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Winning his spurs, Chapter 2, complete

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Sunday, March 3rd, 2013 04:54 pm
The final chapter in Winning his Spurs, Thus Should A Knight Rule himself, went up.  I think most of the relevant notes are in the story already.  I tried to find the archived article from 31 December 1992 where I pulled up some of the discussion of who was on the New Year's Honour List and that was where I got the information about the verger, the launderer, and Anthony Hopkins as well as Thatcher-ites.  It was like the Daily Mail or the UK Independent.  I think.  The venomous rest was pure invention.

Wiki, the BBC,and other sources provided information on the 1992 political scene in the UK.  One reader has already suggested that the Sun would not have used so many big words.  We'll say it was a guest editorial?  I guess?

Thanks so much to Adaese and [personal profile] iopgod for the assistance on the honours, the Chagoss Islands, and the titles.  I owe everything to Starbrow and Oldfashionedgirl95/pencildragon11 for the hand holding and support.  I hope you'll read their awesome contributions to this collaborative fic. 

Thanks so much for your patience and for those of you who did read, again, my thanks for doing so.



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In which I try to not sink a ship

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Sunday, February 24th, 2013 09:44 am

The Scrubb/Pole cycle is now complete with the wonderful Starbrow posting Enchantment Vast But Foolish, which follows on Pencildragon11/Oldfashionedgirl95's Bedraggled As I Am. 

Do check them out because without them pushing to give Eustace and Jill a happy ending, I would have never ever written Winning His Spurs which I just posted last night.

I'd not been able to replicate what Anastigmat and [personal profile] songsmith  accomplished in their work with the Peter/Mary pairing and so I'd given up on trying to write it.   When I did the other two TSG AU stories, I didn't want to create another character so shoved Mary in there but kept her mostly nameless and faceless.  Still, Starbrow and OFG hoped for a happy ending and functional, healthy relationships, so at their incredible generosity, I made the effort. 

Some other links.  Information on Ghost Ranch and Georgia O'Keefe is here
There's some fun stuff on Coelophysis.   Based on the Ghost Ranch casts at the American Museum of Natural History, it had been assumed since the 40 that Coelophysis was cannibal.  There is still evidence to suport it but one day a grad student was standing at the AMNH subway stop admiring the bronze replica and realized, wait a minute, that's not another dinosaur in its stomach.  You can read it here.   I first heard about this Triassic dinosaur in this video which also gave me the idea for Jill's illustration in Hung Out To Dry.


The UK General Election information came from various sources that started with wiki.

The Lord of the Rings was divided into three parts due to a paper shortage; ROTK came out in the fall of 1955.

I've got the second chapter mostly done which deals, 50 years later, with the British Awards system and yes, trying to channel a Sun editorial.  Does Knight Commander, OBE in a New Year's Honour make sense? 




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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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