Which is impossible to describe above cut in an unspoilery way for me.

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In which several people‘s mission goes south, and Stan awakens his inner detective.

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The one where Henry has more than two minutes screen time, even, dare I say, an important part in an episode, and it's Turkey Slaughter Day again.

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Last day of the conference, still with minimal online time, a review.

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This one dragged a bit, imo as always.

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In Svetlana Alexejevich's Zinky Boys, about the Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan and after, one of the many aspects that caused an utter disconnect and alienation among the surviving Afghanistan veterans was that when they had left, full of the usual propaganda, there had been a Soviet Union, and when they returned, there simply wasn't anymore. There ( Read more... )

In which mistakes are made all around.

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In which the Elizabeth and Philip who aren't British Royals are back, Gorbachev is General Secretary, and the end, my friend, is near. Also, Arkady Ivanovich is BACK, and I know at least one person on lj whom this is going to make very happy indeed.

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Dear writer, thank you so much for participating in this challenge and creating a story for me. I included some prompts in my requests. Know that if none of these speaks to you, you can still make me happy simply by a "Peggy and Jarvis fight crime" case fic. My prompts tend to go in a gen direction, but I'm not averse to shipping, either slash or ( Read more... )

There’s this lovely old gentleman I know, Edgar Feuchtwanger, nephew of Lion Feuchtwanger the novelist I wrote my thesis about. Edgar F left Germany age 14 as part of the Kindertransport, which probably saved his life. He became a British citizen, married, had children, taught as a historian at Winchester university, published books on various ( Read more... )