Jan. 8th, 2015

jeriendhal: (Red Vixen)
This is mostly directed at [livejournal.com profile] ankewehner and [livejournal.com profile] mjkj but if anyone else has suggestions I'd like to hear them.

I'm looking for a German translation of the phrase "Ambition Tales". Which for some reason when I run it through a couple of online translators, comes back as "Ambition Tales". O_o

Basic concept is a literary genre almost exclusively found in Gherwart, the Foxen German expy from my Red Vixen Adventures. It describes stories designed to help reinforce personal ambition for males [1], amounting to a cross between Horatio Alger stories and old Soviet style socialist realism propaganda along the lines of "A Boy and His Tractor", where a male sets an ambitious (but realistic!) goal for himself and struggles to reach it.

[1] Poor boys are almost always overshadowed by their sisters you see... ^_^
jeriendhal: (Wazagan)
Okay, the new MCU series Agent Carter confirms what was largely fanon before, the idea that Tony's JARVIS AI was based off his memories of the very human Jarvis the butler employed by Howard Stark. While there are other computers capable of understanding colloquial speech (most notably Fury's SUV in Winter Soldier), none of them seem capable of the snark, concern and capability of independent action that JARVIS possesses.

We also know thanks to Winter Soldier that by the 70's, SHIELD possessed the capability to digital scan a human brain and upload it to a computer mainframe farm (and presumably fit a on thumb drive with 21st century StarkTech). By that time the 30 or 40 year old flesh and blood Jarvis would be in his 60's or 70's and getting quite old by mid-20th century standards. And at that time Tony was entering his teens and being painfully ignored by Howard.

Combine teenage angst with perhaps an elderly man's desperation not to die, and Tony's ability to create a sentient AI in the first Iron Man film doesn't become so far-fetched.
jeriendhal: (For Your Safety)

Ahn sat in her imaginary chair, eating imaginary jin sticks, in front of two alien stick figure people that were trying to assure her that they meant the best as they created a civil war and threatened The Race with annihilation.


It wasn’t enough to drive her back to the Screaming Room, because at this point being insane would be almost redundant.


An offer she may refuse... )

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