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Jan 26, 2010 03:25

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xparrot January 26 2010, 09:49:03 UTC
Okay, so Captain Jack is obviously the personification of the lust motivation, let's see everybody get it on; and the Doctor I'd put as the exploration ficcer, wanting to play with strange new life and new civilizations - but does the Master represent delight in torturing the objects of one's obsession, or the desire to rip apart the system and rebuild it to one's own ideal specs?

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repost sub_divided January 26 2010, 20:21:21 UTC
The Doctor represents the Crossover motivation, wanting to put all of you favorite people in one story. And Jack represents the Crack motivation, wanting to have fun with a setting by wrecking havoc on it. Something like that? Ditto what xparrot said about The Master.

Feminist SF has a post about nominating for the Hugos, you've probably seen it already: http://blogs.feministsf.net/?p=1320.

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petronia January 27 2010, 06:21:31 UTC
I would have said:

Doctor: tinkering w/ canon and making it better (for var. def. of better)
Master: canon is mere raw material for my own (intricate and frequently disturbing) constructs
Captain: nakama and boykissing

But really the fun of these exercises is seeing what other ppl come up with. XD Delight in torturing objects of obsession certainly works...

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meril January 26 2010, 19:11:29 UTC
I lost my nominating ballot for last year, so I kind of know how you feel. If you do need some sort of list of novels to nominate, I can always forward you mine (I was going to go to Melbourne for Worldcon this year, but, you know. *kicks vehicle*)

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petronia January 26 2010, 19:33:19 UTC
Please do, actually - if nothing else I'd appreciate the recs! (Petronia gmail if it's long)

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meril January 26 2010, 22:59:34 UTC
shortish, w/o elaboration (I'm sick ( ... )

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petronia January 27 2010, 06:22:21 UTC
Thanks! I really haven't read any of these. XD;

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cis January 26 2010, 19:33:21 UTC
a white building that has translucent marble slabs in place of windows so that the rare books it contains would never be exposed to direct sunlight

this sounds so beautiful i can't quite even

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petronia January 26 2010, 19:38:19 UTC
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Inorite my friends were like "blahblahblah campus tour" and I was like wait what? can I go in there? well can I at least stand outside and touch it and stare at it for a while?

There's a Gutenberg Bible in there...

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vureoelt January 26 2010, 20:39:11 UTC
Translucent marble. Wow... how lucky to see such inspirational sights!

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