Subject: Actually, DRAT is old!
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Posted on: 2023-09-27 17:19:46 UTC
As old as the LotR Basic Charge List by NenyaQuende (which I presume to be the original).
Perhaps DRAT was one of the first departments to split from the Admin Department, and then got broken up further? Or maybe, in parallel with real life, it was simply the pseudonym of a single archivist trying to make her task sound more official? {= ) IDK.
~Neshomeh
Since I've been having a bit of a writer's block, I decided to put yet another spin on the classic charge list. I present a basic charge list for the Twіsted Wоnderland continuum, drawing from my experiences with badfics in this fandom.
Hey, we haven’t seen one of these in a long time! Not a whole lot of comment to make, since it’s largely a legal document, but it feels like a complete one! I especially enjoyed the sections on social disruptions and space-time distortions, since those contained the meat of the canon-specific charges.
Regarding the Department of Records, Accounting, and Tabulation, I don’t know if a new department is necessary there. It’s a great acronym, to be sure, but the duties implied by it are handled by other departments already: the Legal Department covers tabulating charges, the Department of Finances has the accountants, and the archivists in the Department of Personnel keep records. I would say to make it a division instead, but again, its elements are in different departments. Any ideas on tweaking it?
Hope this at least helped with your writer’s block!
—doctorlit is charged with building illegal libraries on campus
As old as the LotR Basic Charge List by NenyaQuende (which I presume to be the original).
Perhaps DRAT was one of the first departments to split from the Admin Department, and then got broken up further? Or maybe, in parallel with real life, it was simply the pseudonym of a single archivist trying to make her task sound more official? {= ) IDK.
~Neshomeh
Those sound like fun theories, though!
—doctorlit on lunch break