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Finally did another entry in my US state soccer league world. Washington, DC!

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I'm so ready to commit hooliganism on behalf of Mine Safety Interagency United. I would die for it. I would kill for it.
 
I'm so ready to commit hooliganism on behalf of Mine Safety Interagency United. I would die for it. I would kill for it.
I couldn't decide between the Labor Department's Mine Health and Safety Administration or the Interior Department's Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration. So I had the team be from both. :D

EDIT: Which I now realize the MESA was the predecessor to the MSHA because apparently wiki doesn't have a separate category for defunct departments for some reason. Oh well, there's still the Interior's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement for the Interior contribution.
 
Finally did another entry in my US state soccer league world. Washington, DC!

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"Government-department-bureaucrat-specific football teams turned professional" is absolutely golden. Soviet in a strangereal sort of way.
I'm so ready to commit hooliganism on behalf of Mine Safety Interagency United. I would die for it. I would kill for it.

i feel as tho this would be a legitimately important thing to pursue within our own timeline. an entire league dedicated to Sports Teams from Federal Departments would seriously open up the bureaucracy, encourage healthy civic pride and encourage regular Americans to get obsessive about random Federal Agencies in the same way we do. Americans love our sports and if people suddenly had a team to root for (i don't even watch sports but i would go to every game for whatever team the Department of Labor puts forward), then i'm under the impression people would suddenly start paying an insane amount of attention to the inner workings and affairs of Federal Departments and the Bureaucrats who staff them.

it's also incredibly funny to imagine there being anti-fascist football hooligans rooting for like, the Food and Drug Administration, fighting a bunch of racist skinhead fans of the Department of Commerce like they do for regional and local teams in Europe and South America lmao
 
i feel as tho this would be a legitimately important thing to pursue within our own timeline. an entire league dedicated to Sports Teams from Federal Departments would seriously open up the bureaucracy, encourage healthy civic pride and encourage regular Americans to get obsessive about random Federal Agencies in the same way we do. Americans love our sports and if people suddenly had a team to root for (i don't even watch sports but i would go to every game for whatever team the Department of Labor puts forward), then i'm under the impression people would suddenly start paying an insane amount of attention to the inner workings and affairs of Federal Departments and the Bureaucrats who staff them.

it's also incredibly funny to imagine there being anti-fascist football hooligans rooting for like, the Food and Drug Administration, fighting a bunch of racist skinhead fans of the Department of Commerce like they do for regional and local teams in Europe and South America lmao
I have this very specific mental image of regulatory agency team fans chanting CHEV-RON DEF(e)-RENCE (clap clap clapclapclap) at Judiciary SC
 
I have this very specific mental image of regulatory agency team fans chanting CHEV-RON DEF(e)-RENCE (clap clap clapclapclap) at Judiciary SC

"...and here we can see Judiciary SC Coach Amy Coney Barrett on the sidelines here, god what a rough game for the Judiciary, down 11-3 against the Department of Labor Strikers. Bad season if you're a Judiciary fan..."
 
"...and here we can see Judiciary SC Coach Amy Coney Barrett on the sidelines here, god what a rough game for the Judiciary, down 11-3 against the Department of Labor Strikers. Bad season if you're a Judiciary fan..."
"I forced a bot to read 1,000 Comrade Izaac posts and rewrite it as soccer commentary. Here's the final result."
 
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Here's the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Doctors in what I am now calling The Polarity is Reversed.

Turns out, they didn't cancel it after The Trial of a Time Lord, which was very predictable.
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The conclusion to The Trial of a Time Lord is that the Doctor will be forced to regenerate [no limit on thirteen here], be wiped of all their memories and exiled to a near-future Earth [think Parks and Recreation's last season], with Sylvia successfully persuading the Court of Time to let her be essentially the Doctor's 'warden' in her exile, but she cannot give the Doctor her memories back, on threat of death for both of them.

John Masters appears during the Christmas episode as a helpful university professor, but Sylvia has her suspicions. The Doctor doesn't, and likes him from the get go, thinking him an excellent fellow. [John Masters is the Master under a chameleon arch, Sylvia's suspicion is correct].

The grand plot arc of the Fourteenth Doctor is one word - remember. Her memories, all of them, will eventually be got back, much to Sylvia's anxiety.
 
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Oh, and just because, I did two character infoboxes when SLP was temporarily down.

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To the left is Sylvia, the loyal companion of the Thirteenth Doctor (a fellow bruiser like her) who got her out of her boring, yet incredibly violent, life in Proxima and gave her a far more interesting, and surprisingly less violent, life exploring the universe. A woman who is not shy with her fists as a result of a rough life, her status as the Fourteenth Doctor's more punchy counterpart is not what she was expecting when she agreed to go into exile with the Doctor on Earth, but just as in everything else in life, you deal. However, the relationship between the two can get strained at times as she does miss Thirteen and find going around Earth (not even the solar system, Earth) with his successor tedious. Still, Proximans are loyal to a fault.

To the right is Alexa Stewart, commander of the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, daughter of the former leader, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. Unknown to all but a few, she is not human, but a Time Lord and the Doctor's biological daughter via a scientific experiment gone wrong. She infrequently meets her biological parent - in their many different incarnations - and often just as they got into alien-related scrapes. Despite being the consummate professional, she hides a bitterness that the Doctor just doesn't regard their daughter as someone worthy of their time. It is expected that in the Fourteenth Doctor's time on the show, this will be a key plot arc so to speak as she is confirmed to be a major character.
 
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The three companions of the Thirteenth Doctor in The Polarity is Reversed that haven't been covered yet. And yes, they all leave in the same series.

Reinette is the Madame de Pompadour. Or at least we're led to think. She is introduced in a plot that has a general concept similar to canon "The Girl in the Fireplace" [even if not the same plot overall, it's very different for obvious reasons] and the ending is one that ends with her deciding to join the Doctor in her adventures. She's brave, nice and a bit impressible. As Reinette explores the universe, it's gradually made obvious that it changes her at a fundamental level. By the time Twelve regenerates into Thirteen, Reinette has already given doubts about wanting to return to France. With the Thirteenth Doctor's far more harsh and coldly 'pragmatic' personality, it starts to influence his companion considerably, and she proves the most influenced of all his companions to accept his thinking - much to Truly's dismay and Astrid's quiet discomfort.

In the end, she makes a decision in her last episode that while saving the Doctor and the team, wipes out an entire species. With Sylvia [who replaces Astrid and Truly by this point] refusing point-blank to travel with Reinette, Thirteen decides to take Reinette to a mental clinic in 3000s New Earth, and just allow the hyper-advanced Auton that replaced her for quite a while back on Earth to just... continue in the role. It is implied that Reinette will eventually escape the clinic. The end of "The Well-Cleaned Mind" has Thirteen sigh at just how "uncontrollable" she was.

Astrid is a Txi'tya, but brought up by humans in a 'Civilisation Project' where all children on Txi'tya'lok is taken by humans to be brought up by them [in a clear commentary on indigenous children being taken by white settlers in Australia and Canada]. Her adoptive parents were extremely negligent of her, and she always dreamed of finding her birth parents. Working on a spaceship as their engineer, she ends up jumping in with the Doctor and her companions once she realised that this was her ticket out of the spaceship, potentially to find her parents. She's, surprisingly enough for her reason for joining the Doctor in her travels, is one of the more logical companions, pointing out flaws with others' thinking.

Her relationship with Thirteen is considerably colder than with Twelve, with them often getting in disagreements. In her last episode, "Leaping of Faith", the Doctor loses his patience and just openly shows that he knew all along where her birth parents were, and takes them to Txi'tya'lok. It is there that there's drama [of course] and Astrid ends up just deciding to leave the Doctor for good - "Once, you were a good woman. I hope you can be good again" is her farewell statement to Thirteen, who just gives her a firm handshake and sends her off for good.

Nick Truly is a sergeant working at Scotland Yard when he stumbles into the Doctor's police box as it teleports, curious on how an old police box continued to be kept in good quality. Truly is a man of a strong sense of justice, and while Astrid is 'logical', Truly is 100% moral, arguing often with Thirteen on what to do in their adventures. Truly is the sort of man who argues for bringing future medicine to help a disease-ridden past village, so to speak. In the end, his sense of justice keeps him on the team, "to keep the Doctor honest", and it proves his doom in "Blood and Claw" as he ends up killed on a planet with a lycanthrope species that only emerges in the night [the plot was inspired by The Time Machine by H. G. Wells].
 
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Already posted on the other website - some data about my NationStates country, Lemobrogia; while it began as an attempt to try and give a plausible in-universe explanation to certain JRPG tropes (there's some relics of this early phase, for example the country's forests are home to Pleistocene megafauna that was not driven to extinction, and it also lies in a heavily seismic and volcanic region, in order to emulate the perilous nature of the average JRPG wilderness), it ended up turning into an attempt to try and make the Frazer/Graves fever dreams about a Neolithic matriarchy plausible, with it surviving to the present day in a much milder form.

That is, even though today's Lemobrogia is still ruled by a hereditary queen and an elective king, this king isn't sacrificed to the gods on a yearly basis, as in Graves' Seven Days in New Crete, and his power isn't absolute - in fact, Lemobrogia is a fairly standard modern monarchy, governed by a democratic socialist consensus, and it's got some serious issues to deal with too, from climate change to the fact that the inhabitants' non-violent and pacifist ethos made certain groups of people associated with "violent" jobs into burakumin that once rebelled against the status quo by turning into a fascist and militarist force that was defeated only after a bloody civil war that weakened the country so much, it was colonized not long after.
 
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Already posted on the other website - some data about my NationStates country, Lemobrogia; while it began as an attempt to try and give a plausible in-universe explanation to certain JRPG tropes (there's some relics of this early phase, for example the country's forests are home to Pleistocene megafauna that was not driven to extinction, and it also lies in a heavily seismic and volcanic region, in order to emulate the perilous nature of the average JRPG wilderness), it ended up turning into an attempt to try and make the Frazer/Graves fever dreams about a Neolithic matriarchy plausible, with it surviving to the present day in a much milder form.

That is, even though today's Lemobrogia is still ruled by a hereditary queen and an elective king, this king isn't sacrificed to the gods on a yearly basis, as in Graves' Seven Days in New Crete, and his power isn't absolute - in fact, Lemobrogia is a fairly standard modern monarchy, governed by a democratic socialist consensus, and it's got some serious issues to deal with too, from climate change to the fact that the inhabitants' non-violent and pacifist ethos made certain groups of people associated with "violent" jobs into burakumin that once rebelled against the status quo by turning into a fascist and militarist force that was defeated only after a bloody civil war that weakened the country so much, it was colonized not long after.

This is very cool. I'm tempted to do a semi-realistic write up of my old nationstates county of Tarylya.

It was in a region of islands presumably in the mid atlantic but as an island on its own I could write something
 
Okay, here's the final [for now] update of The Polarity is Reversed, featuring the Twelfth Doctor and the last three companions.

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The Twelfth Doctor, acted by Stefani Germanotta, is both the most upbeat and surreal Doctor since Bowie's Seventh, and the most dark yet [only to be eclipsed by her successor the Thirteenth]. The Doctor in this incarnation is someone seeking to escape her past yet cannot do so. Her 'fam' she jealously protects, yet the early end of Little Bobby Tables haunts her. This is a Doctor who fiercely wants to save everyone, and yet Bobby, followed by Celeste and finally Jack, hammers it home that in some way, she's the destroying force, ripping them apart from their lives.

By the time Reinette and Astrid joins, she's still someone who has the extraordinary zeal to protect and save, yet it's increasingly weighed down by guilt. Guilt for failing to save her companions, guilt for the Time War, and it is this guilt that Missy, acted by Taylor Swift, seeks to prey on. In the end, after Jack rode off in the sunset in 1940s Los Alamos to his certain death by molecular disintegration, the Doctor proves more exhausted than ever, and in her last episode - where the Cybermen try to invade Toronto [of all places], she chooses to sacrifice herself instead of risking her companions.

The theme of Germanotta's Doctor was more focused on the supernatural elements, instead of technological as in Moon's era, especially with the Universal Algorithm (that Little Bobby Tables was intended to calculate and then alter to destroy all that the Calculator opposes) and then the Star Chamber (an organisation of unimaginably-powerful yet incredibly insular aliens). The public reception to this was mixed to positive.


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The three remaining companions of the Twelfth Doctor.

Little Bobby Tables (the name originally coming from an in-joke by writer Randall Munroe) was an artificial intelligence in a humanoid chassis created by the Doctor's renegade child the Calculator who desired to calculate how the universe worked - to discover the "Universal Algorithm" - so he could then alter it using time crystals (potentially crashing it in the process and destroying the entire universe) and created Bobby to calculate the Algorithm. Bobby, however, rebelled against his creator and sought to escape, stumbling into a newly-regenerated Doctor in the process.

In the end, in the final episode of Series 10, "Drop Tables", Bobby realises that he has finally worked out the Universal Algorithm, and that his creator is aware of this. In a bid to save the universe from the Calculator's plans, he seizes the time crystals and calculates the Calculator - and himself - out of existence. The Doctor remembers his existence, and that of her wayward child, because... well, it's never quite explained why. All that we have is a cryptic statement by Randall Munroe that "the universe can't be re-calculated that easily" a few years later.

Celeste Taylor is a normal average human in 2018 Earth who stumbles into the TARDIS. She is presented as a working-class lass from London who is a part-time carer for her mum and is very strong-willed. She knows what she wants, and will argue passionately for it. She rapidly became one of the more popular companions of New Doctor Who, especially for her relatability to many viewers as the show became more complex.

Her end is widely seen as one of the most tragic ones in recent Who history. The Star Chamber - the organisation of Star Children [inspired by Celtic tales of Fair Folk] - declared war on the entire universe because one of the 1,000 Star Children perished in some attack by mortals. There is a rule that there is always 1,000 Star Children, no more, no less. In "Apotheosis", the final episode of the first half of Series 12 [it was somewhat controversial that they released it in two halves], Celeste realised that she had to step into the role, become the missing 1,000th Star Child, through a process that resulted in the loss of her humanity in a bid to end the war. The war did end as the Chamber tallied 1,000 and saw no reason to continue.

Jack Marston is a cowboy. A well-read cowboy who will fuck anyone or anything of age if they're willing. But a cowboy all the same, which makes him being in 2500 Earth a puzzle. It turns out that this was due to a time anomaly that sucked him into the future. He yearns to go back home, and this is why he joins the Doctor in her travels. The time anomaly proves a key plot of Series 11, and even though it's fixed, he still continues with the Doctor, hoping that they can land back to his time where he can return to his ranch in Texas. The closest he got was in the Christmas Special where he met his parents when they were young outlaws in a gang, but he decided to not stay there.

The time anomaly left him with a slow-acting molecular disintegration, and he learns of this in the first episode of Series 12, which was in a big space hospital that faced an attack by plants. He hides this from the rest of the crew out of pride, even as the condition worsens. The last episode, "Chasing the Sunset", is set in Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. The Cyberdaleks seek to seize nuclear bombs for their own ends and the Doctor and her crew has to stop them. At the end, Jack silently walks away from the TARDIS, gets on a horse, and rides off into the sunset.

It is heavily implied that the Doctor knew all along that Jack was slowly dying yet felt it impossible to bring up as well, given how she is even more broken the Christmas episode (her final one, "The Edge of Glory"). It is definitely one of the more mixed-reception Christmas episodes, but viewer numbers was high. At the end, the Twelfth Doctor regenerates into someone who doesn't feel all the oppressive guilt, the unrepentant Thirteenth.

I also made a graph of the episodes that had each companion, if that helps.
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The Queen and the Millard
The true story of the House of Fillmore

Alexandrina Victoria, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India, ruler of an empire on which the sun never set, gazed upon the man who had just entered her audience chamber. "Sir, you are without a doubt the handsomest man I have ever met!", the sovereign exclaimed. Love at first sight.

Many an eyewitness to that day's events would look back with astonishment to that fateful day, when the destiny of two great nations, though separated for fourscore years, was bond together once more, never to be separated again.


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