I like fics where the boys have to wear eyeliner...

Ohhhh...recs please!

I'm also drawn to crossovers, which aren't really a badfic cliche as far as I know, but they do tend to spawn a lot of craptacular fic.

I have to confess, I very rarely read crossovers, unless I know both fandoms very well, but I'm really drawn to writing them. *looks nervously at co-written novel-length HP/Discworld crossover with mpreg* *is concious of Friends/A View From The Bridge plot bunny raving in its hutch* *emotes too much*

My other badfic kink is plots which involve characters who are normally grown-up becoming much younger-- especially if they're more like 17 than 7. I wasn't really a fan of Stargate SG-1 until I discovered that teenage!Jack was canon.

Oh, god, you've made me go to an all teenaged SG1 place. I ... it's very weird here.

I'm now curious about gender-switch Buffy fic.

Oh, god, you've made me go to an all teenaged SG1 place. I ... it's very weird here.

ita, did you know there's an LJ community dedicated to that? Jack, Sam, and Daniel (or maybe just Jack and Sam) are all regressed to high school age. It's called, IIRC, mini_otp. Sigh.

I'm not getting much joy at the little_details site on this, so I'll ask here.

Somebody loses a lot of blood to a vampire, gets two pints back in a transfusion. A) would they have the entire missing amount transfused or just however many whole pints are missing? B) How long until they were feeling up to normal activity?

Damn you, Suela. I know I read a fic where they were all sequestered somewhere, and suddenly I want to read it again.

Gack. I think I'm gonna go look.

No teen Jaffa? No teen Fraiser?

Ow. My head.

You're probably thinking of Danvers' clone series, ita--here's the link. Also, Jonah in the Whale's Loki's Curse is Teen!Jack and Teen!Daniel, and fairly good, I think.

I didn't know it was a series -- I'd only read Clone Home. Thanks!

A) would they have the entire missing amount transfused or just however many whole pints are missing?

Losing enough fluid to warrant a transfusion almost always means that the person is in hypovolemic shock, which is a body-wide lack of oxygenated blood due to extremey low blood pressure. It has the most immediate effect on the kidneys, often causing acute renal failure due to lack of blood flow. It also disturbs the body's pH value as the cells switch from aerobic to anaerobic production of energy, resulting in lactic acidosis.

Resuscitation is usually begun with two or three liters of normal saline or lactated Ringer's solution, pushed in as fast as it will go. (Quite literally, the person in the trauma room responsible for giving fluids will squeeze the bag in their hands to get it in faster.) Many times this will stabilize the person enough so they can wait for their own blood type to arrive from the blood bank. Then they'll get that infused in slowly over the course of a few hours provided their vital signs remain stable.

If the person has lost 30-40% of their blood volume or more, they'll get one or two liters of normal saline and two pints of O negative blood pushed in as fast as it will go, and then their own blood type.

Replacing all the fluid lost with just blood can cause clotting; won't normalize levels of sodium, potassium, and carbon dioxide, all of which are vital to life; and vastly increases the risk of a transfusion reaction.

B) How long until they were feeling up to normal activity?

If they live through the initial resuscitation--as many as 50% don't survive a loss of greater than 40% of their fluid volume--a good long while, especially if they required intubation and ventilation during the resuscitation. Weaning someone off a ventilator can take weeks. If their kidneys fail during shock, they'll have weeks of dialysis before the kidneys begin to work again. They'll be exhausted, because the level of red blood cells and thus oxygen in their blood (called hematocrit) will take a while to get back to normal levels, and their electrolyte balances will be all out of whack, resulting in lots of different problems. Muscle cells which were deprived of oxygen and died during the shock, will need replacing, and physical therapy will be required.

Having all the blood sucked out of you is one of the most fatal things that can happen to a person, and the recovery is difficult and long if it's possible at all. A month in the ICU and a few more months on a medical floor are common.

Eeek. Remind me not to get exsanguinated, K?