Thank you so much for reading! And thank you also for letting me know, and for your generous reaction. I really appreciate it.
>"the throwaway line about Damietta" So many history books read solely for throwaway lines in FK fanfic! ;-) Thank you for noticing.
>"And, oh god, forcing Nick to aknowledge Janette by beating him at chess?" Thank you! I hadn't intended for him to deny Janette, precisely, but rather that the medieval mind had only just adjusted to one woman on the chess board, and that two would blow Nick's brain -- but not Fleur's. (I had just read Birth of the Chess Queen by Marilyn Yalom, and was bursting with trivia.)
>"But it makes me want to watch everything again, just so can I tease out all of these shiny threads." I am highly in favor of watching FK many more times. :-) And you're right; I'm frequently wall-to-wall canon cross-references (e.g. Erica naming Fleur a "glutton" echoes Janette in "I Will Repay," and comments on Nick's error in "Dead of Night") but I hope that the telling is still clear for those who haven't overstuffed their brains with FK quotations! If not, let me know, and I will try to do better next time.
>"I haven't read Fireweed (http://users.lmi.net/akr/fk/fiction/fireweed/fireweed.htm) yet (1998! yikes)" "Yikes" is right! Good golly, that long? I reread it after writing "Three Fireweed Seeds," and, I, um, sure used a lot of words back in the day. ;-) I cringe now at some of the marathon sentences, and romance, but overall I'm still pretty proud of the AU.
Again, thank you very much for reading, and for letting me know!
On "Three Fireweed Seeds"
>"the throwaway line about Damietta"
So many history books read solely for throwaway lines in FK fanfic! ;-) Thank you for noticing.
>"And, oh god, forcing Nick to aknowledge Janette by beating him at chess?"
Thank you! I hadn't intended for him to deny Janette, precisely, but rather that the medieval mind had only just adjusted to one woman on the chess board, and that two would blow Nick's brain -- but not Fleur's. (I had just read Birth of the Chess Queen by Marilyn Yalom, and was bursting with trivia.)
>"But it makes me want to watch everything again, just so can I tease out all of these shiny threads."
I am highly in favor of watching FK many more times. :-) And you're right; I'm frequently wall-to-wall canon cross-references (e.g. Erica naming Fleur a "glutton" echoes Janette in "I Will Repay," and comments on Nick's error in "Dead of Night") but I hope that the telling is still clear for those who haven't overstuffed their brains with FK quotations! If not, let me know, and I will try to do better next time.
>"I haven't read Fireweed (http://users.lmi.net/akr/fk/fiction/fireweed/fireweed.htm) yet (1998! yikes)"
"Yikes" is right! Good golly, that long? I reread it after writing "Three Fireweed Seeds," and, I, um, sure used a lot of words back in the day. ;-) I cringe now at some of the marathon sentences, and romance, but overall I'm still pretty proud of the AU.
Again, thank you very much for reading, and for letting me know!