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Author: Bitterfig

Title: Persephone or Hades

Fandom: Revolutionary Girl Utena

Pairing: Utena/Anthy

Summary: Utena dreamed that she wandered through an underworld of darkness and pain.

Beta Reader: Fedink

Word Count: 354

Rating: R

Warning: Sexual content.

Author’s Note: Written for the porn_battle prompt “Revolutionary Girl Utena, Utena/Anthy, pomegranates.”

Disclaimer: This story is a work of fiction. Any illegal acts taking place within that fiction are NOT condoned by the author. Depictions of any questionable, illegal, or potentially illegal activity in said fiction does not mean that I condone, promote, support, participate in, or approve of said activity. I grasp the distinction between fiction and reality and trust that readers will do the same. I do not profit from the fan fiction I write, and all rights to the characters remain firmly in the hands of their creator.


Persephone or Hades

I have the thing going around. Well, one of the things. The sore throat, achy, fevery, thing. So I'm home today...sick enough to stay home, not dead-sick, and not well enough to focus at all for work.

Canadian politics is becoming a vacuum, a dangerous one. In one corner we have a respected but long-in-the-tooth Québec separatist. In another we have a social democratic leader who's embracing the politics of personality entirely too much like an American campaign (yes you can....but no I won't). Corner 3 is where "the natural ruling party of Canada" is being led by an egomaniac with the charisma of sandpaper--and he was anointed to replace the recent well-intentioned milquetoast leader who got slammed in last year's election.

In corner 4 we have Stephen Harper wetting himself with laughter at the other 3. Because...unless something shifts soon, the Tories are getting closer to being able to land a majority, at which point much of what make Canada Canadian is jeopardized.

Yesterday the Tories picked up a seat in Québec in a by-election, despite Harper shrieking about Québec nationalism less than a year ago--repeatedly and vociferously. That should've rendered the party unelectable in places like the lower St. Lawrence, even with a star local candidate.

Yes by-elections are different from general elections and yes many people vote for local candidates rather than national leaders. But if Harper gets enough of these candidates running in swing ridings in Québec, he needs only a net gain of 10 seats for a majority. And in our stoopid system, a party with a majority in the House of Commons gets all the keys to the kingdom to do as its leader pleases. As of January, they'll have a majority in our (totally fucked, appointed) Senate.

Where is Sheila Copps when the country needs her?

So, while high on pain pills last night (again, I blame griggharris), I started making some funny macros that are of John, pertain to John in some way like Torchwood, concerts, tv shows, his dogs, whatever. I debated on making a community, but I figured a Twitter was easier.

But I do warn you; theres language that is NSFW and some crude humor, so you're warned. If you have a twitter, feel free to follow! I post a new one two or three times a day.

http://www.twitter.com/jbdailymacro

We saw La Cage 3 times this last week and met some lovely people outside - not just John, either!! Grace, Gabby, Julie and Iris were very nice. We met one girl who had seen John dozens of times (I didn't get her name but she is young and has brown hair and was wearing a red coat) and I was just wondering who has seen La Cage the most? There were people we talked with that had seen it 10-15 times. Anyone more than 15? I loved seeing it the 3 times. We did 2 from the cabaret tables and one from Row M. No matter where you sit, John was fantastic - so was Simon and the beautiful boy dancers!!! Yum.

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On the off chance that there are other Twitter-head Wraeththu fans like me, I bring you:

http://twitter.com/wraeththunews

Look to it for links to news, reviews, artwork, past stuff from Inception, Immanion Press stuff, fanfic, etc.

You can even just look at http://twitter.com/wraeththunews w/o being on Twitter.

Wendy

From (I do believe) his upcoming album called "Give Me What I Want"



I like it but it's kind of short

My purse hasn't turned up but some of the contents found their way into a mailbox and the post office contacted me. One of those things was my passport which is how they knew to call me, thank god. There were some items there I was really glad to get back. My phone is still missing though as is my wallet with all the cards including the drivers license.

I had a really efficient day today - canceled all my credit and debit cards and ordered new ones, applied for a new passport (damn!) and a new drivers license. Got my old phone working, replaced my medicine and finally got my watch fixed (nothing to do with the purse drama but I was on a roll).

Since then I've been glued to the couch and this computer. It's closing in on midnight and I've yet to eat dinner.

Off to hunt for some Cheerios and a banana.

So today marks the 20th aniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. What this means for me is that I've been alternatively blubbering and feeling really old whenever I watch the news, which is usually three to four times a day, sigh.

I have a very vivid memory of watching the wall fall, live on the news. It wasn't the first time I became aware that the world was bigger than, like, my immediate family (that was Chernobyl, which I don't recall seeing on the news, but I do remember my mum and gran talking about the potential fallout), but it was the first time I felt actually connected to current events. It's also one of the few really vivid memories I have from before I was about ten -- I can still easily recall sitting crosslegged on the floor in front of the couch, watching the telly.

(I actually spent years convinced this had to be an inaccurate memory, because the wall fell around 10 PM, which was way past my bed time, surely? Except it was a Thursday, so I would've been up late to watch Dallas anyway, and my parents confirmed that they'd have let me stay up to watch something this historical if I wanted to.)And then I became a news junkie in the worst way for the next decade or so, until 9/11 somewhat overdosed me on it and the subsequent Bush shenanigans forced me to put myself on a restricted news diet for a while, sigh.

But to return to my orginal point: Yaye 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall! Excuse me while I go be easily manipulated and blubber some more.