Art Critic Panda (short story)

Art Critic Panda was an in-universe Twitter account run by Paul Magrs, told from the perspective of Panda. 
== Posts ==
# 	Date released 	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 	18 December 2009	Panda asks Dave Fitch to follow him.
7 	23 December 2009	Panda has just been for a quiet walk in the snow.
8 	1 January 2010 	Panda wishes everybody who is reading the account a happy New Year in a fashion which he deems to be unoriginal.
9 	6 March 2010 	Panda fancies a cup of tea.
10	16 May 2010 	Panda, back from a cruise around the Med, reminisces about touring France with Noel Coward in the 1950s.
11	22 June 2010 	Panda has had a new ear do.
12	2 November 2010 	Panda complains about the Tories, as Cameron has been having a go at pandas.
13	11 December 2010	Panda remarks that he is already wearing his Christmas outfit.
14	11 December 2010	Panda remarks that Christmas has arrived.
15	21 February 2011	Panda is excited over the fact that Paul Magrs' Hornets' Nest is available to download for free in the Guardian newspaper.
16	11 May 2011 	Panda tweets a number of onomatopoeic noises involving several "thud"s and a "punch".
17	19 May 2011 	Panda asks Paul Magrs where his dinner is.
17	21 May 2011 	Panda notes that he still exists, but notes that he is usually in rapture.
18	27 August 2015 	Panda is at the Edinburgh Book Festival.
19	29 August 2016 	Panda, who has just been to Manchester Pride, notes that everybody there is very charming.
20	19 March 2017 	Panda informs his readers that he is standing in the Manchester Gorton parliamentary election.
21	19 March 2017 	Panda asks people to vote for him.
22	21 March 2017 	Panda asks people to vote for him once more, proclaiming in a poster that he possesses gin.
23	17 July 2017 	Panda describes himself as Pandagender and Pandasexual.
24	17 July 2017 	Panda says that he has been to a village, that he had fun, and that gin was involved.
25	4 June 2019 	Panda says that he supports Levenshulme Pride
=== Replies ===
Date released 	in reply to 	Summary
16 December 2010 	asking people to support the . 	Panda tells Nick Clegg that he doesn't believe that the libdems are a proper coalition party.
9 August 2011 	Floella Benjamin celebrating and opining that Jamaica is a great country with great people.	Panda tells Floella Benjamin that she wouldn't say that Jamaica was great if she were gay, as, he opines, it is a "frightening bigoted homophobic" country.
14 September 2011	N/A 	Panda informs somebody called Farzana that for somebody with what he describes as "floppy 80s hair" something did.
14 September 2011	Simon Savidge tells people that he is looking forward to having drinks with some people. 	Panda apologises for not being able to make it.
== Worldbuilding ==
* Panda's cruise around the "Med" brings back memories of touring the south of France with Noel Coward in the 1950s. 
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== Notes ==
* This is, , the only known instance of an official in-character Twitter account. 
* "ear do" is a play on . 
* The 21 May post is likely in reference to the , which held that 21 May 2011 would be the day of and . 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 .
== Continuity ==
* Iris Wildthyme, as Brenda Soobie, is shown to be friends with Noel Coward in PROSE: . Panda and Iris Wildthyme are commonly heavily associated with each other. 
== External links ==
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