The Fics That I Will Print Out In Completion Before They Disappear From Internet Forever Someday

Of all the Spuffy fanfics I've ever read, these are the prettiest. The ones I would put into books if I could, because I love the words and language and themes so much. So better hurry up and finish already, automatedalice_! Everyone else is done by now. ¬_¬


descant descending by macha. --already printed out! In neat font for the last chapter, too.

Achilles Heel by Elizabeth.

Spiegel Im Spiegel by Fallowdoe

The Passage of Memory by Lara Dean-Brierly

Half Gifts by automatedalice_

And one glorious non-Buffy fic:

The Price of Freedom by Erin Lasgalen (LOTR)

there's the rub

Ah. So exactly how uncomfortable is "uncomfortable," Mr. Dean Howard?


Five days before Christmas in 1999, the Vermont Supreme Court ruled that the Vermont constitution mandated equal treatment of heterosexual and homosexual couples. The court left it to the legislature to decide whether to allow gay marriage or to create a parallel institution for gay couples.

Then-Gov. Howard Dean immediately announced he would support the latter, declaring himself uncomfortable with explicit gay marriage. The debate split the state's normally liberal electorate in a bitter debate, but the legistlature acted quickly. Four months after the court ruled, Dean signed civil unions legislation in a private ceremony that did not defuse opponents' anger.

That fall, campaigning for re-election in a state famed for its small-town civility, the governor donned a bullet-proof vest. Dean, who had won four previous landslides, barely got 50 percent of the vote, the level needed under Vermont law to avoid a run-off in the legislature.

Effects from Vermont's law rippled around the country. Gay couples forbidden to codify their partnerships in any other state flocked to the Green Mountains for civil unions. The debate has prompted some American newspapers to include civil union announcements in their wedding pages. And Dean touts his signing the law as part of his presidential campaign platform.

From: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2003/11/18/sjc_gay_marriage_legal_in_mass/

You're all going to hate me for this...

But Sark of Alias is not pretty.

He's ok. He's got nothing on Spike, or Season1!Angel, or Taye Diggs, or Jared Leto. That's pretty men.

Brad Pitt. Mulder wearing glasses. Ewan McGregor. Even Chris Martin. Of course, Jude Law. That long-haired Asian Guy who played the dead cop ghost on Witchblade. Joseph Fiennes. That hip-hop guy, D'Angelo. Aragorn. Orlando Bloom. Matthew McConaughey! Pretty pretty pretty.

Not to say Sark's not nice looking. He's attractive in a way, but I don't hold with "he's so pretty" stuff. He's not pretty enough to be called pretty. He's just not. He's not even as interesting looking as Methos or (and I cringe to say it) Josh Hartnett. Pretty men on Alias? He's so far below Michael Vartan's level of pretty-manness it's not even a contest They're not even in the same building. Micheal Vartan's up there with the above list of too-pretty-to-be-human. Sark looks like an everyday guy, decent-average-looking but, in his case, in a squirrely/pinched kind of way.

I think Sark as a character is interesting, and cool (in a Krychec-but-less-hot-way) from what little I've seen of his character (not a big watcher of Alias, sadly), but never once in seeing him on TV did I think "Wow he's so pretty." I think that about JM about 9.2/10 times that I see him on TV, and Taye Diggs and Jared Leto every time.