Oh Speranza! I forgot how utterly heartbreaking and extraordinarily beautiful your dS stories are. I am rereading the whole lot for the third time after a break of about a year. Hours upon hours upon hours of total bliss. Of uncontrollable tears. Of pulse-pounding excitement. Of sweet soulful meltdown.

I bow to your excellence. I revere resonant8 for her ( Read more... )

Awwwww! My all time favorite OTP: Fraser and RayK.

I just finished watching all of the final two seasons, constantly on the outlook for all the slashy vibes. Although I have to admit that without my extensive dS slashfic background they are not always that easy to detect ( Read more... )

New food for the ever hungry slash addict:

beatriceorme for mostly Elijah/Sean A. sweetness but some stunning BBM drabbles too.

marakeshsparrow for an altogether exceptional BBM AU fic, long, sometimes even drawn-out, but all-in-all a satisfying read (Lead Me To Your Door). Definitely great potential.

pairofdeuces for a BBM fic in sharply sketched vignettes (Lost). Few and far ( Read more... )

Thought, I'd "spike up" my journal after that long lull:

A useful source of reference is the BBM guide by spikedluv

Nog meer artikelen over de zaak. In een mail van vandaag wees Pauline op een artikel van Jaques van Doorn in het NRC die ik helaas niet kon vinden op de web. Maar het volgend artikel citeerd van Doorn, dus de strekking moge duidelijk zijn.

( Zaak Hirsi gemangeld tussen regels en wijsheid )

Minister Verdonk van immigratie heeft Ayaan Hirsi Ali het Nederlandse staatburgerschap onttrokken en zij zal binnenkort het land verlaten. Ik sta versteld. Wat is er aan de hand met Nederland? Het is nog geen tien jaar geleden dat ik het land heb verlaten en ik herken het niet meer. Dirk Verhofstad heeft vandaag in De Morgen een uitermate ( Read more... )

A good film. A really good film. I was pleasantly surprised. All the flaming on the BBM boards had left me with the feeling that this movie must be a fraud. But I could relate to it. It's a variation on the 'butterfly effect'. Action and reaction. How you act and react has an effect on the next person and that person processes that impulse and ( Read more... )

I just had this thought. I have noticed how different my way of touching (my) cats is from the way others touch them. It seems as if the human-animal-interface and how this zone is to be negotiated is something many people are unfamiliar with or haven't given any in-depth thought ( Read more... )

It's always agonizing to read how bigotry and intolerance and fear destroy people's lives. I found this True BBM Story especially disturbing:

( Living Brokeback Mountain - My Story )

Der Standesdünkel liegt in derselben Schublade wie der Patriotismus.
Vom Feuerwehrverein bis zum Vaterland sind nur wenige Schritte. Und
daher sieht bei uns der Skatverein wie ein Staat und der Staat wie
ein Skatverein aus.

-- Kurt Tucholsky