frail and bedazzled

A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behaviour, nor restrain men from doing the things they have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil. [...]

You can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote. Send guys to war, they come home talking dirty.
~The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien

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"Every man at some point in his life is going to lose a battle. He's going to fight, and he's going to lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle, he does not lose himself."
~Coach Taylor, Friday Night Lights

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This journal often contains adult material in the form of fanfiction (slash [both m/m and f/f] and het, as well as gen). Caveat lector. My fanfic warning policy is here.

transformative works policy: everything I have written or created is fair game for further transformative work, including, but not limited to: podfic, remix, sequels, translations, meta, negative reviews that will make me cry, and commentaries. Just credit me for the part of the work that I did, and let me know if you get a chance.
(thanks to general_jinjur for the formulation of the policy)

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