Fire in the Hole

Title: Look What You Do
Fandom: Stargate
Rating: K+
Genres: gen
Recipient: mackenziesmomma
Prompt: Stargate, Thomas Moore and Laura Greenspan, Come on you're my best friend what was I supposed to do lock you away in the tallest room of the highest tower and beset you with a dragon?
Summary: Major Thomas Moore needs a medic. Captain Laura Greenspan is one. Only problem? She's not talking to him. Well, yet.
A/N: Holiday Fic Request Meme. So I know I usually post those very early. It just didn't work last night because I was working keylafirefly's prompt for Dec 22 and also trying to make my damn Windows Media Player work again (we don't know what's wrong with it. No one does. It's a mystery). But it's still today here. So. Uh. Oh, right. I think this is kind of an addendum to my introduction fics for the Minor Characters (Brothers in Arms, All the Great Things, Both Sides and A Push, takes place between Brothers in Arms and All the Great Things). I actually like this fic very, very much because, you know, I love Thomas Moore and Laura Greenspan together. It's probably the only ever true friendship between an man and a woman I ever wrote, free of any other connotations and they work so well together. They're so much fun and I just hope those of you who got to know them through my Minor Characters fics love them just as much ;)

PS.: All of the German speaking friends (and those who just want to show their appreciation for German soldiers on deployment), maybe have a look at this Christmas greetings page and leave a shout out for all the German soldiers out there who can't be at home on Christmas?

( Look What You Do )

This is the German Armed Forces' newest image/recruiting video ad (the catch phrase is "Wir. Dienen. Deutschland."/"We. Serve. Germany." and though I don't really know what to make of the periods I'm slowly starting to warm up to the phrase.Very slowly. Maybe.) :



What do we think, people?

Good? Bad? Ridiculous?

(One thing that really shook me: the pictures of the official funerals. Even though it's aimed both and improving the image and recruiting, it took a lot of balls putting them in there. Any of you non-Germans ever seen something like that in any of your Armed Forces' recruiting ads?)

or at least contemplate ordering one from gelbe-schleife.de, Germany's equivalent to the (much bigger) Yellow Ribbon Campaign in the US, if you're a German and are tired of the "friendly desinterest" people here in Germany are giving the Armed Forces, the soldiers and most of all their deployments

Why am I saying this? Because fighting season is in full swing in Afghanistan now and today, another German soldier died in an IED attack. When I said "this is going to be a very bloody spring and summer", I honestly had no idea how true that would become. And I'm starting to get tired of people wholly disregarding Afghanistan and all the other deployments such as Kosovo, ATALANTA and countless other places that aren't even covered in the media (but German Wikipedia has a (very long) list of current deployments), so as a former soldier myself (and as a civilian not quite done with contemplating to join up again) this is my appeal to all of you: even if you are against the ISAF operation, even if you're against the military... don't be against the soldiers and their families. Yes, I'm asking you to support our troops. Just contemplate it, at least, please.

Due to current tragic events I remembered that I promised to blog about Germans and their very difficult relationship to everything military as a third installment to the "On...Germans." tag, which incorporates so far:



On elections.

On heroes.

( Again, that turned out much longer than I expected it to... )

Here we go... first book review in English. Yay!

( 'It's got pirates!' - 'Too Great a Temptation', Alexandra Benedict )

( 'The other way around' - 'Lilly unter den Linden', Anne C. Voorhoeve )

( 'Owls hunt at night' - 'Die Eule von Askir', Richard Schwartz )

( 'To do their bit' - 'Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and on the Front During World War II', Emily Yellin )

but yeah, I did today. But I didn't spend any money on it (and yes, that's everything I'll say about this). Here's my collection of unconnected ramblings review:

(  Became even longer than I expected... )

Ich hab ja gesagt, dass es demnächst Rezensionen geben wird. Für die puns mach ich dann aber doch lieber n eigenes Posting, das wird hier sonst zu lang (weil heute ausnahmsweise mal vier Rezensionen). On a sidenote: Ich hab angefangen, "The Princess Bride" (oooh, schaut mal, die Schwestern haben mir damals eine Ausgabe mitgebracht, die jetzt vergriffen ist... wie cool is das denn bitte?) noch mal zu lesen, weil ich mich mit ständigen Bezügen und Andeutungen in meinen Lorne/Cadman-Fanfictions selber dazu angestachelt hab und das Buch ist noch dreimal toller, als es in meiner Erinnerung war

Okay, jetzt aber auf ins Rezensionenland:

So, nächster Versuch. Wenn ich jetzt noch wüsste, was ich beim letzten geschrieben hab... Ich weiß nur, dass es was mit dem guten alten "Ich brauch Abenteuer in meinem Leben. Abenteuer!"-Problem zu tun hatte. Und irgendwie... ja, super Sache, ey, danke, LiveJournal. Und natürlich speicherst du das wieder nicht ab. Danke. Das war bestimmt irgendwas wichtiges und hochfülosofisches (Haha! Who are you trying to kid?), aber is jetzt auch egal. Kommt bestimmt wieder.

Jedenfalls, aufgebracht wurde dieses ganze Problem hier durch:



So, und jetzt ist mir auch wieder eingefallen, worum es beim letzten Versuch ging: Mir fiel auf, dass ich, wenn alles glatt gegangen wäre, heute 100 Leute führen würde und eventuell schon mindestens einmal im Einsatz gewesen wäre statt den ganzen Tag im Büro zu hocken und nichts zu tun. Okay, eventuell würde ich das beim Bund auch tun, aber... darum gehts grade nicht *fuchtel Es geht eher darum, dass es mit dem Bund wohl wie mit der Ersten Großen Liebe (TM) ist: Da sagt man ja auch nicht "Boah, ey, was fürn Arsch, wie gut, dass ich den los bin, ey.", sondern - zumindest in Anfällen von Nostalgie - "Ach Gott, er war schon ein Vollpfosten... aber dieser Körper... diese Augen...". Und ich fürchte, so is das wohl beim Bund und mir. Traurig, ich weiß, aber offenbar nicht zu ändern.

Und was mach ich damit jetzt?