Designated Human

Questionnaire from BBC on lgb representation in the media under the link.  Let's get our voices heard.

www.perceptor.com/perceplive/survey/BBC_LGB_Portrayal

stolen wholesale from calapine 

( Cut for your convenience )

Second attempt at posting this.  LJ kept futzing the cut link

TOWARDS THE LIGHT

 

By Celievamp (jo.raine@ntlworld.com)

 

Genre: Sanctuary/X Files

 

Pairing: Helen Magnus / Dana Scully

 

Spoilers: X Files – post series finale.  Sanctuary: set during Pavor Nocturnus.

 

Disclaimer: Sanctuary and the character of Helen Magnus belong to Martin Wood, Damien Kindler and Amanda Tapping.   X Files and the character of Dana Scully belongs to Chris Carter, 1013 Productions and Gillian Anderson.  Me, I just write stories.

 

This one was written for the FSAC:DDOW 09

 

Word count: 2,451

 

Scully: "All right. So how do I die?"
Clyde Bruckman: "You don't."

3X04 Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose

 

Scully: You know, most people want to live forever.

Fellig: Most people are idiots. Which is one of the reasons I don't.

Scully: I think you're wrong. How can you have too much life? There's too much to learn, to experience.

Fellig: 75 years... is enough. Take my word for it. You live forever, sooner or later you start to think about the big thing you're missing and that everybody else gets to find out about but you.

Scully: What about love?

Fellig: What, does that last forever? 40 years ago I drove down to the city hall, down to the hall of records... record archives, whatever they call it. I wanted to look up my wife. It ... bothered me I couldn't remember her name. Love lasts... 75 years, if you're lucky. You don't want to be around when it's gone.

~~~~~~~~~~~

Fellig: (gentle) Do you see him? Do you see him? Don't look. Close your eyes.

6X09 Tithonus

 

Summary: Kind of Sequel to “Straight out of Legend”

 

A ‘what might have been’ scene from Pavor Nocturnus


( Towards the Light )

 

 

Second attempt at posting this.  LJ just wasn't playing ball earlier in the week and I didn't have the energy to futz around with it.

IN HER ARMS

 

By Celievamp (jo.raine@ntlworld.com)

 

Series: Stargate SG1.  Pairing: Sam Carter / Janet Fraiser.

 

Spoilers: Up to Line in the Sand (season 10).  Note.  For the purposes of this story Heroes did happen as in canon.

 

Disclaimers:  Stargate belongs to … well, not me.

 

Thanks to Stargate wiki for the episode transcripts

Wordcount: 3900

 

Written for the FSAC: DDOW2009 Advent Calendar

 

Summary: She still feels close, almost as if she was watching over her.


( In her arms )

 

 

Excellent episode, Chris Heyderdal mesmerising but ( sshhh... spoilers )

Week 3 of the Great British Freeze, heading into an unprecedented Week 4.  My flu-free self (I got 2 separate flu jabs and I STILL get the flu) made it into work yesterday which was a bit of an adventure as our street in particular is an icerink and local councils are only gritting what they consider to be major roads and not gritting any pavements at all.  Out of 14 people for most of the day there were 3 of us.  Panoramic views of the Cleveland Hills from office window much appreciated though.  It was very white out there and we had about 20 minutes warning befire the next blizzard hit the building.  After the 3rd blizzard of the afternoon announced that I was working from home on Friday.  Very sensible everyone agreed.

Came home in a blizzard which was interesting and dumped another couple of inches on us.  Our street is now a snow covered ice rink.  Sidetracked to Tesco's on the way home and did reasonably big shop, as Farmer's Market on Saturday is cancelled.   Very pleased to be workng from home today as the winter wonderland is getting a little much.  Having done the shopping, in theory don't have to step over the door again until Monday.  I can deal with that.

On another note, have really enjoyed Nurse Jackie all week on BBC2.  Not much other telly to speak of, though chair bopping in anticipation for season 2 of Being Human which starts at the weekend.

Okay, I know i'm not exactly working on all cylinders at the moment but ( dr who spoilers )

There's a point with a cold where the voice gets the wrong side of husky to be sexy  any more.  I'm there now.  Yes, I have a cold.  I get two separate flu shots and still go down with a cold, raging sinuses, ear ache, sore throat and hacking cough.  And my eyes are itching like mad.  Bloody viruses.  I think this is six out of the last ten New Years Eves when I've brought in the New Year with lemsip.  It's becoming something of a sad tradition.  And our kitchen cabinet is looking like a chemist's outpost.

Liz has it even worse than me.  She has no voice at all, poor lamb and is not a happy soul right now.  She didn't even make it to midnight.  I think I interpreted the sign language as 'sod it' when she went back to bed at around 11.30 having only got out of bed at about six.

Chances of me going to work on monday - about 50/50 at present.  I'll see how I feel by Sunday night.


Looking forward to Dr Who tomorrow (today, I suppose).  David Tennant's last hurrah.


Best Thing on over Christmas: An Englishman in New York.  By some way.

I knew going in it was either going to be completely shite or completely wonderful ( the verdict )


And in case I don't get round to doing it tomorrow.  A Happy Healthy and Peaceful Christmas to one and all.

www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/video/2009/dec/19/terry-pratchett-religion

Unfortunately not enough to be pretty, just enough to be lethal.  Slip slidin' away....

I've never been terribly good / accepting of people telling me what I should or should not do. From my mother, careers advisors, teachers, bosses onwards. Even friends and loved ones get the glare.

People telling me what I should or should not be writing really pisses me off.

Yes I wrote a Sanctuary Helen/Ashley story. Yes, I know it is an incestuous relationship and that squicks a hell of a lot of people. I'm actually quite proud of the story in and of itself, it's one of the better ones that I've managed to write recently. I may write more Helen/Ashley in the future. I may not. That is between me and my muse.

I posted the fic to my journal under a cut and with appropriate warnings as to pairing and content. I also posted it to a LJ fanfic community that specifically allowed that pairing. If it was picked up by any watchlists or other forums after that it has nothing to do with me. That is the nature of the interwebs.

If you did not want to read the fic you had ample opportunity not to do so. If the idea of it upset you or concerned you then of course, you have every right to those concerns and to expressing them, I completely agree. There are a lot of fics and pairings out there that I would not touch with a very long bargepole. but I would never have the temerity and sheer gall to suggest that people should not write them.

I see there is now a LJ fanfic community for Sanctuary that specifically excludes this pairing. Even though I admire and like some of the people who have put their names to this I won't be joining.

And now I've got this out of my system, I'm off to work.

Firstly I am consumed by fear and awe at this story news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8362658.stm

Moorcock was one of my favourite authors growing up and pre about 1990 I have a copy of pretty much everything that he ever wrote. Yes, this is where most of my student grant went. Ah, those were the days. Latterly I haven't rated his stuff that much so what he comes up with I await with interest.

Books read so far this month. 'Ilario' by Mary Gentle. Humongously good alternate history with a fabulous cast as ever including a hermaphrodite hero/heroine and a romp through mediaeval Europe and North Africa including a Carthage that never fell and the last of the Pharoahs.

By total contrast 'No Country for Old Men' and 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy. Sparse, beautiful, perfect. Not a word too many, not a word out of place. 'The Road' made me cry.

And 'Transition' by Iain Banks. Normally an author I really really rate but this was rather dissatisfying. Fascinating, wierd and wonderful characters pretty much in search of a plot.

Just about to embark on what is my biannual read of 'Rats & Gargoyles' again by Mary Gentle. That should take me through the week.


Best TV last week

As above only Sanctuary and Stargate

Filched from rowan_d

Post a paragraph from every WIP you can find. No explanations allowed, just the excerpt.

Okay... here goes. In the vain hope that my writing mojo returns one of these days. And I've been somewhat generous with the concept of a paragraph

So Nano... toyed with the idea of doing it, but since the most creative thing I've written (outside of reports for work) in recent memory was a haiku I think I'm approximately 49,990 words short of having the faintest idea of what to write.  So... no, not this year.

( go on go on go on go on... )

Did have more to say but mind is now pleasantly fuzzed.

Somewhat stream of consciousness as its been a long day

( spoilerzzzzzz... )

So...

after weeks of bemoaning why I spend so much money for tv when there's never anything to watch, a plethora of new seasons/new programmes.

So far:
Warehouse 13 - abandoned after episode 4 - very formulaic
Supernatural - ditto.  Relegated to watching if there's nothing else on.
True Blood - Still to watch episode 1 before episode 2 on Wednesday
Stargate Universe: surprisingly good so far given less than positive prepublicity/fan opinion.  Will continue to watch.
Flashforward - loving it.  ( possible spoiler )
Being Erica - surprisingly loving it given the saccharine content.  Cute lead actress helping immensely in this.         
And last but most definitely not least: Sanctuary Season 2.  ( Spoiler space )   Bloody marvellous my dears.  Simply bloody marvellous.

And on a very different note.  One of the most inspiring stories I've ever read

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8299780.stm

GHOST IN THE MACHINE

 

By Celievamp (jo.raine@ntlworld.com)

 

Genre: Torchwood / Criminal Minds   Pairing: Toshiko Sato / Penelope Garcia

Criminal Minds: Set season 4 ish.  Torchwood: post Children of Earth.  Quoted dialogue from Season Two “Exit Wounds”

 

Disclaimer: Torchwood belongs to the BBC and Russell T Davies.  Criminal Minds belongs to CBS.

 

 

Written for Fragments of Sappho

Using:          for it is not right in a house of the Muses

that there be lament

this would not become us

 

Wordcount: 962

 

Rating: Mild

 

Synopsis: Garcia receives help from an unusual source.

 

THE BREAKING SKY

By Celievamp (jo.raine@ntlworld.com)

Disclaimer: only the order of words is mine.

Genre: Stargate Pairing: Sam/Janet

Set: Post-Heroes AU Heroes. Alludes to Window of Opportunity.

Drabble.


Note: only 100 words, but its the first thing I've written in a month so I'm celebrating.  It just landed in my brain pretty much word for word.

 

THE BREAKING SKY

Too much knowledge.  I should have remembered Malachi.  Reality fractures with every reiteration.  I meet myself dying, crying, screaming.  I see her body, Daniel’s body, the Colonel’s body.  I see myself, still reaching out to her empty eyed, lost.

The sky is breaking.  No longer blue, silver rent with black, searing acid deep.  I cannot save her.  Reality a shattered mirror shards of pain, sorrow burrowing deeper as I watch her die again.

The Ancients said it could not be done, not that it should not be done.  But I did it anyway.  For the love of her.  For Janet.