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Collaborative fic -- it began in Florida and now we're in Boston

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Saturday, February 16th, 2013 04:35 pm
So, it all began with anastigmatfic writing Mary, Peter, Asim, Eustace, Alligator Snapping Turtles, and Alligators. It is wonderful, magnificent and awesome and it is right here.

And then the equally awesome [personal profile] lady_songsmith  wrote an absolutely hysterical (and M rated) follow on with Peter, Mary, herpetologist-supplied moonshine, and the leopard spotted undergarments Edmund had so thoughtfully packed for Peter. You can read and laugh here

I then wrote a follow on to that episode, playing with the idea that Eustace had a longstanding, unreciprocated crush on Mary written for reader Clairel in which Eustace shows up at Jill's door in Quebec.

But then OldFashionedGirl95 and Starbrow had some issues with that melancholy end and decided that in the TSG Everybody Lives Nobody Dies AU, something more needed to be told about Eustace and Jill.  And they started writing. 

So I redid and posted Hung Out To Dry which tweaks the Eustace and Jill Quebec story a bit (and thanks to all who reviewed and I'll be sending off my thanks now) and that story sets up the next chapter, which

OLDFASHIONEDGIRL HAS JUST POSTED HERE!!!  BEDRAGGLED AS I AM!!!
(She's got a ton of meta in here and I just love the glimpses into some things -- also she is completely lying.  It's her work, not mine, and time and again she and Starbrow would ask me, "Well what about..." and I had no answer as, of course, everybody dies, so I have no head canon.  Except now we do.

So, go read and tell her how awesome she is!  And then Starbrow will write the NEXT chapter which is almost done and then I'll post something about errrr, Winning His Spurs, which is more about Peter, Mary, Georgia O'Keefe, Tolkien, and I try my hand at writing a fake editorial for the Sun.

Crossposted here but LJ is being a pain
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I wouldn't say no, but... (Also, to Tess, Anons, and others adding Kudos and Favs)

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Friday, December 30th, 2011 01:42 pm
Contrary to the notice you might have received, it is not my birthday on January 1.  My birthday (a horrendous, shocking, terrible, giganormous milestone) passed without comment in October.  So, it's been, gone, and I'm older than compost and very much feeling it. 

I've seen an uptick in readers, with guest Kudos for Unquenchable Fire (the Narnia/Temeraire xover) on AO3 (the most popular thing I've written, it turns out) and favs and such for the older stories, particularly By Royal Decree and the seldom read/reviewed/recc'd Palace Guard.  So, should you quiet types come by, thank you!  I greatly appreciate it and I'm always curious how you found the stories and what you thought of them.  I seem to have, on the other hand, lost a number of regular readers, so I do hope it's just the distraction of the holidays and Yuletide. My enormous thanks and gratitude to those who commented on or reviewed the latest updates to AW.  It's the best present ever for me and thank you.

( For Anon Reader Tess (in which Ruth gets really tetchy about her BF Tom Clark) )

I've been pushed into hosting part of a New Year's Eve party.  It is supposed to be progressive and reflect the New Year's foods/traditions of the country where it is turning midnight over several hours.  So I snagged the appetizer part, beginning at 7:30 PM, at which point, New Year's will have just passed in the UK.  I am ordering trays of chicken tika, samosas, tandoori, and paneek panir.  We are serving Jamaican and Canadian beer, aged Scotch (from Scotland), Australian Shiraz, South African white wine, and I've got champagne (from France) that I've plastered "Aquitaine" on to.  Har Har. 

Work has begun on the Big Bang.  [livejournal.com profile] amine_eyes has graciously offered to assist with some technical and Brit speak bits but if there are any of you out there with some background in the Brit part of D-Day, military service, common language among the light infantry NCOs, and what not, please drop me a line.  Help.  I need it.    For instance, I was writing something last night and someone poses the questions "Maybe the food would be better?" and I got stumped by whether a light infantry corporal from London, training in 1943 at a base in Bulford would say any of the following in response:  
  • "When pigs fly." [era appropriate] 
  • "When Hell freezes over" [militarily appropriate] or
  • "When [insert football team] wins the Cup."   [I did look it up and Manchester United was very poor in the years leading up the War, so wondered if that would work, for the time]. 

That is all.  Happy New Year.  My sincere and deepest thanks to you all.  I am deeply grateful for this community and for the friendship and support.   
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I interrupt your 3 sentence ficathon for an update

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Saturday, December 3rd, 2011 10:12 pm
I just posted Chapter 12, Ties that Bind from Apostolic Way.

So, lessee. 

We have a further development of the different bonding systems of the animal kingdom.  In addition to the citations from the last entry, here, I offer the following, which explains something of Richard's reluctance and shock upon learning of the behaviors, a discussion that [livejournal.com profile] h_dash_h and I continued.  The following article addresses, among other things, just how long it took for the scientific community to even acknowledge what they did not see for decades.

Homosexual sex between ostriches was interpreted by one scientist as “a nuisance” that “goes on and on.” One man, studying Mazarine Blue butterflies in Morocco in 1987, regretted having to report “the lurid details of declining moral standards and of horrific sexual offenses” which are “all too often packed” into national newspapers. And a bighorn-sheep biologist confessed in his memoir, “I still cringe at the memory of seeing old D-ram mount S-ram repeatedly.” To think, he wrote, “of those magnificent beasts as ‘queers’ — Oh, God!”
Can Animals Be Gay, New York Times, March 31, 2010, Jon Mooallem

From Bailey and Zuk,Same-sex sexual behavior and evolution, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, June 16, 2009, I quote the following:
It is crucial that scientific contributions from animal studies shed more light than heat on the topic of same-sex behavior, so it is useful to define promising directions for future work and identify pitfalls to avoid as the field matures.

We get a lot more of Aidan and Lucy and a glimpse of Edmund and Morgan.  Doctor Dolly had asked what bonding Edmund and Lucy did if Susan and Peter had bonded with Narnia.  That answer is here in the chapter, and would be covered, eventually, in Harold and Morgan.  Aidan is quite the Stu character -- but I really cannot imagine Lucy in an angsty or combative relationship.  She's chosen a really good guy. 

And, finally, we have a scene with Mary and Peter alone, which was another one people wanted to see as we'd not seen them in the same space since way back in Part 1.  Which means of course, I simply had to do homage to camels, the Amazon, Scotus, and [livejournal.com profile] anastigmatfic.  Thank you!  The devastating reveal teased of in the last chapter is that Peter is irresistible camels.  I don't do OTPs, but if I did, that is THE ONE.

Then we get to the codebreakers.  The descriptions come from a couple of places, including this book by Sir F.H. Hinsley, the BBC site, WW2 The People's War  and a big huge World War 2 book that describes everything in detail, on each day of the war.  Each day. 

So, I hope you like it.  I didn't hear from a whole bunch of the usual people with the last chapter, so I'm a uneasy about posting this.  But it's done and I don't hold things hostage and the next one is well underway.  Those albatrosses and the references to Lysistrata will become more relevant.  Then I turn to the Narnia Big Bang, Rat and Sword Go To War. The deadline is February, so I'm going to be focusing on knocking out a war story in about 2 months.

And do check out the 3 sentence ficathon.  Awesome writers, really creative stuff and it's a terrific time suck (in the best possible way)
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AW, Chapter 6, Change of Heart Part 2

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Wednesday, January 26th, 2011 11:25 am
Oh look!  Another snow day when there's no snow!  In that case, why not update with Chapter 6, Change of Heart, Part 2, here  A huge thanks to [livejournal.com profile] snacky  for the beta!

( Footnotes are love, and more about Chapter 7 )
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I've got a bad feeling about this

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Wednesday, January 19th, 2011 08:28 pm
( The dramatic repercussions of carpooling and their effect upon my creative process )
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