Obligatory Post of Introduction

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So...I introduced myself over in the conspiracy room (which you could find, if you were willing to weed through a long conversation about hating Troy Denning), but I thought I should be polite and do a real post too.

So...they call me Jade, I delurked here pretty quickly (the MWT dangling was kinda hard to ignore), and The Queen of Attolia is my favorite book in the whole world.  I have lots of other books I love, sure (Gone With the Wind, Nightwatch, anything LOTR, The Once and Future King, etc.), but when people ask, I say QoA is my favorite.  (Then I have to describe it, which is really hard, because they've inevitably never heard of it...)

Um...I read QoA first, then Thief, just a random fact...

and even more randomly, I applied to the University of Chicago, and one of the things I had to write about was my favorite book.  So I said, "I surprise people by naming The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner, which is the sequel to a Newberry Honor book that I happened to pick up in the school library four years ago.  It is a jewel of a novel that very much resembles something I would want to write: a character study wrapped up in political intrigue involving kings and queen with just enough romance and magic to appeal to a wide variety of readers."

Now, guess who went to Chicago?  (Not me.  I went elsewhere, because elsewhere offered me more money.  ^_^)

So, yeah, I write fanfiction (but not for this series--it's too hard) and I have some original things that kinda got squashed underneath an epic my friends and I were writing...but maybe now that we're apart my poor muse will come back to me.  And...yeah, I think that's about it, for now.

Edit:  I bring news of the doomfic! 

Update #1: We've got three scenes planned for the first "installment" as it were, one of which is written.  Other than that, we've introduced a completely new character, the magus has bought the bear, and Gen has not yet appeared.

...We're on a roll.