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[selenak]

It's a busy, busy life. Nonetheless, I managed to get my two Multiverse stories written. One is already beta'd and forwarded to andrastewhite. Phew. Am feeling no longer quite so guilty, especially since it's still some days until the deadline. Besides, now that I've done my share, I can start looking forward to finding out what everyone else wrote.

Meanwhile, there is delicious darkfic. merrymaia pointed out a fantastic Star Wars story to me. Five ways Anakin Skywalker's life didn't go, in a way, and yet it's not. Read it.

Babylon 5: londonkds wrote a great aftermath to Sheridan's torture in season 4 which is just the thing for folk like yours truly who have issues with the way Sheridan never showed any after effects from Intersections in Real Time. (Speaking of torture, the guy who had lend me the first season of 24 talked me into watching the second one after all. Which I actually liked better than the first, all in all, but yikes, was that the most blatant apologia for torture or what? Naturally not torture the characters the audience was meant to sympathize with went through, i.e. Kate and Jack. No, but torturing Sayid Ali and Roger Stanton is fine, because that's state-ordered torture. Oh, and executing criminals to create a cover story if we make sure to include in the dialogue first that they're pedophiles.)

If you need a break from the dark side: check out "If Shippers had been around 200 years ago". Aka tackling Jane Austen with a lj attitude. It's obviously inspired by the recent HP kerfuffles, but funny even of you never read a line by J.K Rowling in your life (yet have read plenty of Austen).

And lastly: so I hear a fantastic BSG episode was shown in the US last night. I'm totally not resenting karabair for holding my source for this goodness hostage over the weekend. No, I'm not.

Comments

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

Wow, thankyou. You already sent someone over who commented, I note.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

I like to share being impressed.*g*

[skylee.livejournal.com]

but yikes, was that the most blatant apologia for torture or what?

In relation to 24, that's pretty much the official line of the show I reckon. Some questions does pop up from other "good" characters about the methods Jack used, but he seems to be firmly in the "get things done, and if that means torture, so be it" camp and is generally regarded as very efficient. This becomes even more of an issue in S4 - which kind of deals with the issue. But all in all I really enjoyed watching the show, the suspense is great.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

The suspense is great. And the acting isn't bad, either. Occasionally I even was deeply touched, despite knowing I was manipulated - i.e. the entire George Mason storyline. But during the Jack & Ali and interrogation of Roger Stanton on Palmer's orders scenes I kept waiting for someone to unfold the "Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, yay!" banner on screen.

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

I have officially released your supplier. How long it takes her to find her way home to the keyboard is now within her own control ;).

Incidentally, I don't know about Austen -- since IIRC her identity was mostly unknown during her lifetime -- but when I was doing research on Villette, I came across some truly eye-popping letters that Charlotte Bronte got from fans of "Monsieur Paul." And if JKR pulls the kind of ending that CB pulled to that one, she may actually be attacked by angry fankids.

[smashsc.livejournal.com]

I have found my way home. It is all up to the fickle gods of YSI now.