TMOH

still toying with possible given names for Mr Stratford in case it comes up in fic someday

I keep leaning towards William because of a lot of reasons:

• the obvious Shakespeare joke
  the fact that the Murderous Boyfriend character in a lot of folk songs (“Pretty Polly”, “Knoxville Girl”) is quite often called “Willie”
• it’s a suitably generic name for a really generic dude
• it would make him and his buddy Bill and Ted, and that’s hilarious

But at the same time I really like candyexorcist’s idea that he goes by his last name because his given name is really embarrassing…perhaps a “horrible Puritan first name…like Jeremiah.  Or Moderation.  Or Thievery.”  And that’s hilarious too.  :O

And for some reason when I first worked out his character design my subconscious kept telling me to call him Gideon?

I JUST HAVE TO COVER ALL THESE BASES BEFORE I WRITE REAL FIC, OKAY

OTHERWISE IT’S GOING TO TURN INTO A CONTINUTY-SNARLED MESS LIKE MY CARCER FIC

SERIOUSLY, NONE OF THAT STUFF CAN ACTUALLY BE IN THE SAME UNIVERSE, IT CHANGED TOO MUCH BETWEEN EACH FICLET

anyway his mother’s going to have to call him SOMETHING and I can’t use more than two (because he’s allowed to have a middle name, right??) so maybe tell me what works for you?

listening to Terry Pratchett interviews on YouTube

…and I’m realizing something weird: I can’t actually WATCH the video part, because it would be TOO EMOTIONALLY INTENSE for me

just realized one of my timeline posts got cut off

Snuff timeline comment #1 has been updated with the missing paragraph!  :D

owwwwwww

burned self on oven two days ago

everyday tasks fucked up the blister, now there’s just raw, sad dermis there

bought burn plasters at boots, applied one

NOW IT HURTS MORE

Snuff timeline comment #2

WARNING: Even more Snuff spoilers under the cut!

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Snuff timeline comment #1

Under the cut for spoilers!

I’ve always been a little unclear about the logistics of Stratford and Flutter going to the Goblin’s Head, so my first goal in working out a Snuff timeline was figuring that out.

In canon, we’re told:

• Stratford killed the goblin girl on the evening of the day that Vimes fought Jethro—because the blood was there by midnight, when Vimes was supposed to meet him
• When Vimes talks to Jiminy, he learns that Stratford showed off the unggue pot “the day before yesterday.” That conversation happens the night before Flutter’s arrested.
• At the time of Flutter’s arrest, the murder was “three nights ago.”

So my timeline says:

• Day 1, morning—Vimes and Jethro’s fight
• Day 1, evening—Stratford murders the goblin girl
• Day 1, even later—Stratford and Flutter go to the pub
• Day 3, evening—Vimes talks to Jiminy
• Day 4, early morning—Vimes arrests Flutter

But if that’s true, then Stratford and Flutter must’ve gone to the pub very soon after the murder, when they were either half-naked or soaked in blood.  But Jiminy doesn’t mention anything being wrong with their clothes, which you’d think he would have given those options.  So they must’ve had time to change.  But they obviously didn’t bring clean clothes with them, because if they had Flutter wouldn’t have had to leave the barn shirtless. 

But getting new clothes would take time, especially since neither of them lives in Crundells—so they would’ve got back to the village pretty late in the evening.  And that’s really interesting, because that lets their trip to the Goblin’s Head overlap with a couple of different events, depending on the precise timing.  To wit:

• if Stratford and Flutter came back to Crundells around eleven, that would most likely put them in the late-night crowd leaving the pub…who’re there when Vimes talks to Jiminy at the back door, immediately after he’s discovered the crime scene!  Did they see him?  Did he see them?  THIS COULD BE SO INTERESTING
• alternatively, if the trip to get non-bloodied clothes and return took longer and/or the crime happened later, Stratford and Flutter might’ve been at the Goblin’s Head in a…business capacity rather than as customers.  We’re told later on that Jiminy has been storing some of Rust’s tobacco in his basement, after all.  And it just so happens that, in the wee hours of the morning on Day 2, Vimes awakes in the night to hear what he suspects to be a group of smugglers on the road outside….  Again, OH MY GODS WHAT IF THAT WAS THEM ALL ALONG

What do y’all think about this?  Does it make sense?  Do you prefer one explanation to the other? Are there any other possible explanations I’m missing?

so I *think* this is the correct sequence of events?

Huge Snuff spoilers under the cut!  Also this is being worked out from the perspective of somebody who just wants to write boatloads of Flutter and/or Stratford fic so…other characters are going to be skimmed.

Comments on the interesting/confusing/possibly fic-relevant bits will be up in a minute.

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