#A penny revisited

[riveracheron]

here it comes! hot off the presses! a brand new edition of the New York Sun featuring the talents of many of Pulp's fanbase! Featuring the talents of: @violetheart77, @kmesons, @starlightsparrowfox, @faery-people-of-the-future-day, @paranormaltheatrekid, @projectlida, @hey-its-robin00, @anotherwordortwo, @alexorsomn, @the-spaced-out-ace, @micah-is-normal, @samscorch, @eggingtontoast, @snarky-wallflower, @ricky-mortis, @midnightnautilus, @bazzleman and i!!

[awigglycultist]

Congratulations to Chester Thomas for becoming president today and no one else

[nabwastaken]

Happy 11th Birthday Frodo!!!

[enjamin-the-benitor]

reason number infinity why benjamin park has/should get a cat

[the-spaced-out-ace]

I literally paused the song for this

[eldritch-flame]

Shoutout to the minisode for making us forget about what happened in Searcher for a bit, only for the broadcast to hit us with "Mobilis in mobili" during the last five seconds

[truelahey]

curt mega’s vocals in “a penny revisited” save me curt mega’s vocals in “a penny revisited”

[kmesons]

was that. the vanishing and young man with a pencil motifs intertwining after "who will forgive me but ghosts"? good lord. alright. I'm exceedingly normal about this

[snarky-wallflower]

Curt Mega: I am going to deliver the type of performance for this character that haunts you, even as a minor character that gets kicked out of the narrative, and then I��m going to do it again to the point where you replay one specific song over and over because it’s very good. You’re not going to be able to pick a favourite lyric and all.

Also Curt Mega: Yes, I have forgotten this character’s name before.

[paranormaltheatrekid]

some thoughts on a penny revisted

Benjamin’s first line being enjoy the noise while it lasts!!! HELLO!!!!

it was weirdly…nostalgic to me??? I first listened to the great moon hoax in june it really was not that long ago.

“Samuel, Rose the things that I would say if the two of you were standing here today”AADFYJBJOJHFDDFJOKNVDSDGHJIJ the title track a penny, revisted was just great.

I’m very much going to repeat the of “course he did, of course he did” in New York for you over and over again. I liked the montage feel the song had. And it was nice to see Thomas and Benjamin form a friendship.

I’m proud of Thomas. He’s actually not that corrupt of a politician. He genuinely became a better person.

The brick satellite always seeming to hang near the paperstand!!!!! That’s my everything. And I really liked the note this ended on. Shows that the Stratford’s legacy, their story, will always live on.

[t3a-gh0st]

A PENNY REVISTED SPOILERS!!!!!!

The brick satellite occasionally hanging above the area where the Stratford family paper stand was means everything to me!!!!!!!!!

Makes me wonder if somehow it hangs above other areas? Like Hanover or the sea where Anna lost her father or the collage that Anna and John went to or the Sargasso Sea??? Wonder if they could see it on Lincoln island?

[trainwreckisawreck]

“oh! and the country’s falling apart! :D”

[her-imperius-condessy]

NEED TO ESCAPE INAUGERATION STRESS

So, obviously, let's get into The Implications of President Chester Thomas.

What? Did y'all think this girl was done? SPOILERS! For the minisode and US HISTORY!

The year, 1852. With Chester Thomas winning, that means he has replaced Franklin Pierce.

Never heard of Pierce? Don't worry. He was...Not a big deal, especially as he was preceded and succeeded by men of more. Oomph.

He did some good work with expanding territory, but that was about it. He had a sort of sad life. He was an alcoholic, which was worsened by the death of several children, the last on a train right after he became President. His wife suffered from severe depression, and understandably so. So...Maybe Thomas replacing him saved a son, and Jane Pierce may have lived a slightly happier life.

Pierce put the 'Lame' in Lame Duck Presidency. He didn't get the party nomination, after he pissed off the North by shit talking Lincoln.

Now, I'm guessing Thomas wouldn't have done that. So, if that's case, he'd get the nomination and run for a second term, which would replace James Buchanan.

James Buchanan is another mostly unimpressive President, except for how he lay every stone down to ready the US for the Civil War. And, that he's the namesake for a certain saucy Winter Soldier.

This where I get a little sad. Chester Thomas, and his two term Presidency still ended with the Civil War right about to start. I would hope that he tried to end slavery, but politicians back then had to pick and choose their battles.

Quite literally.

The War may not have happened the same as our history, but it still happened. Thomas ran two terms, then stood aside, as was tradition back then, not the law. That would Lincoln the 15th President. And we know President Grant followed, because of Grant House on Lincoln Island.

Perhaps that's why Thomas is well remembered, even as far away as Guyana. He opened the door for Lincoln, stepped aside. Maybe they made sure the Sun and other papers promoted Lincoln.

It's also possible Thomas had one term, especially if he promoted anti-slavery. Buchanan was 15th, Lincoln 16th. Thomas and Benjamin maybe went back to New York, seeing what might come next, and worked to get Lincoln elected, running good stories.

IDK. What I DO know...No matter what. Chester Thomas made a better President that what just got sworn in.

[nabwastaken]

"Oh my friends, hear me when I say: I wish you were here today." VS "Journey on my friends, tell me how it ends!"

[enjamin-the-benitor]

this, everyone, is what I like to call character development.

[annahanover]

there's something comforting about the idea that the brick satellite hangs above where the paper stand was. the idea of benjamin looking up at anna as she looks down on him. in some way, looking out for each other, even if they don't know it.