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  • Name: LadyKate
  • Age: 45
  • Gender: Female
  • Location: NJ US
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XENA STUFF

Essays:

Why I love Xena
Why I love Xena/Ares

My fanfiction:

Equal to the Gods: bitexter angst
The Joining -- shipper trilogy:
Part I: Understanding
Part II: The Test
Part III: Reunion

A Twist of Fate: want a shipperish version of When Fates Collide?
Love in a Time of Twilight: dark, angsty, adult

Other shipperfic:

Just about anything by Carly. My favorites:
Afterwards (Xena, Ares and others after Motherhood)
Coming Back
Divine Sight (alternate version of The Furies)
Green Isle: heartbreaking and lovely
Otherworld
The Hundred Ways To Love (post-FIN angst)
The Thing You Love (Remember Nothing, with Ares)
World Enough (Ares looks for Xena across many worlds)

Stories by Tango:

The Outsiders: Eternity Broken and Fortuna's Champion -- epic and poetic
Into the Dawn (You Are There sans Nigel)
The Birds Will Cry (post-FIN, Gabrielle-centric, shipperish, and very poignant)

secular atrophy:

Pebbles -- a great series of vignettes, mostly X/A, some X/G and other pairings.

Skin Tight by Juxian Tang (warning: contains some very disturbing violence but is very beautifully written -- Juxian is great at weaving together very dark, violent material with a uniquely lyrical tenderness)

Other Xena fanfic:

Xena's Little Bitch, The Moral of the Story. A very interesting exploration of some of the issues in the show.

Sais2Cool:
The Rest Is Silence: Xena reflects on her life with Gabrielle before they are crucified in Ides of March
Confession: Gabrielle reflects on her life with Xena after FIN.

Fighting The Good Fight by Temora. If you like Xena and you like humor, this is for you -- a great, affectionate send-up of the show that hits all the right spots.

The Destiny series by Atiaran: a fascinating alternate-universe story centered on Gabrielle and Caesar after the death of Conqueror Xena. I didn't think I could get into it, either.

Destiny I
Destiny II
In Vino Veritas
Choices
Heroes
She of the Djinn
Interlude: Suffering
Homecoming
Long Dark Night (end of the series)
The Beginning: Death of the Conqueror (prequel)
The Storm (prequel to the prequel)

OTHER STUFF

Some of my professional articles:

The Good Tsar? (Reason, July 2007) A eulogy for Yeltsin.

Ayn Rand at 100 (Reason, March 2005). Loved, hated, and always controversial, the best-selling author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged is more relevant than ever.

God Talk (Reason, January 2001). Religious speech and the First Amendment.

The Mommy Wars (Reason, July 2000) Why feminists and conservatives just don't get modern motherhood.

Sex & Sensibility (Reason, March 1999). Men are from Earth, women are from Earth; deal with it.

Man Troubles (Reason, July 1994). The men's movement.

Secrets and lies (Salon, May 3, 2001). Racial preferences in college admissions.

A Man's right to choose (Salon, October 19, 2000). Is it fair that women have reproductive rights while men have reproductive responsibilities?

The anti-child revolt (Salon, July 31, 2000). "Child-free" militants, bug off.


Who I am

"For every complex question there is a simple answer. And it's wrong." ~~ H. L. Mencken


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With Xena writer Steve Sears
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With Russian human rights activist Elena Bonner

I was born in Moscow (Russia) in 1963. I have lived in the United States since 1980.

Since March 2001, I have been dividing my time between "real life" -- in which I am a writer/journalist and the author of two books -- and the Xena: Warrior Princess fandom, in which I am a fan fiction writer, a staff writer for the Shipper Virtual Seasons, a digital artist, a contributor to the online journal Whoosh!, and a moderator at Xena Online Community.

I am passionate about Xena, the show and the character, and about the Xena/Ares "'ship." I am passionate about art and beauty, books and ideas. I am passionate about my friends and my work; and, last but not least, about freedom and justice.

I believe in treating people as individuals first, regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, or any other group membership.

I believe that, with very few exceptions (such as those who preach hate or violence), one should try to look at both or all sides to a story or an argument.

I believe that honest and intelligent people can strongly disagree and still treat each other and each other's beliefs with respect -- whether in political discussions or in the Xena fandom.

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    Ayoshen

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    10/05/08

    House sure is an AMAZING show! And the main character is sort of like Xena IMHO image Yeah, I had a break like that a year or so with Cold Case, but this is different. I'm ashamed because I'm afraid I'll never be back and it's weird you know, 'cause I loved Xena to death and House beat her in like just a weekend. And now I have House wallpapers and icons everywhere and even my friends are like what happened to Xena? image It's weird.
    But I promise I will stop by sometimes. And I will post that thread. image

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    Ayoshen

    User Infostatus offline125 Kudos

    10/05/08

    Hey LadyKate!
    Everything's fine, sorry I'm not here that often anymore, I just ummm kind of err.. *shrugs* ..I sinned. image I can't believe it, but I found myself a new passion - House M.D.! I love that show image I'm ashamed, though. *hides* image Sooo all my freetime currently goes into watching House, reading House fan fic, drawing House, writing House, surfing House, living House, you know it's kind of a HUGE change image But Jennifer Morrison... imageimageimage ... aww... image *sigh*
    Dunno what happened to Xena. image It's bad, ain't it? image

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    10/05/08

    Reply from LadyKate63:

    Aww :( well, don't be ashamed... :D I've heard that House is a great show, so I know you still have good taste! :p Anyway, old Xena fans never go away, they just take a break once in a while. So I'm sure you'll be back. But come and say hello to us once in a while! maybe you want to post something in the Lounge about why you're away? People won't hate you, I promise. It's just always good to know why someone is not around.
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    InkyBlue

    User Infostatus offline156 Kudos

    10/05/08

    LadyK!! How ya diddling? And how's the scribing going? :)
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    KiraChi

    User Infostatus offline124 Kudos

    10/04/08

    Hey LK!
    Hope your're doing well, just wanted to tell you I stumbled across some of your FF the other day and loved it! You are now officially on my top list of fav writers of Xena FF :D
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    lilamazon

    User Infostatus offline28 Kudos

    09/30/08

    Thanks LK...so far so good - I'm enjoying my time back and all the fun!

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    lilamazon

    User Infostatus offline28 Kudos

    09/22/08

    I've been talking to a couple members through email and they've been really supportive. I'm still thinking about it...thanks for saying something...I appreciate that more than you know.

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    09/30/08

    Reply from LadyKate63:

    Hey, just wanted to welcome you back to the board. image
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    lilamazon

    User Infostatus offline28 Kudos

    09/22/08

    Thanks LK - and hi to you too! It's nice of you to notice I was here, ever so briefly...I'm thinking about coming back on the forum...I'm doing a lot better

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    09/22/08

    Reply from LadyKate63:

    That's great! I'd be very happy to see you and I know many others would too. :)
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    Little Godling

    User Infostatus offline31 Kudos

    09/21/08

    aww thanks LK
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    Hippy Amazon

    User Infostatus offline263 Kudos

    09/20/08

    KUDOS :D
  10. 09/14/08

    Too busy for comfort. Schools back in:/
    How are you?
    ps.love the picture:):):)

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