Heaven knows if I'll ever feel like writing Fate/ fanfic is an appropriate activity. I've wanted to, but the necessity of getting all our thoughts sorted out about Fate/ first always got in the way, and then our life got altogether too entangled with Fate/, and blah blah blah nothing happened. I wrote one joke story and nothing else.

I'll spare you my various brain farts about possible story ideas in order to talk about a specific aspect of the Fate/stay night affair that has caught and held my interest: the fact that Tohsaka Rin (and other mages I think? I'm not up on the lore) needed to clean up after Emiya Shirou and Illyasviel von Einzbern put a merciful end to the Fuyuki Grail thing. When grand magical works go bad...they have a tendency to go quite thoroughly bad. There are lingering aftereffects. And Rin, it would seem, did the necessary work.

Well...what sort of work was it? I can't imagine it's that exciting but any use of magic interests me. There's a glimpse of what might be regarded as magical bureaucracy, though it's far more complex and fluid a thing than the sort of magic bureaucracy found in (cough) the Harry Potter franchise.

~Chara

I feel compelled to confess: after decades of cynicism and doubt, it's been strange to have a person of faith round the Pnictogen Wing. I refer to Hassan of Serenity, whose faith in Allah has been something new for us pasty wh!te-ish folks to grasp. We're so used to the sour cynicism of Western society that a truly faithful person is somewhat intimidating. ~Chara

just when did it become accepted practice for the U.S. police and military to interfere with films featuring soldiers and cops? Is there a definite movie production where that happened ~Chara

I think Dr. Slotin, by the way, might be the Pnictogen Wing's most prominent Jewish headmate, but there are others. Joseph K. (one of Frisk's headmates) is Jewish I'm pretty sure though he hasn't brought it up. What I don't know is if Slotin ever practiced, though his parents sure did. https://bookoflife.jewishfoundation.org/ebol-donors/a-tribute-to-my-uncle-dr-louis-slotin

~Chara