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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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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?

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.

*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.