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Article about Merlin S3: Scans from SFX Magazine!

Okay, so I know I'm just getting excited about something that will probably disappoint me but, you know, sometimes you gotta get those hopes up.

- Possible Gwen history? For up to three episodes? A brother? A family? A story about her? That she gets to participate in?
- Arthur/Gwen UST? A holding pattern?
- Morgana/Merlin confrontation? Pleeeeease?
- NINJAS IN CAMELOT?

HOOK ME UP!

Also, I am a sheep. A lot of the Merlin people I follow have moved their game to onceandfutures, and I'm following that rather than camelot_love these days.

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NCIS fic: "Nothing Easy, Something Good" - PG-13 [Tony/Ziva]

TITLE: Nothing Easy, Something Good
SUMMARY: Love and betrayal are common themes of the men in Ziva's life: father, brother, lover. That won't be the case at NCIS.
RATING: PG-13
CATEGORY: het, friendship, UST, character study, relationship study.
PAIRING: Tony/Ziva (sort of, ish, UST thingamawhatsit)
DISCLAIMER: Not mine, belong to CBS and Belisarius productions, etc. Making no money, don't shoot my bank account!
NOTES: Written for espressomorning in the ncis_ficathon to the prompt Abby, Gibbs, and/or Ducky’s POV on Tony/Ziva (HET) post-Aaliyah and into Season 7 (Ziva's return). I think this counts as my first NCIS fic that isn't either a crossover or PWP. Scary moment, that step which takes you fully into a new fandom...

The story kicked my ass up until the last week of this ficathon and it's been annoying me greatly - what angle to take, what story to tell. Plus, I realised last night, it completely fails the Bedchel test. Bugger! There was going to be this whole section where Abby and Ziva have dinner. But that will have to be another fic, because it doesn't fit the framework that this one adopted. And Abby's a bit of a mystery to me. Ziva I can do; Abby is new ground. We'll see what we can come up with.

Nothing Easy, Something Good

australian democracy - how I love it!

Australia: the only democracy where you get a snag (sausage/hot-dog) and a lamington (chocolate sponge cake) at the polling booth.

Okay, not really, but most polling places are public primary schools, which the government of both stripes generally scants when it comes to financing. (The plebs don't need to be prop'ly educated, after all! They're there to become good little workers, unthinking and obedient!) So the local schools tend to run sausage sizzles and bake sales when it's polling day.

The Twitter tag #ausvotes is moving pretty fast right now. Trending, even!

I haven't gone to vote yet - not until about 5pm, when the volunteers have wearied and I can simply wave them off as they try to push the voting plans into my hands.

Not that it makes too much difference here in my electorate: politically, it swings Liberal (conservative) every year. We haven't been offered so much as an electoral mung bean, let alone a whole carrot, for the last fifty years!