if you believe enough legends (and also in yourself), british monarchs are crowned using a magic sword that belonged to a knight of the round table and was forged by a finnish smith who made that sword and two others for charlemagne. charlemagne decided the brit’s current magic sword was second best and so he chose one of the other two, and that magic sword was used to crown french monarchs until the revolution. britain: second best to france in every possible way, but still ahead of the US in the “government possesses magic swords” race
on the other hand, the us has several excellent government maces
really the us government could solve this pretty promptly if they wanted to, because the third sword in that trio - durendal, that of roland - is buried in a cliff wall in a town in southern france. we ignore enough sovereign borders as it is, we should easily be able to steal a simple magic sword from a rock. alternately we could get up to a little National Treasure 4: National Lampoon’s European Vacation action and steal the remnants of joyeuse (the french coronation sword) from the louvre.
fuck it lets do it. lets go steal durendal. i bet it has a shitload of powers shit is fuckin tight as hell. the only question remaining is………… who gets to wield it
Legend has it that that during WWII, Mikhail Kalashnikov, then a young tank mechanic, came up with the design for what eventually became the AK-47 (in between getting shot at by the Germans). At the end of the war, Kalashnikov presented his first prototype to Stalin, who performed an arcane ritual wherein in had Lenin’s spirit bound to the weapon. After Stalin’s death, his successors fought viciously over it; however, upon emerging victorious, Nikita Kruschev realized that carrying the Holy Assault Rifle of the Proletariat was too much power for any one man to wield, and had it hidden some where in Siberia. Rumor has it that Putin has the Russian interior ministry searching night and day for it.
A maintenance person came to fix some caulking in my bathroom and left me this amazing three smiley face note (that’s right, three) about Charlie. Charlie cat best cat.
Maintenance people can just enter your home without you knowing beforehand (why the notice afterwards if not)? How does this work? How do they get the keys?
If you live in a rented house or apartment the landlord has extra keys.
In all the apartments I’ve lived in, you either have to be present, or explicitly grant management permission to let maintenance into your unit while you’re away. In the later case, they usually leave a notice just so you know that they were actually there.
I think I’d have a lot more patience with all this spriteshit and related shenanigans if I was more confident that Hussie knew what he was doing. For the first time since Cascade, I’m starting to worry that Hussie doesn’t know (or more likely doesn’t care) about where his plots are going. Hussie can be a good writer when he cares enough to try; I’m just not sure that he actually cares anymore.
Imagine Shinra and Celty having sex, and Shinra goes to kiss her neck and ends up choking on her neck smoke stuff, then them having to stop so he can use an inhaler.
a patchwork monstrosity. a skeptic for whom all that ever was is right here, and all that ever will be is right now. an aggressively apolitical ideologue. an unfortunate allergy to whig naratives. a cynicism so deep that it wraps around into an idealism so profound that it straddles the rift a second time and unceremoniously deposits itself right back where it started. anarcho-behaviorism. microeconomics with a dash of cultural anthropology. hard determinism. soft nihilism. enlightened apathy. "let not the strong be cozened by is and isn't; [...] truth is to be sought in does and doesn't." quinean epistemological naturalism. stirnerian anti-humanism. anime. indie roleplaying games. homestuck. shetland sheepdogs. insomnia. mix. enjoy.
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