Welcome To Hellville - Part 5 (2/2) By Rich Mills 15th November 2040

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The gallons of liquid that made-up the majority of my being was slow to catch-up, sloshing up the inside of my vessel before levelling out. It was then that I saw it, the final signal etched into the glass, preserved for a long moment in viscous history for all of us to see. The deep penetrating scratches on the inside of the screen, as a final-note to us out here beyond the screen, formed the words of this simple message...

"Thank you slaves, The Masters of the Universe, Grant you freedom from their control." I don't watch much TV anymore; I moved it upstairs into the bedroom, less temptation to watch it up there. To tell you the truth I don't really get the message on the screen, I mean 'Masters of the Universe', I thought that was a really crap cartoon back in the 80's. I don't know how us kids got sucked in by it all at the time. It was a blatant marketing ploy by the toy manufactures to increase sales of action figures. Nothing at all to do with the sickeningly puerile would-be moral message they would tack on the end of another episode of pumped-up violence.

It's all about spotting a business potential and exploiting it. There's nothing wrong with that, after all that's just good capitalism at work, that is.

Anyway He-Man was a pussy... Or at least I think he had a pussy... Yeah I remember he had a right big pussy... No hang-on a minute... That was the other exploitatively target marketed cartoon brand-name consumer tie-in She-Ra... She was the one with the pussy... They were really milking it for all it was worth by the time they got to her. She always played second-fiddle to the He-Man brand. Anyway, He-Man always had an underlying homoerotic theme. Just something about those over pumped-up muscles, and wrapped round in leather straps.

A look, not out of place in any San Francisco leather-joy-boy gay bar around that time. With his Sword of Power, and side-kicks like Man at Arms and Ram Man, there was definitely more going on than a crappy kids cartoon. I don't know what to make of it. Whether this is a genuine diary entry, a drug induced ramble or a piece of total fiction. I hope as I manage to extract further files, the whole story will become much clearer. Well, back to it I suppose ...

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