Complaining about science for fics

[fractured_sun]

Have been working on zero X hadn't realised how much genetics I had forgotten. Why didn't I write a fic with protein biochemistry instead, I know about protein biochemistry.

I haven't thought much about eukaryotic (basically anything more complex than bacteria) gene expression since my degree. This chapter would be a lot easier if people were bacteria. Bacterial gene regulation is easy, I do it on a pratically daily basis in the lab. I could pretend they're the same as bacteria most people wouldn't know the difference. *headdesk* I'm too much of a science geek it would bug me way too much *goes back to textbook on gene regulation kept from my final year*.

I have more sympathy for the complete crap they spout when explaining the 'science' bits in films now.

Comments

[boogieshoes.livejournal.com]

i now have a complete geek crush on you. :-)

-bs

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

You are my kind of geek! I got so cross about the mishandled genetics in the Deryni universe and the only other friend of mine at the time who had read them couldn't understand why I was so annoyed!

Have fun with the genes!

[yanagi-wa.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I really feel for you. But, if I don't understand the science of a fic, I go look it up. I really hate it when I find out that they've just thrown something together. And don't even get me started about movies.

I respect someone as geekie as I am. Someone who goes to the trouble to actually crack a book. You make my inner geek very happy.