I dreamt that you and I had always been connected, that throughout every lifetime, we would be together in some fashion, often growing up together, but something would prevent us from being together as we got older, like I would move or you would die young, or I would die before we had married, or you would go insane before I had met you.
I love ( Read more... )

This is posted expressly for the purpose of gathering my various posts to Runaway Tales into one place so people can follow the general continuity. Most stories are PG-13, I will note if they are R or NC-17 here. List of prompts below cut.

Prologue: You.
1: A Typical Night On The Town
2: Running Jackal
3: Not Quite Legolas
4: Surveillance
5: ( Read more... )

So, I have carpal tunnel due to a terrible workplace. As such, I haven't updated this in a while, despite the fact that I have tons of free time now. I love writing, believe me, more than I have in a while, but it has become so difficult to sit at a computer and writing that I can't do it for more than a few minutes at a time ( Read more... )

This is an assignment that was supposed to be 325 words, and turned out to be 790. Guess you could say I enjoyed this reading ( Read more... )

Okay, so. Listening to clips of Sarah Palin's speech in Nashville, wondering exactly how little Tea Partiers actually understand what their government does for them ( Read more... )

So, I still haven't seen any movement towards mass-scale protests, but we're seeing ever-growing numbers of petitions. This newest one comes from Common Cause, a great watchdog organization all about ethics in government. It's a petition for fair elections now, and as this group is actually taken seriously by news media (the link also includes ( Read more... )

So we're coming to the close of the week that saw one of the most devastating blows to democracy since McCarthy. And it seems as though the issue of corporate personhood is being swept under the rug.(1) We shouldn't be surprised really, after all, it's corporations who do the news-making now, and anything that's going to challenge their bottom line ( Read more... )

Second update at 3pm:

We've got another two! online petitions, but I absolutely have to point out that online petitions can only do so much. I'm still looking out for organized protests, but every little bit helps...a little.
This one's from Public Citizen, calling for free speech to only apply to actual human beings (y'know, with bodies and minds ( Read more... )

So, I wasn't going to post this until I'd had some time to think about it. After all, the decision was just handed down today. Certainly I will need more time to consider all the ramifications of such a monumental decision. Certainly I will need more time to decide exactly how this will impact the democracy we have grown up with and think that we ( Read more... )

So this rant is borne out of several sources, starting with Fast Food Nation (the movie), which I watched many years ago and also within the last six months. My boyfriend is interested in food, and I'm interested in hidden elements of social/political/economic structure, especially when it comes to food, so we ended up watching Food, Inc. and The ( Read more... )