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Questions, I've got questions

  • Sep. 10th, 2009 at 1:10 PM
crypto: Amy Pond (Default)
So whose idea was it to chat up the Supernatural season premiere on Twitter by making #luciferiscoming a trending topic? Was that some kind of consensus alternative when nothing on the first slate of #deaniscrying, #samisshirtless, #brothersarehugging, #castielismycopilot, and #ofcoursebobbyisstillgrumpy got a majority of votes? Or is there some kind of fan campaign to market the show to Satanists?

And hey, while I'm asking -- you know that thing where someone makes an LJ post, and then one or more people comment, "This."? Is that just an LJ/fandom/et al. thing, or does it happen on other kinds of blogs? When did it start -- and more importantly, where will it end?

And another thing! The whole "Signal Boost" in subject lines when you're linking to something -- where did that come from? Is it a Firefly thing? Just how many of my pet peeves can I blame on Joss Whedon?



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anatsuno: (a little bit MIT a little bit UFO)
[personal profile] anatsuno wrote:
Sep. 10th, 2009 08:47 pm (UTC)
I like 'This.' a lot better than ITAWTC/P! Not that it means you should like it too. *g*
crypto: Amy Pond (Default)
[personal profile] crypto wrote:
Sep. 10th, 2009 08:51 pm (UTC)
But why always 'this' and never 'that'? Or 'these'? Or 'cette'???
anatsuno: a women reads, skeptically (drawing by Kate Beaton) (Default)
[personal profile] anatsuno wrote:
Sep. 10th, 2009 08:56 pm (UTC)
not 'cette' cos we're mostly interacting in english; not 'these' because the underlying sentence is not 'I would have said exactly these words' but 'THIS is what I think, too'. And not that, probably because between this and that there are tiny connotations / usage differences in how they refer to something determined/indetermined, an antecedent or an element about to be introduced, etc. I... think. I'm not sure.

/overly srius answr omg

(I dunno; I am a good sheep and so started using This and not That because I had /seen/ This and not That used. So. A circular argument?)
crypto: Amy Pond (Default)
[personal profile] crypto wrote:
Sep. 10th, 2009 09:01 pm (UTC)
So. A circular argument?

This.
anatsuno: a women reads, skeptically (drawing by Kate Beaton) (Default)
[personal profile] anatsuno wrote:
Sep. 10th, 2009 09:04 pm (UTC)
A lot of language acquisition functions in that way! I'm not sure it's legitimate to hold it against this expression particularly. *g*

crypto: Amy Pond (Default)
[personal profile] crypto wrote:
Sep. 10th, 2009 09:07 pm (UTC)
Hey, I never staked a claim to legitimacy for myself or for my absurd pet peeves. *g*
anatsuno: a women reads, skeptically (drawing by Kate Beaton) (Default)
[personal profile] anatsuno wrote:
Sep. 10th, 2009 09:09 pm (UTC)
*impertinent lick, in passing*

(um. I might have impersonated kitten!Rodney a little too long this week.)
crypto: Amy Pond (Default)
[personal profile] crypto wrote:
Sep. 10th, 2009 09:14 pm (UTC)
Kitten!Rodney? Shouldn't that be a scratch?

(was this an all-kitten!AU scenario? Just trying to imagine kitten!Todd...)
anatsuno: a women reads, skeptically (drawing by Kate Beaton) (Default)
[personal profile] anatsuno wrote:
Sep. 10th, 2009 09:24 pm (UTC)
Kitten!Rodney doesn't /only/ scratch! The fun of making them kitten is to give them all a baseline of furry adorableness / a repertoire of affectionate+playful moves. So.

It's a mostly kitten!team AU; iirc Sam Carter owns/rescues them. It's... an excuse to have kitten John/Rodney rolling around licking and pawing at each other. *hangs head* There wasn't any Todd yet! It's not very plotty.

But I'll consult my co-player and ask what she thinks about the Wraith in there. :D
crypto: Amy Pond (Default)
[personal profile] crypto wrote:
Sep. 10th, 2009 09:42 pm (UTC)
It's not very plotty.

You know, I probably would have guessed that part. *g*

Unless a sudden twist reveals that kitten!John is actually robot!kitten!John or something....