Unseen Academical Cards
Jan. 19th, 2011 03:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daibhidcI got the Unseen Academicals Football Cards and album for Christmas, and it turns out they have a strange effect on me.
When I was a kid, I used to get sweetie-cigarettes from the grocer's van. (Just reading that sentence, it sounds like I grew up in the '30s rather than the '80s. But no, we did still have sweetie-cigarettes and grocer's vans.) Although I was never interested enough in sport to actually collect them, I was aware that there were football cards in the packets. I think I used to swap them for Doctor Who stickers at school.
That was about twenty-five years ago. But everytime I look at the Artificer's authentic-looking cards, my brain thinks "Sugar!", because it's expecting me to eat an entire packet of sweetie-cigarettes.
When I was a kid, I used to get sweetie-cigarettes from the grocer's van. (Just reading that sentence, it sounds like I grew up in the '30s rather than the '80s. But no, we did still have sweetie-cigarettes and grocer's vans.) Although I was never interested enough in sport to actually collect them, I was aware that there were football cards in the packets. I think I used to swap them for Doctor Who stickers at school.
That was about twenty-five years ago. But everytime I look at the Artificer's authentic-looking cards, my brain thinks "Sugar!", because it's expecting me to eat an entire packet of sweetie-cigarettes.
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Date: 2011-01-19 06:14 pm (UTC)Also, I have to say, because LJ is evil and therefore I saw your comment in my email, though it had vanished from the entry when I got there: if you withdrew it because of busyness/not reading Discworld fanfic/not ever beta-ing, then fair enough, but otherwise I really would be pleased if you'd be kind enough to take a look, as my particular worry is that while I avoided almost all background stuff as much as I could I wound up with a vital plot point around a minor political alliance. I'm au fait with general Discworld stuff, have most of the books, an can Google like anyone, but still... It would probably be better if I still had Monstrous Regiment, but I don't. (It's one of the very few I didn't really like. Now I am paid back for shoving it in the charity bag.)
But ignore me if you don't want to do it - I may in any case decide the fic is too bad to see the light of day, and I'm not netirely sure it even meets the prompt in question.
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Date: 2011-01-19 11:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-20 08:01 am (UTC)And thanks - can you pm me an email address I can send it to & hopefully will get a chance to do that tonight or tomorrow morning before I go away for the weekend.