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A Curious Journal [handwritten]

To whom this may concern,
I don't know who you people are, nor do I know why you keep leaving this notebook in my attic, but I am quite certain it does not belong to me. I'll admit, it is rather lovely, duck motif on the front cover and all, but I hardly remember agreeing to participate in what I'm assuming is a public diary to be filled by some sort of exclusive club in which I do not belong to.
Now that I think of it, how is it that you keep breaking into my house without unlocking any of the doors?!
Sincerely, Dorian Gray

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Why do we keep getting people who don't know what internet is.

Your guess is as good as mine. I suppose "internet" is the title of this magic book thing?

Uh... kind of. The real explanation is really long and then you're not gonna believe us and then we're gonna have to talk about electricity and wired communication and after THAT we're gonna have to talk about how the community is half magic and half technology and reaches across time and space and you're gonna say we're making stuff up and THEN someone's gonna have to teleport to your house to prove other worlds are real and you're gonna freak out again and I don't wanna do that.

This is the 1880s. I know what electricity and wired communication are.

Besides, I'm somewhat used to strange semi-magical objects in my house.

Edited 2016-01-18 00:22 (UTC)

...I don't know when some stuff was invented, okay. Just what was around in 1999 and what was invented between that and 2012, and sometimes I get that wrong too. But!

Wait. You're from the FUTURE?

Yeah, and then I moved to another world that was even more the future because my old world sucked.

There's one sentence you don't read every day.

Who are you, and what is the future like?

My name is Sawatari Makoto. We have a lot of cars and trains and office buildings and most things run on enetron, but apparently other worlds in the same time don't know what enetron is and use nuclear or hydro power or stuff like that. Also, there are a lot of cat videos. I bet I can send you some. Links even work in books.

See, cats.

One, is a car some sort of futuristic carriage?

Two, I don't know how you did this, but you gave me a literal moving picture of a wobbly kitten.

I suppose logic does not work here at all, Miss Makoto.

Yeah, and it goes super fast.

A cute wobbly kitten! Because it's a link for us, but then you're using a magic book because you don't have internet. Nobody knows everything about how the community works, not even someone really smart.

So... This "community" of sorts picks its members randomly?

I think so. Except it's only interesting people.

Ah. That says something about the quality of it.

Like who to talk to and stuff?

Exactly, my dear!

I guess I can also take it as a compliment, since if the community only accepts interesting people, that must mean I am sufficiently interesting.

Do you have an exciting life? Most people here do.

Well, that depends on what you find exciting. How do you fancy going to balls and music halls?

It sounds fun. Like off manga.

Care to explain what "manga" is?

Books with pictures and stories and there's lots of different kinds but I like the ones with interesting love stories or explosions but the last one I can already see at home anyway.

It sounds much like a children's book with complicated plot-lines.

As for the explosions, are there lower safety standards in the future?

No, we just have a bunch of enemies.

Oh dear, it looks like you keep making enemies of arsonists. I imagine cleaning up after that lot must be irksome.

If we broke into your house, it wouldn't be to leave a journal.

As it stands, it's a form of magic that even I don't understand.

I apologize for the delay, but I dropped the book in shock when I saw it write by itself.
Still, this isn't the first time a magical object has come into my possession. Really, it feels like my life is becoming a faeire tale.

Wait till you find out you're writing to a unicorn.

Which you are.

Hi, I'm Dusk Shine. Welcome to the Duck.

Well then! Should I ask how you're able to write with hooves, or just accept the chaos?

Mr. Shine, what exactly is this... Thing, for lack of a better term.

I use magic, to grip the quill that I'm writing with. Sometimes I use a computer but those are harder to come by.

It's as far as I can tell, some kind of interdimensional communication relay or nexus as you will. Designed specifically to host various people from many worlds, medians and other places. It's not a trapping system, nor innately hostile, but prefers to cause chaos once in a while.

Most importantly, it allows people to talk through their issues, problems, and sometimes change the outcome of a scenario.

Interesting...

This could be useful. There are a great many things going on in my life that are unfit to vent to my peers. Then again, who knows what other sorts of people are going to see my entries.

Also, what is a "computer?" Some sort of calculating machine?

At the most basic level. Picture a mathematician with an abacus or a machine hand-worked. Now picture that person being able to do work at a speed unheard of.

There's plenty to see, and the community is small for now. It's not too bad.

Faster than the machines in the factories? Amazing.

That is somewhat reassuring, but it also leaves room for a spontaneous growth in membership.

Edited 2016-01-17 22:25 (UTC)

It does. It's pretty great and we're working to get them widespread here in Equestria.

It does. The community is, as I was told once before, used to be much bigger.

Really now? What happened to the others?

They just lost access. Sometimes it happens, and people drop in and out of this place.

So there is a way to get rid of it if necessary.

No matter. I think this might be fun.

This is a pretty neat place after all. Lots of research material too.

Even though the material in question may not apply to your particular world.

You must enjoy reading very much. Might I recommend a novel, if it is available in "Equestria?"

Yeah, but I'm a scientist at heart. I like building things and working on theorims.

Sure, go ahead.

Magical Science. How novel!

The book is À rebours (which is French for "Against the Grain") by Joris-Karl Huysmans. One of my personal favorites. Perhaps you might have heard of it?

I'll have to look it up. It sounds Prance. I recognize the pony version of said author though.

Prance is a verb where I'm from, though I assume you already figured it out.

Pony version, though? Is everyone a pony of some sort in your world?

Yeah, I've noticed the difference in word usage across the worlds.

There's various historical people who my world shares a history with. And there's some ponies who are just equivalents of others.

So it really is an alternate universe. This sort of thing feels like the work of a Science Fiction novel.

Pretty much. There's a lot of similarities.

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