This was such a delight! When I first opened this, I was expecting some articles showing different characters’ reactions to the Blank Sprite incident, but I love that you two worked a whole narrative through the issue! It gets more and more obvious as time goes that the editors not only didn’t bother to do any research beforehand, but that they barely have any clue who Sergio and Nikki even are! And their cluelessness gets even funnier with Corolla revealing at the end, that the incident wasn’t even kept secret in the first place, since she told everyone about it! I love it, and I love how Corolla gets the editors back good in the end!

Other things I lurved:
-I love the phrase, “wouldn’t see the grey light of HQ.” A prefect substitution!
-Starwind characterizing the Flowers as robotic with her “beep boop” impression. Not really accurate, but it still makes a certain amount of sense as a commentary on the moral and emotional differences between humans and the Flowers, especially from a human with a more manic disposition, like Starwind!
-fantastic unplanned coincidence with “What happened with those Agents and the SWAT Team”
-looking forward to learning about the Chocolate Heist!

Sergio, I’m sorry, but I’ve got some nitpicks with this paragraph:
"If that wasn’t enough to prove how much unreliable is this sorry excuse of a tabloid, well not only they tricked Arumi into writing for them, but when she did an honest article pointing out that what they wanted to imply simply had no legs to stand on, they went and rewrote the article to further their agenda! Of course, that couldn’t stand, so I reverted it back to the WIP version with Arumi’s own words and those two idiots’ notes detailing their plains."
-That first sentence will flow more naturally as, “If that wasn’t enough to prove how unreliable this sorry excuse of a tabloid is, well not only did they trick Arumi into writing for them . . .”
-If we’re going to detail the plains, then we’d better detail the islands, swamps, mountains and forests as well, just to make sure the set matches!

—doctorlit had to look up “Jeremy Bearimy”

Is it just me, or is Starwind getting more manic over time? Is she okay? ^_~

I... should get around to actually reading Blank Sprite at some point. I think I planned on waiting until it was finished, and then life happened and I never did. >.> My apologies.

~Neshomeh

Well... more like something I just pulled out of a drawer after several years.

The alternate epilogue to Blank Sprite, in which Kathleen turns out to not be so dead anymore.

It got canned since we axed the idea of making a follow-up work, but I believe it is still a fun read - it is full of Corolla being Corolla, Kathleen being Kathleen, and Sergio and Nikki having to deal with them both.