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I have just spent far too long when I should be sleeping and/or working reading the first mina_de_malfois set of stories. I must have passed them by when they were first written, so I've spent the last few hours playing 'spot the reference' and sniggering desperatly as the tale of pseuicide, heds pasted on and online intrigue unfolded, (complete with a full chorus of BNFs, Snapewives, tinhats, closeted ant-slash crusaders and other such internet denizens) .. I'm not sure I've ever read a character who is, entirely intentionally, Cassandra Claire as played by Bertie Wooster before.
" But at about the same time this grumbling began from the Voices, a new player appeared on the Sanguinity landscape, and I sensed at once that here was a powerful emergent force. Well, just the fact that he’d come to my notice at all was telling, really. He’d dashed onto the scene with a handful of fics that were accomplished enough to briefly float a rumour that he was my sockpuppet, a charge Josh promptly denied, all the while charmingly professing himself flattered by the misunderstanding. ‘Mina can’t have a sockpuppet,’ the Mean Girls sneered. ‘She puts her name to everything, even things she hasn’t written.’ That was an unfair reference to an honest mistake from eons ago, and my friends once again lost no time in leaping repeatedly and energetically to my defence, occasionally accidentally lying in their well-meant enthusiasm."
" But at about the same time this grumbling began from the Voices, a new player appeared on the Sanguinity landscape, and I sensed at once that here was a powerful emergent force. Well, just the fact that he’d come to my notice at all was telling, really. He’d dashed onto the scene with a handful of fics that were accomplished enough to briefly float a rumour that he was my sockpuppet, a charge Josh promptly denied, all the while charmingly professing himself flattered by the misunderstanding. ‘Mina can’t have a sockpuppet,’ the Mean Girls sneered. ‘She puts her name to everything, even things she hasn’t written.’ That was an unfair reference to an honest mistake from eons ago, and my friends once again lost no time in leaping repeatedly and energetically to my defence, occasionally accidentally lying in their well-meant enthusiasm."