Middle-america · (The · Book)

As you might expect, this one is packed with Exit 57 and Strangers With Candy references. Props to stellar_dust for proofreading and suggestions.

( Chapter 18: The Muffins of Sedariel )

Now featuring footnotes. See also: list of previous chapters.

Will be updated as the chapters arrive. (Not dead yet! "One chapter every four months" seems to be the current holding pattern.)

( Book II: The Tie Goes South )

I would have liked to do some kind of video montage for the footnotes, but it occurs to me that if I haven't gotten around to it in the last year, I probably won't do it in the next.

So here are all the allusions, references, and in-jokes in Book I, in text form. From the really, really obvious (Jon Stewart is short??) to the thoroughly obscure (hands up, those of you who caught the West Wing shoutout).

( Book I: The Tie Sets Out )

I have nothing clever to say. Lewis is gone, time to move onto MORE ELVES.
( Chapter 17: Chicagórien )

Yes, gentle readers, we're still around! Which, after this chapter, is more than can be said for a certain wizard...

( Chapter 16: Red, White, and Doomed )

So, after much delay and general laziness, the next chapter is posted. Mostly because of a certain piece of fanart of preciousness and general guilt-inducement. This one has more Lewis and cursing. Uhm... that's about it.

Merry Christmas, because my laziness was totally a hidden agenda to bring this to you for Christmas. <.< I swear.

( Chapter 15: A Journey in the Really Freakin' Dark )

Despite its title, this chapter makes more references to The Faculty (one of Jon's better bad movies, co-starring Elijah Wood) than anything else. The whole thing is available on YouTube, but you'll at least want to check out part 9 and part 10.

( Chapter 14: Studio Moria in the Sunset Mount )

Well, now that Midterms, Round One is over, and I'm back from my adventures in meeting cool people at school, I can get to posting this. And it's only ten minutes after the day! Anyway, here she is;
( Chapter 13: The Tie Goes South )

And so we bring you a written update! Huzzah for the long break. I've got to say that this chapter has had me the most joyous, if not just for the Georwen, then also for the locale (Muck Fichigan! I can't help it =/).Without further delay, I bring to you:
( Chapter 11: Many Midwest Meetings Midtacular )