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In which Nikki is finally brought to remember her own past, but memories aren't the only thing emerging from it.

Has been running for the better part of September, and had a really big number of posts.

The ones that are currently up have been extending longer and longer. There's 72 posts in the last week alone.

.... I've gotten very bad at replying to anything. Checking over the Front Page...

... sweet mercy, how is the entire month of September still up? Where's everyone gone?!

Anyway, no, you're not being shunned, but apparently everyone's stopped talking.

hS

The closest thing I've seen is that thing creators do sometimes when they make one story's protagonist the descendant of another story's protagonist as kind of a fun detail or easter egg. (Yep. iD Software in my brain again.)

...You know what? You've got me motivated. I seriously want to try my hand at something like this genre - probably a fantasy counterpart, since I'm not really a historical fiction person. That would be pretty cool. Now to figure out a plot!

-Twistey

(Am I being shunned, or do I just need to learn how to make my Board posts better at adding something to the topic? Probably the latter. That'll take some time to learn, given how I was with my Scratch comments... }:P)

Wikipedia has a list of some popular works in the genre.

is the North and South trilogy by John Jakes. It presents the U.S. Civil War period through the eyes of two separate families from Pennsylvania and South Carolina, reaching from the decade of unrest that led to the war to the reconstruction period long after. The focal characters of each family are sons of roughly the same age, who meet while attending West Point and become friends, only to end up fighting against each other during the war.

It's not exactly a fee-good story, and for me, it had rather too much sex in it. The last book felt like it went a bit off the deep end compared to the earlier two, and some of the supporting characters dive a bit too far into the realm of strawmen as well, Overall, though, I think it gives a much better feel for the place and time than any history textbook I ever encountered could manage.

—doctorlit

...Because look at Foundation: It has a lot of aspects that you're discussing: an heirloom (The Seldon Plan and the videos) as a common thread, following a common line across a wide swath of history (but now the common line is a civilization). OTOH, this isn't historical at all, being entirely set in the future.

I've noticed lately that there seems to be a subgenre of what I have to call generational historical fiction. This is where a book or series of books doesn't follow one character, but a family line across a long swathe of history.

The first example that comes to my mind is Rosemary Sutcliffe's Eagle of the Ninth saga, which runs from the height of Roman Britain to the Norman Conquest. Thd family with the dolphin ring (another thing: there's quite often an heirloom passed down the family, to maintain the narrative thread) is fairly common, but they make a great window on British life pre-conquest.

There's also Steven Saylor's Roma and Empire, which run from before the founding of Rome to the reign of Emperor Hadrian. That also has a piece of jewellery, and sticks with the same family; it does bring its protagonists rather closer to greatness, though (they hang out with basically every Emperor).

But I don't know how big this sub-genre is. In particular, I'd love to know if it exists for history outside western Europe. If someone's done this for, say, China, or one of the African nations, it would be a fantastic way for me to fill some of the gaps in my feel for history.

Does anyone have other examples? I think Stephen Baxter's Time's Tapestry also counts, running pretty continuously from the Roman invasion of Britain to Columbus' journey - though it is a bit more sci-fi-ish, with the 'heirlooms' being messages from the future. I can't count something like his Northland trilogy, because it only shows three widely-separated generations, not the slow progression.

Anyone?

hS

The Castellan /is not/ Rassilon; he's just pretending. He doesn't even have his power, like the Master does Omega's - that's why he needs to make the De-mat Gauntlet.

For the finale, our trio come face to face with the shades of the three Founders. Rassilon steals the Castellan's form, turning the lie into truth. Omega steals his own power back from the Master. And the Other simply whispers something in the Doctor's ear, and points towards the Omega Arsenal.

If Romana is still around to ask, the Doctor can tell her what he's doing: 'It's time to sieze the moment.'

hS

Josie McZample has female body traits. She considers herself fully female, and is attracted to men. She also wears her hair short, wears a mix of male and female clothing. Enjoys some stereotypical masculine things and some stereotypical feminine things. She is hetero cisgender with a neutral gender expression. I think that the expression can be netral without falling into nonbinary?

...You can see starting about ten tweets down her acknowledging the poster as her brother in response to what happened on the thread.

The "source" is on Kiwifarms- in case you didn't know their reputation, they're a nasty little bunch of harassers and psychopaths. I know people who have been targets of theirs for multiple years- doxxing, swatting, etcetera, are all normal things for them. So- I don't buy it. In fact, I wish they would drop off the face of the earth.

Yeah, I don't buy the story either. Writing a trollfic to find her brother? How could anyone even possibly believe that would work, seriously? Yeah, no. Even if it were actually coming from the real author of the fic instead of some random fangirl, it's still a terrible excuse. And the whole "Native American and put in foster care" thing, while definitely possible in real life on its own, sounds like the premise of a movie when you compare it to the supposed results. It sounds really contrived, a little bit appropriation-y, and overall just plain suspicious. Much like a bad fanfiction.

I have a feeling that the real author of My Immortal, whoever she is, probably doesn't want to reveal her actual identity. Given how logical and grown-up she seems to have become now from looking at the post she wrote saying that she didn't write Handbook for Mortals, she probably decided that letting the world know isn't worth the huge influx of random crud people would send to her. A very wise choice indeed.

-Twistey

Take that how you will.

The person who doxxed her is the same one who claimed to be her brother, but the only proof he offered was stuff you can get from a Google search. The forum he made this claim on is known for attacking women and minorities and Rose Christo basically the perfect target for them. The "fact checking" she failed, according to the EW article on the subject,is apparently that she changed names to preserve anonymity. Also, beyond some jerk's say-so, there is no proof she was lying about anything. Like, why ia no one seemingly willing to question his story th way they har hers?

The extra comma was intentional; if someone who can explain the grammar rules to me about why my brain goes "yes this should be here" that would be great. ^^;

Charlotte's eaten food-food while in disguise before, so she at least knows what to expect with that. I'm already in the middle of her central interlude, so things are going to get interesting between her and Ix in the future. I hope

• Lotte being all concerned about Ix is cute
  - Shame about the hair
  - Nice of Charlotte to go get the brace. Shame that's about to get nurfed into the ground
  - re: thirst, Ix's gift for understatement again?
  - Extra comma in “Just so long as you promise to eat some, yourself,”?
  - I like the snuggling scene
  - That was a nice bit of tension, where Ix started going for the human blood
  - I like the description of the disguise shift, though I do want to know how Charlotte pronounced the exclamation mark in 'vampire!me'
  - "I always did tell you you were hot"... . That was a funny line
  - Ix has a lot of good points about the morph there
  - "You have a promising career as a chinrest." was also a funny line
  - "If you die out there, I'll kill you"
  - I like Ix's solution. It seems like the right response to this sort of thing.
  - inb4 the Flowers hassle them about postmortem charging
  - (agent!}Ix, you don't need to apologize for everything. (referring to Ix's reaction to Charlotte's reaction to the execution method)
  - "lept off the sofa like she'd been tasered" is good description
  - The ending is nice, in general
  
  Review, broadly:
  Was good. What I personally liked the best were the Charlotte/Ix relationship parts. The balance between that sort of thing and fic-missioning was reasonable.
  
  Sudden thought: will Charlotte go into an Andalite-style food craze post morph?
  
  - Tomash

((Litterally, I doubt they're worth more.))

Shattered canon,
The kings of old are sullied,
The Nine slighted.

In the fair England,
A new source of power,
The tomb of Tolkien.

I think the real 'whaaaaaat' here is that a real publisher was actually considering publishing a book about a badfic. I mean, that's... only in the 21st century, folks!

hS

So you know all the fuss a few weeks/months ago over the supposed author of My Immortal publishing a memoir?

She lied.

The TL;DR of it is that s**t went down, she forged documents, the memoir has been canceled, and her brother wasn't as lost as she claimed. Someone doxxed her; she lied about being Native American, about being put in the foster care system, and her claims of writing a trollfic in order to find her brother when he's been on Facebook all along and contacted her several times are, quite simply, false.

She was just another person who tried to claim the story as hers for attention.

...On the other hand, fanfic does exist...

Hmm...