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I assume Fox won't go there, but if anyone wants to write the fic where someone explains the government shutdown to Crane...

That might just be catharsis I need to deal with this.  
  

Maybe everybody already knows this and I'm late to the party.  If not, you're welcome.

For the look on his face, if nothing else. 

The AO3 Major Character Death warning should have qualifiers?

I mean, I try to avoid stories where main characters die, and maybe I should stop because one of my favorite fics ever, The Night of the Setting Sun is a) a death-fic and the kind of the death-fic that makes all the others seem trite and overdone in the face of it's gorgeous simplicity and b) not sad so much as true, exactly everything the canon was telling you would happen if everything one day went very, very wrong.  Also, it probably would have benefited from not having to declare itself.

Okay, I was getting away from my original point there.  My comment is this: shouldn't some fandoms have a canon-typical character death tag the same way there is a canon typical violence tag where you can get away with leaving out the graphic depictions of violence warning because it's Cabin in the Woods or whatever and it's unlikely to be worse than what people already signed up for?

I mean, fics that at certain times in their respective series killed Rory Williams/Daniel Jackson/Nathan Petrelli would really just be business as usual, right?  And he'd keep coming back, wouldn't he?

Anyway, I happen to think a character who gets killed and then brought back again should get a free pass for a while, but if the canon has already gone there...
  

By Andrew Forrester.

It was published in 1864 and is one of the stories that helped shape the mystery genre into what it was when Arthur Conan Doyle came on the scene.  In fact, the collection I read it from called it "the first great tale of the Metropolitan Police (formed 1829) and perhaps the first modern detective novel."

This background given, the detective is a woman.  A woman employed as a detective by the Metropolitan Police in a story written 1864.  According to Wikipedia, by the way, "the first 'Woman Detective Constable' was appointed in 1973."

She's independent, crafty, and gently sarcastic- an all around awesome lady.  It isn't until page 25 that it's even made clear that she is a woman.  It's when she remarks that the rural police constable she's been questioning about his murder investigation probably never realized who she was because he couldn't get his head around the idea of a police officer in a skirt.  That this statement wouldn't be particularly out of place in a story narrated by a woman today makes me incredibly sad.

I don't know if Mr. Forrester thought lady detectives were right around the corner when he wrote The Unknown Weapon and the other stories featuring this protagonist, or if he just wanted a heroine for his story and didn't care how probable it was, but I like to think he'd be sad too.
  

So, I followed a link to the voting for the Golden Remote awards and noticed that in the villain category, the title for the men is "baddie" and the title for women is "bitch."  Am I the only one not digging this?  I mean, I'm all for calling a male character who is just magnificently evil a bastard, and I suppose that in fairness I'd call a magnificently evil female character a bitch in a similar spirit- but Golden Remote doesn't seem to be doing the same.

Honestly, I'd rather they just called them villains and villainesses.
 

That I should have tried to name myself Late to the Fandom, or something like that.  I always find myself falling for something- usually a TV show- way after almost everyone else has left.

What's sad is that I'm just getting more and more behind.  Once, I was thinking, "Gosh, season one of Heroes is great," years after seasons two, three and four had made Heroes virtually synonymous with 'television that went way downhill'.  Now, it's more a case of "I wish I had someone to talk to about how great the episode of The Big Valley I just watched was."