A Copper's Instinct: Chapter 12
Title: A Copper's Instinct
Fandom: Hot Fuzz
Characters/Pairings: Nicholas/Danny, Nicholas/OC, Doris, Bob, Andes, Saxon, Turners, OC
Rating: PG-15
( Chapter 12 )
Fandom: Hot Fuzz
Characters/Pairings: Nicholas/Danny, Nicholas/OC, Doris, Bob, Andes, Saxon, Turners, OC
Rating: PG-15
( Chapter 12 )
My English abilities, pffffft. I've definitely got the emphasis on writing and reading skills that you describe, but I'm sort of supposed to know my way around the spoken word by now because I'm sort of a student in English for a little bit. It's my third language, by the way. It's possible that the problem the au pairs had was also due to Finnish tending to be spoken slower in comparison, and the cultural detail that we rarely speak simultaneously. But here's a Finnish word for you: "perkele". It's not exactly on the polite spectrum, but this is required knowledge even for beginners. A solid demonstration can be found here, along with another useful word of almost mythical proportions, "sisu":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xuv9RVss_Y&feature=related
What ifs are great, aren't they? I like to spin them as well, but I have the handicap of often thinking they'd be of little interest to anyone besides myself. The research effort you put in definitely showed throughout the writing. There's no reason why fanfic should be slapdash or couldn't teach the reader something they didn't know before, and it's lovely to see cases where this isn't the case - especially in smaller fandoms where the pickings are already sparse. I think you're doing a smashing job and it's only fair you're let know this! And I loved that "lightbulb moment" too, so much so that I laughed out loud at it. The swan, 1834!Danny with the elephant gun and the conversation that took place while making the vests were other fave moments of mine.
It would've been a nice parallel - Justice and Frisbees trilogy, eh? :D Well, it's good to get a description, if not fic - writing stories isn't always a walk in the park, after all. I'm also a sucker for tales of change for the better (I know what you mean - "look at me, I'm well-adjusted and successful and brave and make all you haters look bad"), and I always want to stash little elements of it into my writing.
> if they ever make Good Omens into a movie, Aziraphale absolutely ought to be played by Stephen Fry.
Oh gods yes. I had to google him, but yes.
I just remembered this - Johanna Sinisalo has a book called Not Before Sundown. Though I cannot, for the life of me, understand why the US edition has the name it has - Troll - A Love Story. It's like calling Romeo and Juliet Tragic Tale of Youth Suicide (cheers, Tim Messenger). The story contains a pretty major reversal of expectations as well, though it'll spoil if I say too much. Wouldn't call it Celtic under any circumstances - the mythology's pretty Finnish - but you might enjoy it.
Danes and the Dutch are kinda famous for their social liberalism and human rights record, no? And I'm less that delighted to tell you that we've got our own us-vs-them paranoids here as well, in addition to the usual cast of smarmy old pervs and their sexual harassment SMSs, toothy poster boys who yoga to relieve the stress of plotting for a takeover, Leftists who mistake double the median national income for the official poverty line, agricultural magnates that hog farming benefits with uncultivated land, Greens with humongous car stickers that say "This, too, could run on natural gas", devotees to the political ostrich defence of Pleading Utter Stupidity, people who respond to every criticism of the system with affirmations about low corruption rate, and the frothing pseudo-Aryan nationalists of doom. But don't get me started on politics, because I will never shut up.
In Soviet Russia, werewolves fear you. *ahem* I'm actually not that sure that Soviet Russia would've been the worst place ever to be a werewolf in. Who knows, they might have even had state-enforced protection and specialised health care as long as they steered clear of kolkhoz poultry and social activism and let party scientists ask them endless questions about sensory perception change. The system was odd like that.
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It's like calling Romeo and Juliet Tragic Tale of Youth Suicide (cheers, Tim Messenger). LOL. Also, holy crap, this looks fantastic.
Werewolves in Russia probably formed a sort of spy network for the government. I'll go a little bit into that in our next fic, which I'll put up in October.
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Ohh, that sounds good. Also now you'll have me compulsively hounding your LJ, waiting for the fic to come out. (I promise I'll be good and real quiet)
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