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Cupid Fact File #180: The Society of the Rhyming Dove was a Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids short story written by Lupan Evezan, and cowritten and illustrated by Aristide Twain. It notably introduced Philatel-426.
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Subjects
The uploading of the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids' Files goes on. Fact File #180 gives an overview of the Society of the Rhyming Dove and summarises the Crew's first meeting with them in 1986, Prime Earth time.
Worldbuilding
Universes
- The Society of the Rhyming Dove are from the Prime Universe.
Other
- “Some in the Cupid Intelligence Institute” have speculated that the Society of the Rhyming Dove's constant rhyming is a magical effect of some Atlantean artefact in the Society's possession.
- Philatel-426 is the head of the Department of Postal Services.
- The Gang of the Green Gorilla is mentioned.
- In 1986, the Scarlet Wings task-force was “newly-established”.
Continuity
- The “founding members” of the Society of the Rhyming Dove are noted to be insistent on dressing up in animal costumes for official meet-ups, and the Society has an unaccountable interest in Atlantean artefacts, both facts accounted for by the information disclosed in PROSE: The Strangely-Colored Secret Societies on the origin of the Strangely-Colored Secret Societies
Behind the scenes
Read online
The story can be read on the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids website.