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Seriously, it's like Els again, but... multiplied. Did something happen in HQ?

Given that he just suspended Kanye West for inciting violence.

I agree totally with this move. Kanye has been seemingly searching for deeper and deeper ends to go off of, and recently praised and defended someone he really shouldn't have (tw: super anti-semitism. Like, massive massive anti-semitism. Just... don't click this unless you really want to, okay?). But... if people have to push to the point of defending THAT to get suspended, then you're being too lenient. Donald Trump also incited racist violence with his Jan 6th stunt, and Elon reinstated him all the same. He's also reinstated known misinformation spreaders like Jordan Peterson in the name of fairness (to whom, might I ask).

So, the lesson is just because someone isn't cartoonishly, mustache-twirlingly evil with no standards whatsoever doesn't mean they're not evil.

...also the replies to Elon's tweet are seriously defending Kanye's right to not be suspended over this and claiming that this is some sort of threat to free speech. Like, I can think of two reasons you'd consider Kanye's words to fall under free speech protection. The first is that you're stupid. The second is that you agree.

i do hope you find them soon even if they are very small and cute and would love for you to leave tiny mittens out for us. them. so you don't get cold when they touch you of course.

All the later ones - the tabloid, the magazine, the new tabloid - have been, but this might have been more of a PPC newsletter? It might even just have been an AW-and-friends "news"letter that happened to be mentioned to the PPC. Like I say, all I actually recall is the Plotbunny (Plot-Nuzgul, maybe?) Adoption Centre, which doesn't have a very in-universe feel to it; and AW's columns are very clearly just AW's thoughts on stuff.

Al's Waiter barely exists as a character in the PPC - I think his only appearance was in bjam's Tale...

... which, conveniently, actually establishes this Monitor as an in-universe publication, and tells me that bjam herself was behind it. That checks out; she was very much the type. I've no idea where she would have hosted it though; her LJ has been purged, and that's the only idea I had.

hS

Still on his search for a mini of his liking, Inasuke is partnered with someone he didn't expect.

P.S: The writer does wonder why there seems to be a higher concentration of Gary Stus in this fandom than other pretty-boy female-targeted games.

Everyone else has already talked about the awkward real-world implications, but I'm a bit curious about something else. The Multiverse Monitor is an in-universe newspaper, right? It's been a while for me, but that's vaguely what I remember. This makes me wonder what the in-universe response to this would be, especially with the number of non-World-One fellows in HQ who'd have no idea what Walter Blue was talking about.

-OrangeFox

Oh fu

I see other folks have already hit the commercialization-yes-bad-but-proselytizing-no-also-bad, so I won't harp on that any further. Okay, I lied, I want to put something into words: AW says, ". . . they need Christ in their lives to give it meaning . . ." but life is inherently meaningful; the fact that Earth has developed this complex web of exchanging and recycling matter is amazing and wonderful and beautiful. The living is the meaning. To me, the "give it meaning" language implies that we need an outside authority to tell us why we exist, and that no reason or purpose we find on our own is valid—in other words, it's a very authoritarian sort of meaning to seek, and devalues our own view "from the ground," as it were. And the thing is, we don't even need our own reason to exist. There doesn't need to be a point at all! It's okay for us to just be alive, to be tiny, unimportant components of this complex life web, who coexist with earthworms and weeds and bacteria and pond scum, who aren't any better or worse than those other organisms, and who just get to be alive for a little while before we return all of our components back to the soil, where they came from in the first place, and disappear and never exist again. It's okay to be unimportant, to just be a terrestrial ape with a complex language center for a while, and nothing more! The living is the point.

Also, holidays are boring. Except Halloween, of course. Halloween be bumpin'.

Oh, one other minor thing to respond to: AW refers to commercialism as a mask that conceals the true feelings underneath, but see, I've never been one to express much emotion*. To me, the obligatory good cheer is the mask; I would much rather have another ordinary day on Christmas, working, enjoying stories, and minimizing social interaction.

—doctorlit is a temporary carbon construct, and that is enough for him

*Except when I'm screaming at hoses at work, but I'm getting better about that! Remarkable how much easier it gets to learn to control your temper when one of the zookeepers you frequently work with has major PTSD over people yelling!

Not everyone needs Jesus, nor do they want it. But the ideas of comfort and family and warmth in midwinter are much better than the overcommercialised capitalistic dreck that Christmas has become.

They are ruining the feng shui.

The Trio go through the trapdoor.

One more chapter before year one is done! Thank you to everyone who's commented! :)

but im defiantly not a snow gollum, nope

I imagine it sparked a lively conversation, 'cause yeah, as far as I recall, the PPC has pretty much always had an irreverent if not downright atheistic streak to go along with its queer-friendliness.

AW is, of course, entitled to his opinion. But that doesn't mean we have to agree with him wholesale. {= )

~Neshomeh

i mean if snow golems were real hahahhaha ;aslkfhaiehsorry water spilled on my keyboard

I mean, I know we have a strong Christian contingency in our membership, but the PPC never struck me as a Christian organization. Maybe it was the early presence of Slashers that did that to my perception...

Anyways, this post just... squicks me out a bit. I'm cool with the anti-capitalist sentiments there, but the I-know-better-than-you, you-need-jesus-to-give-your-life-meaning, oh-you-poor-decadent-sinners elements just... really, really rub me the wrong way.

Maybe it's the immediate association with people who would consider my existence a sin. Actually, no, it's definitely that.

((Agent Inasuke is unfortunately unconscious from the sight of his mini Booky wrestling with an adorable snowman-like creature))

These things yours? Get ‘em out of here! They’re upsetting Fred!

Completely different—in a very good way.

—Ls

This reminds me of my LDS Light the World initiative, which is about spending December in service to others. “When ye are in the service of your fellow beings, ye are only in the service of your God.”

Merry Christmas! And Happy [Insert any other holiday here]!

—Ls

wait huinesoron isn’t even real—

You know you cannot lettest the golems out! And no, I definitely didn’t adoptest one!

sips herbal tea

brings out snow cannon

Eat snow, losers! Mua ha ha ha ha ha—

mouth is filled with snow

(Yes! Make the Board weird again! —Ls likes this)

personally i don't even think snow golems exist haha what a funny joke thoth nothing to see here

I miss doing silly things. Hence, as part of the Initiative To Make The Board Weird Again, I have been hard at work constructing snow golems. Many, many Snow Golems. These adorable little critters are roughly the size of a human fist, and I planned to set them loose upon the board and watch the mayhem. See, I have them in this box here and when I open the box... huh.

Oh dear.

It seems that my sentient, snowball-sized snow creatures have escaped, and I haven't got a clue where they might be. They could be in your house. They could be in your yard. They could be posting on this very board. They could be you. They could be me! They could even... okay, no, they're not me. Put the gun down.

...And if they find their way into HQ, who knows what could happen.

Please let me know if you've seen any of them?

-Thoth