valarltd | blergh

I ache, all over. I fell out of the truck, yesterday. I missed both steps in the cab, and wound up swinging by my arms. Ouch. And I dropped a load-bar on my foot. And I gashed my elbow with someone's bumper as I delivered it. Blood and bruises and water retention...

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And I have posted my first fanfic since the holidays. Fanfic is HARD. It's Sleeper Cell.
http://community.livejournal.com/choc_fic/31846.html

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nbrooks and I were talking and I asked if we ever show religion as anything other than toxic. She wasn't sure.

Supernaturals:
The incubus in "Prey." Hard to disbelieve when you are supernatural.
Arqam. Hard to disbelieve when you're supernatural.
Rakesh. Ditto.
Medusa and Rapunzel. Greek pagan. Dierect personal experience with the gods, both good and bad.
Morganstern. Hard to disbelieve when you're supernatural.

Pagan:
Dan. Moon worshipper. Pretty laid back about it, except the whole werewolf part.
Chuck. Cherokee beliefs. Has a religious-racist extremist history. Now just dances and has spirit-dreams.
Gabe. Follower of Herne. Practices joy.

Christian:
Paul. Lapsed Methodist.
Sean Dempsey. Methodist. Not much belief. Used church to get out KP.

Marcello. Liberal Catholic of the social justice type. Believes and works for what he believes.
Christian. Nominal Catholic. Doesn't believe, even though he's sleeping in the devil's bed.
Anthony. Catholic. Believes. Goes to Mass and confession.
Damiano. Catholic. Believes on a superstition level.

Nick Admire. Baptist. Treats it as one more social contact and a necessity for his political career.
Nick Harper. Baptist, very strict. No movies. No TV. Using overinvolvement to hide his gayness.

Josh. Episcopalian. Treats it as a social club.
Charles and Linda Hummingbird. Episcopalian. Active and devout.
Mother Vivian and her wife. Episcopalian clergy.

Zara. Church of Christ--Programmer. Net-based Christianity, more ritual than daily belief.
Adlai. ??Christian. Prays.
George Perkins. Christian. Hypocrite.
Charlotte. Christian. Devout. Meets bad end.
Seven. Nominally Christian. Rejected belief after a lot of church-based abuse because of gayness.

Jewish:
Ariel and David. Jewish. Constant ritual.
James. Jewish. Prays the shm'a, keeps kosher.
The whole BarJonas family. Keeps the holidays, goes to Temple, don't work on the Sabbath. Arranged marriages. Observant despite being sex workers and leather club patrons and upwardly mobile women.

Other:
Ruvane. Domninant homeworld religion of Mother Sea and Father Stars. Uses it for rituals and swearing.
Samir. Nominally Muslim. No signs of belief.

None:
Etarin. No visible religion.
Nathaniel. Anti-theist. Believes God abandoned him.
Thomas. No sign of belief in any way.
Nick Boyd. Self-defense atheist. Speaks fluent theorcrat.
David. atheist.
Tanis. No visible religion.
Steven. No visible religion in Nikolai, Zen in Niko-Chan. Meditates.
Valerio. No visible religion, but probably Catholic.
Victor. No visible religion (a David muse, he's probably an atheist)
Shane. Ditto.
William, Billy and Sam. Ditto.