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* LNH: Classic LNH Adventures #236: Just Another Multi-Writer CascadeArthur Spitzer
+* Re: LNH: Classic LNH Adventures #236: Just Another Multi-WriterJeanne Morningstar
|`- Re: LNH: Classic LNH Adventures #236: Just Another Multi-WriterDrew Nilium
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 by: Arthur Spitzer - Sun, 13 Mar 2022 21:07 UTC

You can sift through the racc list archive
https://lists.eyrie.org/pipermail/racc/
or you can try google groups racc for this issue of JAMWCtwPNHaE.

Jeanne Morningstar gives us another 'Just Another Multi-Writer Cascade That Will
Probably Never Have an Ending' chapter (#4?) (#1NOW?) Will this be The NEW
Birth a Villain we've all been waiting for? Or will it somehow be more Saviors
of the NET or Infinite Leadership Cry.Sig?

And will I deal with the line wrapping? (No!) and will this cause this post to be
caught in the Moderation Phantom Zone? (I guess we'll see!)

But for now...

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ADVENTURES #236

==================== Just Another Multi-Writer Cascade that will
Probably Never Have an Ending Part Two
====================

From: Adrian J. McClure mrfantastic7 at gmail.com
Date: Sun Feb 9 13:19:22 PST 2014

JUST ANOTHER MULTI-WRITER CASCADE THAT WILL PROBABLY NEVER HAVE AN ENDING #1.NOW (#4)
(aka ALL-NEW BIRTH OF A VILLAIN NOW NOW NOW)
"Everything Dies, Nothing Ever Ends"

****

Usenet is dead, to begin with. That much, everyone can agree on. But there are a few corners of it that still cling to fitful life. One of these is alt.obituaries, where the dead come to pay respect to the dead.

In the LNHQ of the city of Necropolis in alt.obituaries, five men are gathered. They call themselves the Saviors of the Net.

"Penultimate Savior?"

"Present."

"Occultism Lord?"

"Present."

"Continuity's Champion?"

"Present."

"Kid Remender?"

"Present."

"Then that is all of us," said Irony Monger. "Now for business. Looniearth-A is having a major crisis. Again."

"When isn't it?" said Continuity's Champion.

"Well, yes," said Irony Monger. "But the way things are now, we cannot afford to let it continue. The balance of the Usenetverse is--"

"Ahem," said Occultism Lord.

Irony Monger sighed and snapped his fingers. A nickel shot out from his gauntlet and landed in the Cosmic Cliche Jar.

"Well, the point is... well, Penultimate Savior, you show us."

Penultimate Savior nodded. A cloud of black smoke with stars sparkling within took shape at the center of the conference room, and an image began to appear inside...

****

The beat up VW bug shimmered into existence like heat haze on the Net.ropolis streets, then screeched to a halt and slammed against the wall. Victoria Arden, otherwise known as Forsaken Lass, jumped out. The sunlight was bright but gave no reflection off her obsidian armor.

"You okay?" she said, touching the car gently.

"I've been worse," said the car, its radio speakers crackling. "I kept some healing spells stored up from when I was in magical girl form just in case.." She glowed and vibrated for a brief moment, and then was more or less as good as new.

"We made it!" said Manga Girl, leaping out of the car and doing a triple backflip in midair. "I think?" She looked around her, trying to take in their scenery. It seemed to be Net.ropolis as usual, although the streets were oddly empty. Again.

Masterplan Lad was the last to leave the car, clutching his head and using his umbrella to keep himself from teetering over. "Yes, it would appear that, miraculously, we have finally caught up with the present day LNH. I assume this means something else will go horribly wrong soon."

"Well, we didn't all make it," said Net.Access.

"Yeah," said Manga Girl. It was the first time Victoria had seen her frown since she could remember. "Any of you figure out where Merc is? The last I remember we escaped the Crossover Queen [Ultimate Mercenary v1 #7], then you dropped him off in the middle of that Hungry Past mess and you said he wasn't part of our world anymore... [in Just Imagine, whenever we get that sorted out.]"

Masterplan Lad frowned. "I know. I have a feeling we haven't seen the last of him. Continuity is a powerful force. I... I do hope so."

"Yeah," said Victoria. "I never thought I'd say this, but I miss the guy."

Masterplan Lad nodded. "At any rate," he said, "at least now I can tell where in my own timeline my stories are supposed to be taking place."

"Yeah," said Victoria. She looked around. "Uh... what are we actually going to do now that we're back?"

Masterplan Lad shrugged. "Go to the LNHQ, I suppose, and... join in on whatever is going on there, I suppose. As one does."

Manga Girl threw up her hands. "Let's go to a PARTY!"

"Er, what?" said Masterplan Lad.

"I'm not up for that right now," said Victoria. "I... kind of just want to rest for a while. "

"I'm game as soon as I figure out how to not be a car again," said Net.Access.

"Well--" said Manga Girl. "Wait, where is everyone? And what happened to the sky?"

The sky, which they'd thought was simply gray and overcast, had turned into static. From all around them they could hear the hissing of a dead signal.

"Not this again!" said Victoria. "I thought we were home!"

"I think we are," said Net.Access. "It's just... some kind of cosmic distortion... thing. I have a lot of technical knowledge."

A horde of dark squarish shapes appeared in the sky and descended to the earth. They were gigantic cans of Spam with googly eyes affixed on them. "Sexe boobs!" they chanted as one in harsh metallic voices as they crashed to the Earth with a mighty clang. "Sexe boobs! Sexe boobs!"

"Spambots!" said Manga Girl. "Let's mobilize!" She flipped in midair and knocked hte eye off one of them, sending it groping around confusedly, then finished it off by slamming it against the wall with a mighty kick.

Victoria suddenly felt herself panic when the Spambots lurched for her. She was tired of all this. She wanted to be alone, where she could be safe. And then, suddenly, she was. She could see the fight going on in front of her--mostly Manga Girl, as Net.Access swerved around trying to run into them and Masterplan Lad stared--as if from inside a tank of water. But it didn't quite feel real. None of the other seemed to notice her absence. And it was an awfully familiar feeling. Somehow, she realized, she'd teleported back to the Threshhold of Limbo, the place where characters went when no one remembered them, where she'd been sent by the Discomega Effect of Flipseid. She thought she heard something whispering from her side. It was Arcanis, the entity in the form of a sword she'd grabbed in the Crossover Queen's Citadel she was apparently stuck with.

Victoria lumbered forward through the depths of Limbo and reached inside the Spambot, yanking out its central processor (or something), a disgusting slab of spam. The shock of it brought her back to reality, and she watched as the robot fell over and collapsed to the ground. But there were three more where that came from heading right for her. She pulled out Arcanis--though handling it (him?) made her feel vaguely ill now--and prepared to strike.

"Victoria!" shouted Net.Access. Abruptly, she reared up on her hind wheels and transformed into a giant robot. She strode over to where Victoria was and kicked one of the spambots out of the way, then grabbed the other and threw it at the wall. Victoria was so overwhelmed by how cool this was that she almost got twhacked by a Spambot tentacle. She sliced the tentacle off with Arcanis just in time, then threw the sword at its heart, destroying it. Arcanis flew back into her hand, unfortunately.

The Spambots were all taken care of now. "Yay! We did it!" said Manga Girl, doing a little victory dance. But then they saw twice as many Spambots descending from the sky.

Suddenly, the sky flickered back into blue and the spambots ground to a halt. "niIiIiIiIice boOoOoOops," they groaned as they collapsed as one. The world faded back in around the four net.heroes. The drivers and pedestrians swerved around them. Some shouted curses at the deactivated Spambots, while others ignored them. It was business as usual in Net.ropolis.

"What was that about?" said Manga Girl.

"And where the hell were you?" said Victoria to Masterplan Lad. "You could have jammed your signal or something. Acutally, I'm still not sure what that umbrella thing does, but it had to do something."

"Plot Device," said Masterplan Lad. "And I was trying to make some form of intervention. But the threads of storytelling here and now have gotten hopelessly tangled. It's even worse than Birth of a Villain."

"Something really bad must be going on," said Net.Access. "We'd better get to the LNHQ."

"No," said Manga Girl, "Victoria is right. I mean, I'm up for anything, but you guys probably need to recover."


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 by: Jeanne Morningstar - Tue, 15 Mar 2022 20:45 UTC

On 3/13/22 4:07 PM, Arthur Spitzer wrote:

> And will I deal with the line wrapping? (No!) and will this cause this post to be
> caught in the Moderation Phantom Zone? (I guess we'll see!)

Ah yes, the "posting directly from Google Groups" days. They used to
wrap posts automatically, until at one point they stopped doing that. In
later issues, I'd post by emailing to the mailing list; today, I use
Thunderbird.

>
> Usenet is dead, to begin with. That much, everyone can agree on. But there are a few corners of it that still cling to fitful life. One of these is alt.obituaries, where the dead come to pay respect to the dead.
>
> In the LNHQ of the city of Necropolis in alt.obituaries, five men are gathered. They call themselves the Saviors of the Net.
>

So.

By this point, I had gotten back into comics after being away for a
while, and started posting actively on tumblr. This was the time when
there was a whole surge of queer comics fandom surrounding some of
Marvel's more colorful and emotionally and narrative accessible series
like Deconnick's Captain Marvel Captain Marvel, Fraction/Aja/Wu Hawkeye
and Gillen/McKelvie Young Avengers.

At the same time, as soon as it crossed over with Captain Marvel, I was
also drawn heavily into Jonathan Hickman's massive Avengers run. (A work
I'd go on to keep referencing later, as seen in That had a very
strongly contrasting feel with the other works I mentioned--creepy,
abstract and cosmic. Funnily enough, though, Young Avengers and New
Avengers both heavily involved parallel universes.

I began to think about the contrast in mood and what would happen if
those different storylines were brought together. What happens if you
crash YA's queer hedonism into Hickmanvengers' cosmic doominess? (The
answer is you get the present day twitter zeitgeist... this was kind of
a forward looking story in some ways, I guess.) And so I threw in the
LNH2 Saviors of the Net as the Illuminati equivalent.

Characteristically, I pulled in a loose end from an old story,
specifically the version of the LNH2 future seen in Ultimate Mercenary
v1 #5. My work has a very strong sense of internal continuity. When I
want to tell some different kind of story, I frequently repurpose
something I have lying around instead of making it up out of the whole
cloth.

Which is also why...

> ****
>
> The beat up VW bug shimmered into existence like heat haze on the Net.ropolis streets, then screeched to a halt and slammed against the wall. Victoria Arden, otherwise known as Forsaken Lass, jumped out. The sunlight was bright but gave no reflection off her obsidian armor.
>

When I wanted a Young Avengers equivalent, I pulled in the supporting
cast from UM V1, the team now known as the Liminals. (Even though Drew
had already kind of thrown in an YA-based team.)

>
> "Yeah," said Manga Girl. It was the first time Victoria had seen her frown since she could remember. "Any of you figure out where Merc is? The last I remember we escaped the Crossover Queen [Ultimate Mercenary v1 #7], then you dropped him off in the middle of that Hungry Past mess and you said he wasn't part of our world anymore... [in Just Imagine, whenever we get that sorted out.]"

I do wish I hadn't skipped Just Imagine, and yet I kind of had to--it
still feels kind of big and overwhelming, but I feel like we can build
up enough momentum from our other writing that it'll get done someday. I
really did have a problem in the past with overcommitting to things.
I've been slowly getting better at this.

>
> Masterplan Lad nodded. "At any rate," he said, "at least now I can tell where in my own timeline my stories are supposed to be taking place."

Ahahaha, well.

>
> Manga Girl threw up her hands. "Let's go to a PARTY!"

Referencing the famous party that wrapped up Young Avengers--which I
also drew on for inspiration with the epilogue bits of LNH v2 #50.

> A horde of dark squarish shapes appeared in the sky and descended to the earth. They were gigantic cans of Spam with googly eyes affixed on them. "Sexe boobs!" they chanted as one in harsh metallic voices as they crashed to the Earth with a mighty clang. "Sexe boobs! Sexe boobs!"

This was a real spam. So was "nice boops."

>It was Arcanis, the entity in the form of a sword she'd grabbed in the Crossover Queen's Citadel she was apparently stuck with.

I don't know where that name came from or what I had in mind originally.
This was one of those plot elements I kind of quietly buried.

>
> Victoria lumbered forward through the depths of Limbo and reached inside the Spambot, yanking out its central processor (or something), a disgusting slab of spam.

This was a neat (kind of Lurking Girl-inspired) use of her powers, I
should have her do that again sometime.

> "Plot Device," said Masterplan Lad. "And I was trying to make some form of intervention. But the threads of storytelling here and now have gotten hopelessly tangled. It's even worse than Birth of a Villain."

Everything was so simple pre-HHS...

> "I archive binged all the Infinite Leadership Crisis issues when we were in the end of time.

I suppose I shall have to write those issues sometime before the end of
the universe then. Maybe I can do it?

> "Hey!" Victoria playfully swatted at her, and found herself laughing. She planted her feet on the roof. "Next time, you could warn me."
>
> "But I can fly now! That's pretty cool, isn't it." She looked her in the eye.
>
> "OH JUST KISS HER ALREADY!" shouted Manga Girl. The two of them looked to see her standing on the roof beside them. She smiled and waved at them nervously, then leaped off into the air.

Now by this time on tumblr, I'd gotten heavily into queer shipping for a
while. The big catalyst was Captain Marvel and Carol Danvers/Jessica
Drew, a major narrative focus of KSD's Captain Marvel around the time of
the Enemy Within storyline. This was the first time I was exposed to an
in-depth, satisfyingly complex relationship between women with a deep
history together that mirrored the wildly popular m/m ships I'd been
exposed to, and it had a huge impact on me. This was also around the
time I got heavily back into Sailor Moon, which pushed me even further
in that direction.

With lesbian shipping goggles firmly welded on, I went back to my old
LNH stuff and found that Alice and Victoria's interactions were
incredibly queer, as were Victoria's reactions to the character who
turned out to be the Crossover Queen. (People being menaced by creepy
domme types is an ongoing thread in my work; see the issue I just
posted.) I wanted to take up the exploration of complex queer feelings
they had in Young Avengers and push it further.

And, as with a lot of my stories, this was written to work with intense,
complicated feelings I have and thing I feared and wanted about my life.
So, this story played a huge role in being able to fully accept being queer.

Manga Girl jumping in to get Alice and Vic to admit their Feelings was
also the first time she had a major impact on the direction the series
took; the second was when she decided "The Liminals" was the actual team
name rather than the title of the series.

[will tackle part 2 later]

--
Jeanne "The Dark Space Princess Knight" Morningstar
Chief Procrastinator, Commission of Ecumenical Translators

Every jumbled pile of person has a thnking part
Which wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of
--TMBG

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On 3/15/22 4:45 PM, Jeanne Morningstar wrote:
> On 3/13/22 4:07 PM, Arthur Spitzer wrote:
<snip>
>> In the LNHQ of the city of Necropolis in alt.obituaries, five men are
>> gathered. They call themselves the Saviors of the Net.
>
> So.
>
> By this point, I had gotten back into comics after being away for a while, and
> started posting actively on tumblr. This was the time when there was a whole
> surge of queer comics fandom surrounding some of Marvel's more colorful and
> emotionally and narrative accessible series like Deconnick's Captain Marvel
> Captain Marvel, Fraction/Aja/Wu Hawkeye and Gillen/McKelvie Young Avengers.

That was a good era... shame it was so short. >:/ But that's the society we're
working in - we only managed to get that far because of the battles those before
us had fought, and to bring it back, to go further, we have to fight even harder!

> At the same time, as soon as it crossed over with Captain Marvel, I was also
> drawn heavily into Jonathan Hickman's massive Avengers run. (A work I'd go on to
> keep referencing later, as seen inĀ  That had a very strongly contrasting feel
> with the other works I mentioned--creepy, abstract and cosmic.

Which is kind of the dichotomy of your work. :>

> I began to think about the contrast in mood and what would happen if those
> different storylines were brought together. What happens if you crash YA's queer
> hedonism into Hickmanvengers' cosmic doominess? (The answer is you get the
> present day twitter zeitgeist... this was kind of a forward looking story in
> some ways, I guess.)

Hm. X3 Excellent point.

> Characteristically, I pulled in a loose end from an old story, specifically the
> version of the LNH2 future seen in Ultimate Mercenary v1 #5. My work has a very
> strong sense of internal continuity. When I want to tell some different kind of
> story, I frequently repurpose something I have lying around instead of making it
> up out of the whole cloth.

Hell yeah. <3 I respect that a lot.

> When I wanted a Young Avengers equivalent, I pulled in the supporting cast from
> UM V1, the team now known as the Liminals. (Even though Drew had already kind of
> thrown in an YA-based team.)

Yours was of course actually well-defined, so. X3

>> "Yeah," said Manga Girl. It was the first time Victoria had seen her frown
>> since she could remember. "Any of you figure out where Merc is? The last I
>> remember we escaped the Crossover Queen [Ultimate Mercenary v1 #7], then you
>> dropped him off in the middle of that Hungry Past mess and you said he wasn't
>> part of our world anymore... [in Just Imagine, whenever we get that sorted out.]"
>
> I do wish I hadn't skipped Just Imagine, and yet I kind of had to--it still
> feels kind of big and overwhelming, but I feel like we can build up enough
> momentum from our other writing that it'll get done someday.

Yeah, it was the right decision. I've been starting to Feel it again lately.

> I really did have a
> problem in the past with overcommitting to things. I've been slowly getting
> better at this.

Big same, on both sides. X3 I feel like my big breakthru came when, towards the
end of the conflagration of sabertoothly enthusiasm in October and November of
2020, I went "Okay, I'm going to draw together all the disparate elements we've
thrown in here so they can be resolved in the end." And I just kept working away
at that thru 2021, and now here we are.

>> Masterplan Lad nodded. "At any rate," he said, "at least now I can tell where
>> in my own timeline my stories are supposed to be taking place."
>
> Ahahaha, well.

Well, once we got v2 #50 published. X3

>> Manga Girl threw up her hands. "Let's go to a PARTY!"
>
> Referencing the famous party that wrapped up Young Avengers--which I also drew
> on for inspiration with the epilogue bits of LNH v2 #50.

Yessss. :D

>> A horde of dark squarish shapes appeared in the sky and descended to the
>> earth. They were gigantic cans of Spam with googly eyes affixed on them. "Sexe
>> boobs!" they chanted as one in harsh metallic voices as they crashed to the
>> Earth with a mighty clang. "Sexe boobs! Sexe boobs!"
>
> This was a real spam. So was "nice boops."

heeheehee

>> It was Arcanis, the entity in the form of a sword she'd grabbed in the
>> Crossover Queen's Citadel she was apparently stuck with.
>
> I don't know where that name came from or what I had in mind originally. This
> was one of those plot elements I kind of quietly buried.

I'm pretty sure I actually have a summary of your original idea somewhere in an
ancient Google Doc. X3 But the idea you've told me about more recently is better.

>> Victoria lumbered forward through the depths of Limbo and reached inside the
>> Spambot, yanking out its central processor (or something), a disgusting slab
>> of spam.
>
> This was a neat (kind of Lurking Girl-inspired) use of her powers, I should have
> her do that again sometime.

Absolutely. :D

>> "Plot Device," said Masterplan Lad. "And I was trying to make some form of
>> intervention. But the threads of storytelling here and now have gotten
>> hopelessly tangled. It's even worse than Birth of a Villain."
>
> Everything was so simple pre-HHS...

X3 Was it??

>> "I archive binged all the Infinite Leadership Crisis issues when we were in
>> the end of time.
>
> I suppose I shall have to write those issues sometime before the end of the
> universe then. Maybe I can do it?

I know you can! :D

> Now by this time on tumblr, I'd gotten heavily into queer shipping for a while.
> The big catalyst was Captain Marvel and Carol Danvers/Jessica Drew, a major
> narrative focus of KSD's Captain Marvel around the time of the Enemy Within
> storyline. This was the first time I was exposed to an in-depth, satisfyingly
> complex relationship between women with a deep history together that mirrored
> the wildly popular m/m ships I'd been exposed to, and it had a huge impact on
> me. This was also around the time I got heavily back into Sailor Moon, which
> pushed me even further in that direction.

yessssssss. <3 <3 <3

> With lesbian shipping goggles firmly welded on, I went back to my old LNH stuff
> and found that Alice and Victoria's interactions were incredibly queer, as were
> Victoria's reactions to the character who turned out to be the Crossover Queen.
> (People being menaced by creepy domme types is an ongoing thread in my work; see
> the issue I just posted.)

It sure fuckin' is. :D

> And, as with a lot of my stories, this was written to work with intense,
> complicated feelings I have and thing I feared and wanted about my life. So,
> this story played a huge role in being able to fully accept being queer.

:3 yessssssssss. <3 <3 <3

> Manga Girl jumping in to get Alice and Vic to admit their Feelings was also the
> first time she had a major impact on the direction the series took; the second
> was when she decided "The Liminals" was the actual team name rather than the
> title of the series.

Yes good. :D

Drew "love Sakura Mangas" Nilium

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On 3/13/22 5:07 PM, Arthur Spitzer wrote:
<snip>
> Jeanne Morningstar gives us another 'Just Another Multi-Writer Cascade That
> Will Probably Never Have an Ending' chapter (#4?) (#1NOW?) Will this be The
> NEW Birth a Villain we've all been waiting for? Or will it somehow be more
> Saviors of the NET or Infinite Leadership Cry.Sig?

All three! \o/

> Usenet is dead, to begin with. That much, everyone can agree on. But there
> are a few corners of it that still cling to fitful life. One of these is
> alt.obituaries, where the dead come to pay respect to the dead.

This is such a good fucking paragraph.

> "Victoria!" shouted Net.Access. Abruptly, she reared up on her hind wheels
> and transformed into a giant robot. She strode over to where Victoria was and
> kicked one of the spambots out of the way, then grabbed the other and threw
> it at the wall.

HELL YEAH

> Victoria was so overwhelmed by how cool this was that she almost got twhacked
> by a Spambot tentacle.

*I can empathize*

> "I'm better now. Just had to figure out what genre I was in."

I can also empathize with that.

> She bent over and kissed her. Victoria felt a rush of warmth and life and
> excitement, like nothing she could remember. Of course, that didn't mean it
> hadn't happened anyway. She abruptly pulled away.

That's being trans and queer and anxious, all right!!

> "Yeah!" said Alice. She laughed. "I can't believe this. My dream is coming
> true. Ever since I was a college freshman taking fourteen credit hours at
> Dave's Thomas Deluxe University, staying up late at night listening to news
> reports about the LNH, I dreamed about being a hero. Then I got mixed up in
> all this cosmic stuff and became the embodiment of crossover-ness or something
> and I was just struggling to stay alive. Now, I can be a real hero. We can
> save the world together."

Another relatable thing. X3

> "What was the point of all that?" said Kid Remender. "I didn't come her to
> see people talking about their relationships."

Anybody remember Rick Remender nowadays? I'm asking honestly, I have no idea
what comics discourse is like anymore. X3

> "The Spambots," said Occultism Lord, "are the most hardy and pervasive element
> of the web ecosystem. They will survive when everything else is gone. They're
> the cockroaches of the internet. If the Spambots themselves are dying off,
> than what does that say about Usenet?"

That's a good friggin point, that's one that's stuck in my mind.

> In the LNHQ rec.room, a man sat alone. His face was covered in demonic-
> looking face paint and a helmet with enormous and unwieldy horns.

There's our boy!

> "Yo, Anti-Christ Lad, I get that a man's gotta monologue sometimes, but chill
> down! Some of us are trying to dig some funky music over here." said a rather
> zaftig young woman with messy natural hair. She wore bell-bottom jeans and a
> white bra that happened to be on fire. She was Burning Bra Lass, the Spirit
> of Feminist Vengeance, who like Anti-Christ Lad was part of the Legion of
> Net.Hippies, brought forward from The Sixties (tm) to the present.

She's great and I'm sad I never really found a place to use her before the Time
Door plot wrapped up. X3

> "OK, that's enough of that," said a voice from the distance. A pale, dark-
> haired woman appeared on stage. She wasn't dressed like a net.hero, but in
> this room full of gaudily dressed superbeings she held herself up like she
> owned the place.

Whoof. *Lots* of feelings here.

> It was a stick of chalk in the shape of Slobbering Grue! with "I'm Chalk!"
> written on the packaging. She glared furiously at it before opening the chalk
> and starting to draw on the blackboard.

I love imagining her randomly angry >:o expression.

> He furiously pressed the buttons on the control panel, and a picture flashed
> on the screen. A picture of the being he had dedicated his life to, an
> obsession that consumed the core of his being. "And then you, Time Crapper,
> shall attain whatever inscrutable goals you seek. And I shall at long last be
> free of the wretched prison in which I have for so long been trapped... THE
> FRIEND ZONE!
>
> He looked up at the picture with a look of swoony devotion. He often spent
> several hours of every day staring at it. "AND LYDIA DEVIN WILL FINALLY
> NOTICE ME!"

I love how absolutely awful he is. It's a good antidote to the "yes but maybe
the genocidal maniac's self-important justifications have a *point*" of the
Infinity War movie.

> The Crossover Queen had gathered the deadliest of her forces together in her
> throne room. Cyborcs, Imperial Spambots, Dire Moa, Gogmagogs, Mer-Yeti, and
> other creatures too numerous and horrible to mention clustered around the
> throne.

I absolutely love the Narnia reference here.

> And at their head stood the figure who would lead the first wave of her
> assault on Looniearth-A. It was a teenage girl dressed in aggressively gothic
> clothing. How she could move with all the belts and chains she wore was a
> mystery to everyone.

IT'S OUR GIRL!!! :D :D :D

> "Oh my god!" said one of them. "You don't know there's a Sidekickz concert?
> They're almost as cool as One Direction!"
>
> "Whatever," said Merissa. "I'm as cool as *two* directions.

This is a line I think about all the time. X3

> "I'm afraid he's right," said Irony Monger. "The only thing left to do is to
> destroy Looniearth-A."

DUN DUN DUNNNN

Drew "gogmagoggoggoggoggoggg" Nilium

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