bonzer, mate

[deird_lj]

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.)

Comments

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Heh! I think about Australia a lot! I mean, it's the source of good things like Passiona and lemon squash and Chicken Twisties... and other fun stuff I have to mail order because we don't have it here.

And I would, at least, know enough to have some of the characters in my hypothetical Australian show fanfic put beetroot on their hamburgers! I was going to say that they'd put it on everything, but that might slide too much into stereotyping. ;-) Okay, so maybe it's not on everything, but I was really surprised at how much I had to dodge beetroot at restaurants when we were there (I'm allergic to it, so I may have noticed it more than it deserved).

[henriettaholden.livejournal.com]

I got this insane image of restaurateurs throwing whole beets at tourists. It could be a new Olympic sport :P

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

ROFL!

Although come to think of it... that might have been more fun!

[deird1]

We do have good junk food, don't we?


Beetroot really is everywhere.