WTTQ Special Transmission: A Grumbletonian ?

 "Recovered from static, saturated with fog..."

What is a Grumbletonian? The term was used first as specific political jargon c.1690 when the ‘Court Party’ apostrophized as grumbletonians their ‘Country Party’ rivals, who, they claimed, resented their personal ambitions being thwarted.

“It was in the waxed hallway beneath the Gallery, not the one you know, but the other one where the alien elf once told me the lizards were spies. He said their tails curled when memory pressure got too high. I thought he was joking, but I saw one twitch during a thunder tea session with Rachel. You don’t forget something like that.”

"Do you know him?"

“The Alien Elf wore an olive coat stitched with lines of forgotten languages. He smoked cloves and told you only half of what you asked, nevertheless. The rest he left in jars labeled "Maybe Later.”

“On Thursdays, he hosted clandestine memory salons in the boiler room, where folks brought their weirdest keepsakes: expired train tickets, locks of impossible hair, postcards from cities that had never existed but felt like home.”

“He once said, ‘If you forget something with enough force, it becomes someone else’s dream.’”

“That’s why we kept the records in lemon dust and string to make forgetting harder. To keep the dream boundaries in check.”

Aliens only become grumbletonian
when Earthlings are stupid.

A Grumbletonian is not so much a person, but a condition, a vibe, a memory that learned to walk on its own. In the sprawling, not-quite-real-but-somehow-familiar mythoscape of the Retreat, a Grumbletonian refers to someone or something shaped by the quiet, surreal, and often inconvenient wisdoms of the Grumbleton era.

So when someone says “They’re a Grumbletonian,” they don’t mean it literally.
They mean: They remember too much. They love oddly. And they might know what’s behind the curtain — but won’t tell unless you ask at the right moment.

And even then, they’ll probably hand you a poem instead. The Green's Dictionary noted, a grumbletonian is a person who grumbles or complains, especially when it comes to political topics.

Then again, who knows if that is even a word...what is your thought on that?