For my British flisters...

Hey there! A couple of questions for a fic I'm working on. First, does everyone pretty much call Birmingham, Brum, and anyone from there a "Brummie"? It seems that everyone calls it Brum. Is that fairly accurate? That was all I heard last month during my trip to England including several days in Brum, so I'm guessing so, but I'd love confirmation of that.

Second question has to do with pot. Two of the characters in this fic smoke it. Is it called anything else in England? Any terms for being stoned, and/or any particular names for various items of paraphernalia that are uniquely British I can use?

Many thanks!! :D

Ron/Remus story, "Scotch Game"

This was written for the first-ever fest at remus_ron_slash. If you join the comm you can read it there; NC-17 fics are locked to protect the mods. I've made the choice not to lock my adult fics, so after making confirming it was okay to post outside of the comm at this juncture, here 'tis!

Title: Scotch Game
Pairing: Ron/Remus
Word Count: 10,175
Rating: NC-17
Warnings/Alerts: wanking, explicit slash, a bit of angst, AU, EWE
Written for the inaugural fest at remus_ron_slash. The prompt I took was this:
He took my soul and bound it
with cords of iron wire.
~Lord Alfred Douglas, "Rejected"

Summary: When Ron is invited to referee and instruct at a month-long event in Glasgow hosted by the European Youth Wizarding Chess Federation, he balks. Once there, much to his surprise, he enjoys himself. Even more surprising, however, is seeing Remus Lupin as a volunteer, and an attraction to his former professor that resolutely won't go away. But will Lupin allow himself to leave his past so Ron can be a part of his present?

A/N: Huge thanks to my betas, kymyrra, rickey_a and abigail89. 'Scotch Game' comes from my searching of Wikipedia for a clever chess-oriented title. According to them, here are comments about this particular game opening: "Popular in the 19th century, by 1900 the Scotch had lost favor among top players because it was thought to release the central tension too early and allow Black to equalize without difficulty. More recently the Scotch has regained some popularity…"

( Scotch Game )