Art Critic Panda (short story)
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Art Critic Panda was an in-universe Twitter account run by Paul Magrs, told from the perspective of Panda.
Posts
| # | Date published | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 December 2009 | Panda wanders about "this tweet thing". |
| 2 | 6 December 2009 | Panda, after a dinner party the previous night, describes himself as feeling fragile. |
| 3 | 10 December 2009 | Panda looks forward to Paul Magrs reading in Manchester Central Library. |
| 4 | 10 December 2009 | Panda is just about to listen to the aforementioned reading. |
| 5 | 18 December 2009 | Panda is excited about the forthcoming release of The Panda Book of Horror. |
| 6 | 23 December 2009 | Panda has just been for a quiet walk in the snow. |
| 7 | 1 January 2010 | Panda wishes everybody who is reading the account a happy New Year in a fashion which he deems to be unoriginal. |
| 8 | 6 March 2010 | Panda fancies a cup of tea. |
| 9 | 16 May 2010 | Panda, back from a cruise around the Med, reminisces about touring France with Noel Coward in the 1950s. |
| 10 | 22 June 2010 | Panda has had a new ear do. |
| 11 | 2 November 2010 | Panda complains about the Tories, as Cameron has been having a go at pandas. |
| 12 | 11 December 2010 | Panda remarks that he is already wearing his Christmas outfit. |
| 13 | 11 December 2010 | Panda remarks that Christmas has arrived. |
| 14 | 21 February 2011 | Panda is excited over the fact that Paul Magrs' Hornets' Nest is available to download for free in the Guardian newspaper. |
| 15 | 11 May 2011 | Panda tweets a number of onomatopoeic noises involving several "thud"s and a "punch". |
| 16 | 21 May 2011 | Panda notes that he still exists, but notes that he is usually in rapture. |
| 17 | 27 August 2015 | Panda is at the Edinburgh Book Festival. |
| 18 | 29 August 2016 | Panda, who has just been to Manchester Pride, notes that everybody there is very charming. |
| 19 | 19 March 2017 | Panda informs his readers that he is standing in the Manchester Gorton parliamentary election. |
| 20 | 19 March 2017 | Panda asks people to vote for him. |
| 21 | 21 March 2017 | Panda asks people to vote for him once more, proclaiming in a poster that he possesses gin. |
| 22 | 17 July 2017 | Panda describes himself as Pandagender and Pandasexual. |
| 23 | 17 July 2017 | Panda says that he has been to a village, that he had fun, and that gin was involved. |
| 24 | 4 June 2019 | Panda says that he supports Levenshulme Pride |
Replies
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Worldbuilding
- Panda's cruise around the "Med" brings back memories of touring the south of France with Noel Coward in the 1950s.
more to be added
Notes
- This is, as of December 2023[update], the only known instant of an official in-character Twitter account.
- "ear do" is a play on hairdo.
- The 21 May post is likely in reference to the 2011 end times prediction, which held that 21 May 2011 would be the day of rapture and Judgement Day. Panda noting that he is usually "in rapture" is a pun on the various other meanings of rapture, and noting that he still exists is a reference to the fact that the prediction is that of the end of the world.
- Panda was, in the end, not one of the candidates in the 2017 Manchester Gorton by-election.
Continuity
- Iris Wildthyme, as Brenda Soobie, is shown to be friends with Noel Coward in PROSE: Mad Dogs and Englishmen [+]Loading...["Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)"]. Panda and Iris Wildthyme are commonly heavily associated with each other.
