Mixed bag

Once Upon a Time:
( Spoilers go out to the woods today )

Of possible interest:
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Just found out a friend of mine was once a bone marrow match for a woman with leukemia, but wasn’t allowed to donate because he was gay—and still wouldn’t be in the US. Here’s a petition about the blood donation rules.

Interesting article on the psychological poverty trap: Bad decisions are contextual.

Very smart post on When Libertarians Go To Work, and relatedly if you’re interested in why contracts often don’t matter at all, until they suddenly do, and why that’s an important justification for the liberal state.

( White bread, the history of the A&P, Steve Jobs, randomness, gay first times )

N Crazy Nights

The good: I'm finally doing these!

The bad: ... it's still going to take a while.

for daria234 :

Smallville futurefic where President Luthor, due to threat of natural disaster, is stuck for hours with that annoyingly ethical reporter Clark Kent. Since Lex is smart and Clark is a crap liar, once they're alone in a room together, Lex figures out that Clark must know something about him pre-memory-loss. Basically, Lex is brilliant and there's loads of UST (or ST that gets resolved ;) but also suspicion or antagonism.

( Is that a threat or a promise? )

N Crazy Nights: SPN/Dark Angel

For avidrosette: SPN x DA, Sam/Alec/Dean (all adults), what if always-all-right Alec finally found a place where he was permitted to be vulnerable?

Say what you want, they sure know how to make ‘em pretty

NC-17, all combinations. AU for SPN: the Pulse interrupted the whole breaking-the-seals thing around S4. Beta by giandujakiss.

( ten acts of divine providence )

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