Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to be mocked

Mar 09, 2008 12:02

Happy birthday to melancthe

Belated happy birthday to higlearn

I have been vaguely thinking about doing a poll asking what people thought was the all-time best Buffyverse fanfic. Perhaps ‘The Last Tin Soldier’ by liz_marcs? shadowscast’s ‘Fragments’ series, or her ‘Sock Puppet’? rahirah’s ‘Necessary Evils’? The short story ‘I, Bot’ that used to be hosted on Valerie X’s site (but which, ( Read more... )

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Hee! selinde2 March 9 2008, 12:18:54 UTC
Oh, and Dawn is going to die soon if they don’t find a way to reverse her curse. The Scots have a word for people who sleep outdoors in a Scottish winter. It’s ‘corpse’.
Hah. Well put. Although in the writers' defence they may be assuming that Dawn's enormous body mass will now keep her warm enough - it's the Whale/ mammoth principle apparently. OTOH, should we assume that people who don't care about the extinction of the wolf in Scotland are calculating body mass by temperature. Hm. That would be a no, then.

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Re: Hee! speakr2customrs March 9 2008, 12:22:29 UTC
Mammoths and whales don't just have mass; they have lots of subcutaneous fat. Dawn doesn't even have socks.

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Re: Hee! gillo March 9 2008, 13:07:57 UTC
She probably has subcutaneous socks.

What? It's as likely as any of the other explanations they've come up with.

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Re: Hee! speakr2customrs March 10 2008, 12:35:33 UTC
Invisible thermal undies?

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Re: Hee! rahirah March 9 2008, 13:56:58 UTC
Well, technically speaking, the square-cube law should have Dawn dead already, her lungs crushed by her own weight...

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Re: Hee! speakr2customrs March 10 2008, 10:03:14 UTC
Giants breaking the cube/square law is a common theme in fantasy fiction and I'll give him a pass on that one. Forgetting that Scotland gets freakin' cold is in a different league.

And how did a one-eyed man get a helicopter pilot's license?

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