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.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
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Consuela - Jun 26, 2012 8:46:38 pm PDT #7844 of 10436
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Typo Boy - Jun 26, 2012 10:48:27 pm PDT #7845 of 10436
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 10436
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 10436
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 10436
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 10436
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 10436
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 10436
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 10436
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 10436
"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?