Friends

I have so much fic lying around that needs to be properly posted. Ack.

Title: Worth Fighting For
Fandom: Merlin
Pairing: Gwen/Lancelot
Word Count: ~510
Summary: Finally, Lancelot knows what he's fighting for
A/N: Written for the Merlin fic battle for the prompt "Gwen/Lancelot: girl worth fighting for." Spoilers for 2x04.

( At first Lancelot had fought for ideals... )

This is a post all for plugging the beautiful Yuletide story that I received. by the beauty of physical objects is a Guenevere/Lancelot story set in T. H. White's The Once and Future King series.

I know that you're supposed to make sure that you'd be happy with any of your Yuletide requests, but I'll confess that I had an extra desire to have my The Once and Future King request filled. Guenevere and Lancelot have been one of my OTPs since I was eight or nine, when I saw Lerner and Lowe's "Camelot." However, I haven't been able to find nearly as much dedicated to them as I would like. And the The Once and Future King fandom is pretty much nonexistent.

The story itself is lovely, soft, and sad. You should go read it at once.

So, I realized that I never got around to reposting last year's Yuletide fics. Considering that this one is Christmas themed, now seems a good time.

Title: A Very Hargreaves Christmas
Fandom: Count Cain/Godchild
Characters/Pairing: Cain, Riff, Merryweather, Neil, Oscar; hints of Cain/Riff
Rating: PG
Summary: Welcome to Christmas at the Hargreaves mansion: presents, a tree, a turkey dinner, and... possible poisoned eggnog?

( 'I wonder what's in here.' )

I have to go bang my head against a wall. It turns out that the big final paper I thought was due tomorrow? Might very well have been due yesterday.

This is just proof that I shouldn't relax or feel good. Something goes wrong every time I do.

ARGH!

EDIT: Never mind, false alarm! It's due when I thought it was after all!

X-posted to: Kos Diaries

The anger we are feeling over the healthcare reform process is, today, palpable. I am only 24 years old but I can tell you that this month I am cynical about politics for the first time in my life. The thought that the institutional barriers to genuine healthcare reform in America - reform that guarantees all citizens access at affordable rates and saves lives - are so powerful that they withstand the will of more than 60 percent of Americans and a powerful Democratic presence in every branch of the federal government, is sickening.

Now the idea that we will likely be forced to buy insurance from companies that live to screw us is the last straw. I refuse to accept that another generation will die before we see genuine and substantial healthcare reform in America.

This is the kind of moment when we need to get off of our computers and demonstrate our anger in a public way. We know there are more of us than there are teabaggers, and we can make a bigger statement than they have made in light of all the glory and attention the fringe Right got this year. This is the time when we need to be setting up permanent picket lines around insurance offices, hospitals and state capitol buildings.

This is the time when we need to be posting lists of people who died when their coverage was denied on the insurance companies' front doors to shame them.

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