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23. Where in that crazy world would you prefer to live? Paris? Wulfenbach territory? England? A miscellaneous tyrant’s town? Under the Storm King’s/Fifty Families’ rule? Skifander?

Hrmmm.  Well Skifander sounds interesting because of the (apparent) lack of misogyny, but we don’t really know much about it yet.  (Maybe Skifander is like that one world I made once where sexism took the form of making women do all the fighting, because who cares if a woman dies?  I mean, I really really doubt it, but we don’t know.)  Also my mom’s a twin, so does that ‘Skifander doesn’t like twins’ thing extend to the children of twins?  Would my aunt be dead?  She’s the most tolerable of my aunts, I don’t want her dead.  So no Skifander, at least until we know more about it.

England I also don’t know enough about to say, although Albia has recently creeped me the fuck out, so I’m leaning toward no.  (Also, that comic British arrogance about being the best at everything makes me want to flip them off.  With fireworks and one of those massive electronic billboards that show up in places like Times Square.  So.)  Realistically I’d probably end up there if I fell through a portal, on the basis of English is the only language I speak, but if I was creating a self insert it’d be different.

I’d lean toward Paris, on the basis of the ‘city of art’ thing.  Admittedly, Colette may be changing that, but Colette is pretty awesome and even if Paris does not continue providing implicitly amazing support for art (or if writing isn’t counted as art according to Voltaire) then Paris still seems like one of the safer places to be.  Also, Colette is awesome and I might have a bit of a crush.

Everywhere else (Wulfenbach, Fifty Families, miscellaneous tyrant town) have basically the same dilemma of ‘well it seems safe most of the time, but if I happen to be inconvenient I will die.’  So actually if Paris didn’t work out, probably I would join the circus.  Being a minor spark who travels around conning people and performing and possibly breaking out of jail to escape sounds like great fun.  I could write the plays!

24. Favorite theories/discussion topics?

Honestly I tend to avoid theorizing regarding canon.  Like, there’s a certain amount I have to do to write fanfics (er… had, I guess), but I tend to approach fandom with a bit of a loose attitude toward canon, so inevitably when I tried to theorize it was insufficiently researched and the only responses I got were along the lines of ‘that’s not possible due to the second footnote on page 273 of the fourth novel, which says….’  It was very discouraging and not fun, so I try to avoid theorizing (and, to be fair, that sort of theorizing is not where my brain goes most easily anyway, so it’s not like I have to try hard).

What I prefer is to do somewhere in the vicinity of infinite what ifs and AUs and crossovers.  Which… explains everything I’ve written for this fandom, really.  Any sort of “what if X important moment had gone differently” tends to be the biggest source of instantly fascinating ideas (although that can border on complete AUs, via the “important moment” happening years before canon and changing things as a result).

25. Any more miscellaneous headcanons?

…Not that I can think of, honestly.  I mean, I’m sure I have some, but they’re not springing to mind… oh!  I have adopted @adiduck‘s The General and Hog Wild as Absolute Facts.  Also, Zulenna’s family is descended from Oggie’s siblings, and Maxim has at least once started flirting with a new jager only to discover said jager was his daughter/granddaughter.  This is why he never mentions descendants to counter Oggie’s bragging, despite definitely having several.

Cover of issue twelve of the Girl Genius comic book. Story by Phil & Kaja Foglio. Pencils by Phil Foglio. Feature Story Colored by Laurie E. Smith. Special Thanks To Payne Fifield, Gentleman, Scholar, Magician, and Marie Cooley, Corsetiere, Historian, Junior Astronaut. Lettering, Logos, Book Design, Puzzle & Assorted Illustrations by Kaja Foglio. Cover Colors by Kaja Foglio & Laurie E. Smith.

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Page 56 of issue 12 of the Girl Genius comic book presents three of the Jägershots strips out of a set of ten that were originally posted online and are included (in color) at the end of volume 9 of the graphic novel series. According to a note included with the printed version of the strips, this was before Girl Genius had become a webcomic, so there were no actual pages from the the main story on the website at this time.

See the alt text for a transcription of the text in the comic strips.

Visit our Web site to keep up with our doings, read free comics, download desktops, printable bookplates and other free stuff… or even order back-issues! The Jägershots strips aren't in any way a regular feature, but they're in there and we thought those of you who've never checked our Web site should know what you're missing.

And there is a nice sketch of a dingbot at the top of page page 56, which also contains the Girl Genius Secret Cypher Society entry for this issue.

Wait, wait, I've got another one! It's Maxim again, this time in his ugly stepsister costume from the Girl Genius performance of the story of Sleeping Beauty Snow White Rapunzel Ozma Rose Red Riding Hood Rumpelstiltskin, better known as Cinderella. One of the running gags in this production is that Maxim is the only one of da Boyz who likes his costume ("Mine iz de biggest hat in de show!").

Cover of issue eleven of the Girl Genius comic book. Story by Phil & Kaja Foglio. Pencils by Phil Foglio. Feature Story Colored by Laurie E. Smith. Lettering, Logos, Book Design, Puzzle & Assorted Illustrations by Kaja Foglio. Cover Colors by Kaja Foglio & Cheyenne Wright.

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