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Many many moons ago, I wrote a serious of Cake drabbles (where a drabble for me is a short story. >.>). You can read them collected, here (follow the links), or you can just read this. It should stand alone all right. ;)

This takes place in JB-time, after Kon died. I hear he was resurrected. This is before that. I also hear that Bart's dead. This is before that. Just assume it makes sense, all right? Cool.

Also, I published a book! I'll refrain from linking and whatnot here. Scroll to the bottom, and I will totally link there. Everyone should go buy it. And I do mean EVERYONE. :D Support a fanfic author! You can buy it online for $3.50! :D

( Saturday Night, Titan's Tower )

*waves* Ignore me. I'm creating a DC-fic index, much like the Naruto fic index for people who'd like a quick list of my fic.

I attempted to arrange these in series, where applicable. :P Newest stories added at the bottom. DC fic as of July 20, 2008:

Stand alones

Decorating the Three Christmas fic, batclan. Slice of life.

Young Hormones 350 word challenge, Young Justice. Humor.

Papercut Superboy, when he loses his powers. Slice of life.

Four Days Five part story, Superboy when he lost his powers. Drama.

Subreality Cafe: The Blue Lounge Subreality Cafe fic. Lots of characters. Humor.

Fishies Kon and Cassie, humor. Mostly a stand-alone, really, but references the Over... series.

Survival Robin. Rated R. 10 parts. Psychological horror.

Talking About Sex Titans/Young Justice, late night conversations. Rated PG. Slice of life with teenagers. Vaguely references Cake 1.

See Things Bart, Teen Titans. Slice of life.

Pest Green Arrows. Humor.

Deranged Caterpillars Young Justice-Teen Titans, humor.

Dracoverse

Having Faith Dracoverse, OC. Slice of life.

A Doggy Day Dracoverse, same OC. Humor.

Over...

Over Pizza Superboy, Superman. Slice of life.

Over Chinese Superboy, Superman. Slice of life.

Fishies Kon and Cassie, humor. Mostly a stand-alone, really.

Disneyland
Teen Titans, the old Dick-led group and the new Tim-lead group. Humor.
[1], [2]

Cake series
Young Justice, Batclan, Outsiders, JLA. Humor, slice of life.
(See also, 'Talking About Sex' which sort of takes place after the first Cake short.)
Shorts 1-5, collected, plus extra [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11]

As long as I'm up too late and posting, I might as well let everyone know!

I have an official author website (designed and put together by the AWESOME

alestar) at www.jbmcdonald.com.

I ALSO have a mailing list! Go here and add yourself to it! I send out snippets of stories, tid bits here and there, the occasional random oddity. Some stuff hits my LJ, but some stuff doesn't--the snippets I sent out this past week, for instance, didn't hit here. Eventually it probably all gets everywhere, BUT... you should go join. *grins*

If only so I have more than 11 members. >.> Heh. And the dogs totally think you should join. That's a reason to do so, right? Riiiiiight. :D

J

So, the Supreme Court said people could carry handguns, and then some guy went in DC and tried to register his and they said no, because it's bottom-loading and therefore a semi-automatic weapon, even thought the Court ruling said it was all cool if it had less than 20 bullets or something, and this had 11. Or something. I dunno, I'm fuzzy on the details. Allow me to take this moment to say: I DON'T REALLY CARE. I'm rather anti-gun, anyway. You can read the details here.

What actually interested me about this article was not the details--again with the I don't care--but the comments. Go ahead. Read them.

They're TERRIFYING. It's not, "Hey, this sucks! We need to protest so they uphold the law and let us register our guns!" (which, even though I'm anti-gun, I would agree with), it's "Hey! this sucks! Let's go SHOOT THEM and declare MARTIAL LAW!"

...

I have "Top Ten Personal Safety Tips" by The Onion printed out and pinned up on my wall above my bed. It includes things like, "Live in the same city as The Batman" and "Wear pants that say DO NOT RAPE on the ass and crotch." The last one says (paraphrased), "The NRA says that the safest thing to do is to carry a loaded weapon with you at all times. So, to ensure your personal safety, stay the hell away from NRA members." It's SAD when people are making me agree with The Onion. :P

Briefly: Why I am anti-gun (since, once upon a time, I was pro-gun): Because of very persuasive arguments made by

nute, and various studies done. Among them, a study done on which is more effective as a deterrent: a gun or a dog, a study done on the overall death rates in those cities where they say "everyone has guns and statistics show crime goes down!", studies done on the mentality and long-term crime and death rates in highly weaponized areas, and a study done on how people are more likley to subconsciously put themselves in danger and make themselves a target when they're carrying a weapon. (Once aware of this, I realized I even do it with my dogs, and now try to be conscious of what I'm doing. I still sometimes do it, but A) who the hell is going to attack me with an obvious pit bull on one side, and a 90-pound German shepherd-looking dog on the other? and B) I'm at least aware of it, and keep an eye on my surroundings. Not as good as not doing it at all, but...)

I could go into detail. Unless someone actually asks, I'm not going to. :D

J

Well, I got asked. *laughs*

Please keep in mind before hitting the 'reply' button that this is a loaded (ha ha) topic, and if people start arguing here I will start deleting comments because I don't want to deal with it. (Yeah, you can discuss. If you're getting angry or sounding angry, I will delete. You have your own LJ and you can rant all you like over there. *grins*)

That said, ( my reasons for being anti-gun, ranging from studies read to psychological quirks to convincing arguments. )

To celebrate their new website, Tor is giving away free ebooks! Offer lasts for one week. :D

J

Yeah, that's accurate. Kinda funny, really, since I've often told people before that I sometimes feel like a kite, and I need someone to help hold the end of my string lest I flutter away. ;)

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