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[vovat]

• 06:11 Getting out of bed sucks. Maybe I should never do it again. #
• 06:44 $1.49 for six hot cross buns? Whatever happened to "one a penny, two a penny"? #
• 06:50 Pirates attacked an American ship? Something tells me they aren't quite the same kind you'd see in the Magic Kingdom. #

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[odontv.livejournal.com]

I think they should give modern day pirates a different name. Whenever I hear that pirates kidnapped people and overtook a ship it just... sounds like too much fun. It's kind of horrible since it's serious business and people's lives are in danger and I'm just thinking: THIS SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD MOVIE!

The losers of today don't deserve to be called pirates.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Hey, it makes more sense to call these losers pirates than it does to apply the word to people who illegally copy software.

[odontv.livejournal.com]

That's true. We can call them rat pies. Nobody would ever want to be a rat pie.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

What about a slice of strawberry tart without so much rat in it?

[odontv.livejournal.com]

"Strawberry tarts are on the attack! Fire the torpedo!"

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sailors only want to see tarts when they're at port.

[burningofroissy.livejournal.com]

IAWTC so hard.

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

The American ship's captain has the same name as the self-insert (or Mary Sue) character who's appeared in several of my fanfics. It's freaking me out a little ...

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Maybe that's a sign that you have to write a story about this character being attacked by pirates. Of course, being a Mary Sue, he'd probably take them all out within an hour. And even Peter Pan isn't THAT efficient with pirates.

[vilajunkie.livejournal.com]

I have a story idea about a pirate who's almost three thousand years old then discovers the Fountain of Youth and is now capturing playmates and governesses, because she looks five but is really "Two thousand, nine hundred, thirty-two, and three-quarters!"

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Seems to me that would be awfully frustrating! I've often wondered how patient Dorothy or Ozma would be in the modern day real world, when everyone wants to treat them like children even though Dorothy's over a century old.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Well, in Lost King, returning to the United States made Dorothy quickly age into a young woman. Ozma might be immune to that, though, being a fairy and all.

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Lost Kind was only the second post-Baum book I ever read, and it freaked me out. I do *not* want to deal with the idea of Dorothy being thrown into the real world and suddenly being over a hundred years old, so I cheerfully ignore the possibility.

Thank goodness that story wasn't written today, or they might have felt obliged to deal with the problems of sudden puberty, breasts and binding underwear.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I think Thompson purposely had her return to Oz quickly in order to avoid dealing with such things.

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

On the *other* hand, it would be interesting seeing a girl from the turn of the 20th century dealing with how much things have changed. At that point it was what, 30 years? But seeing her deal with the turn of the 21st century (without the growing, please) might be fascinating. She'd still be Dorothy, after all, and Dorothy knows how to take things as they come.

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

I actually considered that! But my Richard isn't very Mary Suish ... he's not particularly talented at hand to hand fighting, and nobody will let him even hold a crossbow anymore after that unfortunate incident with the Buffybot. My idea for a story would be him being used as a distraction -- or bait -- while the real fighters sneaked aboard.

On a related note, Yay for the Navy Seals!

[vovat.livejournal.com]

What about the Easter Seals? They deserve some recognition at this time of year!

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Yes, them too! They're also much more colorful than the Navy version.