Several

RL business makes for haste:

Amusing especially if you know your Elizabethan history:

21 Things only kids who grew up in the 1590s will understand



Agent Carter:


hey good looking, what's cooking (12363 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Agent Carter (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Peggy Carter & Angie Martinelli
Characters: Peggy Carter, Angie Martinelli, Edwin Jarvis, Anna Jarvis, Jack Thompson, Daniel Sousa
Additional Tags: Female-Centric, Feminist Themes, Period-Typical Sexism, Undercover, Bechdel Test Pass, Espionage, Domestic
Summary:

Dottie Underwood has been spotted again. Now they just have to find her.

Case fic! With Jarvis in it! And Anna! At last! (Not that I'm against case fics involving Peggy and the SRR team solely, but to really love it, I need my Jarvis(es) included.


The Hunger Games:

Vid: In the 99 (48 words) by cosmic_llin
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Hunger Games (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Katniss Everdeen & Effie Trinket
Characters: Effie Trinket, Katniss Everdeen
Additional Tags: Video, Fanvids, Social Justice, Inequality, Female Friendship, Epiphanies
Summary:

Effie, Katniss, the Districts and the Capitol.

Coulld also be called "The Education of Effie Trinket". The movies, both due to Elizabeth Banks' performance and the script giving her more to do and to react to than the novels, made Effie from comic relief/symbol of Capitol glamorization of the Games into someone I really care about. Here in this vid, the contrast between Effie doing the reading of names at the start of the story and Effie reading Katniss' one and a half movies later is especially startling.


Harry Potter:


So there will be a prequel theatre play about James and Lily Potter? More about the Lily-Petunia relationship sounds promising, and otoh I just know this will restart dozens of fannish wars....

Star Trek Meme: Day 22

Day 22 - Which Star Trek world would you want to visit at least once?

Well, let's find out by filtering out the non-candidates. Not a planet, but the Q Continuum is canonically a plane of existence which is such a bore that it it drove at least one Q to suicide. ("We've all done the scarecrow!") Ferenginar, which is a planet. has the a lot of rain (the Ferengi evidently don't believe in wasting gold pressed latinum on climate control technology) and isn't good for female visitors anyway (at least until Rom's become Grand Nagus). Vulcan has a lot of deserts (duh), which may be gorgeous to look at but would definitely demand my tourist self trains some more before going on a hike. In my current shape, I'm up for mountains but not weeks in the desert.

Planets in the "maybe yes, maybe no" category: Cardiassia Prime, according to Gul Madred and Jean-Luc Picard, has some archaeologically impressive beautiful ruins along with its current neostalinist architecture. However, if I go there before DS9 ends, I might say the wrong thing to the wrong person and end up interrogated by an Obsidian Order expert, which is no fun. If I go after the end of the show, that wouldn't be a problem, but otoh given all the devastation as a result of the Dominion War would make me feel a disaster tourist. Romulus has a similar problem. A kinder environment than Vulcan but the whole "say the wrong thing, and..." problem during the TOS, TNG, DS9 and Voy era. And then the planet explodes. I'd have to time a visit carefully, but the Romuilans are space Romans and I have a thing for Romans, so I might risk it.

Definitely holiday worthy: Risa is canonically THE holiday planet, but it doesn't seem to offer anything a Club Med on Earth hasn't already in the late 20th century/early 21st one, and, well, been there, done that. Can't do it for a longer time, anyway: I need to do some sight seeing along with my gorgeous nature and spa treatments. Betazed seems to have some nice scenery, definitely has history and has no hang-ups about the human body, but living in the early 21st century has made me paranoid re: privacy due to the NSA already, and I'm not sure whether I'd relax all that much in a planet full of telepaths and empaths. Bajor has great architecture, lots of history, and beautiful scenery, and while at times it comes uncomfortably close to a theocracy, it usually has a civilian government and freedom of speech if we're talking show era. I'd have to avoid the eras where it's either brutally occupied or just recovering from being brutally occupied (that disaster tourism thing again), but ca. season 4 or 5 of DS9 era Bajor would be on my visiting list.

...yes, all in all, Bajor it is!



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