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[vee_fic]

On a very long bus ride, I read Joan Aiken's Jane Fairfax, a published work of fanfic about Jane Austen's Emma, and it was just okay. Because it had to work in the backstory and interstices of its souce, it didn't get the chance to be more than its source, you know? Or not enough more. Compared to a fanfic novel about Anne de Bourgh I read off the

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[holli]

I think I read that same Anne de Bourgh fic-- she marries her doctor's son? I really liked it , if we're talking about the same one.

[vee_fic]

Yes, that one. I presume someone on our mutual list linked it. (cofax7?)

[holli]

That seems likely!

[cofax7]

... I don't think I did, although it's easy enough to check. And no, I don't think it was me.