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I am supposed to go to Storage today but oh how I do not want to. Headache, rare attack of allergies, and I am TIRED...dreamed last night that someone was trying to fill up my bathroom with toilets. I shudder to think what it means.

I'm having an interesting discussion with tzikeh in comments to my White Collar finale wrap up, about character emotional reactions, and I realised I'd put my finger on something that really bothers me about my fannish canons and in some sense drives some of the writing I do. I thought I'd shine up one of the comments I made and post it, so. Spoilers for the end of Ender's Game and the season finale of White Collar, the end of Children of Earth, and some discussion of books five through seven of Harry Potter.

( Giving concrete form to immediate grief. )

WELL. THAT WAS A SHIT TON OF META.

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Normally, when he's not travelin', my Travelin' Jack Harkness lives with a wooden elephant figurine on my bookshelf. (Don't judge him!)

Today, HE MADE A NEW FRIEND.



They look rather wary of each other, actually, but I'm sure they'll get on fine once they've compared guns.

(Don't worry about the elephant, he's gone back to hang out with his elephant buddies at the Ganesha shrine on my windowsill.)

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I am at R's place hanging out, when he turns to me and says, "So have you heard of this website where you can publish your own books? Like...real books, with covers and everything."

This is much like the time he was so excited he got sixty hits on his MySpace.

Cue a ten-minute attempt to explain internet self-publishing and the concept that no, really, you don't pay anything up front. Nothing at all!

He's still baffled.

Extribulum has a long road ahead of it....

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R: So I'm thinking of having a Wheel dinner party on Thursday.
Sam: I can do that.
R: I want to make a stew. Or...okay, I ask you this because I know I can do it now...
Sam: Yes...?
R: Could you find me a recipe...

At this point I was wondering, a recipe for what? A recipe for stew?

I know better. I know better.

R: Could you find me a recipe and I could follow it?
Sam: You think you can...follow a recipe?
R: Yeah! Don't you think so? If it has tips and things.

Note to self: find very, very simple recipe. Maybe a beverage recipe.