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chocolatepotI keep forgetting to share the fics that I wrote for Yuletide.
Fortuitous (JSMN): It has been years since Mr. Strange or Mr. Norrell have been seen in England, and the Learned Society of York Magicians has quite rebuilt itself. Miss Catherine Holloway sets off for her first experience of their meetings.
The prompt in the letter was simply for the fandom and the tag, "worldbuilding". I didn't know what to do with that at all at first, because, I mean, 3/4 of the actual book itself is already worldbuilding. Then I realized that that left the building of the world to come after the book to fandom; I'd also always had Thoughts about the lack of women shown as getting involved with magic in the book's present-day (I think the only one in the book is that woman who's been paying Drawlight to have Strange curse people for her?) when the Regency was a time where you might expect a few bluestockings to do so. So I went a few years down the road and wrote about a young woman joining the reformed Society of York Magicians, with a lot of incidental worldbuilding.
Anna (Anastasia): On some level, I hated myself. That was the real reason I cried: I was the puppet of liars who believed only in the money and acclaim they could wring out of me. They had the charwoman and the sleigh-driver bundled out, and I tried to sound as grand as possible when I called out, “Goodbye, Annouchka of Ekaterinberg!” for her sake.
This is a niche one, as you can see by the number of hits ... The source is none of the famous things called "Anastasia" but a play translated from French that became the basis for the Ingrid Bergman movie. The recip sees Anna as definitely not Anastasia but I couldn't quite go there because I am such a romantic at heart, so I challenged myself to write from her perspective without ever confirming or denying it. This led me to be more literary than my usual style, which was a good challenge.
Chagrin My Dazzle (Northanger Abbey): Cathie Morland is a freshman at Bath High School, and she loves Twilight more than anything. If only real life could be like fiction!
Oh my god. This was so much fun to write. I have ALWAYS wanted to write a modern NA AU where it's about Twilight rather than Gothic fiction. The drama club setting just suggested itself naturally and honestly the whole thing flowed. I even put in some of SMeyer's writing tics, lip biting and such. I know the phrase "chagrin my dazzle" was used in some Twilight critique, but I have no idea where; Cleolinda refers to it in an LJ post I can find when I google, but most results just turn up my own fic. Nobody commented with "wtf is that title" so I think everyone who was in the antifandom in the late '00s knows the phrase, but the original is gone from the net?
Fortuitous (JSMN): It has been years since Mr. Strange or Mr. Norrell have been seen in England, and the Learned Society of York Magicians has quite rebuilt itself. Miss Catherine Holloway sets off for her first experience of their meetings.
The prompt in the letter was simply for the fandom and the tag, "worldbuilding". I didn't know what to do with that at all at first, because, I mean, 3/4 of the actual book itself is already worldbuilding. Then I realized that that left the building of the world to come after the book to fandom; I'd also always had Thoughts about the lack of women shown as getting involved with magic in the book's present-day (I think the only one in the book is that woman who's been paying Drawlight to have Strange curse people for her?) when the Regency was a time where you might expect a few bluestockings to do so. So I went a few years down the road and wrote about a young woman joining the reformed Society of York Magicians, with a lot of incidental worldbuilding.
Anna (Anastasia): On some level, I hated myself. That was the real reason I cried: I was the puppet of liars who believed only in the money and acclaim they could wring out of me. They had the charwoman and the sleigh-driver bundled out, and I tried to sound as grand as possible when I called out, “Goodbye, Annouchka of Ekaterinberg!” for her sake.
This is a niche one, as you can see by the number of hits ... The source is none of the famous things called "Anastasia" but a play translated from French that became the basis for the Ingrid Bergman movie. The recip sees Anna as definitely not Anastasia but I couldn't quite go there because I am such a romantic at heart, so I challenged myself to write from her perspective without ever confirming or denying it. This led me to be more literary than my usual style, which was a good challenge.
Chagrin My Dazzle (Northanger Abbey): Cathie Morland is a freshman at Bath High School, and she loves Twilight more than anything. If only real life could be like fiction!
Oh my god. This was so much fun to write. I have ALWAYS wanted to write a modern NA AU where it's about Twilight rather than Gothic fiction. The drama club setting just suggested itself naturally and honestly the whole thing flowed. I even put in some of SMeyer's writing tics, lip biting and such. I know the phrase "chagrin my dazzle" was used in some Twilight critique, but I have no idea where; Cleolinda refers to it in an LJ post I can find when I google, but most results just turn up my own fic. Nobody commented with "wtf is that title" so I think everyone who was in the antifandom in the late '00s knows the phrase, but the original is gone from the net?
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