Midnight Pals: The Weed that Makes you Depressed (Patreon)

Algernon Blackwood: Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this the tale of the haunted weed Blackwood: so there's this weed that's SO dank Blackwood: that if you smoke it Blackwood: a ghost will get youPoe: yeah that isPoe: that is pretty dank

Blackwood: see, this weed is SO DANK that a humor writer smoked itBlackwood: and he just got super depressedBlackwood: he couldn't even reassure his readers that he was not making it up

Blackwood: so this humorist smoked the weed that makes you depressed, says life seems harsh and cruel, says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Blackwood: John Silence says, 'Treatment is simple.'Blackwood: 'The Great humorist Pagliacci is in town tonight.'

Fitz James O'Brien: hey guysO'Brien: check it out, i got the weed that makes you depressedPoe: why do you even have that?Poe: how is there possibly a market for that?

Franz Kafka: can i try it?O'Brien: no no no franz this is too strong for youO'Brien: only someone naturally ebullient and hilarious can handle this dank nugKim Newman: [bowtie spinning] heyza heyza i just flew in from albaquerie and boy are my arms tiredNewman: what's this about dank nugs

King: look! it's kim newman!Poe: oh good i could use a laughKim Newman: siiighhhKing: you feeling ok, kim?Newman: i dunno, i just haven't been my usual jokey selfNewman: i've just been so depressedNewman: it must be because i smoked the weed that makes you depressed

Newman: so i smoked the weed that makes you depressedPoe: you smoked the what?Newman: the weed that makes you depressedPoe: the weed that makes you depressed?Newman: yeah the weed that makes you depressedPoe: excuse me?Newman: i gotta tell you about this weedNewman: it made me depressed

Blackwood: so anyway John Silence has to fight the weed that makes you depressedBlackwood: but it makes him see visions of phantom catsLovecraft: i don't understand how this would make anyone depressedLovecraft: seems pretty great to me, honestly!