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I think this is a very good turnout for the Labour party, all things considered. However, we comprehensively failed to capitalize on UKIP's predictable disintegration in the way that we might have done otherwise, and Scotland going blue in patches was frankly just plain weird. My own constituency stayed blue, with Craig "Amazon" Mackinlay's majority almost tripling due to a load of Tories coming crawling back after their flirtation with the Kippers, who were absolutely destroyed after netting a paltry 2997 votes with their candidate (a racist vicar) compared to 18,875 for Labour's Raushan Ara and 25,262 for the Amazon Man.

Still, one particular ray of light in one of my old haunts comes from the youth vote - which almost single-handedly booted Sir Julian Brazier out of Canterbury and turned it red. Canterbury is actually one of the largest university towns in the UK, so that very high student population managed to give Labour a seat that's been staunchly Tory since the end of World War One. If nothing else, that's worth celebrating. We also ousted May's Treasury secretary in Battersea, but Tories holding onto London constituencies (that aren't full of, and here you may freely assume the use of rhyming slang, bankers) is always a slightly dicey prospect.

Theresa May sought to bulldoze her opposition and shore up her legitimacy. This has not happened. I cannot stress that enough. She will be forced to compromise and do deals, which she's absolutely no good at; she may even be obliged to resign. She lost this election, she lost the Conservative majority, and hopefully Corbyn will harness that ever-fickle youth vote again in a few years to really press home and properly oust the Tories from power.

Would you get heterochromia from it?

...and I'm up watching the UK election results come in. I'm working the late shift tonight, so I'm definitely going to regret it later, but I can't quite tear myself away. This calls for a very strongly brewed tea, possibly neat.

Am I the only Brit up suffering through this?! (hS is sound asleep...)

-Kaitlyn, not asleep

Taking questions for Agents Peregrin (an ex-millenarian avout from the Anathem verse) and Taq (a recently recruited orc, probably Tolkienverse), DMS, as well as Agent/Technician Tomash (who's mostly around DoSAT these days, even though his transfer paperwork is in limbo somewhere).

The claim is "Raised by Darkness" (that ridiculous thing with Harry Potter being raised by *caring Dementors* of all creatures), and I am DawnFire. I just changed my screen name back in January of this year--I'd been using 'DawnFire' for long enough that it no longer felt right, so I chose something more relevant to me-the-adult. ('Zingenmir' is Yiddish and means something like "we are singing.")

~Z

OK.... My fellow American Harry Potter fans. Please make sure you are sitting or are otherwise stable before you read the following sentence.

"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" is coming to Broadway.

The proof is here: https://www.pottermore.com/news/cursed-child-broadway-official-opening-confirmed-for-april-2018

As Ixi said, "We have a year to shore up our defenses." Reactions? Battle plans?

I'm about to head off to my last major exam of the semester (Psychology), so I can't really put together anything substantial! But I'd love to hear what's going on- either in the world, in fandom, or just in general. There's gotta be some good stuff out there, right?

The usual disclaimer- when it comes to the state of the world, not everyone will agree with you. You're free to state, discuss, and defend your viewpoint (provided it does not violate the Constitution), but please don't use that fact to attack others.

Though if you're asking about Greek mythology-specific centaurs, probably nothing. Pretty much the only thing that can hurt me is another vampire, one of those wolf guys from La Push, or fire, and acid blood is none of those. I don't think I'd really like to risk it, though—and besides, my girlfriend isn't acid-proof, and it would kind of suck to hurt her if I forgot to clean up after feeding and we kissed.

Would anything happen if you were to drink a centaur's blood? What would that count as?

My skin's drained of all colour, and the inside of my mouth looks like I've been chewin' on charchoal... Gotta thank daddy dearest for that. But would I change those, if I had the chance? I think not. If I feel uncomfortable, a very light glamour fixes everything. With bigger marks, like tails or wings, it'd be more difficult to hold the spell.

At least until we sort out the June 1st, 2016's debacle. That whole issue is keeping us busy, and we won't reveal the happenings until we are ready to do so.

(OOC: That means, no, I don't know when I'm releasing the next mission. And I mentioned I won't answer questions affecting the story of the DIC team, that happens after June 1st, 2016, that includes events happening in their home continuum.)

(unteligible gibberish heard on the background)

You should have seen her face once she saw the reply. She was extastic! In fact, she still is!

(The squealing of a Pikachu is now heard in the background.)

Really, thank you, especially after what happened in Rudi's some days ago...

(crackling of electricity heard on the background) Wait! Thrud, no! (A sound of a Pikachu using Thunderbolt is heard. Transmission cuts off suddenly)

...back in January 2017, when I changed my screenname. I might go through them and renew them again now, just to make sure I still want all of them, and won't lose them if I miss the next cleanup, but I haven't done that yet.

The only thing I didn't renew this January is from February 2016...and it's a joint claim with Silenthunder.

So. Uh. Hi, Silent! Want to try picking up our apparently abandoned-since-last-June cowrite? Could be fun!

~Z

What is your favorite color band(s) is/are your favorite?

Especially as they're all under my old name. So I'm claiming "Agent Clover the Hacker", "Harry Potter and the Guardians of Hogwarts", "It's only a song" and "Son of Chaos Book One"

As your newbie gift have this replica of the One Ring that allows you to use Unicorn Magic.

The Way of Kings is fantasy. The worldbuilding in well-done (and it's not a Middle-Earth clone), Sanderson does a good job of making you care about the characters, and, fair warning, there's few good places to put the book down (even with the fact that there's multiple interleaved narratives going).

I'd give a trailer-ish block of text but I'm worried I'll accidentally give spoilers.

REAMDE is, distilling the first half, a somewhat sci-fi action novel. A very nerdy action novel (an MMO is a key setting). It's also very well-researched, and that fact is made extremely clear to you in the text (to be fair, from what I can tell, Stephenson has reined himself in a bit compared to some of his other works).

Do you like your warlock's mark, or do you wish you'd gotten something different?

What do you like and dislike most about your partner?

I continue claiming "The Way The World Works" and "The Child of the Moon: The Lightning Thief"

Call past the Shelter (http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/PPCMongooseShelter) to pick out your mongoose of choice!