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elvenpiratelady.livejournal.comTitle: Giving Myself A Start
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Fandom: Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
Rating: PG
Warnings: mild references to slavery
Prompt: 99) My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong. -- Mother Jones (1830 or 1837-1930), Irish-born American labor organizer, member of the Knights of Labor, deeply involved with the United Mine Workers, and organizer of a strike of children working in mills and mines. (The quote more aptly describes Anna’s life after this fic, but it suits her to a tee.)
Summary: With a life of slavery in Arkangel left behind her, Anna Fang is off to a flying start.
Word count: 1912
Author's Notes: This is not the Anna Fang story I started out writing for this ficathon. That fic is turning into a monster, being 4000 words long and nowhere near finished. This fic is really the beginning of a much longer story, and hopefully I’ll finish it one day. In the mean time, huzzah for actually finishing a fic on time!
So to the actual story notes – doing research about women aviators turned up some amazing ladies and I wish I could throw tickertape parades for them all, but the main inspiration is Katherine Sui Fun Cheung, the first Chinese American woman to become a pilot. This photo of her is the Anna Fang in my head because she’s clearly having so much fun flying her planes. I have to mention the Ninety-Nines because of my prompt number (although I didn’t find out about them until I started research for this fic – coincidence regarding awesome ladies, or something else?), and the Night Witches deserve to be recognised as well. What I discovered more than anything else is the distinct correlation between wittiness and women aviators. There are some great quotes here. The title comes from another quote on the prompt list and I hope whoever actually claimed it doesn’t mind me using it: 141) I got myself a start by giving myself a start. -- Sarah Breedlove Walker.
So thanks go to Katherine Sui Fun Cheung and all the other women who have taken to the skies, Philip Reeve for writing the Mortal Engines series (I have some issues regarding plots and character development, but he created Anna Fang for me so I’ll let them go) andgehayi for running this ficathon every year. Extra special thanks to my brother, who is the only other person I know who has read the Mortal Engines series and who beta’d this for me at short notice and at the last minute.
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( Giving Myself A Start )
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elvenpiratelady Fandom: Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
Rating: PG
Warnings: mild references to slavery
Prompt: 99) My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong. -- Mother Jones (1830 or 1837-1930), Irish-born American labor organizer, member of the Knights of Labor, deeply involved with the United Mine Workers, and organizer of a strike of children working in mills and mines. (The quote more aptly describes Anna’s life after this fic, but it suits her to a tee.)
Summary: With a life of slavery in Arkangel left behind her, Anna Fang is off to a flying start.
Word count: 1912
Author's Notes: This is not the Anna Fang story I started out writing for this ficathon. That fic is turning into a monster, being 4000 words long and nowhere near finished. This fic is really the beginning of a much longer story, and hopefully I’ll finish it one day. In the mean time, huzzah for actually finishing a fic on time!
So to the actual story notes – doing research about women aviators turned up some amazing ladies and I wish I could throw tickertape parades for them all, but the main inspiration is Katherine Sui Fun Cheung, the first Chinese American woman to become a pilot. This photo of her is the Anna Fang in my head because she’s clearly having so much fun flying her planes. I have to mention the Ninety-Nines because of my prompt number (although I didn’t find out about them until I started research for this fic – coincidence regarding awesome ladies, or something else?), and the Night Witches deserve to be recognised as well. What I discovered more than anything else is the distinct correlation between wittiness and women aviators. There are some great quotes here. The title comes from another quote on the prompt list and I hope whoever actually claimed it doesn’t mind me using it: 141) I got myself a start by giving myself a start. -- Sarah Breedlove Walker.
So thanks go to Katherine Sui Fun Cheung and all the other women who have taken to the skies, Philip Reeve for writing the Mortal Engines series (I have some issues regarding plots and character development, but he created Anna Fang for me so I’ll let them go) and
gehayi for running this ficathon every year. Extra special thanks to my brother, who is the only other person I know who has read the Mortal Engines series and who beta’d this for me at short notice and at the last minute.--------------------
( Giving Myself A Start )
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