One or two things...

[raven]

I don't think I will update again until after my exams are over. Not much point, really; it's not as if I would be coherent, interesting or in any way entertaining, unless you're the sort of person who rubbernecks at twenty-car pile-ups on the motorway, so, well, yeah.

A few notes, then:

Firstly, the Discworld Quest is over! I finished reading Eric last night. I have read all thirty-one (is it thirty-one?) books, from The Colour of Magic to Monstrous Regiment, and it has taken me almost exactly three months. I am pleased.

Secondly, amchau - I thought you would be interested to know that Red Dwarf has canon mpreg. I would usually take this moment to complain about mpreg in general, but I now no longer have a leg to stand on. Sadly (or not), the only clip from the episode I could find features the cast dancing. I was amused by that.

Thirdly, you might remember my mentioning Mani's two goldfish, Jasmine and Aladdin. I have just learned that Jasmine has departed this mortal coil - when they were on the way home, she fell out of the bowl and no-one noticed until two hours later.

Is it wrong that I find that absolutely hilarious?

And yes, that is all. See you all next week.

Comments

[gamesiplay.livejournal.com]

Good luck, then.

(I should probably make a similar resolution about posting and exams, but I doubt I will.)

You're not alone -- I find Jasmine's death rather morbidly amusing.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*grins* And I thought I was the only one. Jasmine has been replaced. The two fish are still not called Sirius and Remus, though - they are now Abu and Jasmine Mark II.

[cucharita.livejournal.com]

I think Jasmine is like the goldfish in Amélie. & is obviously suicidal.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Quite possible, but she is in fact the longest-lived of Mani's fish, having lived to the grand old age of five months.

[cucharita.livejournal.com]

Shame really. Maybe the pressure was getting to her?

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[loneraven.livejournal.com]

You are too sweet. Thank you.

[thunderemerald.livejournal.com]

Eric? Aw! Eric was my FIRST Discworld book! That's kind of funny. I still haven't read all of them, though... sigh...

Though I probably will when my next Pratchett phase hits. It shouldn't be long now, and I can't keep rereading Wyrd Sisters forever!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Reading all of them is a strangely fulfilling experience. I look forward to your next Pratchett phase - it's all about the turtleback-riding...

[amchau.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the exams! (Lucikly, I only have one. English on Friday.)

And thanks for the link-- indeed, I only have a vague familiarity with Red Dwarf, and did not know that it had canon mpreg. Every example helps! :)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Good luck to you to! (which A-levels are you doing, out of interest)

And what mpreg examples do you have?

[amchau.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm doing English (lit+lang) and R.S.-- just half a timetable because of the whole ME/CFS not-being-fully-well thing.

Canon mpreg-- well, now I have two examples. The other is the Star Trek: Enterprise episode in which Trip Tucker had sex with a female alien and... well, you can guess the rest.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Argh! Unexpected! I love that episode! Even wrote fic about it!

Sorry. I just really, really liked that,

[amchau.livejournal.com]

See? Mpreg is a normal, natural thing to be interested in.

Okay, so I can't really make that case stand up. But that episode was mpreg, right? Quite well done, in many ways, and certainly fitted fairly well into the show as a whole, and Trip stayed in character-- so it was a good mpreg. It's fuel for the argument that mpreg in fanfic is not always so terrible a thing.

(What fic? I'd like to read that.)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

You know, you're right. I never thought of it, but that episode is classic mpreg. Two canon examples! Who'd have thought?

The fic in question is here:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/autumnalis/5038.html

[amchau.livejournal.com]

It's mostly a matter of the setting, really-- in the Star Trek "anything can happen" setting, it makes sense that sex would have unexpected consequences, and male preganacy is a reasonably obvious choice. That's why mpreg can work in Smallville or our Disc/Potter crossover, but is harder to sell in a far more realistic fandom, such as M*A*S*H. Which is why my Klinger mpreg remains unfinished: it's not a very good story.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I would go with that. In Red Dwarf, anything really can happen, so Lister being pregant wasn't quite as odd in context.

Similarly with Trip Tucker. I was just thinking, I have to start watching that show again. I loved Enterprise, and I really don't know why I stopped watching.

Still, I never saw your M*A*S*H mpreg and it did seem like a good plot to me. I mean, everyone, everyone will think Klinger is faking - and it turns out he isn't! Fantastic.

To go off on a tangent (back to Red Dwarf again!) Klinger has completely altered my perceptions. When watching a RD episode which, for some reason, featured Rimmer in a dress, I didn't find it strange. Not at all. The trials and tribulations of having more than one fandom!

[amchau.livejournal.com]

You never saw it for a reason, and that's that I never did much more than talk about it, because the contradiction between the reality of the show and the impossiblity of the situation did bug me. One day, maybe, I'll kick that aside a write purely silly M*A*S*H fic, and when I do, the plot will be there and waiting for me.

I don't know about you, but I stopped watching Enterprise because Archer is a prat. Cute fic, by the way-- I don't feel confident saying more than that, because Stargate is not my fandom by any stretch of the imagination. It's one of those ones I'm going to find out about one day, but not this week.

And having more than one fandom is a good thing. :) I was rambling in my lj only the other day about how I wished more people would bring the reality of war as shown by shows like M*A*S*H into their writing of wartime Harry Potter stories.