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WCDT: 2156-60 (2-6 April 2012) Questionable Content Discussion
Schmorgluck:
Since Akima mentionned Wuxia before, I can risk a partial answer based on some movies I have seen. Sometimes the plot revolves, at least in part, around a teacher tracking down a student who turned evil. That is, especially if said student uses his teachings for evil. And that is assuming the student's family is unable to perform the duty of stopping their rogue relative (which, by the way, isn't a specifically Confucian nor Chinese concept, at least nowadays - I've seen it as a plot element in Japanese works, too).
Also, it's not rare for students to get back to their teacher for, say, advice on the matter(s) of study. Or to show them, and thank them for, the result of their teaching if they did something remarkable with it. Or to assist them in teaching new students if the teacher is getting old.
As far as I understand it, as long as it is teachings-related, it's okay.
DSL:
We've been able to infer the station is in LEO from Hanners' remarks starting shortly after she showed up in the strip (sunrise and Strauss music every couple hours) and when she pointed the station out to Sven (on the pretend date) as "that moving dot." An object in orbit would have to be in a low, fast orbit for it's motion to be discernible to the naked eye (I saw Mir during a pass once, just at sunset; it was going at a pretty good clip relative to the star field, but vanished into the Earth's shadow at zenith. For HannerDad station to be visible later at night, as the "pretend date" apparently was, it would have to be at higher altitude than ISS or Mir, and/or inclined out of the Earth's shadow cone.)
Though in LEO, HannerDad station orbits higher than the real-world ISS judging from the apparent size of Earth in the strip views vs. what we see in photos and videos from ISS, which is in a 95-minute orbit between 205 and 250 miles altitude, giving us a noticeably curved horizon but no "global" view. Skewbrow's done more of the math, and more fun facts and figures are here.
Carl-E:
I just realized something akin to Akima's observations - before spending time in the messy environs of Northhampton, with her germ-laden friends, she was probably so phobic that she never even thought of touching Station. After all, she wouldn't even willingkly touch her father...
But now, after time with these friends and "occasional physical contact" (sans shtupping), she's comfortable enough to lean on a friend.
The fact that she tries speaks volumes for her development!
SomeCanadianWeirdo:
--- Quote from: ihaveavoice on 06 Apr 2012, 02:10 ---Ouch! Those are some hard floors to fall on. On the bright side, this rules out fanfic holosexings, right? My psyche demands that I assume I am right.
--- End quote ---
I must crush your hopes and dreams. Canon never stops a truly determined/crazed/clueless fanfic writer. A good fanfic writer will find a way to make their ideas work with canon. A crazed fanfic writer won't care what canon says, they will write their idea no matter what. A clueless fanfic writer won't realise their idea is counter to canon because they haven't paid enough attention to canon.
DSL:
And sometimes you get one that is simply a loose can(n)on.
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