Subject: Welcome back! (also belatedly)
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Posted on: 2013-02-13 09:43:00 UTC

How's the blizzard going? Are you enjoying all the snow? I'm in the not particularly unique position of being abroad for the year, so I haven't seen any snow this winter--which is...both strange and nice, seeing as I normally live in Canada.

I'll save you the, quite frankly, fangirling of someone who grew up on PPC stories (and learned quite a bit about writing in the process), and say only that I quite like Mara and Isaiah and have a question for you as someone who knows more about the PotC time period than I do.

I'm currently looking at badfics (my poor brain!), trying to decide on one to be my first mission, and one of the ones I've found is a PotC badfic that seems to think that Elizabeth has 'peaceful, ladylike dreams' and Will knows (and uses) modern-day speech patterns. The Sue's name is Rachelle Swann (Elizabeth's adopted sister, apparently). That was definitely *not* a common English name at the time, right? Or was it already the done thing to give children names from other cultures?

Also, would 'Rachel' have been more plausible? Or was it also not a particularly common name at the time?

Thanks,

~DawnFire

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