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deird_lj ([personal profile] deird_lj) wrote2010-07-05 01:58 pm
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bonzer, mate

Sometimes I start wishing for a high-quality Aussie show that the world will get fannish over - and then everyone will start writing fic set in Australia, and I'll help beta everyone to make sure they do the swearing correctly, and soon there'll be huge amounts of fic with the characters wearing shorts to their Christmas barbecues and dodging spiders when they go outside and eating pies at footy games...


Then I realise that they'll all do it wrong. And the internet will suddenly be full of fic with people saying "G'day mate!" every few minutes, and having pet kangaroos, and all the OCs will be called Bruce and Sheila.

That makes me less enthusiastic about the whole idea.



(It would, on occasion, be nice to live in a country that people remember exists.)

[identity profile] henriettaholden.livejournal.com 2010-07-05 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
Lol
Or the Koalas bears wearing people clothes and a Croc Hunter on every street corner.

The show Eureka has this terrible Australian character that says Australianism in the wrong context in a terrible accent. I cringe whenever I see him on screen.
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[personal profile] deird1 2010-07-06 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
Well personally, I always hunt crocodiles in my spare time. Don't you?

[identity profile] henriettaholden.livejournal.com 2010-07-07 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
I am wrestling one right now...