[FFML] [fanfic][Sailormoon][dark][lemon] Moonshadow, chapter three (draft)

Angus MacSpon macspon at ihug.co.nz
Sat Aug 18 13:09:59 PDT 2007


On 19/08/2007, at 00:32, S. Berkeley Watkins, Jr. wrote:

>> This is a cliche that bothers me.  Why do people always get shown
>> shattering after they get frozen solid?  I really, really doubt that
>> it would actually happen.  If you drop a chunk of frozen meat on the
>> floor, it doesn't shatter, does it?
>
> Well, if you cool anything fast enough, far enough beyond zero, it's
> going to probably be very, very brittle.  (Liquid Nitrogen, for
> instance, cruises along at around -195 Celsius at the warmest.)

Okay, okay, so I didn't think of the effects of flash-freezing. Yeah,  
brittle, understood.

> But
> really, who cares about the strict laws of physics in a world where  
> the
> Earth was once ruled from the Moon and elite bodyguards wear magical
> miniskirts?

Well, *yes*.  But personally, I tend to think it's kind of cool when  
I meet a world that feels more or less real ... and *still* has elite  
bodyguards who wear magical miniskirts. :)

On that score, "Moonshadow" is stacking up pretty well so far.

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