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Via titheniel, here's a petition for the sane among us supporting the efforts to make Polanski face justice.

Sign over here.

Wordpress vs Child Torture Victims
Yeah, I can't believe I had to write that out either. Seems WordPress in all its corporate neutrality has taken to taunting a survivor or child torture by arbitrarily giving and taking away her right to speak out...then blaming her for not following Wordpress' ToS. So classy and mature, innit?

waywardradish needs help. First, Wordpress has cow-towed to the whims of the so-called therapists, who murdered children in a grotesque process called Attachment Therapy. Now Wordpress is treating a survivor - who's only goal is to contact other survivors and mete justice on their torturers - like nothing more than an animal. Like I said - CLASSY AND MATURE, WORDPRESS.

She needs your help, and here are some ways you can do it.
1.) Read as much of her blog, before it's shut down completely again. Educate yourself.
2.) Write a brief email to wordpress (tosreports@wordpress.com) to protest the censoring of child survivors. To make things even easier, here's some ( text copy-paste ) This is quick and easy and WORTH IT.
3.) Further info on how you can help.

Somebody on the kink meme mentioned having difficulty naming their miscellaneous Enterprise crewmembers and Starfleet personnel that didn't make the whole organization sound WASPy, and I went and found this

handy list of the world's most common surnames, divided by continent and country.

Does anyone know of any Trek comms that might appreciate the addition of this list for writers?

Thing is, the list doesn't include a section on Africa. I can buy unavailability of data (it's mostly compiled through census reports), or different naming customs, but for the whole damn continent? :-S I knew it would be too easy. Bah.

Well, this isn't what I meant to do tonight. But when someone prompts Decemberists lyrics, there's not a lot I can do to say no.

Title: Our Eyes Aligned Swaddled In Our Civvies (or, This Is The Story of the Boys Who Loved You)
Word Count: 1700
Pairing: Sulu/Chekov
Rating: R
Summary: For this prompt at the kink meme. Sulu and Chekov, in a foxhole, Decemberists lyrics.
It's a little strange.
No beta.

( oh my brother in arms, I'd rather I'd lose my limbs than let you come to harm )

Also, there is this for a "random crossovers" prompt.

Water
Drabble.
G.
Sulu meets a waterbender.

Title: Camera Obscura (or, Sunshine on Leith)
Author: Tally Cola
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: ~10 000
Warning: Dub-con I guess sorta?? Also lolhistory. Oh yeah, and spanking.
It's also WAY schmoopy which is not my usual fare except it seems... to be... all I write for this fandom. *facepalm*
No beta has touched this.
Written for this prompt on st_xi_kink.

( long ass author's note explaining my sorry self )

( aaaand the story )

Gist for July 21 2009:

The Decemberists at the Vogue Theatre. Best concert I've ever seen in my entire life.

My fics for soblazn_chekov won't be done in time. Hahaha I suck! It was stupid to sign up for two. But I'm just happy I'm getting my schoolwork done on deadline.

So here instead are some cute-ass recs from the kink meme.

His Protective Spirit by anon writer kinkme
Chekov/Sulu, Kirk.
Chekov is a genie in a bottle! It's suuuper cute. My only niggle is what is Chekov gonna do in Starfleet now, since all his knowledge was really just genie powers? But TOS Chekov wasn't really any more of a genius than anyone else in Starfleet so he'll probably be fine!

What? by fairhearing.
Chekov/Sulu.
Five times Chekov/Sulu were lost in translation, one time they weren't.
Cuuuuute.

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My comment fics:

Wulcan
Spock/Chekov
PG
Prompt: Spock is bothered (in a Vulcan way, of course) by Chekov's inability to properly pronounce "Vulcan". He teaches him how to say it correctly — or tries to, anyway.

No Title
Chekov/Sulu
NC-17
Prompt: Sulu and Chekov doing impressions of the other crew members (Kirk and Spock) in a sexy roleplaying way.

In a community full of puppy play, de-aging, bodyswapping and bloodplay, this is actually the kinkiest prompt I've found. I mean who roleplays people they actually know in bed? Who does that?? Sulu and Chekov, apparently.

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REC:

hollycomb has been writing crazy damn good Sulu/Chekov stories that are impossibly long and awesome given how quickly she cranks them out.

Space Sickness is one I shared in a friends locked post already but I want to put it out here too. It's so sweeeet and sad and awesome.

Under Control is an "aliens-made-them-do-it" that is a bit more honest than Trek (and Stargate, for that matter) fics tend to be about the subject. The past few years, when I've been out of fandom, I've become more sensitive to rape and rape culture in real life, and while I still sometimes read and enjoy noncon stories I kind of find the huge quantities of rape and "aliens made them do it" rape lite in nuTrek fandom a little frightening, especially since it's often brushed off so easily. But this fic gets it right. Dubious consent, but it's really well presented.

Now Disappear is totally heartbreaking! But just as sweet and cute as Sulu and Chekov usually are. Includes a Chekov who thinks he's 14. It kind of goes the "application of penis is the cure" route, which I generally have a problem with in regular media (movies and TV), but I can handle it in slash fanfic, and it's just so damn cute here.

And what's this??
where_no_woman has the wicked tagline of "un-erasing the women of Star Trek." Some pretty awesome creative works, fanfic and discussions happening over there.

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And a PSA for Star Trek Fandom:

If in an alternate universe Pavel Chekov was born a girl, her surname would still be Chekov. Not Chekova. Come on.

ETA: Apparently I was completely wrong about this. Oh man! Here's me eating my words!

I'm pretty sure Bones was using hyperbole when he said his ex-wife "got the whole damn planet in the divorce".

Also: stop using Cyrillic, I don't know how that shit's supposed to sound! We're not all linguists for god's sake. There's a reason wise scholars invented transliteration.

Unicorn!!
Chekov/Sulu, Kirk/Bones
PG
Prompt: unicorns.
It got pretty stupid from there on in.

Safe Sex
Chekov/Sulu
R - NC17
Prompt: Safe sex.

Okey
Chekov/Bones
NC17
Prompt: Chekov teaching McCoy how to give a blow job.
This isn't the best blow job I've ever written. It's been a while, if you catch my drift. :-(

I love my feature workshop group so much aaaah.

Okay so I have a plot bunny for a Bones/Chekov fic that, um, involves Chekov being a Russian mail order "bride". :-S I am really embarrassed by it but I also *really* want to write it. It is really long and sprawly in my head but I think I could make it somewhat manageable and actually doable. (I don't have a good track record of finishing long, multi-chaptered fics).

I just need to figure out how to tweak the rules in my AU so this works. Chekov would be in this agreement not because he necessarily wants to get out of Russia (he would have the TOS trait of being irritatingly patriotic), but because he wants to be in space/get into Starfleet. I need to find a barrier to him getting into Starfleet normally. If he is from an impoverished, remote village and doesn't have much of a formal education, in canon I don't think that would really be a barrier to him getting into the academy. Given the spirit of equality and whatnot that the Federation and Starfleet is supposed to embody, I can't see them like charging tuition or turning away anybody as long as they could pass all the testing (or were Kirk).

So I need to find a way to make Starfleet less welcoming, but I'm stumped. There is a TOS AU fic where Russia had an economic meltdown in our time, which resulted in two hundred years of what was basically the enslavement of the entire Russian populace. Which seems a bit... extreme... for what I want to do.

This plot bunny won't leave me alone but I can't think of a way to make it work. Plus I should really finish Occupied Land before I get to work on this inevitable disaster. I feel bad for neglecting that fic. Having said that, I started writing it when I was probably in the worst part of my depressive episode, and it's kind of amazing I wrote or started anything at all. I just really feel like I should finish my one Avatar-related project before getting completely consumed by this shiny new fandom. I feel like I owe Avatar that much.

Ummm so suggestions? Or should I just abandon it cause this is a fucken ridiculous idea that nobody would ever read?

Title: Dazey, Dazey
Fandom: Snatch
Characters/Pairing: Turkish/Tommy
Prompt: #97 - Writer's Choice "Dog"
Word Count: 1987
Rating: NC-17
Summary: The dog is annoying and squeaky. Turkish doesn't like it.
Spoilers for the end of Snatch.
My Table

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( dazey, dazey )

The Second Time
Chekov/Sulu
Cuddle fic
PG I guess?

Shotgun Jenny's
McCoy/Kirk
(Stripper!Kirk, pre-film)
NC-17

Title: Heart-Shaped Box
Author: Taryn Wander'r
Rating: NC17, (or maybe just a hard R). Slash.
Series: Perhaps the start of one?
Disclaimer: Snatch and all recognizable characters belong to Guy Ritchie.
Author’s note: Written for "beginnings" prompt on fanfic100. Table is here. Turkish and Tommy meet (sort of a re-imagining of Diamond in the Rough.)

( beginnings )

When Hollywood runs out of Indians
Only the Indians will know
-Matthew Good, "Champions of Nothing"

lies_d tipped me off to a letter writing campaign about the Last Airbender Orientalism debacle. It can be found at aang_aint_white.

In reading several blog posts on LJ and across the blogosphere (discovering a blog by a feminist SF writer!), I actually cried once or twice. My Chinese mother has been telling me all about the Charlie Chan disasters she had to grow up with, the blatant racism she encountered upon moving to Canada, and has been joking about the producers taping up Jesse McCartney's eyes. She has seen a lot of progress, so maybe it's easier for her to joke about it, but I cried right in front of her.

I remember being called a chink several times by other students in elementary school. I remember not being allowed to play certain roles when play-acting with friends, because "Guinevere wasn't Chinese" or whatever the fuck. I remember being reminded every day that I was not *really* a full person, not *really* part of the group, because I was *so different*.

And the funny thing is, some white people can't even tell I'm half Chinese. Sometimes I get asked if I'm Puerto Rican, or Venezuelan, or something else. More than once I've gotten a baffled stare and a "what *are* you?" as if I just arrived from another planet. This is in Canada. This was even worse in Scotland.

Not everyone reacts that way, though, most people just assume I'm some variety of white, perhaps because I am not giggling behind my hand or going into engineering at UBC. But when I was kid, as soon as everyone found out I was a half-Chinaman, wow did everything ever change.

So when I discovered Avatar, I was so damn happy to see non-racist portrayals of Asians for children. Could I have ever used that as a child. I've heard a lot of people claim they don't see any race in Avatar, and that must be nice, because they've probably never been left out because of the shape of their eyes or the faint tan and yellow in their skin. But me, I was surprised and delighted to see obviously Asian characters who weren't reduced to squinty slant-eyes and obviously Aboriginal characters who were *in the lead*. It meant a lot to me. I never had high hopes for the live-action movie version, but I at least hoped there would be a real chance of young Asian and Aboriginal actors to grace the screen in something more than a sidekick, a love interest (hello Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, jesus christ), or a stereotype. But I guess that was too much to hope for, but nonetheless, I am heartbroken.

If you are a fan of Avatar, cartoons, or are a parent who doesn't want your children absorbing more subconsciously racist crap, please consider writing a letter. Also, if you are remotely interesting in film or the arts and are sick of racist "colour-blind" any-ethnicity casting, then also please write a letter.

And please don't try to tell me why casting white people in this movie isn't a big deal, or explain to me how studios work. I know all that all ready. Write about it in your own journal. Comments like that will be deleted.

aang_aint_white is the original letter writing campaign, and glockgal has additional addresses letters can be sent to in this post.

( my letter )

Blogs entries:
http://obligatedtoexaggerate.blogspot.com/2008/12/white-privilege-youre-soaking-in-it.html
http://theangryblackwoman.com/2008/12/10/m-night-say-it-isnt-so/
http://vagabond-sal.livejournal.com/142204.html
A great essay about the white-washing of Earthsea.


And as for letter writing, Amnesty International could always use letter writers to help fight (more obvious and life-threatening) injustice!

Hey everybody!

Today I watched the final episodes of Avatar, and cried. I can't believe it's over!! What am I going to obsess about now? Super sadface!

Here is a fanfiction I had started ages ago and totally forgot about, and since it will never be finished, I might as well just post it here now that the show's over. It was supposed to turn out to be Sokka/Zuko, and I started it after watching The Invasion, but then Boiling Rock happened and my take on those two totally changed, so this is never going to be finished. Although maybe I will, who knows! I have to get better at finishing things!


Title: When You Burned My Cities Down, You Left Your Salt All in My Ground
Fandom: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Sokka/Suki, Sokka/OMC
Unfinished, abandoned.
R. I guess.

( Sokka was convinced he was going to die a virgin )

That's all for now! And for ever for that story, probably.

OH SNAP. I wrote het. Sort of. But it's not that great.

( Snatch 100. 'Big Hoop Earrings' Turkish and Tommy and some random girl )