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I'm going to guess that "Strange Constellations" is by

catwalksalone.

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etcetera-cat.livejournal.com

Watchman could possibly be

akamine_chan?

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Hmm... I pondered two-maybe-three authors for Watchman, but in the end my vote is for

belmanoir.

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My wild stab : "Strange Constellations" is by

simplystars.

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*is wounded*

*or maybe NOT*

:D

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No, no, no wounding. By wild stab, I'm saying that it's entirely within your skills and abilities to write this awesomely, but at this point in time no other story that seems to be more you has been posted. Now, if a zombie story comes up, I might have to revise my guess...*g*

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Hee, I'm teasing, silly Aka. &hearts I can neither confirm nor deny your stabbity attempt, though I do acknowledge there is a sad dearth of zombies so far in this Match. :D

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Very sad. :(

Edited Date: 2008-08-31 10:09 pm (UTC)

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Chin up - isn't Zombie Day or week or whatever in October? That's not far off... :)

*shares sprinkly whimsical cookies with you*

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*pouts*

I don't know which I want more, the zombies or the cookies. Oooh, zombie cookies! Even better, whimsical spinkly zombie cookies! Neato! \o/

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zombie cookies!

*boggles*

Umm. Ew?

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*g*

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Ha, just you wait, for now I have a plotbunny and it is ALL YOUR FAULT.

And you'll just have to wait for it. *smug*

&hearts

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omphale

Are those like, cookies that stumble around muttering "ffiiiiilllling" and eating the other cookies?

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Oh, what a lovely image! All my favorite zombie movies remade with zombie-cookies!

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Cannibal cookies. Great googly moogly. *facepalm*

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Hee--I'm reading this exchange below. You guys are so cute. Stars was my other top choice, but I discounted the American authors early for "higgledy-piggledy" and for "settle" used as a noun. I scratched my head for about 15 seconds (which is a long time) before it hit me: Oh, settee! Couch/sofa/futon, padded bench, those I understand, and I'll give you Chesterfield for our collective obsession with Canada...but settle? Never heard it here, but I've since looked it up, and people with a familiarity with 17th century furniture might certainly use it.

I admit I don't recall seeing British spelling in the text. On the other, other hand (we're talking Whimsy here, I can have as many other hands as I want :), I don't know whether Stars writes K/V.

Hm. Verrrry cagey of you, Team Whimsy! :)

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I'd agree with you, JS, except for dsss last year,

qe2 had me convinced she was a British writer before the reveal...

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She did? Hee! Well, we know she didn't write this one.

In general, I tend to be very bad at these guessing games. The one thing I did guess (and I was so proud of myself--hee) was that

ultra_chrome had written the DSSS story for me. But I told only one friend that guess before the reveal; I didn't have the guts to post a guess publicly.

Anyway, about this one, mine is really just a wild guess based on only a few bits of information. I haven't really read a lot of Cat's work yet, because the only genre I make sure I read is F/K, and that's the only one she doesn't really write. I haven't even had time to read all the F/K that gets posted, even--I regularly find I've missed recent work even by my favorite authors. :( I blame art school (and, you know, ADD *g*). The amount of K/V I've read is really minuscule by comparison.

Anyway, I checked out which authors I thought would have the wide-ranging genre interests, the gumption to leave Fraser almost totally out of the story, and, especially, the stamina to write a long, involved piece, and in so doing I came upon Cat's huge (and beautifully written) oeuvre, which I hadn't really even been aware of before. People have been writing up a storm around here while I've been hunkered down in the art cave!

Anyway, yeah, if Stars has an interest in antique furniture, it could well be she. There is that gory battlefield scene, and she did kill a version of Vecchio. (Stars, it's the Zombie thing! I know you can deal with the horror scenes.) So, do you think Cat could kill Vecchio? Yeah, Aka, you definitely have a point. Could well be Stars. --Well, if she's decided to branch out into K/V, anyway. I don't see anything in that pairing by her. Hm.

But if so..."higgledy-piggledy"? SRSLY? *teases*

I'm sure we have our Whimsical friends in stitches laughing at us by now. :)

Edited Date: 2008-08-31 11:48 pm (UTC)

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I could so too use higgledy-piggledy, given the appropriate context! :D

As for the speculation re the depth of my interest in antique furniture, well - that's rather personal, don't you think?

*snicker*

Although I admit I am guilty for killing Fraser's mother and father, but those were canon deaths! And, okay, Ray. Once! As for zombies, you can't have zombies without collateral damage, and that time it was Canadians. Umm. And many citizens of Chicago, fine, whatever.

All in all, when the reveal comes? Some people might just be surprised by what I can write, when I put my mind to it.

*la la la, exits whistling* &hearts

Edited Date: 2008-09-01 12:00 am (UTC)

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Ahahahaha!

I could so too use higgledy-piggledy, given the appropriate context! :D

Oh, I've no doubt of that. Hee!

I'm sure

akamine_chan and I are Just Delighted to have provided all this amusement for you. *pouts*

(And PLZ...Let's not be making light about the killing of any and all Rays, eh? *sobs*)

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Heh. I am just amused by being the fodder for Authorial Speculation. :D And for such a fic! \o/

Umm. I promise that in the next fic I post, no Rays will be harmed in the making thereof? Or Fraser. Cross my heart. &hearts

[I would post it now, except what with the guessing and all, it might give things away somewhere along the line. GRAR. *is not very patient*]

Edited Date: 2008-09-01 12:43 am (UTC)

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It's certainly an outstanding fic. I can't come up with enough superlatives. So, no harm done, I'm sure. If you didn't write it, you've been flattered, and if you did, then Aka is right, as she so often is, and all is well. I have no investment in being right about my author-guesses, so I don't see any down side. :)

I'm hoping to finish a bunch of things in this, my last week before art school starts up again, and I won't post most of it now, either. But that's just because we've got such a huge haul of fic to read already. It's only Day 4, and most of the stories are very long! We have an embarrassment of riches!

There's one thing I might post, even so, because it's a very late birthday fic, but anything else will keep.

Umm. I promise that in the next fic I post, no Rays will be harmed in the making thereof? Or Fraser. Cross my heart. ♥

That comforts me greatly. Thank you. :)

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Higgledy-piggledy!

I can't even say that with a straight face!

And I'm here to amuse. Part of my job - it sez so in the description...

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catwalksalone

Hee, you made me giggle so much with this conversation. All the word choices were very specific to invoke the not-our-universeness (i.e. steampunk) of RayK. So, not so much an interest in 17th century furniture, as just knowing it was an old-fashioned word for a couch.

Higgledy-piggledy is an AWESOME expression. You should use it more. :)

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