The meme that is going like wildfire across my flist...

Make a list of all the characters in your icons. (Although you may have more than one icon of a single character, they only go on the list once.) Alphabetize it. Take the first two people on the list; that's your first pairing. Second two people; second pairing. Etc

( Ooooooh dear )

Butterflies Mate in Spring (CSI, GSR)

(You can read it here (ff.net) or here (CSI Forensics) if you so prefer.)

Butterflies Mate in Spring
by Camilla Sandman

Summary: Some wrongs have no right. There is no new life to get when something terrible happens. And still the seasons do pass, scars fade, glue holds and the butterflies mate in spring. [GSR]

Rating: PG-13 for some implied violence

Disclaimer: The CSI characters belong to CBS. I only borrow for my own amusement.

Author's Note: Thanks to Lynn for name lending. Liberties have been taken with Sara's backstory and some of what is implied here is only the author's imagination. Other facts are taken from the episodes Nesting Dolls and Committed. Spoiler warning applies.

II

( She remembers the cold as a blessing, freezing everything else in her, winter in body and mind... )

Oh, bollocks.

Remember Fred Phelps, that asshat? (If you don't, see here & here.)

Well, his various remarks about the Swedish Royal family has made The King of Sweden call in the lawyers.

And how does Phelps respond, you ask? Phelps is coming to Sweden

"We'll hunt down your king," he said ominously to Expressen. "It doesn't make any difference where he tries to hide."

The minister and twenty members of his congregation from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, are planning to come to Sweden at the beginning of September. They are bringing plenty of placards in order to spread their message that Sweden is the cradle of all evil and that the king rules a nation of sodomites.

Sweden, you have my deepest, deepest sympathy. I feel a dark, deep shudder just knowing that hate-spewer is going to be on the same continet as me, let alone the the neighbouring country. Shudder. Am also very tempted to go to Sweden and tell him to sod off and be gay for a day in his honour. Asshat.

Though I wonder if he's aware Swedish laws differ from American laws when it comes to freedom of speech... Maybe he'll actually get himself arrested while there. Or maybe Odin will smite him in rightful fury.

I live in hope.