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Thank you, Mr. Zeb, I have everything I need for our next article. Don't forget to procure yourself our next paper soon. We're expecting having your partner's input about this situation soon.

And, Gawd, would I love to see more of this sorta thing. You really perfectly caught just how trash tabloids are. Every ellipsis gave me a jolly old chuckle, they did.

Oft have I studied the multiverse in which we dwell, and the other with which we have experience; indeed, I might say that it has become my life's work. Though many are the theories of the structure of reality, I hold myself a confirmed advocate of the Rose.

That there are but twenty multiverses (or belike one and twenty, should the Tower of Reality be shown as truth) is proven by the mathematical beauty of the structure: how might one argue for more, when the locked triangles of the Rose show their perfect geometry? No, say I: in multiversal physics as in nature, simplicity and beauty are the surest indicators of truth.

((Norlossë is an in-universe character, and is not necessarily right. :) ~hS))

I can be your agent, which works, because gasp, I'm already an agent! You should totally message Other Talia and Old Talia (that's what I'm calling them, by the way; you can be New Talia! It'll be like the Spice Girls or something!) and work out what instruments you're all playing.

OOH! EXCLAMATION! Or are you just going to be singing?

What made you turn from the light of the Emperor and become a filthy heretic sign on with the Ruinous Powers? Has access to what is essentially the absolute truth of your home canon changed your perspective on your choices at all? Do you have a favorite media portrayal of your home? I'm quite fond of Dawn of War, myself.

But then, diplomacy has never been my strong suit, so why not?

I suppose if I were to pick something I truly dislike, it would be summed up in one word: paladin. I can not abide moral busybodies poking about in the affairs of others. If I needed someone bleating in my ear to do my job I'd have stayed home.

However, in fairness to Larkus, he has thus far not unreasonably intruded on my business. For his sake I hope it stays that way.

Larkus: I try to find the good things about people more than the bad, but If you're gonna put me on the spot, I'll say this, he's overdue for an attitude adjustment. He's not the worst company I've had, but I think his powers have gone to his head a touch. Arrogant, you know? I get it, he's a mage, he's older than me, he thinks he knows the ropes, but he's liable to get us both killed if he doesn't learn how to work with a partner soon.

Because oh my god I can just take off and fly. I... didn't know I needed that? But I needed that- it's an incredible feeling, when heights feel like opportunity and options rather than being scary. The firebending is cool? Well, kinda exactly the opposite, you know what I mean- but flying is everything.

I haven't met either of them yet, but I think I need to! We'll call ourselves The Talias? Hmm. That'll need some work, but I'm totally in for an all-Talia band.

. . . can eventually come up with ideas for more than 256 multiverses, yeah? And since our scope is limited to what we can imagine, I'm suspect there are far more than any countable number of them. So I'm a proponent of infinite multiverses, myself.

—doctorlit, comforted by the thought that reality is a very big place

What's the most interesting aspect of being a phoenix?

Somewhat unrelated, but http://orteil.dashnet.org/nested this is a somewhat accurate simulation of everything. From the same people who made cookie clicker.

Since Tomash did just poke me about this... ^.^

So, for those who follow Diane Duane on tumblr, there's news about the 30-day OTP Challenge!

For those not in the know: a few years back, DD started this canon-fic (not necessarily canon with the books, but very much a part of the YW 'verse) project and has been posting them to her tumblr for her fans to enjoy. Now, she's putting them all in an ebook - which means she'll have to take the tumblr sections down, due to Amazon's policies on hosting book content elsewhere. Fortunately for us, though, the ebook is free! Just follow the links. ;)

Also, we'll be getting even MORE of the OTP snippits in the oncoming months, so that's a treat!

(Feel free to use this post for other Young Wizards things, too. ^^)

I think that the 256-multiverse theory is a good compromise between 2 multiverses and infinite multiverses previously mentioned. Canon divergence AUs and fics not marked as AU are located in the Prime Multiverse. The other types of AUs are their own respective multiverses.

It's close to S&E Monitor in style, but I don't think it's quite the right fit for it. Being, as it was, inspired by my half-remembered maybe-reading of the S&E Monitor a very long time ago, about a page and a half of the National Enquirer (as much as I could read before my eyes started to smoke), my own twisted and extremely dirty mind, and Geema giving immoral support from the sidelines.

So, since it's a new incarnation of the Multiverse Monitor, the question is this: who's in charge? I asked the Multiverse Monitor and got this statement back.

WHO WE ARE AND WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO.
We here at the Multiverse Monitor are an elite team of journalists, dedicated to providing HQ with premium Multiverse Monitor content. As to how we were formed, there are several theories, one of which is that HQ is so warped that the rules of consensus reality can apply. That is to say, because a large group of agents more or less believe that there is a an organization called the Multiverse Monitor somewhere, publishing a magazine of dubious repute, the organization and the magazine have come into being, a sort of real-life amalgamation of the vision of the collective unconscious.

We accept payments in most currencies.

As always, consider the source before deciding whether or not that's anything other than absolute hogwash. Protip: It's from the Multiverse Monitor.

That would get in the way of good, high-quality journalism!

Ilraen, god dammit, what did I tell you about talking to the Monitor?!

<They were only asking about Farilan! I did not say a single thing about you!>

That doesn't matter! You can't give these people anything, and you should know that by now!

And you should know you can't believe a word they say. We're done here. Bye.

Now I have to ask: is this a new (fourth) Monitor, or have the unnamed reporters joined Starwind and Eledhwen on the 'REAL Multiverse Monitor'? It surely can't be the third version, which had aspirations towards actual standards. ^_^

(I'm hoping for a Fourth Monitor; it'll give Starwind and Eledhwen a chance to rant about being the 'REAL Real Multiverse Monitor'. :D)

hS

I'm not sure how we haven't crossed paths before - I wouldn't say I'm in SIELU often, but I get called in for Grelvish consultations occasionally (don't laugh; I never meant to pick it up). Mostly I end up stuck talking to Ramwë, though.

So: greetings to you beneath the stars beyond Arda. I am Huinesoron, of the PPC, of Nargothrond before the Sudden Flame, of Tirion upon Túna in the days of bliss. I would be glad to make your acquaintance, and remember with you the Elder Days of the world.

Provided we don't have to do it in thrice-detested Original Quendian.

Huinesoron

((... we should totally write a First Age Get-Together. Excuse me while I go off for about an hour to see how many agents would show up...

Okay, so Naergondir, Huinesoron, Dafydd, obviously. Duros Black used to live in Gondolin. Hawthorne is a Maglor replacement. Kevin Talathion comes from southern Beleriand. And... that seems to be it? Our dwarves are from later, Vemi was from much earlier, and I think all our Mannish types are from the Third Age, as is Jareth the Uruk-hai. Huh. ~hS))

Hera, of course, is far too good to do any work beyond carrying messages, and Ilwion is a bit... well, spoiled these days. Dafydd keeps talking about finding the kids a cat (I think he has some kind of kinship with them), but that bronze is all the feline anyone needs. He sunbathes as often as he can; I have to send Hera to badger him into pulling his weight when we actually need something.

It's good to hear Zeke doesn't take after his sire; the worlds need more helpful people!

C

Okay. Look, this is probably kind of time-wasting, and I'm sorry, but Gwil--my fire lizard--she saw me writing messages and got very, very insistent, so...uh, to all your fire lizards, Gwilithiel the gold (ha, sounds like a wizard name) sends her greetings and wishes you...something to do with food, I don't even know what she's trying to get across. Let's say she wishes you a feast, or something, that's at least a nice thought.

So, ah, yes. This would be me, casually contacting people who retired soon before I even joined. Because of a fire lizard who got really excited at the idea of multiple fire lizards and writing messages.

Hi. I hope you're all doing well. And that's the console, so I'm just going to send this before Gwil decides she wants to try typing for herself--wish you all the best--

Dawn

Agent Huinesoron, greetings.

To my knowledge, we have never met; and perhaps there is just cause for it. Should that prove true, I will not waste your time in argument.

However: I am Noldorin, as, I hear, are you, and was of the First Age besides. Should you wish it, I would be glad to make your acquaintance. To speak to another who lived in the same lands, with the same cultures--it would be a grace I had not thought to find after my partner's departure for Endor.

Yours in hope, Naergondir

-- ((I did think of sending a message to Dafydd, but on the one hand he already has a question, and on the other...that would be so awkward. "Hello! I, er, hear you...ah...might have been...Maglor. How...nice. Excuse me while my wish to stay far away from you wars with my wish to talk to someone who lived through my time..." I mean, in an interlude it could be pretty amusing, but for a message exchange I'm not sure how well it'd hold up. Though you never know, I guess. ~Z))