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This will be a very short and slow growing list of recs since I don't read copious amounts of fic and I have funny tastes.

Freedom is Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose by synecdochic
Why this must be read:
This is a Stargate: Atlantis story which is not one of my fandoms in any way shape or form. How I found my way to it is a tangled mess of links and recs and more links that were all very worth it. Whether you know anything about the Stargate fandoms or not this absolutely worth your time to read. It's a story about the fallout of a life lived in danger, in secret, in brilliance and of a last heroic decision that might be the best or worst thing ever done. The man produced is the kind of teacher few of us are lucky enough to encounter and fewer still to recognize for his worth. So. Go read it.

Seed Pearls by Honor H
Why this must be read:
Honor H has talent, dedication, and stone-cold vocabulary not often seen in fanfiction. Even still, this story stands out as a shining example of the brilliant worlds and stories Doctor who can inspire. Here, Honor H writes a world so convincing that your heart will be tugged in directions you didn't expect and you'll root for the one least likely. Gorgeous story, astounding layers, absolutely worth your time.

So it turns out Blake Lively replaced Jennifer Lawrence in Savages. Wow, ever realize you could have gotten a completely different film? Not for nothing, I would utterly love to see Lawrence take on the role of a sexually confidant and aggressive female. It wouldn't be a total stretch after X-Men but it would be  nice change of pace after the sort of confidence and maturity she employed in Hunger Games and Winter's Bone.

Friday


( It Is Accomplished )

I'm done. I'm done, I'm done, I'm DOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!.

Wait! I practically have a MAster's Degree. Excuse me. I'm finished.

All course requirements: finished
Graduation: next week
Boards: some time after that
Intervening time: trip to the west coast, exercise, alcohol

I feel no remorse at all for blaming falseeeyelashes for this. I'd give it a rating but it features notoriously incestuous twins so, you know, use your judgement. 

Like Lions to the Slaughter, (1/n) Jaime/Cersei, AU in which the twins are Careers out of Ditrict 2, i.e. Hunger games cross 

( sort of. )

Game of Thrones.

Anyone else find the riot scene super stiff and awkward? Was it ... running in slow motion or something?

Also, I felt bad for/icky about the poor actor threatening to f*ck Sophie Turner. I felt creepy enough from the other side of the screen that I just used a freaking asterisk in reference to the line so I can't even imagine how that poor guy felt.

If you are not watching Girls, kindly start immediately.

I saw The Avengers. I was okay. 

Mostly I really want Jeremy Renner to do not and action film, just for kicks.

Sadly, I'm underwhelmed with The Dark Knight trailer. It's very possible that it's a fine trailer but since it begins with Anne Hathaway uttering a storm metaphor which ... I actually get angry when a script goes out of it's way to be that lazy ... it lost me immediately. 

Girls, racefail?

I've heard a lot about the all-white main cast of Girls and it has me wondering what the better option would be. The best, I think would be if the writing team was, itself, diverse enough to create diverse characters. Girls seems very much to be a "write what you know" type endeavor so I would assume the team is primarily white females.

So where to go from there? Though there are fewer relatable instances for me, being that I am a white female, I have, once or twice experienced that disconcerting certainty that a character is just all wrong because he or she has been written the way the writer thinks this sort of person might be. Here I'm talking about the occasional American in shows out of the UK and  most lesbians. Those characters are inevitably caricatures and inevitably run short of plots. I suspect a token non-white lead on Girls might find herself in that position - feeling less authentic than the rest of the cast to an audience who nows better and/or with far fewer story-lines than her white counter parts.

Then you get into the sticky territory of deciding whether to scout a black female writer, for example, with the explicit ambition of adding a black female character. How desirable is that situation? Will the new writers voice become part of the entire show or exist solely to flesh out a single character. Maybe it would be best if Ms. Dunham, the show runner, had a nice organic meeting with a brilliant 20 something black female writer and her fictional foil coincidentally made a black female friend. I dunno.