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dailynewswebsite · 4 years ago

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While the Supreme Court deliberates on the Affordable Care Act, Congress and the White House may act

Demonstrators maintain up pro-Reasonably priced Care Act indicators exterior the U.S. Supreme Court docket because it hears oral arguments that problem the Reasonably priced Care Act in Washington on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020. Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Name, Inc through Getty Photographs

For the third time in a decade, the U.S. Supreme Court docket has heard oral arguments on the constitutionality of the Reasonably priced Care Act. The case of California v. Texas, heard on Nov. 10, is its most up-to-date main authorized problem.

Happening eight days after Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s first Supreme Court docket case and 7 days after the 2020 election, Tuesday’s listening to targeted on the ACA’s particular person mandate, the requirement that most individuals have to have medical insurance. After Congress “zeroed out” the mandate’s penalty in 2017, the challengers are arguing that the mandate is now not constitutional beneath Congress’ tax-and-spend authority and should be struck down.

Within the case, the court docket thought-about whether or not the person plaintiffs and the difficult states had standing to sue, whether or not the “zeroed-out” particular person mandate provision was constitutional and whether or not, if unconstitutional, that provision was severable from the remainder of the regulation. It’s going to possible be spring, and might be early summer time, earlier than we hear of the court docket’s choice.

As a well being regulation professor who focuses on well being care finance and supply, I believe you will need to ask, along with the authorized arguments and tea-leaf studying of California v. Texas, what’s subsequent for the regulation and American well being care coverage?

Studying tea leaves from the oral arguments

Well being care coverage and authorized specialists are carefully watching as a result of the advancing litigation has mounted yet one more existential menace in opposition to the ACA. This problem was made extra menacing when the Trump administration made clear that it was pushing for the invalidation of your complete regulation – not simply the person mandate – in a June 2020 transient.

But totally different students, these each supportive and unsupportive of the ACA, have famous that the challengers’ authorized arguments are “unworthy,” “very weak” and “ridiculous.”

Through the listening to Nov. 10, it appeared that Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kavanaugh, two essential potential swing votes, had been skeptical of the challengers’ authorized arguments, notably on the difficulty of severability, which permits for courts, if placing down a part of a regulation, to “sever” and excise the unconstitutional half, leaving the remainder of the regulation intact.

If the court docket had been to search out the ACA severable, then even a holding that the person mandate was unconstitutional wouldn’t invalidate your complete regulation. Arguments these two justices made throughout their questioning of the litigants appeared to counsel this precise level.

Life, and enrollment, go on

Whatever the choice, it’s possible months away. Earlier ACA-related choices have been handed down close to the very finish of the court docket’s time period in late June, and there’s no cause to suppose that this time will probably be totally different. That signifies that, over the subsequent few months, the danger of judicial disruption to the interior workings of the ACA is minimal.

And, importantly, ACA open enrollment has begun. That is the interval throughout which people can join certified well being plans on healthcare.gov for 2021 protection. The interval runs via Dec. 15, 2020.

Throughout final yr’s open enrollment interval, 11.41 million shoppers chosen ACA-compliant market insurance coverage, which was down 0.3% from 11.44 million shoppers for 2019. In accordance with the Kaiser Household Basis, each of those numbers are down from the excessive of 12.68 enrollees in 2016.

Most consequentially, the ACA will nonetheless largely be topic to political wrangling. The incoming Biden administration has indicated a need to construct on the Reasonably priced Care Act. However that is the place issues get difficult.

Democrats Rev. Raphael Warnock, left, and John Ossoff are in runoffs for 2 essential Georgia Senate seats that would have an effect on well being care entry for your complete nation. Brynn Anderson/AP Picture

Georgia on everybody’s thoughts

Whether or not the Biden administration could make greater structural adjustments, like including a public choice to the ACA (which is a part of President-elect Biden’s well being care plan), is prone to be a heavy elevate. With Senate races in Alaska and North Carolina now being projected, Republicans are prone to occupy 50 seats within the Senate, in comparison with the 48 seats occupied by the Democratic caucus (together with the 2 impartial senators who caucus with Democrats), with two races excellent.

Which means that the 2 Georgia runoffs, between Jon Ossoff and Sen. David Perdue and between Rev. Dr. Raphael Warnock and Sen. Kelly Loeffler, will decide management of the Senate. Ought to these seats be received by Ossoff and Warnock in January, Democrats would management a chamber that’s cut up 50-50 because of the tiebreaking vote supplied by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. This may give President-elect Biden a greater likelihood to push for structural legislative reform to the ACA, like a public choice, assuming he can maintain all 50 votes. Certainly, the way forward for American well being care coverage runs proper via Georgia.

Importantly, this end result would additionally give Biden and the Democratic-controlled Congress the power to go a “legislative repair,” which may largely moot California v. Texas. This might embody repealing the person mandate from the ACA. Consequently, the Georgia Senate races are all of the extra consequential if the Supreme Court docket strikes down the ACA.

Administrative fixes

Whether or not or not the Senate falls into Democratic management, the Biden administration can nonetheless use government authority as soon as in workplace to make adjustments to the ACA, simply as President Trump has accomplished.

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This might embody bolstering enrollment durations and assist for ACA-compliant insurance coverage to reverse Trump cuts, altering the steering and approval requirements for state waivers beneath the ACA and reinterpreting anti-discrimination provisions throughout the ACA to reinstate protections that had been ended by the Trump administration, simply to call a couple of.

Although the arguments are over, the battle over the way forward for the ACA will proceed to be waged – each throughout the government department in Washington and within the political enviornment in Georgia – even whereas we await the choice from the Supreme Court docket on its most up-to-date existential menace.

Zack Buck doesn’t work for, seek the advice of, personal shares in or obtain funding from any firm or group that will profit from this text, and has disclosed no related affiliations past their tutorial appointment.

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votenet-blog · 7 years ago

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Skeptics feel empowered to 'keep pushing' under Trump

Skeptics feel empowered to ‘keep pushing’ under Trump

Author: Zack Colman / Source: Climate Wire Former Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.) is the president of the Heartland Institute, which rejects mainstream climate science. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Associated Press Climate skeptics are gaining ground. There’s always been a vocal subset of conservatives who cast doubt on climate science, but what were once fringe views among broader Republicans — like…

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ethioentertainment · 8 years ago

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“President Bannon,” explained

In the wake of the chaos following Trump’s order banning entry into the US from nationals of seven majority-Muslim countries — and in the wake of reports that Bannon was the chief architect of the policy — the hashtag #PresidentBannon began to spread on Twitter, and images of Bannon as a puppet master pulling Trump’s strings became commonplace. A Saturday Night Live skit concluded an Oval Office session with its version of Bannon asking Trump for the president’s desk back, and Alec Baldwin as Trump responding, “Yes, of course, Mr. President.”

On Monday morning, President Donald Trump decided that there was an urgent matter he needed to clear up for the public. “I call my own shots, largely based on an accumulation of data, and everyone knows it,” he tweeted. “Some FAKE NEWS media, in order to marginalize, lies!”

It may seem odd that the president of the United States would feel compelled to remind the country that he is actually in charge. But over the past week and a half of Trump’s young presidency, a narrative has been gaining steam in the media and among political observers that it is not Trump but in fact White House chief strategist Steve Bannon who is actually running the show.

Perhaps most prominently, Time magazine put Bannon on a striking cover and dubbed him “The Great Manipulator.” Just whom he might be manipulating was left unstated.

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough cited the Time cover in a Morning Joe segment Monday as an example of how “this Steve Bannon thing just keeps coming up, people are saying ‘President Steve Bannon.’” Scarborough added that it was very unusual for a White House staffer to develop such a high profile so quickly, and though he professed to believe that “Donald Trump is the final decider,” he said that other people keep wanting to hear about Bannon’s influence. (Trump’s “I call my own shots” tweet, which came less than an hour later, may have been a direct response to this exchange, and it also calls to mind President George W. Bush’s “I’m the decider” remark.)

For some, the “President Bannon” meme is useful as a deliberate attempt to annoy a president they view as thin-skinned and egotistical. But while it’s surely going too far to say that Bannon is “the real president” — he does work for Trump and serve at his pleasure, after all — the chief strategist has indeed been remarkably influential in shaping the new administration so far. Not only are his fingerprints all over the most controversial parts of Trump’s immigration actions, but that same weekend Trump announced another order that gave Bannon a full seat on the National Security Council Principals Committee, which is unprecedented for a White House political adviser.

Furthermore, while the “powerful political aide skilled in the dark, manipulative arts” is a common trope, Bannon isn’t just any aide. His prominence is particularly noteworthy because there are indications that he is more hard-line than Trump in certain ways. Where Trump has said he loves legal immigration, Bannon has called it a “problem.” Where Trump has often been cozy with moneyed elites on Wall Street and in Hollywood, Bannon professes to despise them. Bannon has even predicted that the US will go to war in the South China Sea within five to 10 years.

Many liberals, and even many conservatives, therefore find Bannon’s apparent influence on Trump immensely disturbing. And that’s just the way Bannon likes it.

1) Who is Steve Bannon?

Bannon (left) in 2012, a few months after the death of Andrew Breitbart (pictured at back). Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Stephen K. Bannon grew up in Virginia, served in the Navy, went to Harvard Business School, became a banker at Goldman Sachs, and eventually got very, very rich from a deal in which he got a share of royalties from the TV show Seinfeld. His wealth freed him up to pursue his own interests, first as a documentary filmmaker and then as a close associate of Andrew Breitbart, the conservative political activist who founded the website Breitbart News. After Breitbart himself died suddenly in 2012, Bannon took over the site as executive chair.

Under Bannon, Breitbart News filled a unique role in the conservative media ecosystem. The site was relentlessly critical of Obama and top Democrats, but also of top Republicans it portrayed as sellouts to powerful interests, like House Speaker Paul Ryan and his predecessor John Boehner. The site’s tone and editorial choices on racial matters are also the subject of major controversy — the site spotlights tales of lurid crimes committed by unauthorized immigrants, Muslims, and African Americans, and Bannon himself has called the site “the platform for the alt-right,” according to Mother Jones.

So when Trump launched his presidential campaign, the anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, anti-elite rhetoric he used all sounded familiar to Breitbart readers. Under Bannon, Breitbart News’s coverage became staunchly pro-Trump. Few then were surprised when, in an August 2016 shake-up, Trump brought on Bannon as his campaign CEO — this was merely the formalization of an alliance that had already existed for many months. When Trump unexpectedly won the election, he decided to reward Bannon with a top White House job. (Josh Green wrote the definitive pre–White House profile of Bannon, and Zack Beauchamp has a fuller explainer on the history of Bannon and Breitbart.)

2) Why would anyone get the idea that Bannon has a different agenda than Trump?

In mid-November, Democratic Sens. Chris Van Hollen and Jeff Merkley held a press conference to denounce Bannon’s White House appointment. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) The idea that Steve Bannon might be manipulating Donald Trump to advance his own agenda doesn’t come out of nowhere — in fact, it comes from Bannon’s own lips. As late as summer 2016, when Bannon was still at Breitbart and just months before he moved to the Trump campaign, he told a journalist that Trump was a “blunt instrument for us” and said, “I don’t know whether he really gets it or not.”

Who is the “us” there? Overall, Bannon sees himself, Breitbart, and now Trump as allies in what he calls a “global populist movement,” which is taking back the interests of “the people” against various malefactors like rapacious capitalists, open borders “globalists,” unauthorized immigrants, and radical Islamists. He’s the type of person who pontificates a lot about how “the Judeo-Christian West” is under siege, and who thinks the US and many European governments are failing to appropriately defend the interests of people born there.

The word Bannon has embraced to describe this movement is “nationalism.” Indeed, he sees himself and Trump as embarking on a conscious project to demolish the old American political camps and “build an entirely new political movement," he told Michael Wolff in November. "I'm not a white nationalist, I'm a nationalist. I'm an economic nationalist," he continued. “It will be as exciting as the 1930s, greater than the Reagan revolution — conservatives, plus populists, in an economic nationalist movement."

According to the Daily Beast’s Ronald Radosh, Bannon gave an even more grandiose statement of his motivations a few years back. He called himself a “Leninist” because “Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.” (Bannon now claims he doesn’t remember saying this.)

But despite Bannon’s denials, there are unmistakable racial and ethnic aspects to the movement he’s building, and critics argue “white nationalism” is in fact the key to his project. Bannon has often sought to drum up political support (in the form of either pageviews or votes) by mobilizing white Americans against various frightening “others” — whether they’re Black Lives Matter protesters, immigrants, or refugees.

Much of this fits quite well with Trump’s worldview. But Trump has also appointed many more traditional Republicans to his administration, and could conceivably be swayed toward more mainstream policies as a result. Bannon also seems to genuinely differ from Trump on a couple fronts. First, there’s sometimes a religious tinge to his rhetoric — he’s argued that “secularism has sapped the strength of the Judeo-Christian West to defend its ideals,” and has even taken an interest in internal Vatican disputes.

Second, while Trump says legal immigration is wonderful, Bannon views it as a “problem and thinks it needs to be cut back.” This was dramatically demonstrated in an exchange the two had on Bannon’s radio show in November 2015, in which Bannon made the false claim that most Silicon Valley CEOs were from Asia and expressed his unhappiness with that. “A country’s more than an economy. We’re a civic society,” he said.

Not just illegal immigrants but immigrants in general, Bannon seemed to believe, were sapping America’s Americanness. In this, he goes further than Trump, but he’s in alignment with several other important figures in the new administration. Most prominent among these are attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions and several former Sessions aides, including senior White House adviser Stephen Miller. Past public statements make clear that Bannon, Sessions, and Miller are all harsh critics of even legal immigration. In some tellings, they are frequently pitted against more traditional Republicans in administration disputes.

3) What is Bannon’s White House job?

It’s hardly unprecedented for a president to give a political adviser a top job, as George W. Bush did for Karl Rove and Barack Obama did for David Axelrod. But recent incoming presidents have tended to designate one chief of staff who is indisputably in charge.

Not Trump. In a November press release, the Trump transition announced that Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus would be chief of staff — but that Bannon would fill the newly created position of “chief strategist.” Priebus and Bannon, the press release said, would work as “equal partners.” And yet Kremlinologists couldn't help noticing that Bannon’s name was listed first.

Bannon, it should be noted, fits the stereotype of the sinister political adviser to a T —and even seems to revel in it. “Darkness is good,” he told Wolff. “Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power.” Note that Bannon said this after the election and his appointment to a top White House job. (These comments are why Saturday Night Live portrayed him as the Grim Reaper in its recent skit.)

But as chief strategist, Bannon is more than just a political adviser. He’s taken on a major role in policy and is, by most accounts, the leading force in crafting the Trump administration’s agenda — especially the series of White House–issued executive orders with which Trump began his presidency. “Mr. Bannon has rushed into the vacuum, telling allies that he and Mr. Miller have a brief window in which to push through their vision of Mr. Trump’s economic nationalism,” the New York Times’s Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman report.

4) So where did “President Bannon” come from?

As the transition proceeded, many top White House positions and Cabinet jobs went to traditional Republicans rather than Bannon-esque outsiders, suggesting to some observers that the steady hand of Priebus was at the helm and that the Trump administration might actually end up being surprisingly normal.

That narrative exploded on January 27, Trump’s seventh full day in office. On that day, Trump issued the executive order meant to block all refugees, and nationals of seven majority-Muslim countries, from entering the US for several months.

Chaos ensued. Hundreds of people who had been previously cleared to enter the US were detained at airports around the country or prevented from boarding their flights to the US at all. Shockingly, the administration initially applied the entry ban to green card holders too, even though many of them had lived and worked in the US for years. Thousands turned out to protest, even many Republicans started to criticize the order, and a series of lawsuits soon brought the policy to a screeching halt.

The blame game that ensued during and after all this made clear the order was a Steve Bannon production. A set of reports described the order as crafted by Bannon and Miller with minimal input from the relevant agencies. One of its most objectionable features — the ban on entry for green card holders — was personally dictated by Bannon and Miller over the Department of Homeland Security’s objections, according to CNN’s Evan Perez and Pamela Brown.

Furthermore, it turned out that Bannon had a starring role in the other executive action Trump signed alongside the immigration order that Friday. This order gave Bannon a permanent seat on the Principals Committee of the National Security Council, placing him among the president’s top foreign policy advisers — an unprecedented role for a political hand.

Thrush and Haberman report that Trump was angry afterward because he “was not fully briefed” on that order’s details, and that it was an even “greater source of frustration to the president than the fallout from the travel ban.” (However, Time’s Zeke Miller has his own source saying that Trump was in fact briefed on Bannon’s new role.) In any case, the reports on Bannon’s role in the immigration order converged with this NSC order, and the “President Bannon” meme was born, making him a sort of combination Dick Cheney/Karl Rove figure in the minds of liberals.

5) What’s next for Bannon in the White House?

The fallout from the travel ban controversy has apparently led to Bannon being reined in somewhat. Both the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post report Trump has clarified to his staff that Priebus is his top aide and that policy changes have to go through him and through a more rigorous vetting process.

By all accounts, though, Bannon remains very influential, and there’s no real talk of him being on the outs with Trump — not yet, at least. Indeed, Bannon and Trump have come a long way together. They share similar pugilistic instincts and a willingness to flout the political class’s conventional wisdom. Plus, it’s understandable if Trump places a great deal of stock in Bannon’s political instincts, since Bannon did oversee a campaign that put him in the White House despite the predictions of practically every expert.

But Bannon will only continue to keep that influence if Trump is satisfied with how his presidency is going. And while the strategy of constantly throwing red meat to the base worked well to boost Breitbart News’s traffic numbers and to win Trump the election, it has not worked so well when it comes to governance. All it has done so far is earned Trump record-low job approval for a new president.

So at some point, Trump may have to decide whether holding on to the loyalty of Bannon’s movement is really enough. Perhaps he might decide he’d prefer trying to convert some new voters to his side. And if he does opt for that route, Steve Bannon may no longer be so useful to him.

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lousylambsblog · 17 days ago

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IM either onto something or

on something

#colorquest #cq #cq gary #cq taylor #cq zack #i might be on something #i cant draw anymore #my wrist.....#i was cooking on gaylor but im extremely sleepy right now and need to go zzzz

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spookymoonz · 5 months ago

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H-hey..can you perchance draw... Zaylor... Bats my eyelashes...

CONGATULATIONS

I AM CURRENTLY AT PLAY PRACTICE AND AM BEING UNUSED AT THE MOMENT

AS A RESULT AM I BORED AND HAVE DECIDED TO DO A QUICK DOODLE FOR REQUEST

AND YOU ARE (possibly one of) THE LUCKY ASKER WHO SHALL GET THEIR WISH GRANTED BY THE SPOOKYMOONZ

HERE YOU GO

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spookymoonz · 4 months ago

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HEYYY!!!! So likekkekekabdjvjdvsjs.... Could yew possibly draw zack n taylor... Scratches the back of my neck........

In the words of Peter Griffin: “I drew the truth. I drew my truth.”

This is the second time I’ve used this meme to answer ship requests, I promise I’m done now-

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#colorquest #cq #zaylor #cq zack #colorquest zack #cq taylor #colorquest taylor

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spookymoonz · 4 months ago

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My page of CQ ships that people asked me to draw

We got

Rede x Ganso

Zack x Taylor

Micheal x Tim x Gary

Twiddle x Jarna

Twiddle x TyV

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#colorquest art #colorquest #cq #colorquest rede #colorquest el ganso #colorquest zack #colorquest taylor #colorquest micheal #colorquest tim #colorquest gary #colorquest twiddle niddle #colorquest jarna #colorquest tyvson

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spookymoonz · 6 months ago

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can you draw Taylor and zack or just one of them😣

Zack and Taylor with no context

Idk what’s supposed to be going on here tbh

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#colorquest #cq #Zack #taylor

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creaturefeaster · 2 years ago

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Could you tell us more about the world of Colorquest? I am fascinated by the world building you have done with it and I would love to know more about the people and places and species that inhabit the world :]

This is a request with a pretty broad range of things to go over, and thus is something I'll answer in pieces for you for time's sake. I think I'll elaborate a bit on geography and setting for this response, and I'll either reblog this again later with more info, or answer more specific asks to help piece things together in the future.

Anyway, CQ is set on an earth-like fantasy world and more specifically set on one special continent. There's actually much more to the world than what would ever be elaborated upon, simply because the heroes journey never leaves this somewhat isolated continent.

Continent enlarged for emphasis.

Native to this continent are primarily Bluple and Humans, with some various settlements scattered around. It is also the only continent that Talpians surface at. This is the reason why, while there's many different races in this universe, you tend to see these sorts of people more than others.

This part of the world's geological diversity is what I'd call remarkable. You will find boreal forests to arid plateaus to harsh mountain ranges to ice sheets to magical forests, etc.

This is generally where any given character native to the world lives. Tim/Brook/Hannah/Gary all live in a slightly warmer part of a taiga, Tanner/April/Leon live in the center-most town in the middle of the desert, Rachel/Bonnie reside in a particularly flat and dry part of the continent where the Talpian Dominion can be found, D/Vilmr/Samantha/Michael all live in a mountainous and magical climate, Taylor/Zack come from a coastal town, and Lauren/Elliot live in a uniquely bizarre spot dubbed the Deadlands.

I'll elaborate briefly on some of these locations.

The Talpian Dominion is an extremely complex & ancient set of caves underground, constructed through millennia of digging & tunneling by the reclusive Talpian people. Just how far this complex extends is unknown to all surface dwellers... and even most Talpians. It's pretty fucking big down there. Extremely warm temperatures, and even magma flows, would not be uncommon to see as you trek further into their world.

Lystrike is a dinky little town, whos only claim to any sort of fame is that it's pretty much exactly in the center of their continent. Other than that, it's pretty rustic and insignificant to the common eye. Someone that isn't from this world though, such as you the one reading this, may think that the glowing cacti & other local fauna are something of significance. However, this is merely a geological leak of... whatever magical substance that makes the distantly neighboring Forest of Love glow so bright.

The Deadlands are unique to this part of the world, and an enigma to all who do not live within its disorientating landscape. This land defies gravity whenever it pleases, it has an aura that dilates and heightens most senses, and its community is as strange as its surroundings. However, its biggest feature is that it's pretty much the world's lost & found dump. Anything that's gone missing ends up here, somehow, with no real explanation. The average Deadlandian can open their curtains in the morning to find that gravity is dangling lost items from across the world right over their lawn.

These ones are just as fleshed out, but I actually don't have (or just don't remember ><;;;;) names for them.

The jagged mountain range that Samantha lives in rarely sees sunlight. The weather is generally harsh and unforgiving, and for most of this range there's no life to be seen. However, this town dwells within a divot in the mountains, where they are sheltered by the towering rock a little more than other places to escape the bitter blizzards. That, and this specific location is unique in that it seems to have a lot more of that magic blue junk than pretty much anywhere else in the mountains. This magic is revealed through cracked geodes high in the rocks, which leak into mountain rivers, which just so happen to feed directly into the Forest of Love down a ways.

The Forest of Love is a large range of glowing blue forest that borders the east side of the mountains, and is generally the location that Michael, Debbie, and Vilmr live in. It is ever bright, and is considered one of the most uplifting places one could live in. Generally, those with magical inclinations live within or above the leafy glow of the forest to become more in sync with their magic, while those who do not practice tend to reside on the surface below. It's not actually clear if being closer to this magical canopy actually does anything, but that's just how those bitches live I guess.

Tim's area is probably the most neutral place you'll find in the story. It's much like cascadia, in that it's largely boreal and mild. Though his location is a little drier and more suited for farmland. This part of the land is a heavy export for the rest of the continent's basic grain & livestock material.

Zack & Taylor's town rests against a rather consistently rainy coast, where at least one day out of the week its weather parallels mild hurricanes. However much of the city is built with this in mind, and most areas of commute are sealed & domed. On the outskirts of town, though, spans mostly soggy beaches and marshy plains. Because of this location's wet climate, one may occasionally see the elusive fish person emerge from their oceanic abodes and wander the beaches. Usually in search of a beached fish snack.

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Anyways, that's some info on some of the more significant locations in the CQ universe. It is 7:30 AM and I haven't gone to bed yet, so pardon any hiccups in grammar I may have left. I hope this helps you understand the world a little more. It also helps me to be able to write and cement this stuff down so I don't forget it later on, so thank you for being interested & asking me in the first place :3

#long post #sorry these doodle are kind of incomprehensible #but i hate doing long explanations of my stuff without at least some visuals #this post is fine to reblog btw if you want to bother your followers with a long post lmfao #brambleramble

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