remember, remember, the fifth of november

→ Writing. I signed up for mini_nanowrimo and have only written on 2 of the days so far. I haven't even posted my counts. Fail! And I only committed to 100 words per day. Epic Fail.

→ Unexpected gifts! Yesterday when I asked to be distracted from my own election-day anxiety, gemjam wrote me this impromptu, and utterly amazing, Jack/Claire comment fic. *waves pom poms!* She is awesome with a side of super! Superawesome!

→ Thoughts and What-Ifs. Today has been a day for thinking. And I was thinking that the reason the movie V for Vendetta was always so effective to me was because I could honestly see a society like this one emerging in our country. To me, the threat of what England had become in the future world of this film felt like a very real threat for the United States. Obviously, nothing here is even close to that reality at the current time. And certainly one man isn't going to be able to set everything on a better path. But after last night, I'm a lot less afraid about our country's future.

( words will always retain their power. words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. )

→ Apologies. I do want to apologize for those of you who would prefer this kind of talk to be stuck behind a politics filter. I know a couple of you on my flist have mentioned something to that effect. I simply don't do filters. I don't even have any reading filters let alone any filters set up for posting. I find them too hard to maintain and I'm lazy that way. Not to mention the fact that I keep some of these posts public (like this one) so filters would be of no use anyway. I do feel that this is coming kind of late, since the elections are over with (and you've heard the last out of me about them, I swear!) But I didn't realize it was a problem for people until the past week.

remember, remember, the fifth of november

→ Writing. I signed up for mini_nanowrimo and have only written on 2 of the days so far. I haven't even posted my counts. Fail! And I only committed to 100 words per day. Epic Fail.

→ Unexpected gifts! Yesterday when I asked to be distracted from my own election-day anxiety, gemjam wrote me this impromptu, and utterly amazing, Jack/Claire comment fic. *waves pom poms!* She is awesome with a side of super! Superawesome!

→ Thoughts and What-Ifs. Today has been a day for thinking. And I was thinking that the reason the movie V for Vendetta was always so effective to me was because I could honestly see a society like this one emerging in our country. To me, the threat of what England had become in the future world of this film felt like a very real threat for the United States. Obviously, nothing here is even close to that reality at the current time. And certainly one man isn't going to be able to set everything on a better path. But after last night, I'm a lot less afraid about our country's future.

( words will always retain their power. words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. )

→ Apologies. I do want to apologize for those of you who would prefer this kind of talk to be stuck behind a politics filter. I know a couple of you on my flist have mentioned something to that effect. I simply don't do filters. I don't even have any reading filters let alone any filters set up for posting. I find them too hard to maintain and I'm lazy that way. Not to mention the fact that I keep some of these posts public (like this one) so filters would be of no use anyway. I do feel that this is coming kind of late, since the elections are over with (and you've heard the last out of me about them, I swear!) But I didn't realize it was a problem for people until the past week.