St Patrick's Day

[julesjones]

Here, have the annual link to Four Leaf Clover. Warning -- not safe for work from a few pages in, and includes catty remarks about mock-Oirish commercial crassness from an actual Norn Iron author...

Comments

[predatrix.livejournal.com]

I read the whole thing again with much pleasure (though I say it myself...actually can't remember which bits I did).

I love the lightness of tone, and the way the characters come through. For some reason Mark is always my favourite secondary character...must read some more of our stuff.

[julesjones]

Lectrolon was your invention. A fair bit of Sebastian's dialogue (and him being specifically Northern Irish) was you re-purposing the ranting I'd done after my then-recent trip to Belfast to see family. :-)

I think Vaughan's fellow rugby fan was mine, though with addenda by you...

[predatrix.livejournal.com]

Lectrolon was just "robot Hong Kong", but it made perfectly good sense...

[julesjones]

Exactly. I was the one who ranted about "made in Hong Kong" tourist tat (and then noted that this dated me, as now it's "made in China", and a generation earlier was "made in Japan). *You* were the one who went, "and that would make a good joke if updated to an era with AIs..."