American politics just got a little more interesting again.

Now there's Palin. Big strong woman in politics, that definitely managed to charm me a bit, but whom to my great horror is pro-life. Now I'll freely admit that I admire her for sticking with her beliefs when she had to face that choice herself, but the thing is: Will she now get to make that choice for other women too? How much power does a VP have anyway? How far do her views on this go or McCains for that matter?

A pro-life friend stated that a pro-choice VP would be just as upsetting for a lot of pro-life women as Palin is to me right now. But the thing is: Under no circumstance could a pro-choice politician make me give up my baby. That choice is mine. A pro-life politician on the other hand WANTS to take that choice away from me! Now honestly I don't know if I would have an abortion if I got pregnant at this point. Probably not. But that doesn't mean I'll give up my right to choose!

You could argue that this isn't my problem, since I'm not American, but here's to a little solidarity amongst women.

Discusion welcome as long as it's civil. Otherwise I'll be closing this one down.

I'm still being wooed by 40 year old men. Something I became painfully familiar with in Peru (oh I'm back btw :), but it never happened to me in my own country before! \

I did get a fancy meal and a couple of drinks out of it, but still. I'm 25! What the hell?

Less then a day before I leave for Peru. Hope everything goes smoothly (and sorry I lied. I probably won't be finishing the gangbang au any time soon). 

Things I'll have to go without:

- My daily Internet fix
- Fanfiction in large quantities (I loaded up my ipod with podfic... don't judge me!)
- Friends and Family (..wait, they're my third consideration!?!? That's fucked up! ;)
- Long, luxurious showers.
- Central heating
- Most of my clothes (I send half of wardrobe off to charity and it's still piling from my closet. All those clothes and nothing to wear)
- SGA, Heroes and Avatar when they start again (who knows. Maybe they have nerds in Cusco as well)
- Buttermilk (that's a biggie. I live on the stuff!)
- Being able to communicate properly with people.

Things I'll gain:
- New interesting people
- New culture
- New Language
- INCA RUINS!
- And hey, they have cinema in English. Whooo!

To all you Atlanta folk. This time tomorrow I'll be skulking in your backyard...

It's amnesty over at sga_flashfic and I've been a productive little beaver. As it turns out Amnesty means that all old challenges are go. Who knew?

For the Documentation challenge (image)
Title: Del.icio.us R us
Rating: G
AN: I started wondering how Teyla kept track of all those people and gate adresses. Especially with all the cullings. Clearly Pegasus works on some kind of social network...

For the 7 deadly sins challenge: lust
Title: Promiscuous
Rating: PG13
Warning: Spoilers for S4.
Summary: “No, no, no, he won’t do at ALL. Check out his flabby ass. You need something firm to grab hold off.”


Disclaimer: I don't own SGA or any featured Internet services, I'm just playing with them.

And on a different note. I promise I'll finish that gang bang aftermath piece. Definitely before I leave for Peru.

hmm, yummy pasta. Why the hell don't I cook more often? I mean, sure I hate doing it, but I whipped this up in like 15 minutes![Poll #1103859]

Seriously, this pasta is DELICIOUS!

About five more weeks before I take off for Peru. Got my ticket, vaccinations, insurance, travel guide. Finished the Spanish course and found a guy to take over my room for six months. So I guess now I get to ponder on the really important stuff.

Do I take my ipod?

The idea of taking my favorite music appeals to me. And then there's the fact that I could load up podfic to help me past my fanfic cravings. And did I just reveal myself as the horrible addict I am?
Seriously though, Retrograde AND written by the victors have been podficced!  I suppose if it gets stolen, it would be a wonderful excuse to buy a newer model...

Okay quick pimp, because some people don't seem to realize that this fic... is the sequel to that fic. Get it? Remember That fic? The post trinity one,where Rodney's old nemesis steals his job (through blackmail) and his research and threatens Rodney and almost gets everybody killed, but this friends are watching and Rodney totally gets his own in the end? Oh and ages ago he handed Rodney over to the Chinese for torture! Remember how awesome it was?

Well  SEQUEL!!!

And if you still don't get it, I'm talking about Replaced  &  Conspiricies Investigations and Exploration Oh My by Reflex (second one co-written with Laryn) Against all probibilaty the second installment is even cooler and more clever then the first one!

Fanfic tropes I hate or just dislike with a fiery passion

Song fic: Like Nansi_Alexander so eloquently said in this awesome badfic entry; "It is also NOT a song fic, even though there are some song lyrics here, but that is not because they are like, SINGING, it is because they are about Best Friends which is what John and Rodney are, only not exactly, because they are totally soul mates only I couldn't find a song about soul mates so I had to use this one, which kind of sucks, only not because I guess they're friends too."
That sums it up quite nicely.

Poetry fic: There are only two characters in my fandoms I can easily buy writing poetry. Spike and Sheppard!
...Sheppard you say? Look it's obvious. He's totally, secretly a fourteen year old goth girl, who can't talk about his feelings, so he writes these great angsty poems in his secret diary, that no one ever gets to read, except maybe Rodney when they're both drunk. Only Rodney totally  mocks him for it, so then John has to listen to black sabbath and cut himself... What? That could totally happen!

But really, I'll belief a lot if you sell it right. And If you do insist on having your characters act like beatniks, just tell us they're doing it. There's no need to post the actual poems, because I sure as hell ain't gonna read them (but I will concede I'm biased, cuz  well... I just don't care for poetry)

The What if Series rewrites: This trope I don't really despise as such. It just keeps disappointing me in crushing ways. Usually the authors have a really promising plot bunny. Adam Pierson is found to be immortal and send to Sunnydale to help the slayer! Rodney is a fucked up Sentinel oh noes! Sheppard can whistle the national anthem through his nose!
The fun in this trope is to see how things will turn out now, with these radically different characters and backgrounds. And again and again the answer is... exactly the same fucking way.  For some reason the authors never seem brave enough to stop slavishly following the episode plots. The worst of these offenders even seem to be copying lines directly from transcripts!
Nothing changes. Their cool revamped characters hardly make a difference, even when they clearly should. And it pisses me off, because the little bits of original fiction that do sneak in there tend to be awesome.

Seriously, If I want to read a what if story where nothing fucking changes, I'll just pick my Wicked Willow series of the shelf.