Aw yeah. Shake those claws. March 28, 2012
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Multifandom Recs (weekly) March 25, 2012
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Sherlock | Sherlock, John | PG | For Science!
Sometimes Sherlock’s experiments require some input from John.
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Sherlock tries out more legal varieties of stimulant. Specifically: Red Bull.
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Doctor Who | Martha, Donna, Ten/Rose | T | Hen Night
Martha and Donna get bored and drunk, and the Doctor and Rose get a little “help.”
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Doctor Who | Ten, Time Lords | G | Imaginary
Deep inside the Citadel, there is a lonely room, forever holding a lonely Time Lord.
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Doctor Who | Two/Jamie/Zoe | PG | Being Educational
Aliens demand that the Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe all share a bed.
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Doctor Who | Ten, Donna | G | An Inordinate Fondness
Ten and Donna share some relaxing moments, enlivened by arthropods.
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Doctor Who | Martha, Ian/Barbara | G | All the Maps Change
“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.” – Ursula LeGuin
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Sherlock | John/Sherlock | PG-13 | they tell me their secrets (will you tell me yours too)
In Afghanistan, the supplies tell him when they’re running low, and the cars always, always tell him when strangers have touched them, and John gets known as having a knack (paranoia, his men call it, but he’s never missed a single car bomb) for keeping his men safe.
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Sherlock | Sherlock, Donovan, Anderson, John | G | Wrong Order
Donovan is annoyed with Sherlock, and Anderson offers a chance at revenge. Their little practical joke turns out to be a bit more deadly than they intended.
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Sherlock | Donovan, Sherlock, others | R | Interrogation
Sally Donovan was good at her job. That does not necessarily mean anything when caught, bound, and at the whims of an apparent psychopath with a knife.
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Sherlock Holmes | Holmes/Watson | R | The Maiden Voyage of the Tiresias
The deciding factor, however, was his suddenly hitting upon a scheme of our traveling separately, with him in disguise, thus placing before me the challenge of attempting to discover his identity among the entire passenger manifest, but in turn giving me a month in which to accomplish the deed.
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Sherlock | John/Sherlock, Harry/OC | PG-13 | Like Bad Wallpaper
In which John discovers that family weddings really are the worst way to spend an evening, and Sherlock solves a mystery.
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Sherlock | Sherlock, ensemble | G | The Extremely Important Acquisition of Hugs
Sherlock finds that, for whatever reason, he really likes hugs and craves them intensely. But he can’t let people know that, it just wouldn’t do.
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Sherlock | Holmes/Watson, Lestrade, team | PG | The Internet Is Not Just For Porn
John is Sherlock’s internet boyfriend – from Canada.
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Stargate SG-1 | Sam/Jack/Daniel/Teal’c | T | Jigsaw
Jack wakes up in the SGC to the news that his team is dead. If he weren’t hearing the news from General Hammond he might not believe it–and even so it’s not quite real until he sees the bodies. Once he does, he knows nothing is ever going to be the same again.
Sam wakes up in the SGC to the news that she is now the senior member of SG-1. Jack O’Neill is dead. For Sam and her team, nothing is ever going to be the same again.
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Stargate | team | PG | Once More, With Groping
Daniel raised a hand as the high priest began to elaborate on his earlier pronouncement. “No, it’s all right, we understand. Before you’ll allow us to leave, two of us must have public sex on that altar in front of the gate.”
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Childrens Hospital | Valerie/Cat | Ex | Girl Power
Valerie comes up with a way for Cat to get REALLY empowered.
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Sherlock (TV) | Holmes & Watson, Lestrade, Mycroft, Donovan, others | T | The Green Blade
As a serial killer hits the headlines, the police are out of their depth and the next victim is out of time. With faith in Sherlock Holmes at an all time low, this is a case which will push loyalties to the limit…
This is another angry uterus-related post. March 24, 2012
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Doonesbury pulls no punches in covering the latest abortion-restricting amendments.
A physician expresses some anonymous outrage, and urges zir fellows to act as the last line of defense against patients.
Kansas wants to levy a sales tax on abortions. No exceptions. After all, why raise taxes on the 1% when you can tax rape survivors whose pregnancies might kill them?
They also, along with Arizona, are pushing for doctors to be allowed to hide medical information from their pregnant patients, and be shielded from malpractice lawsuits if the women have health complications as a result. Although, take heart: they can be sued if the woman dies!
On the flip side, there are also laws compelling doctors to compel unnecessary information into their pregnant patients’ heads. This author, whose child if it survived to term would have been brain-damaged and in constant pain, makes what must have been the hardest decision of her life, and every doctor she works with apologizes for being legally compelled to hurt her before they can help her.
These Weeks, through 3/18 March 18, 2012
Posted by Erin Ptah in Art, But I'm A Cat Person, Comics, Doctor Who, Fake News, Fic, Madoka Magica, meme, Meta, Misc Work.Tags: fanfiction, mahou shoujo, The Zen and the Damaged, writing
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But I’m A Cat Person
The Team (art | ensemble | worksafe)
Fake News(/Doctor Who)
Tied Up In Negotiations (art | tiny!Jon, Stephen | worksafe)
Into The Empty Sky (fic | Jon/”Stephen” | PG)
A Sweet Sip of Stephen (art | tiny!Stephen | worksafe)
Daily/Reports From Last Night, a TDS/TCR Texts From Last Night tumblr
Olivia’s Moon (art | Olivia | worksafe)
Eight Weeks, Three Days (fic | Jon, Martha Jones | PG)
Tiny Jon Goes Up (comic | Jon, a dog | G)
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
But She Talks Like A Gentle Soul (on the AO3) (fic | ickle!Moemura, ??? | G)
Angel Magi (art | Sayaka, Madoka, Amy | worksafe)
Violet and Rose (art | Homura | worksafe)
General/Miscellaneous
Seven Questions meme (meta about writing processes, comics, Doctor Who, plus guilty pleasures and cute cat stories)
What makes a mahou shoujo? (meta discussing exactly what it says on the tin)
Writing AUs: Why They Sometimes Suck, And How To Make Them Not (ibid.)
Next Week in But I’m A Cat Person:
Guest strips!
Website Updates
Over five thousand images sorted and tagged into the fake news image gallery on The Zen and the Damaged.
Multifandom Recs (weekly) March 18, 2012
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Doctor Who | Ten, Donna | PG | A Plan With One Obvious Flaw
A female Time Lord, the one thing that had been missing from his cunning plan to repopulate Gallifrey.
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Sailor Moon | Ryo, Seven Shadows, Serenity | PG | End of the Line
We have crushed the greatest warriors of the moon kingdom and stand among the rubble of Silver Millennium. I knew we would, I have always known.
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Stargate | John/Daniel, various | NC-17 | At The Hour When We Are Trembling
Post S2/S9 apocafic. The Wraith make it to Earth, and John and Daniel are left to pick up the pieces.
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Sherlock (TV) | Sherlock/John, ensemble | Leave the Signs and the Sirens
After John’s released and back home at Baker St, Sherlock still feels it. Down the centre of his chest there’s an ache like a healing wound. A physical awareness of a body he usually ignores as much as he can. It’s psychosomatic, nothing more interesting than that.
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Sherlock (TV) | Sherlock & John, Mycroft | T | Seeds
In a fit of boredom Sherlock plants some seeds, may or may not eat one cracker, and definitely waxes dramatic on the sofa for a while.
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Buffy | Chao-Ahn, the other baby Slayers | PG | No Words
She couldn’t understand a word that anyone was saying. It seemed to help.
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Caprica | Tamara, Zoe, others | NR | We Built This City
Tamara is no one’s sidekick. Something of an AU drawing on the final five episodes that remained unbroadcast in the US at the time of Yuletide 2010.
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Hellsing | Alucard/Walter/Seras, Seras/Pip, Seras/Integra, enemies | M | Scientific Method
“I have had three experiments this century. One was a complete failure despite a promise of success, one has not run its course, one is a qualified success I had been resigned to seeing eventually fail.” Alucard, Seras, and Walter assess war’s aftermath.
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Sailor Moon | Inners, cats, Mamoru, Naru | R | Serena and Luna: The New Adventures of Sailor Moon
She had known those girls, somehow … some of them looked something like girls who’d gone to the Crossroads Junior High with her, but she hadn’t known those girls very well. Just a few conversations, really. She had been very good friends with the girls in her dream … nightmare. You don’t die in dreams.
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Sailor Moon | Rei/Usagi, Usagi/Mamoru, ensemble | PG-13 | Celebration
Today, my best friend in the world would marry the man she’d loved even when she hadn’t known who he was, and no matter how much I wanted to, I couldn’t be happy for them.
It’s official! March 15, 2012
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The main page of erinptah.com now sends you directly to this blog. Slick new layout and all.
Having added the “Favorites” link list (it sounded nicer than “Miscellaneous”), I’m a little tempted to go wild and LINK ALL THE THINGS. After starting with projects I’d contributed to, I threw in a few sites I’ve paid special attention to along the way — Day of Silence, Kiva, and LibriVox. But if you were to expand that to “things around the Internet that I read and happen to like”…
…Screw it, if I’m going to go pick up links to share as examples, I may as well pick up links and put them on a list.
[20 links later]
I retroactively apologize to every blog I ever rolled my eyes at for having a ridiculously long blogroll. (Although the next step will probably be shuffling them off to their own page.)
The main thing still to fix up is the About page. I don’t suppose anyone has requests for it? Past history suggests the text will get written to semi-completeness and then left unchanged for years, so if there are any burning questions you’ve always wanted answered, now’s the time to get them in.
Layout admin note March 14, 2012
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Updating the look of the blog! Which means that right now it’s a mishmash of uncoordinated images and colors, as I’m in the stage of “upload whatever image is nearest just to check how this option works.”
To look forward to: this blog being actually integrated with my website, the link lists made complete and organized, and the rest prettied up appropriately.
Multifandom Recs (weekly) March 11, 2012
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Harry Potter | OC, various | G | This Is an Essay
Margaret would rather write the same thing a hundred times.
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Strangers With Candy: Guide to Middle-Aged Homoism (Seasons 1-2)
Now with more screencaps and even longer summaries!
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Fake News | “Stephen”->Jon, Jon/Tracey | G | The Long Wait
Stephen had almost been surprised when he realized how easy it would be to get Jon to fall in love with him. All he had to do was to wait until Jon’s marriage fell apart and step in to fill the void when it did.
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ficofandalasia – History, Time and Disney: Part One
Within Disney fandom, the debate over the historical and geographical settings of the films is a well-known one.
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Sailor Moon | Inners, Dark Kingdom, others | PG | More Unnatural Acts
“Let’s see. Dentist, doctor, yakuza… Here it is, Unit 5A. ‘Coprolite & Youma & Youma & Youma attorneys at law’.”
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Sailor Moon | Inners, Dark Kingdom | PG | An Unnatural Act
“Oh yes, that’s right.” Barrel frowned. “But what about Sattelyte? I’m sure I didn’t kill him.”
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Sailor Moon | Haruka/Michiru, others | PG-13 | One Wish
“I always wanted Haruka to be the father of my child, but you can’t change the laws of nature,” Michiru protested.
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Sailor Moon | Serenity/Endymion, ensemble | PG-13 | Justification is in Order
“Darien is in there,” Serenity interrupted, pointing into the ionic field. “His been in there since the Dark Moon Kingdom attacked. He only comes out in shadows and invisible breezes.”
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Sailor Moon | senshi, canon pairings | PG | Evening Prayer
Now I lay me…
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Doctor Who | Maria, Alan, Four, Sarah Jane | G | Du Liebes Kind, Komm, Geh Mit Mir
Some time after she moves to America, Maria Jackson gets wrapped up in mysterious temporal events and Sarah Jane’s past.
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Glee | Blaine, Quinn/Rachel, Brittany/Santana, others | K+ | Reenactment
“Rachel and Quinn have a…complicated relationship,” Mercedes said.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Faith/Buffy, Giles | T | Miraculous
This is not Faith’s fault.
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The Sailor Moon ur-epic. Several million words, taking SM through SMS as canon and building out from there. Past, present, future, every planet, several alternate dimensions, far too many characters, one-off details that will sink into your headcanon, elf!Minako, a junior Sailor Pluto, everybody gets a talisman!, everybody gets a guardian cat!, Naru’s a senshi *and* a princess, the Z stands for Zodiac, one episode that takes place entirely in a fantasy-world RPG…enjoy.
This is a post about civil rights. Mostly uterus-related ones. March 5, 2012
Posted by Erin Ptah in News Roundup.Tags: Politics, pro-choice, race'n'ethnicity, religion, Rick Santorum, the gays, The Onion
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Image from a school for black civil rights activists, 1960: young woman being trained to not react to smoke blown in her face. Hardcore.
Profiles of seven queer African-Americans, from the dawn of the Civil Rights movement to the present day.
Don’t like the Mormon practice of posthumously baptizing people (regardless of religion, up to and including Jewish Holocaust victims) as Mormons? This handy website automates the process of posthumously conferring homosexuality on dead Mormons.
History and context for pre-Roe abortion, including both the author’s personal experience in the ’60s and a fascinating look at how the battle lines in the US have shifted. In particluar, how the prevailing mindset used to be “before it starts kicking, it’s none of the public’s business.”
And the history of how “life begins at conception” ended up in evangelical dogma. Check out how different the opinions of conservative bible-literalist Christians looked as recently as 1979.
From pro-life teenie to scared young adult in a crisis: “And while I knew there were hardliners who would disagree with her, including the woman who showed me fetuses and told me horror stories in church, those people weren’t there for me when I was scared and lonely and embarrassed. Planned Parenthood was, in the form of the woman who stayed at her job an hour later than necessary to talk a scared young woman through an incredibly safe medical experience.”
Speaking of horror stories and scare pictures: Anatomy of an unsafe abortion (warning for gore). The reason pro-choice people don’t carry gory posters around at pro-blastocyte-rights events isn’t for lack of images to choose from.
Want another? Look up the truly misleadingly named ovarian chocolate cyst (warning for ick). Of the millions of US women 15-44 who use birth control, 58% have reasons unrelated to family planning — including the prevention of such cysts.
Fifteen-year-old faces life in prison for a miscarriage. One of the real, practical results of trying to sneak up on chipping away at abortion rights slantwise.
Rick Santorum’s proposed anti-amniocentesis rules would have killed this author’s daughter. Because clearly his self-important theory-based scaremongering is more important than actual science saving the lives of actual people. (There’s a theme developing here.)
I do love the Onion: Voters Slowly Realizing Santorum Believes Every Deranged Word That Comes Out Of His Mouth.
In an effort to close on a non-sucky note: Memories of growing up with Christian contemporary music, and then discovering Nirvana.
