brockton bay, meet glam

[mxglam]

It's the anniversary. Glam would very much not like to celebrate.

It’s their last day on Winslow High - they’re being transferred to Arcadia on Monday - and also their last day without a patrol schedule assigned.

And the PRT released a small announcement on its website about Glam joining the Wards. Now their wiki page doesn’t get erased, of course - they’re no longer speculative. They wonder what it’s got on them.

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[thinkering]

The robot buzzes in a purring sort of way.

[mxglam]

"Also I think knowledge of the existence of trigger events isn't that common."

[thinkering]

"Except among cape geeks, yeah, although I'd hope the sort of people who show up to this sort of thing would have a higher rate of knowing their shit."

[mxglam]

"Eh, I dunno, strip away the capes and this is a fancy party with expensive food costing exorbitant amounts to come, I'm sure most people here are just coming to mingle and eat hors d'oeuvres and look important."

[thinkering]

"There are similar parties for art museums and orphanage benefits and so on. Some people here probably just go to every such thing they can afford, but some of them are picking and choosing."

[mxglam]

They shrug. "I guess," they say, and pet the robot again.

[thinkering]

Mingle mingle.

The robot chirrs.

[mxglam]

Mingle mingle, om nom hors d'oeuvres.






"Good news: not everyone is incapable of grasping the nuances of gender-neutral language! Bad news: some people are really annoying about grammar."

[thinkering]

"Singular they is too plural, and thou'rt silly for using it that way?"

[mxglam]

"Yes, pretty much. They said I should just pick a pronoun and stick to it."

[thinkering]

"Did you tell them you tried that and it made you miserable?"

[mxglam]

"I didn't use the word 'miserable,' but yes. She said 'tough' - bit subtler, but that. I suggested using another pronoun like 'ey' or 'zie' and I think she wanted to bite my head off."

[thinkering]

"But they're not even slightly plural."

[mxglam]

"No, but apparently they're 'made up.' I wanted to make a ping-pong ball appear and say it was made up as well, but I don't think that'd be conductive to donations so I just decided to get distracted by something somewhere else."

[thinkering]

"Well done."

[mxglam]

"Thank you!"

[thinkering]

"You're welcome."

[mxglam]

Mingle mingle.





"Okay, people who are explicitly awful are more the exception than the norm. That said, why are people."

[thinkering]

"Whose existence are you questioning now?"

[mxglam]

"The latest is yet another person with very relevant opinions on how we should've handled Purity and Hookwolf and Rewind and Fireball," because lacking an official name for the latter two they pretty much made it up. "There was someone who was very unsubtly criticizing the decoration, there was someone doing the same to the food while holding two hors d'oeuvres, there was even someone doing both things." They shake their head very slightly to themself.

[thinkering]

"Well, to be charitable one can be very hungry and have discerning food tastes simultaneously."

[mxglam]

"The fact that this may be about the best stuff I've ever eaten in my life might be biasing me a bit, but that's beyond the point."

[thinkering]

"Are they that good? I never eat at things like this."

[mxglam]

"They're delicious."

[thinkering]

"Well, that's good then."