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[rm]

Patty is feeling mostly better and the next seasons of Buffy and Angel have arrived. But, we won't be watching them tonight as we have tickets to Alvin Ailey.

Yesterday was long and stupid and I was pretty much non-verbal by the time I got home. Patty is thankfully very patient with me when I'm like that and I was able to wind down enough to sleep.

This weekend we may take a day-trip excursion to the beach. I also may bring my mother to Costco. Yeah, I'm scared too.

Anybody see Colbert last night? Was it just me or does he have a new writer? The show felt "edgier" (in a cranky, air quotes sort of way) and fail-y. Maybe it was just more racism and violence than I'm used to, evenin the face of the persona that is Colbert the host (as opposed to Colbert the performer performing Colbert) on the show.

Today you'll be able to read the first round stories in writerinadrawer, which is a fanfiction elimination competition for Torchwood fandom. Stories are shown without authors' names until after the voting is over and to vote you must provide reasons for your pick of the best and worst story of each round. I'm participating, mainly because I miss my fic output -- it soothes a place in me other projects don't. So I'm in it, maybe to win it, but mostly to write some stuff. The competition has a pretty wide variety of writers in it and the prompts are such we all have to stretch, so you should check it out. And that's all I can say about that.

Brittrack panelist application in for Dragon*Con.

Teen sailor located.

In Sweden 85% of men take paternity leave and it's considered weird if they don't. This is causing shifts in a lot of things, including the definition of masculinity. Let's think about all the reasons we can't get this done here, shall we?

Gay marriage passes in Iceland.

More anti-Muslim bigotry because of a proposed mosque near the WTC site.

French WWI cemetery desecrated with swastikas and other Nazi-related graffiti.

More as it happens, but you all never read this stuff if I don't post before 9:30.

Comments

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Those godless crazy Swedes, being all reasonable and modern! Actually I don't know how religious the Swedes may be, but I can envision the oppositions argument to paternity leave being based on that lovely old chestnut about apostate Europeans.

Kink bingo fic about assassains, y/n?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Y!

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Throat fetish for the win!

(I so wish you could come over and I would make you watch me play this video game because it is hilarious and the side characters you drag around as your party will break into bickering or flirting at random.)

[maryling.livejournal.com]

Mind if I ask what game you're playing?

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Dragon Age Origins. I was pleasantly surprised by how funny the dialogue often is!

[maryling.livejournal.com]

Hah, I thought so! I started playing it just the other day and thoroughly enjoy listening to Alistair and Morrigan bickering.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

It only gets better too - I really like their random conversations with the mabari hound.