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melannen ([personal profile] melannen) wrote2004-12-02 09:59 pm
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OT3 : Richard Merrill x Thomas Schofield x A Great Many Chickens

I've just become aware that at some point, without my noticing, I became too old to skim the melted marshmallows off my hot cocoa before drinking it.

This must be remedied.
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[identity profile] siegeofangels.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, on the one hand, if you skim them off first, there's less likelihood of having them stick to the floor of the mug when you hit bottom and having to try to stab them with your finger and getting cocoa on your hand . . . on the other hand, if you don't skim, there's the possibility of a marshmallow-moustache. Tough call.

. . . Who's Thomas Schofield? I should probably know.
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[identity profile] melannen.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
He's Kate's husband from Wrede's Kate and Cecy books. Actually, it's Thomas, Marquis of Schofield, but I think marquises usually go by their surnames?

Anyway, [livejournal.com profile] dreamsquirrel lent me The Grand Tour. And there's this thing in it where Thomas is reminiscing about his days SPYING on the FRENCH, and he mentions an incident with a great many chickens, and there is *no elaboration*.

This would not have got me so excited except that in Magician's Ward, Mairelon is reminiscing about his days SPYING on the FRENCH, and he mentions an incident with a great many chickens, and his mother cuts him off and it is never mentioned again.

So, yeah. Chickens! Spying on the French! Snarky Regency Wizards! What more can a girl ask for?

[identity profile] siegeofangels.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
OHHHH.

Chickens! Spying on the French! Snarky Regency Wizards! What more can a girl ask for?

Nothing, that's what.

I always thought it was the same universe. The chicken thing just seals the deal. And you do need to write that. I'm seeing some scheme like Lymond with the apples . . . have you read Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles?
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[identity profile] melannen.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I haven't read those. I've seen them mentioned around a lot, though, I probably should.

Either they are in the same world (I almost typed 'real world' there, see previous entry q:) and that was a nod to obsessive fangirls like me, or Patricia Wrede seriously has a *thing* about chickens. And yes, it was in one of her parts of The Grand Tour

[identity profile] aelkiss.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Heehee, a great many chickens. Since it's now your OT3, that means you'll definitely be writing some Mairelon/Mysterious Marquis/Great Many Chickens for me for Christmas, right?:-D

Glad to see I've once again been a force for distraction;-)
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[identity profile] melannen.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Does this mean I get to blame my grades on you? q-:

I would, but a) I barely remember Sorcery and Cecelia at all, and b) I'm still utterly confused about whether they even live in the same universe. But I really, really want to read that story.

Maybe when I finish The Grand Tour I'll actually find the guts to write to the author and ask her about it. (:

[identity profile] aelkiss.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
q-: You can blame anything you want on me, but I probably won't feel any actual guilt.

I can't think of anything contradicting the assumption that it's the same universe, and they do tend to get lumped together..
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[identity profile] melannen.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, just when I had about decided again that they *were*, I noticed that it was suddenly the Ministry of Magic, when I'm pretty sure Shoreham worked with the Ministry of Wizardry . . . but then something else will show up (like the thing with the chickens! Love!) to convince me it *is*.

My main concern is that magic seems to work in a significantly different way here, though.

[identity profile] aelkiss.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think there's really anything in the magic systems that definitively contradicts each other, although I admit at least the pieces you see don't seem to be the same pieces. You don't see Thomas casting spells in English, for example. In fact, there's really not all that much of the specifics of spellcasting in either of the Kate & Cecy books the way there is in Magician's Ward.

But I guess you would think that if they were the same, foci ought to have at least been mentioned in Magician's Ward considering their importance to Kate & Cecy & Thomas..

So yes, you should write and ask her :-D
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[identity profile] melannen.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, it's hard to tell, 'specially since I'm barely in Vienna and I don't remember much of S&C, but there's the focus thing, and Cecy complaining that 'most of the spells' she's learning are in Latin rather than English... but I don't remember how advanced Cecy is compared to Kim, plus Kim has that freak prodigy thing going for her so she probably wouldn't *need* a focus... but most of it could probably be reconciled.

But then, I've read some of Caroline Stevermer's other stuff, several of which are set in a world that could very well be Kate and Cecy's in about thirty years, but is definitely not Mairelon's, so who knows?
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