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[rivkat]

Firefly. Wow. I've never laughed so hard at a torture scene in my life. And none of the characters are rewrites of Buffy/Angel characters, the way that WW characters rewrite those of SN. There's traits, sure, but Wash is more than a little bit Xander, a little bit Oz. If Zoe kicks any more ass, she's going to have to aim at her own backside, 'cause nothing else is left.

Is anyone else watching Taken? I find it interesting and boring by turns. Halfway through, so I guess I'm committed to watching until the end. It's nowhere near the commitment that, say, the last two seasons of XF were.

I have a very strange vertical bruise along my spine at the small of my back. Can't figure out how I got it. My body is as much a stranger to me as anyone else's.

I was reading Derek Lowe's excellent chemistry blog, and the following story came to me, chemistry copied and/or paraphrased from him. I'm not sure it's worth posting elsewhere (nor am I sure it would fit on LexSlash, though it's UST-friendly). Dark Lex. Please comment.

Philadelphia
Summary: There are signposts on the road to darkness. Or, if all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister?

Edited: go here for the final version of the story.

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[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the detailed comments. I see exactly what you're saying. I'm not sure I want to set it in the Metropolis era, but I should make clear that it's not second-season Lex either. This is Lex near the end of his time in Smallville, when he's learned a lot more from Lionel and forgotten most of what Clark was trying to teach him. I do think it's pre-Rift, because in my megalomaniacal cosmology Lex is doing a lot of bad things before Clark finally admits that to himself, triggering the Rift.