I'll just re-tweet this. (Here's the link to go straight to the shop)

Bob, you really should take a look through "Tuxedo Unmasked" - the site owner has done a lot of tracking down data and separating canon and fanon about Sailor Moon. Here's the list of articles.


And it's a fun read, too. For one thing, I finally found a relative-height chart for the Sailors that has some real-world numbers on it! They're drawn to scale - of the planets they're named after.

(Spotted on Is Sailor Saturn a Member of the Outer Senshi?.)




A few links that might be immediately useful:

heights, by season

birthdays and blood types

"Was Sailor Moon Originally Meant to Be Able to Fly?" includes some ideas that never made it from Takeuchi's notes to the manga. (Apparently, "Moon Prism Power Makeup" originally primed an attack by applying nail polish, and "Moon Prism Power" fired the attack.)

Pulling this out of Politics...

(02-09-2019, 04:49 PM)Labster Wrote: Weekly World News wasn't really tabloid news either. It always seemed more like what I would call kayfabe news. "How dare you challenge the veracity of our Bat Boy stories. They were based on research conducted at Miskatonic University."

• The Onion: The site everybody's heard of (except for the people who haven't). General satire.
  
• The Beaverton: Canadian satire.
  
• Walking Eagle News: "The foremost leader in the world of Indigenous journalism". (If you read nothing else at this site, make the time to read the About page, which includes the FAQ.)
  

Okay, so I've been giving it thought what few spare CPU cycles I've had lately....  

Here's what I got in mind so far.

3902 McCullough Rd
San Antonio, TX 78216


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This is a busy little corner in the unincorporated Olmos Park enclave of San Antonio.  If you pan north and east a bit, you'll find a thin, twisty, meandering little road called Contour Drive.  This is no ordinary neighborhood.  Local millionaire businessman Red McComb makes his home here on this street.  Thus, it will be here that we're find the Lowell-Bunnings and Tsukimura households.  It's amazing this isn't a gated community, but despite its affluence, Olmos Park is down to earth like that.

There is also a gun club nearby, but it's nothing to stress over.  It's a trap and skeet shooting range where they use low-power bird shot.

An idea I have is that when they do show up, the building changes so it has a second floor with apartments in the same Art Deco style as the storefront below.  The main apartment will have direct access to the main storefront.  The roof will have the family dojo and garden.

As usual, the rank and file will not notice these changes, as the Metacontinuity, with its malleable causality, will make it seem as if it's always been that way.  The only people that will notice are displacees and Managers.

Basically, this will be one of those things that manages to slip through the Goddess's carefully cast nets.  As for the plot, I'm still trying to hash that out.  Don't worry, it will come at some point in time or another.

The main reason I like this is because not only is it in a wealthy neighborhood that will easily support the Takamachi family's public business venture, the storefront itself is whimsical and trendy.  While the sudden shift to the Art Deco style will undoubtedly throw the Takamachis, they will certainly get used to it as the visual style is inviting and friendly to Americans, loudly declaring "Good food is found here!" Even if it's not exactly what Americans are used to, San Antonians are increasingly metropolitan these days, even among those of the Conservative bent.

Thoughts?

Earlier Jeff Bezos' legal team released the following: https://medium.com/@jeffreypbezos/no-tha...6e3922310f

They received a couple of lawyer letters from the National Enquirer saying that unless Bezos makes a public statement denying that the Enquirer's stories on Bezos are politically motivated the Enquirer would publish a set of photos of Bezos' junk.

So the Enquirer is trying to extort a man who can build his own inter-regional ballistic missiles.

[Sits down with gourmet popcorn] This is going to be fun.

How does this work now?  Can anyone post sample code of how to embed a Youtube?

Some say, he was taken from an elephant - others, that bureaucrats file in his name... all we know is, he's not The Donald, he's The Donald's European counterpart. 

And he hath unleashed a statement upon twitter which has managed to say what everyone sane has been thinking these last few months/years, inflammed the red-tops across the UK and basically left half a continement going 'what'.

It's rare for a politician to let slip just how utterly fucking pissed off they are. Especially when the stakes are this high.

This is brilliant. 

https://twitter.com/eucopresident/status...2293266435

https://features.propublica.org/navy-acc...ign=buffer

Quote:The collision of the vessels was the Navy’s worst accident at sea in four decades. Seven sailors drowned. Scores were physically and psychologically wounded. Two months later, a second destroyer, the USS John S. McCain, broke that grim mark when it collided with another cargo vessel, leaving 10 more sailors dead.
The successive incidents raised an unavoidable question: How could two $1.8 billion Navy destroyers, protected by one of the most advanced defense systems on the planet, fail to detect oncoming cargo ships broadcasting their locations to a worldwide navigational network?

As you may recall, I had Luna introduce herself as "Mauno Luna" to Motoki in chapter 2.  This was just me compressing "Mau no Luna" -- "Luna of the Mau" -- into something that looked like a proper name.

Well, in chapter 3, Luna asks Doug to get her identity papers like he obviously has.  And I said to myself, "Say, is 'Mauno' a real surname anywhere?"

Answering that question has suddenly turned a "utility" scene -- "Hi, Luna, here's your ID."  "Thanks." -- into something a lot more fun, as I get caught up in what has occasionally been the unexpectedly entertaining part of writing this story, the research.

And because I am a cruel, teasing author, I shall leave it at that.  <evil grin>

Good news, Rajvik!  The rest of us, maybe not so good…

For those of your who have been living under a rock, you may not have heard that the governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Ralph Northam, is in a bit of hot water for wearing blackface back when I was like two years old.  The photo in his medical school yearbook he apologized for being in, then he said he wasn't in the photo because he wore blackface somewhere else.  And his wife had to tell him not to moonwalk at the press conference.  So, things are not looking up for him, and the resignation seems like it should be coming soon.

But his successor, Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax, he has an accuser suing him for sexual harassment.  If this goes on too long, the Democratic party will start asking him to resign, so as to live up to our MeToo cred.

Which leads us to the next in line, Attorney General Mark Herring, also a Democrat.  Looks like he'll be moving up, and oops, today he also admitted to wearing blackface to a party back in 1980.  People are already calling on him to resign.


Which leads us to the next in line, the Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates.  Who is that?  Well funny story, back in the 2017 election, the 94th delegate district was very close, and was ruled to be an exact tie.  So a lots were drawn, and the seat went to Republican David Yancey.  This was enough to give the Republican party a bare majority in the House of 51-49, rather than a 50-50 split with a Democratic tiebreaker.  Because of this, Republican Kirk Cox was elected Speaker, and may find himself in the Governor's chair.  In fact, all three statewide offices could go to Republicans, now.

Statewide control of the entire government could flip because of scandal, and because of one single voter in the 94th district.  You know who you are, Scott.

It's the little things which make a difference sometimes.