Something oxymoronic-sounding about an "empire of friends," though it's an interesting idea -- with enough interest among Addventurers and artists and morphers, and even interested outsiders like FuMonkey, who knows? Although as affiliations go, "forum friends" seems particularly loose.
Anyhow, a new development. Back in the Seventies when I was stuck looking after my little sister, I would occasionally read to her from a Tintin adventure. There was one set out in the Sahara, I believe, and at one point someone cries out "The Berbers!" My sister did not appreciate that there are actual people known as the Berbers, and she found something about the sound of "Berbers" profoundly silly enough to send her into a fit of giggles.
I remember this today as, at the top of the most posts list, gOOber finally overcomes ZoD (without superpowers yet) and teams up with sheber, he of Shasta and Bambi Blaze (who I hope is doing reasonably well, she's been through a lot lately). It's a new BerBer attack.