I used to regularly remove ticks from my dog Pegasus. We went bush walking a lot, but such things are only a hazard in certain times of the year under certain weather, where they hang about on grass and things and wait to brush off on you.
I also had a G.P. pull one off me, butI won't say exactly where, only that it got me after I had to take a dump in the bush!
Yeah, ticks are another one. Quiet little grey buggers, never see 'em coming...and then they bite somewhere and if you don't see them right off, there's illness and dizziness and the evil bloated blood-filled bug from hell.
On dog *or* human, just EW. Bad as tree-climbing leeches (and yes, in Massachusetts? They have those too).
Oh we have leeches too. Not too common around here unless it's wet and warm, but there are heaps of leeches up Nimbin way, at the heart of rain forest area. Had those on me too. All you do is put salt or meths on them, and you're right. My friend Kali plays "leech games" with matches and cigarettes. The worse case she told me about was one that got to the genitalia of a girl up there who never wore panties (it's all hippy country there)!
While it doesn't by any means "fix" the fact that Firefly fails on writing its supposed Asian-Anglo world, I did read something, or hear something, once that sheds an interesting angle on that:
There was a scene cut from the pilot episode, where Book is hunting for a ship, in which you have a man calling for passengers, and he specifically says, "No Asians!" along with other groups he doesn't want as passengers on his ship.
Essentially, Whedon's more-complex-than-what-was-shown-on-screen idea for the race relations in the series was that this is an Anglo-Sino alliance in name while still being a huge cultural appropriation on a deeper level. So that Sihnon is probably all decked out with pagodas, sure, and the actual person of Asian descent is, as you say, still a second class citizen.
It's a shame that never made it to be explored, but I do give Joss some props for at least thinking about it.
(I think this might have been in the Discovering Serenity fan book thing.)
It's sad that there was so much cut from the concepts. I know that when I got the DVD set, it was a revelation--three whole episodes I'd never seen, plus deleted scenes from the pilot ep that really should have stayed in (at the least, the scene where Simon is asking his reader about Serenity Valley, and Zoe comes in and starts filling in from experience).
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I also had a G.P. pull one off me, butI won't say exactly where, only that it got me after I had to take a dump in the bush!
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On dog *or* human, just EW. Bad as tree-climbing leeches (and yes, in Massachusetts? They have those too).
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There was a scene cut from the pilot episode, where Book is hunting for a ship, in which you have a man calling for passengers, and he specifically says, "No Asians!" along with other groups he doesn't want as passengers on his ship.
Essentially, Whedon's more-complex-than-what-was-shown-on-screen idea for the race relations in the series was that this is an Anglo-Sino alliance in name while still being a huge cultural appropriation on a deeper level. So that Sihnon is probably all decked out with pagodas, sure, and the actual person of Asian descent is, as you say, still a second class citizen.
It's a shame that never made it to be explored, but I do give Joss some props for at least thinking about it.
(I think this might have been in the Discovering Serenity fan book thing.)
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I'll have to hunt the book down.
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