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Godspeed, Odo

So, my motto changed again, and the flag is not as boring as last time. I tried to be less indecisive this time, but this test isn’t made for somebody who is always overthinking. In too many cases I would like to qualify my answer with something like "I can imagine circumstances where this would be true, so I cannot absolutely disagree, but it is certainly not applicable to the current situation in my country".

Results

HG

Well that was a summary that grabbed me by the scruff and refused to let go until I'd read it.

I never got as far as the Animorphs books that got inside the Yeerks' heads, so I can't say how in-character this is, but as a depiction is holds together very nicely. I'm definitely interested in reading more.

A Yeerk wizard. Good grief...

hS

I'll try to use this as motivation to write more :)

Pooled Wizardries (rated G, no archive warnings apply) is the Young Wizards and Animorphs crossover fic I've had an idea for for years.

The overall idea is, to quote the summary, "A Yeerk is offered wizardry. A new human wizard is waiting for their Ordeal. These events might not be unconnected."

This is just the first chapter, and I have more planned that'll happen at my semi-glacial update pace, so feel free to give the fic a follow if you want to see more of it (though I might post followup announcements on the Board if people don't mind that).

There were several questions, like "it is acceptable that there are rich and poor people", where I couldn't help but read double meanings- on one level, yes, as long as we live in a capitalist society, there will be people with more and people with less. However, on the other hand, the immense wealth inequality in the United States today is a huge problem- we've gone far beyond "more and less" and are now at "all or nothing", which I could read the question as asking me to endorse.

There were nastier ones, too, which I'm copying down as I take the survey: the acceptability of violence in political processes comes up a few times, which gets difficult to answer when there are fascists around. "It is a small group that consciously and secretly controls the world" could either be mostly-true (billionaires) or an incredibly racist dog-whistle. "A good citizen is a patriot" could be read many ways, depending on how you parse "patriot", and "we need to make compromises with the opposition" makes perfect sense until the opposition are authoritarians following a would-be tinpot dictator.

All that to say: Equality, Humanity, Socialism!

I've never really been into Westerns myself, but I'm definitely up for it.

Jack would be thrilled by the opportunity to defy the law and go wreak havoc...er, exact justice. I see Harvey as being more of a strategist, always marking things on maps and stuff like that.

(No map as yet - I left my generator on a different computer. Tomorrow.)

• Constructivism: PPC average = 73%. Highest so far is Scape at 96.5%; lowest is OrangeFox at 40.5%.
• Socialism: Average = 65%. Highest is Scape again at 96.5% again; lowest is... well, OrangeFox again, actually, at 31%.
• Rehabilitative: Average = 76%. Highest is Scape 'Her Again' grace at 95%, with the lowest this time being SomeRandomPersonAccount at 49%. Other than SRPA, nobody dipped below the 50% mark (ie, nobody in the PPC is strongly punitive, despite... y'know, the PPC.)
• Regulationism: Average = 80%. The highest is me, at 97.5%, which I think is the highest single score on the board. Lowest is OrangeFox at an even 50%.
• Progressivism: Average = 82%, our highest average. Good Mod Addict takes the highest, matching my 97.5% from last time; OrangeFox snags the lowest at 57%.
• Ecology: Average is 58%. The highest is Good Mod Addict again, at 76%, while Aurora Morningstar is lowest at 39.5%. This is one of the two where the whole PPC is fairly equivocal.
• Internationalism: Average = 80% again. Highest is me, at 96.5%. Lowest looks like Elcalion, 'down' at 59.5%. We're a very international bunch.
• Revolution: Average = 48%, the only time our average has dipped below the midline. Scape is our most revolutionary, at 76%; Snowblaze and SunAndMoon tie for most reformist, and for the lowest result on the board, at a mere 13%.

Overall, it's interesting to note that the 'lowest' results in a lot of cases were taken by the people with a lot of neutral answers - ie, they're only 'low' because the program can't decide where they sit, so puts them in the middle. There are exceptions, particularly on that final result.

And just for fun: the left-right and progressive-conservative plots for the handful of people who a) have posted this year, and b) have results going back to 2016 or beyond:

(This is the old Political Compass plot. Or rather, it's the lower-left corner of it. ^_~)

hS

Link looks weird, I hope this works?

I've increased a bit in Reformism and dropped in . . . Ecology? I must have done some weird answers to make that happen. But the biggest change is a greater tendency towards rehabilitative justice.

I got pragmatism again, and veganism, which is weird (eating pasta with Parmesan as I type), but they're both greyed out. Incidentally, hS, you mentioned not liking pragmatism last year and this one, but it sounds like a pretty logical outlook to me. What's the problem behind it?

—doctorlit, carb-loading for breakfast

Also, rambling band XD What a great opening.

I don't have a lot of time right now, but I will say that fitting Jacques into this AU should be incredibly simple. Dawn's probably got one foot still in the civilian life; Gurnirel and Naergondir have actual training and probably come from somewhere farther off and sophisticated to begin with. The Reader is a scholar in her time off. Kozar was a soldier in the past (probably a different army than Jacques), and it shows. When his partner Allison went down in a shootout, he got a lot grimmer. T'Zar...great at acquiring weapons? Is or was a sheriff somewhere? Not quite sure.

~Z

I could see my agents fitting into this fairly well. Edward the most easily: he's a straight-talking, straight-shooting guy and fighting back against oppression is definitely his style.

Kat perhaps less so: she's not a direct fighter, but will make sure everyone is well looked-after and gets enough food no matter what she has to scavenge - and she's not afraid to join in the fighting when she has to.

Mira... my first thought is "horse whisperer" because she's so in tune with nature... I could definitely see her as the one who looks after all the horses, but she's also someone you do not get on the wrong side of.

So, here's my results. Compared to last year I seem to have become significantly more internationalist, slightly more communist, and more firmly wishy-washy about revolutions (in that a lot of my answers went from "ehhh" to "yeah, kinda, sometimes" probably).

- Tomash, standing outside the Flower's offices with a picket sign since that feels pretty in-character for me these days

Kate’s 90% the same, just replacing PMC membership with a Pinkerton badge.

Cassie’ll never be Annie Oakley, but she reads and rides like the wind.

Holly is Holly. Considering the source material for her is drawing from Robin Hood’s Merry Men, all she loses is the soul-powered forcefield.

Lorraine is an abolitionist veteran of Bloody Kansas. Quieter than main-PPC!Lorraine.

Fritz is...Fritz. Ex-Union army and very good sawbones.

Marion, formerly Union Pacific Special Agent Buckley, wanted to be a nurse one day. That didn’t quite work out.

The West ain't won, kid.

The west ain't won yet, kid. Let's you an' me win it back.

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So yeah, the Discord had an idea for a PPC Western AU. Suvians are corrupt sheriffs, Pinkertons, landowners - the bad guys from Western stories (you know, the non-racist ones). Agents are outlaws who've had to take matters into their own hands, as well as a six-gun. High noons, saloon bars, gunfights at corrals that even on a good day would struggle to count as okay. So, what do you say?

The correct answer is "YEEEEEEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Yeah, I keep second-guessing the questions, so it makes sense that the stickers in particular (which require answering every single relevant question the same way) would vary a bit across years.

http://www.politiscales.net/en_US/results/?m0=71&s1=5&s0=83&t0=50&t1=19&c1=10&c0=71&femi=67&p0=31&p1=26&b0=60&b1=14&e1=29&e0=29&j0=57 Equality-Humanity-Socialism I'm surprised at my Revolution score, as I've always thought of myself as more reformist. I suppose it depends on what metrics you're using.

For space reasons more than anything else.

Looking at your results, your only big change is that you've jumped from 45 to 75% revolutionary; a pretty significant leap! You've retained your Anarchist sticker, but lost your Radical Feminist one (by dropping to a mere 86% on the hidden 'femi' score).

hS

Seems about right. I got quite a bit of neutrality, seems that I'm cursed to always see shades of grey

http://www.politiscales.net/en_US/results/?m1=5&m0=71&e0=40&e1=36&s0=57&s1=19&c0=79&femi=38&c1=7&prag=67&p0=21&p1=38&j1=10&j0=57&b0=43&b1=5&t1=45&t0=26

It seems that either I didn't participate last year or that somehow it didn't make it into the spreadsheet (or I just didn't see it). Anyway, from what I recall, I think I've gotten more progressive and rehabilitative. I can't remember any other major differences.

Full results!

EDIT: Huh, it seems that I misread the label. Hooray for misunderstandings all around? Or something? I don't know. Anyway, I'm probably very close to "Equality, Humanity, Socialism," too. Massive shrug

Green. Purple. whyyyyyy.

Here's my full results.

Well done for becoming more revolutionary, Comrade hSki. =]

Results

Think that's about the same as last year. Not really surprised, honestly.

Name my state or country Question Mark land!

http://www.politiscales.net/en_US/results/?e0=43&e1=21&c1=33&c0=29&femi=38&s1=14&s0=38&b1=14&b0=38&t1=24&t0=19&j1=33&j0=31&m0=24&m1=14&p0=12&p1=14

But my flag doesn’t have a question mark :(