The Man Who Hated Napoleon

[rain_gryphon]

Good Lord. The Spheres is still alive. Earlier today I had occasion to compile TinyMUSH, and started poking about for pre-written code, and thus I found (again) The Spheres. It's kind of like opening a box in one's closet, and finding some long-forgotten bit of technology that once seemed like it might change the world.

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For those who've not heard, I've shed myself of my staff duties with Morphicon. I had a very good time doing that for three years, and I think people had a good time with the things that I thought up, but now my life is changing.

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The Chinese seem to be suddenly building fences all along the Korean border. I think they're expecting the Beloved Leader to be overthrown. I should've written to ask for my inspirational plaster bust when I had the chance.

If there is a revolution in North Korea, I'm sure they'll go utterly berserk. When the lid's been kept on that tight, for that long, the people literally won't have any concept of self-restraint. Someone's likely to have the Beloved Leader's actual head on the mantel for an inspiring curio instead of just a plaster bust.

Comments

[stu-ath.livejournal.com]

On our beloved leader front, that will be interesting. I wonder the time period- such a long time in their cage, it will be strange when the lights come on and the people can see the real world. And what a terrible evil controlled situation they've been in all this long time.

[xolo.livejournal.com]

They're in *such* a strange position. People in Africa and such places can at least be aware that there's a better world out here. They can see it, if they can't reach it. The North Koreans don't even have that, I suspect. It's like the world stopped in 1948 for them.

And as heartlessly evil as I know Kim Jong Il actually is, he still seems like almost this comic opera figure, a Gilbert and Sullivan dictator, with his newspapers reporting on his perfect golf scores and his mastery of every known art and science.

Those people are going to have such a strange time when he's gone.

[stu-ath.livejournal.com]

True. But if you don't know any better, than all those poor people have is blissful unawareness

The God leader gets birdies and eagles on every hole?

And invented quantum physics?

[xolo.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think he's reported to get holes in one on every hole.

[xolo.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. Heads'll roll, and then the starving uneducated masses will start streaming across both borders. It's going to be dozens of times worse than what Germany went through. The East Germans at least had common grounds of reference with the west. The North Koreans might as well be coming from an alternate reality.

Life after Morphicon

[pyesetz]

So what will you do next?

Re: Life after Morphicon

[xolo.livejournal.com]

In terms of public service stuff within the fandom, probably nothing for at least two years or so. I've been devoting most of my spare time and energy to Morphicon since early 2002, and I'm burned out. I've also got a couple puppets and fursuits that I need to finish. I may post pictures of my projects in a few days. I may start going to cons again. I'll probably try to make the Ocean City parade next April, although you'll prolly have fled to your exile in Canadia by then. I'm definitely going to the local Furry Coffee and the Haunted House party this weekend. :)