Really, the whole point of this post is ticky box.

[sabinetzin]

1. A poll:

Poll #5256 YES I AM STILL ON ABOUT THIS.

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 36

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So. Steampunk AU. The first chapter is done.

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YES YES GIVE NOW GIVE YES.
24 (70.6%)

Wait! You might have to change something!
7 (20.6%)

Wait! You might not finish!
3 (8.8%)

Seriously though we have to find you a(nother) hobby.
0 (0.0%)

Ticky box?

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Steampunk: when ticky box discovers brown
12 (33.3%)

Ticky box regrets to inform you that the goggles do nothing
17 (47.2%)

Ticky box is wearing its goggles anyway
20 (55.6%)

Ticky box loves a good airship
23 (63.9%)

Mitch Pileggi
18 (50.0%)

TICKY BOX
16 (44.4%)

2. Your "reward" for sitting through that:

(09:46:17 PM) sabinelagrande: I can't believe I'm getting up at 8 AM to take notes for livejournal about BDSM. life is unexpected.

(05:12:06 PM) sabinelagrande: (this shouldn't make me want to write fic)
(05:12:34 PM) jacksonave: (everything should make you want to write fic)
(05:14:29 PM) sabinelagrande: (everything does make me want to write fic)

(10:45:45 PM) sabinelagrande: I think I'm in the friend zone. which is like the phantom zone, only with cable

(Context: shadowen has an earache.)
shadowen: I feel like Odysseus facing the sirens.
Sabine: ...tied to a pole?
shadowen: Ear full of wax. I would hope that if I were tied to a pole, it would be for better reasons.
Sabine: I can think of a couple. ::pause:: That's a lie. I can only think of one.

(9:05:50 PM) sabinelagrande: there is to be no actual research for this story, as it is set in Steampunk, AD
(9:06:03 PM) arymabeth: obvs
(9:06:16 PM) sabinelagrande: which, as you know, is two decades after Regency, AD
(9:06:30 PM) arymabeth: obvs
(9:06:33 PM) sabinelagrande: but two decades before Agatha Christie, AD

(7:17:30 PM) sabinelagrande: (a new era has dawned. I actually listened to the serving suggestion on the bag of frozen chicken)
(7:17:52 PM) sabinelagrande: (cause it was like, "serve with your favorite stir-fried vegetables!" and I was like, "good call, bag")
(7:18:05 PM) arymabeth: ("thanks for the advice!")

::discussing the fate of two supposedly dead characters::
sabinetzin: They're dead and not dead, which ever the plot needs.
arymabeth: They're Schrodinger's Chekhov's Gun.

(10:01:04 PM) sabinelagrande: I am using cheese for bread
(10:01:09 PM) sabinelagrande: truly, this is a great country

Comments

[mecurtin]

as it is set in Steampunk, AD
(9:06:03 PM) arymabeth: obvs
(9:06:16 PM) sabinelagrande: which, as you know, is two decades after Regency, AD
(9:06:30 PM) arymabeth: obvs
(9:06:33 PM) sabinelagrande: but two decades before Agatha Christie, AD

QUOTED FOR TRUTH. I shall take and use.

[sabinetzin]

I feel like Wodehouse, AD also fits in there somewhere.

[aliaras]

There's also Rennaisance Faire, AD, which is the year basically ever planet is stuck on in Stargate.

[pyrasaur]

Schrodinger's Chekov's Gun

Now I'm imagining a climactic moment where cats burst out of a box, guns blazing. BRB, mentally inserting it in every story ever.

[shadowen]

Best mental image ever.

[calime]

*collapses in glee* now I'd love that as an icon.
Also, *eyes own cats suspiciously*, perhaps I should refrain from getting them cardbord boxes to lurk in and shred. I'm pretty sure they can get illegal firearms somehow.