Are you the Wrong Kind of Fan?

Are you interrogating the text from the wrong perspective? Are you insufficiently bootlicking to The Establishment? Behold, the beginnings of a project.

In conversation with norabombay, the phrase "But what design is the flared base this year?" was uttered. Mind you, neither of us has any inside information, but someone has been seen on Bluesky testing out, er, products relevant to silicone, er, sculpture. Ahem.