(also, 100th storyline, yay!)

Even back before Atarangi joined the team, Violet’s close friendship with Rowan might have been tricky if she was his boss, but before Pascentia was introduced (in Watching Over Me 15 – how long have you been planning this???), there was no obvious alternative knight to promote.

We’ve seen Rowan trying to hold other people to his own standards, but I think Pascentia’s unrelenting standards are just for herself, so I don’t think it’ll be a problem for her as a leader.

(If you know of one that does two men with grey in their hair… My poor older OCs only suffer from my attempts at drawing.)

Oh, yes that’s a good point too of course! Heh, more major factors have shifted even than I remembered… Though I confess I’m still concerned that Pascentia is a bit too early in her process of healing to be able to reliably distinguish between high and unrelenting standards… but I have complete trust in your storytelling! Very curious where the story (well, stories) will go from here. ✨

I guess I never had any of the characters say this part out loud, but…one big concern is, now that Violet is dating Kallie, it would be problematic to make her Atarangi’s boss!

… damn, I learn something new every day and some days I wish I could unlearn things. That is a *bizarre* claim for anyone to make about any group of people. And seems both wildly impractical and a waste of a good bedsheet.

Anyway the special Mormon underwear is “temple garments”. Google them if you’re morbidly curious. They’re not mandatory during sex.

I think it is a Christianity sect thing. I forget which one, but I kind of recall having confused them with Jews while growing up because

1. We had no contact with actual Jews at that time.
2. Their name seemed Jewish, at least to someone with no contact with actual Jews.

As I recall, when we eventually met some Jews, it turned out we had a bunch of misunderstandings because there are several Christian sects that I thought sounded Jewish.

To be clear, once we had contact with actual Jews, it became clear that none of those denomination names sounded Jewish. Jews consider, or at least considered, back in the day, the closest of them to be sacrilegious. 40+ years later I don’t even remember what the others were, so I can’t make comments on how exactly their names would mesh with Jewish sensibilities apart from the overall understanding of “not well”.

Wait thats a Jewish stereotype? As a Jew I grew up under the impression that the bedsheet thing was a thing some sect of Christianity did–it was even mentioned in a romance book I read as a teen. The only thing that I heard growing up by some people (not even sure where, though one fiction book I read mentioned it) about Jews was that aome orthadox Jews have a bed that can separate into two beds during the wifes period, though I never actually saw a bed like that.

I get kinda pissed about that one because it comes too close to the ‘Jews fucking through a bed-sheet’ thing that I got asked about all through my childhood.

No, Jews do not fuck through holes in bed-sheets, especially not people of Jewish descent who’s great-grandpa went Christian to marry a Christian woman, but even practicing Jews do not.

[snrk] Swipe at Mormonism spotted!

“Aliens” is too many cults, but “-ology” has shades of Scient-. I imagine like so many things in this comic that remind people of IRL examples, Northwindology was an amalgamation of many examples of high-control groups.

Aaaawwwww!

Also, it gives me life to imagine how Northwind crashed and burned in this AU.

It's cool seeing more of the cast in this AU! I still wonder how Kale's doing…

(Looks like I screwed up the link. It was supposed to go to Always a Bigger Fishbowl 10/17.)

The AU clearly still has religion. Just look around them.

* sees Leif in his new outfit *

Ah, that’s why!

Sometimes you just want to do the fun cathartic part of a scenario. /nods/

Ooh 💚 I’m tempted too. Surely I’ll be well enough to bake again eventually.

I believe this would be *because* of their government service and the SECRET ORDER OF MONSTER HUNTERS. Considering how things went with Marula back in No Moss, I’m not too surprised. They seem to be very lenient qith potential/current agents. Which makes me wonder what else kind of monsters they’re actually hunting out there…

I bet this one is pretty good, though I haven’t had a chance to try it myself! https://myheartbeets.com/masala-doodh/ She hasn’t made a cheesecake version yet though… tempted to experiment with that myself!

…Ohhhhh. The dogtor mug had me primed to think it was another veterinary pun. Thanks!!

Things! (Because their cover job was that they worked in a museum…)