who are these people? do I know them?

I keep seeing a new rating system, with acronyms like "FRT" or "FRAO" (which I think means "too adult for you, vaznetti). What do these letters stand for? Where does it come from? I like ratings, but not if I don't know what they mean.

Of course, I am an absolutely awful rater-of-fic: my instinct is to rate pretty much everything I write "R," not because it always contains swearing and almost never has any sex or violence more explicit than you'd see in an R-rated film, but just because it seems like a reasonable approximation of "if you read this and find it disturbing, that's your problem, not mine." Although really, I don't think I write very disturbing stories at all.

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If I were going to write a Supernatural story that had the whole Odyssey as its intertext, that would be crazy, right?

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There are new people reading the journal, I see. Hi, new people! I'm always curious about how people find me, so feel free to comment on how you got here, or just fill out the handy little "why am I here?" poll. Or both.

( why am I here? )

I was tempted to add other questions, of the "I'd like to see more of" and "I'd like to see less of" variety, but this journal is not a democracy. The sad truth is that I write whatever it is that I write, largely because I can't write anything else.

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I slept in this morning, and have a huge amount of marking to do now. Woe!

John Winchester and Roman values

This is not the meta I'm supposed to be writing, but it is something I've meant to write for a while.

I've said a few times that while Sam and Dean may well be Greek, John Winchester is a Roman through-and-through. And then I forget that other people might not know exactly what I mean by that, so here it is.

( husbands and wives )

( paternal power )

( war, duty and love )

So yes, a Roman through and through, or at least, a particular kind of Roman: the kind of Roman the Romans liked to think they were. No wonder I fell hard for the character.

Rome 2x02: Son of Hades

So I've gone from Supernatural to Rome to Rome today. Sorry for spamming, but I couldn't help posting about this episode.

( spoilers for Rome, episode 2, Son of Hades )

Eeee! Romans!