{"@attributes":{"version":"2.0"},"channel":{"title":"Sapere Aude \/\/ Picture postcards from Midgar","link":"https:\/\/elvaron.livejournal.com\/","description":"Sapere Aude \/\/ Picture postcards from Midgar - LiveJournal.com","lastBuildDate":"Wed, 01 Jul 2015 17:00:46 GMT","generator":"LiveJournal \/ LiveJournal.com","copyright":"NOINDEX","image":{"url":"https:\/\/l-userpic.livejournal.com\/121551260\/1172974","title":"Sapere Aude \/\/ Picture postcards from Midgar","link":"https:\/\/elvaron.livejournal.com\/","width":"100","height":"100"},"item":[{"guid":"https:\/\/elvaron.livejournal.com\/808468.html","pubDate":"Wed, 01 Jul 2015 17:00:46 GMT","author":"elvaron","link":"https:\/\/elvaron.livejournal.com\/808468.html","description":"I spend so much time on tumblr that I literally can't find the post button on LJ any more.

HELLO WORLD.","comments":"https:\/\/elvaron.livejournal.com\/808468.html?view=comments#comments"},{"guid":"https:\/\/elvaron.livejournal.com\/807899.html","pubDate":"Mon, 01 Sep 2014 14:25:59 GMT","author":"elvaron","link":"https:\/\/elvaron.livejournal.com\/807899.html","description":"... Is it September already? Which means the last time I felt normal was five months ago? Time does fly, even when you're not having fun...

I might have mentioned that I have this idea for the epic 11th Doctor fic of doom. Thing is, even before the 11th Doctor fic of doom was a gleam in my eye, there was a very rough prototype for the 10th Doctor's fic of doom, that I really wasn't happy with and which really never took off. I've come up with a bunch of random fic ideas which are all tying together pretty spectacularly for that. It's like the fix-it fic of doom. Starring Ten, Ten 2, Martha, Donna, and Rose.

- The very long conversation between Ten and Martha that they really needed to have and really should have had, and which I am doing solely because I need to do a fix-it or I will go on disliking Martha forever.

- The fix-it for Donna, naturally.

- My rather secret OTP of Ten2 and Donna, because I just re-watched Journey's End<\/i>, and have you seen the way Ten2 smiles at Donna? It's like she lights up his life entirely. (Ten2 is adorable<\/i>, and so very different from dark!moody!Ten at that point that it's mind-boggling).

- The fix-it between Ten and Ten 2.

- The fix-it for Ten, goddamnit. Because that's what the fic was always supposed to be.

- The fix-it for Waters of Mars, because I love the concept but the execution absolutely did not cut it for me - and I totally want to write the Time Lord Victorious angle.


This being me, it naturally means that I'm going to break all the players before they get their fix-it. And possibly the rest of the universe as well. Should be tons of fun.

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Holy cow, has it been months<\/i> since my last post?

Life is... complicated and a bit mad. Still, complicated and mad is a good sight better than the train wreck I was at the end of last year. ...To be perfectly honest, as much as I want to dash my brains out against the nearest wall out of sheer frustration sometimes, I'm probably more alive than I've been for the past seven years.","comments":"https:\/\/elvaron.livejournal.com\/807411.html?view=comments#comments"},{"guid":"https:\/\/elvaron.livejournal.com\/806810.html","pubDate":"Sat, 01 Feb 2014 14:08:18 GMT","author":"elvaron","link":"https:\/\/elvaron.livejournal.com\/806810.html","description":"Oh good lord.

I started RPing the Eleventh Doctor, then the sneaky bugger ran off with my heart (cackling all the way). Cue slippery slope. I started looking for Eleven pics, progressed to reading Eleven fic, and now my brain wants me to write Eleven fic. My love for the Doctors is all over the map and completely wibbly wobbly, and I suppose it would be completely apt if my first fic for this fandom turns out to be for my first Doctor and not the one I expected it to be for.

All this timey-wimey. Seriously!

It's incredibly<\/i> difficult to keep the Tenth and the Eleventh separate in my head, especially since I now RP both of them. It actually gets to the point where my mental image of them gets superimposed at the oddest of times (like seeing Ten, when I'm recalling a scene from one of Eleven's episodes, or vice versa). For a person who never had problems swapping between a massive multitude of characters before, I now have to forcibly engage different sub-routines when I swap between Doctors, and load up entire protocols in my head of \"This<\/i> is a Ten behaviour, that<\/i> is an Eleven behaviour, and for God's sake make sure you keep subvocalising their voices, because otherwise their speech patterns are going to bleed into each other's...\" Clearly, my brain has no problems with seeing them as the same Doctor (always).

(I haven't forgotten the fact that I'm supposed to finish my Vorkosigan stuff first. Where is my sense of responsibility when I need it?)

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And on the fic front! Something a bit different from all the angst and political intrigue I've been writing recently - Unrequited Vor Pining<\/a> is a random scribble fic (I love those) that emerged from a general want to write Simon fluff. The title's a play on the phrase 'unrequited prole pining' (from Memory<\/i>). Probably terribly OOC, more than slightly cracky.

The fluff itch isn't entirely scratched, it seems. I think after I'm done beating him up in A Season out of Time<\/i> I might need to write copious amounts of Simon\/Alys fluff.

Oh, and the comment about my ribs not hurting so much any more might have been a little premature.



I re-read Barrayar<\/i> this evening to try and tease out more detail about the politics during the Regency era. There's remarkably little of it, but I've found a surprising amount of canon detail to suggest that Cordelia's mere presence played a very substantial role in Barrayar not falling apart after Ezar's death. There's also a surprising amount of detail on Vortala's political views, policies and effectiveness, all of which is brilliant, and it belatedly occurs to me that re-reading the entire book for the purpose of finding a few lines in order to substantiate the detail in a single paragraph in an AU is ... all rather lawyerly. Job hazards.

The thing that struck me, though, is how quickly Simon goes from the slightly robotic yes sir\/nossir subordinate in Shards<\/i> into something much closer to the confident ImpSec Chief of later books. It's a bit back and forth, really - he has a strong scene when he's discussing the attack on Kou and Bothari, where he gets through the entire thing without a single 'sir' at Aral, then he promptly falls back into old patterns in later scenes. Could be a case of shaken confidence due to the soltoxin attack, but eh, it screams to me that there's an entire story there waiting to be told.

The other thing is how Simon is actually described as one of Negri's top staffers, and often mentioned in the same breath as Negri, as though he's Negri's second in command. Given that he's thirty, and a relatively junior officer at that, it all seems rather unlikely - surely there had to be any number of more experienced officers in the chain. Unless<\/i> Simon was handpicked and truly being groomed by Negri, even from that very tender age, which is making me lean towards a personal head canon of Negri picking out Simon right from the start, then pushing him for the chip installation (my head canon to date has always been that Simon was just one of many random volunteers), then the Escobar mission, and having an eye on him as way more than a vid recorder.

Another story screaming to be written. Oh, so many things.

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White Knights<\/a> Chapter 5 is a little bit of an interlude, and I think it's pretty obvious where the next chapter's heading. And if you're watching the timelines carefully [1], you might note that this takes place before Miles' death, so no cryofrozen Miles, no seizures, no falsified report, yay!

[1] I wish I had an eidetic memory chip to keep track. My outline is literally written like a timeline, with Ivan's age instead of year dates. And every one of my draft chapters has the kids' ages written on top to help me keep track. And I still get it wrong!

I'd also forgotten how very tragic the entire story is for Simon, until I popped briefly into his head for a scene. Can you say crushing despair<\/i>? I'm going to need to write him a happy coda.

A bit of history - White Knights was the third thing I wrote for the fandom, so this update is only 5000 years overdue. (I feel like I've written hundreds of fics for this fandom, so why do I only have 13 or so up on AO3?) The second thing I wrote for the fandom is also incomplete, and I'm getting a nagging sense of wanting to go back and re-visit it. First things first - final chapter for Knights, and at least 3 more chapters for Season. Discipline, I need it.

[ETA: Oh, it's the fourth thing, not the third, because there was a fic I forgot<\/i> about. *horrified look* It's like forgetting about a child. I'm going to have to move the old stuff posted on LJ over to AO3.]

Clearly being stuck at home while sick has been good for my productivity. I have another standalone fic written and ready to go, and I got two chapters on Season done, giving me a relatively comfortable three chapter buffer between what's been posted and what I have (but not quite, because Chapter 7 was written while on drugs, and needs quite a bit of work).

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I was trying out a tactic to see if it would stop someone from killing me painfully. Don't judge.

Anyway, new fic babble time!

Armageddon's Children<\/a> is brought to you by... procrastination. I'm trying to update A Season Out of Time and White Knights, which means that I'm not getting either written.

I really don't know where this popped out of and it probably shows in the narrative (it's really not very good). The scene - which would do as a great summary too - is basically of Gregor telling Simon that he wants to create a new batch of super chip-enhanced soldiers, and the screaming match that ensues. (There wasn't much screaming, in the end. Simon just... doesn't yell at Gregor, apparently.)

My better fics start with a theme, not just an idea, usually with a bit of a moral dilemma thrown in and some kind of character development. AC is just a scene, really. Never grew beyond a scene, and my heart really<\/i> wasn't into giving it a happy ending, so it's all bittersweet (and edging more to the bitter). I didn't even want to give it pretty writing (but that's apt, because it's not a pretty fic). (There was a draft that started with the usual pre-reqs of pretty fic - present tense narrative, sweeping, abstract writing, like one of those paintings in pastel that are all outlines and suggestion ... ditched it one paragraph in.)

It's actually one of those going-nowhere-fast fics which I would ordinarily note down in outline form and allow to languish and die, but oh, I haven't posted anything in so long.

Also, my appetite is gone again :|. If anyone has seen it wandering around, please direct it home.

ETA: Oh yeah! A Season Out of Time is updated too.

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Even when I had tonsilitis earlier this year, the fever broke faster and didn't go as high... (peaked at 39.5 last night, geez. And it's still going, but fortunately it's low grade now...)

My dog has been a little freaked out at my flopping around like a dying fish.

ETA: The fever's finally<\/i> gone. Unfortunately it took my tastebuds with it.

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Fourth time I've been sick while on leave this year, geez!

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I spent the first three hours of it farming for crafting materials with a vengeance<\/i> in GW2 - after being outraged that I couldn't find much in the way of gold ore in the first few maps I tried, I went on a rampage through about three<\/s> four other maps zealously mining all the platinum... Yes, I'm perfectly normal, whatever are you talking about?

Sleep, church, more sleep, and then writing, woo.

I put up Chapter 4<\/a> of A Season out of Time (aka the Vorkosigan AU where Cordelia is the most important person in the universe and doesn't return to Barrayar, oops). Chapter 3 was a really bad place to stop, honestly. I could have at least gotten off my arse and posted chapters 4 and 5, which would at least have brought us to end of Part I and given everyone a bit of closure, but no, I failboated, as usual.

Oh, but all the swearing<\/i>. (In my other WIPs, not this one - Illyan is a terribly polite muse). Clearly becoming a Whovian has cleaned up my language. And changed my perspective on some things, like - like Escobar. (Oh hey, Doctor Who \/ Vorkosigan cross-over and blowing up Gallifrey, anyone?)

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Also:
\"Is 'alright' some sort of Time Lord code for 'really not alright at all'\"?

Yes, yes, it is.


I was reading a fic today where the words 'mind blind' popped up. I twitched. That's my phrase. Mine! I coined it! Probably. And then I find out that there's an entire wiki article on it. Bah, humbug.


Oh man. I failed on the Christmas cards again this year. Damn depression, getting in the way of doing anything productive.

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I'm also assured that it's perfectly normal for your heart to lurch<\/i> at the sight of 'David Tennant' in the opening credits.

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I watched it because it has Tennant, it has lawyers, and it has courtroom drama, and I was so going to sit there with a cup of tea and laugh my head off at how they got it all wrong.

Instead, as usual, the show stabs me through the heart, rips it out, stomps on it, and, of all things, makes me fall in love with the legal profession all over again, like we weren't two hair-widths away from getting divorced in a big way this year.

I really should know better than to think that I can watch shows with Tennant in them with impunity. I thought Seasons 2 - 4 of Doctor Who would be a frolic. I thought Casanova would be mindless fun. You would think I'd know better by now.



So where do I even start. The Escape Artist (\"TEA\", Tea! Tea! ok nevermind) is supposed to be scary. I admit that I was far too distracted to be even remotely scared, not least because you could see the plot twist coming from a mile away, and also it launches straight into that horrible question that every lawyer asks himself and every one asks every lawyer - how do defend someone you know is guilty?

(An older practitioner once told a bunch of us youngsters that you really shouldn't be practising criminal law if you don't know the answer to that question.)

I firmly believe that every lawyer who believes in justice and due process will raise their hand and say that everyone deserves a defence. Everyone deserves the chance to enter a plea of not guilty and put the legal system through its paces. Because at the end of the day, it is better to let ten guilty men walk free than to condemn an innocent.

We say<\/i> this. When during my bar exams I came up with an ingenious argument to get the hypothetical client (charged with, amongst other things, rape) off the hook, I banned myself from criminal law.

(Mind you, corporate lawyers don't get away that easy either. Every time I find myself coming up with a brilliant solution that allows my clients to exploit a legal loophole, I have to stop and stare at myself in the mirror really hard.)

(This also comes hard on the heels of a discourse in the profession lately about whether lawyers should be obliged to be whistle blowers.)

Anyway, point is, this hits really close to home. Because if you believe that it's better to let a guilty man walk free, and that man then goes out and murders an innocent, are you then responsible for letting someone die?

(If that bulletproof indemnity clause that I draft allows a bank to walk away scott-free after misselling financial products to a bunch of mom and pop investors and destroying entire households after the product collapses...)

(It really isn't all that simple, except that sometimes it is.)

ANYWAY, David Tennant's acting is utterly amazing in this one. I think it blows Broadchurch way out of the water. The range of emotion he goes through and the subtlety with which he portrays it is amazing. And not just cos he's not scruffy in this one.

Also legal arguments in that Scottish accent - but I digress.

Anyway, totally worth watching (even if you're not a lawyer). The courtroom drama requires a bit of suspended disbelief, but is slick and rather fun (and doesn't depend on drawn out protracted arguments, even if I did have to watch that part twice to catch what the technicality was). The directing is nothing short of amazing. Tennant is adorable. The suspense obviously made enough of an impact on my subconscious that I had a nightmare about it, and while I get nightmares at the drop of a hat, I don't usually get one that's a sequel to whatever I've been watching that day.

Also, ugh. I need to face up to the fact that I'm really only kidding myself when I tell the law that it and I are so through.
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So the circuit breaker trips at 5am. I get up to reset it. The next moment someone is saying ow ow ow wtf and there's a blazing pain in my head, and it literally takes me a few seconds to realise that (a) I'm on the floor and (b) I've whacked my head against the wall, and (c) wait, wasn't I resetting that circuit breaker? What am I doing on the floor?

5am. Public holiday. And it hurts too bloody much to go back to sleep. So I'm sitting here in a sulk.

(No sign of concussion fortunately. But owwww)

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People who use fanfic as a platform to render some half-baked, one-sided version of the Evolution-ID-Creation debate annoy me so much<\/i>, especially when it's obvious that they have no idea<\/i> what they're talking about. Evolution doesn't equate with the Grand Theory of Evolution. (That's like saying an electrical circuit is the same thing as a computer.) Intelligent Design isn't the same as Creationism. Creationism and the GTE are both<\/i> theories, both of which have scientific evidence in their favour (or disfavour). The question isn't then, philosophy vs science, but evidence vs evidence<\/i>.

And fanfic isn't your platform to advance your agenda. And it really doesn't make you look smart. No, really.

Same rant goes for every other debate, but this one has the biggest tendency to tick me off, because of its amazing tendency to get so incredibly myopic<\/i>, which is an absolute insult to advocates on every<\/i> side of the debate. In its basest form, it's knocking Evolutionists for claiming that we're descended from apes, knocking IDs for being fluffy indecisive people who can't make up their minds, and knocking Creationists for being religious fanatics living in the dark ages and propagating myths. The worst part is, people seem to think that this shallowness is completely acceptable<\/i>.


In other news, my physical and mental health have improved dramatically after three weeks of the new posting, enough to make me realise what a truly horrific amount of stress I was putting myself through over the past two years. Should have seen the signs, really. I mean, by the end of it even my digestive system had shut down and I was on one meal a day. And thinking it was normal.

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*ends up with 11th's hair*

What.

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Let's break for a moment to talk about how my neck\/shoulder is absolutely killing me<\/i>.

I don't think the pain is any worse than it was 3 days ago, but there's something about the way I finally find a way to sit where it stops hurting, and then the next moment it's all stabbity die again.


ALSO the official DW 50th Anniversary poster. I don't think I've ever been so excited about a poster<\/i>.

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And I apparently adore the character type of the young brilliant blond<\/s> morally-ambiguous heir-to-the-throne with daddy issues and just a bit of psycho on the side. (Hello Rufus). Through in a side of absolute devotion whatever cause they've put their lot behind and put them through hell and I'm instantly hooked.

So of course<\/i> I would end up with a fixation on Barty Crouch Jr. Hello HP fandom. After I avoided you for close to a decade<\/i>. By the time I got to the incarceration-without-due-process part of his history, I was writing fic in my head.

Also, along the same vein of how I end up in fandoms years too late and miss all the boats, my life might have been very different if I had just read one more HP book instead of stopping at book 3 and giving up on the series.

I'm too embarrassed to even have a HP tag on this thing.


Also, delving more in-depth into the HP verse, it strikes me that the Wizarding World is really not a nice place to be, and I'm talking about the institutions here, and morals, of which no one seems to have any. Oh, it's not too bad within the schools, but outside of them - due process and access to justice seem to be non-existent, punishments are disproportionately draconian (Azkaban, seriously?) and their treatment of non-human sentient species is - let's just say that 'non-human being rights' is a concept they haven't heard of yet. But then again, there's rampant<\/i> child abuse, so why are we even talking about other species?). (This isn't even touching on the issues that are acknowledged as issues in the book, like house elf slavery and bullying and elitism.)

And while it's not acceptable to use a curse to torture someone, it's perfectly<\/i> acceptable to throw a fragile eighteen\/nineteen year old into solitary confinement surrounded by Dementors until his mind gives way.

Dumbledore is way<\/i> up there in my bad books thanks to the way he reacted to BCJ's death (\"destruction of an important piece of evidence\" - someone just died, show some respect<\/i>. In fact, one of your former students just died. Quite possibly the best and the brightest student to ever pass through your halls. It shouldn't matter whether he's the bleeding enemy.)

It doesn't help that a couple of things I read last night were very long fics exploring all the ways in which the staff of Hogwarts & Co were Not Very Nice People at all.

But anyway, long story short - not a very nice place at all. Half the time I just want to burn all the supposed institutions down. This is quite possibly a problem. And I feel like I'm just barely scraping the surface here.)
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Beyond Reach<\/a> - for avanti_90's Aral\/Kareen fic. Set post-Escobar. Set so full of wangst that I want to put a wangst warning on it.

Man, the last time I posted fic was on the last day of July. August was hell in every conceivable way. Let's not do that again. (So ill on every level. Ruddy exhausted. I don't bounce back the way I used to, 10 years ago.)

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I should be working on a massive opinion so that I can go to bed at some point tonight, and instead I spent half an hour matching pictures to one of my OCs (in chronological order, no less) so I can visualise him better throughout the years.

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Personally, I'm absurdly excited over 12 (although I wish it didn't involve 11's departure. I haven't even managed to bring myself to watch 10's final episodes. Journey's End was bad enough; The End of Time is probably going to kill me.) But 12 looks like a brilliant<\/i> casting choice, and I can't wait for the new season.

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Also, it was really just a matter of time, but the massive Doctor Who plotbunny just bit me. I am not even vaguely surprised.

In other news, my asthma meds are not working<\/i>. I'm up to my eyeballs with double shots of steroids and anti-histamines 3x a day, and I'm not sure which is worse - not being able to breathe or not being able to think<\/i>. I'm also pretty sure you're not supposed to get addicted to ventolin[1], so what is it with the damn withdrawal symptoms?

[1] Then again, you're also not supposed to get tanked on anti-histamines either..

Oh, and oh yes: I realised today why 'Pacific Rim' keeps sounding so familiar. It's the name of a case. Contract law. Job hazards.<\/i>

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(Absurdly excited. It feels like I haven't had a fill in years. Probably gross exaggeration, but!)

Working on a fill. 70% done. Also absurdly exciting.

(Doctor Who 50th anniversary will be broadcast at the same time it's slated to air in the UK in (apparently) 200 countries* . This is so absurdly exciting that it breaks the scale<\/i>.)

* (some people have raised the point that there are (apparently) only 196 countries in the world).

On the DW note, Stolen Earth \/ Journey's End have now joined Silence in the Library \/ Forest of the Damned as my favourite episodes, which, together with the Partners in Crime (aka the Adipose episode), means that Season 4 is now the best thing since sliced bread. And here I always thought my favourite new Who season would be Season 2...

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The first parts of the Massive Vorkosigan AU of doom<\/a> have been posted.

Work's a bit better, and my head will hopefully follow, and maybe I won't have lost another 3 months of my life the next time I turn around.

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