Turn Again: a Janet Fraiser fanmix (with ficlets)
Er, yes. So I made this. And I don't know if it's what I meant it to be (the tone is somewhat more depressing than I intended), but my excuse is that all my music is on my hd back home.
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And of course I squealed a little when you made her not just from Kentucky but from Garrard County!!! (Which, by the way, she would, like the rest of us, pronounce "GAR-ud" with a hard g, rather than "jer-ARD," like it looks.) Did you pick that randomly? Because it's actually kind of perfect. It's the first county classified with Appalachian status as you move out from Central KY (my mom taught there years ago and had students who lived in houses with dirt floors and no electricity and running water), but it's also within easy commuting distance from Lexington, and land is relatively cheap there, so alongside the rural poverty there are also these McMansion subdivisions and giant houses on lots of acreage. Plus lots of folks in between. In short, it fits in really well with my personal canon for her, even though I hadn't ever thought about where, specifically, she might be from in Kentucky. Also, Centre College is just down the road in Danville, so that just compounds her family's astonishment that she would go away to school: why go away when you could go to the best university in the state and live at home! (It probably is the best place to do a BA in the state, and most high school guidance counselors--at least in my experience of high school guidance counselors in approximately the same part of the state--look no further when advising bright students. You've got a 4.0? You should go to Centre. Like that's the height of all education. And it is an excellent school, no doubt, and Janet could have done ROTC there and lived at home and gotten an excellent education for almost nothing, but that, of course, is not the point!)
Ahem. Anyway. Getting carried away with crazy personal canon stuff! I will now, of course, go work out exactly where in Garrard County I think she's from. Because I'm a dork like that.
*hugs*
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I would love to say I did a heap of research and knew that there was a very decent college that she could/"should" have gone to. But, in reality, I was just looking in the Bluegrass region for somewhere not on the Ohio side of Lexington and I picked Garrard because it didn't sound too much like a boy's name! So, I'm rather pleased how well that turned out, hehe. (Incidentally, I would pronounce it GAR-ard, definitely not jer-anything! I guess that's cos I'm a Brit?)
Glad you enjoyed the ficlets/graphic too. Most of the songs are pretty mainstream, which is why I only put individual dl links. I should probably have tried to be more arty with the choices, but whatever. Gosh, fanmixing is hard!
And yes, guh, that is a gorgeous pic of her indeed. It's from S6, Prophecy, I believe. Typical Daniel isn't around for one of the times her hair is awesome... ;)
Ooh, if you come to a decision, I would love to hear it and why you chose it etc! Learning peoples' Janet headcanon is one of my favourite things. *hugs back*
Belated further ETA: removed because this is public and, gah, you filtered for a reason. Apologies!
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And I forgot that that's one of those key British/North American pronunciation differences: y'all tend to emphasize the first syllable in names like Gerard and Bernard, and we tend to emphasize the last. And of course you're right that Gar should always have a hard g, but I've found that most people (who aren't from central KY) don't pay that much attention to the spelling of Garrard County and sort of assume it's Gerrard pronounced ger-ARD, which is not even remotely correct. :) Though now I'm really curious which counties around there you did think sounded like a boy's name: there's Boyle, Mercer, Lincoln, Jessamine, Woodford, Fayette (which is Lexington)--those are the surrounding ones that come immediately to mind for me, and none of them sound like boy's names to me! At least not first names. *goes to actually look at a map* Okay, I guess as you get further afield to the east you run into Madison and Clark, and to the southwest Taylor and Casey. Anyway, not that it matters a bit!
Also, I meant to tell you before that I have always vaguely associated Dar's "The One Who Knows" with Daniel and Janet, for reasons that I'm not sure make actual sense (and have a lot to do with the fact that the first time I listened to that album--sort of non-stop--was also the weekend Michelle posted her season 7 tear-jerker of a fic series (the name of which escapes me at the moment). But if you've got some amount of association going on there, too, at least with Janet, then maybe it's not just coincidence and there really is something about that song.
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