He wondered if this was how it felt to go crazy -- you didn't lose your mind, it just stopped synching up with the world around you. The Pegasus galaxy makes Rodney an expert in what he can survive without.
Patient: Does [House] care about you?
Wilson: I think so.
Patient: You don't know?
Wilson: As Dr. House likes to say, everybody lies.
Patient: It's not what people say; it's what they do.
Wilson: [reflects for a beat] Yeah. He cares about me.
wondering if Muggle-borns and Squibs are freak genetic mutations, or if magical ability is genetic in nature at all, and lots of discussion ensued. Well, my first thought was what Squibs do we know of in the books: Filch and near-Squib Neville. But ... um
subtle_science offered a theory for a sex-linked gene for witchcraft (for witch read also wizard throughout!), which has some very good points, but to me doesn't seem explain all the data available. Mine probably doesn't do hugely better, but, well, I'm i
JS&MN is a brilliant novel that you should all read. And yet, as many people have noticed, it draws some fascinating female characters who are frustratingly relegated to the background. Their fates drive the plot, but they do not often appear.
The absence of female characters from the ongoing SPN narrative seems to be the subject du jour, so I thought I'd jump in, because I'm usually one of the first to cry "misogyny" in the shows I watch (I'm looking at you, XF) but I don't see that here.
Lost words, lost time, lost city. (I love this so much, there are no words)
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