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We're all closer to human around here. Yay. Although Patty is now prepping for Cardiff and I'm still over-worked. We got her hostel reservations last night though for her stay before she finds a flat. Today I have to write her a recommendation regarding that.

Hilarious Internet conversations last night that started with me sending a ludicrous article about a certain celebrity's swimming pool habits to

tsarina who then sent back pictures of David Bowie with wolves. This later got reported to Sam and Lifty in a discussion about Cumberbach getting car-jacked in South Africa. Okay, maybe you had to be there, but every third email in the thread was, "wait, is this real?" I was laughing so hard.

A sad example of how the first, and last, story we write is ourselves: the last story of F. Gywnplaine McIntyre.

Hey,

deusabscondidum started

projectother for discussing and writing fiction about various marginalized groups and also for talking about the publishing industry. A sort of catch all community for those of us who aren't seeing enough stories that are reflective of our experiences and may be trying to write some of those stories ourselves.

Last night we returned to Angel. It's S5 time now. Okay, and it's pure screaming awesome. But I have questions/comments:

1. Was this the season creators discovered slash? Lots of overt, not actually that funny, playing it for discomfort, gay references all of a sudden and out of nowhere.
2. Gunn. Well, I suppose it makes sense from both Watsonian and Doylist positions to do this super-lawyer thing on him, but it intersects with the race issues this show has always had in really not the best way. I also wish we could have seen more of Gunn's private thoughts on this. This is a big plot development and I felt like we deserved more characterization out of it.
3. WOULD FRED AND WESLEY JUST HOOK UP ALREADY?
4. Wesley and Angel can't not have chemistry, which makes innocuous scenes ludicrous.
5. Harmony is AWESOME.
6. OMG, when Spike comes back, and Angel is all "oh fuck, I hate my ex" and Wesley is all "I thought I'd dodged that walk of shame" and Harmony is... well, Harmony. So funny. But seriously, the intonations of their reactions were so anything other than what makes canonical sense (other than Harm) that I was rolling around I was laughing so hard.
7. Lots to like here if you are a Torchwood fan. Eternal pain vs. eternal pain!
8. So much to like here if you are a Torchwood fan I said, repeatedly, "right, so RTD watched this and said, 'this show isn't ballsy enough, let's kill way more people and make every situation no win.'" Because hi, proto-Torchwood, how are you? Also, still a Wesley/Angel shipper, I'm just saying.

ETA: So I was just in this cab, that missed its exit, drove across the median (not a line, but a step up little concrete island thing), and BLEW A TIRE and then let me out on the highway. Yeah, I had to pay the fare. And then I called 311. And now I'll have to go to some hearing because of this fucker.