Comments | draegonhawke: [Fic: SG-1] A Long Drawn-Out Breath and an Impossible Sky

draegonhawke

[Fic: SG-1] A Long Drawn-Out Breath and an Impossible Sky

Nov 28, 2011 14:25

Title: A Long Drawn-Out Breath and an Impossible Sky
Author: magistrate
Rating: T
Genre: ...slipstream. :|
Beta: 1 cuil: if you asked me for a beta and I gave you a raccoon.
Continuity: Nothing blatantly canon-defying, so far as I can tell. Some point in canon when they have naqahdah reactors. And Daniel.
Summary: I DON'T KNOW
Disclaimer: I am ( Read more... )

entry: not enough exposition, topic: fanfic, fanfic: sg1, *well that was random, *wait what, show: stargate sg1, fic: a long drawn-out breath, *samantha grace carter needs a hug, entry: fic text

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draegonhawke December 1 2011, 00:50:35 UTC

Linguistics is so awesome! If you're... the type of person to find linguistics awesome. Like, if you get excited about syntax, and things. (Well. I'm more of a morphology guy myself, fic in point.)

...if we're honest, the perception shift didn't quite make sense to me either, and I wrote the damn thing. After a certain point, the magibrain just went "HERE ARE WORDS" and I went "OKAY THAT IS MOSTLY GRAMMATICALLY VALID, LET'S PUT THEM DOWN." Which is probably not a valid way to structure fiction, but I'm going to hide behind surrealism now.

Don't quit writing! That would be a shame. I want to see more of your Jack, for one thing. Also, if I'd stopped writing every time I wanted to, I'd never have, uh, written a story that even I couldn't understand. Or something.

>_>

I mean... thanks!

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draegonhawke December 1 2011, 03:43:37 UTC

My first introduction to de Saussure was actually through an African-American Religions course, because I had a professor who assigned the introduction from Charles Long's "Significations". It opens with the quote "The bond between the signifier and signified is arbitrary," but examines it in the light of one community signifying another. The introduction makes a very good essay in and of itself.

Also, I would totally advise you to take a linguistics class. ...because I am a linguistics geek, and find it fascinating.

There was a lot of weird rewriting in this to get the pacing right and see if it could gain some sort of internal logic, even if it still feels mostly handwaved to me. (And it still bothers me that the first scene is one tone, all the middle ones are a different one, and the last scene is a different tone still. But that might be an unavoidable consequence of what the hell is going on.) ...I also edited it about thirty times so I could futz with derivational changes, and I'm still not happy with the explanation ( ... )

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