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tree_and_leaf) wrote2011-12-01 09:48 am
tree_and_leaf) wrote2011-12-01 09:48 am
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Wow. Fandom secrets brings us wildly inaccurate, classist, tea wank.
It reminded me of my headcanon about Picard, though (I always forget that I do actually have canon about Picard, though he's the only TNG character, other than Miles and Worf* that I care enough to do this for). Having been puzzled for ages as to why a supposed Frenchman is so damned British, I concluded that it's of a wider piece with his attitude to his family, and his flight from his responsibilities to the family business. I bet he cultivated raging Anglophilia as a kid, just to differentiate himself. No coffee, just tea (imported from England, not a French blend), much to his parents' irritation. Shakespeare ("classical French drama is lifeless!"). And then, of course,running away to sea to be a sailor joining Starfleet.
I bet he was a really annoying teenager, and probably a bit of a hipster.
* Who I always basically think of as DS9 people, even though this doesn't make much sense for Worf. But I never felt his colleagues on the Enterprise appreciated him properly.
It reminded me of my headcanon about Picard, though (I always forget that I do actually have canon about Picard, though he's the only TNG character, other than Miles and Worf* that I care enough to do this for). Having been puzzled for ages as to why a supposed Frenchman is so damned British, I concluded that it's of a wider piece with his attitude to his family, and his flight from his responsibilities to the family business. I bet he cultivated raging Anglophilia as a kid, just to differentiate himself. No coffee, just tea (imported from England, not a French blend), much to his parents' irritation. Shakespeare ("classical French drama is lifeless!"). And then, of course,
I bet he was a really annoying teenager, and probably a bit of a hipster.
* Who I always basically think of as DS9 people, even though this doesn't make much sense for Worf. But I never felt his colleagues on the Enterprise appreciated him properly.
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Though given the most obtrusively tea-drinking fandom at present seems to be Sherlock* and fandom writers have a positive obsession with John buying milk both the issues of class** and the issues of what sort of tea is drinkable without milk don't seem all that relevant.
*and if I never hear the word "cuppa" in a fanfic again it'll be too soon.
**well, apart from in those peculiar fics which appear to believe "grammar school boy, University of London educated doctor and officer in the British army" somehow adds up to "semi-literate peasant" in the British class system
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