I was assigned to remix one of ![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
fawatson's fics, and I'm pretty sure we matched on Vorkosigan fandom, but I saw In Which Pooh Finds Someone Lost and is Rewarded (a story about James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George Dupree's mother (from one of Milne's poems called Disobedience) appearing in the Hundred Acre Wood) and thought the idea was fabulous. I've always loved Milne's poems; as a child, my parents read extensively to me from the two Pooh books but even more so from Milne's two poetry books, and Disobedience is one I can still mostly recite from memory. I had this wonderful idea about her wandering through the rest of the poems. She got lost because she "tried to go down to the end of the town" and in my head that translated to "well, they're poems, what if the end of the town is like the end of the book? what happens in the space between the poems?" and things went from there.
Unfortunately, lately I have not been writing until/unless I am UP AGAINST THE DEADLINE and so I was really pressed for time. Not because I had to be, but because I didn't start writing and I didn't start writing and I just ... didn't start writing until holy cow I was almost at the deadline. Which, I can crank out a lot of writing in a very short time, but that works best if you're doing something ... short. And I wasn't. Part of the problem was I had "oh, she can go into this poem and this one and this one and ...." but not necessarily what the structure was going to be, what the theme was going to be, and how each one of those poems was going to fit into the overall structure. If I'd planned it out in advance I probably COULD have gotten all the stuff I wanted into it, but oh well. I'll probably never do a sequel, because I think doing it once has scratched the meta itch that the original gave me.
redrikki was the author who remixed me, and came up with After the Glory Fades (The Last Lesson Learned Remix), which is wonderful and you should totally go read it. (Wonder Woman, Diana mourning her aunt, General Antiope.)
Anyway, you should totally read the original and then go through the Remix and read lots of fic, there were many great ones.
Title: In Which Mrs. Jane Dupree Has An Adventure (The Finding Herself Remix)
Fandom: Winnie-the-Pooh and Milne's poems
Length: 9k words
Rating: G
Summary: Mrs. Dupree put on a golden gown and went down to the end of the town. And this is what happened when she went past The End.
Betaed by:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
the_rckthe_rck
On AO3. On tumblr. On Pillowfort.
Mrs. Dupree, of course, is from the poem "Disobedience" in When We Were Very Young, one of A.A. Milne's two books of children's poetry (the other being Now We Are Six). She then wanders in and out of other poems in those two volumes before finding herself finally in the Hundred Acre Wood. The other poems are, in order, "Halfway Down," “King John’s Christmas,” "Missing," “Forgiveness,” “The Knight Whose Armor Didn’t Squeak,” “Bad Sir Brian Botany,” “The Good Little Girl,” and “King Hilary and the Beggarman.”
LAST SEEN
WANDERING VAGUELY
There was nothing. She had come to see whatever it was, but there was nothing to see. Quite literally nothing; a white blankness with no form or texture, and flat somehow, as if it was almost insubstantial. The End.
( Only, it wasn't an end really, because surely that implied that things … stopped? But that also implied the existence of things to stop. And there was nothing here. )
Unfortunately, lately I have not been writing until/unless I am UP AGAINST THE DEADLINE and so I was really pressed for time. Not because I had to be, but because I didn't start writing and I didn't start writing and I just ... didn't start writing until holy cow I was almost at the deadline. Which, I can crank out a lot of writing in a very short time, but that works best if you're doing something ... short. And I wasn't. Part of the problem was I had "oh, she can go into this poem and this one and this one and ...." but not necessarily what the structure was going to be, what the theme was going to be, and how each one of those poems was going to fit into the overall structure. If I'd planned it out in advance I probably COULD have gotten all the stuff I wanted into it, but oh well. I'll probably never do a sequel, because I think doing it once has scratched the meta itch that the original gave me.
Anyway, you should totally read the original and then go through the Remix and read lots of fic, there were many great ones.
Title: In Which Mrs. Jane Dupree Has An Adventure (The Finding Herself Remix)
Fandom: Winnie-the-Pooh and Milne's poems
Length: 9k words
Rating: G
Summary: Mrs. Dupree put on a golden gown and went down to the end of the town. And this is what happened when she went past The End.
Betaed by:
the_rckthe_rck On AO3. On tumblr. On Pillowfort.
Mrs. Dupree, of course, is from the poem "Disobedience" in When We Were Very Young, one of A.A. Milne's two books of children's poetry (the other being Now We Are Six). She then wanders in and out of other poems in those two volumes before finding herself finally in the Hundred Acre Wood. The other poems are, in order, "Halfway Down," “King John’s Christmas,” "Missing," “Forgiveness,” “The Knight Whose Armor Didn’t Squeak,” “Bad Sir Brian Botany,” “The Good Little Girl,” and “King Hilary and the Beggarman.”
LAST SEEN
WANDERING VAGUELY
There was nothing. She had come to see whatever it was, but there was nothing to see. Quite literally nothing; a white blankness with no form or texture, and flat somehow, as if it was almost insubstantial. The End.
( Only, it wasn't an end really, because surely that implied that things … stopped? But that also implied the existence of things to stop. And there was nothing here. )
