Dear Yuletide Author: Not a Placeholder Anymore!

[evelyn_b]

EDITED: It's been brought to my attention that the "short versions" of my prompts were not actually short at all; it's probably too late to do this, but I edited my letter again. :(  I'm going to put the original short versions in a link so that they aren't inaccessible. Next year, I will be better prepared and less bad at this, I hope.

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[justice_turtle]

'I have a whole incredibly-boring-to-everyone-but-me rant about the Anne of Green Gables timeline getting impossibly warped by Rainbow Valley and Rilla, so if you want to incorporate some kind of magical realism deal about how the 1890s lasted for 25 years, I would be super excited. But this is very, very far from necessary.'

Uhhhh... hi! I'm just poking around the Yuletide letters spreadsheet here, and I would be really fascinated to hear your rant! If you wanted to deliver it. :-)

(I am so un-chronologically inclined I never even NOTICED that before, but - yeah. I am fascinated to hear the details now I've realized that, oh yeah, THIS HAPPENED! ;P)

[evelyn_b]

Good heavens, why would I possibly want to tell you ALL ABOUT MY OBSESSIONS?

:)

I guess it was overly dramatic of me to characterize it as a "rant," though. It's not something that makes me mad. It's just a tricky fact about the Anne series due to the way it was written.

The problem is, it’s not really possible to make a timeline that includes both Anne of Green Gables and Rilla of Ingleside except by divorcing it from RL history, which neither of those books is interested in doing. Rilla is adamantly about the same war that all its readers remember from just a few years ago. AoGG doesn’t insist on its time period in the same way, but it is unusually attentive to fashion and the physical details of daily life. Puffed sleeves and muted colors are “in,” the PEI rail system is fully functional, and the White Sands Hotel is lit with electric lights. If we guess on the early side and make Matthew a victim of the Panic of 1893, there still isn’t time for Anne to teach at the Avonlea school, disappoint Gil all through Redmond, teach

[valancystar]

You know, I had vaguely noticed how the history doesn't work out but I hadn't thought about it in detail. Now you're making me want to write steampunk AoGG with time machines. Or something like that.

Yeah, just reading back to your old entries and noticing that you're one of the people whose prompts I wanted to reply to last year, too, only I ended up not doing any treats because I was exhausted and sick. Also, you seem awesome. Maybe I should friend you?

[evelyn_b]

Do it! I mean, write steampunk Time Machine Anne -- and friend me, if you want. People who have Feelings About L. M. Montgomery are my people. I'm usually super dormant when it's not Yuletide, though.

I got a great surprise story last year from justice_turtle about the time issue. And also, your icon is beautiful! Where does it come from?

[valancystar]

I'll have to give that one a try! Though maybe I'll reread the entire series first, to hope that a throwaway line will inspire an explanation as to how it works. It's never a bad idea to reread Montgomery, after all. I'll also have to read that story you got. :-)

And that's okay about dormant, it seems most of my entries in the past months - to the extent there have been any - have been about work angst and being tired. I think the alternative would be for them to be about cute musical actors... But Yuletide is coming and maybe even NaNoWriMo, so that will provide some variety.

This icon, hmm, I think it's from icons_by_jenn. Most of mine are either from her or from auctrix_icons. Some I made myself, in which case it shows, because I'm not very good with Photoshop. :-P