Links for a lazy Saturday

[daemonluna]

Have I mentioned that queenzulu wrote me the truly awesome This is Wonderland fic Beachware for my birthday? Because she did and it is. "Everything is already planned. All the details are set, and you are not going to mess them up, nothing is messing this up, especially not you. You might be a judge, but everyone knows you're a crazy judge. Sir."

Angel, Domination "Cordelia threw them out a little after three, just as Wesley was about to send troops into Paraguay."

BtVS/AtS, Emerging "After five dates, Spike still didn't know they were dating, and Xander was okay with that. He didn't want to spook the guy. They went to the movies a few more times, and out for drinks, and once to a gallery opening, because there was a postcard for it in the café and Xander had never been to one. Openings were boring, he decided, but there was free wine and crackers and you could mock people. Spike and he clearly had the same interests in that direction."

DS, Ice "OK, this? This is stupid, Fraser, this is illogical, because, in case you haven't noticed, it's still snowing. You shovel now, two-three hours later, you gotta come back out and do it all over again. What you do is, you wait until it quits, then you do the whole thing once, then you go collapse and have a beer."

DS, Four Ways Benton Fraser and Ray Kowalski Never Met, and One Way They Did The one where Fraser's grandmother moves them down to chicago and they meet in junior high is just exactly the way it would be.

Firefly commentfic containing Big Damn Serenity spoilers. Autumn is a state of mind.

Firefly, The Instant of a Wreck " 'Hell no. Nothing can -- nothing can touch me.' Dicarlo's words came harsh and broke from his mouth, but there was a plea hidden in his tone. His eyes were screwed shut, his mouth a grimace in his pale face. In Mal's eyes lust suddenly looked like terror."

Firefly, Eight First Kisses River often wonders about her first kiss.

Good Omens, Come and See "Famine isn't aware of the point at which he becomes himself. One moment he was, a freefloating cruelty in distended bellies and parched mouths; the next he was a man."

Good Omens, Eight Nights "The first night, Crowley didn't even notice anything different in Aziraphale's shop. The angel normally put up some ratty bits of tinsel and coloured lights, and once Crowley had had his ritual yearly sneer at them they could be ignored. The only reason he was here, he told himself, was to see what the angel was up to. Aziraphale was up to something, that was certain. His phone call had been very suspicious."

Good Omens, Revisited and Riding Out It was another nice day.

SGA, Eight Ways John and Rodney Gave Themselves Away "Beckett finds out in one of those awkward conversations you sometimes have to have with your doctor, the type made even worse when said doctor starts blushing about halfway through and can’t stop. But bloody hell, it’s not his fault! He’s a geneticist, for Christ’s sake--genes don’t generally tell you embarrassing secrets about their sex lives and then hit you up for more condoms!"

SGA, a spiffy Rodney character study, from John's point of view. "Rodney's scared: his mouth is slashing downward at an even stronger angle than it usually does, his eyes are bright and wild, and he's belting out, John estimates, probably about a hundred thousand words per minute, the edges and ends of each of them precise and laser sharp."

SGA, The Theory of John "Sometimes, Rodney thinks John has the power to make him stupid."

I'm sure most of you who would want a Rodney/John t-shirt have seen them here. But just in case you haven't.

Then there's the The Curmudgeony Librarian Superstore. I want a "Will Storytime for Food" t-shirt.

An awesome rant on fandom and male privilege.

Electric kettles vs stovetop. Which gives me the impression that stovetop kettles are far more common in the States. Huh.

Here's an article on Bay Area writers and their workspaces

Paul Gross's latest project, Film to capture tragic WWI battle of Passchendaele.

violetisblue is posting yummy-sounding recipes.

Gakked from simplelyric, who always has the cool media-related news, Bend it Like Beckham sequel, Rupert Grint on playing Ron Weasley, and Joss Whedon Cheers on Buffy's Alumni.

DRM This, Sony! Scary article on Sony and Digital Rights Management.

Alarm clocks are bad. How to wake up and feel better.

Comments

[rhi]

::grinning:: Thanks for the links, and with regard to stovetop kettles, they are *much* more common in the States. At least in the South, I didn't see an electric kettle for sale until, um, ten years ago? Maybe? (And then Mom got me one and I'm so hooked. Closet tea fiend here.)

[olympia-m.livejournal.com]

nice recs! I especially enjoyed the Good Omens ones :) *purrs*

Now, if only there was an article somewhere on how to wake up and not feel tired *g*

[daemonluna.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it--I'm not good at mornings. ^_^;

[misspamela.livejournal.com]

Yeah, electric kettles are rare around here. They're typically only used in college dorms and so forth.

[daemonluna.livejournal.com]

Huh, go figure. I didn't think that there was a huge difference between the number of tea and coffee drinkers, which is the only obvious thing to come to mind. (Though to be random, Canadians drink more slurpees per capita than any other country.)

[joan-not-jaon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, stove top kettles are much more common here. The first electric kettle I ever remember seeing was Randall's after I moved to Canada. The one I'm using here came with me. And it's safer. It shuts off after it boils. Mom had burned the bottoms off of more than one kettle because either the whistle had fallen out/died or she didn't hear it.

Interesting thing about the alarm clocks.

Then there's the The Curmudgeony Librarian Superstore.

It doesn't like me. It took forever to load just the front page. After that I didn't bother trying to follow any of its links.

[daemonluna.livejournal.com]

My kettle is cheap and doesn't do anything quite so sensible as shut off. Of course, it only holds four cups of water, and has a permanent hole in the plastic on the bottom (which isn't the bit that covers the water) from the time I accidentally put it on the stove burner that's the heat vent for the stove. Oops.