Quote:If you peruse the commentariat looking for enlightenment in all this, you will find that, yes indeedy, traditional liberals and their values are in crisis. Worldwide. Which must elate conservatives, right?
But wait. Dig deeper into current online punditry and you'll come across headlines like this: "Why Conservatives are in crisis."
Apparently there is enough crisis to go around for everybody.
Oh, and photographic evidence that a liberal Canadian Prime Minister and a conservative US President can get along:
(Scott Stewart, Associated Press: Pierre Trudeau and Ronald Reagan in Washington, 1983)
Here we go. Plot planning thread for Season 3 stuff. Not that I think it will get a lot of use right now, buu~uuuut...
Remember the thing with Ben making a deal with Hild to resurrect Alicia?
I think I got the perfect payment for services rendered...
Quote:"Lady Hild, I wish to parley."
Suddenly, the white-haired mistress of Hell itself appeared, wearing an expression that spoke volumes.
"Benjamin. Not that I'm unhappy to speak with you, but at this moment? I hope for your sake that this is worth my time."
"It is, My Lady. I wish to negotiate the IOU for Alicia's resurrection."
Hild blinked as her expression immediately perked up. "Oh? Do tell~."
"Salem."
"Yes. She is at large. What about her?"
"You know that immortality thing she has going for her? I can break that."
Hild blinked slowly at that. "Are you so certain?"
"Why shouldn't it work? My entire repertoire revolves around breaking magical shit and then fucking up the soft and chewy bits that were underneath it."
"Yes, that is indeed your repertoire, but are you forgetting that this working is on the same level as myself or the Almighty? And if you are somehow that powerful, how do I know that you're not going to turn it against us?"
"Pull the other one, it has bells on it. My Lady, you know that I have a great deal of respect for you. It's why I've remained in your employ. It's why that if I have to default on my wish, then I would rather serve you directly than anyone else in hell with the possible exception of Lord Phantomhive. This wish of mine is the only thing I've ever done that deserves damnation, and even then it was for a very altruistic purpose. Not for material gains or power. Only so that someone that never deserved to die can have another shot at life. So that Faith could actually have something from her past that makes her happy and heal her heart.
"That doesn't deserve damnation."
Hild sighed, but not out of exasperation. Insead, it was the sigh of a person caught in a very difficult position and they knew they'd be catching flack either way.
"Alright, Benjamin. If you can terminate her corporeal existence, then I will accept that as payment in full. However, if you die before you can manage that, then I get your soul.
"And yes, before you say anything else, you will take your orders and answer only to me. I'll never hear the end of it from my daughter if I don't treat you well. Besides, if I can use you to get Urd to visit me more often, then you will definitely be of use to me... but you may rest assured, I am going to work you like a dog for the first thousand years or so."
I'm having trouble with YouTube at the moment, so I'll point folks at the CBC article about Kinnie Starr. Assuming you can play the episode, set aside an hour... then tell me which of Kinnie Starr's songs played in the episode could give Doug some powers. (At least two, I'm thinking... but I'm only halfway through the episode.)
A thread for the stuff that can't ... and, in some cases, shouldn't ... support a story on its own, primarily to get the idea out of our heads so that we can come up with other ideas that we can use. Feel free to add ideas.
Starting off the thread with a bit set in Arc 2:
"If we're going to defeat Cinder's deployed forces, we'll need to get you in behind them, here." Tessa pointed at a spot on the map. "However, they have anti-teleport wards deployed. That means getting you five in there the hard way."
Mikoto nodded. "I don't really like combat drops, but we're getting used to them."
"Kazari has also detected heat and radio sensors deployed in Cinder's troops' position, so we have arranged the use of a glider that Hyoga's going to pull to get you to the drop point. The five of you will bail out at 200 feet."
Niiko shook her head. "It has to be 100 feet or lower."
Mii raised an eyebrow. "You're sure? If you jump at 100 feet, your parachutes won't have time to open."
Nana's reply was, "Oh, we get parachutes?"
(Yes, it's an old joke -- but by the time we get to Arc 2, all of the Misaka Sisters except for Mimi should have copied Mikoto's electromagnetic-propulsion flight trick at least well enough to land safely from a few dozen meters up.)
For the first time in at least five years, I've found a new font I like enough to set it as my browser default - two of them in fact: Radis Sans is now my sans-serif New Shape (while only barely technically qualifying) for serif
Nothing wrong with that, of course, but it does mean I've actually switched away from my own custom designed font that's been the only thing on my screen most of the time for that long, AgameAperture or the precursor I've forgotten the name of.
So, I figured I'd share that at last, since I haven't developed it further in a good long while. You can use it as you like, though I'd prefer not having it distrubuted otherwise (in its own right or embedded in apps or whatever, though including it in PDFs or similar documents for display is fine) since there are still a few issues I'd like to fix Real Soon Now like the alignment of accent marks over the capital U, and some tiny bugaboos in the outlines that make FontForge throw error messages despite none of the regular software I've used it with ever having issues with it.
As I say, it's been the only thing on my screen for years, my tablet as well, so the basic features of being legible even at small sizes both in objective terms and relative to the display's pixels and attractive to the eye (I especially love the W, both upper and lower case) are well established, and the settings for bold and italic/oblique enough to definitely be distinctive. Also, every letter of the basic latin set is distinct even when mirrored or rotated, which I understand is an important thing for people with certain neurological conditions. Try it out and see what you think?
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