You Fight A Pharmacist? Why Would You Even Do That?

[rionaleonhart]

I have now watched Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension, and I absolutely love it to pieces. Characters meeting their alternate-universe counterparts is a concept I've always been fond of, and Dr Doofenshmirtz takes it a step further by meeting his alternate-universe counterpart and then singing a duet with himself entitled 'I've Found a

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[misskass]

I think His Dark Materials AUs are my favourite AUs when done well. That one is brilliant and dark and wonderful.

[captlebubbles]

Doof got along with them because he's actually Phineas and Candace's biological father. /overly-thought-out-headcanon

I never get over how adorable it is that Perry's only real berserk button is someone attacking his family.

[rionaleonhart]

he's actually Phineas and Candace's biological father.

...tell me more.

(And yes, I love how Perry will risk anything to protect them!)

[captlebubbles]

It's a theory my friends and I came up with one night when we had nothing else to do. We actually came up with a lot of valid evidence and some less-than-valid theories about how he could be their father and not know it (because knowing what we do about Doof, I doubt he'd have knowingly not be a part of his children's lives; there's also the whole Candace-and-Vanessa-are-the-same-age thing, since it's doubtful he would cheat on his wife. He's not that kind of evil). Basically, before he got married, he worried that he would never have children and donated his, er, DNA. When Linda decided that she was ready to be a mom but didn't want to get married just yet, his DNA was the DNA she got, and when she decided to have another baby later, she used DNA from the same donor (I don't know if that's something that you're actually able to do in real life, but reality has never actually interfered with Phineas and Ferb in the past, so, you know

[rionaleonhart]

I - I think I actually sort of love this theory. Adopting it into my headcanon immediately.

[rionaleonhart]

By 'Americanisms' I just mean specifically American words or turns of phrase, which can be a bit jarring when put in the mouth of a British character ('anyways' and 'gotten' particularly struck me in the above fic - the characters of Sherlock would just say 'anyway' and 'got' (although 'gotten' is technically an old form that was phased out of many British dialects whereas American dialects kept it, rather than a form that was developed in America), and I once read a fic in which both Rubeus Hagrid and an eleven-year-old British child referred to a car as an 'automobile', which simply wouldn't happen

[captlebubbles]

Got and gotten are actually fairly interchangeable, so it's not a specific case of "all American people use got instead of gotten". Automobile hasn't been used for a vehicle since like the 2o's, though. I presume this is the same on your side of the pond?

By pavement I'm going to assume you meant sidewalk, and now I know to not make the reverse mistake now that I'm writing in a British fandom again (though I don't think anyone actually wants to read my daft fanfic about Hagrid and McGonagall not-quite-dating for half a century, so I think I'm safe from any Brit-pickers).

(What do you mean luring you into a conversation about language?)

[rionaleonhart]

...hang on. I don't use 'gotten' myself, but I thought that in America it was the past/perfect participle. So:

We got on the train
We'd gotten on the train

Not interchangeable, but serving specific grammatical purposes. Is that not right? (I didn't mean to give the impression that I thought Americans said 'gotten' and only 'gotten'.)

I can't think of any context in which a British person would say 'automobile' other than 'they call cars automobiles in America, don't they?' (I realise that many or indeed most people in America call them 'cars' most of the time, but 'automobile is American for car' is a common misconception over here.)

'Pavement' is indeed the equivalent of 'sidewalk'!