Notes on Cosmology: The Wendyverse

The Wendyverse resulted from Wendy Love-Livingston (of Brainy Teen) having an orgasm so powerful it created an infinite number of universes, all of which entail a girl named Sara(h) turning a girl named Wendy queer. The original universe remains off-limits and unconnected to the derivative Wendyverses. Its existence is not even known by the inhabitants of the derivative Wendyverses. Only the Chief Archivist of Wendyverse Zero (the Wendyverse of Wendy Love the cosmic lesbian) has suspected its existence.

For the sake of brevity, this cosmology only concerns itself with Wendyverse Zero.

The creation of Wendyverse Zero brought about the creation of two major psychic continuum entities, one vaguely female, the other vaguely male. Over time the psychic entities grew larger and more powerful, and the female nature of the first intensified. The same held true of the latter psychic entity. As more and more species flourished in the new cosmos, those species which could advance far enough to build a psychic civilization were cultivated and allowed entry into one of the psychic entities in a process that came to be called Ascension.

The feminine psychic entity came to call itself The Consortium.

The masculine psychic entity liked calling itself The Guild.

It was easier to ascend into The Guild than it was to ascend into The Consortium. The Guild was larger, but The Consortium was more powerful. Some would say vastly more powerful. The Consortium didn't bother with any of that.

It was too busy having orgasms.

It fell to The Guild to conduct, manage, and handle the day-to-day business of the cosmos, which it did more or less efficiently. There really wasn't much to do except let the universe take care of itself, which did.

One thing the universe came up with came to be called a Great Filter Event. What this did was cull the backward species from advancing beyond the gravitational pull of its planet. Those species that thrived after a Great Filter usually went on to become highly cultivated societies with highly developed psychic skills. These societies were called Preascendent civilizations, and they thought very highly of themselves.

Preascendent societies derisively referred to pre-filter societies as back planets or back worlds, and they largely tried to stay away from them. As a matter of fact, The Consortium had very strong restrictions against interfering with back planets, but since they were so busy fingering, tentacling, suctioning, and osmosing each other, this restriction largely went unregarded by a third group of civilizations -- the Pain Rabble.

The Pain Rabble wasn't a species or even group of species, they were a rag-tag, ad hoc, gradually accumulated collection of clans, tribes, and gangs of individuals that did survive a Great Filter, like cockroaches escaping a fire or rats fleeing a sinking ship. They survived, due no doubt to advanced technology, and they huddled together in the void of space, going from star system to star system, barely capable of psychic functioning, but still incredibly more advanced than most back planet species.

They were Hobbesian in two salient features: they were nasty, and they were brutal.

Sometime prior to the events of Wendy's Pink Lipstick Conversion, they had very foolishly attacked a Preascendent settlement. Before the Preascendents could even respond, The Consortium stepped in and "abstracted" the Pain Rabble (every last one in every last star system), keeping them outside of time and space in an eons long state of suspended existence.

The Pain Rabble has no memory of this.

But they avoid any and every encounter with The Consortium, while still nursing a deep and abiding grudge for Preascendent culture - the uppity, self-righteous bastards that they are.

The Pain Rabble started visiting the back planets more and more often.

They had a plan.

There were many, many species occupying back planets, all of them more or less barbaric, but one kind of species in particular had gained a kind of notoriety for never having survived a Great Filter. It became a sort of law among Preascendent teachings. No monkey species can ever survive a Great Filter.

Even The Consortium would lament this fact.

"They have such lovely asses," they would sigh to each other. "But their brains are just awful."

Until one day an artefact from an early war between The Consortium and The Guild accidently crashed on of the back planets orbiting an entirely unremarkable yellow dwarf in an entirely unremarkable galaxy swirling around an entirely unremarkable black hole.

But Nero Craft and Betty Blake found the crashed artefact, setting in motion a whole series of, um, encounters related more fully in Wendy's Pink Lipstick Conversion.

The Guild and The Consortium have certain strictures against murder and body desecration. Only back worlds are allowed to break the strictures against murder, and even then, murder is a rare thing, except on one very silly back planet. Not even the Pain Rabble may cross this line, although they are allowed to take it to the very limits. And both The Guild and The Consortium turn a blind eye towards the Rabble's dabbling in body desecration.

In this matter, Preascendent society holds the Pain Rabble in utmost contempt, for Preascendents nourish an almost religious adoration of the body, which they no longer need for large periods of time, sustaining themselves as they do in the psychic energies of the cosmos.

Theologically speaking, the Wendyverse differs from the stories of Everything Else and from our own reality in one very important way: There is no Abrahamic religion in the Wendyverse, nor Christianity, nor Islam, nor Judaism.

The Eastern religions are mostly the same Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Shintoism, etc., of which we are familiar, but in the West the dominant religion is a form of Isis-Osirisianism, which shares many features the modern reader may associate with Christianity. A cross-like ankh, baptism by water, belief in the resurrection of bodies, a kind of heaven called the Field of Reeds (sometimes called the Reedy Fields by rural adherents), the use of the word "church," as well as buildings of the same basic design called, oddly enough, "church."

One Church in particular has grown in numbers: The Nile Kingdom Church of the New Crock, but many offshoots and obscure denominations and cults also had grown, grew, and continue to grow around and alongside the main Isis-Osiris religion, which will be one of the themes of the upcoming Street Preacher Joe and the Temple of Love.

Thus, any story with reference to the Crafts (Nero, Serena, and Sara), as well as any story referring to The Diana Group, The Entertainment Industry, Essenza-Craft Labs, and any character in any story containing any of those elements or any character originating in Wendy's Pink Lipstick Conversion belongs properly to the Wendyverse.

No story referring directly to an Abrahamic religion can belong to the Wendyverse; they are entirely incompatible.

Thus, stories around The Lesbian Dildo and the Jade Necklace are prohibited from inclusion in the Wendyverse.

The Lesbian Patch stories are either part of Wendyverse Zero or one of many closely associated Wendyverses touching Wendyverse Zero. I'm inclined to regard them as part of Wendyverse Zero because of the inclusion of the Spanish version of the Nile Kingdom Church, but its geography and politics more closely resemble what we readers would think of as the United States of America and not the United Sovereignties of Vespuccia (and yes, there are major differences -- for one thing, the United Sovereignties of Vespuccia are far less militant).

As regards all other stories (Everything Else), they may be considered to occupy each other's same universe (in the manner of King's Castle Rock, say): nominally identical to our own, different only in its fictionality, informed by phenomena of our reality, but not bound by them.