rec - john sheppard, age 12

So years ago, me and svmadelyn and later miss_porcupine worked on a series called Teacher's Pet. For Wip Amnesty, svmadelyn posted this:

John Sheppard, Age 12 in which John discovers girls, dancing, and adorableness. And Rodney attempts educational porn. You can see where this could go.

*clutches fic* This is so cute I squeal.

Speaking of, svmadelyn declared today WIP Amnesty Day. Bring out the WIPs you know you will never finish and feel the catharsis of finally posting them!

you say hello

Health Care Reform has passed.

It's not everything. This won't be where it ends, but it's where it starts. I didn't expect I'd get to say this, that I'd mean it.

Dear Democratic Party,

This is why I say I'm a Democrat, not an Independent, not undecided. This is why when I'm asked, I don't say I'm not sure, that I'm thinking about it, this is why I never skid around the word like it's dirty when it's anything and everything but. This is what we are, what we're supposed to be, and what we do. I worked over two thousand cases when I was a caseworker and I denied people Medicaid until I hated myself when I went to bed and got up to figure out how I could reconcile the flagrant immorality of what I did when I followed the law with living with myself.

That's what got me through my day. That and fucking google and 211 and the thousand stopgaps created to help a system so broken that it felt impossible it could ever be fixed.

That, and thinking, one day, it would be better. I just had to wait, and I had to hope, and I had to believe that we could do better, because God knows, we couldn't get much worse.

I'm a Democrat and you didn't disappoint me. You did, however, change our world. Well fucking done. Now keep doing it.

Seperis