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Assuming I can't take any of the human foes on the same principle preventing hS from being an elf, I think I'd be a faerie dragon. Tiny, combat-averse, magically inclined, and colorful (not to mention adorable).

Ix cocked her head, listening. "Okay, yeah, this song is pretty bad," she admitted. "At least there's no dancing. Might as well have two left feet," she added, grimacing. She was beginning to sweat under her mask; why hadn't she realized how stiflingly hot it would be? She shivered, steeled her nerves, and pulled it off, using it to wipe her face. "It's really warm in here."

Charlotte grinned and began nibbling on the ribs, her eyes fluttering shut in appreciation. "Oh, man, this is good." She paused, grinning, eyes still closed. "Bone-afide. That's pretty hilarious."

My results
Looking at last year's results, it seems I've become less essentialist, more rehabilitative, less progressive and less conservative, more nationalist (got that one wrong), even more capitalist and laissez-faire, slightly less ecologically focused (again, not all that accurate), and slightly more reformist. I also seem to have lost a pragmatist sticker, which is somewhat odd. Still got the anarchist sticker, though. Kinda diubt that one's ever going away.

Overall, a slightly better quiz than I remember. There seem to be far fewer confusing or strange questions, and the flag looks pretty neat.

Leonidas nodded solemnly. "Truth be told, I like to think I was much the same. In terms of leading by example."

Sammy snorted at the boys' joke, then added, "It must have been so different to live in those times."

All right, I'll give it another go when I get home. Maybe I'll get the Ecology Green back. Not that I have anything against Justice Blue. The pink and orange look terrible either way. ^_^

~Neshomeh

You can't tell directly from the URL, but those three identical bars at the top are deeply suspicious.

I'll trade you a pragmatist sticker. ^_~

hS

Welcome. The Emperor protects..,

...but one of these doesn't hurt either.

I may have to do this over, because my connection was interrupted and then it took me to the results, so I don't feel sure I answered all the questions. Can you tell by looking at the URL?

I'm not going to compare to last time just now, but I wouldn't be surprised to find I've gotten closer to you Europeans in the last two years. OTOH, I thought I might have become more revolutionary, but looking at the bar, I suspect it's actually the opposite. I seem to have lost my Pragmatist sticker, which I'm sad about. {= P

~Neshomeh

http://www.politiscales.net/en_US/results/?j1=67&j0=10&b1=26&b0=50&m0=60&m1=10&t1=36&t0=21&e1=21&e0=45&p1=45&p0=29&c0=40&c1=17&s1=38&s0=48&femi=38

Equality! Humanity! Work! Overly Dramatic One-Word Sentences with an exclamation mark after them!

http://www.politiscales.net/en_US/results/?e1=38&e0=21&s1=12&j1=45&s0=60&j0=21&c0=45&c1=21&t0=10&t1=43&m1=14&m0=21&p1=19&p0=10&b0=52&b1=14&femi=38

Humanity - Equality - Order

Pretty much for what I stand. Can't remember my previous attempt. You can see a looot of neutral things; I used this for things I don't care about / didn't understood in English or Polish.

... the map will use the second one, because c'mon, black flag, I've gotta get that on there.

hS

Looks like I didn't post my results last time, but it seems I've shifted greatly away from revolution.

I have... quite a few problems with the way some of the questions are worded because my definitions of some words may be different from those the authors used. For instance, my response to "A good citizen is a patriot" depends on the definition of patriotism. Is patriotism attachment to the stated ideals of a nation, or attachment to the nation itself regardless of how it behaves?

With that in mind, I took the test a second time without so much overanalyzing. I've posted both results.

Here are my first results.

Here are my second results.

I wasn't sure what to write today, so I thought I'd try something a bit different.

There was a knock at the door. Snowblaze hastily sat up straight, changing her undignified sprawl into something more befitting of the mayor of a city.

“Who’s there?” she asked, quickly glancing at the top page of her mountain of paperwork (someone’s planning application to build a garage) and then placing it in front of her.

“It is I,” said a cold voice from the other side of the door. “I have returned.”

Snowblaze rolled her eyes. “Come in, Ice,” she said. “And for goodness’ sake, try not to speak so formally!”

The door opened and Ice, an extremely short man dressed in pale blue with an icicle dangling from his collar, entered.

“What news?” asked Snowblaze, impatient as ever. “Did Huinesoron accept our offers of peace, or are we about to be invaded?”

“They accepted, my lady.”

Snowblaze smiled, relieved. “Anything else?”

“My lady… we have neighbours.”

“I already knew that,” said Snowblaze grumpily. “If that’s all you’ve come to tell me, you might as well go away.”

“No,” Ice replied, “not those neighbours. New ones.”

Snowblaze blinked. “Who? Where?” she asked, slightly nervous.

“To our south,” said Ice, “the balloon fleet of Larfen. They seem to be peaceful, according to Huinesoron.”

“I see,” responded Snowblaze. “Well, I suppose we ought to appear to be friendly. Tell them we come in peace, et cetera, et cetera. Now please can you leave me in peace? I need to finish this paperwork!”

“Yes, my lady,” said Ice. He bowed and left, and Snowblaze instantly returned to a more comfortable position.

Report from the Huinesoronic Ministry of Defence

[...] decision to downgrade Huinesoron's stated magical strength is protested in the strongest terms by this office. While it may be true that we are 'objectively wrong', the defence benefits of claiming ultra-high concentrations of mana are considerable.

We conclude by discussing the latest remnant groups to come to our attention. Firstly, we have finally made direct contact with Hardric, and discovered that it is in fact a twin city, with gold-towered Granz standing on the slopes of a veritable mountain - possibly the last one remaining in this battered world.

The Hardric-Granz emmisaries have brought us further knowledge of the waters to their east: it seems that two undersea settlements, known as Athena and EAIUO (though we are told that they have longer 'true names' which we are not permitted to hear), have been established in the cloudless east. Of note is that Athena has laid claim to the first supply of anti-mana that we have been told of. Once again, we would stress the deterrent value of overstating our own mana reserves.

Finally, there is word of three balloon fleets entering the region. Larfen, on the northern promontory of our own island, seems peaceful, but the others are both heavily armed. Helsinki is content to stay over the eastern waters, but Tomash is close by our southern shores, floating above the undersea mana reserves in the area...

http://www.politiscales.net/en_US/results/?t0=14&t1=48&c0=71&p0=67&j0=64&s1=10&s0=64&e1=29&e0=40&m0=60&b0=69&b1=5&femi=52

Huzzah! Uhhh red things and tools and such! Viva la france?

I have, all around, grown into the exact kind of person secretly controlling the government and media, dutifully fended off by such paragons of the American way as Alex Jones. I also get to hang around with the Reptilians and, bloody, do cool psychic bodyhopping and stuff.

Nice!

(( Possibly one is just as bad as the other. I dunno, I can't pronounce either. ˆ_ˆ ))

Derik, who actually possessed social faculties and could use them on a good day, took a moment to explain: "We sidelined her, Thoth." Then he addressed Ix: "Sorry. I can relate, I think. Pernese festivities usually include some organized entertainment, so guests know what to do with themselves. These Terran-style affairs are so shapeless, it's easy to feel adrift without someone to take you up in their wake. ... And the music is awful," he added in a low grumble. Not about to go off on that, he instead occupied his mouth with some of the food on what was now apparently his plate.

"Yep!" Gall confirmed. "And if you don't get the sauce all over your face, you're doing it wrong. I'm not even punking you; that's a bone-afide fact."

Equality, Humanity, Socialism. I don't specifically remember last time . . . Oh, this is the same three as last time. Yeah, that's pretty much who I am now, just . . . don't tell my parents. >_> They think I'm still a Republican; fortunately, Mom has interpreted my awkward silences every time she brings up politics to be that I'm just not interested. Better than the potential fallout.

None of the percentages changed dramatically from last time. I still have good old Prgamatism, but . . . uh?

Half-veganism? No, that one is purely wrong. I get me a strong hagering for meats and other proteins—my metabolism be real high. It's probably some of the other environmentalish questions that it interpreted as veganism. Oh well.

—doctorlit literally just had tuna and crakcers for dinner

Not a huge fan, it was a little to simplistic for me. Almost all of my answers would have benefited from the ability to clarify.

http://www.politiscales.net/en_US/results/?e0=21&e1=38&b0=38&b1=24&j1=38&j0=43&p1=45&p0=19&s0=55&s1=24&m0=52&femi=19&c0=24&c1=24&t1=38&t0=10&prag=67

...And burst out laughing. "Now that," said Ialthos, "is a king I wouldn't mind following into battle!"

"Hey, our king was just fine!" chimed in Ferrux.

"...He almost tried to have you killed."

"It was a misunderstanding! Water under the bridge! And didn't you work for the guy?"

"Well... technically the Knights' Order is an independant organization with only historical ties to—" Ialthos trailed off when Ferrux's eyes started to noticeably glaze over. "Okay, yes, I did work for him. He was... decent. But this Leonidas guy sounds pretty great!"

"You're tellin' me!" cried Ferrux. "I'd love to meet him. Wish I got more comparisons to him. No idea what this Iskandar guy was like, but I doubt he was that cool."

((Sidenote: in the Fate universe, he is totally that cool. \^_\^))

Equality? Sounds good to me. Humanity? Absolutely! Fundamentally important. ... Work...? As opposed to Socialism? ... Um...? That one surprises me, particularly when my Communism/Capitalism bar is... pretty balanced. Let's see what things were like back in January...

Alright. So, on individual scores... evidently, slightly less Constructivist, which, well, boo, if I'm reading these details right. More into Rehabilitative Justice now, which is always good. Both Progressivism and Conservatism are down, which, uh... exists? Pretty disappointingly? Internationalism is up with Nationalism down, and considering where it seems nationalism leads, that's pretty dang good with me. Communism has remained the same while Capitalism has risen, which... I dunno? I suppose having an instinctive hiss towards anything that could vaguely be considered capitalist is just as bad as the same towards communism, though. It's pretty balanced, which seems good. Regulationism has gone up, and there's not much to say there... Ecology levels have gone up a little, which is good. And Revolutionism is down! Which is, in my opinion, a good thing. The fact that Reformism has also fallen... is not.

Also, I evidently am lightly vegan, which, uh... not really? But I answered that thing with a 'somewhat agree' because while I don't think everyone should give up on eating animals, can we please treat them humanely?

But... that's that. Last January's results are here:

http://disc.yourwebapps.com/discussion.cgi?disc=199610;article=313598;title=PPC%20Posting%20Board

And this year's are here:

http://www.politiscales.net/en_US/results/?b0=83&p1=33&p0=31&s1=5&s0=57&t0=10&t1=60&j1=10&j0=69&c1=10&c0=60&femi=29&e0=36&e1=29&m1=5&m0=69&vega=67

"Well," he began with great authority, "Leonidas was the King of Sparta in ancient Greece, and he was the one who led the three hundred Spartan hoplites and their allies in the battle at Thermopylae. He was a great warrior and a great leader. He wouldn't ask his men to do anything he wouldn't do himself. My friend Suicide—he's really my mom's friend, but he's mine, too—he told me the soldiers used to tell this joke: What's the difference between the Spartan king and a mid-ranker?" He paused for suspense and grinned the grin of a boy about to say something he knew full well he shouldn't. "We sleep in this shithole over here. The king sleeps in that shithole over there."

Both boys laughed at the illicit language.

(( Sorry for the long silence! Thoth and I were both confused about whose turn it was.

(( In other news, I am now rereading Gates of Fire, because why not? ))