My Winter Coat is pretty relaxed.  It's a song about a winter coat, and it seems like a joke song, except it just keeps going on and on, and eventually you admit that the musician must really love her coat.

As a power song, it's eight and a half minutes, which is long enough to do something useful.  Protection from cold is obvious, but I was thinking it might be protection from the elements more generally.  "It's like walking around in your bed all day," after all.  Plus I can just see Doug ready to head across the Sahara, and summoning up a parka.  "Now I'm ready!"  I assume that he could give the conjured coat to others too... it is a coat.

EDIT: The posts that preceded this post have been moved because they reference a plot that we have been asked to not use.

Radio Times has the announcement.

So... Two TV series and a movie at the same time? I hope you're up for that much work...

Usagi Tsukino is canonically 4'11".

Queen Victoria was 4'11".

Coincidence?  I think not!

Another Yuku-era user, Vulpis, has reappeared from the outer darkness! 

Welcome back, Vulpis (like it says in the thread subject).  I've reassigned all your old posts to your new account and reset your registration date to the day you originally registered on the old boards.

I hope we'll be seeing more of you now that you're back!

Surprised we didn't have a thread for this already, considering it's the first time I can remember that there was a leak from the US Supreme Court.

Anyway.

American women can obtain abortions in Canada if Roe v. Wade falls, minister says

A little something inspired by fan art, set some time down the road, once people are making their ways in the world.

I believe it formally starts tomorrow, here's a video summary about what the parties are promising as starting positions

"If you're just joining us now, this is All Things Considered with Alisa Chang.  We are interviewing Benjamin Rhodes about his recent science fiction novel, Negative Return.  Benjamin, some people have compared you favorably against George R. R. Martin, someone who is known for writing incredibly detailed and likeable characters, and then suddenly killing them off with little to no warning.  Your stories, however, seem to be the very antithesis to this.  Would you care to comment on that?"

"Well... it's like this.  I'm the sort of person who is very much in touch with their emotions.  And throughout my life, I've had terrible things happen to me.  Things that have nearly destroyed me on the inside.  And unlike with what Mr. Martin does, death had very little to do with my hurt.  So when I write these stories, my desire is to make other people understand this feeling.  The sorrow, the betrayal, the sheer unmitigated emotional hurt that makes you wish for death.

"When I write, I want to make you suffer.  I want you to feel the pain that I have felt all throughout my life.  And I do that by making these characters that, despite being unlike anyone you've ever met, you find yourself relating so closely to them that when they're hurt, you're hurt as well."

"That seems awfully grim.  Is there a particular reason for that?"

"Two, actually.  For one thing, I want people to understand what it is to be me.  Even after my second childhood, I'm not fully recovered from my past traumas because the experiences of what I went through are still there.  There's also Spider Robinson's rule that you should write what you know, and this is the kind of stuff that I'm intimately familiar with.  Secondly, it's my hope that if more people understand what this feels like, then the more people will act when they see something wrong.  When they get that sense that all is not right.  Or even that they will reconsider their actions before they choose to inflict suffering."

Despite what ATT said until a few minutes ago, Sister Princess: RePure is not a sequel to Sister Princess... but the characters have the same personalities and names (save for Wataru, who doesn't have a name in RePure, and Mami, who only appears in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo and is also unnamed). RePure is a reimagining where the girls and their big brother have known each other for years and the town they live in is old enough to have started suffering from urban decay in some places. And the siblings don't live together.

So... Bob, use things from RePure in DW XI at your own risk.