This is way better than the last three cults I joined!

[moon_custafer]

Andrew rewatched episode 5 of Doom Patrol last night, and I’ve got to say it’s my favourite episode so far – the previous one had ended on a cliffhanger, with a cult summoning a god called the Decreator to destroy the world. Turns out the Decreator was actually constructed out of the cult’s faith, so the only solution is to go back in time forty years and start a rival cult who will be able, when the time is right, to summon the “Re-Creator.”

Obviously.

The more I think about it, the more I like that the good-guy cultists are all patients (and some staff) from a 1970s mental hospital, led by a chain-smoking, oxygen-tank-toting, rock’n’roll grandma. I think the main reason they succeed because they’re not simply a mirror-image of the original Cult of the Unwritten Book—one of their commandments is that when the Apocalypse comes they are to “Dance. Dance like there’s a giant eye in the sky watching you.”

Also, Ezekiel the cockroach is once again disappointed by the human race’s failure to be destroyed.

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[sovay]

Pretty sure I overheard them confronting one another in one of Andrew's recent dreams

That would definitely happen to John Constantine. (I don't know enough about Willoughby Kipling to say, although from context so far it probably would.)

[moon_custafer]

Last night Dr. Caulder was there, along with a large number of real and fictional (mostly fictional) wheelchair users. It eventually turned into Stephen Hawking throwing shade at Dr. Strangelove.

[sovay]

It eventually turned into Stephen Hawking throwing shade at Dr. Strangelove.

I suspect I and many other people would pay to see that.

[moon_custafer]

If we could connect a video feed to his dreams, it would either be the hottest reality show (surreality show?) around, or we’d be getting sued over copyright every week.

I should add that for the last few months, his dreams have mainly been about a bar and restaurant located in the Cretaceous, accessible by wormhole, and staffed/patronized by his favourite fictional and sometimes historical characters (Neil Gaiman came in one night and was rather weirded out). Also, the waiters are all velociraptors.

[sovay]

I should add that for the last few months, his dreams have mainly been about a bar and restaurant located in the Cretaceous, accessible by wormhole, and staffed/patronized by his favourite fictional and sometimes historical characters

I'll just take it as read that Andrew never roleplayed in the fan community Milliways, because that would make too much sense.

[baggyeyes]

I’m sorry, but I had to come out from lurking to say that is totally a book I would read.