{"id":49,"date":"2014-05-13T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2bootedtales.hamsterbandit.com\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2014-12-31T07:30:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T07:30:58","slug":"puss-noir","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/2bootedtales.hamsterbandit.com\/?page_id=49","title":{"rendered":"The Cat’s Sleuth"},"content":{"rendered":"

The original title of this story was ‘Puss Noir’<\/em>, which was changed due to getting disappointed people seeking porn. That was a confusing few months when the hit meter was going up by thousands a day.<\/p>\n

This story was borne out of an idea Jean Cabot tossed out while trying to inspire someone.<\/p>\n

That someone turned out to secretly be Mae Treesbane, which led to the story By Design<\/em><\/a> as well, but that’s another anecdote.<\/p>\n

Each year there’s a story exchange called Yuletide that Mae and Jean try to participate in as much as possible. That year, 2013, Jean asked for a Puss in Boots story. An alternate universe take, and he listed off a bunch of different ways it could be different, including tossing in ‘noir’ as a joke.<\/p>\n

Mae asked, ‘can you even do a noir Puss in Boots?’<\/p>\n

And so Jean wrote the first few lines. Then Mae wrote the next. Soon they’d written an entire story.<\/p>\n

Then, of course, they had other ideas.<\/p>\n

When they first developed this, they hadn’t really decided on what anyone looked like. It wasn’t until the second story that Bill even had a name, and it would be a while yet before it was used. Slow burn, this story development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The original title of this story was ‘Puss Noir’, which was changed due to getting disappointed people seeking porn. That was a confusing few months when the hit meter was going up by thousands a day. This story was borne…<\/p>\n

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