To fellow Canadians: Stop Bill C-10 // Marvel movieverse, school, etc.
My "tutee" (that can't possibly be a real word) didn't show up for tutoring today! And yet I still had to walk home in the rain and now my shoes are all muddy. :(
I had my first midterm last week, have another one this week, and two more next week. Wow, I'd forgotten how much I suck at studying for exams! This is what happens when you do an undergrad in English and 60% of your grade is essays.
ION, I'm not at all surprised that I prefer Steve/Tony over Steve/Bucky or Tony/Pepper. Which is not to say that I'm against those two pairings, especially if the story is set prior to Steve and Tony meeting, but I've always preferred the "opposites attract" dynamic. I'm less interested in hero/sidekick (except as a porn thing) or male boss/female subordinate (my issues, let me show you them). I mean, there's a reason I ship Clark/Bruce and Tim/Kon? And why I don't really ship Bruce/any Robin, even though I'll read the occasional fic.
Just an observation I had upon realising that Tony Stark is totally a Hephaestus character, and that Steve Rogers is an Apollo. Even though I suspect Tony is waaay more self-loathing than Bruce generally allows himself to (functionally) be.
(Fwiw, Clark is totally Apollo, but Bruce isn't Hephaestus. He's Hades.)
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To any Canadians on my dwircle/flist! The Harper administration is trying to push through a bill to build more jails and establish mandatory minimum sentencing for certain crimes. The full title is: An Act to enact the Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act and to amend the State Immunity Act, the Criminal Code, the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, the Youth Criminal Justice Act, the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and other Acts (gov't website)
While I can understand the desire to be "tough on crime", I'm not particularly convinced that this bill is going to do the kind of good it purports to do. I feel that it'll cause more harm than good in the long run. To contact PM Harper, the Minister of Justice, your local MP, etc, go to Keep Canada Safe: Stop Bill C-10.
The above protest letter cites an interesting CBC article in which a conservative Republican rep talks about how Texas re-examined its stance on mandatory minimums. It's fascinating that Texas, of all places, has discovered that more prisons and harsher sentences are less effective at fighting crime and more expensive than alternative methods. I mean, who knew that incarcerating as many people as possible isn't actually a good way to make your country safer?
/rhetorical
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I had my first midterm last week, have another one this week, and two more next week. Wow, I'd forgotten how much I suck at studying for exams! This is what happens when you do an undergrad in English and 60% of your grade is essays.
ION, I'm not at all surprised that I prefer Steve/Tony over Steve/Bucky or Tony/Pepper. Which is not to say that I'm against those two pairings, especially if the story is set prior to Steve and Tony meeting, but I've always preferred the "opposites attract" dynamic. I'm less interested in hero/sidekick (except as a porn thing) or male boss/female subordinate (my issues, let me show you them). I mean, there's a reason I ship Clark/Bruce and Tim/Kon? And why I don't really ship Bruce/any Robin, even though I'll read the occasional fic.
Just an observation I had upon realising that Tony Stark is totally a Hephaestus character, and that Steve Rogers is an Apollo. Even though I suspect Tony is waaay more self-loathing than Bruce generally allows himself to (functionally) be.
(Fwiw, Clark is totally Apollo, but Bruce isn't Hephaestus. He's Hades.)
* * *
To any Canadians on my dwircle/flist! The Harper administration is trying to push through a bill to build more jails and establish mandatory minimum sentencing for certain crimes. The full title is: An Act to enact the Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act and to amend the State Immunity Act, the Criminal Code, the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, the Youth Criminal Justice Act, the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and other Acts (gov't website)
While I can understand the desire to be "tough on crime", I'm not particularly convinced that this bill is going to do the kind of good it purports to do. I feel that it'll cause more harm than good in the long run. To contact PM Harper, the Minister of Justice, your local MP, etc, go to Keep Canada Safe: Stop Bill C-10.
The above protest letter cites an interesting CBC article in which a conservative Republican rep talks about how Texas re-examined its stance on mandatory minimums. It's fascinating that Texas, of all places, has discovered that more prisons and harsher sentences are less effective at fighting crime and more expensive than alternative methods. I mean, who knew that incarcerating as many people as possible isn't actually a good way to make your country safer?
/rhetorical
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