and then, randomly, there was a STARGATE: ATLANTIS Fandom Primer on your flist. by
bookshop, in which she tells a terrifying amount of truth about a not-so-great-show and the fandom that is the equivalent of a Grateful Dead concert.Also, this.
Certain fics are written entirely in mathematics. Certain fics are written entirely in made up languages. Certain fics are structured around theoretical physics. It's not that you never see these things in other fandoms, but SGA is the only fandom that sees them on such a consistent and pervasive level.
And sometimes, we did all three at once.
I also call it how
astolat made me google freaking unsolvable math problems on a regular basis. And let me say, for no other fandom would I read The Elegant Universe nor make sense of it by slashing quantum physics with relativity while reading and finding the quarks named Top and Bottom proof of Sheppard/McKay's true love.And then there's entanglement theory, which one horrible day I sat up and thought "I hate math. When did this become my life? And where the fuck are the numbers in this equation? And why am I excited some guy in Jerusalem solved the Road Colouring Problem?"
(Please don't ask. Just know I bought a box of colored pens and toothpicks and tried to model it three-dimensionally and I have no fucking clue what you do with that. It's pretty though, in three colors that always know where they're going, if they don't know where they've been.)
Thank you SGA. You have totally screwed me for life.
Oh SGA. You rock my world.
But why can no one say anything good about it these days without harping on about how awful they think the show is? I'm so fucking tired of that. :-(
it's like a cult. a friendly, non-invasive cult that is scattered randomly around the world and is made up of people who spend their lunch-hours googling obscure russian composers, military strategy, cookie recipes, norse mythology and unsolvable math problems, all for research in the same fic.
SGA - the fandom that taught me research. So. Much. Research. And that doesn't even count the stuff I read to understand other people's fic.
I bought a book at Barnes and Noble called "The little book of Mathematical Principles."
I KNOW.
::shudders::
Edited at 2009-03-04 12:50 am (UTC)
I think I have nothing to add to this conversation.
But in such a good way. *g* I, for one, will always enjoy Crimes Against Humanity and Teacher's Pet and Rain Gods and damn, pretty much everything you've written in this fandom.
As to the crack... I seem to remember ice cubes at one point.
*investigates*
"In graph theory the road coloring theorem, known until recently as the road coloring conjecture, deals with synchronized instructions. The issue involves whether by using such instructions, one can reach or locate an object or destination from any other point within a network (which might be a representation of city streets or a maze)....
[snip]
This theorem also has implications in symbolic dynamics."
Argh, I hate not understanding stuff!
I think I need to blame you.