Multi-Fandom Drive By Recs

Awesome Bones picspam with bonus fanfic linkage. Seriously, why aren't more people watching this show? It's awesome.

Does anyone else think he's going to regret this tattoo in a couple years?

dear_character - for letting those moronic fictional creations and creators who you love/hate know what you think of them.

Life of Detriment - Fallacy

"She found him, pushing aside low-hanging branches, stepping over small bushes, her cape fluttering around her shins and then stopping. She stared at him and he stared at his toes, arms around his head like a cage, and he wanted his prison cell back. He wanted to be back in Orochimaru’s compound, destroyed or not. Why hadn’t Sasuke let him go down with it? Why hadn’t Sasuke just left him alone forever?

“Juugo.”

Stop saying his name. Please stop it. The anger and urge to kill was gone but the lust wasn’t and he had no self-control whatsoever, so what if he did something to hurt her? What if he just laid her down on the ground and spread her and buried himself in her and she arched and cried and gasped and he didn’t know if he was hurting her or if she was enjoying herself?"

I've mentioned wanting to read Juugo/Sakura and this was exactly what I was craving. Juugo's constant re-rationalizations, how he seems almost more terrified of himself than other people are, are all pitch-perfect. I love the interaction between them, and how Sakura is both this perfect prey, and able to keep him in line.

Now I just want the further adventures of. ^_^

Blog Against Racism Week

by way of yhlee:

For 2008, IBARW will take place between August 4 through August 10.

If you would like to participate, here's what to do:

1. Announce the week in your blog.

2. ETA: If you use a blogging system that allows post icons/pictures, switch your default icon to either an official IBARW icon, or one which you feel is appropriate. To get an official IBARW icon, you may modify one of yours yourself or ask someone to do so. Here's a round up of IBARW icons.

3. Post about race and/or racism: in media, in life, in the news, personal experiences, writing characters of color, portrayals of race in fiction, review a book on the subject, etc. (Linking back here is highly appreciated!) The optional theme this year is intersectionality. (By yhlee's definition, intersectionality is the way racism interacts with other -isms, like sexism.

That said, I feel the need to hang a lantern on the fact that the empress has no clothes, to an extent, on this subject.  I'm a white, well-educated women living in a pretty white town, and going to a pretty white college. So, while I've been raised in a hugely liberal environment I... kind of haven't had the chance to walk the walk, if it were? Racism isn't usually the lens I look thought when I view stuff, unless it's really, really blatant. If this was blog against sexism week, I'd be having a field day.

To give an example, in the The Dark Knight I was like, 'wow, way to make this totally male dominated' and 'oh, poor rotties, they get such a bad rap!' and it wasn't until someone else pointed it out that I clued in to the fact that, hey, all the criminals were a.) Asian b.) black c.) eastern European.