The Woman's Prize, or The Tamer Tamed

Y'all don't know this fandom, and I'm using OCs anyway, so treat it as origific. Credit where credit's due to Anne Walsh, author of the Chronicles of Glenscar. I can't wait for A Widow in Waiting to hit the bookstores so I can babble about it publicly.

Also, DW's new update page is made of the shiny.

Title: The Woman's Prize, or The Tamer Tamed
Rating: PG-13
Summary: It's all over the papers: Rachel Keenan as Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, back on the stage for a select few guests after a sudden, long illness.
Pairings: OFC/OMC.
Warnings: Character death.
Word Count: 360

( take him up gently and to bed with him )

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So hells_half_acre is doing the five-questions meme. I'm not asking anybody questions, because I suck at coming up with questions, but I asked her to ask me some. Et voila.

1. What is your favourite thing about the country/state/city you live in? What is your least favourite?

I love the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. I hate what people insist the US Constitution is, apparently without ever glancing at what the damn paper actually says.

2. You are very vocal about human rights and LGBT issues (yay!) - do you ever find yourself getting discouraged (like a form of activist-burnout)? Or do you manage to stay positive about the future despite any and all setbacks?

Oh hells to the yes, to the first one. The other evening Mom had a fit about the trans girl who joined Girl Scouts; this is why my parents don't know I'm genderqueer. And I think it was the Ms. Magazine Blog that had these statistics most recently: forty percent of the world's population doesn't have decent sanitation. An overlapping set of a billion people don't have clean water. Fucking depressing. We can fix it, I know we can, but it depends on a thousand social and economic factors and sometimes it just seems like it's too damn big a mountain to climb.

3. If you could go on holiday (or to live) anywhere in the world, where would you go? Why?

I'm torn between Australia and Canada. In my head, both places have all the upsides of the US and none of the downsides. Of course, Canada's cold all the time, and Australia has more extreme seasons.

4. What is your favourite smell, sound, or taste?

Gah, you're making me choose? Right now I'd have to go with Celtic music. "I've a heart to let and no tenant yet..."

5. If you could meet anyone living today, who would it be and why? What would you say to them?

Probably President Obama. Thank him for finally growing a spine and doing things that don't require legislative action, and ask him where the hell that was when it wasn't a year till election day.