What's the ribbon of white across your stomach?

[elfs]

It is National White Ribbon Against Pornography Month (N-WRAP-M, I guess), and in honor of antiporn crusaders everywhere I hereby post two new Journal Entries. Well, one really, but it got really big so I split in half like a cheap publisher trying to double his annual title count.

Sting (the rock star) once said that he never finished a song, he just abandoned them. I've twisted and tilted at my Gabrielle story long enough, and I can't find any reason to hold it back anymore. I'm pleased with this story for its proficiency, but since it's been in my archive for more than ten years it has certain political and personal overtones that really don't correspond with my current bents. Still, it's good bad space opera. Enjoy!

Warning, this story is one of those rare ones (in the Journal Entries universe) that includes references to nonconsensual sex, interpersonal violence, and several acts of outright homicide by nominal "good guys."

• The Taking of Gabrielle
• Gabrielle's Rescue

Comments

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

You know, with all this talk of Pendorian killer robots doing the wet work, I'm reminded of something I scribbled as a teenager. A humanoid robot, looking like a sweet, innocent, schoolgirl, who massed about half a tonne.

When she said she couldn't swim, it wasn't because of lack of knowledge. Here, I probably rewrite hazy memory in a combination of anime and Pirates of the Carinbean: the teacher is getting frantic as she doesn't come up for air, while she walks to the other end of the pool and badly strains the ladder as she gets out.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Five o'clock and a call to go blading at the skate park down by the mall.
But my mom says I got to prevent hostile aliens from annihilating us all
(HIYA!)

With the strength of a million & seventy men
I guess I really shouldn't complain.
Still, I wish I can go for a walk without rusting in the rain.

It's enough to fry my brain.
So welcome to my life as a teenage robot.
Story of my life as a teenage robot.
My teenage robot life!