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Fic: Blood Lines (Griselda Marchbanks, PG)
Sep. 7th, 2006 01:30 amTitle: Blood Lines
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snorkackcatcher
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~ 2,200
Prompt: 61. A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. --Ariel Durant.
Summary: 'On the Recent War, the Purity of Blood, and the Historical Context': text of the keynote speech given by Griselda Marchbanks to the Ministerial Conference on the Development of Magical Society in the New Millennium, March 2000.
Notes: Many thanks tolazy_neutrino for betaing this fic and for a number of very helpful suggestions, including the title. Any remaining problems are my own fault. Written for the 2006 ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
femgenficathon.
( This looks like a lj-cut, but actually it's a link to the comm )
Lyrics: Last time the song was the 1950s English translation of Mack the Knife from The Threepenny Opera, as sung (and lyrically slightly mangled) by Bobby Darin in 1958 -- spotted bythreeoranges (hi!), lareinenoire, and maple_clef.
A bit more modern this time:
Let me put you in the picture
Let me show you what I mean
The messiah is my sister
Ain't no king man, she's my queen (1990s)
Author:
snorkackcatcherRating: PG
Word Count: ~ 2,200
Prompt: 61. A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. --Ariel Durant.
Summary: 'On the Recent War, the Purity of Blood, and the Historical Context': text of the keynote speech given by Griselda Marchbanks to the Ministerial Conference on the Development of Magical Society in the New Millennium, March 2000.
Notes: Many thanks to
lazy_neutrino for betaing this fic and for a number of very helpful suggestions, including the title. Any remaining problems are my own fault. Written for the 2006 femgenficathon.( This looks like a lj-cut, but actually it's a link to the comm )
Lyrics: Last time the song was the 1950s English translation of Mack the Knife from The Threepenny Opera, as sung (and lyrically slightly mangled) by Bobby Darin in 1958 -- spotted by
threeoranges (hi!), lareinenoire, and maple_clef.A bit more modern this time:
Let me put you in the picture
Let me show you what I mean
The messiah is my sister
Ain't no king man, she's my queen (1990s)
