Does the lack of submachine guns in the Iliad bother you too, Mr. Picky?
You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
§ ita § - Dec 15, 2004 2:54:33 pm PST #6614 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Betsy HP - Dec 15, 2004 2:56:41 pm PST #6615 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Think how much shorter it would be with submachine guns!
§ ita § - Dec 15, 2004 2:58:16 pm PST #6616 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But I don't think they'd get to still wear skirts, and I'm not willing to make that tradeoff.
Betsy HP - Dec 15, 2004 3:06:58 pm PST #6617 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
If the Black Watch wore kilts to WWI (and they did), I think you're covered.
§ ita § - Dec 15, 2004 3:08:27 pm PST #6618 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay. Guns it is!
Betsy HP - Dec 15, 2004 3:11:22 pm PST #6619 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
It was gays, skirts, and guns that made this country great!
Connie Neil - Dec 15, 2004 3:33:54 pm PST #6620 of 10002
brillig
Do not mess with the Little Old Ladies from Hell. Ask the Germans.
Jesse - Dec 15, 2004 4:16:22 pm PST #6621 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Not a book, but still literary, and just vicariously exciting: My friend's fiance had a piece accepted for The Sun's Readers Write section!
Steph L. - Dec 15, 2004 5:21:10 pm PST #6622 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Yes, my biology degree is showing. My bio background is one of the things that pushes me to get those realistic details that seems to make all the fantastic stuff so much more real.
"Realistic details" like....sex with vampires and were-people of various animal persuasions?
Uh huh.
DavidS - Dec 15, 2004 6:06:52 pm PST #6623 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Does the lack of submachine guns in the Iliad bother you too, Mr. Picky?
The Iliad isn't set in the future. Also, it wasn't an Anachronism Pedant gripe, it was a jarring response to the imagery - which worked very consciously to create metaphors out of new technology.