Poyekhali! (Also, Starchild Parts 8 & 9)

[mark_asphodel]

For those of you who don't know why I'm shouting in Russian, it's because we've made it to Cosmonautics Day, or Yuri's Night as it's been re-branded for everyone's enjoyment (think Dance Party, not Communist Party). Google is celebrating with one of their doodles, because fifty years ago today, a human being breached the atmosphere and orbited the earth for the very first time.

[Also, thirty years ago today, the late and lamented shuttle Columbia took off on her maiden voyage with the venerable John Young at her helm. But shuttles are old news, and Young is just old and unnerving, whereas Yuri is youthful and endearing forever. This is what a fatal encounter with a weather balloon will do for your image.]

Both LJ and FFNet have been intermittently broken today, but I did manage to upload a "holiday" double shot of 'Starchild" chapters-- one long, one short. We're not quite halfway done with it, at least in terms of chapter count.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6860911/8/
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6860911/9/

OK. Better go to bed. Cosmonautics Day isn't a recognized holiday at MY workplace, no sir.

Comments

[raphiael]

Couldn't we have a communist dance party? I'm all about compromises.