Those Unheard

Friday, May 25th, 2007: anyone else catch this???? kEePeRoFtHeTrUeBeLiEf OMG SO i just realized. revengeance = REVENGE + VENGEANCE. just MORE proof that Xander is a genius!!!! (as if we needed it) * OBM 5.18.07 * SECOND *bestnightofmylife SO<3 5.24 ~*nevergotobedangry~* (toHELLandBACKagain) thank you mom<3 for everything<3iloveyou * Hannah - well done here. clear argument, strong reasons, good use of a quote. best of luck in high school & keep reading! 4+/4 * "These cookies?  Storebought! " * a pilgrim, disappointed wooden owl on a shelf when there’s no writing on the walls you’ve got to scratch it in yourself - “Bullet Train to Siberia” * “That’s the real reason I came back from New York. Everyone there’s so full of shit, so fake, so hypocritical. Don’t waste your time with the shiny lights and fame, kids. Don’t listen to what other people tell you. Think for yourselves." That’...

Some movements thrive when they lose a leader and gain a symbol, a spiritual foreparent, an infallible Founder, so that future historians are a always little bit surprised by how brief a time that key figure was actually around, as if his or her tenure was just a prologue to the actual story, which causes them to reflect on long shadows and Ideas superseding Reality and such. UNBAN was not one of them. Losing its head, it turned out to be less Hydra than run-of-the-mill chicken. Sure, they could have re-rallied around hELLrAISER as a martyr, but they already had two martyrs, and since hELLrAISER hadn’t been literally, gun-to-your-head banned it would require another name change, and plus it was getting late on the East Coast and most of them had school in the morning. The OMB Squad, though, kept fighting valiantly: they added a new question to their FAQ, addressing the use of the Report to Mods button (“While we believe in the Report function in theory, we cannot fully support i...

xx themachine: you know was thinking about earlier? xx themachine: this is totally random but xx themachine: kinda not at the same time XXxSuicidesXGraceXXx: okay….. xx themachine: alright so a few weeks ago xx themachine: i was at this lame flea market thing XXxSuicidesXGraceXXx: with your family? xx themachine: yeah it was like a xx themachine: ~*family outing*~ xx themachine: and there was this sign there xx themachine: that said like xx themachine: Never Go To Bed Angry XXxSuicidesXGraceXXx: ………. XXxSuicidesXGraceXXx: that’s so fucking dumb xx themachine: OK THANK YOU xx themachine: i was hoping youd say that xx themachine: kinda like a test XXxSuicidesXGraceXXx: going to bed angry is fun xx themachine: yeah and like xx themachine: thats just gonna make people xx themachine: PRETEND to not be angry xx themachine: which is so much worse xx themachine: it’s like what you said about facing your problems xx themachine: vs running away from...

As hELLrAISER’s posts started to become less frequent and less revolutionary, the members of UNBAN started to wonder if she had been silenced by the mods. One of her last posts before she disappeared (or was disappeared ) entirely was a full-throated assertion that the mods had not censured her, censored her, or contacted her in any way. But since if the mods were controlling her speech they would also be controlling her saying she wasn't being controlled, this didn't convince anybody.  And the timing was awfully suspicious, coming as it did in the wake of the second ARW. After the OMB Squad declared that they believed in bans, not blocks, the UNBAN movement (still under the direction of hELLrAISER) had responded by advocating blocks as a solution. This was what the mods had originally advocated, but after it became part of UNBAN’s platform, they couldn’t be seen agreeing with the enemy. So they posted a second Annoncement/Reminder/Warning, to the effect that it was not a ...

xx themachine: what did you mean before XXxSuicidesXGraceXXx: when? xx themachine: when you said i was just as bad as victoria XXxSuicidesXGraceXXx: nothing XXxSuicidesXGraceXXx: i was just being mean tbh xx themachine: no i mean like xx themachine: the victoria part xx themachine: are you guys fighting? XXxSuicidesXGraceXXx: no we’re not fighting XXxSuicidesXGraceXXx: she’s just XXxSuicidesXGraceXXx: i mean YOU know xx themachine: yeah i know XXxSuicidesXGraceXXx: like we’re still friends XXxSuicidesXGraceXXx: but idk if we can be BEST friends anymore XXxSuicidesXGraceXXx: not after NY xx themachine: you know xx themachine: i have a theory about her XXxSuicidesXGraceXXx: oh yeah? XXxSuicidesXGraceXXx: wait XXxSuicidesXGraceXXx: i think i know what you’re gonna say XXxSuicidesXGraceXXx: and yeah i've thought it too xx themachine: really??! XXxSuicidesXGraceXXx: but i don’t think so xx themachine: no? XXxSuicidesXGraceXXx: yeah XX...

That evening, Bobby Melrose was lying on that same hotel bed, obsessively watching news coverage of himself. As soon as one channel started talking about something else - the war, the weather - he would flip to another, and they would just be starting their coverage. For any lulls, he still had the comments of Cicero’s article to peruse, pre-loaded on his Blackberry. The magic from the morning hadn’t faded yet. Everything was still lining up perfectly. Bobby gloated; he basked. He had earned this. For all his talk of money, this was his real payment, this moment of perfect satisfaction. Somehow he had solved the puzzle - the most complex of his career - but he had done it. He had maneuvered all the pieces into place, and now it was running on its own. Like a machine, like the watch of a Deist god. The TV-watching public was learning to hate him for what he had done to Britttni, the internet-browsing public for what he had done to Xander, and most importantly, somewhere, Xander was...

xx themachine: my sister thinks smiling is mind control xXXSuicidesXGraceXXx: lmao what? xx themachine: idk thats what she was just saying xx themachine: like she was talking abt some assembly xx themachine: where they taught them abt like xx themachine: ~*positive thinking*~ xx themachine: and how smiling makes you happy xx themachine: and called it mind control xx themachine: is that even true btw xXXSuicidesXGraceXXx: i think so xXXSuicidesXGraceXXx: idk xx themachine: like i remember learning abt it too xx themachine: but i wonder if its like one of those xx themachine: taste bud map kinda things xx themachine: where we just pretend it works xXXSuicidesXGraceXXx: oh idk maybe xx themachine: everything ok? xXXSuicidesXGraceXXx: yeah sorry xXXSuicidesXGraceXXx: just got a bunch of stuff going on rn xx themachine: oh okay xx themachine: is it like xx themachine: mom stuff? xXXSuicidesXGraceXXx: lmao no shes not home xx themachine: so what...