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HH
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dull thud

Member Since: Mon Sep 01, 2008
Posts: 49
Subj: Well, it is just a jump to the left.
Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 at 01:33:49 pm EDT
Reply Subj: Doing the Time Warp again:
Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 at 11:24:50 am EDT (Viewed 362 times)


> > Hello and welcome to our THEN and NOW survey, in which we reflect upon where we were when the Parodyverse was born in September 1998. We therefore require answers to the following questions:
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> > 1a. Where were you in September 1998? What were you doing at the time?
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> I had newly left school and arrived at the University of Glasgow, all eager to study virology. The world was my petri dish.
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> > 1b. Where are you now and what are you doing?
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> I live in Dundee and work as a supply (=substitute) teacher of tiny children. I did two years full-time but this suits me better - getting work is unpredictable but typically means a three-day week, so I have time for all the other stuff I pretty much haven't been able to do for ages. Internet access still through public library though.
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> > 2a. What was your favourite media character, book, song, and/or comic in 1998?
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> Calvin from the Bill Watterson strip, taking on the universe with sheer force of imagination. My favourite book was The Chrysalids and song may well have been Give Me Daughters by Jonathan Fire*Eater. In September 1998 I owned a grand total of five comics, picked up for small change a few weeks earlier. Four of them were Byrne-era Iron Man and laid the foundations of a collection.
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> > 2b. What is it now? And how do you feel about the things you liked in 1998?
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> Favourite character is Flashman. I would (and hereby do) recommend Julie Phillips' biography of Alice Sheldon. Song is A Case Of You. Favourite comics are Stray Bullets and the strip Gaston, and the only one I still pick up monthly is 100 Bullets. This is despite my long ago ceasing to have any clue what was supposed to be going on. I look on my previous favourites with an approving nod.
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> > 3a. If we’d have asked you in 1998 to predict what would happen to you and the world in the next ten years what would you have said?
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> I'd sail through my course then settle down and virologise. Couldn't say with any honesty that I thought that far ahead though.
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> > 3b. How right would you have been?
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> Not much. In what could be held up as a rather poor piece of planning, I chose my courses based on which elements had been most interesting last time round, and it soon became obvious that wouldn't be virology. This steered me into a tiny niche I continue to find fascinating but which was of nil use to man or beast in the outside world, so I wandered through a few agreeable slack-friendly jobs (spend most of your free time in the library? Hey! Why not the working day as well?). Eventually teaching called. The settling down is happening by stealth.
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> > 4a. If you could go back to 1998 and give yourself a piece of advice what would it be?
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> To misquote Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by oversight. And just to make sure, don't let it get that far either.
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> > 4b. If future you came back from 2018 what one question would you ask him or her?
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> Did you ever find those keys? Where were they?
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> > 5a. What were your Parodyverse characters doing in 1998?
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> thud and Cressida had only just met. They were finding small-town Lanarkshire too constricting and began to look over the ocean towards the bright lights of the big city.
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> > 5b. Where are they now, and what’s going to happen to them next?
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> After a long time on the run and an indeterminate period in a parking reality they have been dumped back into the Parodopolis we know and love. And next? Er... watch this space. Is that a cop-out?
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