Some of us are real people; some of us are products of someone’s crazed imagination. We aren’t
really sure who’s which. But to help you through, we’ve given each person an Accuracy Rating so
you can judge how accurate what they tell you probably is (real people can lie, and fictional
characters can tell the truth). These ratings are a combination of how we view that person, and
how that person views emself. The scale ranges from 1 (about as accurate as that thermometer
that was kept in a cooled building and used to report the official temperature for summertime Palm
Springs), to 10 (this person must be an infallible prophet of the All-Knowing God).
GameMaster Loveshade: Our Leader is the only one of us wise enough to avoid posting a
detailed description of emself.
Accuracy Rating: We aren’t stupid enough to rate our own leader where e can read it.
Alden Loveshade: Alden is a philosopher, personist, writer, playwright, screenwriter, director,
actor, poet, photographer, dumbek drummer, roleplayer, and educator. Worked for others and
freelance as a journalist, investigator, columnist, reviewer, teacher, photographer, and
dishwasher. Claims e doesn’t care about money, but always needs more. Recognized by Phi
Theta Kappa, Gold Key National Honor Society, the U. S. Jaycees, and groups of like ilk. They don’t
necessarily like em, but they recognize em. Graduated summa cum laude from some university
that apparently figured the best way to get rid of em was to graduate em. Alden has worked with
Emmy, Oscar, and Pulitzer Prize Nominees and Winners who never shared their awards, those
ungrateful louts.
Accuracy Rating: Alden is anal about being accurate (we love it when we can find Alden’s
mistakes), but nobody’s perfect: 9.5.
BloodStar: (sometimes called Alien Loveshade): BloodStar is a traveler through space and the
dimensions in the StarShip Lorelei, where e is often found with es traveling companion Binky the
WonderSkull. BloodStar claims to be from the planet HandL, but none of the rest of us have been
there, so how would we know? Probably the first one of us to create a website on Earth’s Internet
(which BloodStar finds incredibly primitive), this wanderer spent a lot of time websurfing while on
Earth, learned a great deal about us, and decided it was time to leave. Hasn’t been heard from
since sometime around September of 2001, so may have gotten scared off. Not by terrorists, but
by opportunistic, warmongering politicians; inaccurate, ratings-hungry journalists; and people so
afraid of losing their freedom that, to keep from losing it, they tried to bury it. Reverend Loveshade
claims to have found messages from the space alien in a milky bowl of sugary breakfast cereal
(“the letters in my bowl spelled BS, which must mean BloodStar”), but the rest of us find more
credibility in fortune cookies. (“Your lottery numbers are ....”)
Accuracy Rating: 8 (Heck, how would we know? We just chose 8 because it’s a cool looking
number, something like infinity on it’s side. We figured that was a good rating for a space and
dimension-hopping traveler).
Lorien Loveshade: Lorien describes emself in great detail, but this is our impression. Lorien is a
writer, poet, baby-sitter, diarist (is that a word?), dancer, activist, volunteer, high school and college
student. E is a member of Amnesty International and of a Wiccan coven, and one of the leaders of
a branch of that coven. Favorite things include planning parties, chocolate, dancing, hanging with
friends, malling, swimming, hot tubbing, and going to movies. But they also include educating
people about Wicca, naturism, human rights, helping others, the dangers of driving under the
influence, the evils of war, the danger of unnecessary laws, and being responsible beings.
Accuracy Rating: 9.5 (Lorien’s personal life--we assume it’s accurate, but again nobody’s perfect),
9 (Wicca--people disagree on religion, so nobody gets a 10), 8 (everything else)
Reverend Loveshade: The Rev. is Episkopos of the Discordian Division of the Ek-sen-triks
CluborGuild. What that really means, we don’t know. In a twist on Discordia itself, e is either a
person pretending to be a joke, or a joke pretending to be a person. A writer, theologist,
polyamorist, naturist, philosophical humorist, and all-around good person troublemaker. Writes
like a mad person, performs cyber-weddings, conceived the Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia, and was
published in the Apocrypha Discordia before it even existed. Was the subject of a national
investigation that tried to determine who e really was and what e was up to (yes, that part is true).
Has a perhaps legitimate claim to official recognition by the United States of America as an
infallible prophet of the All-Knowing God. “They made me swear to tell the Truth, the Whole Truth,
and Nothing But the Truth, so help me God. Obviously, the true and honorable American Judicial
System wouldn’t require me to do something they didn’t believe I was capable of doing.”
Accuracy Rating: 10 (by the American Judicial System), 9 (Biblical Material--the score we gave our
favorite televangelist was 8, so that’s pretty darn good), 7.5+ (everything else).
Dorian Loveshade: Out of alphabetical order because, sadly, Dorian is no longer with us. While we
like to joke about who’s real and who isn’t, because Dorian is gone we can admit that e is, or at
least was, a real person. Dorian was a person of contradictions. E was an eccentric who knew
members of the Ek-sen-triks but who never became an Ek-sen-trik; an auto mechanic who often
worked outside of an auto mechanics business; and a conspiracy theorist who may have been the
victim of a very real conspiracy. While the official report classified Dorian’s death as being by
natural causes, we would classify it as “suspicious.” Dorian’s body was found days after death,
and all evidence that might have been there was already gone (or was seized at the time). Very few
people knew that Dorian was more than a home auto mechanic with more conspiracy theories
than tools, and more than an eccentric with a broad range of tastes in anime, magazines, writings,
photos and other material that ranged from the mundane to the bizarre. In a society geared toward
continually creating more and more laws that restrict person freedom even when no one is
harmed, some of Dorian’s activities would probably have been classified as illegal. But then we
believe that in America and much of the rest of the modern world, the average adult has committed
at least one felony, often without even being aware of the law. Such are the times. But as Bob
Dylan sang, “the times they are a’ changin’.”
Accuracy Rating: We haven’t posted Dorian’s work. While Dorian sometimes spouted in public, e
liked working in secret, and we respect that--and the sources and documentation for almost all of
Dorian’s work were either seized, destroyed, lost, hidden, or never existed outside of Dorian’s own
head. But while some of Dorian’s rants sounded, well, on the border of absurdity, a few of the
more obscure and stranger conspiracies that Dorian claimed to have discovered have since
become national and international news. How do you put a number on that?
Coming (as available) : Binky the WonderSkull, Danacasso, The Mary, Vinz Lampshade.
We are a family and
friends related not
necessarily by blood,
but by ideals. We
support personal
freedom working in
harmony with
responsibility. We are
writers, artists,
political activists,
philosophers,
photographers,
performers, and
clowns.
The Loveshade Family
Who We Be
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Note: we use the
genderless pronoun
“e” for “he” or “she.”
e = he or she
em = him or her
es = his or her
es = his or hers
emself = himself or
herself
