Title: Chapter Two: First-Name Basis (follows Prologue: Metropolis, Meet Smallville and Chapter One: Captain Fine ) Author: sabine1392 Summary: “The strangest thing happened to me, Jim. I’m not sure I believe it.” He turns back to Jim. “But if it’s true, then I’m done with investigative reporting for a long time. Because I think I just found the best story on the face of the earth...

Title: Chapter One: Captain Fine (follows Prologue: Metropolis, Meet Smallville ) Author: sabine1392 Summary: Their first assignment together, a piece on pollution of the bay, goes horribly, horribly wrong, right in the worst possible place. Rating: PG-13, for swearing A/N: It's an AU where the Star Trek characters are actually characters in the DC Universe. WHAT WHAT IN THE BUTT...

Title: Prologue: Metropolis, Meet Smallville Author: sabine1392 Summary: Pavel Chekov meets his new partner. As first impressions go, this one's pretty mediocre. Rating: PG A/N: It's an AU where the Star Trek characters are actually characters in the DC Universe. WHAT WHAT IN THE BUTT?! Written for shewhohashope 's prompt: Superhero AU. Pavel Chekov leans back in...

It’s strange.  As a person who naturally seems able to put the occasional tricky thing into words that real people can grok — the basis of my talents, such as they are, in both science fiction and philosophy, I suppose — and as someone whose youth and sexual identity was framed, to a degree, by sexual assault, I feel obligated to talk about it sometimes, to cast my dice and see if I can lend a hand...

Today I mirrored most of the substance I've recently posted here over at my pro-blog. One post I'd been compiling but hadn't yet posted over here is as follows: In response to cereta 's post "On rape and men" ( which I previously posted about here ), shewhohashope posted [on LJ and DW ] "On rape culture and civilisation" delux_vivens commented : Is it just me, or is it really ironic...

I have mostly spent the last two days trying to catch up with the protests currently going on in Iran. With the caveat that I'm still piecing together information and what's signal and what's noise, links I've personally found useful have been: Fark's summary Andrew Sullivan's live blogging. Yesterday I started around page 9 , although I'm sure you have to page back more now. Or try these...

Title: Hermes' Messenger Fandom: Star Trek XI Rating: PG-13 due to violence and language Length: 11,008 words (plus three illustrations) Summary: After an excursion aboard a ruined Federation vessel, the crew discovers they've returned with a little hitchhiker. Notes: For shewhohashope 's prompt: "The day that the zombie apocalypse comes to the USS Enterprise." Something was still...

rabidline - The Last Agni Kai - Avatar: The Last Airbender radon_ - Battlestar Galactica - "The Shape Of Things To Come" rahelcsy - ying xiong: flying snow vs. moon - the most beautiful fight scene ever - the camelot scene from monty python's holy grail raiindust - 10 Favourite Movie Scenes - top 9 michael & maria scenes from roswell rambaldoch...

I know i posted this earlier in April, but with the end of the month, and the end of the challenge of favorite scenes at picspammy , i wanted to repost the whole list here, in case people missed some of these. ...as you can see, anenko and i had a little too much fun. what's really sad? ive still got several i wanted to do, but ran out of month. expect more spam from me later. ...

I'd like to apologize to telophase for turning her blog into a clusterfuck bitchfest. I was also going to apologize to bravecows and other people who were offended, because I did indeed make a blasé comment that perhaps could have used more explanation. That's all I'm apologizing for, however. kittikattie , I'm not leaving it to stand alone. But it still stands. With...