Alicornutopia

I really like what this Bell did with the "short hair" social requirement.

I mean, it's more "what was available in the short haired Kristen Stewart department". The actual haircut Bella is wearing is lower maintenance than her more smoothly coiffed icons. E when she's just had a trim and B when she hasn't bothered in six months, not so much F or C.

BDSM Sadde is now nicknamed "Mage"

Lorica's shoulderbots are painfully adorable.

From the Eclipse world:

The bus has kneeling pads on the floor.

Is there a reason this is not as much of a safety hazard as I’m imagining?

http://www.jefftk.com/p/make-buses-dangerous

(it also seems strictly better than standing, which is routine on buses, as long as in each case you have something to grab in case of lurch.)

Even in light of that (and I doubt Eclipse has a Jeff who legislators actually listen to), the benefit seems to be far outweighed by the cost. A subset of subs are more comfortable and maybe a few more couples take the bus, but the added danger seems not worth it.

Maybe in cities where there are a lot of professional mages it works out, and it might not be as dangerous on the margin as I imagine given that many buses lack seatbelts.

'Semiquarter' is not a term I'm familiar with for units of school and googling is not helping (I'm familiar with semesters, trimesters, quarters, and terms). Is it half of a quarter (i.e. 1/8th of the school year)? That's what the name suggests to me but this comment is then confusing to me.

I think the idea is that they're using a system with unusually short subdivisions for extra flexibility, but the classes aren't actually shorter or anything - any given class might be one or two quarters long and might start at the beginning of a quarter or in the middle of one.

(Sometimes schools do Weird Shit like that. The junior high school I went to used a rolling six-day schedule, with some classes all six days, some three days out of six, and some two days out of six, for example.)

^ Ade is correct, because sometimes you have four people that arrive from lockdown, and sometimes there were three total eclipses in a row two years ago and there's an influx of students. Classes start all the time.