reQuest 2019: the reTurn: a half-time update

We are now halfway through the 2019 reQuest and one week away from the cutoff date for making new reQuests, so it's time for an update!

So far we have:

Comic book character, created by Chris Bachalo and Christopher Hastings for Marvel Comics. She is a fourth-wall-breaking, reality-warping combination of Deadpool and Gwen Stacy who wouldn't even exist without comic geeks' obsessions and comics publishers' addictions to flash-in-the-pan variant covers. 

To understand Gwenpool and her creation, you have to be familiar with a couple different characters -- and with a common scheme comics publishers use to sell extra…

"Bookreader: Alwahiduddin on the Moon sounds interesting. What's that about?" reQuest 2019: the reTurn

I don't know if it's that interesting. This particular nodeshell is a deleted node from my Above Earth series that I was writing serially on E2 in 2012. I deleted all the writeups in that series because the story wasn't working at all for me and unlike later stories (Carcinoma, the Song of Ceber), I hadn't written it all before I began posting. Most of the serial fiction I do…