Midnight Pals: The Future (Patreon)

Alan Moore: [appears in a clap of thunder] Behold! The Arch Magus! Poe: The arch magus! King: the arch magus! Barker: the arch magus! Koontz: the arch magus! Lovecraft: the arch magus!

Moore: today i bring you a chilling vision of the future! Koontz: oh boy! a vision of the future! Koontz: i hope there's good stuff happening! King: Poe: Barker: Lovecraft: Koontz: i hope it's a positive, star trek-esque utopian vision of the future!

Moore: Imagine! A future where america is ravaged by disease and britain held in the grip of a fascist who's sexually obsessed with an AI Moore: i know it's hard, but try to imagine

King: goshdarn it alan can't anyone have any nice visions of the future for once? King: it's always such a downer King: i mean, this is almost as depressing as that sower parable octavia told Octavia Butler: that wasn't a parable Butler: that was a documentary filmed in real time as it happened

King: surely someone has a nice story about the future they can share King: you know King: for dean's sake Koontz: stop treating me like a child! >:C Koontz: i'm a big boy, i can take it! King: i'm sure you can, dean

King: c'mon SOMEONE must have a positive vision of the future George Romero: i believe that socialism offers just that Romero: you see, soon heavy industry will make it possible for the proletariat to get- King: does anyone ELSE have a positive vision of the future? King: anyone?

EM Forster: i've got one King: ok let's hear this Forster: it's about what if the internet stopped working King: i don't really know that's a positive story King: no wait King: i guess it kind of is Kris Straub: n-no internet?!?! Straub: how will the narwal bacon at midnight??

William Gibson: [wearing black duster and fingerless gloves] i've got a positive vision of the future King: that's highly dubious Gibson: it's like our current future Gibson: but everyone's got these cool cybernetic implanted borg eye sphincters King: oh hey that's way better

Aubrey Wood: i've got one too Wood: it's a little like william's Wood: but you can also buy lab grown human meat Tiernan Blanchard: well that just takes all the fun out of it

Moore: fools! you know not what the future holds! Straub: magus, did you know that your work inspired an anonymous internet army to take up arms Straub: and well i guess they kinda did some bad stuff Straub: but for one brief beautiful moment they slightly annoyed the church of scientology

L Ron Hubbard: ah yes for you all that protest was the most important day of your internet life, but for me Hubbard: it was tuesday