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That issue, actually explored, however falteringly, is far more compelling to me than little asides that allow fandom to giggle about whether they are doing it or not. Sure, it's easy to write plausible slash and OT3 in this fandom, and sometimes I read it and I may even write in the future, but I want information about Peter and Neal from the show that's about Peter and Neal, not about sharing a laugh with the writers.
1. Can someone come up with a plausible time-line regarding Auggie, the CIA and his military service? Does jumping out of the CIA to wind up in special forces and getting a life-changing injury within six months make sense in terms of training and enlistment issues? Did the CIA place him in Tikrit? Help, help with facts please. ETA: this is helpful and matches my suspicions. If show cannon conforms to this, I don't know.
2. What did the braille sculpture in his flat say? (Someone on the Internet thinks it's "love" but no one is sure). ETA: Okay,
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3. Auggie/Joan as an occasional, friendly, secret, deeply important to them, not romantic love thing? Y/Y?
4. Auggie and the reporter? I don't know if I believe him that it's just an op that he shouldn't be running. If it is, I don't know if he's playing her or if she's playing him. And wow, this is going to blow up spectacularly. I love, btw, the idea that both of them are probably sleeping with other people in a "I don't care enough to know" way.
5. Auggie's issues sure have a lot in common with Jack's issues. Didn't know that in the first episode, am sort of in awe of it now.
6. The show did better with hacker and nerd culture than I would have expected, but still super awkward for those of us in the know (True fact: I have a researcher credit on a trashy book about Kevin Mitnick because I knew the right people and basically got paid to set up beers between the author and criminally minded teens). The Comic*Con joke was pretty funny though.
7. Give Jai more to do please!
8. A lot of the reasons I love this show are the same reasons I love Torchwood -- people have to do crap things for the right reasons, but enough time doing that and eventually you windup doing them for the wrong reasons too and can't tell the difference. Fucked up loyalties. People on the outside not getting it. Not just love that got away, but whole lives. A team that functions in spite of everything. And someone you almost hopes breaks, so that the life she has chosen will be easier for her.
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Date: 2010-08-25 02:05 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-08-25 02:11 pm (UTC)And I'm mad at people who don't live here, don't have a clue about real estate in NYC, and don't care about how many jobs building this would bring, who think that they have a right to say something about it.
::headdesks::
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Date: 2010-08-25 02:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-25 02:18 pm (UTC)That's an interesting point on the matter of domestic partnerships, and an angle I really hadn't thought of.
It's good to hear someone else say what you just said about the term "Ground Zero." Particularly a New Yorker, because if I say it, I'm just another anti-NYC New Englander.
Re: Connor, that's a very good insight. And yes, they have a huge logistical problem. Are you still watching Buffy in tandem? Because there were some interesting theories raised at the time regarding the relationship between what was going on in LA and what was going on in Sunnydale.
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Date: 2010-08-25 02:19 pm (UTC)And, you know, I know New England has issues with NYC, but I'll take that shit any day over the rest of the damn country that thinks we're sinners.
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Date: 2010-08-25 02:20 pm (UTC)I was ranting to M the other day about how much I hate this for exactly this reason. Some things don't need a snappy nickname, you know?
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Date: 2010-08-25 02:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-08-25 02:26 pm (UTC)And then there's the fact that I had to flee D.C. on 9/11 and smelled the Pentagon burning for days, and deal with the eerie silence of no airplanes in the skies. (At the time we were living under the flight path of National Airport. Planes were so loud our daughter mistook them for thunder.)
There were three places where the terrorists struck on that day and calling one spot "Ground Zero" obscures the other two places. I try very hard to not use the GZ designation and say something like, "where the WTC used to be" or "where the planes crashed".
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Date: 2010-08-25 03:25 pm (UTC)I find the media's trying to make the story simple is like an attack on my memory. I learned this since the Dec. 6th attack in Montreal(can we call it terrorist now?). The media tries to shorten the story to '14 engineering students shot' which isn't what happened, not exactly, not completely. But it's simpler. But it's wrong.
People died, people were hurt, people mourn. And all their stories aren't being told.
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Date: 2010-08-25 02:26 pm (UTC)My sister is dating a Second Lieutenant who recently graduated from West Point. He's a straight guy and said he didn't know any queer people in his time at college because they were all in hiding. At least he's smart enough to recognize that it's a paranoia-inducing environment for queer people and not that they just don't exist in the military.
Sadly, at a recent West Point dinner/event, a bunch of the guys performed skits in which a bunch of them acted like stereotypical gay men for laughs, so gays can apparently honorably serve their country and be punchlines for yucks, but they can't identify themselves. I give Ms. Miller credit for putting up in that environment for as long as she did. I'd have cracked.
Btw, your link about Afghan schoolgirls being poisoned isn't working :(
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Date: 2010-08-25 02:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-25 02:28 pm (UTC)I really look forward to seeing what you think of the rest of the season.
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Date: 2010-08-25 02:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-08-25 03:01 pm (UTC)Re:Covert Affairs
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Date: 2010-08-25 03:24 pm (UTC)White Collar
Date: 2010-08-25 03:31 pm (UTC)They teach it at Quantico.
Awesome.
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Date: 2010-08-25 03:46 pm (UTC)I've also been annoyed at how "Ground Zero" overshadows the other 9/11 crash sites. My parents, who were living in a D.C. suburb at the time, were going to drive up to NYC for a visit that day, which means they literally almost got it coming and going. (Luckily, my brother called them just as they were pulling out of the driveway, thus preventing the Worst Road Trip Ever.)
I cracked up when Auggie said, "My fault, I buried the lede." Also, Joan/Auggie -- HELL YES.
The trailer for next week's White Collar seemed to suggest they'll be tackling some of Neal and Peter's trust issues. Fingers crossed!
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Date: 2010-08-25 03:48 pm (UTC)Woah, your parents!
The "I buried the lede" thing was AWESOME, and there and gone in a blip, but so great.
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Date: 2010-08-25 04:10 pm (UTC)There was an amazing opinion piece I mentioned to Patty the other night around the time of the event about America and empire, and how acting like ancient Egypt would assure us of being Rome, and look at what's happened.
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Date: 2010-08-25 04:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-25 04:51 pm (UTC)So, touching, or a hilarious addition to Auggie's Den of Iniquity?
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Date: 2010-08-25 05:26 pm (UTC)EasyJet was fine. It was a bit like flying Southwest, very cheap inside the terminal. Though that might have just been LHR. The only odd thing about them in-flight was that they were actively sending the flight attendants down the aisle passing the hat for charity and selling things a couple times. But as a company, no problems. They're kind of a conglomerate thing, there's a bunch of EasySomething companies, like Car and Hotel and whatever. They're all orange.
I don't remember if I flew with anyone else, I took the train a couple times too. That was in Germany - about the same price as flying, I think. I know RyanAir was supposed to be cheap. It was a lot of just looking at the random other countries' airlines and trawling.
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Date: 2010-08-25 05:28 pm (UTC)Thanks for the info, sounds like for the UK it's the opposite of the trains where if you don't book a month in advance the tickets go WAY up.
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Date: 2010-08-25 05:33 pm (UTC)I was kind of hoping Agent Franklin (the one who was on the run) would end up being a woman, if only there could be more canonic female queer sexuality... but alas...
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Date: 2010-08-25 05:34 pm (UTC)I don't know if he had anything to do with it, but the Mets television roving reporter is gluten intolerant - can't remember if it's specifically celiac or not. He did a spot a few years ago in Colorado raving about the gluten-free stand at their stadium and how he got to eat cookies there for the first time in ages.
And I do seem to recall that the GF stand is on the field level on the first base side.
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Date: 2010-08-25 05:55 pm (UTC)In both cases, make sure you read everything very carefully when booking, as both have a charming habit of charging you £5 here and there for privileges like checking in, and in Ryanair's case, paying for your ticket.
If you're going to book far enough ahead of time, check out AirBerlin, Flybe and BMI/BMIbaby as they are somewhat more expensive, but the price is all-inclusive and they feed you. *is still bitter about Ryanair nicking AirBerlin's Belfast slot*
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Date: 2010-08-25 05:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-08-25 06:00 pm (UTC)I was working on a library project about the history of women working around the same time I was following the news (and arguing with people on online forums) about same-sex marriage being legalized in Massachusetts. I wrote about it back then, and I'm still amazed at how easily I could remove the context from the quotes from the books and pamphlets that I was cataloging and have them apply to the same-sex marriage debate.
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Date: 2010-08-25 06:30 pm (UTC)That is completely insane. Next they're going to require companies to, before allowing a customer to make a purchase, to inform the customer about their competitors' offerings.
Mind, not as though I'd complain about them directing people to Boston. Our economy *could* use those dollars... ;)
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Date: 2010-08-25 06:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-08-25 06:49 pm (UTC)Re: Speaking of Gluten Free
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Date: 2010-08-25 07:41 pm (UTC)Quick note on pronouns:
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Date: 2010-08-25 07:45 pm (UTC)I hope this is okay and my apologies.
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Date: 2010-08-25 08:28 pm (UTC)http://sweetestorture.fanfusion.org/displayimage.php?album=58&pid=104725#top_display_media
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Date: 2010-08-25 09:53 pm (UTC)"Ground Zero" has been, since the beginning, a useful term to frame, not just what happened at the WTC as an act or war, but to frame this idea of ourselves ("The West") being at war with Islam (which we shouldn't be, and is what the terrorists are trying, successfully apparently, to trick us into), and that's not a type of useful I can support.
I tried to post it as a comment here, but there was no way I could edit it down to fit, and in the end just decided to put it up on my own LJ, as I thought it made a fine standalone post.
As your thoughts inspired it, I thought you should know about it. Thanks!
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Date: 2010-08-25 10:04 pm (UTC)