Amal Nahurriyeh

So, female Catholic priests: how would they be addressed? I always called all my priests Father Whoever; so would female priests be Mother Whoever? All my Googling for information on the splinter groups ordaining women fails to mention what the hell they call them once they've ordained them.

Yes, it's fic research. A totally minimal point, but the awesome thing about writing in a universe set in my future is that I get to enact the radical social changes I like. Carsharing is big in the 2020s, FYI.

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This week's fannish5

Five worst retcons in your fandoms.

Oh, ha ha ha ha ha. Fannish 5, you gotta stop giving me such good ones. (Although some of these are closer to continuity errors than retcons, I guess.)

1. Doctor Who: Journey's End/The End of Time. Fuck you. Fuck you so very, very, very fucking much. I actually think I hate you worse than all the XF retconning, because you're just mean.

2. X-Files: Wait, when did Scully get that necklace? Because this one's just dumb. How hard would it have been to double check that?

3. X-Files: Mulder's Amazing Disappearing Brain Disease. The original brain disease makes no sense. That it never gets mentioned again after Three Words makes no sense. The whole thing: no sense. Is made. By it.

4. X-Files: Amazing Disappearing Behbeh Act. Oh, did you just realize that giving your protagonists a baby means that them being on the run is ~~awkward?~~ I'm so sorry, but BABIES CAN'T JUST DISAPPEAR. IT DOES NOT WORK LIKE THAT. (I have a logical rant about how a private adoption wasn't Scully's best option if she thought she couldn't protect William, too. But mostly let me just wave my arms around.)

5. X-Files: Aliens! Humans! Starlight! Seriously, you give us seven seasons of Samantha drama, and then resolve it by snapping yo' damn fingers? NO, NO, ACTUALLY, YOU DON'T. Anyway, I want the Samantha Clones back. A lot of them. Just to fuck with Mulder's head.

Which five canons would you want to live in, and why?

1. West Wing. A universe where Nobel Prize winners can also carry the electoral college, where all political workers of both parties are well-meaning and have complex policy conversations, and where The Jackal can become Chief of Staff? Yes plz.

2. Buffyverse. Yes, I know I'd run a high risk of being nommed, but I think the universe is really cool, and plus all I'd have to do is leave Sunnydale (and avoid Cleveland), duh.

3. Star Trek: TNG. I actually have huge problems with this universe politically, because I think it's unrealistic and utopian. At the same time, it would be amazing to live there. I also think there'd have to be people who were working to fix the problems that still existed, and I'd like to be among them.

4. Futurama: New New York is fucking awesome. The end.

5. Whoniverse. Because I want The Doctor around, for oil spills and other catastrophes.


*Interestingly, I didn't pick either of my two biggest fandoms, X-Files and BSG. Want to know why? Because I've got an extreme paranoia about the end of the world.