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The Fifth Suit: Suited, Down To the Ground by Susan M. Garrett (I'll say PG-13, to be safe)
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nanashi_sama here. I'll be your Crack Van driver for the fandom The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne (overview to be posted by next week at the latest, sorry).
Fandom: THE SECRET ADVENTURES OF JULES VERNE
Pairing: none
Author on LJ:susanmgarrett
Author Website: Author's page at The Book of Knowledge
Why this must be read: In the beginning, there was The Suit.
The Suit was never part of the show, you must understand. It was what Sci-Fi Channel made Chris Demetral wear for the commercial blurbs. Think of the white suit that most actors playing an old Mark Twain would wear, brighten that up quite a bit due to the lighting styles used for those blurbs, and you have a pretty good idea what we're talking about.
The fans did not like The Suit.
Chris himself did not like The Suit.
Which led to Susan commenting in a chat one night that she would write a story in which The Suit would be destroyed in some way.
She wound up writing four. There were supposed to be five, one from each of the main characters' POV, but to the best of my knowledge she still hasn't written Jules' take on the matter.
Wait a minute, I hear you ask, five characters? I though there were only four actors in the main cast?
True. The Fifth Suit is told from the viewpoint of the Aurora.
Yes. The airship.
I have noticed that someones change canvas. Phileas changes canvas SO many times that I become dizzy - I don't understand how the someones know one from the other with so much changing of canvas, but they do. Rebecca has the prettiest canvases.
But Jules had a canvas that Rebecca and Phileas and Passepartout didn't like. I don't think Jules liked it much either, but that he was in a way similar to me in that I don't have much say about my own canvas - I have to work with what I'm given, be it clean or dirty, new or patched.
It can be very embarrassing.
I didn't have such trouble with Jules' canvas, as it wasn't unlike my own. Mine is like the colors in the places where the bright thing above is warmer, there is no water to replenish my steam canister, and the sameness of it goes on for what seems like longitudes at a time. Some of Jules' canvas looked like mine. Rebecca and Passepartout and Phileas seem to like my canvas, but they didn't like the canvas that Jules would wear.
It is not really one canvas. The someones are covered with small pieces of canvas, like my sails or ballonets. I gather, from what Passepartout has said, that these canvas pieces fit together to form something called a 'suit.'
They did not like this suit.
Jules had other canvases that seemed to work well for the someones - it was just this one canvas. I didn't know why they didn't shred it and use it to buff my brass - which could have used a definite buffing after Jules and Phileas left their fingerprints all over me - but they didn't.
I thought about this. My brass needed buffing. I ground my bearings.
The story itself can be read here or, if you have QuickTime, there is an audio version read by Adela Torres here.
nanashi_sama here. I'll be your Crack Van driver for the fandom The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne (overview to be posted by next week at the latest, sorry).Fandom: THE SECRET ADVENTURES OF JULES VERNE
Pairing: none
Author on LJ:
susanmgarrettAuthor Website: Author's page at The Book of Knowledge
Why this must be read: In the beginning, there was The Suit.
The Suit was never part of the show, you must understand. It was what Sci-Fi Channel made Chris Demetral wear for the commercial blurbs. Think of the white suit that most actors playing an old Mark Twain would wear, brighten that up quite a bit due to the lighting styles used for those blurbs, and you have a pretty good idea what we're talking about.
The fans did not like The Suit.
Chris himself did not like The Suit.
Which led to Susan commenting in a chat one night that she would write a story in which The Suit would be destroyed in some way.
She wound up writing four. There were supposed to be five, one from each of the main characters' POV, but to the best of my knowledge she still hasn't written Jules' take on the matter.
Wait a minute, I hear you ask, five characters? I though there were only four actors in the main cast?
True. The Fifth Suit is told from the viewpoint of the Aurora.
Yes. The airship.
I have noticed that someones change canvas. Phileas changes canvas SO many times that I become dizzy - I don't understand how the someones know one from the other with so much changing of canvas, but they do. Rebecca has the prettiest canvases.
But Jules had a canvas that Rebecca and Phileas and Passepartout didn't like. I don't think Jules liked it much either, but that he was in a way similar to me in that I don't have much say about my own canvas - I have to work with what I'm given, be it clean or dirty, new or patched.
It can be very embarrassing.
I didn't have such trouble with Jules' canvas, as it wasn't unlike my own. Mine is like the colors in the places where the bright thing above is warmer, there is no water to replenish my steam canister, and the sameness of it goes on for what seems like longitudes at a time. Some of Jules' canvas looked like mine. Rebecca and Passepartout and Phileas seem to like my canvas, but they didn't like the canvas that Jules would wear.
It is not really one canvas. The someones are covered with small pieces of canvas, like my sails or ballonets. I gather, from what Passepartout has said, that these canvas pieces fit together to form something called a 'suit.'
They did not like this suit.
Jules had other canvases that seemed to work well for the someones - it was just this one canvas. I didn't know why they didn't shred it and use it to buff my brass - which could have used a definite buffing after Jules and Phileas left their fingerprints all over me - but they didn't.
I thought about this. My brass needed buffing. I ground my bearings.
The story itself can be read here or, if you have QuickTime, there is an audio version read by Adela Torres here.
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"The Fifth Suit: Suited, Down To the Ground" should be http://bookofknowledge.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Garrett/Suit05TheFifthSuitSuitedDowntotheGround