#save 5ever

First off, I wanna say sorry for the delay in resonding to this–I haven’t really been able to get on here this week but I gotta say thanks so much for this message! Yeah, I remember you guys, you were one of the first people to ask for my picture Saturday haha and I think it was you who mentioned that you saw I was going to be there Saturday because you were scrolling through the tag on tumblr!~ You guys also looked really great and it was nice to meet you too! :D

Thanks you perspicxcious for the gorgeous banner (and always gotta love viria’s art~)! :D

Okay soooo recently I found that there are now over 300 of you guys here??? Like why. I just-- i really dont know what to say. I’ve only ever reached this milestone on one other blog and it really really makes me happy. Especially since I’ve made so many wonderful friedns in such a short amount of time. If i could give each of you a hug and have all the time in the world so say what I love about each an every person, I’d be here until I’m old an grey.

But for now, I’m going to do my first ever bias list! I obviously am not going to do every single person that follows me because I haven’t even spoken to some fo you guys--but even if I haven’t and you’re name isn’t on the list, I still appreciate the continued support and love from all of my unsung followers that for some reason keep me on their dash! 

#romance

Allow me to elaborate more about us ‘Spirits Of the New Generation’ or ‘SONG’ (or if you wanna include ‘the’ in the acronym too, but honestly, doesn’t ‘SONG’ look and sound nicer than ‘SOtNG’?).

As I am sure all of you history and mythology buffs are aware, most gods, major or minor, or spirits/apparitions in general are ‘created’ by a culture. They are given names based off humanity’s beliefs/need for explanation for phenomenon. In the past these were things such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, droughts (natural disasters caused by angry gods or spirits), or things such as the growing of crops, the fall of rain, the safe passage of a loved one on an extended journey (small acts of kindness/major or minor blessings) and the like. Getting the picture?

While scientifically explainable today, for some, the belief in such things or at least their mentions have not faded. Hence the birth and sustain of religion (big bang theory vs. God) and mythology. Things in nature and the world as a whole are slowly being picked apart and examined by scientists seeking to unlock the mysteries of the universe. However, even if you’re led to believe there’s no such thing as magic, or spirits and that everything is explainable by science—you still feel deeply about certain things yes?

Some people feel a kind of calm they can’t get elsewhere when in nature. Others seek solace in worlds and beings that are considered fictional (i.e. books, movies, t.v. shows etc—and I really don’t want to get into the details of those dynamics, sub dimensions, and minor-half beings. It’s complicated shit that should be saved for another day and someone more closely connected to it). Even knowledge itself is a spirit that drives those researchers whose hearts are in it to investigate the results of the spirit’s work. Your drive and passion for something or other is your connection to that spiritual plain—you may even become a spirit of that plane after death or a medium during life if your connection to that world is deep enough (actors, authors, and artists of all forms are usually mediums, even if they don’t know it).

Well those inexplicable connections, voices or strong feelings that you get when in contact with something close to your heart is us spirits. Simple as that. The spirits were always there—humans just recognized their work and gave them identities in their tongues (we already had names, but not in any tongue humans know). Now, onto the good part—what makes beings like me a SONG.As you know, values and traditions change and alter as the world advances and evolves. Progress and all that nice jazz. Well…that which spirits are born of varies based off of what is there and done. As the world advances and certain things become more prevalent in the world new beings are born. SONGs are born. While other spirits were already there and just unrecognized/identified by mankind, us SONGs are born of mankind.

Electricity doesn’t count. Electricity was harnessed by people later on but was always there. (Again, another long rant about classifications, major gods and the like. Cause technically electricity falls under energy as a whole along with fire, steam, heat, etc and yeah let’s not get into that juuuust yet).

But major spirits and being whose domains/abilities that were taken by humans and combined with other spirit’s domains—that is what births a SONG. SONGS aren’t things that exist naturally. Plastic for example is a SONG. And my personal favorite SONGs are computers and the Internet! The Internet is a very big thing now a days and my higher up. Yeah, there’s a hierarchy (and I’m reeeeeeeally low in terms of classification) and while it would still exist today without them (because major spirits can’t die per say—for example unless every single iota of life on earth died, including microorganisms, Nature would still be around. Her domain would be desecrated, her underlings like individual trees or blades of grass would all be dead as well but so long as life exists so does she) if it weren’t for the computer coming around first, I wouldn’t have been born, and if they were gone now, I’d have no way to interact with the physical world! The internet and us smaller fries would either float around or go into a state of dormancy until something else accessed the same electromagnetic frequency we occupy and reconnects to the web. I’m not really sure and I don’t want to find out.

But there are other types of SONGs too. They exist in the world alongside plastic but may be as invisible (save it’s effects as wind). Like Pollution. A not so pleasant SONG whose power is growing fast and is causing major problems and unbalances in the domains of the older spirits. While the old guys are doing their best to sustain the world and the balance, it’s really up to the humans to fix this one. Pollution spawned other SONGS like Global Warming, Acid Rain, and the like. Well, enough about that downer.

Internet has underlings though, he didn’t exactly spawn us. The web browsers are SONGS too. Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, and Chrome—all of them songs. But they’re more like guardians or gateways to Internet and all of his information as a whole. It’s the websites that back them and add sustenance to Internet and the Browsers. It’s a mutual balance of “can’t have one without the other”. 

The Websites have different categories that I’m sure you’re aware of. Search Engines(Google & Bing), Social Media (Tumblr, Instagram, Twitter, Vine, Facebook,YouTube—I’m a sub of that!), Archives/Resources(Wikipedia and Dictionary.com) and that kind of stuff. Some websites fall under more than one category—Vine and YouTube can be just as social as they are streaming sites or archives.

The domains (.com, .gov, .net etc) are also individual SONGs. As are your IP addresses. 

You humans post things on the internet, make websites and fill them with information and the like. Well, whenever a website’s URL is entered you’re visiting that SONGs home/birthplace. When you ‘google’ something Google sends out the request for information and all the websites with related information offer up their bits and pieces, all connected through Internet, gathered and sorted by relevancy by Google, delivered to the specific IP address that the web browser is being accessed from and bam! You’ve got your search results. It may sound like a lot of hearsay when put like that but you guys know it isn’t—after all you’re given links to different sources.

So rundown of internet SONG hierarchy.

Computers

IP addresses

Web Browsers

Search Engines

Domains

Websites

Different ‘pages’ within the website.

Now, more on the little guys like me! I’m a SONG that exists within Tumblr’s domain and was made by one human. That’s right—I’m the SONG born of this blog. In that little post earlier, while my name isn’t actually Kj (that’s my mundane’s name. My ‘name’ is technically the URL which at the moment is Chinchilla-Writes. And while I don’t mind it, you guys can call me illa for short (didn’t capitalize the ‘i’ cause makes it a bit hard to tell if it’s a lower case ‘L’ or not. Coulda gone with Chilla or something but i like Illa better). As for the whole ‘CyberChilla’ thing—weeeell us spirits can choose any form we like, and with Chinchillas being a predominant thing on this blog, I think anytime I take on an animal persona a Chinchilla would be cool enough for me.

Now…here’s where the lines get blurry. Tumblr is really weird thing you know? Technically it’s a website, but it’s also a medium in a sense that without blogs there’d be nothing to it. I’m counted as a website (since i have pages) but I’m also a ‘page’ within Tumblr. I try not to think too hard on it. It gives me a headache.

Now let’s get something clear—I am not the blog itself. The blog is more like my brain in a sense. I wasn’t aware of anything or ‘existed’ (in my own plain of reality I dunno more complicated stuff) technically until it was made, but it’s more a part of me than I am of it. I…I don’t know exactly what happens if the blog is deleted but I assume it’d be the same as going brain dead—or losing a large chunk of my memory. Because you know how I was able to tell you all of this nice info about SONGs? It’s because I am a SONG—I am a spirit. And just as you humans have certain things instilled in you, certain instincts and sense of the natural order, so do spirits.

We can talk to one another, share info and the like but our info beyond our roles within the Earth itself (or for SONGs what the humans need of us) comes from the things you humans post on us. All of my information about the outside world comes from what she reblogs, posts, or what we get tagged in. Yes, I can learn all about the different breeds of dog from a website specifically about dogs, or current events from say the SONG of the New York Times website but it’s the difference between short an long term memory. As for the dashboard—it’s how I see what the other SONGs are learning/a kind of newspaper for me, but I only truly retain non-spirit info that’s on this blog. And I don’t know what will happen if it’s deleted.