Horror

Unfortunately, mass shootings are now almost commonplace in the U.S. in recent years, but this one is exploding the Internet because it's the deadliest in American history: so far, 50 dead and 53 hospitalized. The shooting started at 2:00 this morning at a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and the shooter has been identified as a Muslim, so the FBI is investigating whether this is a terrorist attack in addition to a hate crime. The deceased shooter's father says it's not terrorism. His son just hated gays. Nice. The shooter might have been set off after seeing two men kiss on the street in Orlando.

I am always sad for the victims and their loved ones. Just as sadly, nothing will change. The usual screeds and arguments will be trotted out about gun control and violence and nothing will be done. If the shooting of grade school kids a few years ago could get nothing done, nothing ever will.

It's Pride Week in the gay community. :(

 

Ficcish Update

I signed up for the marvel_bang! :)

Frankly, I thought I was going to bypass any Big Bang this year as I had no ideas as the sign-up dates approached. Wasn't that big a deal since I've been writing Big Bangs since 2011 and nothing was materializing for the dcu_bang and marvel_bang, so I decided to see if I could get inspiration from Captain America 3: Civil War. Even after that it was sketchy but with a couple of days before sign-ups closed, I got inspiration! :)

The Raven And The Nightingale is stalled after I thought it was revving up again, but such is the way of things. I think I'll do some more research while waiting to write again. It's just too much fun to relegate to never getting out of the notebook stage. :)

I've got two birthday stories I owe and happily am working on one and have an idea for the other.

I've got some stories that are still in the notebook stage. One's a Jurassic Park tale that I wrote last year in a flurry of inspiration after seeing the first film again and those fun 'n' sexy scientists, Alan and Ian! :)

I've got a Steve/Bucky tale inspired by Age Of Ultron that's just been sitting in the Unsatisfied pile. I may try and fix that up.

And I've been editing a Clark/Bruce story told from the POV of Lois, one of my favorite things. :)

Still working on my Han/Luke comfort food fic. Comfort food: a fic that has no deadline and is generally fairly long so that I can enjoy the writing with no pressure. Even my own Challenges and Big Bangs have slight pressure. You have to work on a deadline fic while comfort food is worked on when hungry, er, in the mood. :)

I might even take a crack at the clexmas Spring Fling! Reverse Bang. I hadn't intended to but the art submissions are pretty intriguing, so who knows? That's in the 'Maybe' queue. :)

So it looks like my marvel_bang story will be a summer project. Maybe I can spin a few seaside tales this summer, too. :)