Heh. I wouldn't have looked for me in Elementary either, but I kept eyeing the parts of my recipient's signup promoting a time-displacement theme, and thinking that that would be fun to apply to the Elementary characters.
And then serendipity came calling. Like some of our moderators, I'm based in the Pacific Northwest - and as it happens, some of my direct ancestors come from the southwest corner of Washington state, going back a number of generations. I was therefore already familiar with the incident I co-opted for Matters of Luck by way of family stories - but I had not realized, till looking further at the relevant online sources, that one of the players in the affair shared a last name with a particular (briefly) recurring Elementary character whose arc had caught my eye. And on that bit of lucky coincidence, I was able to hang a plot. (Before anyone asks: no, there are no Cardinal ancestors actually onstage anywhere in the story, although it would not have been hard to put some there.)
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Date: 2021-06-21 06:48 pm (UTC)Heh. I wouldn't have looked for me in Elementary either, but I kept eyeing the parts of my recipient's signup promoting a time-displacement theme, and thinking that that would be fun to apply to the Elementary characters.
And then serendipity came calling. Like some of our moderators, I'm based in the Pacific Northwest - and as it happens, some of my direct ancestors come from the southwest corner of Washington state, going back a number of generations. I was therefore already familiar with the incident I co-opted for Matters of Luck by way of family stories - but I had not realized, till looking further at the relevant online sources, that one of the players in the affair shared a last name with a particular (briefly) recurring Elementary character whose arc had caught my eye. And on that bit of lucky coincidence, I was able to hang a plot. (Before anyone asks: no, there are no Cardinal ancestors actually onstage anywhere in the story, although it would not have been hard to put some there.)