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Justice Backers: Secret Shuffle (Part Three)

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(reading time: 46 minutes)

Salt Shaker’s Skin-Crawling Fan Fiction Corner

The move to the Bay has derailed much of our lives. Do. Not. Worry. All of the fan fiction is intact. Deckard and his goons might be able to stop us, maim us, kill us… but he cannot stop the power of socially awkward people intent on writing themselves into history as war heroes and legendary lovers.

I’d initially intended to introduce you to various authors in this series, but few of them can compare to Kharmie Buttercup. As long as she churns them out, we’ll be turning to her for all our needs. This week’s selection has a few interesting details, including a footnote (placed nowhere near the foot of the page) about Salt Shaker’s Fan Fiction Corner. It seems she’s spotted us. We’re no longer observers. Our presence in her habitat has made her hostile, so she’s incorporated our images and attacked them as a warning, puncturing the copies and filling them with venom. You do have to be careful when a fan writer feels threatened. Continue reading →

Justice Backers: Secret Shuffle (Part One)

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(reading time: 49 minutes) (reading time for entire novella: 3 hours, 25 minutes)

Backer Update #51 (Game Over)

“With the inherent callousness of governments that try to care for more than seven billion people it is inevitable that some oil will need to slide between the pieces of the machine to keep us humane. The Justice Backers are that oil.” – Ember Joseph, The Daily Pills

Do you like that beautiful quote backers? That’s us they’re talking about. In The Daily Pills! The most read site among people who have a specific chair for reading. This is actually the first positive quote we’ve gotten from anyone on their staff since we started. That Donovan guy called us ‘vigilantes safeguarding only fetishized anonymity’. Their head politics reporter Miriam said I was ‘a jumping-off point for campaign questions and nothing more’. With how much the world talks about us it’s almost like I am something more. It’s almost like the name Alpha Dog means something to people who happen to not be me. Continue reading →