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1. What date range do we think Elizabeth Weir attended graduate school for her Master's and Ph.D.? This is relevant to my fic writing interests.
2. I wrote Old Clothing (The Riddikulus Remix) based on Astrogirl's lovely ficlet in which Snape's mother dresses him in her clothes when he is young because she's afraid to use magic to repair his clothing and they're too poor to afford replacements. Usually I take the tonal shift or POV shift approach to remixing, but this time I took the time shift approach and tied in the canon incident in which we actually see Snape dressed in women's clothing (Neville's Riddikulus spell to banish the boggart). I hope I did her original ficlet justice.
3. We had a deeply advantageous weekend professionally. Looks like I'm going to be organizing a conference for next year, and Josh was elected treasurer of a regional organization. Also, the papers we presented were among the best. :)
4. Penny Dreadful is pretty freaking awesome. Two episodes in, and I'm hooked. Timothy Dalton has aged to perfection. *swoons*
2. I wrote Old Clothing (The Riddikulus Remix) based on Astrogirl's lovely ficlet in which Snape's mother dresses him in her clothes when he is young because she's afraid to use magic to repair his clothing and they're too poor to afford replacements. Usually I take the tonal shift or POV shift approach to remixing, but this time I took the time shift approach and tied in the canon incident in which we actually see Snape dressed in women's clothing (Neville's Riddikulus spell to banish the boggart). I hope I did her original ficlet justice.
3. We had a deeply advantageous weekend professionally. Looks like I'm going to be organizing a conference for next year, and Josh was elected treasurer of a regional organization. Also, the papers we presented were among the best. :)
4. Penny Dreadful is pretty freaking awesome. Two episodes in, and I'm hooked. Timothy Dalton has aged to perfection. *swoons*
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Date: 2014-05-20 01:21 am (UTC)Or maybe she had some kind of government fast track scholarship, or maybe Peace Corps.
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Date: 2014-05-21 02:56 am (UTC)There's a lot of possibilities for her. Internship, peace corp. I tend to think she went straight through, super fast. It's possible to get most non-science MAs in two years; I can believe five to six years for both degrees for her since she didn't get married or start a family.
The problem is what ivorygates brings up below. If she was already established, the character needs to be older than the actor.
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Date: 2014-05-20 08:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-21 02:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-21 01:53 pm (UTC)ELIZABETH WEIR IN FIC. I cannot tell you how excited this makes me.
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Date: 2014-05-22 01:37 am (UTC)It's a result of my perfume forays. I want to write a fic where Elizabeth and the other women in her program are mentored by one of the female faculty and one of the things they talk about is perfume and how to use it as a negotiating tactic or to develop a persona. IDK how successful a fic it will be, but I am writing it!
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Date: 2014-05-20 11:56 pm (UTC)This doesn't fit with the actress's age, I suspect. Ooops?
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Date: 2014-05-21 03:01 am (UTC)Torri is exactly ten years younger than me which puts her starting an MA in 1991, which makes the character nearly a decade older than the actor. Hmmmmmm. I don't think I buy her as being ten years older than the actor or than Sheppard and Carter and Rodney.
I think I will probably handwave away that she should have had more storied career to be a major player in 2004 and go with a 1990 or 91 start to grad school for her. You can do most MAs in two years (that aren't science) if you are super motivated. And I've known people who did a Ph.D (not in science) in 3. If I give her a 5 year graduate school period, that gives her ten years to prove herself. maybe she's that awesome? IDK
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Date: 2014-05-21 01:21 pm (UTC)Weir originally had an aversion to the military, having started her career as a political activist lobbying against government spending on the military. She concluded that, in her own words, the best way to stop the proliferation of weapons is to try and end the need for them.
So she might very well be that awesome. Also, you could read "Lost City" as Hayes picking a Washington outsider without major political connections, which would also indicate someone early in her career.
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Date: 2014-05-22 01:38 am (UTC)no subject
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