fanfic fun

Perhaps this another one that everyone but me knows about already, but I think this is a great idea, well executed. People sign up to do a thoughtful, detailed character analysis of various characters from their favorite books or movies, including many minor, often neglected characters (and a few relatively obscure fandoms as well!) I've only read a handful but they've been good quality and entirely interesting - and some of my favorite fandoms are there or coming up, including Firefly!

http://www.livejournal.com/community/idol_reflection/1433.html

Yeah, that's about the size of it

This week I've been more eager than usual to identify myself as a Damn Yankee from Massachusetts, even if I do live in Georgia. There's the presidential election... well, enough and more than enough's been said on that. I voted, I got outvoted. People presumably voted how they thought best, and there's the end to that, at least for the time being. This is a story that never does end.

I'm actually more ashamed of the passing of the Marriage Protection bill, however it was named - Question One. It wasn't asking anyone to give any extra rights to anybody, it was merely asking whether people chose to leave things as they were or if people would choose to gratutiously slap people in the face to say no to a question that had not even been asked yet. ACat points out, quite correctly, that as much as anything it's to allow GA to explicitly deny the customary "full faith and credit" constitutional clause as far as it applies to other states who have legalized same sex marriage. Fulton county, where we cast our votes, is apparently flamingly liberal by GA standards. We were only sixty something percent in favor, as opposed to the eighty to ninety something percent most GA counties voted in favor of it by. Gee.

Anyhow, I happened to be looking through bookmarks tonight, and bumped into this, just thought I'd like to put it up - somehow it's accreted a chunk of what I was thinking about on the way home from work around it.

http://www.w00t-comic.net/20031012.html

Five cents worth of rambling rant.... we now return you to your regularly scheduled program.