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[elspethdixon]

Because I love pixyofthestyx, I took my life and automobile in my hands and went to New York this weekend (the life-and-car-risking part came when I had to drive to and through DC, park and leave my car in DC, and walk from Union station to the bus station so I could get a bus to NY). We went to the Metropolitan Musuem of art, marathoned SGA season one, I introduced her to season one of Lonesome Dove (in order to spread the Call/Hannah/Mosby OT3 love to the only other LD slasher on the net), and we spent several hours planning out yet another slash and poly-ridden imaginary television show/book series that will probably never come to pass (this one about archeologists and an RAF pilot who bears no resemblance to a certain spikey-haired Lt. Colonel at all wandering around post-WWI ancient Egypt). If I ever finish the original fic and fannish projects I’ve got in the works or on the back burner now, I’ll have enough things to co-write with her to last me until I die of old age and/or consumption.

I’ve had Folsom Prison Blues stuck in my head for almost two days now—ever since pixyofthestyx showed me “Conversion.” Johnny Cash is going to haunt me until one of us writes that post-episode ficlet, I just know it. But since I haven't written it yet:

Ficlet by auburnnothenna".
Because every brain cell I had that wasn’t thinking of Hyena-possessed!Xander or The Fly during “Conversion” was imagining this. I just didn’t realize it until I read it.

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[seanchai.livejournal.com]

I spent most of my first class period last night working on little snippets of Egyptology!. Of course, I kept on running into the slight issue of the fact that only two of the characters actually have names. It's remarkably hard to write when you keep having to refer to your characters as 'Egyptology-guy' or 'pilot-guy'. And I've also got bits of the post-Conversion fic scribbled out in my notebook. The radio station had on about ten Johnny Cash songs this morning, and I ended up working on it on the train ride this morning.

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

The names I came up with while driving home from work were Bill Randall and Edward & Anne Pierce. Unless we want to name one of the guys something terribly Victorian/Edwardian, like "Mortimer" or "Quentin."

No, scratch "Mortimer." It's a name better suited to a villain, or a snotty society sprog who attemots to win Vera away from Anne and Randall with only temporary (i.e. about two weeks') success. He would look something like the evil fiance in Titanic.

[seanchai.livejournal.com]

I like Edward (he could be called either Ed or Ned by Anne or pilot-guy). Unfortunately, both Randall and Bill have fairly string attachments in my head- Bill was the father of my childhood friend, and Randall was an artsy-goth guy I knew from second grade through graduation.

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

Quentin Reed amd Edward & Anne Langford it is. Now we just need a last name for Vera. Winchester? For Charles?

Oh, and the name we were both trying to think of last night was Rockefeller. *headdesk* How the hell that could have slipped my mind, I don't know.

[seanchai.livejournal.com]

I don't know how I blanked on Rockefeller. As a New Yorker, I've got less than no excuse.

Winchester is good. But Vera needs a middle name. The others don't nessecarily, but she has to be able to introduce herself as Vera something Winchester. It's more floofy and pretentious that way.

Also, should Edward ever call Anne Annie, or by any other nickname?

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

she has to be able to introduce herself as Vera something Winchester. It's more floofy and pretentious that way.

You mean, like "Radcliff Edward Locke" being about twelve times more pretentious than plain old "Radcliffe Locke"? (I was going to use "Francis Clay Mosby," vs. "Clay Mosby," but since Francis is pretty much the gayest name in the English language, I figured it wasn't a fair comparison).

Hmmm... Should Vera have a middle name that's actually her mother's maiden name, ex: Vera Atherton Winchester, or should she have the hyphenated name of ultimate pretentiousness, a la Wesley Wyndham-Pryce? (Vera Winchester-Symthe, Vera Pembroke Winchester, Vera Olivia/Elizabeth/Anastasia/something polysyllabic Winchester, Vera Winchester-Hadleyburg, etc.)

should Edward ever call Anne Annie, or by any other nickname?

Oooh, definately "Annie," if he thinks of her as an innocent, needs-to-be-protected little sister. Plus, a nickname goes with her calling him "Ned."

And Vera should call Reed, "Flyboy," with a little sex kitten purr ("Hello *meaningful puse and smoldering look* Flyboy.") She calls Anne, "My wicked, wicked girl who needs to be tied up," of course.

[seanchai.livejournal.com]

And Vera should call Reed, "Flyboy," with a little sex kitten purr ("Hello *meaningful puse and smoldering look* Flyboy.") She calls Anne, "My wicked, wicked girl who needs to be tied up," of course.

*snerk* Naturally. As to Vera... I;m honestly not sure. What kind of pretentious are we goind for here? Cause the whole hypenated last names thing is very much family based pretentiousness, as is having her mothers' last name as a middle name. Going by *Vera Olivia/Elizabeth/Anastasia/something polysyllabic Winchester* is I'm-a-pretty-princess pretentious.

[seanchai.livejournal.com]

I spent my lunch hour researching Egyptian cities, and this is what I've managed to come up with: they should probably be in either Luxor or Cairo.

Luxor is older (it actually dates back to the ancient Egyptians, as opposed to Cairo, which is Roman, from circa 150 AD). Cairo is larger, has the museum and a distinct red-light district that would have been around in the '20's. Both cities seem to be fairly close to places of archaeological interest. Either city would work, though I'm leaning towards Cairo as the more probable. (Plus, Arthur could always work with the museum).

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

Cairo is larger, has the museum and a distinct red-light district that would have been around in the '20's.

I'd go for Cairo, then, since the museum and red light district (with its attendant drugs and white slavery) will probably end up being plot points.

Also, Cairo had a rail station by 1920, didn't it?

[seanchai.livejournal.com]

A track from Cairo to Alexandria was built in 1851, so yes. The railway was heavily expanded after the Suez Canal was built, and Cairo as a whole was fairly heavily modernized during the 1860's. They even had gaslights and a sewer system.

There was also a distinct Western population during the later half of the nineteenth century, and I'm willing to bet that most of that was still around through the beginning of the twentieth century.

[seanchai.livejournal.com]

*Addendum to the previous: there was, however, a fair amount of political unrest in Cairo during the 1920's. It doesn't seem to have really gotten started until '22, and I'm not sure how heavily it would have affected our little group anyway, but it was there.