Dreams

Dreamed Amy Pond got turned into a sort of a queen bee, human shaped but with added characteristics, like a sting that could convert others into her warrior, worker and drone bees, with total loyalty to her. The sting was positioned somewhere she only had to back into people or sit down and tada, instant slave.
So she was avoiding Rory and the Doctor and anyone else she knew and cared about. She couldn't not be a queen, she was going to collect people, but she did get to choose who.
The locals knew all about this weird thinking infection and would kill the infected on sight.
But SG1 were visiting, and they had no such knowledge.
So she got Jack as warrior, Sam as worker, and Daniel as a drone. ( Read more... )

So now I'm thinking, Warrior, Worker, Drone: it's kind of like Cliff, Shag, Marry, only even more creepy non-con with bonus involuntary body modification. ( Read more... )

Being a bee isn't the same as goa'uld possession, because you keep your own smarts and your own memories, and to some extent your own allegiances, like Amy staying away from her loved ones. You just also get this urge to form stratified communities by drafting unwilling yet useful people and then reproduce by making as many jelly egg babies as possible. So I'm trying to figure out if that's more or less creepy than being a prisoner in your own body, because it feels like stuff you're deciding to do, just... new stuff.

Kind of like Hathor's drug but more effective.



I think it's probably more creepy. Change your priorities and loyalties and, if it ever wears off, it'll feel like the biggest betrayal, and like you decided and wanted it. Even though the wanting to came from the queen bee, who was herself converted by an older queen who got captured.


The whole kill on sight thing is kind of understandable.


But I can see mad science designing the whole thing. More babies, and more babysitters, you just have to sting them. All advantage for the queen.

Just a teensy tiny bit of a problem for the free will.

Got my grade :-)

My grade for last semester is in
For the Life Writing class I pretty much didn't turn up to with the teacher I always get rubbish grades from
who has different ideas about how grammar and punctuation work than... every style guide I own and most everything I've ever read.

60%

Which is, just, on the grade boundary for a 2:1

I am slightly frustrated that her feedback is things like 'is this from the Reader' when following the [name] and reading the Bibliography would show yes, it is in fact from the Reader, and hey, the bibliography is right there at the end of the page. Or, "did you get feedback on this on BB? Did you edit the work? Did it begin from an exercise in class? " when my commentary says "This piece started as an entry on my online journal" and "Feedback there and in class" led to "I revised the opening" and "I only strengthened the zombie metaphor, editing out a reference to being distracted by shiny things that seemed inconsistent with zombies to some readers."
So I got feedback online and in class
I revised and edited the work in response to it
and it didn't start from an exercise, it started from my online journal, the exact page which is linked to in the bibliography.
But that was in the 'needs improvement' section so that's areas I lost marks in.
Which is frustrating, because I thought that was pretty clear.
Also frustrating is being told it jolts and is disjointed and I explained it's meant to jolt and be stumbling. And if that was a problem then some feedback to that effect at an earlier stage would have been nice. And it's not that I didn't turn up to class and get feedback, it's that I showed her and didn't get feedback.

Also it says the science fiction is too strong and it is supposed to be life writing. I had a whole paragraph about how Haiti deals with mental illness through zombies. But okay, I'm a science fiction writer, and I didn't turn up for lessons enough to know what Life Writing is. That's just a bit sad, that's not frustrating.


I have plugged the numbers in to my giant spreadsheet of grade calculation and reckon I now need to get at least 64% on my dissertation to get a First overall.
If I pass at all, hand something in and make at least 40%, I will get a 2:1.
But it would be a disappointing 2:1 because until this year with the being ill 63% was my worst mark ever and that was for Modernism with this same teacher and I loathe Modernism something fierce.




Okay, my employee is here so I'll stop chewing over the grade and go take things to the library and get more books.

The plan is to go see The Hobbit. I hope this works out.

Excellent day

I went to see The Hobbit :-D

Also I did finally get to the UEA library ( Read more... )

Hobbit is awesomes. All the parts were good. There were no bits that were too long or that didn't fit, all the parts were good. It wasn't exactly precisely like the book but that's because it was trying to be a movie and I think it did awesome.

I keep humming the misty mountains song.

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There weren't any boring bits or broken bits or stupid bits, and I will :-p at anyone who says otherwise, because I was all bouncing and biting my nails and bouncing again happy when it worked and this is exactly excellently what a film should do.


... I won't go round their journals going :-p, but this journal is a happy squee place.



I want to see it again!
... which I'd probably have to do next week since it seems to be disappearing, and I don't really have the time or spoons, but in theory I totally want to see it again.
:-D