the deep moans round with many voices

Apparently remixes have been revealed? Cool. :)

Here is the story I wrote:

Pay Attention (The Peacock and the Pickpocket) (1583 words) by Elizabeth Culmer
Fandom: Rusty Quill Gaming (Podcast)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sasha Racket & Oscar Wilde
Characters: Oscar Wilde (Rusty Quill Gaming), Sasha Racket
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence

Summary: The first true illusion Oscar creates is a peacock in his tutor's window. The bird cocks its glorious, brilliant head, and adjusts its feathers. Then it screams like a dying train.

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It's a remix of The Pickpocket and the Peacock, by Nemainofthewater, which is about Sasha spotting and occasionally spying on Wilde over the years and then takes a sharp turn away from canon to set up what looks like a really intriguing spy!AU.

My remix is not terribly deep; I just flipped the POV so it's about Wilde. Well, and I came up with a new opening scene because Wilde's not even aware of Sasha in the opening scene of the original story, and I changed the closing scene for... honestly, a combination of thematic reasons and because if I'd mirrored the original story more closely I could just tell the remix was going to spiral off into that implied spy!AU and I did NOT have time to write a novella-length secret agent adventure. *wry* But fundamentally it's a straightforward POV flip, plus a bit of a thematic musing on the sleight-of-hand, attention-directing (or attention-misdirecting) skills that Sasha and Wilde share, though they approach that skillset from very different directions.

Also, this is a pretty niche fandom! I expect most readers of this journal have no idea what on earth is going on here. To very briefly summarize, Rusty Quill Gaming is an actual-play RPG podcast, whose main story is a Pathfinder game in a homebrew setting that's sort of a steampunk D&D alternate 19th century, wherein a small band of mercenaries get hired for a job that turns out to be a LOT bigger than they anticipated. Sasha Racket is a rogue from Other London (the remnants of the original London that got flooded/destroyed during a pre-canon steampunk disaster and then buried/built over by the posh Upper London) and Oscar Wilde (not the actual historical Wilde, but based on him) is an agent for the Meritocratic world government, and also a bard specializing in illusions.

You should give the podcast a try -- it's frequently hilarious, often moving, occasionally heartbreaking, and always entertaining.

Things done today:

1. Attempted to renew my Celexa and my prescription-strength extra fluoride toothpaste this morning, since both will run out in the next week or so. This worked fine for the toothpaste, but I forgot (I was only half-awake and this was a sudden "oh shit I've been forgetting this!" impulse rather than a planned to-do list item) that I was out of refills on the Celexa and should have done a new prescription request through my doctor rather than a refill request through my pharmacy.

So I got a call from my doctor's office and I now have an appointment next Tuesday morning to go talk about my prescription and stuff.

...I think I will also bring up my hand/wrist numbness-tingling-pain issues, which came to nothing the last time I mentioned them but that was because we couldn't adequately reproduce the problem on the spot. But it's been getting worse, so. (The trouble is that I think my carpal tunnel-ish symptoms may be at least 60% because of a shoulder nerve pinching thing rather than entirely a wrist thing, because I've been pretty good about my wrists for the past several years but the problem has done the opposite of go away. *sigh*)

2. Deposited a check.

3. Returned a library book I kept not getting around to reading. I have not really been in a "let's read a book!" mood this summer -- instead I am reading a lot of fic, reading a few specific blogs, and listening to a lot of podcasts. That's just how it goes sometimes.

4. Bought some vodka, some Kahlua, and some box wine, because reasons.

5. Bought groceries. I also picked up both my Celexa and my toothpaste while I was there, because I use my grocery chain's pharmacy for convenience and such. I was mildly surprised the toothpaste was ready, because it has usually taken a day or two in transit for previous refills to arrive.

6. Used a one-off tiny tube of superglue (a grocery purchase) to repair a couple of dollar store apartment staging knick-knacks that got slightly busted during the epic video tour session on Saturday. It's frankly less annoying to fix them than to go buy a new batch of stuff from the dollar store, though I do want to hit the place up for some novelty magnets at some point.

7. Watered my container garden because my peppers looked sad and droopy.

8. Did some minimal Board of Trustees stuff, but I have additional items I need to get through either tonight or tomorrow.

9. Signed up for Remix Revival 2020, which I kept forgetting to do this past week due to general Overwhelm. I love remix exchanges/challenges, and this is one of the highlights of my fannish year. You should come play too! (Signups close in only a few hours.)

Now I am going to go fold and put away Sunday's clean laundry, after which I will... hmmm... I think the Board stuff is more immediately important, because deadlines, so I'll take a whack at some of that, and then if I have a bit of time left over I will try to finish the still tragically untitled Narnia bridge fic because I've been making progress there and it's so close to done I can taste it; I'm just not quite sure how to get from Point T to Point Z, you know?

But that's for later. Now it's time for laundry (and podcasts, because podcasts and chores are a match made in heaven).