#calicovirus

Good to see you back! I’d been wondering where you were at :)

I got a promotion! We bought a house! I got an official teacher’s degree!

The truth is, I -- too -- remain haunted forever by baby’s arm dick. 

I just remembered I forgot to answer this because yes, I completely agree with you about Peter and fandom, but I’d go a little further - I listened to an audio interview with BA (I think it was the ‘writing a bestseller’ podcast I linked to a while back) and he mentioned that before he started writing for Doctor Who, he was a fan of it in the sense that he watched it on TV but he wasn’t in fandom. And I think Peter is meant to be the same - he’s a fan of sci-fi/nerdy stuff, he consumes it, but he’s not out there thinking about it every second of his spare time, he probably drops into a fan reddit or two to look for game tips or see what people are seeing about a book but he’d be vaguely aware of stuff like AO3 if at all. I don’t think it’s even about the curative/transformative fandom divide so much as Peter not being the kind of person who lives his life in imaginary worlds that way. 

(I like to imagine Miriam Stephanopoulos’ Pratchett-reading wife is in fandom while Stephanopoulos just observes it all supportively but somewhat bemusedly, but that’s just because it amuses me.) 

Now it just makes me think you thought everyone went 'eeee-arrrrrr'

Well, yes. Or more specifically, “ehhrrrrr”. From Arthur Dent to Harry Potter to Wooster to various Pratchett characters, I always thought they were saying “er” and actually saying the R-sound. “erm”, too. Now I know they were just saying “uh” and “um” like the rest of us and it’s blowing my mind.

@windsroad reblogged your post:

#this makes me so upset #not only do you NOT SAY THE Rs #but when you're spelling you just STICK THEM PLACES

Other things that blew my mind from that article: Parcheesi is pronounced pah-cheesi, like the actual name of the original game, Pachisi. The Korean name, Park, is Pahk. Burma and Myanmar shouldn’t have the r’s pronounced either. What the hell, England.

@calicovirus reblogged your post:

#this is so odd #my mum who grew up in newcastle says er #but she has a canadian accent now #so she says the r....so i say the r....this is weird

Well, Canada. Notably confused dialect there. :) Also, note, the dictionary has “er” as a pronunciation (not the British dictionary though), probably because of confused Americans making it common (and y’know, descriptivism over prescriptivism).

@tanoraqui reblogged your post:

#DRAUGHT IS PRONOUNCED 'DRAFT'? #i /hate this language/

In which case, my friend, I’m honored, because Spiderman is super curious! ♥

calicovirus said: i’ve long held that since you’re a Poet, life always made sure that Events would happen to you. normal people who aren’t going about being Poets don’t have Events. but you’re a Poet and so must have Events.

My friend, you’re one of those formidable sorts from whom I hope to never take shit, so rest assured I’ll keep your offer in mind if a) anything happens, and b) I have too few spoons to deal with it.  Which, lately, has been…variable.

Funny thing about GoT with me is that I’ve only ever seen the television adaptation!  I doubt I’ll ever read the novels until I’m dead sure the series is finished.  That’s what I did with Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, anyway.

is this the first post-moffat stuff?

it’s...not, surprisingly enough? It’s not Moffat who wrote it, the writer this time is also the one responsible for In The Forest Of The Night (the one where Clara’s class on a schooltrip, the one where they really badly handled mental illness) which I really didn’t like, so it’s very... odd?

I mean, I kinda wanna say the main factor in it being nice is Bill, and she is amazing and the actress is doing an amazing job but it was more than that, really the characterisation of the Doctor and the whole story, so...?

???