Title: "¡Hasta mañana!"
Author: cosplayer_sora
Pairings: centers around Spain/S.Italy with mention of Germany/N.Italy
Rating: PG?
Warnings: Lovino's potty mouth and lots of blatant flirting?
Summary: Part 2 of a finished story. It's a coffee-shop AU inspired by the most horrible pick-up lines the interwebs had to offer~

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Title: "¡Hasta mañana!"
Author: cosplayer_sora
Pairings: centers around Spain/S.Italy with mention of Germany/N.Italy
Rating: PG?
Warnings: Lovino's potty mouth and lots of blatant flirting?
Summary: Part 2 of a finished story. It's a coffee-shop AU inspired by the most horrible pick-up lines the interwebs had to offer~

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Title: "¡Hasta mañana!"
Author: cosplayer_sora
Pairings: centers around Spain/S.Italy with mention of Germany/N.Italy
Rating: PG?
Warnings: Lovino's potty mouth and lots of blatant flirting?
Summary: Part 1 of a finished story. It's a coffee-shop AU inspired by the most horrible pick-up lines the interwebs had to offer~
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Dear NCIS fanfic writers,

I'm glad that you found your ship in Kate/Ari. It isn't my cup of tea, but to each their own. However, can you at least try to remember the events of canon. Ari was a pretty evil guy. Remember the part where he killed her. So, please stop with the romance fics where he really loved her and wasn't evil after all. You'd think if you liked the character, you'd be interested in keeping him in character.

Also, stop with the fics where they are both secretly alive. It is one thing to write an AU where their deaths never happened. When you are claiming your fics are canon, though, it doesn't work. Both of them died in front of people who knew them well enough that they would know if the dead person was really someone else. Kate was shot in the head, and clearly died from the wound, right in front of Gibbs and Tony. Ari was shot by his half-sister, Ziva. Therefore, your fics do not work. Please try again.

Just wanted to read some good Kate-centric fic,
Me

As a long time reader of fic, I have (mostly) made my peace with certain tropes and cliches that reuse to die. OOCness though I cannot forgive. Playing around with alternate characterisation- that's okay. Plot-induced character development which causes the character(s) to not resemble canon counterparts- that's cool. Outright OOCness- no. Haruhi wants Kyon; both the she and the series have made that clear. It has also been made clear that Haruhi is the jeaous type. Hell, Kyon engaging in a bit of mild flirting with Mikuru was enough to push her over the edge and cause her to come dangerously close to destroying and re-creating the world from scratch (with Kyon being the only person from the original world that she wanted with her). Thus, without serious character development, there is no way that Kyon could openly be in a relationship with someone else without so much as a glare, let alone Haruhi actively engaging in hooking them up. No development, explnation, or even a half-hearted handwave....? No dice.

...even if it's drabble-sized and/or written as crack, watersports reeeeally needs to go under a cut :/ And yes, there was a warning, but still...

 
Please, please, please, stop using the word "pre-sperm". I can deal with precome/precum, but pre-sperm? It just sounds so...clinical. 

/shot

Found this interesting enough to share. It hit my email in October. (I am so close to being done with my email, omg.)

3000 years of Deaf History resources open online

"Deaf People, Sign Language & Communication, in Ottoman & Modern Turkey: observations and excerpts from 1300 to 2008, from sources in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin and Turkish, with introduction and some annotation" is now open online.

I have also just revised the shorter annotated bibliog, "Hittite Deaf Men in the 13th Century BC", within the context of ancient and medieval evidence of deaf people in the Middle East.

In the past 12 years I was collecting historical evidence on deaf people and sign language at Istanbul and more widely in the Ottoman empire, and in 20th century Turkey, in several European languages. During the past year, more sources from Turkish were added. It has also been stimulating and informative to correspond with Ezgi Dikici, whose MA thesis, giving useful coverage of deaf people in Turkish history, became available on the web.

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Originally posted at http://trouble.dreamwidth.org/551636.html. You can comment here or there using OpenID. Comments at Dreamwidth: .

If you have to warn for OOC, you're doing it wrong.

My friend Mark sent me the trailer for the new Robin Hood movie. He knows I have an interest in such things, and not only because of Robin Hood: The Historically Inaccurate Drinking Game. (I took a class once called "England in the time of Robin Hood". It was interesting, but needed more discussion of Robin Hood.)

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Seriously, folks, I am wearing my jaw-dropped expression right now. For REALS?

It's... it's.... It's Robin Hood: The Bravehearted Patriot! *siiiigh*

My peeve with this isn't actually the historical inaccuracy, because whatever. I realised long ago that when people think you need to fictionalise the reign of Elizabeth I to make a good movie, they're just never going to be satisfied with actual history. So, you know, I just try and take it all with a grain of salt, and only protest if they open with "This is totally true!!!"

But I am bothered by one thing.

As y'all know, I'm a big fan of Strong Female Characters. But I'm bothered that Strong Female Characters in movies and t.v. tend to end up as "she kicks ass, takes names, and fights as well as any man!" This is not a Strong Female Character. Oh, it's a physically strong one, but a Strong Female Character has depth. She has lines that aren't about the hero. She isn't a prize to be won. She will have conservations with other women that aren't about the men. You know, simple stuff. Easy stuff. Stuff that rarely makes it into movies.

I have a suspicion that we're going to end up with another Warrior!Marion, and not a Marion who has some role other than "being Robin's prize".

Ah well. I will see this movie, for certain, and maybe be proven wrong.

[But seriously, wtf? "The laws of this land enslave people to its King. Empower every man, and you will gain strength." That is not what was going on when the nobles all got together and demanded more rights for themselves against King John. Bah.

Originally posted at http://trouble.dreamwidth.org/551262.html. You can comment here or there using OpenID. Comments at Dreamwidth: .