Intelligence Quota - Notes, Warnings and Acknowledgements
Master Post - Art & Soundtrack Post
General notes about things that appeared in the fic:
Misha's Faroese: "Góðan dag. Hvussu gongur?" - "Good Day. How are things?"
Magyar Köztársaság is the official name of Hungary.
The name of the bookstore where Jared and Misha work (Erasmus's Necessities) is inspired by a quote by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam who said: "If I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes."
The quiz bowl competition doesn't completely follow any actual quiz bowl format. It's more an amalgam of the quiz bowl format I know the best and formats I read about when I was researching quiz bowl competitions in the U.S. The Stanford Quiz Bowl Packet Archive was a huge help while figuring out the question format.
Extended Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction but like most fiction, the inspiration comes from real life. There are few scenes in this story based on things that happened in my own life and few of the characters are in part inspired by people in my life. There's no harm intended by this or anything else that appears in the story.
Extended Warnings: Underage sex, dub con (Jared/OMC), underage drinking, unprotected sex.
The dub con warning is there because the scene it refers to, can be interpreted as dub con. I personally don't see it that way but I'm aware that it might make a reader uncomfortable and even be triggering.
As for the underage drinking, I put the warning there because I know I'm working a cultural difference here. It's difficult to decipher the drinking culture in America because the TV news, magazines etc. always seem so alarmist while you see often see a lot more casual approach to underage drinking in movies and TV shows.
I don't mention this in the header warnings but this fic also contains a discussion about sexual child abuse.
Acknowledgements:
My deepest thanks for my incredible roommate sigrundora who has shown enthusiasm and support while I was writing this. I'm pretty sure if it hadn't been for her telling me to "get writing", this story wouldn't have been completed. She was also so kind to take time off from her travels to look at the grammar and spelling. She rocks so hard.
sarka should be lauded for so many thing like being the inspiration for Misha, for seeing the first fragments of this story and telling me that there was something there. For having supported me in my writing for years(!!) and for also sacrificing valuable time to look over the story and give me invaluable points on how to improve it.
(It should be noted that any errors remaining are mine and mine alone.)
The people on my Big Bang filter need to be thanked and sarahblack in particular for being supportive and nice, especially since RPS isn't her cup of tea. Tu es le meilleur, Brian.
I was so fortunate to have my summary picked by staticsintheair. It has been a joy to work with her and to see what she has come up with. Her story art does more than compliment the story. I can't tell you how much I love the banner and the dividers and CD cover art. Not to mention the soundtrack. That was collaboration as there are few songs there I chose but she seemed to be able find such great music for the fic. I'm in awe and it makes me so happy that she was able to be so inspired by my work. Go and heap praise upon her as she richly deserves it in her art post.
And thanks to wendy and thehighwaywoman for making spn_j2_bigbang such an awesome challenge to participate in.