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2022-05-30

by shaenon on May 30, 2022 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Phantomwise
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  1. Alphaghoul
    May 30, 2022, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Right so, how are they not on earth right now? Just giving him a dream vision?

    • awgiedawgie
      May 30, 2022, 12:52 am | # | Reply

      I would guess that they just dropped by for a pitstop.

      • woozy
        May 30, 2022, 12:55 am | # | Reply

        That is one really weird flight plan. Sort of like some of my trips….

        • JoB
          May 30, 2022, 2:23 am | # | Reply

          Well, that depends on how long the trip to Lovetron will take. Maybe, comparatively speaking, they weren’t even out of the driveway yet.

          Or maybe they REALLY wanted to grab some popsicles for the way.

        • awgiedawgie
          May 30, 2022, 7:17 am | # | Reply

          It’s no weirder than some I’ve heard of. Like Chicago to Miami, with a layover in Denver.

          • notStanley
            May 30, 2022, 12:09 pm | #

            yeah, the Hub ‘N’ Spoke system may be more efficient for the airlines, but has put their customers on some very non-intuitive routes :{

        • Frank Hightower
          May 31, 2022, 12:25 am | # | Reply

          well you know the old joke, “since we’re late, we’ll drive three times around the block so everyone can remember what they left behind”

    • Dreamer
      May 30, 2022, 5:15 pm | # | Reply

      My guess? Hologram.

  2. DWVR
    May 30, 2022, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    They decided all that? The whole shipload? That’s some organizational skills, Sweetheart.

    • awgiedawgie
      May 30, 2022, 12:53 am | # | Reply

      Well, Gavotte did tell Sweetheart she had great leadership skills.

  3. Robert Nowall
    May 30, 2022, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    So where you gonna hang till then, Sweetheart?

  4. David B Huber
    May 30, 2022, 1:23 am | # | Reply

    So, let me get this straight.

    The life forms we (in our hubris) created have shrugged off the best efforts of Homo Sapiens to eradicate them and are rallying offworld, planning to return after they’ve developed more advanced weapons and solidified their alliances?

    Pavane had the right of it: “You’re too much like your creators after all.”

    • Towering Barbarian
      May 30, 2022, 3:04 am | # | Reply

      To be fair, our best efforts to eradicate them involved no longer realizing they exist. They’re going to have to work pretty hard to outditz us on that one. 😀

  5. Clifton
    May 30, 2022, 5:46 am | # | Reply

    At this moment, if I could leave Earth in an awesome spaceship and taking with me a few hundred or thousand of my closest friends and solid allies… yeah, I’d take my time about coming back.

    • Duane B.
      May 30, 2022, 8:13 am | # | Reply

      I think of it as leaving town, till things cool off.

  6. vogerl
    May 30, 2022, 6:29 am | # | Reply

    Shields can be used for bopping!

    • Al the K
      May 30, 2022, 8:56 am | # | Reply

      yeah, but you gotta peel off the stickers that say “for defensive use only”.

    • D. Walker
      May 30, 2022, 11:59 am | # | Reply

      Alternatively, awesome space rayguns can be used for defense – like shooting down incoming missiles, or a fleet of hunter-killer drones,

      • Duane B.
        May 30, 2022, 2:42 pm | # | Reply

        Convincing your enemy that you
        prefer being a dead lion to being a live jackal
        does have its adherents.

        And, if it works, you’re a live lion.

        • Robert Nowall
          May 30, 2022, 8:20 pm | # | Reply

          “Dead” and “alive” don’t seem to make much difference to some of the cast.

          • awgiedawgie
            May 30, 2022, 8:26 pm | #

            And in fact, for some of the cast, neither “dead” nor “alive” is even an accurate descriptor.

          • Duane B.
            May 30, 2022, 10:38 pm | #

            Being an Undead Lion is even cooler,
            Room temperature at least

  7. Robert Nowall
    May 30, 2022, 10:08 am | # | Reply

    Dit-dot-didit, dit-dot-a-didit-ditit
    Dit-dot-didit, dit-dot-a-didit-ditit
    Dit-dot-didit, dit-dot-a-didit-ditit
    Dit-dot-didit, Sweetheart came back, we see.

    She took the saucer in a coup-de-main, foiling big-time Pavane’s plan,
    Leading her to come back home, we see.
    Oh, she’ll dot all the I’s and she’ll cross the T’s.
    Paperwork is how she’s pleased.
    Leading her to come back home to we.

    Coming back from above,
    Returned from up above
    Sweetheart, Sweetheart, back to Earth, we see.
    Didn’t like it above,
    Lovetron no good above.
    Sweetheart, Sweetheart, back to Earth, we see.

    Oh, they made mistakes, you know it’s true,
    And no more shadow stuff, with that they’re through.
    Sweetheart, Sweetheart, back on Earth we see.
    It’s time to learn to live with man.
    They’ll stay on board till that’s in hand,
    Not like before, but back to Earth, we see.

    Coming back from above,
    Returned from up above
    Sweetheart, Sweetheart, back to Earth, we see.
    Didn’t like it above,
    Lovetron no good above.
    Sweetheart, Sweetheart, back to Earth, we see.

    Dit-dot-didit, dit-dot-a-didit-didit
    Dit-dot-didit, dit-dot-a-didit-didit
    Dit-dot-didit, dit-dot-a-didit-didit
    Dit-dot-didit, Sweetheart came back, we see.

    Came back, came back we see,
    Came back, came back we see,
    Came back, Sweetheart came back we see…

    —from “The Morse Code of Love (Baby Come Back To Me),” written by Armado / Crowley / Beckett / James, sung by the Capris, or maybe you remember the Manhattan Transfer version?

  8. Robert Nowall
    May 30, 2022, 8:19 pm | # | Reply

    To the Earth, they’re coming on back. For living together, they’ll take a crack. No more shadow stuff planned is the non-human brand. But with rayguns, defensive shields—ack!

  9. Shadowmehr
    May 30, 2022, 8:27 pm | # | Reply

    Like the saying goes, both sides have their place. The optimist can design the shield, and the pessimist can make the guns.

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