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ColleenD wrote: ↑Tue Sep 19, 2023 4:07 pm Oh, yeah! That would be so cool! You could do like a mafia romance featuring Don John Thornton and his cotton mill empire. And Mr. Hale in his 'reduced circumstances' is forced to marry his daughter to the Milton Godfather.

......... yeah, that'd be a new kind of AU version. ;-)

My next chapter is up: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52626 ... /135747331

Looking forward to your #JusticeForFanny story, Magda!

I've just gotten a story seed for this prompt, I think - is it falling in love via letters in spring?

12 Bird’s Nest; Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn; Stools; Sunflower Seeds?
Names of paintings by someone?

4 Which poet climbed Mont Ventoux in Provence in 1336?
That sounds like the right period for Petrarch?

My new chapter is up! https://archiveofourown.org/works/52626 ... /135305689

Autumn, I'm looking forward to reading yours tonight when I've got more time. (Stupid notifications that turn up at the beginning of my work day)

Ooh, this is coming back. Well done, Mim and Van!

Violet83 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 11:57 pm Daisy, I haven't yet started Break because I haven't been in the mood for heartbreak...but one of these days I'm going to be in the right mindset to give it a try! You're a wonderful writer.

It's fine. Sometimes you just want light and fluffy, you know? ;-)

9 15 metopes; 17 pedimental figures; 75m of frieze? I would guess the quantity of Parthenon Marbles currently held at the Elgin Museum. 13 Francis of Assisi; Joseph of Cupertino; Simon Magus; Teresa of Avila? Three are saints, and the fourth is a magician mentioned in the Bible. Did they all have st...

That's my life goal. 😆 For context, for everyone who joined recently. I visited Merry twice and I've met Diana and Magda when I was in Manchester last summer. Next Summer I'm flying to the US to visit Pippa and meet some millers in the US. 😉😆 It's a challenge now. 🤣 That's so exciting. I think mayb...

Philipaholt wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 10:17 pm I am now a wreck of a human. Thank you both. I expect chocolate as repayment

My new chapter is up: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52626 ... /134898712

So is Tom's! https://archiveofourown.org/works/52347 ... /133426846

I heard that Downton Abbey was so meticulously accurate about the clothes, that the only thing an expert could ping them for was moving someone into fullblown Roaring 20s a couple of 'years' early.

9 Goodbye Pork Pie Hat; He Loved Him Madly; I Remember Clifford; Sweet-Pea? Well, I mean there's a movie called Goodbye Pork Pie, starring a yellow mini, but that doesn't seem connected to anything else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye_Pork_Pie 10 Adam Blade; Franklin W Dixon; Carolyn Keene; D...

OMG...so THAT is YOUR story. *dies* I have loved this one ever since I first read it and have been mourning the fact that it's not finished. Now all I can say to these ideas is: you can always write variations. You know, like Pippa and Daisy both do (Pippa with her modern AUs and Dailsy with the Gr...

DarkshireLass wrote: ↑Thu Jan 18, 2024 7:28 pm I do the alternatives thing. Still wanting to write the ending for Fanny where she goes off with Edward Buckley and lives a life of political agitation and hanging out with the gay men in London. (yes, Tom, I know, I could do it.)

The next chapter of Break is up: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52626 ... /134446735

dianakc wrote: ↑Thu Jan 18, 2024 3:14 pm Not sure if this is the right place to post it but my book is featured on the More Than Thornton blog today
https://www.morethanthornton.com/blog/2 ... outh-story

That's so exciting!

Philipaholt wrote: ↑Thu Jan 18, 2024 2:31 am The book club is almost done :sobs:

But I was wondering...I did take an obscene amount of notes. Would anyone like me to cross post them here?

I think that would be a really great idea - Hard Facts is a lot easier to refind stuff, so it works better as an archive.

Philipaholt wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 5:18 pm Hugs MIM

Congratulations on finishing it!