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[mildmanneredwriter]

So a couple of months ago the not-quite-Lock-Ness-Monster shows up. Then a couple of weeks ago, the moon gets replaced. And now yesterday morning, it started hailing colored hail or something. Which—as I was informed today by a guy at the coffee shop is actually pieces of the moon, which exploded, and the one we can see back in its old spot now is just a hologram fake.

[Not that anyone can see, but he takes a moment to sigh on his end. The exasperation might come through in his typing, somehow. It's just got that aura.]

I just want to know, does anyone else feel like we're living in a bad tabloid at the moment? I'm half-expecting Bat Boy to get ported in next.

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[drivesadesk]

Well, we do have lizard people disguised as humans.

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[mildmanneredwriter]

I can't tell whether you're making a valid observation or messing with me.

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[drivesadesk]

Valid observation. There's two of us.

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[mildmanneredwriter]

Oh.
I take it you're one of them.

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[heliophilic]

We have at least three Bat MEN how many more do you want?

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[mildmanneredwriter]

No, like—the thing from Weekly World News? Do they not have that in your world?

[heliophilic]

I have no idea one way or the other.

But I've never heard of it, no.

[mildmanneredwriter]

Eh, you're not missing much. No one ever believed it existed, it was just something they were famous for publishing anyway.
Check that, at least one person probably did believe it.

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[dragony]

ggggggggggghhhhh
a bad tabloid is probably too optimistic
at least those pretend to make sense

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[mildmanneredwriter]

You and I read very different tabloids.
Then again I'm not sure I've ever looked beyond the covers at checkout.
Maybe they make more sense than I realized.

[dragony]

people love a good story, right?
real life is messy, and there aren't always answers to things
made-up ones, if you're faking it from the start, it's easier to fake an ending that justifies everything

so you've never seen yourself on a cover of one?
or wondered what they think about you?
about us?

[mildmanneredwriter]

I wish I didn't agree but you're spot on.
Still seems pretty hollow to me, though. Real life is messier but it's...real.

I try to stay pretty low-key so I've been lucky enough never to make a cover.
But I do wonder.
The FanPort thing was an 'interesting' close-up look but I suppose it only accounted for a certain perspective.

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[solarcharged]

More like a bad comic book. It's just like being at home.

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[mildmanneredwriter]

I actually wouldn't know—never ready any comics books as a kid.

[HE IS AWARE OF THE IRONY.]

But I'll take your word for it. And offer you some sympathy if this is normal for you, sheesh.

[solarcharged]

Me neither but I don't think we missed much. And as for real life, I almost miss bullshit-of-the-week. Almost.

By the way, that multicolored hail? It's as hard as rock.

[mildmanneredwriter]

Bullshit-of-the-month isn't enough for you? Seems like that's what we've got.
Great. Now people are going to need to wear helmets outside.
I figured it wasn't really hail though. IS it rock?

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[the_caped_crusader]

I don't have enough time in the day to talk about why a hologram of the moon wouldn't work.

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[mildmanneredwriter]

I don't think you'd get the chance if you tried. Coffee shop guy didn't leave a lot of room for me to get a word in.

[the_caped_crusader]

I don't imagine you're a reporter on your world, are you, Kent.

[choosetruth]

The problem with tabloids isn't the content, it's the lack of evidence to back it up.

[mildmanneredwriter]

I don't think the problem with publishing absolute bullshit stories is that there's no proof for the bullshit.

[choosetruth]

Of course it is. If there was proof, it wouldn't be bullshit.

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[sathan]

Is it a bad tabloid with what it truly does?

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[mildmanneredwriter]

I'd just rather not live in it regardless of its quality. But then if we had a choice about that, most of us wouldn't be here in the first place.

[sathan]

At least there are others that would prefer to leave. I've heard more recently claiming it isn't that bad.