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From the Political Department:

There's an interesting article in Telepolis about the perspectives arising from the elections in the USA:
http://www.telepolis.de/deutsch/inhalt/mein/18755/1.html

And because it's an article written by an American living in Germany, there is actually an English language version online as well, so everybody who's interested can partake of the intellectual challenge and diversity that is Telepolis, for once:
http://www.telepolis.de/english/inhalt/co/18754/1.html

And the title page of the current SPIEGEL:

From the Department for Systematic Madness:

There is a web site that lists conspiracy theories, all and any conpiracy theories, and allows them to make their cases. The PHP system doesn't quite run ideally, yet, but the content is fun:
http://www.weltverschwoerung.de

(in German only, sorry!)

From the Department for Weather Madness:

Our RL weather seems inspired by the early winter we've been having in Bonk in the

discworld_rpg. Today, when I rode the train to work, the weather was fine here in Haidhausen, started to drizzle in Berg-am-Laim; there was a hailstorm in Trudering, a snowstorm in Gronsdorf, falling snow in Haar and nothing again in Vaterstetten where I had to get off. My bike's saddle was a bit wet, that was all. But for tonight, frost is predicted, and snow might actually stay on the ground. And it's only November 9th! That's what I get for going on and on about the snowfalls in Bonk.

fabulous_papaya, please let's go on about the thaw that follows soon, as soon as Otto is through with his werewolves!

From the Department for Creative Redirect:

I can still draw, I find! I have done the drawing of young!Sam I wanted to do for

dreamkin, and then I've drawn a new little vampire about whom I totally don't know who he could be; suggestions are welcome!

The usual: the iconses are free for gackage if I get credited, and link to a large version of the drawings while a small version is behind the cut that follows:

"Little Sam Vimes", from this log for the Discworld RPG, for Dreamkin, whose birthday was more than a month ago but who was still owed something!

"The Little Monster"

From the Department for Standing Offers:

I've got a few requests for Hogswatch fics yet, but if anybody would like to have something written, the offer is still open! You tell me the particulars, and I'll do it, as long as it's a fandom I know.

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i forgot to send myself the "time" cover i got at work today. know it? all black, lil pic of shrub and large "oh fuck" letters.

Hahh! That sounds very funny. Especially the part with "Oh fuck"...

http://www.livejournal.com/users/_inbetween_/150391.html

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Bottoms up! And you reposted it to your blog, too.

yeah, that's why i deleted it from here.

why - tat way, my flist would have got to see it, too! at least if they bothered to come in here, that is.

i was getting worried about bandwidth, now that photobucket a) starts to be paid and b) is acting up constantly.
and i wanted it all in one place. it freaks me out anyway that i cannot make a book of my discussions in other peoples ljs.

Oh, yes, buckets. They're a pain in the rear lately. Thank goodness for my one paid LJ account, and its photobilder access!

Oho, I luvs zer pictures - that is to say, the SPIEGEL cover as well as your drawings. But is Sam Vimes senior wearing tights?? :-D
And the little vampire looks positively scary. A spoilt little brat that could drain your body...

Shall go and have a glance at your links now.

He sometimes has to wear tights with formal uniforms, doesn't he? But nah, I just meant it to be trousers that go into the boots. And he's just nebulously in the background, too.

Yes, I find the little vampire slightly scary myself. He sprang up in my brain and demanded to be drawn yesterday afternoon; I was glad that there was something at least after there had been nothing since I'd come back from the Baltic Sea. But yes, I wouldn't want to have to pass that garden wall at sunset myself...

i actually thought the lil one looked like an elf (in the smallest pic), probably because both pratchett and clarke see fairies as evil.

Which li'l one - Sam junior, or the little vampire?

der kleine vampir natürlich

Yes, I totally don't know where he came from. He just popped up in my mind, sitting forlornly on his wall, and looking at passers-by in a thoroughly dangerous way - sweet yet evil. If he catches you alone, he will jump on you and drink you dry...

*is slightly scared by own drawing*

i have one of those sitting right over me. i fear it intends to überwintern, hasn't moved for 30 hours.

Hmmm, intersting. For you, he embodies the work-wise fears and loathings that oppress you...

I am always totally fascinated by what people make of my drawings.

eeep, w00t? i compared the vampire to the mosquite that is lurking over me!

Mosquito?? At this time of year?? You are having hallucinations, my dear!

i told you it will stay over winter! don't you know any biology?!
if it weren't so high up i would swat it and mail it to you *grump*

Hmm, very odd. I think it will sleep, or die, or something.

And thank for the offer, but I'm sure I'm happier without a squashed Viennese mosquito in the mail.

it won't! it is warm in here, they can überwintern for ages, and it can suckle me.

ps: they are not actually mosquitos. we call them "gelsen" anyway, which is why your town of gelsenkirchen is hilarious!

That town is notoriously ridiculous even without odd Austrian not-quite-mosquitoes.

hey, is if mücken were less odd! pah. moskitos are simply a different kind of animal i was told. i could not believe you don't know gelsen - i guess you don't know bremsen either?

I know Bremsen. Horseflies. Look like flies, suck with a kind of snout. Relatively rare in urban areas.

good girl. see, same word there.
and now imagine this: as a child i had to spend every holiday in an area full of horse flies. and they fed on me. i could not even smite them, it was so awful and disgusting and painful wah.

They used to eat me as well, at our "Ferien auf dem Bauernhof" when I was small. I always waited until they had settled down and started suckling, and then I swatted them - splosh!

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! auuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! yuck! graus. und juck.

Heh! Wuss!

Baiting them with one's own blood is eminently fair, I find.

baiting them with somebody else's blood is more appealing. i don't want smeared corpes bathed in blood sticking on my skin.

There weren't that many at once, Just the occasional horsefly. I can do that.

you made me remember a cloud of them i had to walk through on a path when i was on kur - there was no way around. nightmare in bright sunny daylight.

Younge San is teh cuteness.

Oh, good! I had many misgivings about that drawing.-

Err, thawing, sure.

I should probably have Angua heading back to A-M soon. But A-M is boooring. No werewolves in sight!

Er, is Otto going to have trouble iconohgraphing the wolves? Because he's having a peachy time of it so far. Which is fine, actually, Aria can do whatever she likes, I just thought, well, TROUBLE!!1. Muh.

Let's say Mikhail and Sergei come back and demand to be interviewed as well? Then there shall be trouble. Angua can easily post that as having happened...

*is evil*

And you shall have both Lupine and Dasha along to Ankh-Morpork, to say nothing of the cubs.

They could try to force Otto to print their manifesto in the Times. Would Otto actually go into the mountains looking for them?

Well, I don't think he would - just bring them to the town, and then we shall see what transpires.

Right, but they wouldn't come to town either, too risky. How about they send Angua a letter demanding to see the man from the Times? Since she's from A-M and all.

Hmm - they could come to the human town openly with some followers, banking on the Baroness' wolves being thoroughly beaten, and nobody wanting to start an all-out war.

Letter would be an alternative, of course.

But I wrote that they were the ones who got beaten, and are now lying low. Which makes more sense - small faction versus the Big Clan. But they could conceivably be gathering reinforcements outside town.

I think the letter is more viable, written and mailed at the Bonkian PO by someone skulking about in human form.

If they were beaten, they wouldn't be about at all; they're just temporarily set back. Erm. This is how people make that out, right?

I rather meant the faact that the werewolves are morally and politically defeated by the vampires this time around, and that M+S could use that situation for their ends.

But yes, the other variation works as well.

Ok, right, I'll try and type up a post tonight, but it may have to wait till about six hours from now because I'm falling asleep (SAD! SAd I tell you!).

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