Monday Roundup, 5/20 May 20, 2013
Posted by Erin Ptah in Art, But I'm A Cat Person, Doctor Who, Fake News, Fic, Madoka Magica, Misc Work, Miscellaneous, Mixes.Tags: art meme, Castle Crossing, genderplay, Rapunzel (Tangled), Revolutionary Girl Utena, Shout*For
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But I’m A Cat Person(/Revolutionary Girl Utena)
Lounging Reseda (art | Reseda, Reseda | worksafe)
My Little Cybele (art | pony!Cybele | worksafe)
Star Spangles and Surfboards (art | Bennett, Cybele | worksafe)
Character Abuse Meme – Patrick (art meme | Patrick | NSFW for injuries)
Duelists and Brides (dolls | Bianca, Patrick, Sparrow, Kara Lynn, Jany | worksafe)
Un?likely Friends (art | boy!Cybele, girl!Cub | worksafe)
Castle Crossing
Nightshirts and Necklaces (sketches | Leif, Thorn, Laurel, Holly | worksafe)
Feathered Dragon (art | Thorn, a dragon | worksafe)
Doctor Who
Doctor Who Shipping Meme (meme | ensemble | worksafe)
Fake News
Shout*For, Chapter 1, chapter 2 (AO3 mirror) (fic | Jon, “Stephen”, Jimmy, Tucker, Olivia, Kristen, Wyatt, Brian, ensemble | PG-13)
Let Down Your Hair (art | Jon/”Stephen” | worksafe)
Boys (and Girls) of Summer (fic | “Stephen”/Lorraine, /Jon, /various | PG-13)
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Galactic Archer (art | Madoka | worksafe)
General/Miscellaneous
This Mix is Really Gay (happy/comic songs about queer people)
Star Cat (animal design, worksafe)
Still Life With Teapot and Still Life With Knife (paintings, worksafe)
Writing meta: Event-Based Plotting (on the process of developing stories)
Star Dog (with sparkles!) (animated animal art, worksafe)
This Week in But I’m A Cat Person:
Time to skip over to Miranda, who’s reminiscing about how she met Patrick, and why it’s so important to her to demand him back.
Multifandom Recs (weekly) May 19, 2013
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Fake News RPF | Jon/”Stephen”, Tad | T | Of Eagles, Dolphins, and Frosting
It’s Stephen’s birthday, so a celebration is in order. Cake frosting may contains nuts.
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Sailor Moon | Inners | M | elephant graveyard
Five girls with all the time in the world to watch it burn.
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Arthur C. Clarke – The Nine Billion Names of God
“This is a project on which we have been working for the last three centuries — since the lamasery was founded, in fact. It is somewhat alien to your way of thought, so I hope you will listen with an open mind while I explain it.”
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On the Banks of the River Lex by N. K. Jemisin
He sat up. The sun had just risen above the city. Clouds like strings of pearls girded the sky. A flock of tiny birds — Death guessed hummingbirds, migrating back from the south — passed through the rust-rimmed hole in the Met Life Building.
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Fake News | the greatest “stephen”/jon filk of all time
Call me maybe?
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Harry Potter | Hermione, others | PG | A Study of Muggle Terminology by H. Weasley
Over the years, Hermione almost gets the chance to come to terms with her own sexuality and sexual orientation, but never more than that. Little chances slip away over the years, into nothing.
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Narnia | Susan, family | G |The World in the Wood
When Susan’s daughter Polly stumbles upon a green ring and sets off on a quest to save the world and stop an evil queen, Susan and her husband Tommy must journey between the worlds to get her back.
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Sherlock Holmes (2009) | Watson/Mary, Holmes/Mary, Holmes/Mary/Watson | T | Marriage á Trois
In the aftermath of the Blackwood case, Mary determines that if she wants to have a successful marriage, she must find a way to integrate Holmes into her relationship with John. It’s a decision that will have a number of unforeseen consequences, as she becomes far closer with the famous detective than she ever could have imagined.
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Hockey RPF | Kaner/Tazer | R | love is a contact sport
High school AU. First love, slow building, high drama, great emotion, hockey scenes that are fun to read even when you don’t know or care about the actual details of hockey.
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Madoka Magica | Sayaka | G | heaven is a record skip
Sayaka remembers.
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The first time Martha Jones meets Sarah Jane Smith, neither of them knows it. To be fair, Martha’s just survived near-asphyxiation on the Moon and Tish is fussing and there’s a thousand reporters everywhere, and Sarah Jane’s really more interested in the odd puncture wounds on Mr. Stoker’s neck and inclined to avoid anyone who might shoo her away – which is to say, they both have rather a lot on their minds.
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Doctor Who | Nine, TARDIS, others | G | Perpetual Motion
Nine, running. “After he dies, he finds himself back in his TARDIS control room. This doesn’t entirely surprise him. After all, it is some sort of afterlife, and he can’t think of anywhere else that looks remotely like heaven.”
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Sherlock, Black Books | John/Fran, Sherlock, Bernard, Manny | PG | Pillow
Fran, Manny, and Bernard stop by Baker Street to apologize.
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Black Books, Sherlock | John, Sherlock, Manny, Bernard | PG | Padding
Sherlock goes to a bookstore and John follows. (AU where Bernard is a Holmes cousin.)
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Raffles, Sherlock Holmes | Bunny, Raffles, Watson, Holmes | T | The red, red rose and the briar
Bunny and Raffles go to one of Dr. Watson’s book-signings.
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Glee | Blaine/Kurt | G | Cornflower, Sapphire, Prussian
In the vein of Bruce Coville’s ‘Am I Blue?’ the entire queer population of any fandom is magically outed.
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Quinn Fabray is what the textbooks refer to as “aggressively sexually repressed.”
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X-Men | Erik/Charles, ensemble | T | Enigma
Erik dies, or finds a reversey-time mutant, or a magical time travelling device, and wakes up in the past. This time, though, it’s before he ever met Charles – in fact, it’s before his mother died.
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Game of Thrones | Shae/Sansa, Shae/Tyrion, Sansa/Tyrion | T | The Truth Will Not Set You Free
It was not a future Sansa could ever have foreseen for herself: spymaster of the dragon queen’s court.
But she would also not have seen herself wed to Tyrion Lannister, or bedded by a woman who’d been a harlot in the guise of a handmaiden when they’d first met.
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Doctor Who | Three, Jo, Brig, Benton, Yates | G | The Annual UNIT Picnic by Primsong
The Brigadier and UNIT attempt to enjoy their annual summer picnic, except for an odd alien occurrence which isn’t the Doctor’s fault, of course.
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Doctor Who | Donna, ensemble | G | Passing The Torch
Just before dying, the Doctor passed on his awesome legacy to Donna Noble.
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Sherlock, Calvin & Hobbes | Sherlock, John, Calvin, Hobbes | K+ | Meeting Boring
A case brings Sherlock and John out into the middle of nowhere in Ohio in America, to meet a child that fascinates one of the world’s smartest men: Calvin.
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Sailor Moon, Ranma 1/2 | ensemble | M | The Dark Lords Strike Back
As Queen Metallia nears release, those who oppose her prepare themselves for battle. Now, between the Dark Kingdom, the Sailor Senshi, and the martial artists the fate of humanity will be decided… and a course will be set to the future.
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Sailor Moon, Ranma 1/2 | ensemble | T | The Dark Lords of Nerima
Ranma and Ryouga are no strangers to trouble. But when they accidentally convince both the Sailor Senshi and the Dark Kingdom that they’re megalomaniacal villains bent on world domination, trouble starts to take on a whole new meaning.
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Doctor Who, Hitchhiker’s Guide | the Guide | G | Does the Doctor Know Where His Towel Is?
Nowhere in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’s entry on the Doctor is there any mention of towels. This fact has more significant consequences than you might imagine.
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Glee | Brittany/Santana, Brittany/Quinn | NC-17 | You Know What They Say About Blondes and Fun
The trials and tribulations of the teenaged bisexual.
This is why we can’t have nice things May 16, 2013
Posted by Erin Ptah in News Roundup.Tags: gun control, Politics
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Gabrielle Giffords shreds the Senate’s gun vote in a scathing editorial. All the more admirable when you consider that she still has trouble speaking in complete sentences since that gunshot she took to the head.
“I’m a libertarian who played a role in reducing handgun restrictions in the nation’s capital. In 2008, in a landmark case I helped initiate, Heller v. District of Columbia, the Supreme Court declared for the first time that the Second Amendment protected an individual’s right to bear arms. But the stonewalling of the background check proposal was a mistake, both politically and substantively.“
“The ATF is officially responsible for inspecting and overseeing licensed firearms dealers. But in 2004, the gun lobby successfully pushed a rider to specifically prevent the ATF from requiring dealers to conduct an annual inventory. As a result, tens of thousands of lost and stolen guns go unreported every year.” And other ways the NRA has blocked efforts to reduce gun crime.
“Letting a lawsuit go forward may not sound like a big deal, but Congress enacted a law in 2005 — under heavy lobbying from the NRA and the gun industry — that gives gun manufacturers and dealers broad immunity from being sued.“
“When Zina Haughton, 42, got a restraining order against her husband, Radcliffe, last October — she told a court that his threats “terrorize my every waking moment” — he became ineligible to buy a gun under federal law. But he found a way around that: he bought a gun from a private seller he found on the Internet who, unlike federally licensed dealers, was not legally required to check his background.”
“Burdick began receiving, as she puts it, “the usual threatening e-mails” — as did a fellow gun control advocate in the Legislature, Mitch Greenlick. He told The Oregonian that the e-mail he received from gun extremists was often abusive, obscene and anti-Semitic. He predicted that gun legislation would go nowhere because legislators were too frightened to act.”
A spot of bright news: “A continent removed from Washington’s shameful resistance to new gun controls, California has just enacted a law that will speed up the confiscation of firearms from an estimated 20,000 people who bought them legally but were later disqualified because of a conviction for a violent crime, a finding of mental illness or a restraining order for domestic violence.” More changes like this, please.
Erin Watches: Glee, Elementary, Doctor Who, Game of Thrones, Black Rock Shooter May 10, 2013
Posted by Erin Ptah in Doctor Who, Fandom.Tags: Black Rock Shooter, Elementary, Erin Watches, Game of Thrones, Glee
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Last night I dreamed my computer was stolen. Was fine the instant I woke up and realized it hadn’t been real, but while it was ongoing it was terrifying. (The thought of so many WIPs lost forever…)
The last time I had a really bad dream was after watching Dollhouse’s “Epitaph One”. Makes sense. Losing your memories and losing things you wouldn’t be able to reconstruct without perfect memory are of a kind :/
And speaking of TV, some things I’ve watched more recently…
Glee
Finally managed to kick it.
The episode that did it was the one where Ryder opens up to his teammates about his childhood molestation, and everything about it is badly handled or not resolved or not even addressed, and it just hit me that, wow, this show is never again going to tackle anything in a way I want to watch. Will keep up with canon via the Autostraddle recaps for the sake of reading fic (some of which is actually worthwhile!), and that’s it.
Elementary
This show is really pretty good.
I enjoyed the BBC’s Sherlock, mostly (and I still haven’t seen The Blind Banker, which probably helps), but Elementary has been offering up a lot less flash for a lot more substance.
Doctor Who
Speaking of flash and no substance! Most of this season has been depressingly thin. Lots of dramatic speeches, very little of the action and effort that makes those speeches earned. Lots of talking up the Great Mystery of What’s Going On With Clara, taking up time that could be used to investigate the mystery, or to develop Clara as a character who’s engaging in her own right beyond being an object of unusual time phenomenon. An episode with a ton of running around in the depths of the TARDIS where we get one or two cool scenes…and then a lot of generic scary being-chased-around-by-monsters.
And then came The Crimson Horror, and it was more fantastic than it had any right to be. Humor! Action! Jenny being fantastic. Strax being adorable. (“Horse! You have failed in your mission!”) A good old-fashioned megalomaniac of a villain. Teamwork! A mystery where the clues came together in meaningful ways, without leaving things hanging to be un-addressed for the next couple of seasons (are we ever going to find out why the TARDIS exploded?). Plus that one poor proper Victorian dude fainting every couple of scenes.
Granted, Clara doesn’t have much to do besides be in trouble, get rescued, and inspire a couple more people to ask about the Great Mystery, but in such a team-heavy episode (with lots of other female characters having significant and well-written interactions, no less), it’s forgivable.
[ETA: No, wait, I completely forgot! Clara did get a moment of awesome. Things needed to be broken, and the Doctor was all "I have my sonic screwdriver!" and Clara was all "yeah, well, I have a chair." Spoiler alert: the chair worked.]
Can we have a Vastra/Jenny spinoff yet? And can all the episodes be like this? Please?
Game of Thrones
For the most part I have no idea what’s going on in this show. I just watch for a handful of characters being awesome. Particularly Dany.
Black Rock Shooter
I have no idea what’s going on in this show either, but in this case there’s a chance I might actually put it together.
It’s gripping and dramatic and visually stunning, and I’m going to be a solid fan whether it comes together at the end or not. (Though hopefully it will.)
Not even close to Monday Roundup, 5/8 May 8, 2013
Posted by Erin Ptah in Art, But I'm A Cat Person, Fake News, Madoka Magica, Misc Work, Miscellaneous, Mixes.Tags: "Stephen"/Jon, Black Rock Shooter, contests, DeviantArt, Erin Watches, Homura/Madoka, My Little Pony, tentacles, The Little Mermaid
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But I’m A Cat Person
My Little Sparrow (art | pony!Sparrow | worksafe)
BICP Icon Pack (icons | all the characters | worksafe)
BICP Journal Skin (installable deviantART journal skin, worksafe)
The one where Patrick is a unicorn (art | Bianca, Patrick | worksafe)
Fake News
Tentacolbert (re-uploaded art | Jon, “Stephen”, tentacle creature | NSFW)
The Little Pundit (art | mermaid!”Stephen”, Jon, seahorse!Jimmy | worksafe)
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
A Madoka macro (graphic | Madoka | mostly worksafe)
Light Into The Darkest Skies (mix | Homura/Madokami | worksafe)
General/Miscellaneous
Salty Sea Dog (animal design, worksafe)
Castle Crossing Cast Redux (original character sketches, worksafe)
Polar Bear Hoodie (outfit design, worksafe)
Where I Watch: Black Rock Shooter, episodes 3-4 (reaction post, screencaps, meta)
Violet Sunset (scenery stock)
Cheers, Norm (text art)
This Week in But I’m A Cat Person:
The comic treads the edge of NSFW, thanks to Patrick not knowing how many clothes to leave on.
How’s that economy been doing? April 27, 2013
Posted by Erin Ptah in News Roundup.Tags: gainful employment, Politics
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A recent study: The longer you’re unemployed, the less eager employees are to hire you. Goodie.
“Recently, Rand Ghayad ran a follow-up experiment, sending 4800 fictitious applications for 600 job openings. The applications differed by length of unemployment, how often they switched jobs, and experience. What he found was long term unemployment dramatically lowers your chance of a callback. In fact, long term unemployed with relevant experience were less likely to get called back than those that did not have relevant experience, but who had a shorter unemployment.”
“I would say between April and August I probably had 45 to 50 different meetings that I would just initiate on my own, asking someone, ‘Can we just go have coffee, or just go to lunch?’…from an Internet standpoint, I have filled out and put in resumes for about 380 to 390 positions….Interview-wise, I would say I’ve gone on maybe 40 interviews over the last 17 months…I learned, obviously, now, after 17 months, that it has not necessarily [been] easy to secure another position.“
“‘After nine months of ignored letters and legal threats, I filed an online complaint with the CFPB,’ writes Charles, referring to the agency’s mortgage complaint portal, which requires lenders and servicers to respond to each complaint within a given time frame. ‘I heard from Wells Fargo’s executive customer service office within 48 hours. Within three weeks, the lien was released. This saved us the trouble of filing a lawsuit, which would have been enormously costly and exhausting.’”
“One of the most surprising, and perhaps confounding, facts of charity in America is that the people who can least afford to give are the ones who donate the greatest percentage of their income. In 2011, the wealthiest Americans—those with earnings in the top 20 percent—contributed on average 1.3 percent of their income to charity. By comparison, Americans at the base of the income pyramid—those in the bottom 20 percent—donated 3.2 percent of their income.”
“Each year, the government doles out tax breaks worth $1.1 trillion. That is more than the cost of Medicare and Medicaid combined. It is more than Social Security. It tops the defense budget, and it tops the budget for nondefense discretionary programs, which include most everything else.”
“But the big news here isn’t just about the politics of a Republican House speaker tacitly admitting they agree with a Democratic president. It is also about a bigger admission revealing the fact that the GOP’s fiscal alarmism is not merely some natural reaction to reality, but a calculated means to other ideological ends.“
Same-sex marriage everywhere! April 25, 2013
Posted by Erin Ptah in News Roundup.Tags: religion, the gays
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The Nevada Senate! The Rhode Island Senate! The Delaware House! The entirety of France! The entirety of New Zealand — complete with Maori love songs from the gallery when it passed!
Also, the current Pope advocated civil unions for same-sex couples in his home country. And Maryland (which has been cool on the same-sex marriage front for a little while now) nixed the death penalty not so long ago.
Sometimes things don’t suck.
Multifandom Recs (weekly) April 21, 2013
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Harry Potter | ensemble | K+ | Mud, Blood & the Sound of Guns
A different war begins. The people want a saviour who’ll protect them from bullets and Harry isn’t it. ‘Death Eaters killed eleven wizards this week. The Muggles have killed eighty.’
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Doctor Who | Donna, Martha, Ten | PG | one of these mornings
Donna comes back to herself.
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Kim Possible | Kim/Shego, ensemble | M | On a Short Leash
AU. This is the sequel to Walking the Line. Kim and Shego look to renew their unorthodox relationship.
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Sherlock | Sherlock/John, others | G | Pulling No Punches
Sherlock is reunited with everyone in turn. And gets punched in the face.
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Fake News | Jessica, ensemble | T | Highlights from Jessica Williams’ First Year at The Daily Show
inspired by various posts on Jessica’s Tumblr, Twitter, and Instagram.
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Homestuck | Sollux, Terezi, Dave, Rose, ensemble | M | The Vienna Game
‘There’s a whole other story, about that, a girl with mirrors over her eyes and a man who was scared to care about anything.’
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Fake News | Olivia/Kristen, Aasif/Kristen | G | Frozen
Tell Aasif’s wife I love her.
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Pet Shop of Horrors, Carmen Sandiego | D/Leon, Carmen/Ivy | M | Sinister and Exquisite
D sells Suhara a rather strange pet, and Leon joins ACME. But no one really gets quite what they expected, and nothing turns out how it should. Response to challenge #171. Carmen SanDiego (If bereft!Leon had been tailing her, she’d have been caught in a week.)
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Hellsing | Integra & Seras | T | Here is the last of the Red, and the beginning to put away the Dead
The first time Integra lets Seras Victoria braid her hair, it is the night the war ends.
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Kim Possible | Kim/Shego, friends | R | Walking the Line
This is AU like a mug. Shego is a cop and Kim…well, you won’t believe what Kim is.
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There are three roads a growing witch or wizard can take. The first two are well-trodden. But this year, the world better get ready, because when the dark moon rises, the third path comes alive.
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Harry Potter, Addams Family | Harry, Addamses, ensemble | T | Harveste Addams and the Goblet of Fire
Let’s have a little FUN this year, shall we?
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A madman has escaped from prison? Are you sure you aren’t talking about Uncle Fester?
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Parselmouths, the Chamber and Lockhart. Well, well, well…
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A little death can change so much. Delightful, isn’t it?
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The Collective Legal Guide For Designers (Contract Samples) | Smashing Magazine
Rule number one for designers of all kinds: use a contract. Sometimes, this is easier said than done. Should I use a service agreement? A retainer? A licensing contract? With the help of Docracy, we collected the experience of many designers to provide a wide range of starting points for less experienced creative professionals, and to start a permanent free legal resource for the community.
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They trade one of John’s childhood memories and the last of the medical supplies for passage on a cargo ship, and land on Bajan in mid-winter.
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Doctor Who | Six/Master | T | Professional Foul
It’s been half a century since infamous villain the Master brought his powerful family the wrong sort of publicity by destroying a chunk of the universe! The Master’s wouldn’t mind getting back in their good books, and accepts a job as physiotherapist on his mother’s space rugby team. There’s just one thing — one man — standing in the way of earning back his self-respect: the team’s Doctor.
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Jeeves & Wooster, religion | Jeeves+Bertie | G | His Wonders To Perform…
I mean to say… wings, old thing?
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References for various fabulous multi-charset emoticons.
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Sherlock Holmes, The Great Mouse Detective | Watson & Holmes, Basil & Dawson | G | Moustery
Watson knows that eliminating the impossible is not always possible.
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Red Dwarf | Lister, Rimmer | G | Half The Battle
Keeping Lister sane is only half the battle. Keeping the little smegger alive is another mission altogether.
If you like Colbert, you need to be watching this April 17, 2013
Posted by Erin Ptah in Recommendations.Tags: Stephen Colbert, Susie Sampson, Tea Party Report, video
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And all the other videos from Susie Sampson, bright-eyed star of fake conservative journalism. If the Report employed correspondents, she would be one of them. (Personal headcanon: in any AU where “Stephen” ends up taking over as host of TDS, she is so hired.)
Monday Roundup, 4/15 April 15, 2013
Posted by Erin Ptah in Art, But I'm A Cat Person, Comics, Fake News, Madoka Magica, Misc Work, Miscellaneous.Tags: "Stephen"/Jon, Aladdin, Black Rock Shooter, contests, crossover, crossovers, Cybele, Reseda, Timothy
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But I’m A Cat Person
Delight (art | Cybele | worksafe)
Still A Cat (comic | Timothy & Reseda | worksafe)
Fake News(/Aladdin)
Shining, Shimmering, Splendid (art | Jasmine!”Stephen”, Aladdin!Jon | worksafe)
Blue – Someone To Crowd You With Love (art | Jon/”Stephen” | worksafe)
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Lady Madoka (art | Madoka | worksafe)
General/Miscellaneous
Lace and a Lead Pipe (original mahou shoujo design, worksafe)
Sunset Flight (contest art, worksafe)
In Which I Watch: Black Rock Shooter, episodes 1-2 (reaction post, screencaps, meta)
This Week in But I’m A Cat Person:
We find out just where Patrick’s been getting this money, and check in with what’s going on in DC.
