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Darwin was a dork
My sister and I went to Galleria Nazionale today to see the Darwin exhibition. They set it up nicely. There were lots of prints and original letters and a part of the exhibition was completely dedicated to animal evolution. There were even live animals! We saw a hairy armadillo, a couple of turtles, a bunch of black and blue tiny frogs and a green iguana.
However, what made this little "field trip" of our worth it had nothing to do with the cute animals. I am that kind of person who has to read every info panel, and good thing I am! It's because of this annoying habit of mine that I now know that old Charlie was not, in fact, a boring scientist, but a totally adorkable boy!
I mean! He put a beatle in his mouth!!! He was a total dorky geek!!! Do you think I could find Darwin!fics? I really want to read about his faily attempts at catching animals and run-ins with tropical stinging plants and that time he stumbled into a big well full of bird-skeletons and he wanted to catalogue all of them and the captain of the ship was all "Absolutely not, Charlie! You can't bring all of them on board. No, I don't care if this is a breakthrough. They may be the great-great-great grandparents of today's chicken, but if I have to take any animals on board, I'd prefer something with flesh still attached to their bones. At least we could eat something other than fish."
And it wouldn't even be all failyness! There was angst, too! There was this letter he sent to his father (via his uncle Jos), who didn't want him to leave England to go look at pretty frogs, in which he wrote a bulletpoints list of his father's reasons and Charles's answers. Here, I copied it for you:
"My dear Father,
I am afraid I am going to make you again very uncomfortable.
I have given Uncle Jos, what I fervently trust is an accurate and full list of your objections...
1) Disreputable to my charcter as a Clergyman hereafter
2) A wild scheme
3) That they must have offered to many others before me, the place of Naturalist
4) And from its not being accepted there must be some serious objection to the vessel or expedition
5) That I should never settle down to a steady life hereafter
6) That my accomodations would be most uncomfortable
7) That you should consider it as again changing my profession
8) That it would be a useless undertaking"
here the info-panel said that Charles left the detailed rebuttals to his uncle, but politely noted
"The expense can not be serious, or the time I do not think anyhow would be more thrown away, than if I sat at home".
See? ANGST! TEENAGE REBELLION! CLASHING WITH HIS FATHER! SARCASM! I WANT FICS NOW!!!
On another note, I finally caved and got a twitter. You can find me here :)
(I'm trying to understand how this thing works... I did it pretty much because I wanted to take camera-phone pics at the fob show on the 15 and let you have a peek because concert-calling any of you would kill my phonebill. Tips are welcome :[ )
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Especially when the canon is so cute! He actually put a beetle in his mouth for the noble pursuit of science! *sporfles at the adorkableness*
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So cute!!! I bet he was a klutz, too! Like, when he went exploring in the forest he was so enthralled with the plants and the flowers and the BEETLES and he totally fell into caves in the ground and instead of calling for help he just switched his attention to the ROCKS!
If I can't find fanfictions, I'll have to write them myself because there's no way I can go on living without them...
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The world can't be complete without dorky!Darwin fic.
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I know squat about Darwin except for his theory of evolution. I have four fics on the back burner. I don't know if my skills are up to giving complete justice to a dorky!Darwin.YOU'VE GOT A REALLY GOOD PICTURE OF HIM. I'm sure you can do something awesome, whatever your skills. And I'd offer myself as beta, cheerleader, remorseless rewriter, younameit.
*_* write...
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A beta/cheerleader/rewriter? I might actually want to try this thing...
(Most of what I wrote in those plot bunnies I made up. The only things I know about Darwin are the things I read at the exhibition, like the letter and the beetle-eating habits and the fact that he liked to lay in the grass and talk with a girl friend of his.)
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Those facts are already a good start. And the best thing about your plot bunnies is that they build on the image we get from those canon facts, exagerate them slightly and make it incredibly attractive, huggable and amusing.
*_* Will more starry eyes compel you?
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*_* Will more starry eyes compel you?
Are you friends with
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I don't know her, but we must have a psychic connection and we're subconciously conspiring against you.
I don't know her, but we must have a psychic connection and we're subconciously conspiring against you. <_< We are evil. >_>
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I LOVE Darwin, I think he's the most brilliant scientist ever. He was awesome, the Biologist inside me worships him, I even read all his books xD
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I've never read his works outside of school, but now I really want to know about him. Why do teachers present him as this boring scientist? If they had told me "Look, he was genius. Ok. What you don't know is that he was a dorky genius who ate beetles for science". I bet I would have loved biology!
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...until I dropped the studies to go for Journalism.
But I still love Biology anyway XD
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I can see myself writing a science essay while interviewing Fall Out Boy xD 'And the this cell sang Dance, Dance..wait, what?!'
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but lol at Darwin. He is a dork :D
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dorky!Darwin is my new obsession :D
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I had no idea Darwin was such a dork. That's awesome! It would probably make a great bandom AU too, if you can't find anyone to write about the man himself. Brendon totally seems like a dude who'd put a beatle in his mouth :D
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The more I read about him, the more I'm convinced he was a bandom boy born in the wrong century... And the parallels with bandom are a LOT! Not only did he come from a religious family, but his father didn't want him to be a naturalist, he went on a 2-years-long journey around the world ALONE! It's pretty fantastic... I'm reading all these info about him like a fanfiction... since I still haven't found them >:[
Brendon totally seems like a dude who'd put a beatle in his mouth :D
If with "beatle" you meant something else, yes, I totally agree with you ;)
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So, hey. I've been snooping in you lj and you seem awesome too... do you mind if I friend you?
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