Despite being a pro-zoodler, I do get your point. I mean, it doesn't help that there's a war going on with them. I think if the war ended (the only way it would end is by the zoodles winning, unfortunately. There will always be people (like me!) who are firm beleivers in zoodles and the only way to avoid a conflict is if everybody just goes along with it), the zoodles would probably die out on most threads and just become a fun little creature that showed up in RPs and as pets sometimes, but because of the war the zoodles are on the feirce offensive. It's not really zoodles that are the problem, but zoodle politics. Before there were pro-zoodlers and anti-zoodlers, zoodles were just another part of the zany logic. It's possible the sides could make an agreement that zoodle politics were kept only to the Team Zoodle and Team Anti-Zoodle threads, but you'd have to talk to Darkvine and Amethyst about that. If you did, I'd support you.

In the meantime, I am winning, and I have summoned an army of x-men, which are four human legs connected at the top so that they form an x, and they are chasing you off a cliff and into a black hole. They walk upright, with two legs on the ground and two waving in the air. they wear two sets of underwear, one on the top set of legs and one on the bottom, and despite being called x-men, they are all of indeterminate gender and use pronouns they/them. They are of low intellegence. But the only important parts of this paragraph are that I am winning and you are being chased off a cliff.

Yep, I remember the days before zoodles were around. Personally, I don't really like them, and I thought Last to Post was much less predictable before they came around, but everyone else seemed to like them so I just never said anything. It wasn't a big deal because they were only on this thread, so all I had to do was not come to this thread. But now they're everywhere, which can be a little irritating. Again, though, everyone else is having a good time and I don't wanna rain on anyone's parade soooo…

(Not to say zoodles weren't a bad idea in the first place! I just would've liked it better if they added to the spontaneity of the thread for a while rather than becoming the thread, but that's just my opinion and I won't spoil the fun for everyone else)

I agree with everything Scuttles said, and they probably said it better than I could. I would like to add, however, that I've been slightly concerned about this turning into a CB war -- and not a fun zoodle war, like an actual conflict where people get their feelings hurt and potentially leave. There have been conflicts like this in the past -- the AE wars, for instance, where the light hearted concept of alter egos escalated to the point where people were leaving because of it. Needless to say, I don't want something like this to happen again, and I don't want zoodles to be the cause of it. While it's (hopefuly) unlikely that this sort of conflict will arise the way things are going, I think it's important that we intervene before anyone's feelings get hurt or people potentially don't want to go onto the CB or to certain parts of the CB before they are overrun with zoodles. I'm especially thinking about the neutral CBers here, because (and I'm really not trying to blame anyone here, I'm just saying what's going on) even the anti-zoodles are taking part in this zoodle issue because they are actively fighting against the zoodles which invites retaliation. The neutral CBers, however, are for the most part not involved in this conflict at all. Periwinkle expressed being a little irritated by the zoodles, which is completely understandable, but not wanting to ruin other people's fun by speaking up -- and I think it's up to the people involved in the zoodle war, Anti- and pro-zoodlists alike, to respect the wishes of the people who don't want to get involved and have the CB overrun with zoodles, which, as I said before, is a completely understandable and fair request that we should honor. 

TL;DR, to avoid people's feelings getting hurt and this escalating into a huge conflict, everyone involved in the zoodle war, both anti-zoodlists and pro-zoodlists should honor the requests of other CBers to keep the zoodles confined to appropriate threads. 

Also, I agree with Scuttles -- we could possibly make an agreement to keep zoodles confined to the Team Zoodle and Anti-Zoodle threads.

*cries tears of joy*

alphabet soup! boink!!  

spontaneity! 

ooh, but since I'm technically winning this thread, I have the book, and can now write a new rule in it:

Rule 78916234: She who invented alphabet soup and chose the word, boink! to summon it, is unable to drown in alphabet soup.

I think I was the one who came up with it, anyway-

not the rule book though, that was all Darkling (if my memory doesn't fail me?)

ANYWAY

I make a daring escape from the alphabet soup, use Flower Name Power to grow a vine of periwinkles that push me up out of the white hole, and steal your crown! 

and to add insult to injury, I think I'll throw you in a black hole, Scuttles. And checking this rule book, I see one of the original rules:

Rule 6: NEVER summon ANYTHING in a black hole. Especially cupcakes.

Wow, the way this is written - looks like it was in a hurry. Is that - cupcake on the page? Huh. I wonder what happens if you summon cupcakes in a black hole. 

Welp, no matter. It's probably fine. 

Enjoy the black hole, Scuttles, while I'm here enjoying winning Xb