BLW* again

* Backdated like woah

Marshmellow?
Written April 10, 2006

( Wierd stuff in my tea, Ice Age, Russia, Neil and a fic rec )

Coherence…
Written April 11, 2006

( Description of not a very good day, followed by random love and irrational fears )

Recs

aliaspiral's Wing Tip, despite not having read it yet. Did, however, read the hawtest threesome ever, by her here.

See these boots?

I want these boots.
Icon by aliaspiral

Have I pimped darthmaligna recently? 'Cause she wrote a Snape/Sirius fic a short while back which rocked my little socks. And I'm not even into Harry Potter fic.

A writing rant on Why writers need betas. So. When my fic is a bit closer to being, I'll probably ask for a beta.

But first, people. I really, really need some input on the whole "how much does a whore cost" issue. Help?

theatre_angel does movie parodies, like cleolinda used to before they all got published and left the screen for paper. Here's her The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"

Let me pimp sevangel's "Our Mrs Cobb" and her "Slayers in Space". She made me LOL yesterday, repeatedly, for which she has my eternal gratitude.

Oh, and I'll repimp the Shoe-box project, for all you Potterfans. Apparently, it's the best thing out there.

The pain

Couldn't finish reading this due to the RAGE.

Whores

How do I explain this... I'm writing a story set in the Firefly fandom, which is set in 2517 A.D. Humanity has populated many planets, some being rich (those in the Core) and some not so much (the Rim). The planet the brothel is on, Persephone, is a civilized planet with heavily stratified societal structure and monarchy. It also has a large slum population, e.g. the Eavesdown Docks, where the spaceships park to trade and refuel. Info from fireflywiki.org

The brothel itself, The Red Barrel, has recently changed its location to a bigger place in the Eavesdown Docks and gotten new and fancier (and well-trained) whores. This means the price has gone up a bit, which our character isn't pleased to discover.


About the money:

There appear to be either two currencies or two levels of currency: platinum and credits, where 1 credit = 2.5 platinum (and thus 1 platinum = 0.4 credits). Two thousand credits pay a heavy jail bail. A common immune booster (10-15 ml) sells on the black market for 50 p (20 c). Other medications sell for 80 and 200 p.

A cow, sold on a Rim planet illegally, gets haggled down to 25 credits.


I'm hoping to compare the price of a whole night with the whore to the price of a round of bullets. I'm assuming bullets would cost more. I could say they're fancy bullets.

On the internet

Some people make me weep for humanity, and other people make me cheer. darthmaligna receives a standing ovation for how she replies here.