Short Fic

[lady_oneiros]

Hey, everyone. This little idea has been floating around my head and I decided to put it out as my shortest piece of fiction yet...perhaps a little longer than a drabble, so I'll just call it fast fiction. I hope you like!

Title: Intelligent Design
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Good Omens and all related characters therein do not belong to me. They belong

Comments

[megkips]

This made me laugh. And then flashback to the opening credits of Dogma with the bit about the platypus.

Well done.

[lady_oneiros]

Yay! I'm glad you liked it! I love making people laugh.

Dogma is also one of the best movies ever made, and since you mentioned it, I want to watch it again. XD

Thank ya very much!

[megkips]

Agreed, Dogma is the single movie I could watch forever and not get sick of. I've met the director three times too, he's really nice. (Plus I found out where the poo monster came from!) Plus Dogma is the sole reason I'm into religious studies. (*nerd*)

[gantar]

Yeah, I've also watched this film, just a few days ago, and not only it made me think about religion but also ...read Bible >.<' *feels really weird* Okay, maybe it wasn't only Dogma that had such an influence on me, but still...
Well, strange, I've never seen a comedy doing such things to people ;)

[qtheallpowerful]

lol.
A few years ago, when we were studying mythology in school we had to write about how something came to be. I wrote something simmiler to this. The platypus is awesome!

[lady_oneiros]

Hooray for the platypus! I want one. I'm glad you liked the story! :)

[ldjohnso]

So that's how the platypus came to be! XD Love the idea of Lucifer being a bit on the spoiled and hyperactive side; I can imagine that after an eternity or so of that, God would do anything to make it stop, even if for only a few minutes.

[lady_oneiros]

Yep! That's exactly how the platypus came to be. I can just picture the whole conversation as scientists work out just *exactly* what the animal is:

God: I can't believe you made that thing...well, so much for their theory of *intelligent* design.
Lucifer: Hey!

I love the idea of Lucifer being a spoiled little kid, too..I may have to write him more like that. I imagine God indulges(d) him to point of utmost exasperation of the other angels, and this was a little payback. XD I'm glad you liked it!

[vulgarweed]

Oh, what a neat story!

I loved this so much: While He would later be hailed as a great Designer, God is unfortunately somewhat limited in the imagination department when it comes to creating various bone structures and other parts. God is more a poet and painter than an innovator, as an eye is still an eye no matter how it is colored or how well it can see in the dark.

He does repeat Himself a lot, doesn't he?

I also love the idea of God being desperate for a few minutes of peace and quiet.

Poor platypus. :D

[lady_oneiros]

Thank ya!

Yeah, as far as variety goes in the basic structure of animals, there is a lot of repetition...take the hand and arm bones, for example. I mean, whether it's a human arm, bat wing, dolphin flipper, etc...they're all the same bones. Just different sizes. Just look at DNA...only four bases? Oh well. As long as it works, right? ^_^

I want to write more of a Lucifer being that sort of ADD-type hyperactive kid with a long-suffering God tagging along to keep him out of trouble.

As for the platypus...I figured, it's basically a duck with venom. Who else but Lucifer could have thought that up? XD

[blueeyedtigress]

O_o Okay, thank you. There's my something new for today ...
(I had somehow lived my life so far without realising that Platypi were venemous.)

[lady_oneiros]

It's true! The males have venomous spurs on their hind leg...flippers. As far as I know, the venom is strong enough to kill a dog, but a human only very sick and extremely uncomfortable. I think probably a shorter list is what Australian animal *isn't* venomous! ~_^

[blueeyedtigress]

Now, there's an interesting thought: The Plan boils down to injecting Human Imagination into Creation .... And we create worlds, and have visions of innumerable dimensions, and lo!, many of them are damned good. As the current buzzword in my church puts it, "we become co-creators with God" ...

Oh. And I'm nannying for a few days. I have every sympathy with the idea that God handed the Cosmic Spare Parts Box to Lucifer just to get a few minutes' peace. O_o

[lady_oneiros]

Injecting human imagination into Creation...that's probably why Adam was given the task of naming things. I can picture it now:

God: All right, Adam. I'll name you some of the things you're going to be working with. This planet you're on? You'll be living on and working with earth, so that's what it's called. Earth. Earth has a sun, so that bright ball in the sky is the Sun. Oh, and here comes one of the other organisms you'll be sharing Earth with...see that thing flying around? That's a fly--

Adam: *interrupting* You--You know what? Just let me do it.

Nannying for four days? Man. I'd probably last like, two minutes. It's bad enough when the women leave me their kids at the gas station to run back out to their car. They way they look at you...*shivers* XD I'm glad you liked the story!