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I wound up writing one treat and one last-minute pinch hit.

The treat was pallida ora semper fame, for Naraht, based on Mary Renault's Return to Night. It began as a Five Things... fic but morphed into an unholy mash-up of  Renault, mantisfuck consentworld, and TED talks. I owe a great debt of thanks to spock, whose enthusiastic collaboration made the TED talk much, much worse, and to Llwyden for coming up with the Old English for "woman-insect" ("wyfbítel", if you're wondering.)

The pinch-hit was Out of the Dead Land, for Person, based on the video game Dangan Ronpa.  Dangan Ronpa, for those of you who don't know it, is an extremely cracky Japanese mystery game, originally for the Playstation Vita, which was never translated for the U.S. market.  Then orenronen, at SomethingAwful, did an absolutely magnificent English-language Let's Play, and suddenly -- thanks to their excellent and idiomatic translation -- it became a fandom.  Within a year, the original developers committed to a translation and a port.    Anyway, Dangan Ronpa is a game in which a bunch of teenagers are locked into a high school, they can escape only by killing another player and getting away with the murder.   This fic explores one of the bad endings, and contains spoilers for some of the previous murders.

Thank you to my wonderful authors, and may 2015 be full of good things to read and to eat!

Date: 2015-01-02 10:20 am (UTC)
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The treat was pallida ora semper fame, for Naraht, based on Mary Renault's Return to Night. It began as a Five Things... fic but morphed into an unholy mash-up of Renault, mantisfuck consentworld, and TED talks.

1) I think I need to find a copy of Return to Night, and;

2) Oh god, the TED talk. Oh god. *enthusiastic and possibly rowdy applause*

Date: 2015-02-11 12:36 pm (UTC)
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Re: 1) Having read Return to Night, I find the mantisfuck consentworld versions comforting and cheering.

... the end of Return to Night is meant, in certain respects, to be bone-chilling, right?

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