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[melannen]

I watched my first episode of The Great British Bake-Off this weekend, and, um.

does there exist a Check Please story where Bitty does super-high-stakes high-stress competitive baking and Jack just sort of slouches around skating for stress relief at 3 AM and being a supportive boyfriend? Because I want to read that story.

So anyway.

I need a kick in the pants to write again after being derailed by chiggers et al. Anybody feel like doing the timestamp thing? Give me a time before or after any of the stories on my AO3 and I will write a ficlet about what was happening then.

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[melannen]

This is never getting anymore because the people all turned out to be too evil and/or incompetent to deserve a dragon, but here's what I have:

Over the next few weeks 'the first Tory MP to successfully manage a harnessing' altered to 'the only Tory MP to successfully manage a harnessing.'

Not that the opposition had a perfect record either, but several of those eggs had been harnessed. Lord Mandelson had acquired a tiny, serpentine creature named Tenebra, who spoke to no-one but him and had a nasty habit of spitting acid at anyone who disagreed her Lord; Balls had a creature who appeared to consist of nothing but sad eyes and an inexplicable Scouse accent; and even Lord Kennedy had been seen stumbling out and about with one steadying hand on a mustard-yellow creature.

[beatrice_otter]

Sigh. yes. that is a lot easier to ignore when you've only heard the outline of what's going on in British politics, you haven't followed along specifically to see what everyone has been up to ...

[melannen]

Yeah, I still like the concept on Temeraire-end of dumping the extra dragon eggs on the rich politicians, but I'd have to use either OCs or historic people if I was writing it now.