"in the storm we were born to ignore" - references & citations

Tue, 15 Aug 2017 06:34:42 GMT

1 — fic title derived from the bleachers' don't take the money, because it was what was on loop when i was running through final edits. as far as sheith anthems go, i actually find the one that goes change me at all cost / starlight is star-crossed / take me so breathless / we could be reckless much more appropriate, but what can you do.

2 — pidge's full name 'katherine dwyer holt' was a reference to kathryn dwyer sullivan, the first american woman to walk in space. 'cadet akira' was a slantwise reference to 'akira kogane' from the original beast king golion anime. i assume the original was much prettier than the one featured here, and also 200x more heterosexual.

3 — parminder kaur, jamie taylor fritzen, tom cloyd, and richard cole were remixed names from fox news's collection of "ten terrible airline pilots we hope never to fly with", available here: http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2013/02/01/10-terrible-airline-pilots-hope-to-never-fly-with.html. no other real-life details taken.

4 — "Every day, you wake up in a new body. A body that isn't yours. For twenty-four hours, you will carry a stranger's name and memories and hopes. It's always been like this."
blatant remix of levithan's opening pitch: "Every day I am someone else. I am myself—I know I am myself—but I am also someone else. It has always been like this." (every day, p. 1).

5 — "Bug-eyed alien stickers patch one over the other across the counter, and beneath the sleek countertop stretches a mural of soundless records, powdery prints of a man with slashing cheekbones and neon-traced eyelids, posters blazing THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE."
traditional-slash-expected ziggy stardust & x-files references here.

6 — "You can be anyone, though your bodies tend to be of the same age. Muscle memory teaches you all you need; you wake up steeped in new languages, heartfelt loves and grudges as familiar as childhood scars. You've never lived the same life twice. Your geographic scope's curbed somehow; you never jump more than fifteen miles from your last point."
general setup pinched from levithan's original novel, see the following:
- "I’m never the same person twice, but I’ve certainly been this type before." (every day, p. 1)
- "From what I can tell, every person I inhabit is the same age as me." (every day, p. 2)
- the bit about geographic scope's definitely addressed in the novel somewhere, but i can't seem to find it.

7 — " You're living a half-life because you can't demand better—because if you stop holding back, stop clinging to to the core of yourself—"
not an exact quote, but it follows the same line of thought as "Yesterday I was a girl in a town I’d guess to be two hours away. The day before, I was a boy in a town three hours farther than that. I am already forgetting their details. I have to, or else I will never remember who I really am." (every day, p. 2-3.)

8 — "That the universe is cold coincidence, and you found Takashi Shirogane because nothing cared enough to stop you."
again, not quite an exact quote, but a homage to levithan's line: "If you stare at the center of the universe, there is coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other." (every day, p. 199.)

9 — "Matt Holt's memory flickers up through your veins: the fourth moon of Pluto to be discovered, existence announced on 20 July 2011."
line pinched off of wikipedia: "It was the fourth moon of Pluto to be discovered and its existence was announced on 20 July 2011.", with article here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_(moon) Wiki informs me that this fact was itself borrowed from a Harvard subsite, but the link's dead, so.

10 — the garrison press release will be a little difficult to cite line-by-line in this format, so please forgive me for the clunkiness.

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"... Space Launch System contingency has been declared in Mission Control, KXTA, as a result of the loss of communication with the SLS Exploration Mission 52 at approximately 4 P.M. PST Saturday, August 14, after Commander Samuel Holt's third failure to report according to mission schedule."	NASA PRESS RELEASE 03-030: "A Space Shuttle contingency has been declared in Mission Control, Houston, as a result of the loss of communication with the Space Shuttle Columbia at approximately 9 a.m. EST Saturday as it descended toward a landing at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla.", available here: https://history.nasa.gov/columbia/Troxell/Columbia%20Web%20Site/Documents/NASA/Press%20Releases/FEBRUA~3.TXT

"No further communications or corroborative tracking information have been received in Mission Control after that time."	NASA PRESS RELEASE 03-030: "No communication and tracking information were received in Mission Control after that time."

"We have no indication that these communication failures are arising out of technological issues; control reports do not indicate that this incident was caused by anything or anyone on the ground."	NASA PRESS RELEASE 03-032, STATEMENT BY ADMINISTRATOR SEAN O'KEEFE: "We have no indication that the mishap was caused by anything or anyone on the ground.", available here: https://history.nasa.gov/columbia/Troxell/Columbia%20Web%20Site/Documents/NASA/Press%20Releases/FEBRUA~4.TXT

"An investigation team is being assembled to confirm—"	NASA PRESS RELEASE 03-032, STATEMENT BY ADMINISTRATOR SEAN O'KEEFE: "We assembled a Mishap Investigation Team at a point past the stage that the orbiter was to have landed here at Kennedy Space Center a little after 9:30."

11 — pidge's fermi babble should be in the comments at the upenn log, but it's also available on wikipedia: "There are approximately 9,000,000 people living in Chicago. On average, there are two persons in each household in Chicago. Roughly one household in twenty has a piano that is tuned regularly.", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem

12 — "It might have been the worst fry on your plate, but it was still your fry." was it necessary to plug in a random galra throwback? you tell me.

13 — for purposes of ~pilot drama~, i borrowed and gleefully mangled misc. research pdfs on the internet, but never directly quoted them; see, e.g.:
- http://flyguy.ru/avia/wp-content/uploads/Aeroplane-Flight-Training-Manual.pdf
- http://www.sakurai.lk/pdf/sakurai/elibrary/student-materials/Film.pdf
- https://qz.com/549218/im-a-nasa-astronaut-and-heres-what-it-takes-to-become-a-space-voyager/

list not all-inclusive, but those were the three tabs i kept open for the time it took to put the fic together.

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