I Like To Imagine I'm Wearing A Cape Emblazoned With 'The Doorinator'.

[rionaleonhart]

Poll

I hate it when someone who doesn't truly appreciate the beauty of automatic doors reaches one in front of me. YOU HAVE ROBBED ME OF MY MOMENT OF AWESOME. (Seriously, if you've never 'opened' an automatic door with a dramatic sweep of the arm, you should try it. You look completely ridiculous, but you feel like the coolest person in the world.)

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Comments

[ladybella]

Mushrooms are evil and they must be extinguished!

[rionaleonhart]

I'm not a big fan of mushrooms as a food, but I thought that question was too excellent not to ask the wider world.

[calamitysxchild]

oh jeez I didn't do the fanfic thing! :(

I don't pretend I'm doing it with my mind silently, really. Usually when I'm with friends at the dining hall here on campus, somebody hits the button and I go first, open my arms, and go "MAGIC!!" :D

[rionaleonhart]

FEAR NOT; go to this link and you should be able to change your answers!

I am ridiculously pleased that other people are also a bit silly around automatic doors.

[rionaleonhart]

Psychic door-opening high five!

THAT IS NOT THE CORRECT WAY TO PERFORM SURPRISE BUTTSECKS, EDWARD. I DO NOT THINK YOU UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT OF 'SURPRISE'.

[rionaleonhart]

The extravagance of my gesture generally depends on how dramatically I know the door is to open, really. And, er, whether there's anyone else around.

[rionaleonhart]

Which is clearly why I tone down the gesture when there are witnesses! IT'S NOT OUT OF EMBARRASSMENT AT ALL.

You alarm me.

[captlebubbles]

I love your tiny!fic. You need to write that crossover. I would read it. Seriously.

[rionaleonhart]

You shouldn't want to read it! It cannot be allowed to exist!

Interesting fact regarding your tinyfic: relationships between cousins aren't legally incest in the UK, or indeed in most parts of the world. So you may feel free to pair up the Stigs! Perhaps you'll want to find a workaround for American Stig, though.

[captlebubbles]

Incest squicks me a bit. (Yes, there are still things that squick me.)

If incest between cousins is so common in so much of the world, then why are people in the deep south so often referred to as inbred, despite the fact that is not actually all that common around here?

[rionaleonhart]

'Incest' means you're too closely related to be allowed to marry, so technically, in countries in which cousins are allowed to marry, cousin/cousin isn't incest! So it shouldn't squick you when it's in the UK! No, hang on, that's not how logic works, is it?

Because there's a cousin/cousin taboo in the US that doesn't exist in most of the rest of the world. I believe cousin/cousin marriages used to be very common in the UK (read Jane Austen's Mansfield Park), especially amongst higher-class families, but lately a stigma against such relationships has been creeping in because, as we get so much American television, many English people don't realise we don't have the same incest laws.