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After Saturday's Dr. Who-a-thon I find myself madly in love with Nine/Rose/Jack again, and since I promised tamago that I'd point her at some of my favorite fics in the fandom, here they are:

Time & Again
Being a time agent means that strange fucked-up situations usually have your number. But this? This was a doozy. How do you meet the man you love for the first time... again? The man who given half a chance might have loved you, if he didn't love her first? The man who you laughed with, joked with, flirted with and only kissed the once.

Slightly Psychic Confessions
Getting caught with slightly psychic paper in one's hands, Rose discovered that day, was an incredibly dangerous thing to do if Jack was in the room.

Times Like These
t was times like these that Rose missed Shireen.

When Colin Maxwell had told everyone that Rose had gone "all the way" with him out behind the gym when she had barely let him do more than kiss her and maybe get a hand under her shirt, it was a thirteen year old Shireen who had descended upon him like the wrath of God as he'd walked towards home from the corner shop. He'd later said the black eye and chipped tooth had come from skinheads.

And how cute is this?

by moneypenny

Methinks I need a Jack icon, something to work on tonight perhaps.

I'm running on very little sleep today so if posts or emails are incoherent I apologize, but I'm working, I'm being productive, I found my passport, and all is right with the world.

Digby keeps me sane

via Hullabaloo:

Memo to those on the right who say the Left supports Islamic fundamentalists: we're the Godless Heathens, remember? We're against the religious zealots running governments across the board. Of course, that includes your "base" here in the US too so you'll have to pardon us for our consistency and ask yourselves why we find you incoherent on this matter.

We always understood that while deposing Saddam was easy, the risk of civil war or an Islamic theocracy were very high. We thought it might be worthwhile to wait for just a fucking minute to see how this little terrorism problem played out before jumping into the middle of the hornets nest and swinging wildly. So, please don't blame us. We don't like totalitarians. We don't like theocrats. And we understood that when you go mucking around in the middle east at the direction of con-men and ideologues, you are likely to fuck things up.

America isn't magic. The military does not have magical powers. We knew this. Michael Ledeen and his fanciful cohorts apparently didn't. Now they are blaming everybody --- and I mean everybody --- but themselves for the failure they have wrought.