(idk why the 70s, it was the first section I thought of. It might have been the Equal Pay Act and all the smoking or something. I think I thought Catherine would enjoy being feminist in the 70s, and there were maybe still more old school Tories like Sir Robert around.)
You may have a natural media gravitation toward the '70's. Fortunately, you can still make a really good photoset for everyone in the '90's, when it was still possible to smoke like a chimney in government offices.
Apocalypse was what made me do the thing, because I realised that their period was when it became a thing in English Lit, so I consulted wikipedia on the late Victorian/Edwardian apocalyptic lit and the majority had some sort of natural disaster as the cause, so that's what it was here.
Oh, nice. I did not know the details of the history of post-apocalyptic fiction, but it worked very well as a vague, terrible, non-cozy catastrophe. The unrecognizable ruins of the heart of power was a nice and classically sfnal touch.
an Urban Fantasy one that remained a rough scribble in my notebook, because they were too similar (where Sir Robert is THE person to go to for tricky fairy law advice)
That sounds about right. I can see him and Catherine thriving in JS&MN, too. (Is Ronnie entangled in a fairy bargain?)
As I said, I was struggling for fusion and IN SPACE and then Star Wars happened as a result, because I suddenly realised which one of my main fandoms had a lot of political debates, principled people on opposite sides, a tragic conflict looming over them and also the opportunity to wear fancy headgear. I had too much fun with this and I had to cut it down. I am clearly missing SW fic writing a lot.
I am not willing to bet against it drawing a readership if you wrote it at full length. I like the additional points of worldbuilding you describe.
And then I watched An Ideal Husband two and a half times in a row and I will make an exception for my "I don't do the Same Actor thing" for a joke in a meme and because it totally is the same corridor and the same set.
It's hilarious and I hadn't actually clocked An Ideal Husband in the tags when I clicked through, so the corridor dropped when I saw Lady Chiltern.
<-- This was the one where I wanted to include an explanatory note and I would have done if I hadn't thought my main readership would be two people who would probably know this already anyway.
It made me think of Mary Renault's Return to Night (1947) about a generation earlier, so the vibe was definitely on.
8. Thought of this when recovering from my blood test last week after two months of blanking on Romance Novel, which ought to have been easiest but, like I said, canonical state of undress that would rock Regency Romance Land, if nowhere else ever.
It is fortunate that its denizens are so easily scandalized.
I still really love the Supernatural one. As soon as you suggested it, I couldn't understand why no one ever had cast Jeremy Northam as an occultist/parapsychologist of doubtful reputation. He'd knock it out of the park.
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You may have a natural media gravitation toward the '70's. Fortunately, you can still make a really good photoset for everyone in the '90's, when it was still possible to smoke like a chimney in government offices.
Apocalypse was what made me do the thing, because I realised that their period was when it became a thing in English Lit, so I consulted wikipedia on the late Victorian/Edwardian apocalyptic lit and the majority had some sort of natural disaster as the cause, so that's what it was here.
Oh, nice. I did not know the details of the history of post-apocalyptic fiction, but it worked very well as a vague, terrible, non-cozy catastrophe. The unrecognizable ruins of the heart of power was a nice and classically sfnal touch.
an Urban Fantasy one that remained a rough scribble in my notebook, because they were too similar (where Sir Robert is THE person to go to for tricky fairy law advice)
That sounds about right. I can see him and Catherine thriving in JS&MN, too. (Is Ronnie entangled in a fairy bargain?)
As I said, I was struggling for fusion and IN SPACE and then Star Wars happened as a result, because I suddenly realised which one of my main fandoms had a lot of political debates, principled people on opposite sides, a tragic conflict looming over them and also the opportunity to wear fancy headgear. I had too much fun with this and I had to cut it down. I am clearly missing SW fic writing a lot.
I am not willing to bet against it drawing a readership if you wrote it at full length. I like the additional points of worldbuilding you describe.
And then I watched An Ideal Husband two and a half times in a row and I will make an exception for my "I don't do the Same Actor thing" for a joke in a meme and because it totally is the same corridor and the same set.
It's hilarious and I hadn't actually clocked An Ideal Husband in the tags when I clicked through, so the corridor dropped when I saw Lady Chiltern.
<-- This was the one where I wanted to include an explanatory note and I would have done if I hadn't thought my main readership would be two people who would probably know this already anyway.
It made me think of Mary Renault's Return to Night (1947) about a generation earlier, so the vibe was definitely on.
8. Thought of this when recovering from my blood test last week after two months of blanking on Romance Novel, which ought to have been easiest but, like I said, canonical state of undress that would rock Regency Romance Land, if nowhere else ever.
It is fortunate that its denizens are so easily scandalized.
I still really love the Supernatural one. As soon as you suggested it, I couldn't understand why no one ever had cast Jeremy Northam as an occultist/parapsychologist of doubtful reputation. He'd knock it out of the park.