The Arc of Conflict, Fragment s16,1: The Right Buyer

Apparently I just... never posted this here? Holy shit! Well, guess what team - today you get a double update, and on top of that, I HAVE A BUFFER AGAIN AND THIS TIME IT'S REAL, we are back on a schedule, and that schedule is weekly.

Looks like I had a lot of words hung up behind that logjam, because once it broke, a lot of words came tumbling out.

Anyway. Enjoy the first of TWO updates tonight. Second one will follow shortly.

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Katya Volskaya's government in Russia has destroyed the omnium Koschei, and held their own against the Gods of Oasis. With no point to additional fighting, the overt war has paused. But covertly, the conflict carries on. The gods, after all, still have a plan, and will do what is needed - one way, or another.

Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Conflict
Fragment s16,1: The Right Buyer
solarbird and bzarcher

Jesse McCree's plan to assassinate Moira O'Deorain worked. But he did not reckon on the kind of reckoning a literal Goddess of Time could provide.

Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Conflict is a continuance of The Arc of Ascension, The Arc of Creation, and In the Beginning, there was an Armourer and a Living Weapon. It will be told in a series of eddas, sagas, interludes, fragments, texts, and cantos, all of which serve their individual purposes. To follow the story as it appears, please subscribe to the series.

The Arc of Conflict, Edda 18: The First Day of the First Year (Year Zero, Dawn)

Katya Volskaya's government in Russia has destroyed the omnium Koschei, and held their own against the Gods of Oasis. With no point to additional fighting, the overt war has paused. But covertly, the conflict carries on. The gods, after all, still have a plan, and will do what is needed - one way, or another.

Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Conflict
Edda 18: The First Day of the First Year (Year Zero, Dawn)
solarbird and bzarcher

Lena Oxton has returned from Deadlock changed in ways she cannot yet describe to anyone, because sometimes, even a goddess has only so much time to save the world.

Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Conflict is a continuance of The Arc of Ascension, The Arc of Creation, and In the Beginning, there was an Armourer and a Living Weapon. It will be told in a series of eddas, sagas, interludes, fragments, texts, and cantos, all of which serve their individual purposes. To follow the story as it appears, please subscribe to the series.

Today's News (2020/6/14) Fascism Flagrant edition

Sorry for the lateness of this. I've been doing other writing. Hopefully I can keep up with both.

1. Will Bill Barr Go to Jail When This Is All Done?
2. Operation Incinerator
3. Fox News photoshopping armed protester into other photos of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
4. Weber State professor resigns after “abhorrent” tweets
5. Fox News is actively lying about the situation in Seattle and the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, including running fake photographs, to convince their viewers that martial law and military crackdown is the right and necessary response.
6. How The Antifa Fantasy Spread In Small Towns Across The US
7. America, We Need to Talk About Fascism
8. It takes active effort to pretend that you don't know that a white nationalist came up with a list of "peaceful ethnic cleansing" policies he would enact if he ever worked in the Whitehouse, then he got in the Whitehouse, now the policies are here.

( The articles )

Today's News (2020/6/14): Police Violence edition

1. Want to know why it’s so hard for #cops to be ‘good apples’...
2. Police Lounged, Napped In Congressman’s Office For Hours As Looters Destroyed South Side Businesses, Video Shows
3. The Seattle Police Department has been engaged in a disinformation campaign aimed at delegitimizing protesters and fomenting violence
4. NYPD disciplinary proceeding records to be public once again. Supports of police violence very unhappy.
5. The lie that put CHAZ in the national spotlight and led the President of the United States to threaten military violence in Seattle
6. Louisville, Kentucky police seem to be engaged in a MASSIVE coverup of the events surrounding Breonna Taylor's murder on March 13th
7. New video reveals Layleen Polanco's death at Rikers was preventable, family says
8. The Floyd Protests: The South Korean Police are Far Less Belligerent than US Departments
9. A thread of newspaper articles on why Portland PD is so violent and terrible
10. Unicorn Ninja reporter ordered by police to leave protest scene or be arrested

( The articles )

Today's News (2020/6/14): COVID-19 Edition

The question will be, when hospitals in the South and southwest are flooded with cases, will they just stop treating COVID-19 patients, letting them die, to keep critical care facilities open for people with other conditions?

I suspect so.

1. Pakistan hospitals struggle as coronavirus cases explode
2. ‘Are you from America?’ Woman has a racist meltdown after being asked to wear a mask
3. White House Floats Theory That Mexico Is To Blame For Spike In COVID Cases
4. One of Oregon’s biggest coronavirus outbreaks could take weeks to trace and contain
5. Downplaying virus risk, Trump gets back to business as usual
6. Wolf Asks Pennsylvania Supreme Court to Uphold Shutdown
7. Despite virus surge, Arizona governor won't require masks
8. Study: 100% face mask use could crush second, third COVID-19 wave
9. Florida fired its coronavirus data scientist. Now she’s publishing the statistics on her own.

( The articles )

Today's News (2020/6/14): Politics edition

1. The Mainstream Media Won’t Tell You This
2. Starbucks to allow baristas to wear Black Lives Matter attire and accessories after social media backlash
3. Melania Trump used her delayed arrival to the White House as leverage for renegotiating her prenuptial agreement with President Trump
4. 'Scares me to death': Georgia Republicans fret voting-access issue could sink Trump
5. Shocked locals make public apology to Spokane family harassed in Forks
6. In the new Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, protesters come together to give aid and fight for change
7. What the hell does this even mean? No, really, what.
8. Study finds the most racially prejudiced people tend to think that they are less racist than the average person
9. Echoes of the Past: What One of Seattle’s First Laws Can Teach us About the Colonial Legacy of Displacement by Criminalization
10. HHS finally implements rule allowing carte blanche discrimination against transgendered people in the US, including complete withholding of care
11. Devin Nunes’ attorney says he’s at ‘dead end’ in quest to reveal identity of Twitter cow
12. If you don't quite understand what horror the Trump administration inflicted today on transgender and non-binary people seeking medical care and why we're scared, let me tell you a quick story.
13. Trump administration issues rule to curtail health protections for transgender people
14. Most of the causes of the collapse in crime over the last 30 years in the developed world likely had nothing to do with police, and won't be coming back if police are gone
15. Don't be fooled into thinking Republicans are split over Trump

( The articles )