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I think I need to make up a fictional song (or, since it's in writing, poem that is song shaped)
one of my characters has announced it was him that inspired a song celebrating the contribution of one person to a famous victory
so now I'm wondering what sorts of things go into such a song.

anyone know any sea ship songs? with fighting and maybe rebels and a hero?
space ship songs? I know at the moment they're going to be mostly fiction stuff but they do exist already.

I'll probably just ignore it and leave it as background, but if I had an idea of a typical form I could do a bad copy of it. which, as it happens, is what the character deems the song to be. so that would work out.




I reckon the conditions that make singing a part of ship culture, like not being able to bring much stuff with you and having long stretches of boredom surrounded by the same damn people, are going to apply for a spaceship too. And it's all very well the Enterprise D being full of string quartets and all that, but any smaller ship isn't going to lug a cello around without causing Issues. Especially if you're sharing your bunk. Keyboard and electronic instruments are an easy one though, I've already got touchscreen display surfaces being ubiquitous and you just tell them to be keys or like a stylophone or whatever. But you can't do that while you work with your hands, so, singing.

I'm trying to decide if the display surfaces should be limited to staying flat. Well, bendy paper origami versions of flat. But future tech could do pop up keyboards or whatever. If I tell it to.

I don't know, I already feel like I'm spending too much time saying about basic security measures and display surfaces. I'm avoiding the silly words school of IT IS THE FUTUR!!! but I might be overbalancing, sort of thing.


.... aaaand the amount of time I can spend on mumbling about writing instead of writing is an ever expanding thing... *sigh*

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Remind me again why I wanted to use real physics?
I just sat all my characters down to do a briefing and my physics-for-dummies wormhole network and near light speed travel turned into plot instead of just how you get to plot. And it's not like I understood it very well to start with. Now my characters, who are supposed to understand it, have to explain it to a newbie.
I either have to stop and get a physics degree or say bollocks to it and call everything I write correct for this universe from here on out.
:-p
... it is very interesting physics though. I always like the bit where people can have had different lengths of time since The Big Deal Event. Time travel where you monkey with paradox is all very well, but time travel where not everyone knows the war is over is all KABOOM when you least expect it.

If I'd just had them bouncing around the solar system the story couldn't happen that way.
Their motivations are all tied up with how this travel thing works.

Right. Either get a new 'verse or say I'm the omniscient creator of this 'verse.
... not a tough one, twenty thousand words in.

Apparently I am cranky about labels

If a guy thinking about their boyfriend is slash then a guy thinking about their wife is het. Not gen. Gen is for adventure, not wives.
... that kind of rules out all TV ever but I'm having opinions here anyway.

Also, I'm getting increasingly irritated by the division of slash and femslash, however they spell it. I realise it's a useful set of labels for some purposes, but it keeps on being used in a 'slash! not femslash!' kind of way, like absence of girls is a selling point. And, yes, I just complained about getting het all over my gen, which looks like complaining about presence of girls, but somewhere in the depths of my illogic I'm sure that makes sense. I was complaining about default heterosexuality. I still want my gen to pass Bechdel and have womens all everywhere.

Extreme cranky is reserved for fic that doesn't use the archive warning for rape and doesn't use the warning for not using warnings. Having read too many paragraphs of it I think it's because it doesn't know that aliens made them do it sex pollen drug everyone in sight and make them fuck is in fact non con. It's creepy and I wish to wash my brain now.

... I know Torchwood went there repeatedly, but I thought it knew it was being creepy. Which is a different story. As it turns out, maybe not so much, which is repeated *facepalm*.

... actually I know several canons went there. It remains creepy.



I'm trying to remember if I've watched TV since Doctor Who finished. Or watched DVDs even. Maybe a couple hours.

TV and films seem to be missing some crucial ingredients that fanfic is currently feeding.

It isn't the porn. I keep skipping the porn. It's really frustrating finding a story with a massive word count that turns out to be like a sex manual with intermittent snuggling. It can be perfectly in character and set between specific episodes and all with the grammar and everything and I don't actually care cause I can think of my own thanks, I was looking for a story.

It's only partly the same sex relationships. It's kind of nice when stories admit we exist, but I have two whole TV series that do that, and I'm not watching them.

I think emotional continuity is part of it. Relationships that happen, instead of getting assumed to be somewhere behind the action. Stuff that happens having an impact on a character. So many of our canons have so many changes that only make sense from a Doyle point of view, and then fanfic tries to Watson them and it gets all complicated.

I don't know, maybe I'm just on a text kick. But I'm not reading actual paper books either. Just fanfic.


I am a mystery.


I am a mystery who wants more chocolate and some sleep.