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misscamZidane wins best player award
As I feel the slight irony of it, I notice a line at the end proclaiming; And semi-finalists Portugal won Fifa's most entertaining team award.
PORTUGAL?! I suppose that depends on how you define "entertaining" and whether or not you mean football-play-wise or dramaqueen-wise or look-at-how-may-cards-we-can-get-in-one-game-wise, but... Oh, man. Portugal???
... PORTUGAL?!
Meanwhile, Aussies are wanking over Italy's WC win
Others wank elsewhere
And an Italian is being wanky (His f_w wiki entry is gold.)
Teasing bits from works-in-progress of mine, as the mean tease I am.
"An Adventure in Norway". Doctor Who, Ten/Rose, post-"Doomsday".
The Doctor is thinking about adventures again.
He's had them, lived them, died by them, been regenerated into them, become them. They've formed him, and he's formed the Universe through them. A fair sort of trade, perhaps, as fair as anything in the Universe could ever be.
There's one adventure he hasn't had, can't have. He told Rose that, the Rose the Universe has taken from him as he always knew it would. That doesn't feel fair at all, not to him. Certainly not to him. Fair is giving him what he wants.
He still has the arrogance to not feel ashamed at thinking that. Still a Time Lord, even if he is the last. So many adventures, and they'll all come to silence when he dies. No remembrance for Gallifrey. No remembrance for the Doctor.
One adventure he hasn't had. Can't have, but can fake.
Rose is twenty. She might live to eighty - that is the average for her time and her kind. Sixty years of life. Long time for one single adventure. He might go a little mad. Wouldn't be the first time, but might be the last. But still, he's never rushed into adventures expecting no dangers. He'll just have to think of normal life as a Dalek and duck a lot.
Sixty years.
One adventure he hasn't had.
He's always enjoyed leaving no spot undiscovered.
"Curse of Gods". Doctor Who, Ten/Rose, guest appearances by Jack.
"You made my heart beat again," he says, holding it out to her. The beating of it seems to thunder in her ears. "You healed flesh, you reassembled atoms, you brought me back. No silence for Jack Harkness. I hear and I remember and it hurts."
She is crying, but he shows no signs of sympathy, no signs of forgiveness.
"Rose Tyler, murderer," he says, dropping his heart and it spirals into space, no ground beneath them to halt its fall. "Rose Tyler, forcer of life. Rose Tyler, the power of gods and none of the wisdom. You need to learn, little girl."
He smiles, and it's a wolf's smile. "You will."
She wakes and thinks it just another dream.
She's just had it a few times in a row, is all.
"Synonyms for Love", Nine/Rose, Ten/Rose, also featuring Eight, Charley, Romana, Reinette, original characters
The Earth goes boom, and he takes Rose out for chips. Or rather, she takes him. She's not his girlfriend and he's certainly not her boyfriend (not that Ricky the Idiot would offer much competition), but it's still a date, still two people sharing a meal and the start of something. He's not sure what, but he's never paused for analysations on the very good reasoning that he would never get anything else done. What is, is. Everything else, he'll make something of.
Rose laughs easily, even after what she's just seen, and she smiles at him without pity, even after what he's told her. He likes both.
"Do aliens also have chips?" she asks, licking salt off her fingers. He watches, feeling a little strange.
"Only the really sophisticated ones."
"You never see that on telly," she reflects. "Aliens always seem to be eating something with tentacles."
"That's because humans are gross with gross ideas," he informs her, and she nicks a chip from him in retaliation. He doesn't take one from her, because she'll learn about loss soon enough. All too soon with him. Perhaps she's even forming ideas already.
Maybe he likes that too.
"Funny still," she goes on, chewing with consideration, "all the ideas humans got about aliens probably being all wrong. Like they're all going to speak proper English. You never think about dialects. Planets having a North and all."
"There's a lot of things you lot don't think about and still entertain ideas over."
She gives him a look he can't quite read, at least not yet. He makes a note of it for when he might be able to.
"Living Myths", Ten/Rose, parts post-"Doomsday".
"We're not doing that again," Rose says, arms crossed.
"Oh, come on!" the Doctor protests. "It was fun!"
"Fun? Maybe for you - you weren't the one dangling in the air on international television, knickers exposed! And don't think I didn't notice your sudden buddy Grant taking snappies, either! I just hope mum doesn't watch Mythbusters."
"Your mum? Unlikely. Coronation Street is more her style."
"Why are you such a fan of the show that you had to bluff your way in to help with testing urban myths, anyhoo?"
He looks at her, eyes shining with stars and mirth. "With me, Rose, you're living myths."
"Jackie's Fairytale", Jackie/Pete, some implied Doctor/Rose, guest-starring the TARDIS.
There is a fairytale I know, the voice whispers to her. Would you like to hear it?
Yes.
Once upon a time there was a human girl and she was named Rose after a fairytale of long ago. And I called her the wolf, the bad, bad wolf, for I knew what she would become.
Did she do something bad?
Yes. She did something no one is supposed to do. And then she saved the world, time and the prince who was no prince at all.
How?
She burned, little girl. She burned like the sun and evil turned to ashes before her. But the prince brought her back with a kiss.
Then what? Happily ever after?
There is no happily ever after in time. I burn all, end all, kill all. And I live all.
That sounds sad.
How would you have ended it then, little Jackie?
I wouldn't have ended it at all. I would have told the fairytale forever.
To be continued, as they say.
News from Norway:
Polar bear stops by airport
Viking ship replica a bit too big for Oslo
Thief nicks refugee photos (WTF?)
Politician accused of gay bashing after bemoaning lack of 'gay-free' beach (ohNOES someone gay might be drooling over a straight person! What horror! It's a drool-for-all society!)
German tourists saved from fjord
As I feel the slight irony of it, I notice a line at the end proclaiming; And semi-finalists Portugal won Fifa's most entertaining team award.
PORTUGAL?! I suppose that depends on how you define "entertaining" and whether or not you mean football-play-wise or dramaqueen-wise or look-at-how-may-cards-we-can-get-in-one-game-wise, but... Oh, man. Portugal???
... PORTUGAL?!
Meanwhile, Aussies are wanking over Italy's WC win
Others wank elsewhere
And an Italian is being wanky (His f_w wiki entry is gold.)
Teasing bits from works-in-progress of mine, as the mean tease I am.
"An Adventure in Norway". Doctor Who, Ten/Rose, post-"Doomsday".
The Doctor is thinking about adventures again.
He's had them, lived them, died by them, been regenerated into them, become them. They've formed him, and he's formed the Universe through them. A fair sort of trade, perhaps, as fair as anything in the Universe could ever be.
There's one adventure he hasn't had, can't have. He told Rose that, the Rose the Universe has taken from him as he always knew it would. That doesn't feel fair at all, not to him. Certainly not to him. Fair is giving him what he wants.
He still has the arrogance to not feel ashamed at thinking that. Still a Time Lord, even if he is the last. So many adventures, and they'll all come to silence when he dies. No remembrance for Gallifrey. No remembrance for the Doctor.
One adventure he hasn't had. Can't have, but can fake.
Rose is twenty. She might live to eighty - that is the average for her time and her kind. Sixty years of life. Long time for one single adventure. He might go a little mad. Wouldn't be the first time, but might be the last. But still, he's never rushed into adventures expecting no dangers. He'll just have to think of normal life as a Dalek and duck a lot.
Sixty years.
One adventure he hasn't had.
He's always enjoyed leaving no spot undiscovered.
"Curse of Gods". Doctor Who, Ten/Rose, guest appearances by Jack.
"You made my heart beat again," he says, holding it out to her. The beating of it seems to thunder in her ears. "You healed flesh, you reassembled atoms, you brought me back. No silence for Jack Harkness. I hear and I remember and it hurts."
She is crying, but he shows no signs of sympathy, no signs of forgiveness.
"Rose Tyler, murderer," he says, dropping his heart and it spirals into space, no ground beneath them to halt its fall. "Rose Tyler, forcer of life. Rose Tyler, the power of gods and none of the wisdom. You need to learn, little girl."
He smiles, and it's a wolf's smile. "You will."
She wakes and thinks it just another dream.
She's just had it a few times in a row, is all.
"Synonyms for Love", Nine/Rose, Ten/Rose, also featuring Eight, Charley, Romana, Reinette, original characters
The Earth goes boom, and he takes Rose out for chips. Or rather, she takes him. She's not his girlfriend and he's certainly not her boyfriend (not that Ricky the Idiot would offer much competition), but it's still a date, still two people sharing a meal and the start of something. He's not sure what, but he's never paused for analysations on the very good reasoning that he would never get anything else done. What is, is. Everything else, he'll make something of.
Rose laughs easily, even after what she's just seen, and she smiles at him without pity, even after what he's told her. He likes both.
"Do aliens also have chips?" she asks, licking salt off her fingers. He watches, feeling a little strange.
"Only the really sophisticated ones."
"You never see that on telly," she reflects. "Aliens always seem to be eating something with tentacles."
"That's because humans are gross with gross ideas," he informs her, and she nicks a chip from him in retaliation. He doesn't take one from her, because she'll learn about loss soon enough. All too soon with him. Perhaps she's even forming ideas already.
Maybe he likes that too.
"Funny still," she goes on, chewing with consideration, "all the ideas humans got about aliens probably being all wrong. Like they're all going to speak proper English. You never think about dialects. Planets having a North and all."
"There's a lot of things you lot don't think about and still entertain ideas over."
She gives him a look he can't quite read, at least not yet. He makes a note of it for when he might be able to.
"Living Myths", Ten/Rose, parts post-"Doomsday".
"We're not doing that again," Rose says, arms crossed.
"Oh, come on!" the Doctor protests. "It was fun!"
"Fun? Maybe for you - you weren't the one dangling in the air on international television, knickers exposed! And don't think I didn't notice your sudden buddy Grant taking snappies, either! I just hope mum doesn't watch Mythbusters."
"Your mum? Unlikely. Coronation Street is more her style."
"Why are you such a fan of the show that you had to bluff your way in to help with testing urban myths, anyhoo?"
He looks at her, eyes shining with stars and mirth. "With me, Rose, you're living myths."
"Jackie's Fairytale", Jackie/Pete, some implied Doctor/Rose, guest-starring the TARDIS.
There is a fairytale I know, the voice whispers to her. Would you like to hear it?
Yes.
Once upon a time there was a human girl and she was named Rose after a fairytale of long ago. And I called her the wolf, the bad, bad wolf, for I knew what she would become.
Did she do something bad?
Yes. She did something no one is supposed to do. And then she saved the world, time and the prince who was no prince at all.
How?
She burned, little girl. She burned like the sun and evil turned to ashes before her. But the prince brought her back with a kiss.
Then what? Happily ever after?
There is no happily ever after in time. I burn all, end all, kill all. And I live all.
That sounds sad.
How would you have ended it then, little Jackie?
I wouldn't have ended it at all. I would have told the fairytale forever.
To be continued, as they say.
News from Norway:
Polar bear stops by airport
Viking ship replica a bit too big for Oslo
Thief nicks refugee photos (WTF?)
Politician accused of gay bashing after bemoaning lack of 'gay-free' beach (ohNOES someone gay might be drooling over a straight person! What horror! It's a drool-for-all society!)
German tourists saved from fjord
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Date: 2006-07-11 01:57 pm (UTC)Me? Obsessed? Absolutely not!
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Date: 2006-07-11 02:03 pm (UTC)Regardless of what was said, headbutting another player purposely during a game is just idiotic to do. Your team will be down one player and at a disadvantage. Not to mention violence as an answer shouldn't be condoned at all.
Such a shame - of course, if the Italian said something truly nasty, he has shame on his own. But that doesn't change that it's just not on to get violent.
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Date: 2006-07-11 02:06 pm (UTC)I am not going to argue with you about that. You were always more towards peace while I do tend to fly off the handle at a drop of a hat, so...
Zidane did what he felt he had to do, idiotic or otherwise. He's paying the consequences right now and soon enough, the Italian is going to be paying them as well.
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Date: 2006-07-11 02:23 pm (UTC)Football has a serious problem with racism, but reacting with violence will just fuel the flames. *If* that was what the Italian guy said - we've yet to get that confirmed. I've seen at least two very different accounts going around, and I'm not sure we'll ever know exactly. FIFA's looking into it - if bad shit is proven, no doubt Materazzi will get some kind of reaction.
Either way, Zidane had a great career. He's hardly the only great football player to lose his head. Doesn't make it okay, but does make it human.
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Date: 2006-07-11 02:30 pm (UTC)The investigation is launched.
So yes, FIFA is indeed looking into the matter.
Despite there being two different versions (I'm actually amazed there aren't more) either of the comments is disgusting and really racist.
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Date: 2006-07-11 02:35 pm (UTC)And yeah, I saw that. But given the differences between the two versions, either needn't be correct. Only the two players will know, and they're likely to recollect it differently either way.
I've no doubt it was nasty - just some of the insults thrown at referees during matches shows the football field is not a place where they save their vitrol for later.
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Date: 2006-07-11 02:40 pm (UTC)emo or otherwise. Har har! :PThe Italian is claiming he doesn't even know the meaning of the word "terrorist" because he is "ignorant". *headdesk* GAFF material, surely?! Ignorant! Yeah, no argument there!
Zidane's meant to give a press conference. Hopefully he shall and the truth will come out. Either way, the comment was racist and well...I don't like racism and I think those who disagree (read: the Italian in question) should take a long drive off a short cliff.
Did you get my e-mail?
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Date: 2006-07-11 02:53 pm (UTC)Don't like racism myself. It's right up there in disgusting things with homophobia and sexism. That doesn't mean I find just any way of reacting to it okay. I've seen violence and murder done in the name of racism. I have no desire to see it in the name of fighting racism. Falling down to a certain level just makes me sad.
Who the heck is ignorant of what terrorism is in this day and information-overload age? Sounds very odd. Might be a mistranslation or the fellow just managed to master idiocy.
Probably got your e-mail. Haven't sorted today's e-mails quite yet - blah, blah, life.
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Date: 2006-07-11 03:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-12 03:16 pm (UTC)*hopelessly violent*
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Date: 2006-07-12 04:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-11 02:05 pm (UTC)Bring on Euro 2008.
Yes - but at least your team made it there. Norway's got kicked out in qualifiers by the Czechs. Woe. No hugging at all.
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Date: 2006-07-11 02:01 pm (UTC)At least there's something to look forward to! Type fast. :D
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Date: 2006-07-11 02:07 pm (UTC)Only disadvantage of working on many fics at once is that you're never sure which one to focus on and you end up writing a little here and a little there.
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Date: 2006-07-11 02:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-11 02:38 pm (UTC)Don't have children, so can't say. Do have a cat, which can be distracting enough. Alone time can be precious, oh yes.
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Date: 2006-07-11 03:25 pm (UTC)PORTUGAL?! I suppose that depends on how you define "entertaining" and whether or not you mean football-play-wise or dramaqueen-wise or look-at-how-may-cards-we-can-get-in-one-game-wise, but... Oh, man. Portugal???
::snort:: Hey, their games weren't dull, I guess.
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Date: 2006-07-11 03:42 pm (UTC)Seriously, PORTUGAL?!
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Date: 2006-07-11 03:28 pm (UTC)I offer the same response to this politician that I gave to an acquaintance who wanted to go see Maya Angelou read at a local glbt festival but didn't think she could "handle all the passes." My response: "Nice ego you got there."
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Date: 2006-07-11 03:43 pm (UTC)Heck, I'd be flattered if another woman found me shaggable, even if I'd be unlikely to act on it.
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Date: 2006-07-11 03:34 pm (UTC)*snork* Oh I can't wait to read this one. Can't wait to read them all, actually. Yay ficbits.
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Date: 2006-07-11 03:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-11 05:19 pm (UTC)"I therefore want a beach in our community that's free of gays and lesbians, a place where we normal, heterosexual people can sunbathe and swim in peace and quiet," Djøseland wrote.
*boggles* I'd love to know how they'd make that one work. Seriously.
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Date: 2006-07-11 10:55 pm (UTC)Norway has the most interesting headlines. They sound like something out of a novel, the last one out of the Hitchhiker's. It's the fjord mention..
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Date: 2006-07-11 11:28 pm (UTC)Additionally, I had no idea there was a wanking wiki in existance.
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Date: 2006-07-12 03:25 pm (UTC)And--trying so hard not wank, but fucking Italian team--I mean, yes, Zizou deserved the red card, but god almighty Fifa is so fucking stupid when it comes to stopping persistently foul play, like what the Italian team does. Clearly the current system of penalties isn't working, because wtf Italy team playing so dirty and how the fuck did they win like that, dammit!
Yes, they're good, and I will give you that they are probably better than the French team ('cept for Zizou because he is awesome and I am totally biased), but arrrggghhh it's just so frustrating, y'know?
I still say he deserves the best player award. *is sad* It's one blip (or one of a few blips, not the first time he's gotten pissed) in a really lovely career, and it's his last match and he IS THAT DAMN GOOD and all.
He deserved the red card too, though, and it kinda hurts to say that.
(When did I become a fan? I don't know. This scares me.)