sundries

While I didn't work on the Bristol paper last night, I did get one third of the way through my Buffy/Angel essay. And it is tight and funny so far. But man, I've got a lot going on in there including Joyce's death, Wesley's masculinity, the terror that I'm Spike and the spectre of my own misogyny. Really, it's funnier than it sounds.

A lesbian actress and activist fighting deportation from England to Iran still needs your help.

Legal wrangling over the National Day of Prayer.

An article on the plight of parents estranged from their children. Perhaps the only thing that's fair for me to say about this article is to echo the observation that a lot of things parents do that seem like love to them, don't seem that way to the child.

Last night bodlon linked me to The Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn, which, to be frank, I haven't checked out yet and many more of you may have specific opinions on. But at some point I have a lot to say about Mystery, elitism, "open source" as a code word for all sorts of things including misogyny, and, maybe, the OTO. That day is not today. That day probably isn't even this month.

The demise of New York Military Academy. The 400 military prep schools that once existed in the US now number merely 25. I remember ads for these things in the back of The New York Times Magazine section, near where the ads where for my arts summer camp, and I always worried a little bit that my parents would eventually decide I was awful enough to send me to one, but sometimes, I remember, I also wished they would.

The moral life of babies.

Are you a woman in the workplace? Here, have some some stuff about why you can't win. via ginmar.

Polling station rules in the UK. via beccaelizabeth.

buy art (or other cool stuff) & help someone get a new liver

If you have not checked out the auction at debsliverlovers for Deb Mensinger's liver transplant recently, you should. There are some ridiculously amazing things available there, including prints and original art from some very well-known people.

If you have an affinity for the work of Thomas Canty and/or George R. R. Martin, you should probably go over there right now. Also, more cool things of this ilk will be posted soon. Keep your eye out.

http://community.livejournal.com/debsliverlovers/23982.html

Signal boosting on this welcome, especially if you have any connection to the fan community for Martin's work, which beyond a few friends, I don't particularly.

seeking fic

Not even specific fic. I'm just having a craving.

So anyone got an recs for me that are:

- Jack/Ianto
- has some degree of plot.
- is either about when they first get together, about them sorting out their shit after the Year that Never Was or is some random plot wherein they are separated and have to find each other again. CoE fix-it's welcome or not.
- is decently written.
- something I haven't read.

No, I'm not proud, why do you ask?