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Since we appear to be still in the Darkest Timeliine as far as politics is concerned - and I mean on a global level, not just the Orange Menace and his cast of Disney movie villains (my apologies to actual Disney movie villains, who are wonders of subtlety and competence by comparison) - I cling all the more to fiction. I mean, in which other time line would something like the news that Russia appears to have revived the "blood libel" of antisemitic infamy be worth only a tiny mention, because there is so much else going to hell?
(I kid you not, though. When the director of what sounds like a bland avarage type of royalist fluff about Nicolas II. and his youthful love for a ballerina got death threats because the late Nikki - outside of Russia regarded on a level with Louis XVI, which is to say, personally well meaning but entirely in over his head, none too competent and prone to bad decisions - is now considered a saint, it sounds absurd enough to laugh. Not for the director, who considers himself a patriotic Putin follower and didn't understand where all the hostility came from. But, you see, the director is Jewish. And now the same Orthodox leader who campaigned against the movie - and who rumor claims is Putin's "confessor", which neither of them denies, and at any rate is hand in glove with Putin - has decided that the execution of the czar and his family was ritual murder, a blood sacrifice. Yes, like that. See also: middle ages. And an official investigation is to follow.)
(This kind of thing is why Putin apologists drive me mad. Yes, he's not crazy or stupid the way the Orange Menace is. But he's supporting right wing nutters and thugs all over the world so that they may take over, and he himself supports every -ism and phobia in his own country in order to have scapegoats he can throw at the population.)
Give me fiction, with characters and plot developments I can at least believe in instead. Just a few weeks now until the Yuletide Archive opens. In honor of Yuletide, I shall link one of the most awesome YT stories ever posted. The Year: 2012. The Place: Babylon 5. It was the last of the Babylon stations...
The Subtle Arrangement of Stones
A season 1 tale, in three of the four main ambassadors are kidnapped by the Homeguard and it's up to their aides to come to the rescue. (While Delenn must keep Londo and G'Kar from killing each other in captivity.) If you haven't read this fantastic tale yet, do so at once. If you've read it all those years ago, read it again. Vir, Na'Toth and Lennier teaming up against the odds is the best thing ever.
(I kid you not, though. When the director of what sounds like a bland avarage type of royalist fluff about Nicolas II. and his youthful love for a ballerina got death threats because the late Nikki - outside of Russia regarded on a level with Louis XVI, which is to say, personally well meaning but entirely in over his head, none too competent and prone to bad decisions - is now considered a saint, it sounds absurd enough to laugh. Not for the director, who considers himself a patriotic Putin follower and didn't understand where all the hostility came from. But, you see, the director is Jewish. And now the same Orthodox leader who campaigned against the movie - and who rumor claims is Putin's "confessor", which neither of them denies, and at any rate is hand in glove with Putin - has decided that the execution of the czar and his family was ritual murder, a blood sacrifice. Yes, like that. See also: middle ages. And an official investigation is to follow.)
(This kind of thing is why Putin apologists drive me mad. Yes, he's not crazy or stupid the way the Orange Menace is. But he's supporting right wing nutters and thugs all over the world so that they may take over, and he himself supports every -ism and phobia in his own country in order to have scapegoats he can throw at the population.)
Give me fiction, with characters and plot developments I can at least believe in instead. Just a few weeks now until the Yuletide Archive opens. In honor of Yuletide, I shall link one of the most awesome YT stories ever posted. The Year: 2012. The Place: Babylon 5. It was the last of the Babylon stations...
The Subtle Arrangement of Stones
A season 1 tale, in three of the four main ambassadors are kidnapped by the Homeguard and it's up to their aides to come to the rescue. (While Delenn must keep Londo and G'Kar from killing each other in captivity.) If you haven't read this fantastic tale yet, do so at once. If you've read it all those years ago, read it again. Vir, Na'Toth and Lennier teaming up against the odds is the best thing ever.
