Sometimes, people tell me random things and then stories happen. Like that time a friend told me to write a Doctor Who stapler monster. Stuff like that
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crazy explanation (2/2) because lj comment size is too smallbendingsignpostJuly 18 2011, 14:53:39 UTC
Question: How does Rose wind up having him around?
Answer: Jackie buys him as a factory reject, a failed prototype. As one of the early attempts for a binary vascular system, he's biologically stable, but his blood pressure is a bit weird and not good for packaging purposes. He's still industrial grade in terms of recovery times and production, which is very fortunate. With great strain, he could probably keep an entire family alive for a couple years. With one person, he could go indefinitely.
Icky problem: How the hell to keep Jackie from feeding on him.
Solution: That blood pressure issue. He's too weird for her.
Resulting question: Why would Rose stick with him, then?
Answer: She's raised on frozen packs, he's her first that she's ever had to bite herself (when she was tiny, her dad would let her suckle from his bites, he was a right-biter like her, a concept borrowed from Buffy). She doesn't know he's off. Madly enough, this now means she's been ruined for anyone else.
Also, Rose bites on a different side from her mother partially because it's all symbolic but mostly so they don't have to have overlapping bite marks on him because that would just be weird in a way that I am not comfortable with, even enough I am apparently comfortable with a lot of weird shit.
Random things that make me so happy: -TT40-10 is the TARDIS number plus his incarnation. -The Doctor is still off the grid because the Flesh aren't considered people. -Good dawning/birthnight/every piece of vocabulary I get to adapt/invent. -He loves Hagrid because Hagrid takes Harry away from the horrible people and gives him squishy horrible food and loves him terribly, and that sounds wonderful. -Putting a fantasy novel in this meant instant complications, which meant thinking, which meant solutions and world history and I'm not sure what level of tech the world is currently at, or what year it is, but this used to be our world, okay? -Bananas confuse Rose. Blood-only vamps means confusion about solid food and a complete lack of cooking finesse. They don't even own plates, hence the shoebox lid. Their "kitchen" is the fridge, the microwave, and the sink. Yes, I realize this is pretty crazy, but it also cuts down on waste and garbage disposal. -Vamp fangs are like snake fangs, folding into the mouth when shut. None of that hanging over the lips nonsense. -Bio-sociological correctness with each type of were. ("Werecreature" is traditional but actually an offensive form. You want to go with "wereform", because when the person changes, they're in a different form, they're not a creature.)
oh man. you are the worst.
Lies, you love me. I am, however, a bit off in the head.
Re: crazy explanation (2/2) because lj comment size is too smallmylittlepwnyJuly 19 2011, 05:45:51 UTC
You're my favorite.
With one person, he could go indefinitely.
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He loves Hagrid because Hagrid takes Harry away from the horrible people and gives him squishy horrible food and loves him terribly, and that sounds wonderful.
I HAD BETTER BE SEEING WHAT YOU DID THERE.
I should be responding individually to every single thing about this comment (and now you know how I feel about lj comment limits EVERY TIME YOU WRITE SOMETHING) (how dare they try to control our enthusiasm), but fuck if I can do much more than sit here in awe of your creative process. I don't make this many notes when I write a research paper, let alone a fic. TELL ME YOUR SECRETS.
Re: crazy explanation (2/2) because lj comment size is too smallbendingsignpostJuly 20 2011, 01:53:32 UTC
He loves Hagrid because Hagrid takes Harry away from the horrible people and gives him squishy horrible food and loves him terribly, and that sounds wonderful.
I HAD BETTER BE SEEING WHAT YOU DID THERE.
With the Hagrid bit, he doesn't mean her. That's why he doesn't really finish that thought. At this point, he's fully behind the dream of getting your letter to Hogwarts.
I don't make this many notes when I write a research paper, let alone a fic. TELL ME YOUR SECRETS.
Answer: Jackie buys him as a factory reject, a failed prototype. As one of the early attempts for a binary vascular system, he's biologically stable, but his blood pressure is a bit weird and not good for packaging purposes. He's still industrial grade in terms of recovery times and production, which is very fortunate. With great strain, he could probably keep an entire family alive for a couple years. With one person, he could go indefinitely.
Icky problem: How the hell to keep Jackie from feeding on him.
Solution: That blood pressure issue. He's too weird for her.
Resulting question: Why would Rose stick with him, then?
Answer: She's raised on frozen packs, he's her first that she's ever had to bite herself (when she was tiny, her dad would let her suckle from his bites, he was a right-biter like her, a concept borrowed from Buffy). She doesn't know he's off. Madly enough, this now means she's been ruined for anyone else.
Also, Rose bites on a different side from her mother partially because it's all symbolic but mostly so they don't have to have overlapping bite marks on him because that would just be weird in a way that I am not comfortable with, even enough I am apparently comfortable with a lot of weird shit.
Random things that make me so happy:
-TT40-10 is the TARDIS number plus his incarnation.
-The Doctor is still off the grid because the Flesh aren't considered people.
-Good dawning/birthnight/every piece of vocabulary I get to adapt/invent.
-He loves Hagrid because Hagrid takes Harry away from the horrible people and gives him squishy horrible food and loves him terribly, and that sounds wonderful.
-Putting a fantasy novel in this meant instant complications, which meant thinking, which meant solutions and world history and I'm not sure what level of tech the world is currently at, or what year it is, but this used to be our world, okay?
-Bananas confuse Rose. Blood-only vamps means confusion about solid food and a complete lack of cooking finesse. They don't even own plates, hence the shoebox lid. Their "kitchen" is the fridge, the microwave, and the sink. Yes, I realize this is pretty crazy, but it also cuts down on waste and garbage disposal.
-Vamp fangs are like snake fangs, folding into the mouth when shut. None of that hanging over the lips nonsense.
-Bio-sociological correctness with each type of were. ("Werecreature" is traditional but actually an offensive form. You want to go with "wereform", because when the person changes, they're in a different form, they're not a creature.)
oh man. you are the worst.
Lies, you love me. I am, however, a bit off in the head.
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With one person, he could go indefinitely.
~
He loves Hagrid because Hagrid takes Harry away from the horrible people and gives him squishy horrible food and loves him terribly, and that sounds wonderful.
I HAD BETTER BE SEEING WHAT YOU DID THERE.
I should be responding individually to every single thing about this comment (and now you know how I feel about lj comment limits EVERY TIME YOU WRITE SOMETHING) (how dare they try to control our enthusiasm), but fuck if I can do much more than sit here in awe of your creative process. I don't make this many notes when I write a research paper, let alone a fic. TELL ME YOUR SECRETS.
or don't. just never ever stop utilizing them.
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I HAD BETTER BE SEEING WHAT YOU DID THERE.
With the Hagrid bit, he doesn't mean her. That's why he doesn't really finish that thought. At this point, he's fully behind the dream of getting your letter to Hogwarts.
I don't make this many notes when I write a research paper, let alone a fic. TELL ME YOUR SECRETS.
Compulsive connection making.
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I admit the Hagrid thing was a leap. But don't think I didn't notice you conveniently not mentioning the feeding one person indefinitely thing.
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