Saiyuki fic: In Times Past (& a quiz)

Can’t be bothered with sideways fic transmission. Vector replication fiddly enough as it is.

1247 words. Pre-Gunlock Hazel and the curious complexities of a scandal in Rome.
In Times Past (Echoes from the West link.)


A quiz snitched from kintail.( Read more... )

Also:
"A deal has been held up because both Schroeder and Merkel insist that they should be chancellor."
(From this article.)

Herr Ober! Wir möchten bitte zahlen. Because I have nothing to say either sensibly or sarcastically about this any more.

Shounen-ai versus slashable series

I was thinking this evening, as I lay in bed bewailing the fact that I’d eaten too much beef that this was probably my own fault since I cooked too much beef in the first place. I made chilli con carne for dinner because I’ve been feeling lazy recently. Anyway, I was thinking quite possibly due to a smattering of posts in an LJ community dedicated to a certain anime series, about the difference between actual shounen-ai series and the series that we all like to write slashy fanfic about.

( Because the only difference is artistic inclination often enough )

Ineffectual cosmopolitan rhetoric strikes again (Labour Party conference)

"Mr Straw also used his speech to say Britain should be at the vanguard of a new recognition "that sovereign states and the nations of the world ... have a collective responsibility to protect all citizens from genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity".

"If this new responsibility had been in place a decade ago, thousands in Srebrenica and Rwanda would have been saved"

from this brief article covering the Labour party conference.

( Because cosmopolitism is allegedly a new idea )