from the mixed-up files of . . . .

[ellenkushner]

From the note I just sent to my webperson:

Please add this new story & date to our The World of Riverside page for the
TIMELINE:
61 "Honored Guest" in The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales. Viking, 2007.

(Hmm... But does the story take place before or after THE FALL OF THE KINGS? . . . I guess I'll say after, since our Jess seems to be taking some interest in magic. No, wait - I think she's younger in this story, so I'd better set it earlier. Better make it:

58 "Honored Guest" in The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales. Viking, 2007.

That gives them time to get back together if I wanna, after the events of KINGS without making poor Phoenix wait too long. And come to think of it, I don't believe Jessica is wearing a Tremontaine ruby stud in KINGS, is she?)

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[yaoi-in-exile.livejournal.com]

*happy!squeal* Yaaaaay, update! *Goes to stare at the page and marvel in fascination of its total awesomeness*

Exactly how big *was* that ruby stud, anyway? The rings in Swordspoint were freaking bars, covered Alec's finger from one joint to another even (see? it says so right there. *points*) and I imagine his hands aren't small. That'd be a rather big stud, wouldn't it? Or were there smaller rubies on the ducal coronet as well?

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

The latter, of course! That's why it's a STUD.

Perhaps you would like to draw said coronet, bearing that in mind? Since it was dismantled long ago, I've never seen it, and designing jewelry's not my forte.

[yaoi-in-exile.livejournal.com]

Hrrmmm, that would require a bit of research. Knowing what there is to know about Northern/Southern culture during the royal period in City History, and estimating from the size of the huge honking rubies ranging to the apparently smaller ones...GOSH, those dukes were poncy, weren't they?? And I thought Alec was extravagant. X3! (You know, when I hear the word "coronet" I think of those flimsy little tin foil things the elves wore in the LotR movies, but this would be sur to be even bigger!)

*smacks fist into plam* I'll do it! I'll make a duchess of this draggle-tailed guttersnipe-oopswrongline. ^ ^;

This shall be Pretty. >3

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Eliza, you're magnificent.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

(Alec? Extravagant?

Alec is a cheap bastard. He still saves on candles. Comes of having had to darn his own sox.)

[yaoi-in-exile.livejournal.com]

(Ohhh, yeah...hrm, thought I remembered reading a display of *some* extravagance somewhere. Also: do you suppose he realizes the money that goes to replacing the things he breaks makes saving on candles virtually pointless?)

Good to know that there is at least one noble in the city who, as my granny would say, "don't get above his raisin'". (Tho' what dried produce has to do with finances I have no idea, HAR.)

Perhaps Ferris should have been made to darn his own socks somewhere in life, and he wouldn't have been so bankrupt by TPOTS. *ponders*

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

You make me so happy.

Actually, it's Katherine who thinks he's extravagant, because he doesn't practice careful household economies like putting his silver away so it doesn't tarnish when he's not using it. But then, she's been darning everyone else's socks too at that point in her life.

[twistedsheets10.livejournal.com]

AHA! Is that why he keeps on asking for 'freebies' in the taverns?

Oddly, I think he likes to be extravagant to other people, but not on himself? Like with Richard when he gets him to dress up (but then that's Richard's money he's spending, sooo maybe that doesn't quite count).

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Alec's self-image requires that he not do anything nice for himself. Even with Richard's money - at least at that stage of things. Once he gets all rich, he loosens up a bit.

[thumbelinablues.livejournal.com]

*giggle* Alec is a stud.

Sorry. 0:-)

This entry makes me realize that I need more Riverside, fewer midterms, and, um, probably less espresso. It's good to have a little timeline geek-out break, though!

[twistedsheets10.livejournal.com]

Oh God.

Hope that's available in the Philippines. *looks at bookstores*

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

You won't regret it. It's an amazing collection. My stories is by no means the best in it; in fact,it's rather slight compared to some of the pieces Terri & Ellen got for this one! But then, everyone loves a trickster.

[twistedsheets10.livejournal.com]

But then, everyone loves a trickster.

Yes, yes.

Does Jessica qualify as one? :) I guess with the one she pulled over in TFoK makes her a very good one.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Jessica is a classic trickster. After KINGS people asked if I would write a novel about her, and I thought about it for about 3.2 seconds, before realizing that tricksters are utterly unreliable and could never carry an entire novel: they exist to break into other peoples' stories and mess them up, and go their merry ways. So she'll probably get a few more short stories, if I'm lucky. But no novel.