Riffing on MDA's Television Code Part 2

... way discriminate against any section of the community on account of gender, age, disability or occupational status. ‘Lesser mortals’, ‘Peanut salary’ and ‘Elite, uncaring faces’ not withstanding.   5.5 Behaviour such as smoking and alcoholism should not be presented as glamorous or desirable, especially in local programmes. It’s not booze I am drinking, its ...

Fic: All it Takes is a Little Faith

... why his mother and father have survived so long simply for the fact of who his father is and what he can be like especially with his family. The huge disagreement over Tim’s political views non-withstanding, really. His mother simply tells them, “You two aren’t allowed to talk about politics. Try to avoid words starting with a P even,” before she strides back into the kitchen to put on the ...

Nostalgia trip!

... a girl and a boy and their budding love for each other that defied worlds and even dimensions.  It has also one of the best endings of any anime series that I've ever seen ( Code Geass not withstanding).  The music is hauntingly beautiful and evokes the emotion of what you're watching.  I think it is because of it being cut down that made this anime so good - you had to pay attention because ...

Happy Holidays, ishafel!

...their bodies in the aftermath, both of them tasting his release. Methos hoped the rest of them were not quite so inventive or skilled, or he would have little left to withstand Everett, who would likely need withstanding by the end. The second man, by contrast, was little more than a boy, and hardly seemed to know what to do with an arse when he was the one standing erect behind it. His approach ...

Fic: Next Stop The Twilight Zone - Chapter 3 (Final Chapter)

... the way she’d also lost the dress. “MARIE!” I growled. “Yes, sugar?” she replied sweetly in that Southern drawl that never failed to get me hard – her current lack of clothing not withstanding. {Holy shit!} If I thought a glimpse of bare ass necessitated taking an Antarctic temperature shower, then the scene before me now would require me to park myself in the medlab’s cooler – for a week! ...

Cop this s**t!

...s blood,” Draco muttered to one of his friends. His friend snorted and cackled. Canon characters not withstanding. Besides, if he was barfing Dragon’s Blood he’d probably be locked up and tapped for .... I could have told you that. I’d gotten good grades all my life English not withstanding, , but that was because I’d worked myself practically to death to understand school work because your tiny...

This is a place to begin

..., and Christmas in summertime. It all sounds strange and interesting - and yet they speak English and I'm sure most people there lead very similar lives to those in Britain, the topsy-turvyness of the seasons not withstanding. However, as I don't cope well with flying, and don't see the point in wasting a whole day on travel, I doubt I will ever get there. Nor to New Zealand, which sounds like it ...

[log] amata / yuu

.... In this case, not that it would have really stopped her, to be honest, although she was sure he wouldn't have done anything anyways. Trapped on a spaceship with no knowable way home not withstanding. She was correct on that. Yuu couldn't seem to stop himself from reverting to familiar affection after not seeing her for so long, but stepping past friendship was a different thing entirely -- ...

Ch 8 - Coming of the Scooby Army

...distractedly before turning her attention back to Willow, “She expects Buffy to be spending more time with Dawn. If we can’t produce her soon, I don’t see how we’ll keep her from taking Dawn, the Steins not withstanding.” “Like Hell,” Dawn said. “I’m not going anywhere. Spike?!” “Don’t worry about it, Bit,” he said, resting his hand over hers. “I told you, I’ll take you on the run if need be. ...

... even under my abuses. How would I explain my actions? Justify the misuse, the beatings, the hundred small deaths a day from which my heart cannot retreat, Leaving a debt I cannot hope to repay. It's like trying to explain Hitler to a child. My concealed slave, laboring under duress, withstanding my love of distress, neglected until the mechanism pays back my investments with savage interest.