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the body electric, AU, Q as cyborg, by 8611. Also the sequel an integrated circuit, which is from Q's POV.
Mercenary, Q/Bond, Skyfall, by BootsnBlossoms, Kryptaria. (Completed but chapters posted daily, up to chapter 9 of 15 now.)
Semper Familia, WIP, Supernatural by KatZen
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earlgreytea68's lovely, wonderful and wonderfully long fic Saving Sherlock Holmes is now completed, all 43 chapters of it.
And her new fic Nature and Nurture, WIP, AU, babyfic, Sherlock/John. She's also just started another fic The Bang and the Clatter, a baseball AU, also Sherlock/John.
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Srs thots:
I used to think that abortion was an emotive topic to people other than me (because my stance is a simplistic one: that a woman should be able to do what she wishes in this area, case closed). Context: There's been a bunch of discussions in parliament and therefore newspapers about encouraging adoption rather than abortion which brings up things about how liberal my country's abortion regime is and how we need more babies, etc... the whole thing is all very incoherent really. Adoption sounds nice, but I'm suspicious of it being mooted as an alternative to Evil Abortion and also, this is derailing from the thing about the handwringing over the low birthrate in my country. And:
(i) As expected, the 'debate' is between one group of people who are all "think of the children!" and another group which unfortunately looks rather heartless by putting the woman's decision first. Because babies! So cute! Don't kill them!
(ii) As expected, people in one camp are trying to tell me how horrible abortion is. The health risks and trauma and guilt for the woman. Well, if we take a relativist approach (which is actually not advisable but bear with me) really, worse things are being done every day to women and men than sucking out a foetus with a needle (sorry for the explicit image).
I sound really horrible here. But if you insist on throwing a horrible image at me, I'd react badly too.
(iii) As expected too, the people in the one camp who urged 'everyone' to think of the welfare of the children are the ones whom, if I remember right, emphatically opposed teaching about contraception to teenagers in schools. They win the prize for being unhelpful.
(iv) Also, as a side-point, the statistics being trotted out say a good proportion of those abortions are for married women. Why not go after those women, dearie? Stop those married women from getting abortions! Make them carry the foetus to term! Bonus: you'd have your ideal two-parent family. If policy considerations are weighted in favour of the traditional family unit (aka the family values argument), then all the more you should allow abortions for unmarried women but forbid it for married women. But no one ever mentions that. My hypothesis is that those who oppose abortion would rather target female teenagers and single women rather than married women (and married couples). Cowards.
So yeah. As anyone who's been on the internet knows, it's a tired old debate. And until just a couple of days ago, I was bored and cynical over the whole regurgitation of arguments, until I realised that my prof next term is a rabid anti-abortionist (okay, 'rabid' may be a bit strong). Had written to the newpapers and all.
I am not cool with that. Even though what this prof is teaching has nothing to do with abortion. I love babies and children. They're so cute! (You can tell I'm childless.) But what goes on between a woman and her womb is her own business.
So. I didn't know I could have an emotional response to another person's view on this topic. I was/am quite determined to be bored by the whole thing. Except that now I can't?
Mercenary, Q/Bond, Skyfall, by BootsnBlossoms, Kryptaria. (Completed but chapters posted daily, up to chapter 9 of 15 now.)
Semper Familia, WIP, Supernatural by KatZen
And a reminder that
earlgreytea68's lovely, wonderful and wonderfully long fic Saving Sherlock Holmes is now completed, all 43 chapters of it. And her new fic Nature and Nurture, WIP, AU, babyfic, Sherlock/John. She's also just started another fic The Bang and the Clatter, a baseball AU, also Sherlock/John.
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Srs thots:
I used to think that abortion was an emotive topic to people other than me (because my stance is a simplistic one: that a woman should be able to do what she wishes in this area, case closed). Context: There's been a bunch of discussions in parliament and therefore newspapers about encouraging adoption rather than abortion which brings up things about how liberal my country's abortion regime is and how we need more babies, etc... the whole thing is all very incoherent really. Adoption sounds nice, but I'm suspicious of it being mooted as an alternative to Evil Abortion and also, this is derailing from the thing about the handwringing over the low birthrate in my country. And:
(i) As expected, the 'debate' is between one group of people who are all "think of the children!" and another group which unfortunately looks rather heartless by putting the woman's decision first. Because babies! So cute! Don't kill them!
(ii) As expected, people in one camp are trying to tell me how horrible abortion is. The health risks and trauma and guilt for the woman. Well, if we take a relativist approach (which is actually not advisable but bear with me) really, worse things are being done every day to women and men than sucking out a foetus with a needle (sorry for the explicit image).
I sound really horrible here. But if you insist on throwing a horrible image at me, I'd react badly too.
(iii) As expected too, the people in the one camp who urged 'everyone' to think of the welfare of the children are the ones whom, if I remember right, emphatically opposed teaching about contraception to teenagers in schools. They win the prize for being unhelpful.
(iv) Also, as a side-point, the statistics being trotted out say a good proportion of those abortions are for married women. Why not go after those women, dearie? Stop those married women from getting abortions! Make them carry the foetus to term! Bonus: you'd have your ideal two-parent family. If policy considerations are weighted in favour of the traditional family unit (aka the family values argument), then all the more you should allow abortions for unmarried women but forbid it for married women. But no one ever mentions that. My hypothesis is that those who oppose abortion would rather target female teenagers and single women rather than married women (and married couples). Cowards.
So yeah. As anyone who's been on the internet knows, it's a tired old debate. And until just a couple of days ago, I was bored and cynical over the whole regurgitation of arguments, until I realised that my prof next term is a rabid anti-abortionist (okay, 'rabid' may be a bit strong). Had written to the newpapers and all.
I am not cool with that. Even though what this prof is teaching has nothing to do with abortion. I love babies and children. They're so cute! (You can tell I'm childless.) But what goes on between a woman and her womb is her own business.
So. I didn't know I could have an emotional response to another person's view on this topic. I was/am quite determined to be bored by the whole thing. Except that now I can't?