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On the bright side, I now feel less completely insane. On the not-so-bright side, I didn't study last night because I was too busy having a nervous breakdown (always a good way to christen a new box of tissues!) and I have a listening quiz in Japanese today.

On the just-plain-weird side, the combination of watching Friday Night Lights and writing Petaverse is clearly getting to me, because last night I was dreaming about Peta playing football...in Providence.

Hi, my name is Bedlam, and I am crazypants.

now if only i actually had a copy of this

...clearly, by "crescent city" (HI NEW ORLEANS), they mean, "Cair Paravel."

Everybody's had a few
Now they're talking about who knows who
I'm going back to the Crescent City
Where everything's still the same
This town has said what it has to say
Now I'm after that back highway
And the longest bridge I've ever crossed over Pontchartrain

Tu le ton temps that's what we say
We used to dance the night away
Me and my sister me and my brother
We used to walk down by the river

making lotr look like the easy way out since 2008

You know, I didn't think I could actually make Dust more epic, and then I thought about it.

Let's just say I should probably not be reading about the Greco-Persian Wars while trying to plot out this story. Hey, at least I'm not ending the world! That was, like, anticlimatic epic. This is really more along the lines of "battle for Gondor" epic, if I can pull it off. And not like Lass's and my Narnia/Stardust crossover, either: not a war amidst gods, but a war amidst men, and the great and terrible beauty of it.

I mean, I kind of desperately want my reference novels, which I don't have here. (Well, okay, I own two of three, and one is here and one is home and the other one is the bridge part of the trilogy.) And I also have to start building up Archenland and Black Fleet diplomacy now, as well as the whole sordid history of the Calormen Empire and some more Narnian history ("yeah, like this will be hard for you," don't think I don't hear y'all snickering at me), and because I have to split everybody up in order to pull it off, it's going to make structure a bitch. (Sorry, Tirian, looks like you won't have half as many POVs as I thought you were when this was going to be a quick and dirty CONQUER NARNIA, DIE CALORMENE SCUM, but at this point we may even have a chance of keeping Narnia Narnian for more than a generation.) But let's just hope the Pevensies can brush up on their diplomatic skills very quickly. (I think Peter gets the easy way out; he gets to practice diplomacy by beating in heads, his very favorite kind. He ain't the one who has to convince, a, enemies of Narnia, b, allies of Narnia, c, Narnians, d, terrified Calormene "allies", or, e, Calormenes, that the revolution is upon them.)

On the other hand, there's Water, and that can't develop this kind of intricate plot; that's hack and bash PC with Peta and just a shade more intricacy and a lot more sex, if I can keep it from bogging down with too much unnecessary inbetween detail. (That is part one, I think goes without saying; part two is Peter and Peta in Burma and England and part three is Warsverse Pevensies and Peta in Petaverse Narnia. I'm only aiming at part one right now, because that one stands on its own.)

And then there's the Narnia/Merlin crossover, which is not allowed to develop an action plot, and the Narnia/Stardust crossover, which is epic on the "GODS THROW DOWN" scale.

Look, if y'all thought my brain ever shut off, you were sadly, sadly mistaken.

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...okay, Be Like Water is supposed to be going to a Peta/Caspian place, not a Peta/Edmund place. Or Peta/Caspian/Edmund. WHAT IS WITH THE CASUAL KISSING, PETA? I mean, you could at least extend it to Susan, here. (You guys have no idea how much subtext I lost because Susan treats Peta differently than Peter. I only realized it when I bumped up against a scene where I'd have Susan kiss Peter on the cheek but not Peta, and my fingers kind of stumbled over the keyboard. lassiterfics, I think you may have reset my default setting to "Subtext! Subtext everywhere! Pevencest! Subtext!")

I fear that Susan is not going to be down for the casual kissing in public, though, alas. Although it's not really public; the only other person in the hallway is Caspian, and he and Peta were just making out. Obviously her answer to Edmund walking in is to plant one on him.

Caspian? Very confused, as per usual. These are mixed signals he doesn't understand!

( be like water tease )

drive-by narnia fic, votdt, warsverse

Line that didn't make it into this, but which I'll try and use in Dust somewhere.

Caspian/Tirian: "But you call him 'king'!"
Edmund: "I also call him 'idiot'. Actually, on second thought, I use the two pretty much interchangeably."

( stored here for safe-keeping )