BSC Balloon Poll: Round 4

This round is closed. Round 5 is here

"That's it!" Mary Anne said with sudden ferocity. "I'm not losing any more of my friends. Let go of me, Dawn, let me --"

"No," Dawn said, very calmly, clutching Mary Anne's hand in hers. "No one's going to be jumping."

"So, someone's going to be pushed?" Kristy asked a bit testily. "After all, we're all going to die if someone doesn't get sacrificed.

"I said, I'll..."

"Mary Anne, please." They all looked at Claudia and noticed, for the first time, that she was in tears. "I don't want to lose any more friends, either! Especially not you."

"What about me?"

"That goes without saying, Stace."

"I think I have a solution that will suit everyone," said Shannon suddenly.

Kristy looked at her suspiciously.

"Well, let's face it. I'm not exactly close personal friends with most of you. It's only through Kristy's generosity that I'm here at all."

"Shannon, don't."

But she did.

Unfortunately, it looked as if her sacrifice was going to be pointless, because now the seven remaining baby-sitters, who'd vowed up and down that they were best friends for life, were faced with a difficult decision.

"Uh oh?" Mallory said in a tiny voice.
( poll #4 )

some (mostly fannish) tidbits.

1. am typing up the headers for ficlets, and one of them, the one where the whole crew of Serenity gets married? I'm typing, "Grouping: Mal/Zoe/Kaylee/Fre--" wait a second. Fred's not in this fic! I am so pathetic, I am.

2. Archiving drabbles. Do they get full headers? Cos, sometimes? That would make the header longer than the fic. Should each drabble get its own page, or should they be archived in batches? Many of my drabbles come in batches, but many don't. I guess they should be arranged by fandom/pairing, maybe? Stupid frelling work.

3. due South. I think by virtue of watching S1, and doing so slowly, savoring it, I'm going to find myself 180 degrees from the rest of fandom re: Rays, amn't I?

4. *waves to new friends "Library Science" earned me*

5. Re: the BSC. Something that annoys me is the implication (or more like the anvil!characterization) that Kristy (and Mary Anne) are "baby-ish" "immature" and "less grown up" because they don't care about boys or clothes. I mean, frankly, you don't get much more mature than Kristy at that age. She's responsible, she's smart, she's an organizer and a leader, she's very good with people, and so what if she wears jeans and a turtle neck everyday? That doesn't make her less mature.
( damn. I got ranty. )

archiving drabbles

All right, talk to me about this, people, since I've only got about three more ficlets to go (plus BV1000, right -- that should take me awhile, too) before I get to the drabbles.
( I have put this discussion behind a cut, since it is, um, long and narcissistic )