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.
You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
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Consuela - Jun 26, 2012 8:46:38 pm PDT #7844 of 10434
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Typo Boy - Jun 26, 2012 10:48:27 pm PDT #7845 of 10434
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Foreigners? Nisei? Again not right but maybe will suggest something to someone.
Typo Boy - Jun 26, 2012 10:48:44 pm PDT #7846 of 10434
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
homesteaders? Settlers?
Typo Boy - Jun 26, 2012 11:09:48 pm PDT #7847 of 10434
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
The Nation builders? The Consolidators? The Reformers? The Liberators? The Lawgivers?
Calli - Jun 27, 2012 1:24:08 am PDT #7848 of 10434
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
The IBM employees? (Sorry--NC-specific joke. IBM moved operations, and hundreds of employees, from NY to NC in the 80s.)
Consuela - Jun 27, 2012 5:25:23 am PDT #7849 of 10434
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
The thing about Carpetbaggers as a title is that the Pevensies were, and weren't, carpetbaggers. Yeah, they came in from outside and began running the show. But (a) they had divine/leonine authority to do so; and (b) the point of the novel is to show that they earned the authority on their own merits. So they might have been perceived as carpetbaggers, but in the end, showed they weren't in it for their own benefit.
So there's an ironic element to the title that I can't find in any of these follow-ups. Unless I can find a really cool way to refer to the Marshall Plan or something...
Connie Neil - Jun 27, 2012 5:39:04 am PDT #7850 of 10434
brillig
The Returned? Expectations? Creating The Shoes You're Meant To Fill (hm, that has potential)
Amy - Jun 27, 2012 5:58:23 am PDT #7851 of 10434
Because books.
Maybe you don't go with The Something-ers, but something else? Something to do with a new land or a new home or their position as rulers?
SailAweigh - Jun 27, 2012 6:15:58 am PDT #7852 of 10434
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Empire Builders? Like the railroad game?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 27, 2012 8:11:23 am PDT #7853 of 10434
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Okay, so I wrote a novel titled Carpetbaggers, about the Pevensies settling into Narnia. What comes after carpetbaggers? Expatriates? Colonists? Settlers? Frontiersmen? Reconstructors?
How about Scalawags?