As best I can tell, I got the urge for this fanfic from reading about the Hallmark Mahogany version of S&S from 2024. It cast Colonel Brandon, the Dashwood sisters and their mother, plus Lucy Steele, as black, and most of the rest of the characters as white. But this version was set in a Bridgerton-esque AU Regency. It occurred to me that one could do interesting things in 1810s New Orleans with a similar idea. I wouldn’t swear that this hasn’t been done before. I feel like I might have seen it floated as a hypothetical somewhere in the fandom, in the last thirty years that I’ve drifted in and out of it.
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Fanficcing with Claude: Sense and Sensibility and Placage, Scene 7
For more information about this project, check out the earlier posts in the category “Sense and Sensibility and Placage.” Claude didn’t do great on the first draft of this scene, with a serious overuse of the word “particular,” and no inclusion of Marianne to speak of. For draft 2 I prompted it to address those issues along with some more minor stuff (Morin’s backstory and height, Edward joining the party later in the scene. Draft 3 was basically me wanting it to reposition a certain paragraph about Morin’s reactions to Marianne chatting up his ward, and being too lazy to do it myself.
Meeting Colonel Morin and Élise
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For more information about this project, check out the earlier posts in the category “Sense and Sensibility and Placage.” Claude did very well on its first draft, but then I realized Edward needed to be present, so I asked for a redraft. I deleted a sentence and a half about Marianne that were not justified by her behavior in the story so far, and I deleted a sentence about Henry Dashwood’s judgment of people late in the scene. “He was a better man etc” is something I wrote to replace it.
The New Cottage
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Video Thursday: Yearning Edition
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Maxim is struck by the sight of Chloe in a green dress at the top of the staircase. A bittersweet moment, because they both believe they can’t be together. They’ve fought monsters side by side. They trust each other with their lives. But their bloodlines stand between them, and moments like this only make it harder. From Dragon’s Teeth, Book 3 of the Hunter Healer King trilogy.
The Armor of Arent: A Forty-Foot Mecha Waiting for the Hunter Healer King
Three thousand years ago, when Arent os Storm fled the fall of Thule, he brought with him more than just survivors and ancient knowledge.
He brought a weapon.
The Armor of Arent is a forty-foot-tall mecha in the shape of a knight in armor, with a crow-faced visor on the helmet, framed by wings. It can walk, it can fly, and it’s been waiting for a king worthy to pilot it. It may have finally found one.
Continue reading “The Armor of Arent: A Forty-Foot Mecha Waiting for the Hunter Healer King”Fanficcing with Claude: Sense and Sensibility and Placage, Scene 5
For more information about this project, check out the earlier posts in the category “Sense and Sensibility and Placage.” Claude did very well on its first draft. For the redraft, I asked it to rework an incoherent description of what the Dashwoods’ mother was doing with her hands during the cart ride, and have Marianne show more emotion. My instinct is that free women of color in this time and place would not have survived long, if they showed the overwrought behavior that Marianne and her mother do in the Austen novel. But Marianne isn’t Marianne if she isn’t the most emo person in any given room. Then I realized this was the right time to introduce Edward, and that led to two more drafts. I manually removed an em-dash rather than ask for another draft.
Journey to Faubourg Marigny
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Fanficcing with Claude: Sense and Sensibility and Placage, Scene 4
For the origins of this project, see previous posts in “Sense and Sensibility and Placage” category. Claude’s first draft was fairly satisfactory on this one, and draft two was me asking for em-dash removal and sentence level fixes in a few places where the AI’s lack of logic became obvious. The words “with her [Frances’s] advice” are mine. I didn’t like what Claude had there but couldn’t justify mucking around with a third draft for it.
Planning the Departure
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