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Went to town this morning, bought some wrapping stuff. The Fairy is leaving to study in France for a year, and it was her birthday on Wednesday, so we're (the old group! oy) going out tonight. I bought her AM Holmes' collection of short stories (The Safety of Objects) and Pablo Neruda's Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair (Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada) because she said she was saving money for Real Life things and thus couldn't afford to buy books. To which I declare (a) BOOKS ARE REAL LIFE THINGS! and also (b) well, if you can't buy them, I will. So. The Neruda, by the way, I am totally coveting. It's gorgeous to look at and it has the originals as well as the translations. !!!
Also, HAHA, yes, I'm actually going out tonight. CONTAIN YOURSELVES. (Um: I know where the restaurant is, but apparently we're meeting somewhere else beforehand for drinks? Fuck if I know where. Does anyone local know where Rigby's is?)
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It's Friday. I think the options will be fairly obvious today. I know I already rec'd The Be Good Tanyas, but it might be worth doing again.
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So, my issue with yesterday's rec was that I didn't know how to describe it without saying that it's Sheppard/Weir. Because it is that but the fic isn't really about the two of them doing couple-y things, or getting together on Atlantis. It's a realist fic, about family, about levels of loss. But, yes, it's also Sheppard/Weir. I just don't want people to be put off by that as a label, and it got me thinking: to what extent are pairing labels misleading? Or rather, to what extent is such a label necessary to define a fic. I'm loath to read Sheppard/McKay, but there are times when I do if only because regardless of that being the ship being represented in the fic, the fic isn't actually about that pairing. So at what point do ship labels become redundant?
Whatever: if you haven't already, check out the rec in the last post.
