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[trinityvixen]

viridian, can I borrow your "You're so fucking stupid it hurts" icon? Please?

I should just quit the Pit of Voles entirely. I need to hurt people there. In the worst way imagineable. I forgive them their trespasses of bad taste, horrible dialogue, nonsensical characterization, inane, pointless plotting, okay? They can screw up physics, chemistry, and anything higher science, but if they touch biology with their tainted fingers--rudimentary, physiological specifics in biology--I am going to rip them off.

So, here it is, my gift to the fanbrats, and I didn't even have to write it myself. God bless you, Wikipedia. READ IT, then write stories. Read, then write.

::grumbles::

ETA: Not necessarily work safe linkage, by the by. My bad, my bad, sorry edgehopper.

Comments

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

Argh...please mark things NSFW...I don't have an FMLA case to blame viewing that website on at the moment :)

But otherwise, agreed.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Uh...oh, I guess not. Sorry, really, I didn't think about it. It's meant to be coldly educational, I forgot about the naked pregnant chicks on it.

My bad.

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

Not a big problem. Fortunately, I have an office :)

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Steal away. Also, what fandom is this you're ranting about?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

In the specific, the violation was in regards to the Superman fandom, which, I grant you, has some interesting biological questions to be considered. But a woman not questioning when a perfectly healthy, normal sized baby is born several months early with no complications? Bitches, please. Same goes for any fandom, really.

And ahhh, thank you for that icon. Every time I see Glory's face screwed up that hard, I feel better. That's the perfect example of my own feelings.

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

I was figuring that the gestation period for a Kryptonian might be longer, so she wouldn't have noticed, HOWEVER, now that I think about it he might have been delivered "early," and his seemingly fragile conditionmay have been attributed to his being a premie. After all, we don't know that he was a perfectly healthy, normal sized baby at birth, do we?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

No, but the way this story was written, he was.

As for Kryptonian biology, well, when someone bothers to think about that first instead of assuming it's nearly identical to human biology, I'll let them be for a while. This one clearly hadn't thought so deeply. Given Clark's otherwise normal development, including puberty, on Earth, I'd postulate that any differences wouldn't be huge. Developmentally, Clark reaches a saturation point at which he then basically explodes with power that keeps him from aging like humans (there's a theory somewhere about people who carry viruses like this and never feel the negative effects--they build up a viral load which reaches climax and then other people start getting sick, so it's in our biology, too).

If the kid were fragile from birth and born ahead of the earliest possible due date for Lois and Richard to have been both parents (as the movie didn't seem to show him having any doubts on that score, I assume he didn't), that would explain some things.

But really, lazy fanfic writers and their lack of attention to detail. Grrr.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Dare I ask what egrigious sin against biology they've committed? Or is this a just-in-case measure?

(I've read enough fanfic with sex scenes that defied elementary biology, I don't think it even gives me pause anymore.)

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It's a bit of both. The sin in specific is a human woman not having any questions about a healthy baby being delivered months early sans complications associated with premies (undeveloped lungs, underweight child etc).

Sex scenes, mercifully, I've avoided thus far, but I know fandom loves to violate biology there. Rapes it, practically, which is an ironical type of thing to say about such things, but there you are.