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slemslempike) wrote2013-10-10 03:33 pm
slemslempike) wrote2013-10-10 03:33 pm
Malory Towers massacre fic
I do not like change, and I especially do not like change to my email. Oh yahoo, why must you unnerve me by being quite similar but not quite? I am almost getting used to it, but mostly it just looks like it hasn't loaded properly. And if I wanted conversations to be grouped together, I'd use bloody gmail, as I haven't made the switch (except for professional stuff) then you should assume that I LIKE having to use an unreliable search box and trying to remember what precise words used were.
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sabethea linked to this a while ago, and it's stuck with me:
http://archive.skyehawke.com/story.php?no=17564
I haven't read Battle Royale, but it works as a standalone Malory Towers dystopian fic. It is multi-chaptered, and I felt quite bleak for a while after reading it. Recommended! (Sort of.) It gets around the "but surely a Malory Towers girl would never kill another?" aspect pretty well.
I went to a talk on tax and avoidance, that was very interesting, and I got to seem knowledgeable after rememberinghfnuala mentioning a while ago that income tax was brought in as a temporary measure in the UK to fund the Napoleonic Wars. Tonight I am off to another talk, this time on the Royal Blind School in Edinburgh, which is having a presentation and display of some photos, apparently also with some sort of refreshment. I was supposed to go to an NLS talk on Slavery yesterday, but work overran and I didn't make it. The talks are because I was messing around on eventbrite, and decided to see what was on that I hadn't heard about. Lots!
sabethea linked to this a while ago, and it's stuck with me:Malory Towers/Battle Royale
Summary: It's the end of Darrell Rivers' fifth year, but now she and her friends are being forced to fight to the death, and only one can survive. How long before old friendships give way for good?
http://archive.skyehawke.com/story.php?no=17564
I haven't read Battle Royale, but it works as a standalone Malory Towers dystopian fic. It is multi-chaptered, and I felt quite bleak for a while after reading it. Recommended! (Sort of.) It gets around the "but surely a Malory Towers girl would never kill another?" aspect pretty well.
I went to a talk on tax and avoidance, that was very interesting, and I got to seem knowledgeable after remembering
hfnuala mentioning a while ago that income tax was brought in as a temporary measure in the UK to fund the Napoleonic Wars. Tonight I am off to another talk, this time on the Royal Blind School in Edinburgh, which is having a presentation and display of some photos, apparently also with some sort of refreshment. I was supposed to go to an NLS talk on Slavery yesterday, but work overran and I didn't make it. The talks are because I was messing around on eventbrite, and decided to see what was on that I hadn't heard about. Lots!