bullet points are leading in the polls this week

[synecdochic]

* On the related-work front, we have courageandgrace with Never Liked Running, in the BW-verse, and filenotch with The Might of Thy Breath, in the Mezzanine-verse. Both of them offer stellar glimpses of JD

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[twistedchick]

Sure it has a big wheelhouse -- with one of Sam's shields on it to keep it unnoticed.

I'm thinking (from the combination of the new JD stories and your teaser and the dark side of my brain) that Jack has not only read but memorized vast chunks of Heinlein along with everything else, as well as the Anson Mc(whatever) stories he wrote for John W. Campbell. Jack is always interested in practical connections, and part of that is how do people think about things and how does that relate to how Jack himself thinks, so he can find common ground. He's not scholarly about it, like Daniel -- Jack isn't that interested in what happened ten thousand years ago unless it affects what happens in the next five minutes -- but he likes to read and mull over stuff and stick it in the back of his head to think about when he's on patrol or keeping an eye on the horizon. And Heinlein did come up with one of the ultimate descriptions of practical education: start with a dead mule and end up with a saddle and dinner. I keep waiting for someone to put that into a Jack-stranded-someplace story.

[synecdochic]

I've always thought that Jack and Lazarus Long would get along quite nicely with each other!

[twistedchick]

I think they'd get along before and after Lazarus tried to run a scam, but definitely not during. Jack would be mad as hell during it, even if he could understand and excuse it later; he hates being played.

[amaliedageek]

And Hilda and Ishtar would take turns smacking both of them.