UC Ficathon woes

[doyle]

Hmm. So, I'm trying to write Giles/Ethan set in the 70s (you should see how many sentences I have bolded to remind myself to check and make sure this TV show or that shop isn't an anachronism - how do people write historical fiction? I'm writing about a country I know, less than a decade before I was born, and it's hard!) And then I remember Band Candy and that Giles was already Ripper/ticking-timebomb-destroy-the-world guy at 16... oops. Because my 18-year-old Giles is pre-Ripper. Frankly, that was the only way I could have him at Oxford, unless he did his O- and A-Levels astonishing young and had already dropped out of university by 16. (Or while conducting dark magic rituals and/or generally doing the mega teenage rebellion thing he still not only turned up for but managed to pass his exams.) Sod it, I'll pretend Band Candy's Ripper was 18 or 19.

Some would say I overthink things.

(And I have to go and get this bloody essay done before I finish the fic. Will be up tonight, though. Last night I had two Word windows open, one with my essay on "Why John Bell Was an Important Physicist" and the other with my Connor/Angel incest fic. And a post-it stuck to the monitor saying 'for God's sake, don't mix these up'.)

Comments

[47-trek-47.livejournal.com]

Actually, Giles never says when he met Ethan. He could have left Oxford *with* Ethan for all we know. :) Also, just because he was a sixteen-year-old in Band Candy doesn't necessarily mean he was actually *like* that when he was sixteen. He just had the potential to be, I think. All that spell really did was make him really immature...

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

He could have left Oxford *with* Ethan for all we know. :)

:looks at fic: With Ethan, prompted by Ethan, it's all good *g*