Yeah, the dianoga is the tentacle monster that lives in the trash compactor through which the Star Wars team's escape route from the Death Star happens to run. ...I have no idea if that even made sense, it sounds like a verse of some kind of Star-Wars-themed "House that Jack Built". And the neck bone's connected to the knee bone! XD
Yeah, I couldn't really come up with any one-on-one correspondence for Shahrazad, because what she's doing is really more of getting her captor on her side and convincing him not to kill her in some sort of reverse Stockholm syndrome. (Oh god. I obviously had to re-read Melannen's fic in conjunction with yours, and now I'm going all Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra! ;P Doesn't help that with four recent-Afghani-immigrant housemates and one non-fannish American aunt, I'm doing a lot of filtering out fannish references from my speech in brickspace anyway.)
Er. Yeah. I think what I was saying up there is that, yeah, I can't find any real solid interpretation of what Shahrazad actually did that would require a Haldir as a next step. Yeah. *pulls hair*
Oh, I did have one more vague thought about Older Brother. Like, looking at Teyla's whole paragraph there, could "older brother" translate roughly as "tendency to speak in untranslatable Earther jargon"? Maybe? Possibly? Like, I still have no idea where the reference would be to, but... I don't know, it made sense at the time. ;P
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Yeah, I couldn't really come up with any one-on-one correspondence for Shahrazad, because what she's doing is really more of getting her captor on her side and convincing him not to kill her in some sort of reverse Stockholm syndrome. (Oh god. I obviously had to re-read Melannen's fic in conjunction with yours, and now I'm going all Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra! ;P Doesn't help that with four recent-Afghani-immigrant housemates and one non-fannish American aunt, I'm doing a lot of filtering out fannish references from my speech in brickspace anyway.)
Er. Yeah. I think what I was saying up there is that, yeah, I can't find any real solid interpretation of what Shahrazad actually did that would require a Haldir as a next step. Yeah. *pulls hair*
Oh, I did have one more vague thought about Older Brother. Like, looking at Teyla's whole paragraph there, could "older brother" translate roughly as "tendency to speak in untranslatable Earther jargon"? Maybe? Possibly? Like, I still have no idea where the reference would be to, but... I don't know, it made sense at the time. ;P