If you could invent a holiday, what and when would it be? What special traditions would take place on that day?Old Entertainment Vid Day. It would be celebrated by endless rewatchings of old Earth shows and films, discussion of favourite scenes, reenactment of same, and lots of dressing up in costume. As for when it would take place - hm. I'd vote ( Read more... )

A friend asked me something similar a while ago. It really depends on the mood I'm in. Usually, in eight of ten cases, I would go for the quiet, romantic variety. But every now and then, I need to cut loose, and right now, I've reached such a point. I probably would be on edge due to everything that's been happening on the station lately anyway, ( Read more... )

I'm tempted to say Casper the Ghost these days. Okay, seriously: there are several people I admire. Anna, who went through everything I did and much worse and came out on the other side. Each time I'm tempted to feel sorry for myself, I remind myself of this. Varzil, who fights the most difficult struggle of all - trying to stop the people on his ( Read more... )

It used to be very simple. Your focus tends to narrow while you're on the run, until evil is simply the institution chasing you and the laws that created it to begin with, and good is everyone helping you escape. If nothing else, being actually captured changes, not so much due to the lessons they want you to learn but through the fact you have all ( Read more... )

Oh, horror, unquestioningly. Our heroine is captured by monsters who carve her inside out and transform her into a tool for them. But here's the twist: she is able to turn the table on them, she and the others to whom the monsters did the same thing. They use what the monsters are afraid of, their minds, hold the monsters and make them scream for a ( Read more... )

It depends on the society and the epoch. It’s one of the first things you learn when you study history, which I did for a time: you can’t impose a system on a society that does not have a sound ideological basis for it. Besides, often the wish to export your own system, while often masquerading as beneficial, usually is driven by economics. In the ( Read more... )

Anna, if you have a moment....

*what follows is heavily encrypted and only visible to Anna*

I finally managed to reach Al! And he's coming to visit the station soon. I can't tell you how happy this makes me, but at the same time, I'm incredibly worried ( Read more... )

On varzil_neskaya's world, the planet Darkover. And not just because I have come to regard Varzil as a friend these recent weeks, or because I imagine it as an ideal place. I am not that naive, and Varzil's tales of his world, which fascinate me, show in ample detail how many problems they have - and enough horror to compete with our universe. But I could live ( Read more... )

An old entertainment vid, Rashomon. It was the answer to a challenge.

"Don't you see," I had told Al, "better quarters, more food - these are all things you can give me because I'm a prisoner, and you are one of the gaolers. It has nothing to do with you. If you had anything of your own, something which has nothing to do with the Corps, that ( Read more... )

I'm not sure whether I'm angry or amused.