I feel weird to be the one to post this, but it's been just over a week and I imagine the others are busy, so here we go! @redwinevinegar47 @masnadies
Just leave a damn comment
Comment War Week 2 (November 8-14)
I left 85 AO3 comments 😬
Yikes, that feels less like "wahoo you're killing this, good job" and more like, "you need to get a life". 😂
I spent a bit too much time reading and not enough time writing! But I had fun trying to find some new authors, older fics, etc. in addition to following my regular WIPs. I also have been following and commenting my way through an old Longfic so I could pretend to be a WIP reader. 😜 I think it's a lot of fun hehe.
Laudaddy's fic recs!
So, out of the MANY things I read this week, these are some notable favorites (including categories like "best 1941 part 3" and "most unique smut scene" because I just had to have like 6 this week) COME GET YOUR FIC RECS!!! 👇👇👇
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~Best 1941 "part 3" (of all time, not just this week)/ New fave author~
my pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand by @puffmunch-queen
Rated T , 6.5K
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
In the bookshop after everything that night in 1941. Hurt/comfort (injured holy ground feet! Ow!), fluff. Also it's rather funny and well written! Check out their other stuff too, definitely a new favorite author of mine. Good Lawsuits, their most recent, is a fun one to start with too.
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~Best Humor one-shot~ and
~Best Podfic~
A Nice and Accurate Teen Magazine Quiz by @fellshish
rated T, 2.7k words
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Crowley claims credit for creating Teen magazines (naturally), though Beelzebub is concerned that love quiz in it might work more for the other side. So he has to check it out. This is VERY funny, well worth your time!
And listen to the excellent pod by @nosferatini ! (Then don't forget to still give the original author some love.)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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~Fluffy fluff!~
Midwinter Spring by @copperplatebeech
rated T, 2.8K
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
This is a new-to-me but prolific author I found this week (thanks to a FTH podfic done of it by @nosferatini , check that out too), and I'm loving their stuff! In this short fluff we get a very playful Crowley starting a snowball fight with a wager, and of course Aziraphale comes up with rules of engagement, including point values and everything lol.
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~Newly Completed~
The One-Week Husband by @missunderstoodlyrics
rated M, 50K
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Fake Relationship AU, if you haven't found this one yet, run don't walk! This is super freaking romantic, emotional, and sensual! M-rated romance/smut is so often better able to encapsulate those things that I love so much, so it is very nice. I have several contenders for the best kisses of all time in all the fanfiction I've read, and the competition is tiggt imo. I highlighted #1 last week, this one definitely gets 2nd place, a must-read! Slow build and amazing relationship building with ineffables who *gasp* communicate!
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~Best/ most unique smut scene~
Worth a Shot by @captainblou
WIP, rated E, 81K so far
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
I'm enjoying this Basketball AU WIP. Aziraphale is a High School/Secondary English teacher and the BB coach, and Crowley is a former pro-basketball player and the new assistant coach and School Psychologist. Oh, and Scottish, because that's def a selling point.
I can't spoil the scene that I think belongs in fandom legend, but check out the fic and if you like it, just know that you are in for a treat in chapter 11!
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~Fave Longfic~
Temple of the Muses by @ajconstantine
Rated E, 239K
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Escort/Sex Worker AU (Courtesan in a non-homophobic 1840's) This is smoking hot, very well written and interesting! Aziraphale is the reluctant recipient of a gifted courtesan contract (Crowley). You get to watch Aziraphale and Crowley's developing relationship, as well as see what Crowley's training was like years before that (much of it is skippable and rather explicit, but if you can handle it, I recommend it).
This is the one I'm working and commenting my way through (almost done!), trying to pretend to be a WIP reader lol, and it is SO GOOD. The author is also a fastidious researcher so you get some really cool historical tidbits as a bonus.
Just leave a damn comment (semi update, not a real weekly post!!!)
Soooo @redwinevinegar47 and @masnadies shall we do our "week 4" Comment War post and final tallies on Sunday (or Monday) since there are only a couple more days left of November?
(I am totally not just saying this because I've been much worse about commenting this week and, more importantly, don't have nearly enough recs copied down in my notes yet, nope, that can't be the reason...Nope. 😂)
Plus you have a good chance to catch up and BEAT ME because I was writing this week, and am not good at multitasking writing AND commenting like @redwinevinegar47 is. To illustrate, this week I've made 38 comments - less than half of my weekly totals for either weeks 2 or 3! 😮 I'll even be busy having late Friendsgiving tomorrow!
Yes I am completely goading you on, here! It is a WAR, after all, right? 🪖😁🥰🫂 (Yes, the kind of war that involves happiness and hugs and has no losers, but still, a war! 😅)
Joking aside, I had been thinking that we should do that anyway, so what do you say? See you Sunday/Monday for the final body count?
TYSM again @redwinevinegar47 for having this idea and letting me participate! I am loving it!)
So I posted a comment like a year ago on a video pertaining to Mass Effect and Shai'ira involving the trinket she gives you and the information it later renders. Someone responded saying that I was wrong. After going over the canon facts and reviewing the video and poster comments, plus.going back over my comment, I supplied a response. May have just started a comment war, but I will win. I debate Mass Effect while drunk with strangers. I will be damned if I don't defend my words while sober.
Someone in a comment war over guns told me that we should ban all firearms completely (lol) and that there is absolutely no reason why we should not. I had an hour to kill, and replied thusly:
As a disclaimer, the numbers are very difficult to deduce because the vast majority of violent crimes committed with a firearm don't end up with the firearm getting into the hands of the police. Because of that, its hard to tell if the gun was stolen, purchased legally, or what have you. But here goes-
The 1997 DOJ survey of roughly 15,000 convicted criminals showed that of those inmates who used a firearm in the act of a crime,
-0.7% got it from a gun show (Possibly legal, possibly not)
-1% at a flea market (Possibly legal, possibly not)
-3.8% at a pawn shop (Likely legal)
-8.3% from a retail store (Almost certainly legal)
-39.2% purchased from another criminal or stolen from a rightful owner (Illegal)
-39.6% borrowed or stolen from friends or family (illegal, for all intents and purposes) [1]
What this shows is that, even assuming that all the gunshow and flea market sales were legal, then the number of criminals that stole or purchased the firearm from another criminal outnumber the legal purchases almost 3 to 1 (13.8% Legal means, 39.2% certainly illegal).
If you factor in friends and family, that becomes 5.7 to 1. (13.8% legal, 78.8% illegal)
If we acknowledge that, since that 78.8% obtained their guns either in a way that was illegal or outside the jurisdiction of any law enforcement agency (There's no way to prevent you from stealing something you have free access to), than we must logically acknowledge that additional laws wouldn't have stopped them from being obtained.
This means that stricter gun control would, at BEST, prevent 13.8% of guns from being obtained that are used in crimes. the other 78.8% would be completely unhindered.
I've heard it said that that means that you should simply remove all firearms. Lets examine that for a minute:
Based on sales and production data from gun manufacturers, there were roughly 300 million firearms legally owned throughout the united states in 2010 [2]. Based upon surveys in the same year, 40-45% of households in america own firearms [3]
There were 12,996 Murders in the US in 2010 according to the FBI. Of these, 8,775 were committed with SOME type of firearm (6,009 handgun / 358 rifle / 373 shotgun / 96 "other" / 1,939 undetermined) [4] According to the National Gang Center, there were 2,020 murders that were directly related to gang violence [5] This leaves us with 6,755 murders committed in the US with a firearm.
Now, for the sake of simplicity, i'm going to continue as though every murder that was committed with a firearm was committed with a DIFFERENT firearm. Logic would dictate this is incorrect, but it will give a "highball" number and give the "Best case scenario" in the following hypothetical.
If we assume that completely and totally removing firearms from the country could happen overnight and instantly, and that somehow no one was able to make them in their workshop, then you end up removing about 300 MILLION guns from the US people. Of those 300 Million guns, AT MOST 6,755 would have been used in the commission of a violent crime. That means that you just disarmed 40-45% of the US population, who had absolutely no intention of doing anything illegal, because of the statistically 0.0000225166% of guns that are used in commission of a crime.
And you still can't prove that even half those crimes would be committed ANYWAY, just with a different tool.
That's... incredibly unfair to the people who own the other 99.99998% of guns.
[1] http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=940
[2] Book: Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review. By the Committee to Improve Research and Data on Firearms and the Committee on Law and Justice, National Research Council of the National Academies. Edited by Charles F. Wellford, John V. Pepper, and Carol V. Petrie. National Academies Press, 2005. Pages 56-57:
Also, http://www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?ID=83 if you can't get access to the book
[3] A) Dataset: "Average Number of People per Household, by Race and Hispanic Origin, Marital Status, Age, and Education of Householder: 2009." U.S. Census Bureau, January 2009.http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/hh-fam/cps2009.html
Total households = 117,181,000
B) Dataset: "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for the United States, Regions, States, and Puerto Rico: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2008." U.S. Census Bureau, December 2009.http://www.census.gov/popest/states/NST-ann-est.html
As of July 1, 2009, total people = 307,006,550
[4] http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/tables/10shrtbl08.xls
[5] https://www.nationalgangcenter.gov/Survey-Analysis/Measuring-the-Extent-of-Gang-Problems
