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burntcopper) wrote2008-03-12 05:28 pm
burntcopper) wrote2008-03-12 05:28 pm
fandom insertion and evolution we hate
:pokes womb: you've had first mild cramp. Please let that be it for this week. Because I do not want to spend my day off curled around a hot water bottle tomorrow - I have plans. Waking up late. stumbling around town. Getting a haircut in full girly gossip mode.
Also had the 'we hate evolution!' rant variation #52.
Translation : why did we have to evolve culture/instincts so baby had more chance of survival so didn't have to compensate with multiple births to ensure survival of species so get to the point where we were having one baby at a time which is thus bigger in proportion to body and more difficult/dangerous/painful to get out (with resulting echo contractions of painfulness when having periods) than multiple-birth spawn because they're actually wired to be born tiny in proportion to the mother!
...yeah. problem with me reading biology papers all day, I add the scientific reasons. I'm not Rodney McKay, honest.
Hmm. Just had thought.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
ds_flashfiction had a self-insertion challenge (ie, it had to be *you*, not a Mary Sue), at which I pouted as there's only so many situations in fandom you can insert a theatre-junkie proofreader working in London into realistically without going 'tourist!' every time. (some were utter genius - girls who engaged Fraser in conversations about tundra foliage post-conference, or made pouty noises over the fact that GTO was a re-build and didn't have the original transmission) If SGA had a self-insertion challenge, you can bet Dr McKay would be on our hit-list for authors who have no idea of email etiquette, formatting, rules that we do not change just because you're a big name in the field, etc... whilst having a sympathetic email relationship with his lab assistants, where we constantly offered them virtual jaffa cakes that he couldn't touch because they're citrusy.
Thinking about it, the only other shows/books/etc I could actually fit into would be... er... Spender, Torchwood, Good Omens, Numb3rs, House, Spooks
Heh. what fandom could you reasonably fit into with your job/life and hobbies? all you accountants, you are so bloody lucky....
hee. oh, the problems of listening to concerts/performances you were there for the recording for, or saw the stage show for. You keep making gestures at certain points and go 'Annnnnddddd.... GLOMP.'
PJ Hammond ep for Torchwood tonight on Beeb 3. Please to ignore all fangirl 'ded from all kinks being hit simultaneously' noises, if it's anything like Small Worlds, the fairy ep.
Also had the 'we hate evolution!' rant variation #52.
Translation : why did we have to evolve culture/instincts so baby had more chance of survival so didn't have to compensate with multiple births to ensure survival of species so get to the point where we were having one baby at a time which is thus bigger in proportion to body and more difficult/dangerous/painful to get out (with resulting echo contractions of painfulness when having periods) than multiple-birth spawn because they're actually wired to be born tiny in proportion to the mother!
...yeah. problem with me reading biology papers all day, I add the scientific reasons. I'm not Rodney McKay, honest.
Hmm. Just had thought.
ds_flashfiction had a self-insertion challenge (ie, it had to be *you*, not a Mary Sue), at which I pouted as there's only so many situations in fandom you can insert a theatre-junkie proofreader working in London into realistically without going 'tourist!' every time. (some were utter genius - girls who engaged Fraser in conversations about tundra foliage post-conference, or made pouty noises over the fact that GTO was a re-build and didn't have the original transmission) If SGA had a self-insertion challenge, you can bet Dr McKay would be on our hit-list for authors who have no idea of email etiquette, formatting, rules that we do not change just because you're a big name in the field, etc... whilst having a sympathetic email relationship with his lab assistants, where we constantly offered them virtual jaffa cakes that he couldn't touch because they're citrusy.Thinking about it, the only other shows/books/etc I could actually fit into would be... er... Spender, Torchwood, Good Omens, Numb3rs, House, Spooks
Heh. what fandom could you reasonably fit into with your job/life and hobbies? all you accountants, you are so bloody lucky....
hee. oh, the problems of listening to concerts/performances you were there for the recording for, or saw the stage show for. You keep making gestures at certain points and go 'Annnnnddddd.... GLOMP.'
PJ Hammond ep for Torchwood tonight on Beeb 3. Please to ignore all fangirl 'ded from all kinks being hit simultaneously' noises, if it's anything like Small Worlds, the fairy ep.
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Dr Who
Torchwood
Quantum Leap
Heroes
Lost [it's whacky enough]
Casualty
Dresden Files
Cold Case
Primeval
XC
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Spender - newcastle. visits to grandma.
Good Omens and Spooks are a location thing.
Numb3rs and House are the only other ones I could think of where characters submit papers to science journals in canon.
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Anywhere in the Pegg-verse (Spaced, Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) to the point it's actually quite scary. And things like The Office/People Like Us are a given as is anything with a perpetual unemployment theme - e.g. Bread.
Weird thing is, hoovering up popular culture's a recent thing with me - prior to that I chewed up and spat out general knowledge. So with my admin socks on, knowledge of pre-1990 programming languages etc - I could drop myself into anything from the Man From UNCLE to Dempsey & Makepeace and sample the action-packed world of jammed photocopiers in three different decades.
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The serotonin is cute!