Covert Affairs fandom question

Is there one?
Is there anyone writing anything other than Auggie/Annie or Auggie/Mary Sue?
Is there anything good written in any pairing at all that's actually good?


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sundries

Beach. BEACH BEACH BEACH BEACH. Seriously, I love going away with Patty. We travel really well together, even though are travel styles can be pretty different.

S1 has sort of died for me. I keep trying S2 and hate all the options.

I really wish the super in our building would understand that some of us actually have jobs. He stops me this morning to tell me he has to have someone check our plumbing, as they are checking all the plumbing in the building (this is good because we have a water pressure issue with the cold water in the kitchen, and there's clearly still some leakage going on from the bathroom shower above us), but being all shocked that we need this to be scheduled and can't wait at home all day on random days when the plumber may or may not even show up (has happened before) because we have jobs, annoys the living fuck out of me. Luckily, the management company will call to schedule now. SO ANNOYING.

Hrrrrr. I'm taking two RT flights on Delta in the next month, one of which with Patty. I wonder if I should pick up a 30-day pass for the Delta Sky Miles club thingy or whatever. Could make the whole thing less miserable. Normally, I wouldn't spend the cash, but it would get a lot of use. Talk to me, people.

The decision on the stay in the Prop 8 case is coming down today. I will be surprised if it is not maintained, but we'll see.

Did you all catch Rachel Maddow last night? She is so, so effective on DADT. All the West Point graduates and what not make for very effective media of course. No one really gives a shit about the 19-year-old private getting screwed by this mess. But I lived a good chuck of my life in the very weird narrative shadow of West Point, and it just hits me, hard and strangely. That cadet. Wow.

Haven't read it yet, but AfterElton asks if slash has made the world better for gay men. Glad this discussion is happening somewhere other than the table of the frustrated at WriterCon (man, I never wrote up that slash panel that I felt was so problematic. I really should share that little handout with the world).

I haven't talked about the global economy in a while. Things are getting messy again. And then there's the wheat situation in Russia. If you only read the financial news sporadically, read it this week and next. And be thankful this is happening in August when the markets are kinda slow and the whole world isn't paying attention and having panic reactions. (On the other hand, it takes less to cause market gyrations in August, so that should also be a concern).

Amazon is doing an interesting thing which means hopefully soon I can tell you about an actually interesting thing. (I'm not a tease, I'm impatient).

copperbadge, please comment on the following horror immediately: Chicago-based meat cupcakes.

First woman in the New York Philharmonic's brass section.

Am I seriously going to have to create a quasi-functional Covert Affairs fandom all by my fucking self? Because while I'm fascinated from a fanthropology standpoint by the spate of "Annie dreams about her and Auggie's wedding" fics, I was never that person even when I was fourteen. Even my badfic was way more weird than that. So... yeah. Help?

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stay lifted; marriages to go ahead Aug 18

@LambdaLegal RT @freedomtomarry: BREAKING: Judge Walker lifts stay, and same-sex couples now have the freedom to marry in CA #Prop8 – Please RT! #lgbt

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Stay is in effect until August 18, at 5pm. At which point marriages will resume, although the 9th Circuit could step in and issue their own stay and various weird appeals by groups who may or may not have standing may be in play.

Situation: good, but chaotic.

respect and breadcrumbs

The ex and I used to fight about the idea of respect. Or rather, my desire for respect from him that I felt I wasn't getting.

The central topic of the argument was the way he behaved towards my engagement with activities that had no moral value one way or the other, but that he didn't care for my participation in when he was absent from the relationship (I was too scared to alienate him to engage in them when he was present): mainly, my going to nightclubs, and, more secretly back then, my participating in fandom (reading ST:V and X-Files, to give you a sense of when this was).

"But I don't have respect for these things or you when you do them. I don't admire them. I don't see them as good, so why should I respect them?"

"Admiration and respect are two different things. Respect doesn't mean looking up to me and my choices. It means acknowledging I'm a full-fledged human being with the right to make choices that no matter how little sense they make to you are reasonably considered according to the standards I'm perfectly allowed to set for myself. I deserve respect, because like you, I'm a person."

"Well, sure, if you say respect means that, sure, you have that sort of respect from me."

No, I didn't, not really, but that's not the point of this story, nor particularly worth rehashing.

My point is that people should have your respect as fellow people until they un-earn it, and that your criteria for that sort of business should not be light.

I was, more or less, a person in that relationship, but I was a lesser one, and, in that matter, it was a think I consented to and colluded with because I thought my life could only be lived on the basis of what was enough.

While an entirely different issue, the Prop 8 situation has -- for weeks now, for years -- made me think of that conversation and those years over and over again. Because I am, it so happens, a person, but a lesser person, in the eyes of the law. Although a little bit less so today than yesterday. And one day, maybe even one day soon, maybe this mess will all be but a memory too.

But the point is I'll never be -- and you shouldn't be either -- satisfied with breadcrumbs.

Never ever.

It's a terrible business.

why you should be watching Covert Affairs

( spoilers for this delicious, sort of awful, but delightfully cracky show )