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IT IS DONE! My essay is finally done! Sweet liberation! And now I can start on the next one *the sigh*.

Speaking of sighs; I went to see Nine yesterday. It was pretty awesome, until the tape broke and stopped the movie right in the middle of the final song. (Thank God for Internet pirates).

The cinema gave us free tickets though, so we got to see Percy Jackson as well. To the end even.

Tis the season of horrible natural disasters. A friend of mine was in Santiago when the quake hit. Fortunately she's fine and the damage was limited where she's staying. But it's looking pretty grim down there.

My trekreversebang  artwork is finally coming together. I'm really glad I didn't offer up my backup idea as a prompt. I had to pick between the one I thought would make the awesomest story and the one that would make the awesomest art.
Incidentally I will burn in hell for what I did to poor Uhura and Gaila.

God dammit! I just checked out the White Collar pilot. I liked the white collar pilot so I moved on to episode two. And then I realized the newly introduced sex bomb agent is there to replace the casually lesbian agent.

For the record. I'm not just pissed that they cut the gay/colored character (although I'm plenty pissed about that). I'm also pissed that they cut the professional female character who wasn't there just to flirt with the male lead.

Fuck you very much show.

Also ( spoiler )

Oh joyous occasion! After years of being insanely jealous of all the people who were getting away with this shit, I too have found the perfect pretext for writing a paper about fandom! Thank you boring communication history class!

I just hope I can find some lit for this.

I don't know if everyone heard about the mudslides that closed of Machu Picchu from the outside world, stranding thousands. I'm a frankly baffled by the news reports I'm getting. There has been a lot of celebrating today because the last tourists have been evactuated. I hoped this was just an overly Western perspective in my paper, but Peruvian news seems to confirm that it's woman, children, and sickly people first... provided they're tourists... or can't pay a couple of hundred to get bumped up the evac list.

If you've never been there, you might not be aware of this, but underneath Machu Picchu is Aquas Calientes, or Machu Picchu town, It's basically a town whose entire economy is based on catering to the tourists. It's not huge, but there are, you know a couple hundred inhabitants at least. The only way to reach it is either a trail through the mountains (which takes 4 days on foot and isn't safe right now), or the train tracks that have been washed away. The only river isn't passable.

There have been reports that the prizes of food, water and shelter shot through the roof after all those poor tourists got stranded. Maybe the locals realized they would just be an afterthought to their own government...

Every now and then I come across a story that really deserve more attention then it's been getting. I'm aware my journal doesn't really get heavy traffic, but I'm going to rec away anyway.

Allergy by michelle72  features a Rodney who suffers from... guess. That's right, Allergies. Horrible allergies that turn him into an ogre, and practically drive his friends to murder. There is blink or you'll miss it McKeller (which I understand a lot of other people are highly allergic to), but please don't let that keep you away. Just swallow some antihistamines and go read!

So there have been a lot of SGA fairytale AU's, and I can't remember reading one that wasn't awesome. But when you get right down to it, what fairytale do you guys think, really fit the SGA characters? And how would having them in it actually affect the story?

I'm thinking Teyla would make an awesome little red riding hood (and not just cuz she would super cute in the cape). If we take it as a cautionary tale of man against the dangers of the wild,  who would be better prepared to meet them then Teyla who has spend most of her life as a nomadic forest dweller, always aware that the big bad wolf could be behind the tree?

Ronon...  Maybe Beauty and the beast. A civilized man, turned savage by a curse. Only Beauty was dead before he even hit the ground running.

Rodney, either princess on the pea or puss in boots :).

John?

The whole expedition could be Hansel and Gretel. Left in the wild by careless parents (S1 at least).

Any thoughts?

Let's all take a moment to mourn Ten.

Wee discussion ( after cut )

An Islamic country is trying to reclaim its cultural heritage, starting with the relics of a Catholic Saint...
Sure that's going to happen.

Why didn't they start with something small, like the 'Horses of Saint Mark' in Venice? Although I imagine they'll have to go through a knuckle match with Belusconi  for it.