#setting update

[kingoftheu]

Things a 2026 Nero Wolfe Hates:

(a non-exhaustive list)

- The Internet

- Cell Phones

- Smart Phones

- Straight Women

- Gay Men

- Bisexuals and Pansexuals of Any Sort

- Really anyone who is not a Straight Man or a Lesbian.

- He's not a bigot just the fact that someone might hypothetically be attracted to him makes him super uncomfortable

- Really anyone who isn't Aroace is compromised in his book, but he has to work with what he's got

- Social Media

- The Food Network

- Shipping Discourse

- ICE

- Fast Food

- Global Warming (those poor orchids!)

- Cybercrime

- Computers in General

- Internet Factoids

- Made Up Words

- Online Banking

- Bitcoin

- Fatphobia

- People Who Complain About Fatphobia

- Conspiracy Theories

- Gordon Ramsey (one-sided)

- Airbnb and Doordash

- True Crime Anything

- Ultimate Frisbee

- QR Codes

- Doxxing

[piffyocs]

The Grand Renumbering

To give the Numbered Fates a little more structure, I’m going to split the list in two:

#2-501 will serve the Thousand Names #501-1000 will serve the Wolf Matron

Especially notable aspects:

This will leave the 333rd (Soul Spinner) and 999th (Bone Weaver) positions unchanged, which is highly important because an AU of @tempestofermaria is a 333rd/Soul Spinner and I don’t want to make Lunar rename his Threes.

I previously resisted making this change because it’s important for the Seventh to have an early number, but Oracles belonged only to the Wolf Matron. I’ve now chosen to simply double the number of Oracles and give half of them to the Thousand Names.

The unfortunate fate of the Lament will now be the 501st, because their purpose serves the interests of both the Wolf Matron and the Thousand Names.

[joemerl]

Apparently there was some sort of time warp in the Hey Arnold universe. Like everybody went to bed in 2003, but the next morning it was suddenly 2017, when smartphones existed and Bob’s wildly successful beeper store was belatedly going out of business.