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In the Bible, Saul's wife is named Ahinoam. She doesn't get talked about that much, especially in Christianity. But her name means My brother is pleasant. 1) Unless I'm missing some information about this definition, even in a pretty unfeminist world like ancient Israel, damn that's cold of her parents. 2) Queen Rose, the "Kings" character who corresponds to her has a slick, charming brother. HAH! I love whoever did the research for this show.

Although William was probably also created so the show could have a genuine villain that we didn't sympathize much with, because really, all the Benjamins are protagonists in their own way- Saul in the Bible was a victim as much as he was a villain, and the show needed someone for us to loathe without reservations.

Shiloh was the city Saul based his government out of in the Bible. David is the one who later moves it to Jerusalem. Shiloh is also a place where some bad stuff went down at one point in the Bible. If I recall, a large faction of people wanted to build a temple there, because of reasons, and other people didn't like that, they thought having two temples made one of them inauthentic because the Shiloh faction was allegedly making up their own rules (because duh, they couldn't keep depending on people who were miles away to run their lives). So it went badly. Shiloh is also the name of a pretty well known battle in the American Civil War...

Vesper Abaddon was played by Brian Cox, who once played Hannibal Lecter. Abaddon is a man so evil and dangerous that he has to be jailed in the country's most secure cell, cut off from all outside contact. Silas visits him sometimes, they play chess and drink wine and Abaddon gives him highly questionable yet brilliantly observant advice. He may be evil but he's the only person Silas can really talk to. OMG, did Vesper Abaddon eat people?


I put a playlist up. It starts with songs by women, and also female covers of songs originally by men, for "Queens" and then follows with the male versions. A couple of the covers are a little shaky but that's what you get with people playing guitar in their bedrooms on Youtube. I was not expecting the female led street busker version of Hinech Yafa to knock my socks off the way it did though...

On Youtube

A weird issue with my Jaqui fic-Since Dianna is, at that point in the fic, still married to Jaqui's brother- Dianna is already a Benjamin. So she's Dianna Shepherd Benjamin, but if she marries Jaqui, she'll still be. So Jaqui wanting to be Jaqui Benjamin Shepherd is really a formality, they already have the same last name.

I don't think the dress Andrew makes Jaqui wear is embarrassing enough. But I'm having a hard time finding a better choice. Jaqui is young, thin, in great shape and knows it, and not shy,what would make her go "I will only put that on under the threat of pain" without it being something a literal prostitute would wear to work?

These are what I've found so far...
http://www.polyvore.com/coral_lace_bodycon_dress/thing?id=84442852
http://www.polyvore.com/forever_21_lace-trimmed_maxi_dress/thing?id=84671491 (in pink)
http://www.polyvore.com/pink_chiffon_prom_dress_strapless/thing?id=81078247
http://www.polyvore.com/sherri_hill_21057/thing?id=83663383

So what I really want, is a long, detailed, comic book version of "Queens". That would be the best fannish birthday/Christmas present. I spent some time last night picking out more outfits for Jaqui and Dianna. Including some options for their possible coronation.

Also, there's more Chris/Sebastian RPF than I thought. Not a whole genre by itself like in some fandoms but at least six or seven. AO3 just has a tagging system that makes it hard to find more obscure pairings. Once again, it's Chris Evans/Sebastian, not any non Marvel Comics related pairings.

I'm really not in the mood for deepness or productivity today.

Part of the frustration of trying to write an AU that moves along the same basic timeline as the original is that a lot of the best scenes from canon feel like they lose a bit of their emotional impact. It's hard finding new ways to show the same scene.

I wanna genderflip Kings. I wanna try girl!Jack. With or without girl!David...I'll see if I'm in the mood to write lesbians.

Wouldn't girl!Jack just be Michelle since they're twins? No, because Michelle is not only a wildly different personality, she's also totally different from the way she is in the original text. Let's genderflip them both and see what happens- although you might be able to argue they already were in contrast to their Biblical versions. After all, Michelle is a much softer, kinder, more supportive version of Michal, while Jack is angry and unhappy and snarky and suffers an unfair amount of retribution for wanting the people he loves to have at least a token respect for his feelings and opinions.

It makes everything that happens to Jack on the show three times more disturbing, really, if he's genderflipped. OMG. Is thinking that sexist, though? Or am I right on the money that it'd all be even harder to watch?

I made her some outfits

This would be her song