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Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains

Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.

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Kalshane - Oct 20, 2005 12:53:34 pm PDT #6659 of 10001

GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

I didn't think it was particularly scary/craxy so much as unbearably pretentious hyperbole.

I can see the pretentiousness, but really, most people who aren't hardcore fans aren't going to look at all the little things, and "Serenity/Curling/Underwater Basket Weaving is teh best thing EVAH!" seems to be a pretty common among fandoms, IME. Not saying it's a great post, just doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me.

As for online nicknames, I don't have an issue with them. While I'd prefer to be called by my real name in facespace, it doesn't bother me when people who've met me online call me Kalshane. It's just another name, much like my family calls me "Robert", my friends call me "Rob" and one of my best friends calls me "Bob" despite nearly two decades of protest. Beyond that, I have a very common first and last name. A vanity Google nets me hundreds of results, none of them me. Google my nick and you get nothing but me (okay mostly me. There's apparently a man from CA using that nick as well. Weird.) I'm Kalshane wherever I go on-line, (now, anyway. I did a couple different ones when I first hit the net) so it's as much a part of who I am as any version of my "real" name.

§ ita § - Oct 20, 2005 12:54:12 pm PDT #6660 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

my posts are my posts, so I reserve the right to style them as I like

I'm an extreme case, but my name is my name, and it makes me all reservey too.

P.M. Marc - Oct 20, 2005 12:56:01 pm PDT #6661 of 10001

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Heh. A vanity Google of firstname-legal lastname gets me online petitions from 1994 and some old, old, old BBS listings.

Oh, and like, two Usenet/mailing list posts from the same time period.

Kevin - Oct 20, 2005 12:56:17 pm PDT #6662 of 10001

Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.

Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not bothered by online nicknames being used online - that's the point of them, after all. Just in real life it seems, I don't know, a tad bizarre to me.

Dana - Oct 20, 2005 12:57:21 pm PDT #6663 of 10001

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

So I should stop calling shrift "shrift"?

P.M. Marc - Oct 20, 2005 12:58:32 pm PDT #6664 of 10001

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not bothered by online nicknames being used online - that's the point of them, after all. Just in real life it seems, I don't know, a tad bizarre to me

My online nicks have tended to be easier for people to spell and say than my real name.

And, occasionally, they've more closely resembled an actual name.

§ ita § - Oct 20, 2005 12:59:14 pm PDT #6665 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Just in real life it seems, I don't know, a tad bizarre to me

Whedonesque's not real life. Well, not realer than here, anyway.

Kevin - Oct 20, 2005 12:59:38 pm PDT #6666 of 10001

Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.

We'll end up on fandom wank at this rate over quote marks.

ETA: Yeah, but I consider Whedonesque a little more visible. Hence, more formal. Or something.

P.M. Marc - Oct 20, 2005 1:01:15 pm PDT #6667 of 10001

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

We'll end up on fandom wank at this rate over quote marks.

Nah.

At least, I don't think so. F_W's been slow on the uptake lately, and even at our worst, we're too civil to really mockity mock mock.

Plus, I'm sure Harry Potter fandom is having a meltdown RIGHT NOW, seeing as they have them on a daily basis.

§ ita § - Oct 20, 2005 1:01:57 pm PDT #6668 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My position on it is to replicate what they call themselves (down to capitalisation) while within the same medium, and ask about changing to something else when switching. Except in meara's case, where I just don't want to call her by her real name. shrift too.

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