Unthinkable Wings

Bother. I'd wanted to copy out the bit in one of the Patrick O'Brians in which Steven goes to church and reflects that wherever the church is, the Mass is like coming home, and then leaves the church and is back in a strange country.

Except rather better expressed.

Anyway, I can't remember what book it is in, and anyway, I lent all the ones I had with me to my morher, so they're now at the other end of the country.

Worrying about such inconsequential matters shows that I ought to go to bed.

There's no way a fic with this premise can't be crack - in the sense of it being a weird idea - but this is very well done; frightening, and remarkably sad (since, unlike zombie movies, we already know and love the characters). Jack and Stephen deal with a horrible plague of revenants which has devastated the British Isles, as well as the terrible strain it puts upon their friendship. Character death, and some very unpleasant moments: but had O'Brian written about zombies, it might have looked like this.

Am off to Munich for the weekend - and on Monday I'm going to Colmar (but it will involve looking at mediaeval paintings, so that's work - right?)

I posted a whole lot of cards, including most of the lj ones. Apologies for the lack of stamps - I took them to the post office in the hope of getting nice stamps, instead of the horrid ones from the machines, but before I had a chance to object, the girl behind the counter stuck what look like parcel labels on them. Bah.

I keep walking past a poster for a talk by the forensic entomologist Mark Benecke, who I've just googled and who appears to have a fine conceit of himself, judging by his website.

However, that's not the point: the point being that the poster's photo - which is here, in a slightly differently cropped form, keeps making me think "...Stephen Maturin?", despite the fact that a second inspection shows that he's wearing a modern and probably very expensive trekking shirt. But there's just something very Stephenish about it somehow. Though I don't think Stephen would be conceited or humourless enough to describe himself as "The Lord of the Maggots"....

Because I'm bored, I've borrowed the Character Love Meme from dolorous_ett

Name a character from one of my fandoms, and I will write no more than 100 words on why I love them.

Fot the purposes of this exercise, my fandoms are defined as Harry Potter, Tolkien, Doctor Who (but please bear in mind that I have never seen an episode of Six and my knowledge of Old Who is somewhat patchy), Patrick O'Brian, Dorothy L Sayers, Terry Prachett, and Star Trek (TOS and DS9).