Update on stuff

Up to 4,000 words on my Sweet Charity fic and getting that bubbling up feeling you get when there are all these words in your head and you can't type fast enough.

Last night, at Lauren's soccer game, while they were all running around pre-match, warming up, I occupied the tedium by drafting an outline for it that covered an A4 sheet with dense scribble and arrows and such. I can more or less read it...

I don't do this often so it'll be interesting to see how (if) it changes things. Usually, I just write and see where it goes but there are certain elements to include and a slightly complex structure similar to Eclipsed, with multiple time settings/flashbacks, so I thought it'd be useful.

I miss PoC (pets the boys) but this fic, working title, Boundaries, is equally addictive to write and I'm really enjoying the chance to do a much longer story within canon and set partly a long time after TSbBS.


I need a word for the feeling you get when you complete a collection. Does anyone else get that zing of profound satisfaction when they collect all the episodes of a TV show? I love staring up at my shelf of DVDs or my hard drive and seeing the episodes there, waiting, all of them, captured, safe.

When Space showed The Sentinel last, I recorded them and through my own incompetence, five episodes didn't tape or have bits missing. (Got them all on the computer, just not on vid and where, oh, where are the S2 DVds :;cries::) I have two of them now, and I'm waiting for Space to cycle around to the next missing one (Inside Man; that wasn't my fault; the picture froze and never came back on; who can blame it?) and when I have them all I'll feel this deep glow of happiness, profound and in need of a label.

Completist is a little clumsy somehow.

Eh. I guess you all know what I mean though, don't you? ;-)


And, ow, totally unable to move today after much weeding and planting. Ow. Why did I buy so much at the garden centre, why?

I keep thinking of extra stuff; I spent some of my birthday Amazon money and gave into my RB addiction by getting Decoys and Point Pleasant on impulse as they were both pretty cheap. I got the Canadian version of Decoys as RB in the bloopers is supposed to be funny and if that is the case, I'll try and share.

Lolita, Secretary, and Me

There's a scene in a S10 Stargate episode where books are burned, real books, actually burning. It made me shudder to watch it. I had to look away.

Literary censorship is utterly abhorrent to me and always will be.

I've never read Lolita. I tried to, back when we were writing the Secretary fic, but although my local library had it (and proudly displays banned books once a year with a label saying that all can be borrowed) it was always checked out and I never got around to buying it.

As a lot of you know, an LJ comm set up to discuss the book, has been suspended from LJ today, along with several others, because the interests, not surprisingly given the nature of the book, include references to underage sex and interests are being used by a certain vigilante group as a way to track pedophiles (ETA or what they hope are) and get them suspended from LJ.

The Secretary LJ, secretary_fic has 'Lolita' as an interest and not casually. Faith is over 18; no minors are involved in the story, but the book, a classic, is one that plays an important part in her reconciliation with Wesley.

I'm posting this short extract from our fic here, containing quotations from 'Lolita' as a form, not of protest as much as an affirmation of what I believe. It won't mean much unless you know the fic but I think anyone who does will remember just how pivotal it was.

( extract from 'Secretary' )