Newsweek, we're done

We get Newsweek for free because we put our WHYY pledge on a credit card and it's much easier to just take the free subscription that gets you than try to argue with the volunteer to decline the damn thing. I was flipping through the current issue last night and two things jumped out at me: 

1. Nikki Haley is described, in the sub-heading of the cover story, as "articulate." 
2. The context for a quotation from one of Iceland's cabinet ministers explaining the popular response to the Prime Minister's marrying her girlfriend last week (he said the country has a passion for social justice) is phrased in terms of the Icelandic public's "lack of outrage." 

If this is the liberal CW, I despair.

Fic: The Flying Empire (Sherlock Holmes, Holmes/Watson)

Also known as the Holmes steampunk AU, aka the holmes_big_bang fic.

Title: The Flying Empire
Wordcount: 35K
Rating: Teen
Pairing(s): Holmes/Watson
Warning(s): Some violence (guns).
Disclaimer: Sherlock Holmes is in the public domain in the United States; no disclaimer is intended, implied, or necessary.
Notes: I owe a mountain of thanks to darthneko, who produced the amazing accompanying art despite computer troubles galore at the eleventh hour--please do take the time to leave a comment on DA if you like it as much as I do! Many thanks as well to naraht for the incisive beta, and the Baedeker's. More info about the background for this fic can be found at this post, which has major spoilers. (The title comes from an early story treatment for Laputa: Castle in the Sky.)

Summary: Holmes takes a case that leads him into contact with Countess Ada Lovelace as well as direct conflict with a controversial but well-placed officer of His Majesty's Aery, to Scotland and back to London via the skies above.


The Flying Empire on the AO3.


( View the art directly under the cut! )