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gallimaufry \gal-uh-MAW-free\ , noun; 1. A hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley. Could this be where they got the name Gallifrey from? Might be a stretch, probably they didn't, but the similarity is interesting nonetheless. |
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Title: Liebestod Author: somniesperusFandom: The Manchurian Candidate (2004 remake) Pairing: Eleanor Prentiss Shaw/Raymond Prentiss Shaw Wordcount: ~93,000 Fandom long ago taught me to never say never, so I refuse to be surprised that I'm posting a rec for a story that features mother/son incest. Before you start backing away, smiling nervously and muttering that you don't know the movie and that het's not really your thing, never mind the incest, please read the rest of this rec - because I didn't know the movie and this sort of pairing is not really my thing, but I am greatly impressed by this story. It really got me in and made me interested in these characters and their relationship. First off, please don't be put off by not knowing the movie. I read most of the story while it was being written, before I saw the movie, and it was very easy to follow. You can find pretty much everything you need to know about the plot of the movie in the imdb summary, to which I'd only add that Eleanor is Raymond's overbearing mother. Like Raymond, she is a politician, though she's a senator. Also, if you're wondering, the incestuous relationship between Raymond and Eleanor is strongly inferred in the movie. Fandom sometimes has a habit of lauding particular stories by describing them as better done than the canon. And sometimes it's actually true. This story is better than the canon, at least in terms of how it makes sense of the characters and the relationships between them. It's long, 93,000 words, and somniesperus uses the length to provide us with a plausible backstory for Raymond and Eleanor, and a lot of extra context for the events of the movie, which makes these characters flesh and blood and three dimensional in a way that they're really not in the movie. Eleanor, in particular, moves from being a ruthless and dangerous Woman With Power to a still ruthless and dangerous woman who is also capable of great, if twisted, love, and one that you even find yourself sympathising for at times. somniesperus has also turned Raymond into a much more interesting character. I like her pre-brainwashing version of him much better than anything I saw of him in the canon.One other thing that really struck me about this story was its similarity in one particular way with somniesperus' classic HP Tea series. Just like the relationship between Snape and Harry, you know that the relationship between Raymond and Eleanor is wrong, and so do they. The story does not remotely whitewash that aspect of the relationship, and yet you can't help sympathising with them and caring about them and wondering where this will ultimately end up. (Well, okay, if you've seen the movie you know how they end up, but while I was reading this I couldn't help sort of hoping that maybe...)So, anyway, go and read this story. Really, read it. It's a fabulous example of how fanfic can transcend the source, and a great read. |
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From the AJC: An orphaned female bobcat kitten is being raised by the staff of Reed Bingham State Park in south Georgia. ( Meet May, the baaaaaaaaby bobcat ) BONUS BAAAAABY: "The park also is renowned for its annual release of baby gopher tortoises, the state reptile." |
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My friend and I had a conversation about the new BBC Drama trailer with the clips from the End of Time and my spouse made a little intellectual video. Figured some people might enjoy it, so I'm linking to share!. A link to the video, contains spoilers to "The End of Time". |
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Hello all! I'm taking an anthropology course called Buddhism and Culture and need to find some Buddhists to interview for my research paper. I thought this would be a great place to get some responses from a wide range of people. If any of you want to help me out and answer these questions, I would totally appreciate it! |
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7 icons from the BBC Christmas ident & BBC Christmas trailer. There are some spoilers for The End of Time. |
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I work in a department store in Philadelphia part-time. I've been there for a few years now. This holiday season I'm working in the Women's Clothing section. There is a nauseating amount of clothing. Not only is there a totally unnecessary amount... but the price, poor-quality, disposable nature and frantic priority that these clothes cause women actually causes me some sadness. I've seen women fall apart when the dress they want is not in stock or when they cannot find "the perfect" outfit for a party. I understand that women are raised to think we need all of these clothes (and shoes and bags etc...). I know most of these women are just a product of their environment. Still, I would like to help. It's not that I want to teach these "bad people" the error of their ways like I'm so smart. But when I'm dealing with a shopper throwing a tantrum over a $200 shirt that we don't have or a person who is in the store frequently (who is only shopping for a distraction)... I'd like to say something that doesn't positively affirm their behavior and get them thinking (while still maintaining "good customer service" and keeping my job). Any thoughts? |
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I absolutely love this physicist! He's so cool. Elaine, you've seen this and posted it, but not enough people responded to it!!! |
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Up, and, among a great many people that come to speak with me, one was my Lord Peterborough's gentleman, who comes to me to dun me to get some money advanced for my Lord; and I demanding what newes, he tells me that at Court they begin to fear the business of Scotland more and more; and that the Duke of York intends to go to the North to raise an army, and that the King would have some of the Nobility and others to go and assist; but they were so served the last year, among others his Lord, in raising forces at their own charge, for fear of the French invading us, that they will not be got out now, without money advanced to them by the King, and this is like to be the King's case for certain, if ever he comes to have need of any army. He and others gone, I by water to Westminster, and there to the Exchequer, and put my tallys in a way of doing for the last quarter. But my not following it the last week has occasioned the clerks some trouble, which I am sorry for, and they are mad at. Thence at noon home, and there find Kate Joyce, who dined with me: Her husband and she are weary of their new life of being an Innkeeper, and will leave it, and would fain get some office; but I know none the foole is fit for, but would be glad to help them, if I could, though they have enough to live on, God be thanked! though their loss hath been to the value of 3000l. W. Joyce now has all the trade, she says, the trade being come to that end of the towne. She dined with me, my wife being ill of her months in bed. I left her with my wife, and away myself to Westminster Hall by appointment and there found out Burroughs, and I took her by coach as far as the Lord Treasurer's and called at the cake house by Hales's, and there in the coach eat and drank and then carried her home ... So having set her down in the palace I to the Swan, and there did the first time 'baiser' the little sister of Sarah that is come into her place, and so away by coach home, where to my vyall and supper and then to bed, being weary of the following of my pleasure and sorry for my omitting (though with a true salvo to my vowes) the stating my last month's accounts in time, as I should, but resolve to settle, and clear all my business before me this month, that I may begin afresh the next yeare, and enjoy some little pleasure freely at Christmasse. So to bed, and with more cheerfulness than I have done a good while, to hear that for certain the Scott rebells are all routed; they having been so bold as to come within three miles of Edinburgh, and there given two or three repulses to the King's forces, but at last were mastered. Three or four hundred killed or taken, among which their leader, one Wallis, and seven ministers, they having all taken the Covenant a few days before, and sworn to live and die in it, as they did; and so all is likely to be there quiet again. There is also the very good newes come of four New-England ships come home safe to Falmouth with masts for the King; which is a blessing mighty unexpected, and without which, if for nothing else, we must have failed the next year. But God be praised for thus much good fortune, and send us the continuance of his favour in other things! So to bed. |
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