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[trinityvixen]

For my first 1character piece, I chose Starbuck. I have question related to that challenge in the form of a formal poll (because I have a paid account and I don't rape it nearly enough). Be so good as to answer the following, and don't worry: no spoilers.



[Poll #695220]

Comments

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

This begs the question - why would a general audience be reading your BSG fic?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

::shrugs:: It goes on the 1character page, meaning it's available to all. I sometimes browse fandoms I'm not intimately connected with (for example, I'd read some Star Wars extended universe that I don't know the character immediately for, or even Stargate or Atlantis stuff).

Still, the general audience probably won't make it as far as the reference. Oh well.

[jlc.livejournal.com]

FF should recognize that things like "frak" are "OH NOES THE FCC WILL EAT ME!" words, not universe slang :)

Being otherwise jargonriffic is probably appropraite, but should make sense to non-BSG-heads if you intend to share this out of BSG fandom.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I dunno, universe slang makes sense. I mean, in a truly different society, there are bound to be all sorts of words used in strange ways that make no sense to the outsider (my Aussie friends will forgive me, but, for the first month I was there, every time I heard something "[insert adjective] as" I wanted to say "As what?").

However, since most shows don't make slang so much as substitute words and use jargon to convey terms the audience knows, I can see how it appears to be a cheat. Then again, on Farscape at least, there was a reason for that as Crichton's translator microbes could just have streamlined a complicated predicative phrase into "frell you"...though that doesn't explain why they don't understand his jargon or why he hears 'frell' instead of 'fuck.'

Wow, this is circular.

[jlc.livejournal.com]

Right. I have no problem with using "frell" or "frak" or whatever when there's good evidence that the writers are using it as a different, in-universe slang term with its own meanings. Cant that is cant is fine. But with "frak" certainly, and with "frell" probably (Farscape isn't my fandom), it's just a quick replacement for "fuck" before the script ships out to production. And there's no need to preserve that, imo.