Cyborg Theory

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I hope you all had an excellent weekend, class. Please pass your comparison analysis papers on Metropolis to the front of the room. Thank you.

Now, I have paired the class up in the following manner – and please move to sit with your partner, or in one case, group of three:

1) Veruca Cally, Beka Valentine

2) Lee Adama, Sharon Valerii

3) Bridge Carson, Sam Carter

4) Charlie Kawalsky, Aeryn Sun

5) John Crichton, Anakin Skywalker, Kara Thrace

For your next assignment – due in two weeks – I want you to write delicious crackfic a fictional story of your own focusing on some aspect of cyborg theory. It must make an argument pro or against human to cyborg and/or android relations (of any kind – political, social, romantic, etc).

By the end of class, I want you to have discussed with your partner the nature of the story you would like to write and whether it is to be pro or against human/cyborg/android relations.

If you have any questions, I'll be at my desk. Now get to work.


[Yes, and I actually want you very talented writers to actually do this. Fanfiction and/or crackfic – or original fiction, yay, -- is required, zomg, in two weeks. No word limit. I highly recommend www.writely.com for collaborative fiction.]

Comments

Questions?

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Comments, concerns?

Cally & Valentine

[replicarter.livejournal.com]

Sweet and naughty girls! *averts eyes*

Re: Cally & Valentine

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally looks around for Beka, pulling out a pad of cornerless paper and a pencil.

"Story, huh?" she asks herself, chewing on her eraser.

Re: Cally & Valentine

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

Beka saw the assignment and grinned. This would be fun. And she could use a bit of that. Also, she was pretty sure she could count on Cally to forgive her for being an idiot.

"Hey, you," Beka said, sliding into the seat next to her.

Re: Cally & Valentine

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

Beka passed her paper to the front of the room. It wasn't her best work, but under the circumstances, it was the best she'd been able to do. She hoped it would be good enough.

Adama & Valerii

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When Lee says he wants a whole squadron of Sharons…man… the irony.

Re: Adama & Valerii

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

Lee worries that he's too short to be an appropriate partner for Sharon. *emo sigh*

Re: Adama & Valerii

[sharon-valerii.livejournal.com]

If she had any idea what her professor was referring to, Sharon was sure she'd laugh out loud. Really. Instead, she sits down next to Lee (who has enough personality to almost be tall enough to fit her unconscious agenda). "So, um... Anti, or pro-cyborgs?"

Carson & Carter

[replicarter.livejournal.com]

They could, omg, take over the known universe and make every piece of tech their bitch. If they were, you know, evil.

Re: Carson & Carter

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam passed her paper to the front of the room, completely positive it would get her flunked, even though it was a detailed analysis of how she and her Cyborg Theory professor were absolutely, positively not part of the Metropolis paradigm. For one thing, she wasn't sweet and innocent.

And she in no way included a paragraph about how people thought Eighth was her mother.

Re: Carson & Carter

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"So!" Bridge chirped as he bounced over to Sam. "Characters? Plot ideas? Toast?" he asks.

(ooc: and i'm being dragged off to a movie now, so shall be gone for the next few hours)

Re: Carson & Carter

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge frantically makes a last-minute correction to his paper before he hands it up to the front of the classroom.

Kawalksy & Sun

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This was probably a mistake. Be gentle on him, Aeryn! He's a nice guy!

Re: Kawalksy & Sun

[can_be_more]

Kawalsky gave Aeryn sea monkeys. Kawalsky's safe.

Re: Kawalksy & Sun

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"So. We gotta write something. I say we use guns, space ships and maybe something involving Lego."

Re: Kawalksy & Sun

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

Kawalsky submitted a paper detailing how he felt that, despite what he thinks about some other robots, Futura genuinely seemed to be doing only what she was programmed to do. She didn't mean any harm, and rather than destroying her, they could have helped her, reprogrammed her. They just destroyed what they did understand, rather than taking responsibility for the fact that she was a human creation and that they had an obligation to the invention that one of their own made.

He includes the line "You cannot play God, then wash your hands of the things that you've created. Sooner or later, the day comes when you can't hide from the things that you've done anymore."

Crichton, Skywalker & Thrace

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ThreeTwo flyboys and a flygirl walk into a bar… One dances rather poorly and gets in trouble with the natives, the other starts a lightsaber duel (sullenly) and the girl kicks everyone's ass at cards and starts a fistfight. Yes. RC's mun will be in her bunk.

Re: Crichton, Skywalker & Thrace

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Anakin passed his paper to the front as requested, then waited for Crichton and Kara to come over and smote LJ for being an evil comment-eating h0r.

Re: Crichton, Skywalker & Thrace

[pyramid-is-life.livejournal.com]

Kara scribbles on her paper. 'A girl in her viper killed all the cylons and saved the day.'

THE END.

Perfect.

Re: Crichton, Skywalker & Thrace

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John comes in eating a lollipop. It's a good lollipop. Anyone else want a lollipop?

Re: Crichton, Skywalker & Thrace

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin really wished he had a lollipop.

OOC

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I LIKE PEANUT BUTTER.

Re: OOC

[pyramid-is-life.livejournal.com]

You are EVIL, obviously.

Re: OOC

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

HAHAHA yes. Sam and Bridge. I have been waiting for the day this would happen with glee I tell you. GLEE!

Re: OOC

[can_be_more]

The real question, though:

Smooth or crunchy?