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Confidential to Miss debchan: You don't have him, you shan't have him, and I'm never going to back down.

In fact, he asked me to give this to you:

We have never met and thus it is perhaps indecorous of me to write to you, but it has been brought to my notice that you have been introducing yourself, either through some strange delusion, or for some malicious purpose, as my wife.

Regardless of your reasons for uttering such falsehoods, madam, I must ask that you cease this shocking behaviour! You are causing much distress to my beloved prillalar and placing yourself in most precarious position.

The threat of legal action has not influenced you. Permit me to remind you that I am a pirate and as such, would not hesitate to employ a more direct solution to this problem. Rest assured that I will not undertake this personally, lest the sight of me cause you further mental distress.

I hope that you will be persuaded by this letter to cease all references to me as your husband so that no extraordinary action need be taken.

Respectfully,
Jas. Hook (Captain)

I've been thinking about vision lately, partly because I've been reading about how it works (what we know of it) and partly because I just got some cool new glasses. Going to the optometrist reminds me of all ways people with poor vision learn to cope with it.

I have trouble when I'm supposed to read the line of letters because I'm now quite good at working out what the letters probably are, by looking for straight lines or curves, that sort of thing. It's like cryptography. And usually context will then help you to work out if that's an N or H.

I also realised that when I read, which I do a lot and always have done, I don't form strong mental pictures of the characters. I form strong impressions of them, but it's not the same thing. When I read about Hermione, I have an impression of bushy hair and smartness, but there's no actual picture of her face in my mind.

I'm not sure if I'm unusual in this.

And on to Stargate.

New Ground
Fun! Teal'c is blinded -- just like Speed Racer in the ep where they're in that huge Alpine race. I hoped Racer X would show up to help Teal'c out, but he never did. The others sit in tiny cages. Daniel is questioned. Wow, I say, I didn't think he'd be able to hold out while they tortured Jack. Or maybe, I reconsider, Daniel's still mad at Jack for the last two episodes.

Maternal Instinct
I always love seeing Master Bra'tac show up, especially when he and Hammond get to greet each other. And it was fun to see Daniel barefoot and so convinced that he had Special Powers. But it seemed a little hollow to chase after the child and then have him go off with the Organians. All the death by lightning was pretty cool.

Crystal Skull
Loved it! Eps where someone is out of phase are cheesy, but I always enjoy them. There should have been far more eavesdropping, though. And Daniel's grandfather is so cool. I bet he was like Indiana Jones back in the day. There should be a spin-off about his adventures. As well, crystal skulls are always nifty.

Nemesis
Thor loves Jack and Jack loves Thor. Thor trusts Jack to get the job done. Jack doesn't seem to mind that Thor has doomed him to almost certain death. So long as they're together. *sigh* Oh, and Teal'c's spacewalk was wicked cool.

I said that I wasn't going to write any fic til I'd seen through S3. And now I have. Guess I better get thinking. The tricky thing is, I ship everybody. Which might be too wide a focus to start with. Unless I write a soap opera. Hmm...

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I said that I wasn't going to write any fic til I'd seen through S3. And now I have.

*whispers* And just think, season 4 comes out next week on DVD...

*evil chuckle*

Get cracking, missy! *g*

I know! Can't wait for S4! I am beginning the fic-pondering process; we'll see where that takes me.

Going to the optometrist reminds me of all ways people with poor vision learn to cope with it.

I always wonder what I would have done if I was born before glasses were invented. Probably walked off a cliff on accident.

I also realised that when I read, which I do a lot and always have done, I don't form strong mental pictures of the characters.

I think I do this as well. It's like the difference in reading a sexy story and seeing a sexy movie for me. When I read, I absorb the sense of what's happening rather than thinking about the order in which something happens, or how someone is rather than how they look.

Or maybe you mean something completely different and I'm a dork. =)

how someone is rather than how they look

That's exactly what I mean. I think we assume we have strong mental pictures of things when we don't.

Hal, Hal, Hal. It makes me sad to see you so helpless in your delusion and reduced to forging letters from my beloved to prop up your fantasy. However, I know you can't help yourself, and therefore hold no hard feelings.

I don't find that movies of books really fill that out for me either. When I read Lord of the Rings, the only character that's now fully visualized and replaced by the movie version is Gandalf, probably because he was note-perfect. In Harry Potter, it's only Lucius Malfoy, probably because his move characterisation was an improvement on the book. Everyone else is just the same as they were before the movies came out.

Ditto on Lucius Malfoy. Jason Isaacs owns that role. And despite the way Rickman is, for me, the perfect Snape, my mind's eye doesn't see him so much when I read the books. I see someone very much like David Thewliss (probably because of the nose) combined with Rickman's voice.

And hmmmmm. Having given this a little more thought (and consumed a bit more coffee) it seems to me that I also don't seem to be very visual when I read. It's all about the voices. Weird.

Having given this a little more thought (and consumed a bit more coffee) it seems to me that I also don't seem to be very visual when I read. It's all about the voices. Weird.

I don't really *hear* the voices either, although I'm pretty good at writing the individual voices. I sort of hear the words without any actual timbre or whatever distinguishes one voice from another.

The more I think about this, the stranger it seems. *g*

Racer X! *snicker* This cracks me up. OC, now I have the "Speed Racer" theme song running through my head which is bad, very, very bad. Hmmm...I wonder...is there any Speed Racer slash out there?

*slaps forehead*

What am I thinking! This is the internet. OC there is!

I said that I wasn't going to write any fic til I'd seen through S3. And now I have. Guess I better get thinking. The tricky thing is, I ship everybody. Which might be too wide a focus to start with. Unless I write a soap opera. Hmm...

Funny how that happens, isn't it? "Nemesis" is Such a Jack/Thor lurve-a-palooza. Jack will do anything for his beloved Thor and ditto that for Thor. OC, now you must see the foolow up "Small Victories," for yet more evidence of their true, pure love.

Hmmm...I wonder...is there any Speed Racer slash out there?

I have been tempted to write incestuous Speed/Racer X slash. Like the time when Speed wakes up and he's on a couch in Racer X's hotel room and Racer X is in the shower and Speed *tries on Racer X's mask* and then goes to *look into the shower* so he can see Racer X's true identity.

Whenever we watch that ep, we look at each other and say, what do they *expect* us to think?

And looking very much forward to Small Victories.

Nemesis is the Jack/Teal'c love fest. OK, so Thor beams Jack up as soon as Jack starts inviting people off to the cabin with him. Obviously, Thor is a little jealous. (It almost reminds me of those two Mrs. Hooks floating around the internet. I'm just glad that they don't have the power of the Asgaard.)

As for vision, yeah, faces are my downfall. I correct to 20/20 and I always wear glasses because I'm blind, but I too just get general impressions of not only book people, but real people too. I was worried about Vividcon because I couldn't bring up anyone's face in my mind. If they changed their hair color or something, I was going to be screwed.

Thor beams Jack up as soon as Jack starts inviting people off to the cabin with him. Obviously, Thor is a little jealous.

Not to mention how ticked Thor is when Sam and Teal'c show up! Spoiling their tragical and romantic death in each other's arms.

And all those recordings Thor left for Jack. When Sam said she was going to watch through them all, I thought, yikes, she's going to see all the personal stuff!

Know exactly what you mean -- I'm extremely non-visual.

And here I thought I had to go to

handbasket_rpg for this kind of entertainment.

I also realised that when I read, which I do a lot and always have done, I don't form strong mental pictures of the characters. I form strong impressions of them, but it's not the same thing. When I read about Hermione, I have an impression of bushy hair and smartness, but there's no actual picture of her face in my mind.

That's pretty much how I function. I tend to label characters in my head more by personality traits, likes, or objects. Aziraphale, for example, in my mind, is "likes sushi and books," probably because those are the things I adore him most for. Crowley is "leather jacket, flashy car, sunglasses."

I have trouble when I'm supposed to read the line of letters because I'm now quite good at working out what the letters probably are, by looking for straight lines or curves, that sort of thing. It's like cryptography. And usually context will then help you to work out if that's an N or H.

I sometimes forget that there are people who can see more than six inches past their noses before everything becomes a formless blur....

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