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redfiona99I have paid money into my account rather than taking it out.
I have finally found out what an interesting sounding dish at one of the pubs I frequent actually tastes like.
The horse I backed in the Grand National came third so I got money, which has been recycled into books. Thank you Slim Pickings, Tom Taffee and Barry Gerahty.
I therefore now have a copy of the Selfish Gene, a book which I have been wishing to take apart for some time. I feel I should explain - Richard Dawkins knows far more about genetics than I could ever hope to know. I just happen to think he's kind of wrong about some parts. Most of the parts in his other books where I have felt this have referred back to the Selfish Gene so it'll be good to know if I've misunderstood something. The other book is Y-The Decent of Man by Steve Jones who I do prefer. I may go back next week because they had a Stephen Jay Gould book and he is my favourite of all the genetics based science writers.
Massa is in pole for the Bahrain GP. It's another of these words with 'h's in that I don't know where to put, see also Gerahty, which is at best an approximation. This is good. Even better is that Alex Wurz is in 11th.
There is fic, fic I am pleased with:
Title: They Call This Denial(1/1)
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters, TNA and they themselves do. No money being made. This is not real, it has nothing to do with real life, this is fiction.
Characters: Chris Harris, Gail Kim, James Storm
Rating: G - PG, whatever rating TNA's programming gets, because there's even less swearing and violence in this.
Notes: Gen-fic. Set round the 4th of January 2007.
Her hand still fit snugly into his. That much hadn't changed. It was such a common gesture between them that he didn't need his eyes to know what it looked like. Much like he didn't need to see her to know that she was worried.
"What's wrong, babe?"
"Nothing."
"Gail!"
"Really. It's nothing." She was lying. He couldn't blame her though. How could she come to him for help with whatever was bothering her? He was blind and couldn't help her in the slightest. What made it worse was that she was trying to protect him. This tiny wonderful girl of his was trying to protect him and her being near a foot shorter than him. What use was he to anyone anyway?
Plus it wasn't like he couldn't figure out who was causing the problem, whatever it actually was. James.
He knows she's not telling him exactly what James has been doing because she's scared he's going to go after him. And yeah, normally he would be that dumb. Only he knows he can't go chasing after James right now, because you can't smash a guy six ways from Sunday if you can't even get out of your hospital room without help.
And then there's how he's not even right certain that he wants to chase after James. He thinks this must be the shock the doctors keep talking about because despite all the evidence to the contrary, and it's starting to pile up now, he can't get angry at James. He wants to believe that there's an explanation, this is all some double-cross to get the titles of LAX because James is his best friend. Was his best friend. He was his tag team partner, damn it! There had to be a reason.
Because if there wasn't... then his best friend tried to blind him. For no good reason that Chris could see. Damn near succeeded too. No saying he hadn't, actually, 'cause there was only so long the doctors could tell a guy to try to keep his eyes shut 'fore he started wondering if maybe it's permanent.
Chris should be angry about it. He couldn't make himself though, was just shot through with 'why?’. Maybe he'd be angry once James had explained himself. Not like that was likely to happen. 'Cause they'd had fallings out before, who hadn't, and there'd never been much in the way of explanations on either side, just some embarrassed shoe-gazing and side-to-side shuffling and a general agreement to let bygones be. Chris couldn't see this being sorted out like that.
He should be angry. He sat there sometimes, in between when Gail came, and thought of all the reasons why he should be, listed them even. The only one that came close to actually making him want to get up and hit James hard as he could was how badly James was treating Gail, had been treating her even before the things that had happened. He could be angry on Gail's behalf.
'Cause Gail was a girl. Not that she couldn't look after herself, if she ever heard him say anything like that, she'd likely strike him where no man wanted to be struck. But she couldn't exactly defend herself against a guy a strong as James. 'Cause Chris knew exactly how strong James was, the man was as strong as him, and right now had two working eyes.
He couldn't rage against James when he was too busy raging against himself for being useless.
It will be posted in the usual places as well.
Now to get some NMR reading done before Doctor Who comes on.
I have finally found out what an interesting sounding dish at one of the pubs I frequent actually tastes like.
The horse I backed in the Grand National came third so I got money, which has been recycled into books. Thank you Slim Pickings, Tom Taffee and Barry Gerahty.
I therefore now have a copy of the Selfish Gene, a book which I have been wishing to take apart for some time. I feel I should explain - Richard Dawkins knows far more about genetics than I could ever hope to know. I just happen to think he's kind of wrong about some parts. Most of the parts in his other books where I have felt this have referred back to the Selfish Gene so it'll be good to know if I've misunderstood something. The other book is Y-The Decent of Man by Steve Jones who I do prefer. I may go back next week because they had a Stephen Jay Gould book and he is my favourite of all the genetics based science writers.
Massa is in pole for the Bahrain GP. It's another of these words with 'h's in that I don't know where to put, see also Gerahty, which is at best an approximation. This is good. Even better is that Alex Wurz is in 11th.
There is fic, fic I am pleased with:
Title: They Call This Denial(1/1)
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters, TNA and they themselves do. No money being made. This is not real, it has nothing to do with real life, this is fiction.
Characters: Chris Harris, Gail Kim, James Storm
Rating: G - PG, whatever rating TNA's programming gets, because there's even less swearing and violence in this.
Notes: Gen-fic. Set round the 4th of January 2007.
Her hand still fit snugly into his. That much hadn't changed. It was such a common gesture between them that he didn't need his eyes to know what it looked like. Much like he didn't need to see her to know that she was worried.
"What's wrong, babe?"
"Nothing."
"Gail!"
"Really. It's nothing." She was lying. He couldn't blame her though. How could she come to him for help with whatever was bothering her? He was blind and couldn't help her in the slightest. What made it worse was that she was trying to protect him. This tiny wonderful girl of his was trying to protect him and her being near a foot shorter than him. What use was he to anyone anyway?
Plus it wasn't like he couldn't figure out who was causing the problem, whatever it actually was. James.
He knows she's not telling him exactly what James has been doing because she's scared he's going to go after him. And yeah, normally he would be that dumb. Only he knows he can't go chasing after James right now, because you can't smash a guy six ways from Sunday if you can't even get out of your hospital room without help.
And then there's how he's not even right certain that he wants to chase after James. He thinks this must be the shock the doctors keep talking about because despite all the evidence to the contrary, and it's starting to pile up now, he can't get angry at James. He wants to believe that there's an explanation, this is all some double-cross to get the titles of LAX because James is his best friend. Was his best friend. He was his tag team partner, damn it! There had to be a reason.
Because if there wasn't... then his best friend tried to blind him. For no good reason that Chris could see. Damn near succeeded too. No saying he hadn't, actually, 'cause there was only so long the doctors could tell a guy to try to keep his eyes shut 'fore he started wondering if maybe it's permanent.
Chris should be angry about it. He couldn't make himself though, was just shot through with 'why?’. Maybe he'd be angry once James had explained himself. Not like that was likely to happen. 'Cause they'd had fallings out before, who hadn't, and there'd never been much in the way of explanations on either side, just some embarrassed shoe-gazing and side-to-side shuffling and a general agreement to let bygones be. Chris couldn't see this being sorted out like that.
He should be angry. He sat there sometimes, in between when Gail came, and thought of all the reasons why he should be, listed them even. The only one that came close to actually making him want to get up and hit James hard as he could was how badly James was treating Gail, had been treating her even before the things that had happened. He could be angry on Gail's behalf.
'Cause Gail was a girl. Not that she couldn't look after herself, if she ever heard him say anything like that, she'd likely strike him where no man wanted to be struck. But she couldn't exactly defend herself against a guy a strong as James. 'Cause Chris knew exactly how strong James was, the man was as strong as him, and right now had two working eyes.
He couldn't rage against James when he was too busy raging against himself for being useless.
It will be posted in the usual places as well.
Now to get some NMR reading done before Doctor Who comes on.
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Date: 2007-04-14 08:25 pm (UTC)Also: you made me read a fic with Chris Harris POV and I sympathized with him. >:O!!!!
Though I think what I liked best is the characterization of Gail through Harris' eye. This tiny wonderful girl of his was trying to protect him and her being near a foot shorter than him. I really like that. She's a heel valet, but she's really loyal to her team, which is an interesting aspect to her character and you brought that out.
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Date: 2007-04-14 08:42 pm (UTC)I think writing this as gen instead of slash made the betrayal feel worse. I love that you took the tough road instead of the easy, melodramatic one. The situation just felt so much worse-- love comes and goes, but friends are supposed to be there forever.
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Date: 2007-04-22 05:36 pm (UTC)>>Also: you made me read a fic with Chris Harris POV and I sympathized with him. >:O!!!! <<
I am evil, hear me scribble ;) Thanks.
>>She's a heel valet, but she's really loyal to her team, which is an interesting aspect to her character and you brought that out.<< Thanks. That was one of the lines I was worried about because I was worried that it would seem patronising almost. But watching it unfold you knew she would stand by Harris, even though everyone else was predicting a heel turn from her.
Thanks again for the feedback because I know how much of a lack of interest in AMW you have so for you to say it's a good fic and that you sympathised with Harris makes me really happy.
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Date: 2007-04-22 05:44 pm (UTC)I have to say that most of the tone of the fic came entirely from this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Lfk317TQOY interview. Which is an absolute wonder of an interview when you consider that Chris Harris, much though I love him to pieces, really can't act, and I think I love it just as much because someone at TNA had the sense not to go over the top and loud with it.
I'm so glad you liked this so much, especially the language and the angle taken. Thank you.