If this sounds familiar, it's because bits and pieces of it have shown up here and there--pretty much whenever I despaired of ever actually finishing it. Still gen like a totally, totally gen thing, though, so no worries on that front. Despite the summary.
And now I need to sit down and actually write out my reverse round story for
originalbigbang. Which means research, because I decided to set it in a time & place I'm totally unfamiliar with, and give the main character a profession with lots of technically fiddly language to worry about. Yay. Why oh why did I do something so stupid? Should've picked the surreal picture instead--then I could have written just about anything and gotten away with it.... 