Hello listeners! You’re listening to Joyful Morning with Joyce York. I’m your host Joyce and I hope you had a fine sleep.
Now, first I’d like to remind people to be aware of the Unknown. For those unaware, the Unknown is a black haired woman wearing a silver mask and a cloak of some kind, usually holding up a mirror and beckoning people to follow her.
Not much is currently known about the Unknown, obviously, [laugh], but her behavior doesn’t bode well and does coincide with some missing person’s reports, so just be aware.
This has been a message from the Wonderland Safety Council.
Now, onto today’s news. Queen Lola and Felix the Cat have started diplomatic talks for the first time since the Society of Free Cats seceded from Wonderland. Felix recently was released from prison after attacks on the Queen and a kidnapping of a local resident.
It’s unknown [chuckle] its unknown what they will discuss at this meeting but I think I speak for everyone when I hope it ends amicably. Secession aside I think hostility is just not necessary if it can be avoided.
Today’s weather is sunny as it often is here in Wonderland, hope all you lovelies are gonna go out and have a bright and wonderful day.
It may rain tomorrow so better get those picnics and grill parties in today, huh? If I may get a bit personal here, I’d like to dedicate our first song to my darling wife Mysta for our 4th wedding anniversary.
Love you darling and hope you are having a grand day. Here’s some Lennon Sisters and I will be back with you right after I’m done here, sweetiepie. [kiss sound]
This was the first song we danced to as a married couple. Warms my heart, I hope you listeners enjoyed that one.
In other news, its been announced that Santa may change his strategy in delivering gifts for us all. He considers that since his workshop in Santarctica is at full capacity that it would help to offload some gifts earlier in the year.
So half of Fictodim gets them June 25th and the other half December 25th, so be aware of that change and I guess we can all start trying to be good. Which side gets which date has not yet been announced, so stay tuned for more updates on that.
The annual Wonderland Pride Parade will be held this Saturday by the Wonderland Queer Society, a fun event for all of us who feel excluded in the joys of life at times. You know I will be there, the station is one of the sponsors, so even if I was straight I’d have to go for work [chuckle].
Queen Lola earlier in the week said that the parade this year would need to be moved to north Wonderland near the Somnum border due to tensions with the Society of Free Cats. As I said before, hope we can achieve peace and leave such tensions behind us.
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Let’s see where was I in the news. Oh yes here. It was reported that Micheal Mouse, an esteemed mouse sailor recently went to the Dreamland Tower.
As he had no reference to where anything is, wandered into the wrong place. The tower spat him out into Wonderland after which he proceeded to split into over 300 different versions of himself. The resulting blast is that noise most of you probably heard last night. I know it woke me up, took me forever to get back to sleep [chuckle].
Our queen Lourdes Garamond having her hands full with the free cats gave the Mickeys a chunk of land to the east to live on which they’ve since declared as Mickopia.
The people of Mickopia have quickly elected its new leader, a version of Micheal that looks like a ghost, who aptly named themselves Bookie Mouse. Bookie garnered 80% of the votes, so its clear that they were considered the most qualified for the position. I wish the citizen good luck on their newfound nation and hope co-operation can be friendly between it and Wonderland.
Now I think it’s time for another song and this here is a favorite amongst our listeners.
Welcome back!
Now, in honor of pride month I’ve decided to do something different. Last week I asked people to write in letters they wanted to hear me read out loud to their significant other or crush on the air. I thought it was a cute idea and I received a bunch of letters. Sadly I can’t get to them all.
First letter is from Stephanie.
“I may be just a humble game company executive and I’m still adjusting to appearing in this world but you Belle Wayne , made the last few months so wonderful and I want you to know that I’m really into you. Yours if wanted, Stephanie Roach”
Aww, that’s adorable. I hope she likes you back Stephanie, wishing both of you well.
Here we have another from Thor.
“I’d like to wish my boyfriend Sherlock a happy birthday. I know you’re not the biggest fan of this kind of corny stuff but I thought I’d make an exception this time and do it anyway. I may have lost my godly powers but I haven’t lost my heart and it beats for you”
That’s so sweet. Also happy birthday to our favorite Wonderlandian sleuth Sherlock Holmes and happy pride to the both of you.
Now I only have time for one more letter for today and it comes from a writer who wishes to be anonymous, only going by “Smitten Wizard”
“I don’t yet have the courage to confess my love for you my dear, but know that I cherish our moments together. Your dark hair sucks me in like the abyss or the endless void of space that give me a sense of peace in even the toughest of times. I’m head over heels in love with you but I hesitate to confess as I’m afraid that once feelings are spoken out loud, they can never be put back in the box and might ruin the bond we share as friends”
Beautiful and yeah its always a tough one to figure out how and when to confess to someone and I hope you figure it out Smitten Wizard. I’m rooting for you!
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Now, here’s the section where I talk about my opinions of the day and I’d like to use this time to talk about the Dreamland Tower.
The recent Mickey incident is not the first of its kind. People who wander have either died or come back changed in some way. Just earlier this year Dorothy and Alice went there and came back fused into one person.
Not saying I don’t like Alithy, she’s an endearing citizen of Wonderland but I think we should do our best to avoid the tower. It’s outside Wonderland jurisdiction for a reason, we don’t know enough about it and it clearly seems like its not safe as going into the wrong door can lead to a variety of outcomes. However, so many people let their curiosity get the better of them.
Efforts have been made to study the tower but so far have not been successful. The lead scientist, Dr. Hafni Elvinsson came back having his soul swapped, his body now inhabited by 250 spirits with them frequently taking turns in who controls his body.
Where his original soul went is anyone’s guess. So yeah, be safe out there sweeties and don’t go into the tower. It’s not worth it if the best case scenario is you fuse together into one person or break apart into hundreds of versions of yourself. Many have died and I thought after today’s events it was important to remind everyone. Stay safe lovelies!
Now, we’re reaching the end of our program. I hope you have enjoyed your time with me listeners. May my voice be a soothing presence in your ears to put your minds at ease at the state of the world.
This pride I hope all of you are pleasant to each other and celebrate each other to the fullest. We may not understand the strangeness of this world, how we got here or even the full picture of our memories before we arrived here but we have to live together.
What we lack in understanding of a lot, the ominous tower or even the console that our queen controls, we make up for in community building efforts and being there for each other.
Now as always, I hope you have a joyful morning.
This has been Joyce York. I’ll now send you to DJ Xenos’ Pizza Hour
Notes
Joyce York was created by me and was released by me into the public domain. See here.
Felix the Cat is in the public domain.
The Unknown is from Willy’s Chocolate Experience. The character was generated using AI as the script was done by AI and therefore presumed public domain
Mysta of the Moon is from Planet Comics and is public domain.
Santa Claus is in the public domain.
Kooba Cola is a public domain brand from the Kooba Cola Kid comics.
Nova is based on the open source concept of the Cyclocks.
Mickey Mouse is in the public domain. Name is trademarked by the Walt Disney Company.
Alice and Dorothy are from Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz respectively, both are public domain works.
Stephanie Roach was created by Moppington. According to their notes she is free to use by anyone but I got permission.
Polybius is an urban legend and is in the public domain.
Miss Owl is from Crackajack Funnies and is in the public domain.
Thor is in the public domain.
Sherlock Holmes from the titular series of books is in the public domain.
Xenos was created by Vito Delsante