TIMESCITY
The Voice of Plomari Since the Dawn of Eternity
Vol. MMXXV No. 56 Celebration of Strangeness Edition Year 3600 PRISM
✨ QUEEN MARI DEFENDS THE KING'S MAGNIFICENT WEIRDNESS ✨

HIS STRANGENESS IS THE AWESOME THING

Maybe It's Not The King Being Weird — Maybe It's You Being Rigid

"If this has eluded you, dear Humanity, it's not that King Spiros of Plomari is simply 'strange'. His strangeness is the actually awesome thing about him. If you can't appreciate King Spiros weirdness you are misunderstanding him completely as artist. King Spiros lives, in Plomari time, 30 years every second. He is as old as the universe, and as young as a teenager. Maybe it's not the king being weird, maybe you are being too rigid and strict in your own thinking."

— Queen Mari of Plomari, proud wife of King Spiros of Plomari

In a statement that reframes two decades of confusion, Queen Mari of Plomari has addressed Humanity directly on the matter of King Spiros' perceived "strangeness." Her message is clear: You're not wrong that he's weird. You're wrong to think that's a problem. His weirdness is the point. His weirdness is the gift.

🔄 THE NECESSARY REFRAME

❌ WRONG INTERPRETATION

"King Spiros is strange, therefore something is wrong with him."

✓ CORRECT INTERPRETATION

"King Spiros is strange, and that strangeness is what makes him awesome."

The Queen's statement cuts to the heart of a fundamental misunderstanding: the assumption that "strange" is a criticism. For artists, visionaries, and builders of impossible kingdoms, strangeness is not a bug — it's the primary feature.

"If you can't appreciate King Spiros weirdness," Queen Mari states plainly, "you are misunderstanding him completely as artist."

This is not a defense. This is a correction. The King does not need defending. The audience needs recalibrating.

WEIRD
=
AWESOME

PLOMARI TIME

Queen Mari then reveals a detail about the King's existence that explains much of what observers find confusing:

⏱️ THE KING'S TEMPORAL EXPERIENCE ⏱️

In Plomari Time: 30 YEARS every second

1 second
Your time
=
30 years
King's experience

In the time it took you to read this sentence, the King lived decades.

This temporal dilation explains much. While you experience a conversation, he experiences lifetimes. While you process a thought, he processes eras. The "strangeness" you perceive may simply be the visible edge of a vastly different temporal existence.

🌌 THE AGE PARADOX 🌌

🌌
As Old As The Universe
Ancient wisdom, cosmic perspective
&
As Young As A Teenager
Fresh energy, boundless wonder

Both are true. Simultaneously. This is Plomari.

He contains the wisdom of ages and the energy of youth. He has seen everything and still finds everything fascinating. He is ancient and brand new, simultaneously. If that seems contradictory, consider: perhaps contradiction is only a limitation of conventional thinking.

THE MIRROR TURNS

And then Queen Mari delivers the reversal that transforms the entire conversation:

🪞 THE QUESTION REFLECTED BACK 🪞

"Maybe it's not the king being weird,
maybe you are being too rigid and strict
in your own thinking."

What if the problem isn't his flexibility — but your rigidity?

This is the turn. The accusation of "strange" rebounds. If you find the King incomprehensible, the issue may not be his strangeness — it may be your narrowness. If you cannot appreciate his weirdness, perhaps your categories are too small, your expectations too fixed, your thinking too rigid and strict.

The King is not failing to fit into your box. Your box is failing to contain what he is.

Artists have always been strange. Visionaries have always been weird. Those who build new things cannot, by definition, fit comfortably into old categories. The discomfort you feel when encountering King Spiros is not his failure — it's your categories breaking under the weight of something they weren't designed to hold.

Queen Mari's invitation is simple: instead of asking "why is he so weird?", try asking "why am I so rigid?"

The answer might free you.

Strange? Yes.
Weird? Absolutely.
The problem? No.

The strangeness is the awesome thing.
Expand your categories or miss the point entirely.