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("Rock on" horns sign, if you're wondering what that thing at the end is.)

~Neshomeh

I can't do email for privacy reasons, so I'm not sure how to submit this. Here is the link to the doc, though.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G6_-CGgTAXuVe1UheVWfIQv2WCeRrl9SNmzeLS7IeC8/edit?usp=sharing

The US is both republic and democracy, at least according to the dictionary.

So...whole "republic" thing also.

Pedantically, --Ls

Aziraphale (spoilers?) is not in the story, but his shop is enough of a character that both the book and show of Good Omens treat its death as a tragic moment. I will admit it probably made spotting the pattern trickier than it needed to be. :D

hS

According to the wiki page, the first part is lost, but now here we are

...I just want to stop further sign-ups in this thread. XD I appreciate the enthusiasm, but this isn't the right place for it. I'll make a proper thread when the time comes where any requests about crediting and such will be in one place! Makes it way easier for me.

The project isn't one that I'll even start until next year at the absolute earliest. There will be plenty of time to sign up for it. But thank you!

/Ekwy

Set before the Halloween interlude and shortly after the Elsa-Stu mission; after his mission with Urato, Inasuke is partnered with someone he gets along with far better.

P.S: No, I haven't abandoned the cowrite with Ls; I've informed him that I was working on a new mission at the same time.

Harry mentioned it in the books too, that his new set didn't trust him.

As for the screen addicts, I'm sure there's a wizarding equivalent. Dumbledore did mention people wasting away in front of the Mirror of Erised, so.... mirror addicts? Wizarding portrait addicts? Ron's just fascinated by what's new and very very different, so don't worry too much.

I do enjoy writing Ron's reactions to the Muggle world! He's hilarious.

Thanks for reading!

And I second Ballotpedia as a useful resource, cringe as the name may sound. It's maybe more useful during primaries, when the candidates are more similar, but it was especially valuable this year, when a lot of candidates on Arizona's ballot dropped out of the races too late to get their names removed from the mail printing. Talk about "throwing away a vote" on a candidate who's not even eligible any more!

— doctorlit will find it extremely difficult to keep off his phone at work tomorrow . . .

After all the weird social etiquette stuff, I'm glad the Hogwarts students had a chance to just hang out for a while and be kids, and that Harry's Muggle friends got to join in as well! Ron was especially cute reacting to some of the technology he encountered, plus the "normal" haircut on Rose. Although boy oh boy, if there's one undeniably good thing about the Wizarding World, it's the fact that wizards can't turn into screen addicts, with no television or internet around. I wonder if that tends to become a problem for the wizard members in mixed wizard-Muggle families . . . I definitely felt a teeny bit of dread when Ron started fixating on the tv. : (

I liked the little detail of wizard chess sets being more or less cooperative based on their familiarity with the players. Feels very much like it fits the product and the universe! Also, yay, Jenny's crew are getting more involved in the narrative!

—today doctorlit learned that jelly babies are apparently a real candy in Britain, and not something made up for Doctor Who, yeah?

Please, for the love of god people—VOTE! There are too many freedoms riding on this election and while you individually might not be enough to tip the scales, it's convincing people en masse that their vote doesn't matter where we watch democracy crumble while saying there was nothing we could do to stop it.

I think that was Aziraphale in the second chapter, since Constance and Jasmine find his store later?

—doctorlit had such a busy weekend, he never bothered to turn his computer on, but now he is very far behind on the Board

Any Americans living abroad should know that the US embassies handle election mail, too.

If you're registered to vote overseas through the FPCA, your local registrar of voters should have sent you a ballot envelope template to print out. Fill it out addressed to your registrar and you shouldn't have to pay for US postage.

Put that envelope inside a bigger envelope addressed to the US embassy, and they send it back to the US in their diplomatic pouch so that it can be counted in the election. No need to pay for more than just postage to the embassy!

(Also you could fax your ballot to the registrar, but I'm allergic to fax machines. Sorry Japan. :P)

Ok, so, tomorrow's Election Day. I'd like to encourage all the (eligible) US folks on here to go vote tomorrow if they haven't already - voting's a big part of the whole "democracy" thing, after all.

And I will leave a few practical notes on the whole election process:

• Do your research before you go in. The League of Women Voters puts out voter guides that are, effectively, "we sent all the candidates a few questions and collected exactly what they sent back". You'll want to Google for the guide for your county, most likely.
• Similarly, Ballotpedia has a nice sample ballot tool.
• You are allowed to take notes on how you're planning to vote and take them in to the booth with you. However, they can't be on a phone or anything else with a camera (to prevent you from being able to prove how you voted in case someone bought your vote etc etc.), so you'll need to use actual paper for these.
• If you're still in line when the poll closing time happens, stay in line. You made it to the place on time, you're still entitled to have your vote counted.
• (especially in states with ID requirements) If there's something wonky with ID, registration, or so on, you have the right to cast a provisional ballot and then go get that cleared up a day or two later.

but you can also use any of my seven agents as well 😉. However, if you do decide to use them, please credit me as KnShirayuki rather than Kі nо Shirayuki.

I love writing nice things happening to Harry. He should have more nice things happening to him.

Yes, and honestly when I first thought up his Muggle friends' names I was thinking of paralleling Ron and Hermione, too. In my head Gary has an entire mop of dark curls like Hermione (though my Hermione has more afro-textured hair than just plain curly), while Rose... I mean, that's the name of Ron and Hermione's daughter in canon! -coughs in foreshadowing-

Also, she's blonde because she looks a bit like Rose Tyler in my head :P

Yes, Lily's rather casual treatment of some of the Pureblood culture is sorta... well, it was normal for her for a long time. And it's important to have the outside perspective weighing in to remind us that it's not normal.

Thank you for reading!

And, uh, side note: I sent you an email with a link to that co-write, not sure if you’ve gotten it yet.

—Ls, kinda butting in

There's always something cathartic in a character like Harry, who has no family left and no friends before Hogwarts in canon, have a proper Christmas with friends and at least some family!

Ron amazed at Muggle stuff was fun, and I really like where you're goign with havign Harry have two Muggle friends, a boy and a girl like his wizarding friends. Compare, contrast, they're all people anyway. Clever.

Of course, the little bits of Pureblood traditions that made it in still put me on edge, but it was done neatly. Lily mentions them off-handedly when it makes sense, and not only they're chilling for what they are, but it's also chilling how the definitely more progressive than the norm Lily thinks that they are normal! Perfect use of Mubggle-backgroudn Harry here, he's just as confused as we are.

The theme with those is that they each show one character's reactions in the moments after the world changed. Usually it's someone introduced in that chapter, or at the end of the previous one. I may have written myself into a hole with that one; I'm mentally saving up Jasmine for when I don't have any new characters left.

Looking for Norrell is a decent read on what Childermass is up to. He's actually using a trick he employs in the book, which reveals any magic at work. Since the world is changing, there should be massive amounts... but this isn't magic.

hS

And I'm glad I got the cameos right... I was testing that ability in myself for a larger scale project a little further down the line. Best not to say too much about it right now. XD

Harry hosts Ron for Christmas, plus Ron and Hermione meet Harry's Muggle friends.

We go back to Hogwarts next chapter!