Ohai. A bit random, but I couldn't get this story out of my head today. It all kicked off when I was exploring Leighton's House Museum with the ornate tiles and the peacock. The interior, especially the lower floors, was quite like how I imagined Napoleon's apartment. A nagging voice seems to remember a comment that the house lent some inspiration to this story, but I can't seem to find any such comment. But alas! I was there in the Arabian room and all I could hear was Illya's voice, word for word from this scene
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Oh, wow! I couldn't have dreamt up a more wonderful comment to come home to!! I don't think anyone who ever wrote a story could!
You can see why I wanted to put characters in that house and not just any characters, but another painter who fell in love. In a way I was doing some RPF with Leighton and Watts in the story.
I am so thrilled that you felt the words did the view justice. Doesn't it just stop you in your tracks?
I think the comments you recall were on the crack-van post when TTI was recommended (maybe August 2010, I think).
If you get around to visiting the Sir John Soanes Museum, it is a house I am planning to appropriate for the villain. What villain, you ask? You know how Illya suspects that someone had really hurt Napoleon and in the continuation of TTI Illya talks about a ballet he is considering creating and he explains that it would need a villain and Napoleon looks anxious. Well, the Sir John Soanes Museum is the villain's house although I am thinking to move it to Paris.
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You can see why I wanted to put characters in that house and not just any characters, but another painter who fell in love. In a way I was doing some RPF with Leighton and Watts in the story.
I am so thrilled that you felt the words did the view justice. Doesn't it just stop you in your tracks?
I think the comments you recall were on the crack-van post when TTI was recommended (maybe August 2010, I think).
If you get around to visiting the Sir John Soanes Museum, it is a house I am planning to appropriate for the villain. What villain, you ask? You know how Illya suspects that someone had really hurt Napoleon and in the continuation of TTI Illya talks about a ballet he is considering creating and he explains that it would need a villain and Napoleon looks anxious. Well, the Sir John Soanes Museum is the villain's house although I am thinking to move it to Paris.
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