Squid

<increasingly visible facial tic>

Every time I see that woman's .sig it fills me with a huge, choking dread that I may one day have to engage in some manner of conversation with her. It's a terrible way to live.

I would note that 'sci-fi', in my dialect, isn't the same thing as 'science fiction'; it's the catchall term for fantasy, science fiction, horror, possibly occasional surrealistic stuff.

I am helpless to prevent my mind from turning to Photographing Fairies.

This is why I wish there were a better catchall term than 'speculative fiction' -- which is a lovely term, but not as a catchall, and one can't use 'sci-fi' in public any more these days without getting involved in That Conversation.