This is my Q post. (also explained later if you didn't already get it, but really—you ought to have done by now)
When I want to write about an array of seemingly random topics and still maintain a degree of organic logic in the narrative, my go-to writing device is the autobiography. That's what I'm doing here. It takes a little longer, and often flirts with TMI on the personal stuff, but keeping a coherent flow and reducing the likelihood of misinterpretation is worth it.
By fourth grade, I had read every Grimm's fairy tale that I could get my hands on—the English translations, not the kiddie paraphrase & picture books. I'd probably have read them months sooner, but I'd been told that those were adult books, and so I submissively accepted that they were above my level. That explains the "Compliance" in the title of this post. I desperately wanted to be 'good.' And in the household where my mother was Mother, that meant knowing one's place. So I read the newspaper instead. (eyeroll - and I'm not explaining that)
Anyway, by 8 years old I was a full-fledged, fiction-addicted bookworm, and that status remained until the end of high school. In college, where there was so much mandatory non-fiction to cover, reading priorities were shuffled and friendship-time easily overtook fiction-for-pleasure. All my adult life has been an uneven pendulum swing between fiction and non-fiction. I'd go for a couple years reading only non-fiction, and then need several months of pure fantasy binges to reestablish balance.
That changed last winter. A few weeks before Christmas, I discovered Q.¹ Q is the 'best of' an Agatha Christie puzzle with the intensity of a Tolkien Good vs Evil quest, except that it's all IRL non-fiction. Wow! just Wow! Q is not a larp, but in reading the posts, I can easily feel like I am. I can become a live action role-playing investigator.
But I'm only an autist² on my dad's side. That means I can generally understand them broadly enough, but it's still nice to have some translation help with the finer points at times. And that is where the Neon Revolt³ part comes in.
Neon self-describes as cherishing "Honor, Duty, Faith, Family, and Tradition." I'd shake up his order of the elements, but agree with them all. Personally, I find a lot of humor in his posts too, but I tend to favor the subtle and the droll. And puns. But I realize that my sense of humor is out there orbiting the conventional. Want an example? Pulled from his most recent post, I Laughed Out Loud at the 'whining' line because I think it reflects a great deal of camaraderie. If you don't see that from an angle of goodwill and lighthearted fellowship, well, humor is binary, it is there or it isn't. .... to be continued. out of time for now.
Footnotes
¹ Who is Q? For now, I am not calling Q a who; I am calling Q a liaison—a means of direct communication between a presidential military operation and pretty much anyone who has a device capable of connecting to the internet. What is known for certain is that the original Q-Operation involved less than ten persons, only three of whom are non-military, and that Q+ is President Trump himself.
² an autist in this sense is someone with a highly focused brain who has the intelligence to excel at researching and finding arcane connections. Under the common definition of autism, that side of it would be a savant, but unlike the neurological definition of autism, a Q-autist still falls within the normal range of social-emotions, even though those emotions are often compartmentalized more than the party-animal personality type, (which is a plus when ritual abuse research is involved). Before academia started giving everybody Meyers-Briggs labels, autists were the "absent-minded professors" of the world, really smart and respected in their own field.
³ https://www.neonrevolt.com/
