But I have an outline now, so that makes this okay, right.

[dira]

Teen Wolf Beauty and the Beast (ish. extremely ish.) AU: 30,488 words.
Internal time elapsed: 100 hours.
Events left before Big Finish: 8, sort of. Everything between here and the Big Finish is labeled 'Montage'. IDEK.
Events contained in the Big Finish: 11, so far.
Events that come AFTER the Big Finish: 3, so far.

...So I can totally wrap this up in fifteen thousand more words, right? ...Right?

/o\


Sooooo, who wants to beta this ridiculous monster?

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[fullygoldy]

LOL, ILU (and your brain) so much!

Do you trust me with this one?

[dira]

Yes! Yes I do. ♥

[sara]

I would be more than happy to beta for northern California geography, because it's driving me absolutely bonkers how wrong people in the fandom are getting it.

[dira]

This story never leaves Beacon Hills, so I think that, apart from the baked-in canonical wtfery of the seasons/weather, we're all good on geography. *g*

(I'll be in touch for the story where I send Stiles to San Francisco, though!)

[sara]

I have read waaaaaay too many stories lately where San Francisco is an hour's drive from Beacon Hills. Or where Stanford is twenty minutes from the Golden Gate Bridge. It's starting to make me like those people who used to complain that nobody in Harry Potter would call it high school or buy their butterbeer in dollars.

[dira]

Yyyyeah, neither of those things seems right. I mean, obviously we don't know where exactly Beacon Hills is, but I was figuring it's a couple of hours to Sacramento? ish? and thence to SF. Do you have any specific thoughts on where Beacon Hills should be located?

[sara]

If it's got meaningful woods, it's got to be in the Sierras somewhere, which would mean about four-five hours' drive outside the Bay Area proper.

Is it modern-suburby, or quaint-old-towny? I still haven't seen hardly any of the program -- I don't really watch TV -- it's just that it's what everyone is writing now, so I'm reading it. If it's modern-suburby, it could be somewhere off 80 or I-5. Quaint would be more off 49, probably.

If it's damp-woodsy rather than dry-woodsy, it'd have to be somewhere in, like, Mendocino or Humboldt -- but people seem, for whatever reason, to assume it's somewhere outside Sacramento. Personally, I'd set my morose werewolf drama in somewhere like Arcata, but I'm not in charge of these things. ;>

[dira]

The town doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense. (See also: Derek spends the second season living in what appears to be an abandoned underground subway station, complete with derelict subway cars.) We haven't seen an actual downtown. It has a public high school that opened in 1940, and a forest preserve that seems to be mostly damp and deciduous, with a smallish river running through it and some interesting hills and cliffs/gorges (but no vistas including mountains that I've ever noticed). In January and February we see people's breath when they're outside, but there's no snow and people talk in horrified tones about it getting down below 50 degrees at night. I think we see evidence of a freewayish road, maybe, but mostly we see a lot of warehouse-y buildings, the woods, and the high school. And everyone lives in ridiculously huge houses, but that's TV.

[sara]

Yeah, I have to admit, I've found the abandoned subway station consistently hilarious. And even in the southeastern Sierras it gets colder than that at night.

I wonder where they're filming it?

If it's damp, I vote you set it somewhere in Humboldt. Mostly because werewolves running around in the pot-growing Humboldtian hinterlands would be funny (and you could send them to Humboldt State, where they would all spend their formative years stoned off their asses). Of course, I also think it would be funny to involve California DFW in werewolf management in some meaningful way. Derek gets tranquilized and equipped with a radio tracking collar, and he's then got to move the damn thing around in a reasonable way so the wildlife biologists don't realize he spends most of his time human! And it's really cutting into his "hanging out at the high school perving on sixteen-year-olds" time!

Okay, so my idea of what makes for a great plot isn't everyone's, but still.

[dira]

The last couple of seasons were filmed in and around Atlanta. I think they've now moved production to LA, so presumably all visual cues are about to get shaken up and randomized. (Also I assume that if the passage of time ever actually advances to the point where the characters need to go to college there will turn out to be a Beacon College or UC-Beacon Hills or something, because of course. But it could totally be Humboldt State in disguise! *g*)

Stiles does have a surfboard (also a snowboard) (not that we've seen him use either, but they're in his room) so I guess that points to reasonable access to the coast. So I'll keep Humboldt in mind. :)

[sara]

*facepalm* Because nothing looks more like Northern California than...Atlanta.

I know, I know, I'm super-picky. This is why TV isn't fun for me any more. Although, growing up in LA, I just figured that everywhere looked about like LA and that was why everywhere on TV looked about like LA!

Not so much, no, twelve-year-old me.

[mlyn]

There is one scene with big fluffy flakes falling all of a sudden. And the scenes (particularly the 1.2 lacrosse game) where you can see their breath? It's probably in the low 40s or 30s. It looked fucking cold.

...Which is weird, since Georgia doesn't usually get that cold either, but maybe they're in the hillier northern part?

I figured the town is somewhere north of Redding. N'rn California can totally get these climes, although the forests may not be totally right. I defer to sara and her suggestions.

[dira]

Oh, huh! I had forgotten that we see snow. I'll have to keep an eye out for it in this round of rewatching. And, yeah, it does look reasonably cold, so I guess the temperatures they mention when Lydia's lost are not necessarily the coldest it ever gets, just cold enough to be dangerous.

A friend of mine who lived for a few years in the Bay Area had suggested putting Beacon Hills in or near Shasta, so, yeah, I figure it's up there somewhere, just a question of which freeway I have them take to get to and from SF. *g*

[dira]

Man, there is a whole generation of kids in the Pacific Northwest who are convinced the entire galaxy looks like their neighborhood thanks to shows shooting in Vancouver, isn't there. *g*

[sara]

Well, if the galaxy had the good taste God gave a guppy, it WOULD look like the PNW. *snerk*

[sara]

I remember scraping a lot of ice off of cars around the Atlanta airport, but that's probably because I keep flying through there in December and January.

Hee, I kind of want a Beacon Hills is part of the State of Jefferson post-apocalypse story. But I am probably the only person in all the world who thinks that werewolves would make Douglas County politics more entertaining.