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

[urania-calliope.livejournal.com]

I must confess Australia is probably a place I will never visit. Not because it doesn't look beautiful or sound interesting (it does!) but because of the sheer amount of deadly spiders there. I have an extreme case of arachnophobia and I'm pretty sure I would die of a heart attack.

[klme.livejournal.com]

See everyone from everywhere else goes on about our spiders, and I reckon I probably see a spider of any kind...ooh, once a month? If I go hunting about outside in dark corners, or actively spider searching. Which I don't. Every time I read about someone's fear of our deadly spiders I think "Oh, yeah, apparently we have those..."