Comments | july_july_july: thanks, epic historical disclaimer, etc.

july_july_july

thanks, epic historical disclaimer, etc.

Jun 30, 2009 14:29

The author kindly requests that you read the disclaimer. Nothing is worse than misinformation, and while all of this story was fiction, some people and events were real. Please alleviate the crushing guilt of abusing history by scrolling through.

( thanks, epic historical disclaimer, etc. )

big bang, nerd alert, the end of walls the end of ropes, spn fic

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write_light July 2 2009, 02:39:10 UTC

I love this! I'm doing an AU set in the 1870s and stumbled across some truly stunning historical photos and documents that helped me form the world. It's great to see a model for putting that info out there for readers, so thanks for doing this; I wanted to make some of my stuff available, but wasn't sure how, exactly. This postscript works nicely.

july_july_july July 10 2009, 17:45:21 UTC

Oooh...1870's! Good times. Reconstruction effed everybody up. I'm glad you enjoyed the coda-thing. I wrote it on the fly, in a very slapdash way. I'm tickled it was helpful!

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july_july_july July 13 2009, 16:53:45 UTC

Thanks! It was kind of hard not to get too bogged down in the details. But once I found out that Samuel and Mary were family names for the Wells...it was kind of all over. At one point, I was trying to force this whole chapter just to get Juan Seguin into the narrative. But...it just wasn't working.

deanish_ness July 2 2009, 05:40:04 UTC

Impressive!

july_july_july July 6 2009, 04:03:56 UTC

Oh my freakish geekiness, it knows no bounds. I almost didn't unlock any of the fic until the historical disclaimer was done, I felt that weird about manhandling history. Because I am a dork.

pinkphoenix1985 July 3 2009, 21:36:55 UTC

this is so cool! it must have been so much fun researching it!

july_july_july July 13 2009, 16:59:33 UTC

it must have been so much fun researching it!

Oh my Lord...*hides face* I got so anal about it, it's not even funny. Thank you for reading the disclaimer. It makes me feel a lot better about abusing history.

pinkphoenix1985 July 13 2009, 17:11:47 UTC

I love reading about history so I definitely found the disclaimer interesting ;)

vee_fic July 8 2009, 03:17:54 UTC

I'm a student of the period, and the only note I'd suggest is that it's debatable whether Comanches had that much in the way of firepower circa 1833. They had rifles, surely, and used them to hunt and to scare, but the limited utility of a single-shot rifle in mounted combat consistently strikes me. (The Linnville Raid, in 1840, featured lances and arrows prominently, much moreso than rifles.)

So if that's the only strict historical nit I can pick, I'd say you've done a very good job of researching. I might disagree on some of the dialogue choices -- although maybe your audience would find swears like "Zwounds!" laughable -- but your history's pretty good.

july_july_july July 13 2009, 17:24:56 UTC

I'm a student of the period

Uh-oh.

I did my best, but...yeah. Bowie and his guys did get pinned down by some hostile Comanche. But since there wasn't that much detail available on it, I kind of filled in the rest. Same with the dialog. I could get away with it when I incorporated canon dialog, on principle. But the other stuff was a pretty blatant violation. I hope the snafu's weren't too big of hangups while reading. It was a hard balance to strike, and I'm sure some places tilted in the wrong direction.