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    Don Edwards got a reaction from ProfessorTomoe in Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)   
    And if you don't feel better soon, or you notice any of your fingers bending where they shouldn't or changing significantly in length, haul your hiney to a doctor to get it X-rayed and all the bones lined up to heal properly.
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    Don Edwards got a reaction from Pharaoh RutinTutin in NP: Monday, May 16, 2016   

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    Don Edwards got a reaction from Pharaoh RutinTutin in NP: Monday, May 16, 2016   

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    Don Edwards got a reaction from Ser Pentrose in STORY: Monday, May 16, 2016   
    Well, all the aberrations we've seen were wearing clothes that fit them reasonably well. Spidey's had some serious custom tailoring (which he may have done himself, but then he'd still have to acquire fabric, thread, buttons, and preferably a sewing machine and a reasonably-secure work space). They may prefer to not live outside in the rain and cold. They may need to eat ordinary food to maintain their bodies, more often than would be satisfied by their need to drain victims of life-force. Most probably need to travel every so often to avoid attracting too much attention. They may have ambitions beyond living a really long time - Sirleck for example.
    Money would be useful.
    However, if I were an aberration and learned that someone was trying to draw a lot of aberrations to Moperville, I'd be careful to stay well away from that city. Preferably on another continent. Because the expected consequence of a concentration of aberrations is a concentrated aberration-hunt. 
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    Don Edwards got a reaction from Ser Pentrose in STORY: Monday, May 16, 2016   
    Well, all the aberrations we've seen were wearing clothes that fit them reasonably well. Spidey's had some serious custom tailoring (which he may have done himself, but then he'd still have to acquire fabric, thread, buttons, and preferably a sewing machine and a reasonably-secure work space). They may prefer to not live outside in the rain and cold. They may need to eat ordinary food to maintain their bodies, more often than would be satisfied by their need to drain victims of life-force. Most probably need to travel every so often to avoid attracting too much attention. They may have ambitions beyond living a really long time - Sirleck for example.
    Money would be useful.
    However, if I were an aberration and learned that someone was trying to draw a lot of aberrations to Moperville, I'd be careful to stay well away from that city. Preferably on another continent. Because the expected consequence of a concentration of aberrations is a concentrated aberration-hunt. 
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    Don Edwards got a reaction from Ser Pentrose in STORY: Monday, May 16, 2016   
    Well, all the aberrations we've seen were wearing clothes that fit them reasonably well. Spidey's had some serious custom tailoring (which he may have done himself, but then he'd still have to acquire fabric, thread, buttons, and preferably a sewing machine and a reasonably-secure work space). They may prefer to not live outside in the rain and cold. They may need to eat ordinary food to maintain their bodies, more often than would be satisfied by their need to drain victims of life-force. Most probably need to travel every so often to avoid attracting too much attention. They may have ambitions beyond living a really long time - Sirleck for example.
    Money would be useful.
    However, if I were an aberration and learned that someone was trying to draw a lot of aberrations to Moperville, I'd be careful to stay well away from that city. Preferably on another continent. Because the expected consequence of a concentration of aberrations is a concentrated aberration-hunt. 
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    Don Edwards got a reaction from Ser Pentrose in STORY: Monday, May 16, 2016   
    Well, all the aberrations we've seen were wearing clothes that fit them reasonably well. Spidey's had some serious custom tailoring (which he may have done himself, but then he'd still have to acquire fabric, thread, buttons, and preferably a sewing machine and a reasonably-secure work space). They may prefer to not live outside in the rain and cold. They may need to eat ordinary food to maintain their bodies, more often than would be satisfied by their need to drain victims of life-force. Most probably need to travel every so often to avoid attracting too much attention. They may have ambitions beyond living a really long time - Sirleck for example.
    Money would be useful.
    However, if I were an aberration and learned that someone was trying to draw a lot of aberrations to Moperville, I'd be careful to stay well away from that city. Preferably on another continent. Because the expected consequence of a concentration of aberrations is a concentrated aberration-hunt. 
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    Don Edwards got a reaction from Ser Pentrose in STORY: Monday, May 16, 2016   
    Well, all the aberrations we've seen were wearing clothes that fit them reasonably well. Spidey's had some serious custom tailoring (which he may have done himself, but then he'd still have to acquire fabric, thread, buttons, and preferably a sewing machine and a reasonably-secure work space). They may prefer to not live outside in the rain and cold. They may need to eat ordinary food to maintain their bodies, more often than would be satisfied by their need to drain victims of life-force. Most probably need to travel every so often to avoid attracting too much attention. They may have ambitions beyond living a really long time - Sirleck for example.
    Money would be useful.
    However, if I were an aberration and learned that someone was trying to draw a lot of aberrations to Moperville, I'd be careful to stay well away from that city. Preferably on another continent. Because the expected consequence of a concentration of aberrations is a concentrated aberration-hunt. 
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    Don Edwards got a reaction from Maplestrip in More Speculation.   
    Diane, Susan, and Nanase go out to lunch together. The title of the arc is "Mange à 3".
     
    (I originally typed "Natani" rather than "Nanase". Now THAT would be interesting!)
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    Don Edwards got a reaction from Ser Pentrose in Story Comic for 2016 April 25th   
    Time travelers do a lot of voluntary policing of each other, and it also turns out that reality is somewhat self-correcting.
    Example of both
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    Don Edwards got a reaction from Ser Pentrose in Story Comic for 2016 April 25th   
    Time travelers do a lot of voluntary policing of each other, and it also turns out that reality is somewhat self-correcting.
    Example of both
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    Don Edwards got a reaction from Ser Pentrose in Story Comic for 2016 April 25th   
    Time travelers do a lot of voluntary policing of each other, and it also turns out that reality is somewhat self-correcting.
    Example of both
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    Don Edwards got a reaction from Ser Pentrose in Story Comic for 2016 April 25th   
    Time travelers do a lot of voluntary policing of each other, and it also turns out that reality is somewhat self-correcting.
    Example of both
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    Don Edwards got a reaction from HarJIT in NP, Wednesday April 27, 2016   
    Rend Caesar with that which is Caesar's.
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    Don Edwards got a reaction from Wildcat in Story Comic for 2016 April 25th   
    Definitions of terms in this area are still in flux, but I'd class Elliot as gender-neutral rather than agender. Among those most involved with the issue, "agender" is becoming more defined as the absence of gender identity, where "gender-neutral" is a more or less balanced and unstressful presence of both male and female gender identity. Elliot has embraced being male, and owned being female ("I'm cute and sexy", not "this form is cute and sexy"), and since learning that he was awakened hasn't shown much sign of feeling internal conflict over it.
    (Granted, you can easily find instances of broader definitions of "agender" - occasionally you'll even find definitions that include Tedd and possibly Sam.)
    As for Elliot being genderfluid, I don't think we've seen any evidence for it. We've never (since learning he's awakened) seen him voluntarily change sex just for the sake of being the other sex for a while, without some non-gender-related reason it seemed desirable or necessary; and we've never seen him reluctant to change sex when there was a reason it was a good idea to do so and no stronger reason not to. However, it's still possible, particularly if (as you suggest) he's only mildly genderfluid.
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    Don Edwards got a reaction from Ser Pentrose in Story: Wednesday, April 20, 2016   
    He'll number the spaces the charts could be in, move each chart to the space with the number 2X the number of its pre-move space, and have an infinite number of odd-numbered spaces left vacant for more charts.
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    Don Edwards got a reaction from Ser Pentrose in Story: Wednesday, April 20, 2016   
    He'll number the spaces the charts could be in, move each chart to the space with the number 2X the number of its pre-move space, and have an infinite number of odd-numbered spaces left vacant for more charts.
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    Don Edwards got a reaction from Ser Pentrose in Story: Wednesday, April 20, 2016   
    "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

    -- C.S. Lewis
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    Don Edwards got a reaction from Ser Pentrose in Story: Wednesday, April 20, 2016   
    "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

    -- C.S. Lewis
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    Don Edwards got a reaction from SeriousJupiter in Story Friday April 15, 2016   
    If Sirleck is considering Elliot, or anyone known to be a close friend of Elliot, as a possible next host, he's a complete idiot. There are several fairly-high-power magic users in there - just among the human teenagers, and Sirleck should be aware of a minimum of one and possibly four or more. At least two of Elliot's friends have family connections - one of them extremely obvious - to DGB and full-blown wizards, There are three Immortals involved that we know Sirleck is aware of. That's a firing squad already assembling itself; stepping in front of it and yelling FIRE! would be Darwin-Award-worthy.
    So what does Sirleck want with Elliot? To get rid of Magus.
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    Don Edwards got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story: Wednesday, April 13, 2016   
    Also, just because the Colonel is aware that Pandora has been manipulating Elliot, doesn't mean that this fact has anything to do with why he planned to get Elliot killed.
    Personally I think that their use of the hammers thing for the aberration hunt was pretty clever and quite justified. It's their shoving the jobs onto a couple of barely-teenage kids (or at least leaving the kids thinking it was up to them) that's a problem.
    They could have done everything they did with Nanase and Susan, and said "But all this is so you can defend yourself in case the monster gets to you again first, before the proper authorities - whom we're about to go notify - get to the monster. They are better equipped, better trained, more experienced in magic, and PAID, to handle things like this. If possible, stay out of it." I would have had no problem with that.
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    Don Edwards got a reaction from Pharaoh RutinTutin in Things You Only Noticed On Reread   
    And there is a theory that Greg is dating Vladia. There's no evidence either for or against this theory.
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    Don Edwards got a reaction from The Old Hack in NP: Friday, April 8, 2016   
    A decently well-made gun in good condition being competently handled, the chance of that happening is negligible. Something, you know, about not having a finger on the trigger - and with some guns, where the safety is easily reached, having the safety on - unless you positively intend to fire the gun in the next couple seconds.
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    Don Edwards got a reaction from The Old Hack in Is EGS:NP becoming too important?   
    If there's a page every MWF, then one month is at least 12 pages (most Februaries), usually 13 pages (most other months, plus a February about once every ten years on average - leap years where February begins on a comic-release day), and, twice a year on average, 14 pages (a 31-day month beginning on Monday or Wednesday).
    It doesn't take much to make 13 pages take more than a month.
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    Don Edwards got a reaction from ijuin in Story: Friday, April 1st 2016   
    So could Ellen, but she'd probably choose not to use that label.