Some thoughts on Jericho (to 1x14: Heart of Winter)

Are they changing the television schedules around, or am I having short-term memory problems? Whatever the case, I missed the first few minutes of Jericho last night (but will be able to catch them on the special Canadian rerun, hooray.)

I like this show more and more, as I watch it. Last week's episode was all about worldbuilding -- and particularly about what's gone on outside the town's borders. How will people get enough to eat, and keep sheltered and warm; who will they trade with and how; who's in charge of what. I am a big sucker for worldbuilding, particularly in a postapocalyptic scenario. I want to know how ordinary people are getting along, or failing to get along, and this show gives me that. This week's episode focused on the same questions, but on the personal scale: not how the world has changed, but how it's changed the people living in it.

( spoilers for last night's episode, but mostly general commentary )

Happy International Women's Day!

I know I'm copying this meme from someone on my friendslist, but I can't remember who. But in honor of international women's day, five stories about women, in five fandoms. Some gen, some not so gen.

Iron Points North (AtS, Fred): Fred needs to be somewhere else.
This is a small story, just four brief scenes from Fred's life, but I think it turned out well.

The Gates of Ivory (XF, Marita): Marita goes on a quest.
So it's resfic, and Krycek is a complete bastard as usual in my stories, and I'm not entirely sure about the style, but I was proud of it when I wrote it and I'm still quite fond of it.

Dust and Air (SPN, Missouri): I went to Missouri and I learned the truth.
See, even in a fandom famous for not having women in it, I'm still writing about women. It's like a curse, except the good kind of curse.

Dancing in Illusion (FF/SW, River): River takes Serenity dancing through the darkness.
I wrote this as a pinch-hit for last year's multiverse, and I think it came out well: as soon as I saw River and Yoda on the prompt list I knew I could write it.

Obituary (Alias, Irina): A legend for a girl.
Irina, looking back on Lauren. I need to try the first person again, someday.

OK, there were two three runners-up: Morning (XF, Marita), Tense and Skin (Alias, Sydney/Lauren), and Memorial Inscriptions (HP/BtVS, Dawn/Hermione), but the first was too much like everything else I write, I just don't like the second quite as much as I like Obituary (even though it's probably a better story) and the third... actually, I don't know why I didn't add the third. Really, Dawn/Hermione is just a perfect pairing. Numerology, demonology, ice cream and bad drama.

The other thing I learned from this is that it's been a year and a half since I updated my web site, and I really need to do something about that. But now there are lots of stories and it all seems so overwhelming.