on history and legend

I'm currently reading Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of A.D. 800, and by reading, I mean I started it today and am on page 12, but the first twelve pages have been really good.

Me being me, it makes me think of Narnia.

( remote and ghostly figures )

I also just finished rereading (for, oh, the umpteenth time; I've had these books since I was in fourth or fifth grade and I reread them a couple times a year) Dragonfly in Amber. For those that don't know, Dragonfly in Amber is the second book in the Outlander series, about a time-traveling English doctor from the 1940s (and later, the 1960s) who falls in love with a Scottish Jacobite. Here, she's talking to a modern historian in 1968 about her experiences with the 1945 Jacobite Rising.

( and the odd thing is, that that's all that's endured of them )

It's not a new thing, this knowledge that history is flawed and broken and dangerous, untrue. While it's not a common theme in fiction, it's not particularly rare, either. It makes its way into modern history books, because the more we learn, the more we learn we don't know and can't learn. But it fascinates me, and I thought y'all might be interested in seeing some of what I run across.

What's lost? What's found? What's truth, and what's a pretty lie? Who knows, really?

In conclusion, now I want to write Golden Age history from the Telmarine POV. Unfortunately, I have to do homework.

*whispers*

The werewolf story developed a sequel. Actually, the sequel's plot is more developed than the original -- ya know, Caspian and Miraz and all that -- and there is possibly a secondary plot, and also subplots, and also, Peter is up for murder. Whoops! (Murder that happened when he was fourteen, just for reference.)

That story? Going to the pile of "develope into original fic" plots. Although y'all just know you want to see Peter thrown over the hood of a police car and handcuffed -- and not fighting back.

Oh, and there's Eustace too, but who cares about him? Not when there's Edmund trying to figure out whether he's okay with the fact that Peter might have slaughtered an entire family, and oh, did Peter really do it? Because he's probably fine with the slaughtering thing, in retrospect.

Meanwhile, I'll be over here doing homework.

because clearly at least one of us in this journal is on the good crack

Gee, I wonder what I've been writing?

Narnia ficbit: Peter/Edmund, adult

I was going to post a bunch of stuff all at once in a bundle, but apparently y'all would like it separately, so. (Also, today I wrote crack, so.)

( Peter/Edmund, post-wedding/ritual (a.k.a. the *first* time Narnia possessed Edmund), ADULT. May or may not be in Warsverse canon; I am actually leaning towards not. )