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the insidiousness of fandom
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Have you ever gotten to the point in your fannish obsession that a character's name is inextricably linked with that character and that character only, and the appearance of that name elsewhere is cause for much cognitive dissonance? I recently ran across a book of essays published in honor of RODNEY Hilton, a medieval historian; my first reaction was, "oh, poor John," because this collection was put together after RODNEY Hilton died, and then "but Rodney's a physicist, he would never ever be a medieval historian."
Then, of course, I started thinking about archaeologist!Rodney and some universe where Rodney is a linguist who specializes in cryptolinguistics and scripts like Proto-Elamite or Vinča. And John would be involved somehow, either as someone who sponsors Rodney's work, or maybe wants to steal it. And have sex with Rodney.
*considers*
I don't want to do any more work today :(
Have you ever gotten to the point in your fannish obsession that a character's name is inextricably linked with that character and that character only, and the appearance of that name elsewhere is cause for much cognitive dissonance? I recently ran across a book of essays published in honor of RODNEY Hilton, a medieval historian; my first reaction was, "oh, poor John," because this collection was put together after RODNEY Hilton died, and then "but Rodney's a physicist, he would never ever be a medieval historian."
Then, of course, I started thinking about archaeologist!Rodney and some universe where Rodney is a linguist who specializes in cryptolinguistics and scripts like Proto-Elamite or Vinča. And John would be involved somehow, either as someone who sponsors Rodney's work, or maybe wants to steal it. And have sex with Rodney.
*considers*
I don't want to do any more work today :(
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I would also dearly, dearly love to hear him read Greek. Not that I can understand it, but Greek poetry is unbelievably lovely just to listen to, especially the rhythm, in-out, in-out like the waves.
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Basically, I think we just want John to have an innate, incredible ability to speak dozens of different languages in a way which drives linguist!Rodney crazy. :>