Holy Smokes, I'm on metaquotes

[matrixrefugee]

Re: the mention I made in my last entry of the Twilight/Fifty Shades crossover fanfic strangeness. One of my comments has made it onto metaquotes:

It was meant to be an Inception cross-reference...This caps off my day: It was more awesome than I thought. This is as good as getting Kripke'd in the Matrix Online when I speculated that there were weather-

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[greatlakeshaze]

Nice! You got a little recognition for your wit and intelligence. XD

[matrixrefugee]

Heee, it might seem like a small thing, but it's rather reassuring to know that people outside my circle of friends really do notice the wacky insights that I come out with.

[full_metal_ox]

Happy to have been of service. (That's an honor I've experienced once myself: http://metaquotes.livejournal.com/7537331.html)

I gather that being Kripke'd is the opposite of being Jossed--i.e., having one's speculations confirmed by the canon? (My own term for that phenomenon--and the weirder the speculation, the more triumphant the vindication--is "Monkey Styled", for a reason deriving from a scene in the old kung-fu movie Two Champions of Shaolin. in the climactic fight scene one of the heroes warns a friend: "Careful--they're using Monkey Style!" The friend replies, with obvious no-shit-Sherlock exasperation, "I know that!" Now, given that the bad guys in question have made a point of crouching, grimacing, and going "ook", that's already a Captain Obvious deduction--but what made it personally hysterical is that the actor in question, the late Chiang Sheng, happened to be a friend's fanoncasting as the current human guise of the Monkey King.)

[matrixrefugee]

Yep, you got it: it was a term that came out of the Supernatural fandom (of which I've been on the peripheral for most of the time the series has been running: there are awesome SPN fans, but there are a fair number of skeeeeery ones that make me go 0.0), after the series creator Eric Kripke: the series has been known to confirm quite a few fan speculations (and at times to mess with them playfully: one episode somewhat famously alluded the sheer amount of slash fic ouy there). I've latched onto it since then: fandom really did need an opposite term for "Jossed".

[full_metal_ox]

My own favorite Kripke moment--leading me to regret that I didn't make my speculation a matter of public record at the time--was having figured out Tia Dalma's true nature by the end of the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie: "Could she be the Anthropomorphic Personification of the sea itself?"

[matrixrefugee]

:: Clicks the link, takes a look at the list, is impressed by the range of AIs on it::

:: Squees a bit at #26. ::

:: Then reads the paragraph a lot more closely::

Whoa!! That is... wow... I'm rather glad they *didn't* directly link the site, in case any legal wonks should try and interfere. But the writers gave folks enough info to help them Search It Out For Themselves. :: A little teary-eyed in a good way now::

Back in the days when I was playing the Matrix Online, I had a couple Big Name Players ask me if I was "the same Matrix Refugee who wrote such thought-provoking/touching/exciting 'A.I.: Artificial Intelligence' fanfiction?". It made me blush for real when they asked: as big as the Internet might be, it's still really a small place, in some ways.