2019-09-13

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Raoul-torture

This is the story I vaguely remembered but couldn't track down again when discussing authors who liked to write about Raoul 'suffering beautifully' -- not a particularly common trope.

Puzzle Pieces by lourdesmont

It's an epic if somewhat amateurish saga that is typical of its era of the fandom -- the difference is that it was an R/C story amidst a sea of fiction about E/C's tortured relationship. I'm not sure I can honestly include it as a fic rec (for the same reasons that it never made it into my favourites or my R/C community), but it is a landmark of its day.

(Although having just been writing and researching the train service from Paris to Lyon and Dijon, I can't help finding myself now wincing at chapter 3, in which our protagonists travel cross-country on a sleeper service for three days in order to reach Lyon -- I came across a similar episode in a "Frozen" story where the characters spend days on a nonstop train journey from the North of England to London, a trip that could be made in a matter of hours as early as 1848. I think US authors tend to mentally picture 19th century European railways on the scale of the American continent.)