We are not allowed to name anything. Ever.

[burntcopper]

Gregor has bought haribo for the work biscuit pile. This has resulted in several of us declaring undying love for him.

Read genderswap fic where it was pointed out to Shep that his general mildly flirty body language as a male is about 100x when female (Shep, of course, being the original 'for the 1,573rd time, John Shephard did not see it coming' oblivious type) and this got me musing a bit. I know that my normal body language and behaviour is construed as incredibly flirty. I've been told enough times, normally with protests that I wasn't. (the irony being that when I'm actually flirting with someone, it involves a lot of blushing and stammering, sole exception being the dancefloor. Where my confidence automatically goes up 500% and eye-fucking is always, always conscious.) Which made me wonder for a bit as how it'd be seen as a bloke. And then realised that no, I'd be my brother and it'd translate into suave charming bastard (who at the same time is every girl's best friend).

And in looking-up random facts on the web time, it turns out that our galaxy being lumbered with one of the... stupider names *ever* for a galaxy is due to the ancient Greeks, who thought it looked like a stream of milk. Seriously. majestic things like goddesses and mythical beasts and.... milk. *sigh* Could be worse, there's one mythology that labelled it straw. Our race should be banned from naming things. As many an alien race has put it in fiction, "You seriously named your planet 'dirt'?"

ETA : "We shall rule over this land, and we shall call it ... this land."

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*tries to ignore those 1,573 though there are probably more*

You mention confidence, which is what I'd have said - confident, laughing is labelled flirty. As are many other things that aren't *shrug* I was also stunned when I was told I was for the first and only time in my life.


Milk was probably meant to be semen or something.

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I'm also a toucher and I have *no* personal space to speak of due to spending the first few years of my life in Jakarta. (which contributes to the 'didn't see it coming' - someone sits or stands close, I don't register it as a sign of interest) I have the same body language and gestures and facial expressions as the bro.

And no, doesn't look like it - the milk reference is sometimes related to Hera (myth of Herakles) but the actual name is a direct translation of the Greek name, which is derived from the word for milk, gala. (also galaxy) No christian prudery involved, it seems.