[update] Far and Far From Land
I tweaked one of the stories I wrote earlier -- added a scene from another story that fit there better, altered a few lines to bring it more in line with the ficton as it had developed, etc.
Far and Far From Land
-setting- AU more or less tracking canon from the beginning of first season, ending before "The Return" would have happened. Gen.
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Far and Far From Land
-setting- AU more or less tracking canon from the beginning of first season, ending before "The Return" would have happened. Gen.
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I like the thing with John's family having been endogamous for so long; it neatly explains his gene, in a way. (Although the way they have ATA set up, it is one gene which you have or you don't, and thus cannot logically be "stronger" in one person or another...)
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Well... they were that and the Other-Thing-Not-Appearing-In-This-Story -- and Leesy and James McKay's kids went out and took spouses from among the people they were passing as, so even with succeeding endogamous marriages it winds up being the sort of drop-in-the-bucket thing that another family might have easily forgotten. I'm fairly sure Rodney checks the "Caucasian" box on official forms without really thinking about it -- as far as he's concerned, that's not something he's passing as by this point, although he'd use the verb for the relevant sets of great- and great-great-grandparents. (The inbreeding on Leesy's side, while not something you bring up unless trying to reassure someone that it isn't as bad as it could be, falls more under the category of "ugly family secret" than "masquerade ( ... )
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I like that you do this, because it gives your stories a lot of depth, but I'm the kind of person who calls out questions at the TV when I spot that in a show. ^^; It doesn't mean I don't enjoy it, it just means I've noticed it and am hoping to see it explained or developed at some point, pretty much.
Okay, your spackle explanation makes a hell of a lot more sense that what they say in the show, to the point that I was already nodding halfway through, anticipating that final sentence.
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Sigh. I never know how much to endnote, and when I'm focused too much on the story itself I forget that it even needs doing. ;_;
//But I just wanted to say [...] how much I love this world you've created.//
Thank you so very much!
//Maybe I don't mind because the focus is almost never really on their differences exactly, but on their connections to each other.//
Something like Lin Carter's corollary to John W. Campbell's dictum (which I've always thought was embodied most closely in the differences between the anime series Mazinger, Gundam, and Patlabor: 1. Ooh, look! Giant robot! 2. Okay, assume the existence of giant robots; tell me a story about a world where giant robots exist! 3. Okay, assume giant robots and a world where they exist; now tell me about the people who live in a world to which giant robots are endemic!) Often, when people get ideas like " ( ... )
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I am writing more whenever bits of it will consent to be so written, although every so often I get distracted by the dinosaur story or parodic crack or the AU where they're detectives.
In re incubus: I think Trinityofone wrote a story that used that name for it and the taking images from other people's subconsciouses, but as that was out in the real world rather than dreams, I wasn't exactly thinking of it at the time (although it may very well have been in the back of my head when I was casting about for random examples).
And if anything I've done has caused people to go read things I've read and loved, I'm really happy for that. ^_^
In short: thank you so much, I'm trying to come up with more, and I'm glad you wrote and told me what you liked about this!
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Whatever the possibilities of crushing, drowning on the long way up, or miraculously surviving... all alone... without anything that gave his life meaning... though, I'm pretty sure they were regular guests in Rodney's parade of nightmares after Other-Elizabeth talked to them. ;_;
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Huh. I suppose that is there -- and, probably, the issue with his genitor may be influencing him -- but honestly, this bit was more of a reaction on my part to the Michael Arc of Suck. Which isn't going to happen that way in the Zophonisbeion proper.
After all, Frankenstein (the movie) is pretty much up there as an example of Not What An Ethical Scientist Does, especially when something as silly as Young Frankenstein has a far more responsible doctor.
//they really did seem to want to make sure to instill useful moral values.//Well, they know perfectly well what it's like when you don't... you might run off and join the Teleological Heresiarchy for Really Unbelievable Statistical Hubris. Or infiltrate the north of Egypt, take over the Great House, and turn around and enslave your cousins because they're too stiff-necked for your taste. Or seduce someone who's smokingly hot, even when the balance of power is such that the seducee is unlikely to be able to give full and informed consent and ( ... )
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I love being pleasantly surprised. This totally made my day.
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(I was a little surprised myself, when I realized where my plot idea of "oh, and Rodney is a selkie" had taken me.)
In re sgastoryfinders -- I'm always surprised, both to see what pieces of a story people remember (and perhaps put the wrong interpretation on), and that other people are able to recognize them from the descriptions anyway.
//Also, the Princess Bride references and all those other little bits of their personal pop culture canon totally made the characters.//
So many of the people I know relate to the world through their perceptions of pop culture that it seemed a natural method to use. ^_^
Once again, thank you for commenting!
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