acts, currently being up to the end of Act III.
+}}'''''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.
-The storyline concerns the fallback from the collapse of the [[Multiverse]] into a single reality, dubbed the “[[Collapsed Cosmos]]”, and [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny Everywhere]]'s journey through a very frayed reality as she tries to restore reality to its former infinite scope.
 == Contents ==
 ===Plot ===
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 ====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===
 ====Jenny Everywhere====
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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}}
 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.|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel){{!}}“The High History of the Holy Graal”}}
+{{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''.
-Additionally, the title is a pun on ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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”.
+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===
 The story is [https://thejennyeverywhereproject.tumblr.com/tagged/tghje available] on Tumblr.
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+[[Category:Released in 2022]]
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+[[Category:Featuring Chaos]]
+[[Category:Featuring the Illumination]]
+[[Category:Featuring Morgan Le Fay]]