Fannish scientific inquiry

[meresy]

1. Why doesn't (almost) any wingfic address the musculature changes required to operate several feet of wings? Seriously, the flight muscles that'd be required to make a human-sized thing flight-worthy would be substantial. And wings may just bust out of your back, but your entire thoracic everything is going to have to do something pretty crazy,

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[umbrella_half]

1. You answered your own question there.

2. Radium used for watches and such glows green? Or uranium glass?

3. Ew. Yes.

4. What if the plant is delicious and edible, and so prevents itself from being eaten by making its potential eaters fuck or die?

5. I have often wondered this re. Odo.

6. No clue. But we're living in a world where radioactivity gives you super powers, rather than cancer, so go figure.

7. No, it makes no sense. Read it is an allegory for queerness? We all grow up marvellously diverse? =D?

Also, hi Meres!

[meresy]

1. I know. But still. There's only so much physical impossibility I can be expected to take.

2. The radium glow is it's beta-particles interacting with other chemicals in luminescent paint, IIRC. BUT. You raise an extremely salient point re: the popluar conception of radioacitivity as green. I should have thought of it!

3. Sorry.

4. ... But wouldn't that just make its victims post-coitally hungry?

5. Maybe the larger forms are just less dense.

6. Cancer of the EVERYTHING, I'm telling you.

7. NO sense. The allegory is nice, though. Nicer than catastrophic genetic instability. And alien mobile genetic elements.

Hiiiiiii! *waves*

[malnpudl]

I love your brain. (This is not news.)

[meresy]

My brain loves YOU.

[isiscolo]

Why would a plant develop caffeine? Or THC? Or nicotine (wait, don't answer that, it's insecticide).

[meresy]

Caffeine's a pesticide too, I think. Or possibly an animal attractant. And the intarwebs posit that THC helps in UV protection (but pot science in a morass of justification; hard to sort on a quick google).

Mostly, all the fun chemicals are about low-dosing poisons, so. *g*

I'm going with toxin. (Or hey, maybe humans are the primary pollinators of the Sex Plant. Yes, roll around in this field!)

[luzula]

Or hey, maybe humans are the primary pollinators of the Sex Plant. Yes, roll around in this field!

I like this idea! Although in that case, wouldn't it be better if the sex pollen made humans want to have sex with the plant? Kind of like orchids that mimic flies...

[meresy]

Ha, yes. Several flowers are already pretty yonic, so that could work. ;)

Actually, I'd be surprised if someone hadn't written crack fic about some kind of dildo plant yet. Could fit under the "tentacle" umbrella.

[lamentables]

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These are the things that bother me too.

[meresy]

THEY ARE TOTALLY VALID CONCERNS.

♥

[hieronymousmosh]

re: 3. I don't remember all the details, but there's a Gundam Wing mpreg fic where the pregnant man had some kind of miniature uterus - this wasn't otherwise normal to the canon or the rest of the men in the fic. I do remember the part where he had mini-menstrual periods and his ass would leak blood, though. Good times.

[meresy]

AUGH.

I take it back, I don't WANT to know.