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Time:	2:32 pm.
Mood:	excited.

Dear Yuletide writer:

Hi! Thank you so very much for this. As always, both optional details and this note are totally optional and you're welcome to toss them out and go in some totally other direction if you have some awesome idea and you want to follow it up.

Manic Street Preachers: Nicky and James. I'm fascinated by the idea of the response to Richey's disappearance, either at the original time or more recently when he was declared dead, though this is obviously not a required storyline, all I'm looking for is some form of interaction with Nicky and James. Slash definitely welcome, in any direction, but totally not necessary.

Darkwing Duck: Darkwing and Launchpad. What I really would like is just some adventure story. Any (or no) villain, any set up, any conclusion. Just adventure. I also, for the record, ship the Hell out of Darkwing and Launchpad, so slash would be welcome but, again, not required in the slightest.

Chew: Tony and Amelia. To be blunt, I think they're incredibly cute together and would definitely appreciate a little love story/vignette together/whatever. But I would also definitely accept a gen adventure-type story or whatever else you managed to create.

Again, let me just say thank you and I look forward to whatever you create for me.

Sincerely
-El Juno

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Time:	9:15 pm.
Mood:	bored.

So. Some of you might know that we've had a wee bit of a flooding problem lately here in New Hampshire (and guess what's on the forcast for tonight! Quick hint, it starts with an 'R' and rhymes with 'Spain')

Now, if my study of the bible and the Religious Right have taught me nothing else (and it hasn't) it's that God likes to use floods to show that he's a teensy bit ticked off.

Poll #731705 Our God is an Awesome God...Awesome, duuude.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 48

So. Why is God angry at New Hampshire?

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Um, duh? Does the name 'Gene Robinson' mean anything to you?
0 (0.0%)
Gay Marriage. No, we don't have it, but we are conveniently located between Canada and Massachusetts, both of which do.
6 (12.5%)
Turned against his Chosen on Earth, George W. Bush*
10 (20.8%)
Those weird ads about the power of WFNX's new transmitter have confused and annoyed even the Almighty**
10 (20.8%)
Irrational prejudice against maple syrup and maple-based goods.
13 (27.1%)
Unpronouncable place names have finally driven Him over the edge.
5 (10.4%)
Um, it's New Hampshire. He needs a reason to dislike it?
3 (6.2%)
Some other reason which I will babble about at you at length in comments.
1 (2.1%)

*New Hampshire is the only state which went to Bush in 2000 and Kerry in 2004. Kinda depressing, isn't it.
**Sample Ad:
'Announcer: WFNX's new transmitter is so powerful that Ben Franklin can now listen in the afterlife.
Voice (presumably Ben Franklin): My, I love these bifocals. Hey, Eli Whitney, bring me a cotton gin and a large woman.
Announcer: WFNX.'
The others make even less sense.

ETA: On the radio, from a guy that's flooded. 'I looked out back, and even my swimming pool was underwater.'

...Yeah, I got nothin'.

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Time:

1:40 pm.

Strange Meeting
-Wilfred Owen

It seemed that out of battle I escaped
Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped
Through granites which titanic wars had groined.

Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned,
Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred.
Then, as I probed them, one sprang up, and stared
With piteous recognition in fixed eyes,
Lifting distressful hands, as if to bless.
And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, -
By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.

With a thousand pains that vision's face was grained;
Yet no blood reached there from the upper ground,
And no guns thumped, or down the flues made moan.
'Strange friend,' I said, 'here is no cause to mourn.'
'None,' said that other, 'save the undone years,
The hopelessness. Whatever hope is yours,
Was my life also; I went hunting wild
After the wildest beauty in the world,
Which lies not calm in eyes, or braided hair,
But mocks the steady running of the hour,
And if it grieves, grieves richlier than here.
For by my glee might many men have laughed,
And of my weeping something had been left,
Which must die now. I mean the truth untold,
The pity of war, the pity war distilled.
Now men will go content with what we spoiled,
Or, discontent, boil bloody, and be spilled.
They will be swift with swiftness of the tigress.
None will break ranks, though nations trek from progress.
Courage was mine, and I had mystery,
Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery:
To miss the march of this retreating world
Into vain citadels that are not walled.
Then, when much blood had clogged their chariot-wheels,
I would go up and wash them from sweet wells,
Even with truths that lie too deep for taint.
I would have poured my spirit without stint
But not through wounds; not on the cess of war.
Foreheads of men have bled where no wounds were.

I am the enemy you killed, my friend.
I knew you in this dark: for so you frowned
Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed.
I parried; but my hands were loath and cold.
Let us sleep now...'

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Time:	6:30 pm.
Mood:	thoughtful.

All right, then. I think I'm likely going to sign up for

fanfic100. I'm just not sure for WHAT. So, here's where you come in.

All three of the following are RPS fandoms, and most of you could probably put a name to at least two out of the three. But...

And, yes, if I sign up, chances are that I'll follow the orders of the Mighty Poll.

Poll #586892 Fanfic100
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 20

Which fandom should I go for?

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The old tried-and-true that I haven't written in 2 years.

2 (10.0%)

The one I've been in for a while, but never written for.

7 (35.0%)

GO FOR THE GOLD! DO THE NEW ONE!

11 (55.0%)

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Subject:	It's been a long time since I was political here...
Time:	12:16 am.
Mood:	peaceful.

(Inspired by a conversation on

kynn's LJ, and something that's been kicking around in my head for a while in the first place, anyway.)

There's something that, I think, is obscured by using the phrase 'gay marriage' as opposed to 'same sex marriage' (beyond the fact that 'gay marriage' leaves out couples including bisexual or transgendered individuals, or any other set of people who don't necessarily identify as 'gay' while still entering into romantic relationships with people who are legally of the same sex.)

All that is stated in the idea of 'marriage' as a legal entity is that you, as a person, wish to extend to another given person a certain package of legal rights and share with them a certain package of legal responsibilities. You'll notice that says nothing about 'and we want to fuck like bunnies!' Sex isn't a requirement of marriage as a legal entity.

In fact, in certain cultures (according to the research I did 5 years ago for a paper, Japan is one of them, though I'm willing to be corrected if this is wrong) it's not uncommon in the local gay culture to have the phenomenon of 'friend marriages', which are pretty much what they sound like. Basically, because of the wicked strong societal impetus towards marriage, gay people get married all the time...gay men to lesbians.

No, this isn't an argument against same-sex marriage. It's an argument for it. Or, more accurately, an attempt to neutralise a bad argument against.

See, the idea that 'same sex marriage is a "special right" because gay people can now get married to members of the opposite sex all they want, and I, as a straight person, can't get married to a member of the same sex' is entirely specious. It's not a special right. A straight person would have the same right to get married to a member of the same sex as a gay person would. What same sex marriage does is make the concept of 'marriage' gender neutral.

There is no legal or (at least to my mind) moral problem with someone marrying someone they're in a completely non-sexualised friendship with, if that's what they really want. Two straight women who'd been roommates for 20 years and wanted to make sure they could take care of each other if they came to that would be as valid a marriage as if they were both lesbians, and two men who wanted the tax cuts inherent in marriage would not be less of a legal marriage if they were heterosexual than if they were in a homosexual relationship.

So, basically, the idea of same sex marriage is in no way a 'special right' to gays, even if you buy into the insane idea that marrying someone you love is a special right. It's a society-wide right to any individual who, for whatever reasons, good, ill or neutral, wants to enter into the legal relationship of marriage with someone of the same legal sex as them, just as they now have the right to enter into a legal marriage with someone of the opposite legal sex as them, no questions asked about the makeup of their relationship (beyond, say, 'what level of blood relation, if any, are you?'), no matter what their reasons are.

(Nota bene: No, I haven't become straight in the last five minutes. Quotes are in 'character voice'.)

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