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Lords:
* Alex
* Shannon
Topics:
* Rebranding a Country
* The single-celled dog
* Joe Hart still hasn't cleared out the vampire dens
* https://imgur.com/a/ODW4pBI
* i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious.
* https://tooquirkytolose.tumblr.com/post/689145075338543104
* National Butterscotch Pudding Day (Sep 19)
Microtopics:
* Tying on the tiebreaker.
* Cambodian street food.
* Topic Time!!
* Two countries in the process of changing their names.
* Whether sovereignty was ceded.
* Tourism videos encouraging people to pronounce your country's name correctly.
* History continuing to happen after you leave high school.
* Changing your name to North Your Name to get an alliance with NATO.
* A bonanza for globe manufacturers.
* The United States of Mexico.
* Germany's reaction to the United States changing its name to The United States of Germany.
* Playing the wrong Korea's national anthem by mistake.
* Switching to Roguelike Alphabetical Order so Zimbabwe doesn't always go last.
* What does it mean to be a particular kind of animal?
* Transmissible cancer.
* A breed of dog that no longer exists as a dog but does exist as a strain of transmissible cancer.
* CTVT.
* HeLa cells.
* Whether Henrietta Lacks is still alive.
* How to fix 20,000 years of evolution.
* A dog that is unlike extant dogs.
* When you decide to change your evolutionary niche from macro to microorganism.
* Cancer that is smart enough to not kill its host.
* How cancer interacts with your mutant healing factor.
* What this is and why it's happening to you.
* Why a two year old wants to play in a copper mine.
* What kind of mines New England vampires lived in.
* Rearranging a corpse so that the vampire can't walk.
* No Arizona Mine Draculas.
* Joe Hart: defending our vampires.
* Change that you can really make, if you live in Arizona.
* Not getting the Google results you want because of sports mans.
* The pros and cons of vampire bats.
* Abandoned mines serving as habitats for 28 bat species that are crucial to the local ecology.
* Persons currently experiencing vampirism.
* Can't Have Shitting Gotham.
* Adding line breaks to someone's complaint about a glow in the dark star to make a poem.
* The imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white.
* A life situation that is so poignant that it's impossible to write a poem about, so you describe it in prose and wait for a Tumblr user to come and add some line breaks.
* A monologue that you could read in many different ways.
* Returning to Tumblr because you have more thoughts on the painted-over star.
* Responding to every text from your daughter as if it's a formal letter to a long-lost cousin.
* Putting glow in the dark eyeballs on your closet door.
* Putting you pudding under the Pudding Tree for Father Pudding.
* How you grow the Pudding Tree.
* Werther's Compromise.
* Using Werther's Originals as dentures and you have to replace them every hour.
* Removing the butter from scotch to get butterscotch.
* Soft crack vs. hard crack.
* Those terrifying Pillsbury tins that you bang on the counter and they explode and breadsticks come out.
* How to determine if your candy in progress is in the soft ball stage.
* What is pudding?
* Having an existential crisis on Butterscotch Pudding Day.
* Butterscotch Buttercream Frosting.
* All the Lords that are fit to print.
