A poem for all...

What's in My Journal

Odd things, like a button drawer. Mean
Things, fishhooks, barbs in your hand.
But marbles too. A genius for being agreeable.
Junkyard crucifixes, voluptuous
discards. Space for knickknacks, and for
Alaska. Evidence to hang me, or to beatify.
Clues that lead nowhere, that never connected
anyway. Deliberate obfuscation, the kind
that takes genius. Chasms in character.
Loud omissions. Mornings that yawn above
a new grave. Pages you know exist
but you can't find them. Someone's terribly
inevitable life story, maybe mine.

- William Stafford

Seems very appropriate right after the powerloss.

Am thoughtful

Am also in a hurry. You know what happens when I'm thoughtful *and* in a hurry.

This post by no_remorse, on the treatment of evil in Buffyverse, Roswell, and Potterverse (among other things), got me thinking about the treatment of evil in LFNverse. We've chatted about this before on the FFMB, but I was once more struck by the sheer lack of addressing the issues of good and evil in LFN fanfic. LFNverse is as grey as it gets. It dares you, challenges you to open your eyes and adjust your traditional black and white perspective about good and evil. It is an important part of Nikita's journey. So how come LFN authors *always* shy away from this issue? Fear of handling moral complexities?

And while we're asking questions - canon tells us nothing about Red Cell, except that they're the Big Bad, and we're mostly free to do whatever we want with them. I'm thinking more along the lines of the RL Big Bads (think Jenna Vogler - suicide bomber). How inaccurate would that be?