Because I was getting annoyed at having to dig this up in Scrivener every time I wanted to reference it:

name | age claimed in the background check | year born based on book publish year (1978)
Turtle Wexler | 13 | 1965
Christos Theodorakis | 15 | 1963
Theo Theodorakis | 17 | 1961
Douglas Hoo | 18 | 1960
Angela Wexler | 20 | 1958
D. Denton Deere | 25 | ( Read more... )

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Hi! Thanks for writing for me. I am lannamichaels basically everywhere, including AO3. I hang out in the Discord server as Lanna.

( Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Princess Bride, The Westing Game )

Title: The Three Deaths Of Sam Westing. (On Archive Of Our Own)
Author:
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Surprise, I did start the The Three Deaths Of Sam Westing westing game/highlander crossover of which I dreamt, with the caveat that it's not got much to do with what I dreamt. It's got kind of a weird tone to match the weird kind of mood I've been in, but I did vanquish the tense issue; it's now all in past tense. I may regret this.

The hardest part ( Read more... )

I had a dream I was writing a Highlander/Westing Game crossover called The Three Deaths Of Sam Westing, in which he is a Highlander Immortal and after he dies at the end, he starts over as Sammy Windsman, and then I was getting into his original backstory in his childhood AND THEN THE ONE RING SHOWED UP.

And then I rolled over and opened my eyes ( Read more... )

Title: The Wei Game. (On Archive Of Our Own)
Author:
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Dear Yuletide Writer,

Hi! Thanks for writing for me. I am lannamichaels basically everywhere, including AO3. I hang out in the Yuletide IRC chat and the Discord server as Lanna.

( Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Nirvana In Fire, The President's Daughter, The Westing Game )

Thing the first: I am unaware of how well-known this is, but I found it yesterday while trying to track down an ebook from any library I could -- I now, naturally, have finished reading that book and now have a tab open with a book that is probably on the shelf less than a yard away from me right now -- but you can borrow scanned-in-copies-of- ( Read more... )

The thing about writing a transformative work of something is that you get a look into how it was constructed and the different ways it works, and you see it differently. Sometimes this is good and leaves you with a renewed appreciation for the original, and sometimes you're writing a Fight Club pastiche and you realize just how much repetition is ( Read more... )

In which despite the below, the part of Turtle is actually mostly being played by Jin Ling.

Lan Jingyi had been in the Yiling Mansion. He had seen the dead body on the carpet. He had heard the murmuring of the ghosts all around him. And then he'd heard footsteps and he'd screamed and run.

That was last night. And today, the Yiling Patriarch has been ( Read more... )