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Side Game: Dystopia

In the world you are entering, there is a Federation. There is an Enterprise. There is even a Captain Kirk.

But in this world, they are not as you know them.

George Lowther, 27, is the captain of the pirate ship known throughout the galaxy as the Enterprise. Of course, he's not the real George Lowther, and neither was the man before him, a fellow called Chris Pike. They're in the process of trading the identity, so Pike can retire, having made his fortune. The new Lowther, real name James T. Kirk, has hired on a crew, and they're off on their first voyage, affiliated with the Federation of Interstellar Pirates.

So. How's the crew doing? And, of course, who's fucking?

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Beowulf! Sir Gawain and the Green Knight! And possibly Paradise Lost (first BNF Bible fanfic)! Shakespeare!

I LIKE EVERYTHING BUT BEOWULF. I READ THAT IN HIGHSCHOOL. I DID NOT LIKE IT. BUT SHAKESPEARE IS LIKE CRACK FOR ME.

OH WELL, WHICH TRANSLATION DID YOU HAVE? WE HAD THE SEAMUS HEANEY ONE WITH THE ANGLO-SAXON ON THE OPPOSITE PAGE AND THAT WAS AWESOME EVEN IF BEOWULF IS A BONEHEAD.

I <3 SHAKESPEARE SO MUCH, FOR SRS.

I LOVE BEOWULF. WE READ IT IN MY SENIOR ENGLISH CLASS AND IT TOOK A COUPLE WEEKS BECAUSE WE HAD LONG DISCUSSIONS ABOUT IT. WELL, I SAY WE BUT IT WAS REALLY ME AND MR. ENGLISH AND MAYBE TWO OTHER GUYS. EVERYONE ELSE JUST TALKED AMONGST THEMSELVES. BUT IT WAS STILL FUN.

See, that would never have flown in my high school English classes. If you didn't pay attention and participate you failed that unit. Do it enough and you'd fail the class.

I was in Tech Prep rather than College Prep, and at my school if you were Tech Prep you weren't really expected to make much of yourself after graduation (actually, for most of high school people kept telling me to change to College Prep because it would be better for me, and most of them wouldn't listen when I told them I had reasons of my own and that no, it had nothing to do with the workload, and no, I'm not going to tell you because my guidance counselor is the only one who needs to know and she understands). So it didn't matter. He yelled at them a few times but during discussions like that he knew there wasn't much point.

Ah. I can't remember the names of the tracks at my high school, but we had a standard one, one for those taking college prep courses (AP and the like), and one for mentally challenged students.

At my school, you were either a Chosen One, and you took CP, or you were one of the mindless rabble and you took TP, or you had special needs, in which case you were special education.

Ah.

It didn't matter anyway. All the special golden children were encouraged to do well, but what imagination they were encouraged to use was also encouraged to stay in the box. I didn't like that. Besides, in TP I had more freedom to choose which classes I took and I got to have lots of different people in those classes, unlike in CP, where you dealt with the same people all day. That was all well and good for them, but I don't deal well with people for long periods of time so I wouldn't have made it if I had to deal with the same people over and over.

I was in the GT program with the same group of kids from second grade to graduation. As the school got bigger, we added more kids in, but it was rare to lose anyone in that group and the kids who joined us were, for the most part, from a similar situation in their own school.

I have serious people issues and it's only in the past year that I've been able to be around the same people often for more than an hour or so at a time. It didn't help matters that in HS I was that weird kid that didn't think like everyone else. I only had a few people that I hung out with and even then our relationship was often strained. Except Tocxi, of course. She was... different.

I was teased from elementary school through high school. I have social anxiety. But I knew that if I wanted to do well I would have to stay in those classes with those same kids day in and day out. So I dealt with it. And even now that we're all four years out of it, when I run into many of them, I'm still treated to a hard time. But those were the classes that would prepare me best for the path I wanted to take so I wasn't going to be swayed.

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captlebubbles.livejournal.com - 2010-06-15 21:09 (UTC) - Expand

SEE THAT'S WHY I DIDN'T LIKE IT. BECAUSE BEOWULF IS A BONEHEAD. I DIDN'T ACTUALLY HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE TRANSLATION OR ANYTHING. I JUST THOUGHT...IDK. BEOWULF HIMSELF RUINED IT.

OMG SHAKESPEARE. I WOULD TAP THAT.

MMM, BUT THE LANGUAGE... IDK, I LOVE MYTHOLOGY TOO AND MOST OF THE GODS AND HEROES ARE DICKS AND BONEHEADS. I DON'T LIKE THE CHARACTERS, BUT THE POETRY/STORY STILL ROCKS.

MMMHM!

HAHA, MAYBE I SHOULD REREAD IT THEN. YES BUT GODS ARE PERFECTLY JUSTIFIED IN THEIR DICKISH BONEHEADERY. I GENERALLY PREFER 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY LIT MYSELF. SHAKESPEARE IS THE GRAND EXCEPTION TO THAT.

I GOT IN TROUBLE IN FRESHMAN ENGLISH IN HS FOR CALLING BEOWOLF "THE STORY OF A CO-DEPENDENT MONSTER AND THE MAN WHO RIPS HIS ARM OFF."

SEE? THAT KIND OF THINKING WAS ENCOURAGED IN MY ENGLISH CLASSES. I DID A PROJECT FOR HEART OF DARKNESS THAT WAS A MIRROR WITH PLASTIC GRASS. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN.

OH, WE DID A LOT OF STUFF THAT WAS AWESOME BUT THAT AND MY THREE-PAGE PAPER ON THE PHRASE "TELEMACHUS SNEEZED" WERE NOT APPRECIATED.

HAHA SAM YOU SEEM LIKE YOU WERE AN AMAZING KID. NO WONDER YOU'RE SO AWESOME NOW.

I ALWAYS SAW THINGS IN A WEIRD WAY. IT'S PAID OFF.

I CAN TELL

HEEHEE, YES.

THE SEAMUS HEANEY TRANSLATION IS A THING OF PURE BEAUTY. UNF LANGUAGE UNF.

MMMHM!

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