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i. I believe that in order to be properly fannish about due South, on this day the eleventh of March we're supposed to post Sgt. Frobisher's butchering of the St. Crispin's Day speech. But I don't like butchering Shakespeare even in the name of comedy, so: happy Fraser & Kowalski sledding into the sunset day!
ii. Spring break has officially started for me! I'm not hopping a plane until Saturday, though, so I fully intend to spend my next day or so of freedom writing (finishing??) my End of Time fic. And then I can spend spring break making sure I do not have to default on my due South big bang! in between making life plans. YAY.
iii. Assuming I get everything else done in a timely manner, I am strongly considering writing White Collar fic during the bleak gap before second season. In the spirit of this, a question, namely: what do you think are the classics (as in, "Kate always did love the classics"), ie those secret messages/heist strategies/&c that are fun and trope-y? So far my list is write secret messages using lemon juice and no one's dead until you've found the body, but that is a set of bullet points, not a list. Ideas?
(If you answer this question by linking to TV Tropes, I will sic the Cthulhu in my icon at you. I'm so serious.)
ii. Spring break has officially started for me! I'm not hopping a plane until Saturday, though, so I fully intend to spend my next day or so of freedom writing (finishing??) my End of Time fic. And then I can spend spring break making sure I do not have to default on my due South big bang! in between making life plans. YAY.
iii. Assuming I get everything else done in a timely manner, I am strongly considering writing White Collar fic during the bleak gap before second season. In the spirit of this, a question, namely: what do you think are the classics (as in, "Kate always did love the classics"), ie those secret messages/heist strategies/&c that are fun and trope-y? So far my list is write secret messages using lemon juice and no one's dead until you've found the body, but that is a set of bullet points, not a list. Ideas?
(If you answer this question by linking to TV Tropes, I will sic the Cthulhu in my icon at you. I'm so serious.)
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Anatomy of a Con: The Rag
Anatomy of a Con: The Wire
The Tip
The Jamaican Switch
The Pigeon Drop
The Melon Drop
The Coin Con
Advance-Fee Fraud
The Spanish Prisoner (first recorded in 1910, but I'm sure it was around long before that. The modern version is the Nigerian scam.)
Selling gold bricks
Glim-dropper, Fiddle Scam and Fake Reward
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Also, someone that Kate might have admired--Victor Lustig (the man who sold the Eiffel Tower. TWICE.)
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In a later episode, Neal gets another note from her, and folds it all kinds of different ways trying to find the secret message.
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Ha! I was pondering this very question myself the other day. Without much success. :-)
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Ahem.
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. . . is one of the most hideous and awkward lines on the show. MY THOUGHTS, LET ME SHOW YOU THEM.
\o/ YAY, EoT fic! White Collar fic! \o/
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Ohgod, I am ... kind of restructuring my EoT fic a bit. I realized I was writing it like a mini season project, but I should actually be structuring it like naming of things, and NOW IT IS WORKING FASTER. :DDD
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...IS THAT HAPPY?
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I'd really love to see Kate pull off the Decline of the Full Service Department Store and the Advent of Big Box Retailing, for instance.
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