[books] Harry Potter dream, The Baby-Sitters Club thought, and Making Out fic

[escritoireazul]

This morning I woke up to a dream where I was mourning the loss of someone important in my life and ended up talking to Remus Lupin about it, which led to watching the Perseid meteor shower (which is supposed to be quite a show this year), which led to some really hot frottage. (It's quite possible I was Tonks in this dream, and we were both

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[lionessvalenti]

Associate members really don't count. Even when Shannon was the official alternate officer when Dawn was in California the first time, Dawn got books that took place in CA, and Shannon got squat! Her name was the one on the back of the books, and she STILL didn't get regular series books. Poor Shannon, she gets the shaft.

[escritoireazul]

You never, I've never thought about that, but you're right! All Shannon gets is one freaking book. I like Dawn, don't get me wrong, but it would have been nice for Shannon to be treated like a full time member when she was one.

[wisdomeagle]

Yes, Keisha.

I think it's the fact that (for large portions of the series), Mary Anne, Kristy, and Dawn all live in the same town so the competition is more apparent. And very few best friendships really survive long-distance. They're always *friends* but it's less immediate and threatening than having a rival who's just across town.

[escritoireazul]

That is a good point. It does make sense to me that the MA, Kristy, and Dawn friendship triangle was the one with the most competition, because it was so immediate. Much like Claudia's jealousy toward Laine only appears when they're going to be in the same place at the same time.

It just always struck me as odd that they made such a big deal out of it, but then almost all of them would also talk about having two best friends. Maybe it was the competition between Dawn and Kristy (or, mostly, Kristy toward Dawn) which was so shocking.

[thestalkycop]

What was the Claire plotline? Maybe I can help. I'm online today. I'd forgotten I had to go into town to sort out the new house - although it didn't pan out. We still have the house, we just didn't get any dates or money sorted out. I'm writing my 100s for Star. She's really kicking my ass today.

[escritoireazul]

Do Claire and Paolo end up together? What are the dates in the last book? (Is it still 1997/1998?) Claire is still at university when the series ends, right?

(I'm writing Claire as Slayer fic, and I'm trying to extrapolate where she would be in 2003 from how the series ended. Unfortunately, I packed the last book (though I left out Falling For Claire for reference, I just didn't think about needing the end of the series, too).

[thestalkycop]

By the final book, Claire has admitted that she's in love with Paolo, and also, she ends up in a really good mood and complimenting Zoey (which implies that this love is newer, shinier and better than the last ones).

I'm not sure about the dates, it was never particularly specific about what year this had happened. The only indication of time is when Nina is listening to "Don't Speak" by No Doubt (referring to it as something she has recently got into) during Claire's speech (validictorian?) during graduation from Weymouth High. It says on Wiki the song was released in 1996/97. The series ends a year later (or thereabouts), so your estimate of the timeline is about as right as we can be on something like this.

If you need me to look anything up, I'm happy to. I can't wait to see what Claire's like as a slayer.

[escritoireazul]

Well, in Falling for Claire, Claire dates her journal entry at the very beginning (7 October 1977). Unfortunately, that's the only journal entry in the story. (There are letters, later, but they're not dated.) Does Claire have any journal entries in the last book?

I think that covers what I need. I almost wish I hadn't noticed the dates, I was going to fudge the timeline so Claire was called right after high school, but now that I have a concrete date, I'm going to stick with it.