if ever, oh ever a wish there was

[melannen]

I have quite a bit to say about the weekend. I could have written it up here. I could also have done my laundry, gotten ahead on schoolwork . . . all kinds of things. Instead, I wrote Highlander crack!fic and watched Je Souhaite. I kept screaming at Mulder: "There *is* no trick, you idiot! Haven't you learned that yet?" Bleah, stealing the plot from a Disney movie of all things. Still . . .

Tell me,
[Poll #273495]
Comment if it doesn't fit, silly text box limit. q: I know what I'd say. Unless I was feeling particularly vindictive, in which case I'd wish my other wishes onto people I disliked.

That leaves me only one more episode to watch. Whatever shall I do? And I now firmly believe the baby is Genie's fault. yeah.

ETA: stellar_dust says: I set the genie free on my first wish, and don't bother messing around with all the preliminaries.
The genie replies: BWAAHAHAHA! Silly little girl! Why do you think I was bound in the first place? Now I can *smite* again!
Genie smites stellar_dust.
stellar_dust should have read more folklore. Or at least paid attention to the ending of the movie Aladdin.

dreamsquirrel says: I wish for no wishes. . .
The genie replies: But . . if you have no wishes, you can't wish for no wishes. But if you can't wish for no wishes, you have wishes, so you can wish for no wishes. . .
Genie is destroyed in a puff of logic.
dreamsquirrel is damned to eternal fire for destroying one blessed of Allah.

dreamsquirrel continues: ... or for melannen to be an ALL-POWERFUL GENIE!
melannen smites dreamsquirrel.
dreamsquirrel should not have specified "all-powerful".

woap wishes for a well-paying translating job at a respected firm.
Genie gives woap a well paying translating job at a respected firm. Translating xhosa. (Er, or some other language woap doesn't speak. There's gotta be at least one. Tamil?) His first day on the job, he is responsible for translating a demand from terrorists who have an Iraqi bioweapon. Due to his incompetence, the world is plunged into plague and darkness. And he's blacklisted for falsifying his resume, and never again gets a translation job.
At least woap still has two wishes left to fix things with. . .


melannen says: I wish my other two wishes were granted to my own worst enemy.
Genie grants the other two wishes to melannen.
melannen hides under the bedcovers and refuses to come out.

jen_d wishes that he wasn't a snarky genie and was nice instead.
The genie thanks jen_d politely, being far too nice to let her know how much he dislikes the idea of anyone telling him what to think.
jen_d needs to be *very careful* with her next two wishes, since the genie will of course be supportive of her choices. But the wishes are still booby-trapped.

This is fun! Keep going!

Comments

[aelkiss.livejournal.com]

dreamsquirrel is damned to eternal fire for destroying one blessed of Allah.

*is damned anyway*

melannen smites dreamsquirrel.

How about "becomes smitten with" instead? :-P

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Cant-- Don't you know that passive voice is bad? q:

[aelkiss.livejournal.com]

What, passive voice now includes any use of a linking verb? I guess you can't appear, be, become, look, feel, grow, seem, smell, sound, taste, prove, remain, turn or stay any adjective phrases at all.

[aelkiss.livejournal.com]

I forgot-- all adjectives and adverbs are PURE EVIL and should be avoided at any cost. So I guess somehow lumping subject linking-verb adjective-phrase in with passive voice to make it seem EVEN VILER would be a reasonable thing to do from that perspective.

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Passive voice is 'object of transitive verb' - 'transitive verb' - 'subject of transitive verb' construction, regardless of what helper words you use to make it grammatical. At least according to my 393 prof, who is, as we know, omniscient.

[aelkiss.livejournal.com]

OK, well, I guess if you rewrite it as "melannen was smitten with dreamsquirrel" you could either read this as some unspecified smiter smote you with me, which would be the passive voice interpretation, or that it's just describing a state of being and 'smitten' is not doing a very verb-like thing at all. Which is what it's doing in the "become" version.

I suggest you ignore the grammarians and get on with the business of becoming smitten with me.>:->

[melannen.livejournal.com]

"Smitten" is past participle of "smite". Using it as a participle is still doing verby stuff. One becomes smitten if someone smites them.

I have no interest in being smote by anyone. Ow.

[aelkiss.livejournal.com]

But there isn't any smiter, not really - maybe in some weird metaphorical sense.

How about a miter?

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

I will sty away from the genie entirely, since if folktales have taught me one thing, it is that wishes always backfire.

But I will squee and paw all over your "Mathnet" icon. I used to watch Square One all the time as a kid.

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Yay! Another Square One fan!

[speakerender.livejournal.com]

Somethings odd here... a tv show you and I both watched!

Genie

[theemptylife.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I should've wished that instead of being a snarky Genie that the Genie would turn into Genie the older girl I had a crush on in like, preschool.

R.I.P. Mr. Cobain