I recently re-watched Dr. Horrible

[conuly]

And when I say "recently" I mean "several times over the past few days". I tend to fixate on things like that. As a child, it wasn't at all unusual for me to read the same book three or four or more times in a row, and then pick it up again a few weeks later to repeat the process (and that's why I have parts of A Little Princess memorized).

Anyway, this has gotten me thinking about Penny's last words. Thinking about them more than just "God, Joss Whedon really sucks", that is. Am I the only one who thinks that maybe Penny was intentionally trying to twist the knife there? I mean, she'd just watched her boyfriend humiliate her and insult all the people in the room (people she works with and cares about) and her friend-friend went nuts and shot up the place, incidentally injuring her in the process. I mean, I don't know, it just seems like if there's ever a chance to be a little bit vindictive, that's the time. A lifetime of suppressed bitchiness coming out right at the end, to somebody who whole-heartedly deserves it - I'd do it. Wouldn't you? You're supposed to lie and be nice to dying people, but dying people get to do what they want consequence-free, don't they?

I need to find a new hobby, I think.

And on the subject of hobbies, I think we've worked out that centaurs probably don't work and humans can't fly, but mermaids are still on the table, right? (Borrowers and Tinkerbell-type fairies are right out, of course. Too small. Maybe if they were chubby and furry like mice? But then they'd effectively BE mice, wouldn't they?)

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[mc776]

Hair, shoulders, boobs cause too much drag to be worthwhile.

Unless we're talking about something like the aquatics in Man After Man (GIS it yourself plz as I am at work)

Why are borrowers out again?

[marveen.livejournal.com]

As I recall, from the illustrations the Borrowers wore quite a lot of clothing, unlike Tink (whose physics can be handwaved away with the idea of magic). Considering that what is "normal" fabric for a five-foot-tall human would be heavy and stiff for a five-inch-tall human, might that not provide enough insulation to make a dollsize humanoid workable? They also tended to live in human dwellings, so this is room temperatures we're talking about, not hard frosts.

(If they tended towards the plump, that would help also.)

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Too small. Maybe if they were chubby and furry like mice? But then they'd effectively BE mice, wouldn't they?

Nah, they'd effectively be bats. (Hey, you only said "chubby and furry LIKE mice". I know that bats aren't actually related to mice except on the "mammals" scheme of things.)

Perhaps you could get humans to fly after all by giving them a different bone structure, or an air bladder like sharks have? If they deviate from normal humans by having wings, you may as well build in additional differences ;)

I suspect that if I were Penny, I'd certainly spend my last minutes snarking and snapping at everyone. Unless I were too preoccupied whining about stuff that causes me pain at the moment, of course.