Cyborg Theory

[replicarter.livejournal.com]

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

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

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Is there butter for the toast?" Sam asked. "I don't really like my toast without butter."

"Um...do you want to do for or against human/cyborg relationships?" She fidgeted a little, unsure how she would write a story at all, let alone writing one with a pro-cyborg bent.

Re: Carson & Carter

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"Toast has to be buttery," Bridge says, wiggling his fingers with the last word. "And, erm, I don't know. Maybe we should decide what kind of story we want to tell first... like whether it'll be a romance or action movie or whatver."

Re: Carson & Carter

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Okay...well, I don't really care about what kind of story, really," she shrugged. "You can pick, if you have a preference."

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.