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*nosetouch*

WHAT HAPPENED TO BILLY?

Who hit him? Who hurt him? Wait till I get my hands on the bastards.

Erm, heh.

Just reacting publicly. Never a good idea, I suppose. Oh well. Em, sorry?

Oh ouch, Kiltie. What happened to our puir wee Billeh? I don't recall this incident being mentioned before. Is it something that will be explored further?

I've alluded to it very vaguely a few times, in the threads of Billy and Dom's movie date (talking about Billy's old leather jacket) and the night Cate and Billy spend at the pub (talking about another time Billy sang in public). I will go into more detail as time goes on, promise. <3

Oh, you know, the same thing that happens to everyone 48 hours before their dissertation committee review, right? :-) I will write more of this, I promise. This was just a bit of Billy's past that I've had on my mind for a while and I wanted to let it out.

and your wee fists can take out the bastards anytime, me dear. <3

Ahhhhh... Subtlety thy name is Laura.

I have another question, if you please. Rather than a single guestbook thread, have you considered starting a separate comm for feedback? I'm thinking of something like the

dby_lounge was created for

lotr_porn. It could even be called Reichenbach Fall if that's available. It allows for a bit more flexibility for the fans to start discussions or offer feedback on specific threads or characters.

OOo let me second that idea. I promise I won't use that "lounge" to whine about more tigs...Good thing you can't see if I have any crossed toes or anything like that...

might i suggest a name for the proposed community?

how about

office_hours?

Again, love you. And I think the milk’s a bit off.

out of context, it doesn't seem so much, but i just want to say that every time i read "briefcase notes" thread, i am struck dumb by the sheer warmth and domesticity that these few words evoke.

i just wanted to say that.

oh my i'm so in love with this AU it's not funny. All the characters are fascinating and the writing blows me away. *fangirls madly*

BEAUTIFUL new graphic on the home page! I love it!!

I've been trying to find my way into this college for some time now, but never really managed. Then

zoniduck wrote this (http://www.livejournal.com/users/zoniduck/38829.html) entry, and gave me directions by way of 4 threads to start with.

omgomgomgomgomg!!! I'm now halfway the third thread she linked there and adjlja ljfajkjflk fklajljdd!!!

And I was so pleased to find the drabbles at the start of that thread, because I'd been wondering if something ever came of those. Ah, and Torrential!! I practically felt my fillings zinging from the electricity in the air [/bad metaphor].

*happy sigh*

I'm now going to read the second half of the third thread and then start on the fourth one. Just wanted you to know I'm enjoying this so thoroughly :D

hiya. how lame is this that i'm only reading this now, and that i'm adding to this thread so after the fact, but i'm now much too engrossed in the series to do otherwise.

i just found you guys recently through the recs on monaboyd.net and i've not been reading much else for weeks. suffice to say that you're keeping me from my own studies. i think it's likely the fact that i can relate that's got me so taken with this, though, which is certainly not a bad thing.

it's all brilliantly written and characterized, but i'm certain that each one of you already knew that. and as a science student, i especially appreciate that cate is portrayed as just as passionate and creative as everyone else; not all of us involved in such studies are cold and uninteresting.

/rambling
thank you, and i hope that you will all be still writing when i work my way to more recent entries =o)

Missed that there was a guest book and posted this at the end of a chapter. Once I realized my mistake, I quickly deleted it and moved it here. Sorry!

Ok, first, I happened on this entire thing by accident and couldn't stop reading! I am completely hooked. I love the Sherlock Holmes references and was particularly fond of Reichenbach Fall! Also love Hitchcock! More importantly, I can see Billy as a professor. It seems very in character, a sort of what might have been kind of thing. The very beginning with him being so hard up for cash and selling things had a truth to it as well. I love the sort of wired tension in Dom's character in all of this too and the dialogue is wonderful! Found the fact that the old German Bookseller could see things about both Billy and Dom that each thought were hidden, very interesting. I thought it quite entertaining when he saw through Dom and then warned him to be careful the way that he did. Have I mentioned how much I like all of this? LOL I have read very few RP fictions, but I am enjoying this a great deal! It is so well written and so entertaining. I am wondering when Dom will tell Billy he's taken the bookmark or if he will, what was special about the song the street musician was playing that moved Billy so, what are Dom's problems at home?

Thank you so much for maintaining this guestbook thread. I discovered LOTR University last weekend, via a rather long and convoluted chain of friends lists that culminated in "A Trick of the Night" (which is very good and I am following the daily installments quite avidly). I then found the revised Index page and read through the entire work in two days.

What can I say? It's an outstanding work - well-rounded characters (perfect in their imperfections), drama and heartbreak, schmoopy moments, great sex scenes, gay blokes being blokey and not girly, the not-so-sleepy groves of academe, hints of malice and impending doom and the promise of a happy ending (if the references to "Life in Paris" mean what I think they mean - it appears to be a closed community).

I cannot thank you enough for all the effort you have put into this work. I look forward to future chapters and I will be following this story to the very end.

Mark awarded: Higher Distinction

I am so in love with this universe. It's like crack. *sigh* I even feel sympathy for Evilijah. Damn you. But seriously, this is a fantastic series.

I *never* read AU stories, this one is my first and I can't part from it. It's sooo but soooo good that I even read some chapters again. You guys are doing an incredibly fantastic job here. It took me about a week to read the whole thing. Can't wait for more updates (like Dom's graduation, that would be a sweet chapter). This is wonderful.

Like someone else, I don't ever read AUs, in fact, I religiously stay away from them, due to them usually being awfully written. This one... I don't even know/remember why I started reading, all I know is that I'm so addicted that I was getting plot-bunnies from this AU in the middle of serving a customer at work. That is meant to be a compliment, in that, I just about never write fic and plot-bunnies are extremely few and far in-between.

Took me ages to catch up (and I'm going to have to make another round for tigs I probably missed too) but was so worth it.

I admit that I have the occasional problem with characterisation, but the brilliant writing and storyline/s more than makes up for it. =)

Keep up the great work!

Several of the unfinished stories now end abruptly with this error message from LJ --

Error running style: Died in S2::run_code running EntryPage::print(): Excessive recursion detected and stopped.

I've just reciently started trying to catch up and everything so far has been great.
I got questions though, where do I ask them?

You can either post your questions to

office_hours or email me at almaviva @ gmail.com

I'm supposed to be making the family dinner now, but can't think straight after reading the new updates, they are soooooooo good. I want more.
you should put a health warning with new posts. I'm even having problems with my spelling, i've got to calm down.

Well. I'm very, very late to this party. As many times as I've heard the praises of this AU sung, you'd think eventually I'd break down. I did. You people took a day out of my life and dropped two massive lives into my day.

I don't think I've ever seen characterization this complex, this completely thought through. It is exquisite to get lost in. And I like to think I don't say that lightly. I'm not much of a commenter, so fiction has to be something pretty spectacular for me to want to say so.

And this is just that. I'm humbled to the point of awe here. They're aren't enough words.

I'm on another reread of this story and i've found a time line problem, I hope you don't mind me pointing it out to you. in book 2 chapter 5 Come and take a ride, Billy wakes up on sunday and Dom wakes on saturday, and they are together. I know this is nit-picking on such a long running and fantastic story, keep up the good work.

Hi. thanks for pointing it out. We are in the process of our first revision of the whole and are going in order. Currently we're at chapter 16 of book 1 so we'll get there eventually and get it fixed. :D

(I apologize if this was sent twice. *shakes fist at lj*)

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