Tiny update and two recs!

I've had a lot of crazybrain problems recently - a combination of changing thyroid medication, the resulting restless legs impeding sleep, and delightful anxiety attacks. comicsbigbang was not going to happen so I've dropped out. I'd love to be writing something for dark_agenda's Dark Drabblefest (character of colour drabbles in Remix-eligible fandoms) but there is absolutely no writing happening at the moment, though I have been reading! Here are two recs from the dark_agenda challenge, although neither of them are actually drabbles.


Remaking Tradition by alara_r: Star Trek XI/AOS, Uhura-centric - Uhura/Spock, with Kirk and T'Pring, rated PG-13. A delightful revision of "Amok Time", featuring a wonderful twist on "this is the tradition of my people" that will forever steal the angry-making potential of that phrase. And I've read a LOT of Claremont comics where everyone except for white Americans conveniently has "traditions of their people" with "an honour all their own." I feel much better about them, now!

Ask What Answer Can I Find by alexseanchai: Supernatural, Jake's sister and her girlfriend. (Jake was the Special Kid who won the Special Kid Battle at the end of Season 2 - played by Aldis Hodge, no less!) I always wondered - in a show so much about the hurts of families and generations of love and terror - why the sister for whom Jake fought, took a demon's deal, and died, never showed up. Well, here she is, mourning her missing brother by fighting for his goals. Not power or wealth, but knowledge and memory.