Update on life in general

[louiselux]

Am at work, in mental pain from dealing with the hnngggh web developers. Will this never end? Luckily it's only a small part of my job, but nevertheless the problems seem insurmountable at times. But we were given chocolate and fruit pastilles by nice people, so the sugar rush is helping.

Just as a note, it's a bad idea to insert large quoted chunks of a pro novel into your own fanfic, because not only does it stop the flow of the story like a brick wall across a motorway, but it might alert the reader to the fact that they could be reading something else, something better. But then it might work the other way round and you'd just be relieved you weren't reading Wuthering Heights (the novel in question) and having to work out again who the hell everyone was, and who were they related to again? But generally I can't help thinking it's a tactical mistake.

We watched Best in Show last night and laughed a lot, which was good because Brokeback Mountain is a classic Annie Proulx genre novel (short story, rather), and that genre is MISERY. Beautifully written and sometimes quite funny misery, but misery all the same. It'll be fascinating to see how they've filmed it - her prose is very visual and ideas for scenes spring easily to mind - I hope they keep the ending as it is in the story.

I haven't forgotten your snippets, dear requesters, I just keep getting distracted by real life - they will be coming along, I promise. And furthermore, if an angel and demon did just happen to have sex and one of them got pregnant, what would the resulting child be, exactly? I suppose, genetically, it would be angel, if demons started out as angels.

Comments

[crotalus-atrox.livejournal.com]

Biologically speaking, yeah. It says they're the same basic stock, so the child would be "angel". So that's the default species, there should be no trouble with that.

However, the question then becomes whether being a demon is a behavioral choice or whether it chages the biological structure--adding certain "demon" traits. If it does, then the child has, to use an example, as much of a chance at inheriting Crowley's snake tendencies as of inheriting say, Aziraphale's hair color.

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the answer to your question is yes. :blushes:

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

That's an interesting point. Maybe being a demon is more a way of thinking then any acutal physical change - maybe demons assume forms that they think are fitting for themselves - if they think they evil then they'll look evil. After all, in the book there's the idea for example, that becoming a Satanist is more to do with an act of will rather than to do with the way you behave.

Another thing, following the logic of the book, where in the case of Dog, 'form shapes nature', then in theory the longer Crowley and Aziraphale stay in human form, then the more human they become. The more I think about it I think they'd produce a child that was like Adam. And in fact they are his they are his parents, in a fashion, being his godfathers.

[shati.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't it depend on their bodies at the time? When they're on Earth, I think, they're in bodies that may or may not be genetically human (Crowley's eyes make me suspicious). If they are, the child would assumably be human as well. If not, er, whatever the genetic material in the bodies is.