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Back to life, back to reality... as I gather myself and work on fic to post here, a few links and a twinned meme from

thistlerose.

Above The Cut: an analysis of Unstoppable as an Allegory for BJ Etiquette that starts with The Bulge and continues henceforth, 'Blurring Gender Lines in Fandom' recs (of genderswap, sexswap, crossdressing and transgender fics) and Sherlock BBC recs from MJ panels, and A NUMB3RS AU which my roommate photographed at the Worcester Art Museum.

Below the cut:

1. COMMENT WITH A MYSTERIOUS COMMENT OF YOUR CHOICE.
2. I will give you a letter.
3a. Post the names of five fictional characters [starting with that letter] and your thoughts on each.
3b. Post the titles of five songs [starting with that letter] and your thoughts on each.

For characters,

thistlerose gave me A.

Amita Ramanujan I love Amita from her conception on down. (I mean, there are a couple other South Asian characters on US TV, but right now the only ones I can think of are the ones played by Mr. Sendhil Ramamurthy.) If I got the chance to meet her in person I'd gladly take it.
Aragorn I was never overly interested in Aragorn and his Destiny and his Elven Bride (and I'm one of the people who liked Arwen with a sword in the movie of FOTR over Arwen the Embroiderer from the novels). But hey, he does his job, and I never disliked him either. I recently rediscovered a favorite Aragorn/Eomer story from my LOTR days, hooray for AO3!
Kory Anders This is cheating, I admit. Starfire's name is properly Koriand'r, and she is wonderfully spicy (ha ha ha). I really like how she grew out of a character intended just to be a pinup into a 3-D, well rounded person, and when I wrote her I always loved envisioning her as warm, sweet, and valiant.
Aral Vorkosigan I could babble about Prime Minister Admiral Commodore Whatnot Vorkosigan, or I can link you to this essay Jo Walton wrote about him and tell you to read everything dsudis has written about him. Oh! And THIS by Petra at Dreamwidth.
Anissa Pierce. I liked Anissa until she got hair like mine. Then I lvoed her. It wasn't just the bare fact of the hair, but the whole way the character changed, by coming out as lesbian, by dating Grace Choi, by becoming more herself in seemingly every way. Since changing my hair to a natural really symbolized becoming more myself to me, those changes of hers really resonated with me.

For music, she gave me W. From my Power Up Mix at work:

What's This? from The Nightmare Before Christmas, covered by Fall Out Boy. It fuses Jack's wonder and yearning with a blood-pumping rush.
The World Is Just Awesome 2009 from the Discovery Channel's "The World Is Just Awesome" campaign. Because I can always use the reminder.
Who Needs Sleep? by the Barenaked Ladies, a pulse-stirring paean to insomnia.
Walking on Broken Glass by Annie Lennox, a fierce and gloriously angry song of dysfunction, need and love. I adore it.
Water Hot from The Starlit Jewel, Broceliande's album of Tolkien's poems set to music. It sounds like a song a lively hobbit would sing in a bath.
A bonus: Weasel Stomping Day by Weird Al Yankovic. I love parodies and holiday music, so of course I love this!