They are! But the bandwagon jumping onto F+tM is ridic.
Both of my fics are essentially song titles. But for one the song didn't come until after the title was chosen, and it ended up aligning with a Platters song, and the other was a Blonde Redhead song title where the lyrics lined up nicely. And I don't care if you get the reference (my other pet peeve is every author letting you know just where such and such mundane detail came from. If I can't get it from the fic, it's not relevant to me. It's like DVD commentary. If it didn't make it to the screen, or even past a deleted scene, it doesn't really count for me. The rest is personal gratification that I'm not concerned whether the reader gets my internal choices or not.
Okay, so I wrote a novel titled Carpetbaggers, about the Pevensies settling into Narnia. What comes after carpetbaggers? Expatriates? Colonists? Settlers? Frontiersmen? Reconstructors?
Pioneers? You need another folksy-sounding word!
Outlanders could be cool, but it's sort of specific. I like Expatriates, too.
I've always wondered what happened to them between times. Peter was more than old enough to get married and have kids.
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I've always wondered what happened to them between times. Peter was more than old enough to get married and have kids.
Yeah, that's something I need to deal with. I suspect there's a lot of arguing about the succession, and politics. Because in reality they would have wanted to secure the succession; on the other hand it probably wouldn't have occurred to them that all four of them would be lost simultaneously. And they were quite young, still, so what was the rush?
There's a certain school of thought in Narnia fandom, that the novels are not entirely reliable: basically that they are fairy-tale/children's story versions of something that was rather more difficult and complicated. Lewis never mentions the succession, and in fact really elides dealing with the fact that they left Narnia leaderless and possibly unprotected.
Pioneers doesn't really work, and Outlander is too much Diana Gabaldon's now. Expatriates, maybe, but I wouldn't mind something conveying people settling in and committing to the new place. Colonist doesn't work, either, though. Hmmm.
I know too much medieval history, I keep thinking of suitors vying for Susan's hand and whether Edmund would have been really trusted.
I keep looking for nouns around either "gentrification" or "going native" and not coming up with much, but maybe it will inspire a thought in someone else?
I may have to give up and go with something unrelated. I was thinking of: Vert, Lion Rampant Gules. Which I figure 90% of the fandom won't get. And doesn't have the kind of meaning "Carpetbaggers" conveys. Hmm.
