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random edicts de vendredi

That organizational thing is not for me

Instead of swiftly preparing myself for the Topless Tuner's imminent arrival (with boy in tow) and my imminent departure for the weekend, I have been updating mes contes de fées préférées, from this month through July 2000. I ran out of steam with June. But, I hope that the more standardized format and the addition of author homepages is helpful and welcome.

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2/2/2001 12:55:05 PM | linkyluv?
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Found another good thing

Born to Bottom is a list of stories featuring Jim Ellison of Sentinel fame with his head down and ass high. Life is good.

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2/2/2001 03:32:37 AM | linkyluv?
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valse a deux temps by Laura Jacquez Valentine

No one writes Sentinel fanfiction like Laura Jacquez Valentine. Sentinel fiction tends toward the warm and fuzzy. When we explore hurts, oftentimes, it's the hurt and terror of lunatics, the inexplicable bad actions of the Evil or the Insane. LJV gives us the harsh, ragged edges of togetherness, the kind little hurts that arise from loving too closely.

This story is a crossover with DueSouth (takes place after both series finales), where she uses the consanguinous relationship of Fraser and Kowalski to illustrate the functional constraint of Jim and Blair, and the relative groundedness of Sandburg and Ellison to demonstrate the total lunacy that is Ray and Fraser's world. And neither way is worse than the other, but also neither way is better.

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2/2/2001 01:04:29 AM | linkyluv?
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Occasionally, I'm callous and strange. (Willow, Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

I decided that I wanted to know the scandalous reason why a couple was removed from Temptation Island. So, I started to read Salon's coverage of the series. I still don't know why those two people got kicked off the damn island, because, Mein Gott, the summaries made the show seem like disgusting stuff, and I am thoroughly reconfirmed in my conviction to stay away from reality television.

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2/2/2001 12:46:01 AM | linkyluv?
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random edicts de mercredi

This is the story of a girl

Joyce Millman wrote an article about Scully and how her pregnancy has been reflected in this season's episodes. While the gind would agree with her that the X Files has always been a story from Scully's point of view, if not necessarily about Scully, I think Millman misses the point of the conspiracy episodes. There were two nice things about the Conspiracy, the Consortium, the Syndicate, the alien collaborators, if you will: first, Nick Lea is a Good Thing™, second, the Consortium gave shape to their universe. It meant that many of the weird coincidences and odd happenstances of the X Files universe had a reason, however malevolent and ill-considered it might be. Most of this season has dealt with MOTW, scary creatures who are random mutants of the universe, existing just because. Which is, in some ways, scarier than the monsters themselves.

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1/31/2001 11:46:55 PM | linkyluv?
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Watch it all go boom!

Shrift said that Francesca's excellent new story which does feature fictional child abuse, but like, the abuser is really torn up about it and the child is not either at the time of the abuse or later, and besides ... I wanted to know if the blow up was on prospect-l senad. Cause if it's on Prospect-L, maybe I'll go join again so I can look in the archives.

P.S. I meant to say this before, but I do love Shrift's new layout. It's extremely classy.

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1/31/2001 01:37:11 AM | linkyluv?
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random edicts de mardi

I wanna be The Man

Stumbled across this information on getting an ISSN for Weblogs today. I'm kind of thinking about doing it, except that I might well change the name of this weblog again if the next color scheme isn't blue. However, A Christmas Witch List is a definite candidate, and so is Contes de Fées Préférées.

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1/30/2001 05:37:46 PM | linkyluv?
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My mistake

Amy Fortuna hasn't updated her blog since October, and I assumed she'd just abandoned the idea of blathering to the whole Web about her life. I was wrong. She got a LiveJournal, as apparently many other slashers have done, including Ruth Sadelle Alderson, whom I enjoy for being both quite clever and younger than me.

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1/30/2001 04:58:44 PM | linkyluv?
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random edicts de lundi

Found a good thing

I stumbled across three archives I wasn't sure existed tonight, woo hoo!

• Chakotay-Paris archive
• Trekiverse: Alt.StarTrek.Creative.* archive
• Quicksilver: The Invisible Man archive

I needed something good to happen after this weekend.

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1/29/2001 11:35:33 PM | linkyluv?
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random edicts de dimanche

Is it me?

I've been getting a lot of 500 errors from Blogger today. Are the new servers overloaded already?

*editing about an hour later* It would seem that the new servers are fine, but the new scripts are more demanding. Signing out and signing in took care of most of the problems.

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1/28/2001 05:43:49 PM | linkyluv?
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Rant, rave, sigh, gnash teeth

I have finished rereading all of the Anita Blake books in order, one through nine. So, naturally, I needed to find out when the next one will be released. According to Plug, Narcissus in Chains won't be released until October 2001, in hardback. *sigh. sigh a lot.* I did find Laurell K. Hamilton's official site from Randomhouse in the meantime, and it has a pretty good interview on it, although she makes a bold-faced lie. She claims that A Kiss of Shadows (the first in the new series starring Meredith Gentry, a Fey American Princess) does not have a lot of sex. Now, there may not be all that much intercourse, but of sex there is plenty.

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1/28/2001 02:53:58 PM | linkyluv?
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