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Your Alternative Views
Welcome to Your Alternative Views, our special one-off supplement to Worldly Weirdness Weekly, written by you! Below is a selection of articles written for this special issue, covering a variety of topics from the London area.

NB. Articles are not fact-checked and staff take no responsibility for the veracity of any sources. The content of this supplement in no way reflects the opinions of Alternative Views News staff.

Letters You'll Never Send

Thirty years with a broken heart
By J.H.
When I rejected your advances, I did so out of fear of what my family would think. Not because I did not have feelings for you. You were beautiful and kind and witty and were it not for your place in society, I would not have thought twice about it.

I was a fool.

It's been thirty years and I have an admirable marriage. Two children and a third on the way. The two of us get along famously. But every night I lie in my wedding bed I can think only of you.

It is no secret you returned to your place of birth with the changing of the seasons last spring. You never did return to me in all that time, but I wondered when I heard a long suffering sigh on the wind that same night if it was a final message to me.

That sigh haunts me. In these last months I've come to believe it's a curse. Your heartache made mine. What love I have for my family pales and crumbles under its pressure. I no longer care about them. Their lives meaningless noise.

I should hate you for this.

Your Opinions

Burn The Nest
By E.L.J.
It's been months since Harris came into power and nothing's been done. The Night Council, whom we've all been trusting to do their goddamn jobs, have simply sat on their arses. Sure, the Nest isn't protected by their laws anymore, but are they out there eradicating them? No. They're patting themselves on the back while running with their tails between their legs whenever any vampire so much as sets foot near them.

This has gone on too long. We need a good old-fashioned torch and pitchfork mob to deal with this. March up during the day and set fire to all the holes the abominations hide in and let the flames and sun sort them out. London can be rebuilt when it's done and it'll be for the better.

Real Justice Means Not Letting Them Get Away With It
By Mr Angry
You know one thing that shouldn't change around here? Justice for those that deserve it. I had the displeasure of watching the Night Council hand out their so-called pardons to a motley array of criminals and ne'er-do-wells the other day and it is utter BULLSHIT. They pardoned a prostitute who was a known member of Circle Midnight just because they felt sorry for her. Boo hoo. You're a witch, get a proper job. Not to mention an ACTUAL FUCKING MURDERER. I sure feel safer sleeping in my bed at night. One of these days Hillingdon is going to go full-on vigilante and you'll only have yourselves to blame.

Gossip Girl

Climbing the Carpet Ladder
By J.J.
The only reason Nora Shannon got elected in the first place is because Sylvia Redbright wanted to get her hands in those Catholic pants. Everyone knows covens are just another word for sex harems, but it's never been so blatantly obvious until the last election and the recent trials. Between her and Diphylleia's reinstatement, Sylvia's little harem is just going to keep dominating the Council.

Gossip Girl says: That is an image I never wanted to have. Thanks!

Is Roddy Geiger Gay?
By J.P.
All those pictures of him up on NHILF and he's not with a girl in any of them. That is, a girlfriend girl. He was with a lot of girls when they asked him to stop for them, but he wasn't with a girl that looked like they were dating. Just wondering because if he is I have a friend that's interested. Can anyone confirm?

Gossip Girl says: You know he's like, a RAT, right? He probably RUNS AROUND IN SEWERS and EATS HIS OWN POO. That's why he isn't dating anyone. Gay or not gay, jury's still out.

Mystic Mary's Advice Column

A Courtin Call
Dear Mary,

That's how you're supposed to start these, right? I don't got anyone to talk to about it and I don't know what the heck I'm supposed to do, either. There's this guy, you see, and every time we meet he starts doing this thing. I don't know what it means. If it were someone else, I'd think he was flirting. And I'm pretty sure he does it with everyone else too. Flirting, I mean. It's like he's actually interested, not just making fun. But he's also making fun of me while he does it. I'd be fine with it if he was. Making fun, I mean. I get that. It's what people do. Just, it sounds like he's serious sometimes. I don't know what to do.

– Rattled in Richmond

Dear Rattled in Richmond,

Ooh, it sounds like this man has you all in a tizzy! The question is, are YOU interested? Once you know how you feel, the answer is quite simple. If you are interested: flirt back! Let him know that you enjoy spending time in his company and that you'd like to take things one step further. If he's serious, he'll go for it. If not, well, now you know not to waste your time with him. If you're not interested: let him down gently. You don't have to put up with him bothering you, tell him straight.

Maybe you're not sure how you feel about it. Try this: toss a coin. If it lands heads, flirt back. If it's tails, let him down. It doesn't matter how the coin lands, what matters is how you feel about it. That will tell you what's truly in your heart...

Love, Mystic Mary xoxo

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By Liadan Waters
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Prize Draw
The winner of this issue's special prize draw is... Liadan Waters! Congratulations, Liadan, an antique music box is making its way over to you now. When opened, the music that plays will soothe all that hear it and send anyone who is distressed or injured into a healing sleep. Terms and conditions apply.

[OOC: Please feel free to use this post to have your characters react and talk to each other about any of the content mentioned above! If you would like to request an NPC to interact with, let me know.

Activity count for this post: Daryl Dixon = 25 comments; Liadan Waters = 5 comments.]

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He couldn't help it. This was just so very ridiculous. He didn't know if he should be flattered that someone was interested enough to speculate on his sexual orientation, or offended at the sewer comment (though to tell the truth, while he'd never eaten his own poo nor ran through the sewers, he had eaten some pretty disgusting things), but both sides of the situation struck him as completely ridiculous. And kind of hilarious.

Reading the speculation on his sexual orientation again, Roddy laughed.

"Sounds like you've got something of an admirer," Sirius says. He'd just been passing by, but he didn't want to let an opportunity to tease go to waste. "Or several. Sounds like gossip girl's a bit jealous."

"Yeah, apparently I got a fan club when I wasn't looking. Kind of cool, actually. Even if Gossip Girl thinks I eat poo." But he liked the whole 'jealous' spin on it. It was a ridiculous accusation, of course, but he'd rather think that he had something for her to be jealous of, rather than just seeming gross to her. "And I don't, by the way."

In case that needed to be clarified.

"I was about to ask."

Not that Sirius actually believed the statement. It just seemed to be a thing to keep around in case he needed to tease Roddy for anything.

"Did it have to do with that ranking fiasco a little ways back?"

"Yeah," he confirmed. "I mean, at least I think it does. I did get a pretty big fanbase during all of that. It was fun!"

After all, it wasn't every day he got a flock of fangirls following him.

Speaking as someone who very likely did have his own group of fangirls when he was in school, Sirius can't blame him.

"Any actual dates? Or are they sticking to the newspaper?"

"Newspaper only. You know, for all the stalking and gossip, it hasn't really occurred to anyone to ask me out."

Maybe it was because for all the stalking and gossip, none of them really knew him, and had absolutely no idea what he was into.

"You'd think at least one of them would have worked up the courage," Sirius says, his tone joking. "But it's probably for the best. I imagine them thinking you eat poo is probably a bit of a turn off."

"I'd like to think that only one person thinks I eat poo, thanks."

But yes, if someone dating him thought he ate poo, that definitely would be a turn off. Of course, thinking it would likely be too much of a turn off for them to want to date him, anyway, so it worked out.

"Well, I'll just pocket that information, then. Bring it out whenever you need an ego check."

And possibly in front of a girl if he ever felt like being mean. Which wasn't often, but Roddy didn't need to know that.

"You know, I really don't think I'll need that. Ever. So if you want to go ahead and forget that, that would be just fine."

Because Roddy was pretty sure he never wanted that brought out. Although, technically it already had been, seeing as it was printed in a newspaper.

"I'll think about it."

Sirius replies, aiming for enigmatic, but probably failing. However, that's not something you bring up right way. The right moment needs to present itself.

"But look on the bright side. It's better than being the subject of an angry letter."

"Yeah, I guess there's that." He had seen the angry letters, although they were too vague for him to really know for sure who they were about. Still, he did know that Sirius had been accused of murder, so it was possible...

"Were you..." he hesitated, not sure how to finish that. Was he pardoned? Was he the one mentioned in the letter? There was a good chance Sirius was just pointing out something that would be worse, after all.

"I got off. They pardoned me," Sirius replies, not really letting the tension build up. He finds himself smiling when he says it still, the relief very evident in his expression. "Not saying it wasn't by a nose though. It was tense for a long time."

And admittedly, the reality still hasn't quite sunk in. There's a fear that he's going to wake up and this is going to turn out to be a dream.

"Well, that's good. You can walk around freely. Not worry about missing a wanted poster and having someone come after you."

And it was probably better to focus on that than the guy who apparently believed Sirius was guilty, judging by the content of the angry letter. Besides, this was still significantly less people thinking of him as guilty than there were before, so it was an improvement.

"It has been rather nice to not have to skulk around the streets, yes," Sirius replied. Looks or no looks from other passersby.

"And I haven't had anyone come up to my face yet. So that's also nice."

"Good to hear. I guess people are a bit more willing to throw comments around in a newspaper than to someone's face. It's nice that you don't have to deal with them, though."

"Nothing like remaining anonymous. That's true though, and it's probably for the best. Can't say what I'd do if someone said something like that to my face."

Though it would involve ignore the voice in the back of his head most likely.

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