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[[File:Kablamazon Pride Logo.png|thumb|left|300px|The “rainbow capitalism” variant of Kablamazon's logo. ([[PROSE]]: [[A Series of Queer Events (short story)|''A Series of Queer Events'' (2024 reedit)]])]]Kablamazon was one of the ethically-dubious sponsors pursued by [[the Man in Grey (925th Universe)|the Man in Grey]] for the 2022 [[Interdimensional Pride Parade]]. As expected, they treated it mostly as a cynical merchandising opportunity. One of their backhanded ads notably also presented similarly-cynical well wishes from the [[Kooba Cola Corporation]]; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Series of Queer Events (short story)|A Series of Queer Events]]'') by a later account, at some point prior to [[Christmas]] 2022, Kablamazon had indeed been bought by the [[Kooba Cola Corporation]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas (short story)|A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas]]'') In another [[rotation]] of the Pride events, the Kablamazon ad was longer and doubled as an explicit announcement of the buyout, boasting that “this [would] help to maximise [Kablamazon's] profits by reducing company spending on Kooba Cola products (by virtue of owning every atom that goes into making it) and by splitting workers between Kooba factories and Kablamazon Warehouses, maximising efficiency!”. ([[PROSE]]: [[A Series of Queer Events (short story)|''A Series of Queer Events'' (2024 reedit)]]) | [[File:Kablamazon Pride Logo.png|thumb|left|300px|The “rainbow capitalism” variant of Kablamazon's logo. ([[PROSE]]: [[A Series of Queer Events (short story)|''A Series of Queer Events'' (2024 reedit)]])]]Kablamazon was one of the ethically-dubious sponsors pursued by [[the Man in Grey (925th Universe)|the Man in Grey]] for the 2022 [[Interdimensional Pride Parade]]. As expected, they treated it mostly as a cynical merchandising opportunity. One of their backhanded ads notably also presented similarly-cynical well wishes from the [[Kooba Cola Corporation]]; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Series of Queer Events (short story)|A Series of Queer Events]]'') by a later account, at some point prior to [[Christmas]] 2022, Kablamazon had indeed been bought by the [[Kooba Cola Corporation]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas (short story)|A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas]]'') In another [[rotation]] of the Pride events, the Kablamazon ad was longer and doubled as an explicit announcement of the buyout, boasting that “this [would] help to maximise [Kablamazon's] profits by reducing company spending on Kooba Cola products (by virtue of owning every atom that goes into making it) and by splitting workers between Kooba factories and Kablamazon Warehouses, maximising efficiency!”. ([[PROSE]]: [[A Series of Queer Events (short story)|''A Series of Queer Events'' (2024 reedit)]]) | ||
In December 2022, during Jenny Over-There's heart-to-heart with her cousin [[Marietta Over-There|Marietta]], a “schmaltzy” Kablamazon ad about a kid befriending a monster was playing on the TV set, and Jenny found herself relating it to her own situation. ([[PROSE]]: [[A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas (short story)|''A Very Jenny Over-There Christmas'' (2024 reedit)]]) | |||
Though Jenny Everywhere initially meant to quickly get rid of the CEO, she got side-tracked for a number of months by such adventures as “the time she stole the [[Holy Dog Bowl]] from the [[Werewolf Priests of Mars|Werewolf Priests]] of [[Mars]], or that time she saved [[Doctor Omega (925th Universe)|Doctor Omega]] from the [[Space Roman]]s, or even that time she tried to have a conversation with [[Grant Farrel (925th Universe)|Grant Farrel]]”, the latter being a so-called superhero apparently possessed by the vengeful spirit of the god [[Thor (925th Universe)|Thor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There (novel)|Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There]]'': ''[[First-Class Delivery (short story)|First-Class Delivery]]'') | Though Jenny Everywhere initially meant to quickly get rid of the CEO, she got side-tracked for a number of months by such adventures as “the time she stole the [[Holy Dog Bowl]] from the [[Werewolf Priests of Mars|Werewolf Priests]] of [[Mars]], or that time she saved [[Doctor Omega (925th Universe)|Doctor Omega]] from the [[Space Roman]]s, or even that time she tried to have a conversation with [[Grant Farrel (925th Universe)|Grant Farrel]]”, the latter being a so-called superhero apparently possessed by the vengeful spirit of the god [[Thor (925th Universe)|Thor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There (novel)|Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There]]'': ''[[First-Class Delivery (short story)|First-Class Delivery]]'') | ||