then there are blackbirds

magnetic_pole wrote a brilliant piece of Meta: Neoliberal Holmes, or, Everything I Learned About Modern Life I Learned From Sherlock.* Seriously, I would quote, but I would end up quoting the entire thing.

Also, because I forgot to link yesterday: eid_ka_chand's signup post is here!

*and I do mean Sherlock, not Holmes, despite my lazy tagging.

+ camelotsolstice reveals are up, which means I can tell you all that I wrote gang aft agley for netgirl_y2k (aka that gen/OT4 drunk!fic where Merlin and Morgana finally spill)! Also, I can now thank the small village it took to write this story: woldy, for the initial meandering conversation that I took inspiration from in the first place; kelene, who was there to cheerlead when it mattered most; ineffabilitea, who picked up on my faulty word choice/POV issues; and such_heights, who was an awesome beta-on-the-fly and thus put up with a far higher spam-quota than any human being should suffer. *g* &hearts to you all, and also to issahime, who wrote me Shiloh!

+ help_haiti ficlets are coming soon! I plan to finish writing both of them tonight. Anybody interested in looking them over, sometime within the next 24 hours? &hearts

+ I am to do quick book write-ups for yesterday's binge, and you are all to hold me to that, okay? *g*

+ In other news, bossymarmalade's got some awesome ficlets up! Star Trek and Holmes, among others; go and read! :D :D &hearts

+ In other other news, today's linkspam includes two interesting discussions on historical AUs: You don't have to go looking for this stuff, it just traipses across your reading page, you guys, by zvi, and History without oppression?, by naraht. These posts reminded me of sheafrotherdon's The Stories We Tell, although the fic that sparked that essay was in an entirely different fandom/historical context.