Maintain the Quarantine

( In which I praise Dollhouse to the heavens and then knock it down so fast it gets instantly killed. )

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In other news, T-Minus 2 hours until the unbearable noise starts. I love football, but I hate obnoxious football fans. Trufax.

( In which I bitch about Glee. )

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In other news: Brazil, North Korea, Ivory Coast and Portugal. O HAI NICE TO MEET YOU, GROUP OF DEATH.

I love Sanctuary! I have not, as yet, seen anything past the two-part season two opener, however. (I foresee a marathon coming up.) But. Can we discuss things that are both awesome in Sanctuary, and things that are not? For example, Kate Freelander, who is a whole lot of fun in the first two eps of season two, is awesome.

Also, I have a confession to make. Helen Magnus/John Druitt is supremely fucked up, for obvious reasons. I...kind of like it, though. So long as everyone acknowledges that it's messed up and wrong and that he's not a misunderstood woobie. He's Jack the Ripper, and there's really no making up for that.

Last of all, femslashers, have any favorite pairings? (Please, no Ashley/Helen talk; I'm sorry, but I just can't take it.)

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Today is World AIDS Day, so take a little time to learn about what you can do to stay safe, and to help others as well.

Also, because my country is awesomer than yours:

- Brazil proves developing countries can use generic medicines to fight HIV/AIDS epidemic
- Brazil has paved way for tackling HIV/AIDS, says study
- Brazil faces fresh HIV/AIDS fight -- the new challenge is how to provide free treatment for complications of chronic HIV and AIDS.
- And figure out how to solve the AIDS problem in Brazilian prisons

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Brazil is among the countries that hold the highest number of patients actually living with HIV in the world. Estimates say about 650,000 people here live with the virus. Fact: that is HALF of what the predictions said in the early '90s. Back then the AIDS epidemic in Brazil was on the same growing curve as the African continent.

Except the Brazilian Federal Government devised the freaking brilliant strategy detailed on the articles I linked above. So, AIDS medication here is FREE. We said a loud and clear FUCK YOU to the USA and the pharmaceutical industries and we broke the patents and we produce almost all of the drugs in the AIDS cocktail for 70% less than they would cost otherwise. And the Health Department banks the complete treatment. It's free for anyone who's diagnosed with HIV.

We still have a long way to go. We still fight the prejudice [and OH MY FUCK, the prejudice is GINORMOUS], and we have to deal with A LOT OF religious zealots who won't wear condoms [and then when infected will deny the disease and refuse treatment], we have to fucking figure out a way to stop single white male USAers and Europeans from spending their vacations here -- because here's where the sex tourism industry is [and most of the sex workers are minors, btw].

But my government and many non-profits have produced a massive amount of nationwide awareness campaigns. Condoms and needles are massively distributed. Radio spots, magazine ad spreads, TV commercials. Dudes. TV ads [sponsored by the Federal Government] with famous actors making double entendre jokes about erections and telling everyone to wear condoms are like, the most common thing in the world for us. The Health Department fights the disease with awareness and information.

Because that is what works -- you stop AIDS by talking about sex. It's not a theory, it's a fact. Brazil has been proof of that for the last 20+ years.

For Sanctuary fans who are not into incest fic, triciabyrne1978 and I have started a comm focused on the female characters of Sanctuary.

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If there's interest in a Dreamwidth mirror, please let us know. :)

Neither of us are judging people who are interested in Sanctuary incest fic, but, from what we've heard around the fandom, there's definitely a desire for a place where people won't run into that.

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