So I've been hinting before at the vague possibility of there being a rant on the status of the conversation on security policy in Germany in the future of this blog, right? I've been kind of procrastinating on it because I knew it would be a long, rambling and possibly not really intelligible post because I'm just so fed up with the vast ( Read more... )

Finally, at 18391021 weeks post Head Cold of Doom, I'm back to running regularly three times a week, and I'm kinda proud of myself that I manage to drag myself out even when the sun is beating down and it's getting uncomfortably warm (which, in my case, means everything upwards of 23°C. I'm a wimp concerning heat, sue me).

( In which I rant at length about an obscure ankle problem that's been bugging me for at least two years now. )

Yes, this is the one in which I will talk about my exploits in the flu season. Which were illustrious. Or something.

( Here be gerrrrrrrrrrrrms. )

Because that is my single biggest problem right now. (not, it's not, yes, I was being ironic)

Anyway. I am still writing my het_bigbang story and yes, it's still the Western!AU. The goods news are: I'm just a little over 1k words shy of reaching the minimum word count. The bad news are: I still don't seem to have an actual plot. It still feels like all I'm ( Read more... )

I just signed up for het_bigbang with a Lorne/Cadman Wild West AU that goes by the working title of

Let Me Drown In Your Laughter (Let Me Die In Your Arms)and as of yet has no real plot to speak of yet. I just know that it takes place in 1868, somewhere in Colorado (preferrably where Colorado Springs is today but yeah, doesn't look like they had any notable ( Read more... )

We shall miss you ( Read more... )

Remember when they said "It's not gonna be that bad."? Remember when they said "Give him a chance, everyone deserves one"? Remember when they said "He's never gonna do all that crap he promised"?

Well fuck everyone who said that. Because we told them that yes, it's gonna be bad, that no, he doesn't deserve a chance and that yes, he would do all ( Read more... )

I just started crying at my Twitter feed. You know why? Because suddenly, it's flooded with farewell videos and addresses. From John Kerry to his Foggy Bottom employees (I'm pretty sure some of them were close to crying themselves), from the White House press team, from John B. Emerson (the US ambassador to Germany, who will have to leave Berlin ( Read more... )

I'd wanted to write about Rogue One because that's what I finally saw today with Mom. Because it really is the most important movie of the year, for so many reasons ( Read more... )

Okay, so it's been a week. A horrible week full of gleeful racists and misogynysts celebrating that "they" won, by harrassing women, PoC, LGBTQ+ people and full of that smiling lizard person who's set to be the next president of the USA and full of frightened friends and family (Mom actually cried on the morning after the election :( ) and people ( Read more... )