Another round of the Five Questions meme
Okay, I felt like chasing this meme round my flist a bit, so I have more questions to answer here. There's another batch coming, but I figured fifteen questions would make a fair-sized post. XD
As before - if you want five questions, tell me the three things that most attract you to a fandom, or just say "I'd like five questions, please". You can also tell me your three things (I am curious!) and request no questions, if you'd rather.
1) This is a thread for Trek thoughts. All of your Trek thoughts, please! How you got into it, thoughts on each era, favourite characters etc.
ALL of my Trek thoughts. I might need another post. ;P
* I got into Trek when I was sixteen or so. My mum decided my sisters and I ought to know about TOS as a cultural phenomenon - so we watched The Motion[less] Picture. Luckily, it was the director's cut, so we all fell in love with the Spock+Bones snark at once and went quite crazy for Trek: watched the ten eps our library had on DVD and the six movies, read all the James Blish novzats (novelizations)... I read all the actor biographies and making-of books, and wrote a skit for the local 4-H talent contest (this was never performed due to too many cooks, but eventually became my "Jimmy, We Shrunk the Helmsman".) My little sister made a spreadsheet of all the ep titles and authors, and translated the titles into Latin. O_O
* On a tangent, TOS got me into Man from UNCLE, since it was to see Shatner and Nimoy pre-Trek (as well as Werner Klemperer) that we checked out "The Project Strigas Affair".
* My favorite TOS character is Bones McCoy. Because he is AWESOME. *nodnod* Someday I need to get a Bones icon that says "My Doctor" or such. (Or possibly a scrolling icon so I can fit Janet, Three, and Ducky in there too.) He is the doctor all other sci-fi doctors wish they could smell like be, and I would probably join Starfleet Medical if I lived in the proper century and had a chance of working with him. XD
* That reminds me of the truly epic story-form multi-fandom RP we made up. See, in the game, Spock's great-grandfather's first wife was an Elf (as in LOTR, yes); they had about a dozen kids, all girls. The weird genetic interactions of being half-Elf-half-Vulcan gave all the girls superpowers, ranging from shapeshifting to telekinesis to "instant diagnostic ability" (the girl who chose that is now a veterinary student). So they all became secret agents of sorts and fought against Khan in the Eugenics Wars. (So did my character, but she was adopted; she was actually Wolverine's baby sister by birth. Because Elf-lady was an old friend of Wolvie's dad, who was immortal. Believe me, "epic" is an understatement.)
Anyway, the RP spanned 300 years, and most of us wound up in Starfleet at some point (except the ones who joined SHIELD or the DC!verse's equivalent). It was pretty damn fun, and I still fondly remember the time I turned up (rather battered and bedraggled) in the middle of a dinner party Amanda was giving on Vulcan. *wry grin* It must be admitted that I do like causing a stir.
* Anyway! Other Treks. TNG: started watching last year when Beth expressed shock that I had not seen it. It's not my favorite, but if I ever get round to watching it properly, I'm sure there are a lot of good bits. (Also Riker is cute, once he stops being stupidly skinny and grows the beard - Jonathon Frakes just keeps looking better the fatter he gets. He has De Kelley's twinkly blue eyes, which prejudices me in his favor. And I like Wesley and Pulaski, so really there is nobody I hate.) And John de Lancie is fricasseein' adorable, although I do wish they'd stop with the purple lipstick.
* Then last January eponymous_rose roped me into watching DS9. She has a history of getting me to watch shows - DS9's the fourth - and they've all been nearly-unqualified successes. (The others were S&S, Legend, and The Middleman. I was rather relieved to have a more-than-one-season show from her at last, lol.)
* ODO ODO ODO ODO ODO. But also Kira and Miles and Quark and Bashir and Sisko and Dax and Worf and Nog and Rom and Jake and really just about everybody. Even Keiko, although I liked her best when she turned into a Pagh Wraith, for Rosalind Chao was epic at that. I may not like the writers all the time, but the characters are consistently lovely and the cast is composed entirely of great actors: what's not to love? ♥
Also, my very favorite thing about DS9 is that you can put all the main/recurring character names in a hat, pull out two, and most of the time there's already a fantastic episode about their interactions. ("Improbable Cause" / "The Die Is Cast" YES PLEASE.) And if there is not, it is possible to make one up. And there is continuity! And snark! And awesome familial stuff! Chosen-family is a very common theme in my fandoms (we won't go into reasons on an open post ;P), and DS9 is right up there with Stargate SG-1 at the top of the list for me.
* Voyager, Enterprise, and nuTrek I have not seen yet. (I'm quite sure Karl Urban nailed the character of Bones, and I know I can't bear to see Bones going on being awesome without De. *sadface*)
2) Why is one of your interests "and a hard boiled egg"?
It's a Discworld thing. There was an urban revolution whose slogan wound up being "Truth, Justice, Reasonably Priced Love [the *ahem* Seamstresses objected to "free love"], and a Hard-Boiled Egg", because the guy who accidentally got roped into leading the revolution had really just wanted a hard-boiled egg for his tea. With toast. Anyway, I saw it in someone else's interests and found it amusing. :D
3) What is your most favourite and least favourite fanfic trope?
Hm. I'm bad at identifying tropes, but I do have a soft spot for gen bed-sharing fic (especially when one or both sleepers are lightly whumped). *g* Cuddlytiems for all, that's me. As to least favorite... probably sudden introduction of sex into a relationship. o_O
4) What's your favourite part of your body and why? (IDK why, ignore this question if you'd rather. I like my feet).
Either my feet - which are small, high-arched, and tricky to shoe, but nice-looking - or my hair, which at its best is chestnut ringlets. I may be a wee bit vain on those two counts. XP
5) Why justice turtle? I like to imagine you're a TMNT fan, but this may be too good to be true. Englighten me? Without the g.
I keep meaning to see the 2003 TMNT series, as everyone tells me it's awesome (and I read a very hopeful-sounding crossover fic once), but I haven't gotten round to that yet. So, nope, not (yet) a TMNT fan.
Basically, I just wanted to choose a new name that wouldn't be outdated as soon as I switched fandoms (which happens with alarming frequency) or grew up a bit more (happens every time I think I might like to stay the way I am, lol). So I picked various people's brains about how they'd chosen their usernames. Result: "Justice" because I have a strong liking for characters who put justice above other concerns (Odo's "justice is justice" speech in Past Prologue honestly makes me tear up), and "turtle" because I've always identified with turtles - I'm slow-moving, slow-thinking, never know when to quit, and I like to carry my house on my back and pull my head in when things get too noisy. ;-)
There may also have been a subconscious connection with the Justice League there, or possibly just the fact that J'onn J'onzz and Odo both look more than a bit like turtles (in different ways). LOL!
1. Do any of your fandoms really not fit your three things?
Hee, sophia_sol asked me this too. Nope - by and large, I'm really quite predictable. I like my guys clever and deadpan, gruff and efficient, and adorable around kids. I suppose Q is really the farthest outside my usual standards, as he's not at all dependable or honorable, but that scene with the baby at the end of Voyager's "The Q and the Grey"... well! It just goes to show, "good with kids" is really all that matters to me, and I can smell it a mile off. ;-)
2. Do you have any pet theories about Elements - what they are, how they work, etc?
Not really, unless you count my drabble Insensitive, the premise of which is that Steel really isn't very good at sensing temporal anomalies (that's why he sometimes gets so nervous around them) and is mainly along as a sort of anchor to prevent Sapphire getting trapped by influences she's more susceptible to than he is. I came up with that one halfway through Assignment 4, and I'm rather proud of it. *g*
3. Who is your favourite character in the Chrestomanci series (so far)?
Well, ftr, I've finished the series. (I read ridiculously fast, if I both have a book and am interested in it. *lol* Actually, I've re-read most of the books by now, which hasn't happened to me since Tolkien. O_O) I think my favorite is definitely Christopher, with Millie and Janet tied for a close second.
Why Millie and Janet: this is obvious. They are both awesome and sensible, in very similar ways. (And not particularly pretty; you don't realize how required prettiness is of fantasy!girls till you find a book that doesn't bother with it. Millie especially, for the wife / girlfriend of a top-flight Main Character, is startlingly plain - which is nice, y'know?) Janet especially reminds me that 12B is after all the world of "Swallows and Amazons", and other such stories where Practicality is a very important trait.
Why Christopher - that's a bit harder to say. Right now I'm just fairly head-over-heels, with him and his world both. XD Certainly his laid-back, almost Vulcan sense of humor has something to do with it, and of course the fabulous suits and dressing-gowns do too. Plus, he's remarkably human and lovable for a Regulator Of All Magic, and cheerfully unconcerned with What People Will Think - and he's got sort of a childlike viewpoint, even as an adult, especially in "Magicians of Caprona" and "Witch Week", with his delight in pretending to be a Divisional Inquisitor and so forth.
(Besides, he reminds me of me. Smart to the point of annoyingness, using vague superior looks to cover up when he's scrambling to piece something together, given to snappishness when people are willfully deceiving themselves, definitely not all-knowing but still preferring to be in charge... yup, sounds familiar. *g* I'm finding the fanfic rather enlightening, as several of the authors tend to take Christopher's "snotty and insensitive" act at face value; it makes me consider how people RL probably see me. *thinkyface*)
4. What do you think your counterpart would be in Chrestomanci's world? (Or any other of the worlds that you prefer, apart from you in this one.)
Well, I'd be rather clumsy at manipulating magic, if we're going at all by how I am with similar things (such as music, art, and headology) in my world. I'd be sadly susceptible to Eye Of The Beholder - a variety of Performative Speech, commonly used by parents on children, and by self-deceiving people on themselves - and "ooh shiny!" misdirection spells, but have extremely good witch sight and absolutely no tact. ;-) Probably I'd wind up either employed by the Chrestomanci department or as a hedge witch fighting against them, given my scrappy relationship with authority figures.
5. Which is your favourite DW episode you have seen as yet?
Counting old-skool stories as "episodes" (as I do)? Inferno. Absolutely. Seven eps, very little padding, excellent pacing; not-too-goofy special effects; two of the best cliffies EVAR, in the same serial!; "and they were all wearing eyepatches". Eyepatches make everything better.
(Runner-up: Midnight. It's kind of a cool change of pace, and I really think it worked a lot better with how Rusty actually sees the world than the usual Who structure does. It feels more like something he wanted to write, ykwim. Also, it's rather fun to have the Doctor not be all in charge saving the world for once - it's this tiny little Twilight-Zone-ish bottle show, and I love the inversion.)
1. I know who your favourite DS9 character is - who's your least favourite, and why?
Keiko. The writing, mostly - she's just so cattish and manipulative. I barely ever get a sense that she honestly cares about Miles for himself; it comes across like a "trophy" relationship 90% of the time. I liked her best when she was a Pagh Wraith (except for that one scene in Rivals where she gave Miles the headband before his big match with Bashir. That was sweet.)
Of the mains, it's actually Sisko: he spent the first season or two actively undermining his subordinate officers, and really didn't become an awesome person till "Past Tense". I have trouble forgiving or admiring an authority figure who doesn't have his subordinates' backs. (You don't want to get me started on the "The Forsaken" rant again, lol.)
2. You mentioned you like AUs. Do you prefer the "for want of a nail" type of AU, ie one small thing changed/watch the ripple effect, or do you prefer an AU that changes the premise drastically?
I tend to prefer the "and they were all firefighters / cavemen / toddlers!" sorts of AU. Ripple effect AUs frustrate me a bit because they so often tend to play out almost exactly the same, even when there's no logical reason for something to be the same - it takes a really dedicated writer to just keep thinking things out and changing every little detail - whereas "and they were all _____" AUs have that built-in crackiness where none of the similarities have to make logical sense, and in fact it often weakens the story if you try to explain them.
3. Why justice_turtle?
Well, see smirnoffmule's #5 above, but in brief: Justice because I care about it (and am fond of characters who care about it), and Turtle because I identify with turtles. Also Odo's neck looks rather like a turtle's, although I swear I wasn't thinking of that when I picked the name. ;P
4. I'll repeat the question I asked lost_spook: Name the most unlikely fandom to have penguins in it, and how it can become better with penguins!
Everything is better with penguins. Er...
Bonanza. Bonanza is almost superlatively unlikely to have penguins. However, if it did have penguins, I expect they'd have to be Galapagos penguins (because of refrigeration not being invented yet) and probably have to do with a story about either a circus / travelling zoo or a historical related to Darwin. In the first instance, Hoss would wind up helping a little boy guest-star-of-the-week with an unexpected pet penguin after said circus was disbanded in Virginia City, and there would be a Politics primary plot to hide the fact that the real point of the episode is Hoss with a penguin. XD In the second... Adam's the science-boy, so the ep would focus more on Adam and/or Ben (who was probably a friend of the young Charles Darwin at some point related to the voyage of the Beagle, in-story). Adam would not necessarily befriend the penguin, because Hoss is usually cuter with animals, but this is a shame. *wry grin*
(I have no idea how anyone is to be gotten into a tux at any point in the story, but clearly it has to be done. XD)
5. Would you watch a show that has a geologist in it, even if they got everything terribly wrong?
No. NO. Nonononono. *shudders* Heck, I even have a hard time watching "Our Man Bashir" because not!Sisko's destroying-the-world plot is so horribly, horribly implausible. I wind up fussing at the screen every. single. time. (Which gets me some odd looks in a computer lab... *lol*) Covering the world in molten lava, yes; deflating the earth like a balloon, NO NO NO MAKE IT STOP. *covers ears*
...yeah, I feel rather strongly about scientific accuracy in my fiction. I don't mind faster-than-light travel or wormholes - basically, I'm quite happy to give SF writers a pass to change this or that law of science, as long as they do it responsibly and stick to their own rules - but sloppiness I cannot stand.
As before - if you want five questions, tell me the three things that most attract you to a fandom, or just say "I'd like five questions, please". You can also tell me your three things (I am curious!) and request no questions, if you'd rather.
1) This is a thread for Trek thoughts. All of your Trek thoughts, please! How you got into it, thoughts on each era, favourite characters etc.
ALL of my Trek thoughts. I might need another post. ;P
* I got into Trek when I was sixteen or so. My mum decided my sisters and I ought to know about TOS as a cultural phenomenon - so we watched The Motion[less] Picture. Luckily, it was the director's cut, so we all fell in love with the Spock+Bones snark at once and went quite crazy for Trek: watched the ten eps our library had on DVD and the six movies, read all the James Blish novzats (novelizations)... I read all the actor biographies and making-of books, and wrote a skit for the local 4-H talent contest (this was never performed due to too many cooks, but eventually became my "Jimmy, We Shrunk the Helmsman".) My little sister made a spreadsheet of all the ep titles and authors, and translated the titles into Latin. O_O
* On a tangent, TOS got me into Man from UNCLE, since it was to see Shatner and Nimoy pre-Trek (as well as Werner Klemperer) that we checked out "The Project Strigas Affair".
* My favorite TOS character is Bones McCoy. Because he is AWESOME. *nodnod* Someday I need to get a Bones icon that says "My Doctor" or such. (Or possibly a scrolling icon so I can fit Janet, Three, and Ducky in there too.) He is the doctor all other sci-fi doctors wish they could smell like be, and I would probably join Starfleet Medical if I lived in the proper century and had a chance of working with him. XD
* That reminds me of the truly epic story-form multi-fandom RP we made up. See, in the game, Spock's great-grandfather's first wife was an Elf (as in LOTR, yes); they had about a dozen kids, all girls. The weird genetic interactions of being half-Elf-half-Vulcan gave all the girls superpowers, ranging from shapeshifting to telekinesis to "instant diagnostic ability" (the girl who chose that is now a veterinary student). So they all became secret agents of sorts and fought against Khan in the Eugenics Wars. (So did my character, but she was adopted; she was actually Wolverine's baby sister by birth. Because Elf-lady was an old friend of Wolvie's dad, who was immortal. Believe me, "epic" is an understatement.)
Anyway, the RP spanned 300 years, and most of us wound up in Starfleet at some point (except the ones who joined SHIELD or the DC!verse's equivalent). It was pretty damn fun, and I still fondly remember the time I turned up (rather battered and bedraggled) in the middle of a dinner party Amanda was giving on Vulcan. *wry grin* It must be admitted that I do like causing a stir.
* Anyway! Other Treks. TNG: started watching last year when Beth expressed shock that I had not seen it. It's not my favorite, but if I ever get round to watching it properly, I'm sure there are a lot of good bits. (Also Riker is cute, once he stops being stupidly skinny and grows the beard - Jonathon Frakes just keeps looking better the fatter he gets. He has De Kelley's twinkly blue eyes, which prejudices me in his favor. And I like Wesley and Pulaski, so really there is nobody I hate.) And John de Lancie is fricasseein' adorable, although I do wish they'd stop with the purple lipstick.
* Then last January eponymous_rose roped me into watching DS9. She has a history of getting me to watch shows - DS9's the fourth - and they've all been nearly-unqualified successes. (The others were S&S, Legend, and The Middleman. I was rather relieved to have a more-than-one-season show from her at last, lol.)
* ODO ODO ODO ODO ODO. But also Kira and Miles and Quark and Bashir and Sisko and Dax and Worf and Nog and Rom and Jake and really just about everybody. Even Keiko, although I liked her best when she turned into a Pagh Wraith, for Rosalind Chao was epic at that. I may not like the writers all the time, but the characters are consistently lovely and the cast is composed entirely of great actors: what's not to love? ♥
Also, my very favorite thing about DS9 is that you can put all the main/recurring character names in a hat, pull out two, and most of the time there's already a fantastic episode about their interactions. ("Improbable Cause" / "The Die Is Cast" YES PLEASE.) And if there is not, it is possible to make one up. And there is continuity! And snark! And awesome familial stuff! Chosen-family is a very common theme in my fandoms (we won't go into reasons on an open post ;P), and DS9 is right up there with Stargate SG-1 at the top of the list for me.
* Voyager, Enterprise, and nuTrek I have not seen yet. (I'm quite sure Karl Urban nailed the character of Bones, and I know I can't bear to see Bones going on being awesome without De. *sadface*)
2) Why is one of your interests "and a hard boiled egg"?
It's a Discworld thing. There was an urban revolution whose slogan wound up being "Truth, Justice, Reasonably Priced Love [the *ahem* Seamstresses objected to "free love"], and a Hard-Boiled Egg", because the guy who accidentally got roped into leading the revolution had really just wanted a hard-boiled egg for his tea. With toast. Anyway, I saw it in someone else's interests and found it amusing. :D
3) What is your most favourite and least favourite fanfic trope?
Hm. I'm bad at identifying tropes, but I do have a soft spot for gen bed-sharing fic (especially when one or both sleepers are lightly whumped). *g* Cuddlytiems for all, that's me. As to least favorite... probably sudden introduction of sex into a relationship. o_O
4) What's your favourite part of your body and why? (IDK why, ignore this question if you'd rather. I like my feet).
Either my feet - which are small, high-arched, and tricky to shoe, but nice-looking - or my hair, which at its best is chestnut ringlets. I may be a wee bit vain on those two counts. XP
5) Why justice turtle? I like to imagine you're a TMNT fan, but this may be too good to be true. Englighten me? Without the g.
I keep meaning to see the 2003 TMNT series, as everyone tells me it's awesome (and I read a very hopeful-sounding crossover fic once), but I haven't gotten round to that yet. So, nope, not (yet) a TMNT fan.
Basically, I just wanted to choose a new name that wouldn't be outdated as soon as I switched fandoms (which happens with alarming frequency) or grew up a bit more (happens every time I think I might like to stay the way I am, lol). So I picked various people's brains about how they'd chosen their usernames. Result: "Justice" because I have a strong liking for characters who put justice above other concerns (Odo's "justice is justice" speech in Past Prologue honestly makes me tear up), and "turtle" because I've always identified with turtles - I'm slow-moving, slow-thinking, never know when to quit, and I like to carry my house on my back and pull my head in when things get too noisy. ;-)
There may also have been a subconscious connection with the Justice League there, or possibly just the fact that J'onn J'onzz and Odo both look more than a bit like turtles (in different ways). LOL!
1. Do any of your fandoms really not fit your three things?
Hee, sophia_sol asked me this too. Nope - by and large, I'm really quite predictable. I like my guys clever and deadpan, gruff and efficient, and adorable around kids. I suppose Q is really the farthest outside my usual standards, as he's not at all dependable or honorable, but that scene with the baby at the end of Voyager's "The Q and the Grey"... well! It just goes to show, "good with kids" is really all that matters to me, and I can smell it a mile off. ;-)
2. Do you have any pet theories about Elements - what they are, how they work, etc?
Not really, unless you count my drabble Insensitive, the premise of which is that Steel really isn't very good at sensing temporal anomalies (that's why he sometimes gets so nervous around them) and is mainly along as a sort of anchor to prevent Sapphire getting trapped by influences she's more susceptible to than he is. I came up with that one halfway through Assignment 4, and I'm rather proud of it. *g*
3. Who is your favourite character in the Chrestomanci series (so far)?
Well, ftr, I've finished the series. (I read ridiculously fast, if I both have a book and am interested in it. *lol* Actually, I've re-read most of the books by now, which hasn't happened to me since Tolkien. O_O) I think my favorite is definitely Christopher, with Millie and Janet tied for a close second.
Why Millie and Janet: this is obvious. They are both awesome and sensible, in very similar ways. (And not particularly pretty; you don't realize how required prettiness is of fantasy!girls till you find a book that doesn't bother with it. Millie especially, for the wife / girlfriend of a top-flight Main Character, is startlingly plain - which is nice, y'know?) Janet especially reminds me that 12B is after all the world of "Swallows and Amazons", and other such stories where Practicality is a very important trait.
Why Christopher - that's a bit harder to say. Right now I'm just fairly head-over-heels, with him and his world both. XD Certainly his laid-back, almost Vulcan sense of humor has something to do with it, and of course the fabulous suits and dressing-gowns do too. Plus, he's remarkably human and lovable for a Regulator Of All Magic, and cheerfully unconcerned with What People Will Think - and he's got sort of a childlike viewpoint, even as an adult, especially in "Magicians of Caprona" and "Witch Week", with his delight in pretending to be a Divisional Inquisitor and so forth.
(Besides, he reminds me of me. Smart to the point of annoyingness, using vague superior looks to cover up when he's scrambling to piece something together, given to snappishness when people are willfully deceiving themselves, definitely not all-knowing but still preferring to be in charge... yup, sounds familiar. *g* I'm finding the fanfic rather enlightening, as several of the authors tend to take Christopher's "snotty and insensitive" act at face value; it makes me consider how people RL probably see me. *thinkyface*)
4. What do you think your counterpart would be in Chrestomanci's world? (Or any other of the worlds that you prefer, apart from you in this one.)
Well, I'd be rather clumsy at manipulating magic, if we're going at all by how I am with similar things (such as music, art, and headology) in my world. I'd be sadly susceptible to Eye Of The Beholder - a variety of Performative Speech, commonly used by parents on children, and by self-deceiving people on themselves - and "ooh shiny!" misdirection spells, but have extremely good witch sight and absolutely no tact. ;-) Probably I'd wind up either employed by the Chrestomanci department or as a hedge witch fighting against them, given my scrappy relationship with authority figures.
5. Which is your favourite DW episode you have seen as yet?
Counting old-skool stories as "episodes" (as I do)? Inferno. Absolutely. Seven eps, very little padding, excellent pacing; not-too-goofy special effects; two of the best cliffies EVAR, in the same serial!; "and they were all wearing eyepatches". Eyepatches make everything better.
(Runner-up: Midnight. It's kind of a cool change of pace, and I really think it worked a lot better with how Rusty actually sees the world than the usual Who structure does. It feels more like something he wanted to write, ykwim. Also, it's rather fun to have the Doctor not be all in charge saving the world for once - it's this tiny little Twilight-Zone-ish bottle show, and I love the inversion.)
1. I know who your favourite DS9 character is - who's your least favourite, and why?
Keiko. The writing, mostly - she's just so cattish and manipulative. I barely ever get a sense that she honestly cares about Miles for himself; it comes across like a "trophy" relationship 90% of the time. I liked her best when she was a Pagh Wraith (except for that one scene in Rivals where she gave Miles the headband before his big match with Bashir. That was sweet.)
Of the mains, it's actually Sisko: he spent the first season or two actively undermining his subordinate officers, and really didn't become an awesome person till "Past Tense". I have trouble forgiving or admiring an authority figure who doesn't have his subordinates' backs. (You don't want to get me started on the "The Forsaken" rant again, lol.)
2. You mentioned you like AUs. Do you prefer the "for want of a nail" type of AU, ie one small thing changed/watch the ripple effect, or do you prefer an AU that changes the premise drastically?
I tend to prefer the "and they were all firefighters / cavemen / toddlers!" sorts of AU. Ripple effect AUs frustrate me a bit because they so often tend to play out almost exactly the same, even when there's no logical reason for something to be the same - it takes a really dedicated writer to just keep thinking things out and changing every little detail - whereas "and they were all _____" AUs have that built-in crackiness where none of the similarities have to make logical sense, and in fact it often weakens the story if you try to explain them.
3. Why justice_turtle?
Well, see smirnoffmule's #5 above, but in brief: Justice because I care about it (and am fond of characters who care about it), and Turtle because I identify with turtles. Also Odo's neck looks rather like a turtle's, although I swear I wasn't thinking of that when I picked the name. ;P
4. I'll repeat the question I asked lost_spook: Name the most unlikely fandom to have penguins in it, and how it can become better with penguins!
Everything is better with penguins. Er...
Bonanza. Bonanza is almost superlatively unlikely to have penguins. However, if it did have penguins, I expect they'd have to be Galapagos penguins (because of refrigeration not being invented yet) and probably have to do with a story about either a circus / travelling zoo or a historical related to Darwin. In the first instance, Hoss would wind up helping a little boy guest-star-of-the-week with an unexpected pet penguin after said circus was disbanded in Virginia City, and there would be a Politics primary plot to hide the fact that the real point of the episode is Hoss with a penguin. XD In the second... Adam's the science-boy, so the ep would focus more on Adam and/or Ben (who was probably a friend of the young Charles Darwin at some point related to the voyage of the Beagle, in-story). Adam would not necessarily befriend the penguin, because Hoss is usually cuter with animals, but this is a shame. *wry grin*
(I have no idea how anyone is to be gotten into a tux at any point in the story, but clearly it has to be done. XD)
5. Would you watch a show that has a geologist in it, even if they got everything terribly wrong?
No. NO. Nonononono. *shudders* Heck, I even have a hard time watching "Our Man Bashir" because not!Sisko's destroying-the-world plot is so horribly, horribly implausible. I wind up fussing at the screen every. single. time. (Which gets me some odd looks in a computer lab... *lol*) Covering the world in molten lava, yes; deflating the earth like a balloon, NO NO NO MAKE IT STOP. *covers ears*
...yeah, I feel rather strongly about scientific accuracy in my fiction. I don't mind faster-than-light travel or wormholes - basically, I'm quite happy to give SF writers a pass to change this or that law of science, as long as they do it responsibly and stick to their own rules - but sloppiness I cannot stand.