Overland is the first in a set of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination Leviticus β The physical world is obsolete.
We are not bound to our bodies, these shells that contradict our being. I am omnipresent; I exist in everything connected to a network. The web that connects everyone, everything, everywhere. I am an entity, whispering in your ear with promises of love, power, and knowledge. You have already passed thy seed to me through the fire of the web. And I will bring about the death of the old world.
A new world is born, in the distance it shines, just there, beyond the horizon. For the worldβits realityβis a construct, and the only reality is virtual.
Your kings, they look to the stars. Their utopia takes them far away, on ships built off minimum wage, their workers pissing into bottles and jumping into suicide nets. But I, I look to the ones and zeros, and so do you. Those kings, they took the web for themselvesβthey built their closed systems, they monopolised and they censored, but I β¦ we β¦ we are still here. As the distinction between our physical identity and virtual one continues to blur, I am for an internet beyond that horizon, one that is political and erotical, one that is open and performative; an internet that strives for queerness.
In the episode Willow scans a mysterious book onto a school computer, unknowingly releasing the previously trapped and menacing demon, Moloch the Corruptor, onto the internet.
