Student Gems, The Final

[dramaturgca]

"The period of Alexander was called Menander"

"Alexander the Great was a pope that had negative afflictions with theatre."

"After Alexander the Great conquered damn near all the known world"

"In New Comedy, however, the parabola was cut out"

"ended in 404" Okay, I know that the Athenian Classical period ended in 404BCE. But... it's funny when

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[thefourthvine]

I can totally see Jack Harkness using the phrase kissy kissy time. ("Hey there, big boy, how about some kissy kissy time? Wait, sorry, busted translator circuit. I meant to invite you back to the Hub for relocation to the appropriate temporal stream. Although, hey, if you also want some kissy kissy time, I'm not going to say no, big boy.")

And Sherlock. ("John, send a text. Say, 'Let's meet for kissy kissy time at 7:10, 22 Northumberland Street.' Why are you laughing? It's a perfectly acceptable term for it. I saw it on the internet.")

And Jim Kirk (reboot). ("Yeah, so then I slammed five tequilas and asked his twin daughters to come up to my place for kissy kissy time."

"I am unfamiliar with this approach to diplomacy, Captain."

"It wasn't diplomacy. I just wanted to get laid. I didn't even realize he was the ambassador until the next morning."

"This will make our mission significantly more complex, particularly given this culture's reliance on dueling to avenge personal insults."

"Yeah, I get that, but aren't you glad I'm telling you beforehand this time?")

In fact, the real question is, what character wouldn't use kissy kissy time? IT'S A PERFECTLY GOOD TERM. FACE IT.

[dramaturgca]

You... make a valid point...

I maintain that in new BSG, though, there is no place for kissy kissy time.

I bet Merlin would use it and then Arthur would hit him with something.

[thefourthvine]

You could be right about BSG. It's not my fandom, and maybe this is why: in the end, I only get into fandoms where you could write "kissy kissy time" in a story and not be writing crackfic. It's a theory worth considering! Next time a new fandom comes out, I will simply ask people who are trying to sell me on it: "Is there any character who could reasonably use the term 'kissy kissy face'? No? Sorry, not my thing."

You're absolutely right about Merlin. Or he'd use it disparagingly ("Well, what was I supposed to do, sit here like a lump while you had your kissy kissy time with an EVIL SORCERESS? I mean, I know you need to get your end away, but -") and Arthur would send him to the stocks.

Oh, man, old school: Blair Sandburg would TOTALLY use the phrase kissy kissy time. In fact, so would Jim, probably; he'd just put it in air quotes to maintain a little distance from it.

The more I think about it, the more I realize this phrase is BRILLIANT.

And the more I think about that, the more I realize it is TIME TO SLEEP.

[dramaturgca]

SLEEP IS GOOD.

As long as you don't mean Morgana when you say evil sorceress. I am so deeply deeply opposed to that plot line.

[thefourthvine]

...Morgana's an evil sorceress now? SAY IT ISN'T SO. (Number of Merlin episodes seen: 0. This effectively insulates me from unpleasant developments in the canon, which Morgana turning evil would definitely be.)

[dramaturgca]

OMG They did this amazingly dumb and pointless thing and made her evil by way of everyone ignoring her and lying to her when her powers started manifesting so that she felt completely cut-off and unloved. So the first person who said that she understood and would teach Morgana how to use her powers(who happened to be an evil sorceress. And her half-sister.) got all of Morgana's loyalty by virtue of not being a lying liar who lies lyingly. (By which I mean Merlin and Gaius).

So much anti-feminism. So much ridiculous plot twist that seems engineered to make one hate the title character.

[dramaturgca]

So what's the story on Aquariuming? I am here in the California place!

[thefourthvine]

*waves weakly*

At the moment, the story is that I have contracted YET ANOTHER PLAGUE from the earthling and his classmates and his cousins (at this point, I am prepared to blame anyone under the age of 13), and you probably don't want to be anywhere near me. But the bright side is: you're in town for long enough that we should be able to meet during the not-so-very-sick-and-probably-not-contagious part of the Endless March of Preschool Germs.

(The less bright side, for me, is that Yuletide is due in six days and one of my stories is back from beta and requires extensive modifications. Which I knew it would. But I'd hoped to have more than two functioning brain cells to modify it with.)

*coughs*

*swoons*