The important questions.

[trinityofone]

THIRD try because LJ didn't like my poll. *tear*

siriaeve siriaeve siriaeve! Guess who's in my history tutorial? It's Orlando Momoa!

Yeah, so siriaeve and I keep seeing this guy around the Trinity campus who, I swear to God, looks like the secret love child of Jason Momoa and Orlando Bloom. He's got the Ronon dreads but he's kind of babyfaced and the combination is just...hee. And now I have a class with him! And--watch, it gets better--it turns out that he's French! His name is Jean! *dies*

Ahh, it almost made up for the tutor writing the following on the board when we were talking about reading primary documents:

Important! Who its by + who for

I couldn't concentrate for the rest of the tutorial; I kept wanting to make a mad dash for the chalk and add the missing apostrophe. Yes, for want of an apostrophe, I will have difficulty respecting this tutor for the rest of the term. *is a snob and a bitch*

So while I'm busy feeling superior in my mad grammar skillz (she said, at which point anyone who had read more than one or two entries in this journal burst into painful, side-splitting laughter), I was wondering if someone could help me with an area in which I have considerably less expertise? We're talkin' science. SGA fandom is tough for me in this way, but so far I think I've been able to fake it reasonably well. (Er...right?) Now, though, I'm stuck dealing with a story that, annoyingly, has an actual PLOT, and the plot involves genetics just enough that it's making me feel uncomfortable. Basically, I have a somewhat outrageous sci-fi premise, and I need to make it sound scientifically plausible--not actually scientifically plausible, but I'm aiming for at least the level of plausibility as most of the stuff they spit out on the show. (Not a very high aim, from what I've been told.) Would someone with a bit of sciencey knowledge be willing to e-mail with me a bit about this? I'd discuss it more here, but I don't want to give away my OH-SO-EXCITING PLOT TWIST, OMG!!! So yeah: trinityofone@livejournal.com should get it to me. Thank you!

And because this post is BORING, and the last thing the world needs is another BORING POST, I'll provide you instead with another:

[Poll #651589]

Please feel free to further explicate your decisions. I have my theories, but I suspect they are based entirely on conjecture and personal preference. Like I said: science!

Comments

[birdsflying]

If it had been a choice between Joe and David, it would have been almost impossible to choose but considering how scarily similar Rodney and I are at times, John wins hands down. I love Rodney dearly and am attracted to him but I can only to easily see how we'd either piss each other off or get sidetracked (oh noes!)

Also.. it'd kinda weird sleeping with what is probably the closest thing to a male version of myself. :blinks:

One of my lecturers once got the who/whom thing wrong in a lecture note and even though I am equally guilty, I still felt that same superiority thing. Oh grammar, what have you done to me?

[birdsflying]

:facepalm: 'too', rather than 'to'. :facepalms again:

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

it'd kinda weird sleeping with what is probably the closest thing to a male version of myself

Oh, man. That's a whole other issue that I...well. I often have the problem that 1) my favorite character, 2) the character I most relate to, and 3) the character I most want to sleep with are embodied in the same guy, and over the years and my long history of this, I've justified it to myself in the following ways:

I. Dearth of good female characters, thus reducing the possibilities for 1) and 2);
II. Opposites don't really attract (except for when they do);
III. Well, the character is usually a far cooler--even idealized!--version of myself, so that's really not at all the same thing. Really.
IV. La la la, I can't heeeaaaaaar you!

Yeah, so I'm just going to stick with that. And Rodney. *molests him in a totally non-creepy, non-masturbatory way*

[birdsflying]

Ahaha! I like IV.

Sadly, being bi, I still get the problem of self/idealized self with the female characters! I should probably give up and just accept that whole self/idealized self thing, it has been almost bulletproof for just short of a freaking decade!

And Rodney!me is totally idealized but damn, if he isn't the strongest I've ever hit. I mean, when people who've only ever seen one episode and aren't fannish turn around say "hey - it's you!", you have to worry. slightly.

Plus, John does have one other advantage here because while both John and Rodney hit my types, John is military and uh. *yeah*. I deal with (sexy)geeks in my day to day life (although, bit too many unsexy and none on the scale of nnrrgh that rodney, sadly), the military? not so much, so sliiiight advantage there.