With eight days left until October, and thereby Spookyville, everyone in Animalia was loading up on "resting time" because there were those looking to volunteer to help out with setting up Spookyville, while others were being "volunteered" by others. But thanks to Animalia's website, there was plenty of news from both the established colonies and places that were being looked at as possible Animalia colonies.
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Perhaps the funniest one was from Russia, Ukraine, and other former members of the USSR. While they were still planning on recycling old "cold war era" bunker cities designed to withstand a nuclear apocalypse during said time period, it was the discovery of the state of said bunker cities that was both sad and funny.
After the cold war ended, a lot of said cities ended up being purchased by the Russian Mafia who would end up gutting them and selling the scrap metal that resulted for millions, and leaving the rest behind. The images that showed this were considered both funny and cringe-worthy.
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The biggest, little news (alongside the arrival of so many ex-hippie converts) was the arrival of Anastasia Romanov, the Russian Wolfhound to WSA. While there were those who were a little concerned, especially from those who were concerned about "national security", that Ellie chose to be the one to show her around the school since the two of them mostly spoke to each other in Russian during their tour, after reviewing the security camera footage of the tour, the translation software revealed that they were just talking about what WSA would be like for Anastasia, who was most interested in the WSA Track and Field Program. After school, both Elly and Anastasia decided to watch the 1997 movie that shared Anastasia's name.
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Another "cringe-worthy" news article was when six female office workers who looked like the mid-life crisis hit them two decades early all requested mare conversions. It wasn't helped by the fact that one of them had a strong British accent and had gotten a near-flawless white coat of fur while still retaining her original hair color as her new mane and tail; and it certainly didn't help that they had also booked appointments with the tattoo artist that had "branded" Sylvia for other custom designs. Part of what made it cringe worthy was the statement on the person in charge of their conversion on why they wanted it:
"You don't wanna know. I told them not to tell me, but they told me anyway, and I'm telling you, you don't wanna know!"
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Another surprising news article was from the IAC Bodybuilding Competition. While Leslie not only finished second overall in both the Bare-As-You-Dare competition and the IAC Bodybuilding Competition, he had also won an "Animalia Bodybuilding Rookie of the Year" award. Because of this he had generated a lot of popular attention, way more than his run through the bodybuilding circuit, and he was taking "popular fame courses" at Animalia School of Modeling to learn about what to do.
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There was also an article that both talked about why the track and field uniforms were made of extra-strength material and were extra reinforced on the stitching. Part of both of them were due in no small part of athletes ripping their uniforms deliberately after a certain event, and the other part was no doubt the accidental "exposures" that would eventually make their way around the internet.
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As it turned out, Sarah "Scala" was doing surprisingly well working with Horizon. Her role in the "Seven on four" night generated for her a surprising amount of notoriety which actually had a beneficial effect. As a result of her newfound "popularity", Scala was "promoted" to the division in charge of current or former adult entertainment stars who undergo conversion.