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For all the Doctor Who fans out there (and you know who you are), I stumbled upon an absolutely delightful fic by ratmist, Double-Decker Red, Ch 1:

"Oi. She's lovely, my ship, and I won't have you putting her in curlers. She's got...," he struggled for a moment, thinking of the right adjective, "Character!", he finished with a cheeky grin. On cue, the long-damaged, long-abandoned camouflage circuit immediately to his left shot sparks in his direction, and he flinched involuntarily.


It's short but so very good, and after yesterday's tragedy in London, it's kind of nice to read something so happy and fun.

I also want this mood icon:

as wallpaper on my cellphone *so* badly.

And back to the Friday icon funnies, my current favorite is:

by benthecube

Class was good last night, though I've forgotten more of Tammerhenna than I care to think about :( Did remember Hinko, though, so I suppose all is not lost. And we will be dancing to two pieces from the BSG soundtrack and two from Kama Sutra at DDF. Our set will officially be the biggest, flamingly geekiest set anyone has ever seen and I am over the moon about it! Hee, now I must work my BSG patch into my dance costume, I think smack dab in the middle of the belt should do nicely. We've also got a relative of one of our troupe who's offered to help out with the costumes. Mind you, she normally makes costumes for operas. Kick. Ass.

Must start playing with my sword soon, but first I have to write some comedy fic tonight. Have I mentioned that comedy is hard? No? Well here's my official announcement. And screwball comedy, she is a bitch, lemme tell ya.

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A truly must read Digby post, some highlights below:

We've already held an entire country that had nothing to do with terrorism responsible, invaded it and occupy it today. Simple missile attacks against some unassociated terorist camp sounds positively Clintonian.

No, if our response to terrorism is to continue to try to impress these terrorists with our big swinging machismo we have raised the stakes quite a bit after our little Iraq adventure. It hasn't worked out very well as a showcase for our Imperial dominance. The only way to up the ante now is to invade a strong military country that had nothing to do with the attacks and attempt to kick their asses to show what will happen if anybody fucks with us. Russia maybe? Maybe that would "send the message" that we are too tough for terrorists to mess with. That is assuming we can do it without fucking it up, of course. Unfortunately, our track record in this regard isn't so hot.

We might need to rethink the "retaliation" against uninvolved parties plan. It hasn't exactly been a winner so far.
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Like most traitorous liberal america-haters I've always thought it was logical to actually go after the perpetrators instead of locking up cab drivers in cuba and invading other countries for no apparent reason. If Britain decides that they havd to go and finish the job we screwed up in Afghanistan --- and pull out of Iraq to do it --- I don't find that unreasonable.
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Sadly, we didn't actually finish the job in Afghanistan did we? And Blair got punked.

Of course, it's important to point out that this terrorist attack may have had nothing whatsoever to do with Afghanistan. This genie is out of the bottle and it may very well have been a home grown operation with minimal direction or guidance from the "top brass" of al Qaeda. Which is why we really, really need to shut down the bloodlust right now and start thinking. The fact that this is called a 'war" does not mean that there is an appropriate military solution. Unfortunately, that may lead to other equally ineffective and toxic solutions.