Fic: Memories

[mylodon]

This follows on from the exchange of letters fic here. .

Rationale: I don’t believe that really was Gray in the last episode of Torchwood series 2. I think I know the true story.

I don’t own Messrs Kennedy, Hornblower, Marshall, Harkness or Jones. But I do own Thomas Rogerson, dirty neck and all.

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[zamaxfield]

All right my lovely, I'm not even going to read this until I've seen Torchwood, which quivers with anticipation in the queue behind The Professionals and The Sentinel. All you slash ficcers out there have made my life one long rolling ride of Trying To Catch Up. I recently started writing fan fic as a way of letting out my Kundalini when I'm writing the boring bits of my novels. (BTW I'm the abstractrx from the chat the other day.) Well. Since you won't get out there and write the ultimate manlove rugby tell all... (inquires with eyes?) then I will have to watch all this and immerse myself. Oh yeah. I've seen every second of Hornblower.

If you'd ever be willing to look over a piece of admittedly bad Pros fan fic for Britishisms I'd be indebted for life. 13 pages nothing major. A quick question, it's metric in measurements, like meters and kilometers instead of feet? But still pint and quart in pubs but metric in kitchens?

I am saving this post till I can understand it...

[mylodon]

I will not write the ultimate manlove rugby tell all. Some things are too precious and rugger is one of them.

I'd happily look it over, but time's on short commons until June. (Partly because of ogling rugby players.)

Measurements - oh what a can of worms that opens up. When is the fic set? Anything prior to 5-ish years ago and it would be all imperial. Then the EU came along and tried to encourage us to use metric. But beer is still sold in pints and road signs are in miles and most people talk in terms of feet, inches, pounds, etc. Even food packs that have gone metric are often sold in the equivalent to an imperial measure. (So you have a 454g can of veg, for example.) So context and timing would matter enormously.

[zamaxfield]

I read somewhere (alex beecroft) I think that the Britwriter's blog is Britpicking on Friday, and if I can figure out the time difference, I'll ask my questions there so you can go back to your important Rugby Ogling duties.

Since it's a Pros fic, it has to be late seventies, early eighties. I have Doyle in a hundred square foot bio-isolation chamber, pacing it off ten feet one way and then the other. I think that's in keeping with the times, but... well. I'll poke my nose in and ask around.

Back to Rugby and writing... we're all waiting. I can't wait to get my copy of the Antho.

[mylodon]

Britpicking will be doing that very thing. I hope I find time to contribute.

I watched the professionals back when it was first shown and I can't believe Bodie or Doyle did anything but measure in feet and yards.

Wanna bitta Profs trivia? When you see them on the steps of their offices, they're usually on the steps of the Horlicks factory at Slough (or so Horlicks factory legend had it...)

See icon for some nice rugby fluffery.

[zamaxfield]

Oh my yes. Fluffery. Indeed.

I'm going to have to go hot icon hunting. So far mine are mostly funny.