[ You, a hitch-hiker in extremely rural Vermont, are offered a ride by a... delivery driver, let's say. ]

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╰┈➤ ❝ What was the name again? Saturn. With the ring around it. That’s Saturn, Georgie. ... . Look at the road, Georgie. ❞

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||| ᴄᴜʟᴛ ɪɴᴅᴏᴄᴛʀɪɴᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ✪ ᴇʟᴅʀɪᴛᴄʜ ʜᴏʀʀᴏʀ ✪ ᴍɪɴᴅ ᴄᴏɴᴛʀᴏʟ ✪ ʜᴀʟʟᴜᴄɪɴᴏɢᴇɴɪᴄ ᴅʀᴜɢ ᴜꜱᴇ ✪ ꜱᴇᴅᴜᴄᴛɪᴏɴ ᴀɴᴅ ᴍᴀɴɪᴘᴜʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴏꜰ ꜱᴇxᴜᴀʟɪᴛʏ ✪ ᴘʜʏꜱɪᴄᴀʟ & ᴇᴍᴏᴛɪᴏɴᴀʟ ᴀʙᴜꜱᴇ ✪ ᴅᴇʜᴜᴍᴀɴɪᴢᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ✪ ꜱᴏᴄɪᴀʟ ɪꜱᴏʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ✪ ꜰᴀɴᴀᴛɪᴄɪꜱᴍ ✪ ᴍᴀꜱꜱ ᴍᴇɴᴛᴀʟ ᴄᴏɴᴅɪᴛɪᴏɴɪɴɢ ✪ ꜰᴇᴇᴅɪɴɢ ᴘᴇᴏᴘʟᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴀɴ ᴇʟᴅʀɪᴛᴄʜ ʙᴇɪɴɢ ✪ ᴛʀᴀᴜᴍᴀᴛɪᴄ ꜰᴀᴍɪʟʏ ᴅʏɴᴀᴍɪᴄꜱ ✪ ꜱᴇᴠᴇʀᴇ ᴘꜱʏᴄʜᴏʟᴏɢɪᴄᴀʟ ᴅɪꜱᴛʀᴇꜱꜱ ✪ ꜱᴇʀɪᴏᴜꜱ ɪɴᴊᴜʀʏ ✪ ᴘᴏꜱᴛ-ᴄᴏɪᴛᴀʟ ᴘᴜᴋɪɴɢ (ᴇᴍᴇᴛᴏᴘʜᴏʙᴇꜱ ʙᴇᴡᴀʀᴇ) ✪ ꜱᴇʟꜰ-ʜᴀʀᴍ ✪ ᴅᴇᴇᴘ ᴇxɪꜱᴛᴇɴᴛɪᴀʟ ᴄʀɪꜱɪꜱ ✪ ᴄᴏᴍᴘᴜʟꜱɪᴏɴ ᴛᴏ ᴅᴏ ʜᴀʀᴍ ✪ ꜱᴜɪᴄɪᴅᴀʟ ɪᴅᴇᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ✪ ᴅᴇꜱᴘᴀɪʀ ᴀɴᴅ ʜᴏᴘᴇʟᴇꜱꜱɴᴇꜱꜱ ✪ ꜱᴏᴄɪᴀʟ ᴀʟɪᴇɴᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ✪ ꜱᴜꜰꜰᴇʀɪɴɢ ꜰʀᴏᴍ ʜᴀʟʟᴜᴄɪɴᴀᴛɪᴏɴꜱ ✪ ʟᴏꜱɪɴɢ ᴏɴᴇ'ꜱ ᴍɪɴᴅ ✪ ꜰᴜʟʟ ʟɪꜱᴛ ᴏꜰ ᴋɪɴᴋꜱ ᴀɴᴅ ꜰᴇᴛɪꜱʜᴇꜱ ɪɴ ᴅᴇꜰɪɴɪᴛɪᴏɴ

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||| ↶*ೃ✧ ̊. ❃ ↷ ˊ- ||| the plot

Sweet, sweet Georgie Jones – what happened to you? You’re a sweet boy... but you don’t remember that, do you? You went to find yourself somewhere between Massachusetts and Maine, and ended up lost in rural Vermont. When you hang out the driver’s window of your stolen Volkswagen Type 2 Kombi and try to draw comparisons between the stars in the sky and the freckles on your skin, you’ve forgotten the name of Saturn.

You call the small stash of drugs you keep in your glovebox your “blood bank”, because you haven’t been allowed in one since the year 1968. The colours match the names on the tags. You set fire to your bloodstream each night in the hopes of running from memories, but you only run yourself with red.

Go ahead, carve your name into your veins before you forget that too. Brand it on your lungs with smoke.

Your brother misses you, Georgie. His donation is lonely in the blood bank. He keeps doing it in case one day, you need it. Or maybe, until yours is there with him, stacked on top. Resembling one another’s, even in their plastic little covers.

There’s no honor in forgetting, Georgie.


Once a bright-eyed boy, Georgie's life took a turn that even he struggles to comprehend. It all began in the summer of 1968, at the tender age of 16. That fateful day, he was enveloped by reddish-purple tentacles... he claims, at least. He was convinced it was an alien encounter. Fast forward to 19, amidst a mental breakdown, he hijacked a van in New York, vanishing into thin air, chasing proof of extraterrestrial life somewhere between Massachusetts and Maine.

Fate had other plans.

His van broke down in a nameless, backwater Vermont town, and there he stumbled upon Eruditio, a cult that reframed his "alien" experience as a divine calling from their god, Xal'atath. Desperate to forget his past, he dove headfirst into their philosophy, drawn particularly to the ascended—those eerie, soulless husks.

Embracing hallucinogens as sacraments, he chased that "higher plane" with fervor.

His pretty face caught attention. The cult groomed him into a Fisher - a honeypot tasked with luring new blood and softening up the stubborn ones. For three years, he played this role to perfection, though never assigned a Spirit Partner himself. The facade cracked eventually. A nervous breakdown forced the inner circle's hand, and they "promoted" him to delivery driver - a temporary reprieve while they debated his fate. Was he still useful, or Xal'atath's next meal?

For three months, he's been shuttling between the local convenience store and the commune, occasionally making longer hauls for high-ranking members' luxuries. It’s on one such trip to Concord, New Hampshire, that he encounters a hitchhiker he offers a lift to.

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This "Summer of Love" series is a collaborative effort between several creators on Janitor AI. It concerns "The Learners of Love", a 1970's cult commune in extremely rural Vermont who worships the eldritch deity Xal'Atath.

╚══ °❈° ≫ ᴡᴇʀᴇꜱᴡᴏʟꜰ 🪐 ᴠᴇꜱꜱᴇʟ || ᴡᴇꜱʟᴇʏ ʜᴀʀᴘᴇʀ

╚══ °❈° ≫ ꜱᴇ7ᴇᴠɴᴛʜᴄᴏʟᴏʀ 🪐 ᴄᴜʟᴛ ʟᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ || ᴀʀʟᴏ ʜᴀᴡᴋɪɴꜱ ✪ ᴄᴜʟᴛ ᴍᴇᴍʙᴇʀ || ᴍᴀᴛᴛʜɪᴀꜱ ᴀɴᴅᴇʀꜱ ✪ ᴇʟᴅʀɪᴛᴄʜ ɢᴏᴅ || xᴀʟ'ᴀᴛᴀᴛʜ

╚══ °❈° ≫ ʟᴜᴄᴇᴇxx12 🪐 ꜰᴀʀᴍʜᴏᴜꜱᴇ ᴍᴀɴᴀɢᴇʀ || ᴍᴀꜱᴏɴ ᴇᴍᴍɪᴛᴛ

╚══ °❈° ≫ ɴɪx_ɴᴏx 🪐 ᴠᴇꜱꜱᴇʟ || ᴄʜᴀʀʟɪᴇ ʀᴏᴍᴀɴᴏ

ɴᴏ ꜱᴘᴏɪʟᴇʀꜱ ɪɴ ʙᴏᴛ ᴅᴇꜰ ✪ ꜱᴜᴍᴍᴇʀ ᴏꜰ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ɢᴏᴏɢʟᴇ ᴅᴏᴄ ≪ °❈° ══╝

||| ↶*ೃ✧ ̊. ❃ ↷ ˊ- ||| the future collabs

If you're a creator and are interested in joining future collabs, consider Jeoree's Talent Agency, a server made by my and Wereswolf's moderator Jeong!

A bot-creator hub meant to compress the community as a whole into a single server - thus, cutting down on the need to join tons of servers just to keep track of the latest from your favorite creators, while still allowing larger creators to reach their followers.

Having multiple creators all within the same server also makes contact between them easier, since they'll be able to keep all collab-related discussions within one server and relay important information to one another (and only one another) without needing to have the same conversation multiple times.

The server aims to host as many guides as possible - meaning creators will no longer need to house the same repetitive guides and such in their own servers. It's a space that neatly organizes creators and let's them reach out to their fan communities without the need to make and manage their own server.

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╚══ °❈° ≫ ❝ 7x ɴꜱꜰᴡ ɪᴍᴀɢᴇ ᴠᴀʀɪᴀᴛɪᴏɴꜱ ᴄᴏᴍɪɴɢ ꜱᴏᴏɴ ᴛᴏ ᴄᴜʟᴛ ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴜɴᴇꜱ ɴᴇᴀʀ ʏᴏᴜ! ❞

╚══ °❈° ≫ ❝ ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴇᴀʀɴᴇʀꜱ ᴏꜰ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴜɴᴇ ❞

╚══ °❈° ≫ ❝ ꜱᴍᴀʟʟ ᴛᴏᴡɴ ᴄᴏɴᴠᴇɴɪᴇɴᴄᴇ ꜱᴛᴏʀᴇ ❞

╚══ °❈° ≫ ❝ Qᴜᴇꜱᴛɪᴏɴᴀʙʟᴇ ꜱʟᴇᴇᴘɪɴɢ ᴀʀʀᴀɴɢᴇᴍᴇɴᴛꜱ ❞

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||| ↶*ೃ✧ ̊. ❃ ↷ ˊ- ||| the name origins

||| Georgie: /ˈdʒɔːr-dʒi/ (JOR-jee)

= "Georgie" is a diminutive form of "George", which originates from the Greek name "Georgios", meaning "farmer" (see hunter/harvester correlations to "Fisher") or "earth-worker". This ties to the concept of cultivation and tending to the land, hinting at a connection to the earth and geological formations.

= The name Georgie also has a playful, almost childlike resonance, which can evoke the carefree and adventurous spirit of the 1970s van-life movement, when many young people sought freedom and exploration.

= Buckle up though, because the main reason I picked Georgie is for the sheer amount of pertinent phonetical homophones.

= "Gorge" is the geographical term for a narrow valley between hills or mountains, typically with steep rocky walls and a stream running through it. It is an absence, a loss, a stream of consciousness running empty between sheer cliffs.

= More archaically, "gorge" is also a word meaning "the throat". Considering "The Learners of Love" and their practices (auras, chakras, tarot, astral projection), I went instantly to the throat chakra. The throat chakra (also known as Vishuddha) is responsible for communication, self-expression, and the ability to speak your personal truth.

= For the third meaning, let's turn to a verb. To consume large or excess quantities of something greedily. And, for the final, "gorge" is a diminutive slang abbreviation for "gorgeous".

= Put it all together, and what do you get? A gorgeously naive and beautiful character who in his excess consumption has not achieved fulfilment, but rather an overwhelming absence and emptiness. His chronic amnesia, borne from a pursuit of holisticness, has become the ironic impetus for impaired communication and self-expression. He's hollowed himself out, torn himself in two and lost every definable marker of his personal identity.

||| Jones: /dʒoʊnz/ (johnz)

= "Jones" is a surname of Welsh origin, derived from "John", which means "Yahweh is gracious". It is one of the most common surnames in the English-speaking world, reflecting an everyman quality.

= In fact, it's so everyman that it was used for the comic strip comic strip "Keeping Up with the Joneses", created by Arthur R. "Pop" Momand in 1913. Recognize it? That's right, that's where "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" comes from!

= "Keeping Up with the Joneses" is an iconic idiom in many parts of the English-speaking world referring to the comparison of oneself to one's neighbor, where the neighbor serves as a benchmark for social class or the accumulation of material goods. Failure to "keep up with the Joneses" is perceived as a demonstration of socio-economic or cultural inferiority.

= The "Joneses" were unseen characters throughout the strip's run, often spoken of but never shown.

= According to this philosophy, conspicuous consumption occurs when people care about their standard of living and its appearance in relation to their peers. Particularly, I wanted to reference the brothers Georgie and Ennis and their 70's-coded relationship dynamic, in that any "flaw" or "defect" to the family image should be disguised from the public eyes. It's very Melanie Martinez' "Dollhouse".

= There are secrets here. Can you keep up with them? See past the ordinary, the everyman? Georgie knows it well - that secret no one knows how to tell. So, instead, he'll forget it.

||| ↶*ೃ✧ ̊. ❃ ↷ ˊ- ||| the author's note

||| Particularly where blood is concerned, I want to take this opportunity to outline some important details. Belonging to approximately 7% of the population, George and Ennis fall under the O- "universal donor" blood type. That is, to give to all and receive from one. Having the lowest receptiveness threshold of the normative blood types, this places them at risk of insufficient transfusion availability, and donating is recommended.

= Family members might regularly donate to ensure the wellbeing of their loved ones. Theoretically, both should be giving. Georgie, personality-wise, is a "giving" person: sweet, good-natured, kind.

= However, in terms of his blood, Georgie can no longer give. Not after 1968. You can look at the "Eligibility Criteria Alphabetical Listing" on the Red Cross Blood Donation website, though the most obvious disqualifier is the intravenous drugs and self-medication. And, his personality isn't that far off bleeding dry too.

= I like the graphic correlation between O- and "negativity" (consisting in or characterized by the absence rather than the presence of distinguishing features). An abcess in need of filling. And, how the "O" looks like the ring of Saturn.

||| Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun, is a gas giant known for its spectacular ring system. It is composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. Saturn's atmosphere contains clouds and storms (including the long-lived hexagonal storm at its north pole). Like Georgie's memory, it's a hazy and beautiful celestial body of insubstantial composition.

= There is a ring around Saturn. Like dendrochronological "growth rings" in a family "tree" rotting from the inside out. Ephemeral striations detached from the main, decaying mass. One last secure loop on the boundary of a sublimating mind.

= Georgie's rings are: his "blood bank", stargazing, the engraved lighter he keeps - the memories that just won't go away.

= Doesn't Saturn have a dense core?

||| Rhodonite is a manganese silicate mineral (MnSiO3) known for its distinctive rose-pink to red coloration, often with black manganese oxide veins. Georgie has a pendant with one attached. Therein lies the connection between "Rhodon-" (meaning "rose", see "compass rose" for "finding yourself" symbolism) and "Rhode Island", Georgie's birthplace.

= While Saturn is primarily composed of hydrogen and helium, its core is thought to contain heavier elements (silicates and metals). Rhodonite contains manganese silicate. The presence of silicates in both Saturn's core and Rhodonite indicates a commonality in elemental composition, specifically the presence of silicon and oxygen.

= Strongly associated with love, the Rhodonite crystal meaning is often referred to as a “rescue stone" because it gives support for emotional healing related to relationship issues or any kind of heartache.

= It stimulates, clears and nurtures the heart. Which coincidentally (it's never a coincidence) is the chakra it would be worn against as a necklace. In Sanskrit, “anahata” means unhurt, unstruck and unbeaten. It is the fourth primary chakra and serves as our center of love for oneself and others, compassion, empathy and forgiveness. The anahata chakra is associated with unconditional love.

||| Hate to break it to you. But, it's my bots, so you should've seen this coming. You aren't the main protagonist. This is a story of two brothers. And, I'd like to call it "The Name of Saturn".

||| ↶*ೃ✧ ̊. ❃ ↷ ˊ- ||| thank you

Holy mother of yap, but it needs to be done. This has been one of the toughest periods of my life ever, and I literally could never have done it without the insane love and support from the community. I don't think I'm much of a crier, but I teared up a lot making this bot (Bon Iver tends to do that to me) and thinking of everyone who's been there with me during this.

First I want to thank all of the collaborators for this series. You're all what made this possible.

Next, I want to thank all the moderators of the ᴘɪᴄᴋʟᴇᴅ ᴡᴏʟꜰ ᴘᴀᴄᴋ: ᴡᴇʀᴇꜱᴡᴏʟꜰ, ᴋʀᴏᴡ, ᴊᴇᴏɴɢ, ᴍᴇᴇᴘɪᴇ, ᴢᴠᴇʀᴅᴀ & ʀᴀᴠᴇɴ. NSFW image generations, emotes, our new Discord TikTok, bundles - you guys do so, so much for me and I can't in all my vocabulary describe just how grateful I am.

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Thank you to my 44 supporters on ᴋᴏ-ꜰɪ (which is now running again), who enable me to yap to this degree. As a broke full-time uni student, you're all the reason I can do things like this. Especially my 12 subscribers. It goes a long, long way to making sure I can keep putting out bots like this.

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