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Looking for a fic—
Does anyone have a complete copy of Making It Better by Sideris (E, 96k) and is willing to share? I can get the first chapter off the Internet Archive, but none of the other six chapters. Here's the summary:
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John’s sure there’s something he ought to say to that, some question that needs to be asked and answered, but it’s hard to think straight because Sherlock has wormed a hand under his jumper now, and is busily tugging the bottom of John's shirt free of his trousers, fingertips dancing over skin that hasn’t been touched by anyone else for a whole year, and - god - they’re Sherlock’s fingertips, and-
- and how the hell is that even possible?
Returning to London, and his old life, proves harder and more dangerous than Sherlock expected.
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I would name my firstborn after you, but, alas, he already has a name. But I would be most grateful.
I asked about fics by Sideris a short while ago but I could not remember the exact fic I was looking for. I have remembered now that it was called Working It Out. Do you or any of your followers happen to have a link on the Wayback? I would be very grateful.
Reply: Yes, it's there. As always, download and save your own copy, as it may disappear at any time.
Working It Out by Sideris (111K, E, Johnlock)
This story started out as a one-off. Chapter 1 (Epiphany) is unaltered and can still be read that way. John discovers it's Sherlock's birthday whilst Sherlock makes a series of disturbing discoveries of his own, leading them to embark upon a relationship that was never going to be easy. Please note that I have chosen not to use any warnings. The story may contain triggers.
Do you have a link for To the Gold of Frankincense through Myrrh by sideris? Thank you so much for your rec lists and all that you do!
Hey Lovely!!
Ahhhh I did a couple searches a variety of ways and it seems it doesn't exist anywhere, so it was probably sadly removed. Anyone have the original link so we can possibly see if it is available on the Wayback?
Investigating Corporate Landlords across Europe. A cross-border collaborative project, coordinated by Arena for Journalism in Europe.
High demand for rental flats across European cities has contributed to make housing a very attractive investment. At a time when many people can’t find an affordable and decent flat to live in, reports of a huge increase in investment flows into housing across Europe go hand in hand with stories of abusive practices by ‘corporate landlords’, companies that buy and rent out housing for profit.
Where is all that money coming from? Who are the companies and investors buying so much housing across Europe? How does this phenomenon affect people’s lives and homes in European cities?
During a period of more than seven months, a team of over 25 investigative and data journalists and visualisation experts from 16 European countries, have been working on the cross-border collaborative project Cities for Rent: Investigating Corporate Landlords Across Europe.
We wanted to find the data and visualise these developments, and document their effects on our cities and in people’s lives. We found that since the financial crisis international investment funds and housing corporations have been buying up homes across European cities. And there are different critical issues connected to this.
Hello there. Thank you for keeping this blog going and for the great content. Are you able to help with links to any fics by sideris or stonewingedangel. I went to revisit these recently and found they had been deleted.
I just reblogged links to some of stonewingedangel's fics on the Wayback that I found a couple of years ago.
I don't keep a directory of titles by every author. Please ask specifically for which titles you want and I'll see if I can dig them up on the Wayback. However, I just looked for "Making It Better" and "To the Gold of Frankincense Through Myrrh" and couldn't find either one there in complete form.
If you ask off anon, I can let you know what I have saved and send them to you. I don't respond to anon requests about what I have saved.
Thank you so much for the link to the Sideris fic. I have now downloaded it. whilst writing, I recall another fic. I think it might have been by Sideris too where John beat Sherlock with a crop thinking he wanted that and Sherlock let John thinking John wanted it. They sorted it out and it had a happy ending. Anyone know if? Or have a link? So many thanks.
Reply: Could it be this one?
If so, it's still on AO3, just orphaned. :)
The Upper Hand by Orphan_Account (5K, E, Johnlock)
Summary: Two silly buggers and a riding crop. What can possibly go wrong? With added icecream.
After more than a decade of austerity measures, recession, and unemployment, Athens has seen a big shift in the makeup of homeownership, a shift that comes at the expense of residents and that benefits big business.
After more than a decade of austerity measures, recession, and unemployment, Athens has seen a big shift in the makeup of homeownership, a shift that comes at the expense of residents and that benefits big business. In a country where homeownership has historically been high, more and more properties have gone into foreclosure and been sold to nameless buyers as a result of Greece’s financial crisis. Public information on who owns what is not available in Greece, but it’s no secret that big foreign corporations have been buying up entire apartment blocks to turn them into short-term holiday lets, effectively displacing many long-term residents.
The Filmmaker and the Advocate sit down with Sotiris Sideris, data journalist and co-founder of Athens Live Lab, to discuss who is buying up all the foreclosed properties in Athens and what is happening to the city as a result. Using data scraping, Sotiris has discovered that Greeks are being pushed out - their homes are being auctioned off to investors who want to cash in on Greece's allure as one of the hottest tourist destinations in the world. One low-income community has been basically emptied out of locals, replaced by those wanting a glimpse of the Acropolis and a night in the Plaka. Sotiris hopes his research on private property auctions will shed light on the growing problem and perhaps provide the first steps needed in turning things around.
With a new recession looming, and an already massive housing crisis, tenants are building towards new models of social solidarity.
The article by Sotiris Sideris in AthensLive points to many important points that should not be left forgotten in the shadows of the Corona epidemic. Foreclosures and E-auctions, inequality and alternative forms of solidarity.
This is a repost from May, but a read too important not to spend some time to read or re-read on a Sunday like this.
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"“Apart from the large anti-auction movement and smaller collectives such as neighbourhood assemblies and solidarity initiatives, Greece has never had organized tenant unions,” said Panos Alexandrou, a member of the initiative who also participates in other self-organized collectives for the right to housing. “That’s because the concept of housing in Greece has always been based on property. Homeownership has a strong tradition in our country. Since the 1950’s, it has been used by many governments as a key driver for growth through the investment and support of smallholders to build or buy their own block of apartments. This shows that providing people with adequate housing has never been an obligation of the state,” he added.
“The situation is compounded by the recognition of housing as a vehicle for profit, rather than a basic human right,” Christina Sakali, post-doc researcher in the department of Conflict and Development Studies at Ghent University, told AthensLive.
Meanwhile, it should go without saying that the government had (before the coronavirus outbreak in Greece) agreed with its lenders to lift the protection of primary residences for debtors by the end of April. “Protection of the primary residence harms the economy,” Development Minister and New Democracy Vice President, Adonis Georgiadis, said in February.
With the end of the protection, the wave of evictions and auctions is expected to intensify in the coming months. And as Sakali added: “While the state should work towards a social housing policy, or at least affordable and decent housing for all incomes, it prefers to facilitate easy profits for big private investors.”
The problem is political will. We were in a national crisis before the pandemic and short-term fixes associated with it will not solve the problem that existed beforehand."
