New one-shot story: Pandumbic
Added 2020-05-21 02:05:17 +0000 UTCThe coronavirus outbreak has been filled with conspiracy theories. How the disease came about. If it's a plot to take away freedoms. Which party benefits most, and who profits. Whether you should break all protective measures as a means of standing up for yourself, if not whoever you just put into the hospital. It's been, in two poorly-chosen words, exhaustively annoying.
And as it happens, the local cast interpretations come with three established conspiracy theorists.
So this one stars the Flower Trio, because if anypony is going to fall for any of it -- or make it up so they can fall for their own creations -- it's going to be them. It is, in a way, a venting story. But it's also about the futility of dealing with those who've already decided what Truth is, not to mention those who freely put a capital on Truth.
8300 words of story and if I get a reader who agrees with them, 290 comments of arguments. Wash your eyes out after reading them.
It won't help, but you may feel as if you've accomplished something.
