i do not think this is how fandom is supposed to work

I keep watching Merlin vids and applying them to Narnia. (Specifically, Red and Unsteady Ground.)

Unsteady Ground really makes me want to go back to time-traveling Edmund, but not the time he goes back to before the Long Winter (it has a name! "Danse Macabre." However, I'm not sue it'll ever get written), but at some point when -- circa VotDT, maybe -- he ends up back in the Golden Age. I think he and Lucy are the only Pevensies that could go back and not change things; I think Peter and Susan would try.

It's also now on my Dust playlist. And my LB AU playlist. (At some point I'm probably going to start a Golden Age playlist. *dramatic sigh*)

You love God
Yes, you love your president
You want them both
But we must keep them separate
The left hand don't know where the right hand is at yet
The children don't know yet that we're bombing Baghdad

OH PEVENSIES.

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Man, if anyone was wondering how long it was going to take me to get to the point in Dust where I had to diagram stuff out, the answer would be NOW. Dude, this was not a problem when they were all in one place.

ETA: Man, at some point in the near future I have to go back through the entirety of Dust and, like, take notes, because at this point I don't remember what info I did and didn't drop, because there was a lot of foreshadowing in scenes I cut and I don't remember what's actually there. Is Dust 7 the earliest mention of Casmyn Wavewalker and the Black Fleet? (Originally this came up in Dust 5.) And going through it now and just timelining stuff out I'm noticing stuff I put in that I'd forgotten about. (I forgot that they passed a Calormene work-gang on their first day out of Arn Abedin. Smart, Bedlam. Could have used that.)

ETA2: Man, I'm not really sure that accomplished all that much...Susan's horn must have blown around midday, because Eustace in Dust 9 says, just following the sound of it, "He can look out the open window at the bustling riverfront below without flinching away from the light." And at the time when Edmund hears it, he and Vespasian are out practicing tent-pegging but, by the time he reaches the Calormene camp, it's long past nightfall and Edmund says that the tarkaan who took Susan is at least a half-day's ride ahead of them by now. So the Calormene camp is at least a half-day's ride (maybe more) away from Arn Abedin.

...I'm no longer sure what this whole exercise was supposed to accomplish. I think I was trying to figure out when Susan was going to arrive in Cair Paravel and what Peter, Tirian, and Eustace would be doing at the time. (It's a three day ride from Arn Abedin to Cair Paravel.) This would probably work better if I had a better idea of exactly what they're going to be doing in the immediate future.

Okay, Susan's horn is Day 4, Peter gets arrested on Day 5, (Day 1 being the day they leave Arn Abedin, I mean), and Dust 11 starts on...Day 7? (Peter says he was brought into the prison a day and a half earlier.)

Dude. Susan could totally be in Cair Paravel by now. (Actually, she should come in either late on Day 7 or Day 8, depending. Man, I don't know.) Okay! We'll be doing some dancing around the timeline then. Not that we haven't been doing a little of that before, what with parts of Dust 9 taking place before Dust 8. Stop freaking out, Bedlam. It doesn't suit you.

Hi, this is the inside of my brain, nice to meet you.

a trip through time

Y'all are so lucky that my friends dragged me off when they did; you almost got subjected to a long rambling post wherein I tried to timeline out when exactly I read Narnia for the first time.

I just got back from the meeting I was at (Intensive Newcomb, a.k.a. the gender and sexuality studies club, wherein we watched Beyonce music videos and I tried really hard not to talk about genderfuck) and called my mother and together we reasoned it out.

( Okay, I lied, I do ramble on )

So, to recap, the short, all-Narnia version: first had the books read to me when I was five, don't know when I read them myself but I know I did several times because damn, my copies are worn (VotDT especially), but not as worn as my LotR books, did not have a functional understanding of Christianity until late middle school/early high school.

So if you want to know where I'm coming from? That's it.

ETA: I definitely read Diana Wynne Jones in elementary school; my dog died in fourth grade and I was in 4-H; I remember asking my 4-H leader about dogs with white fur and red ears. She was taken aback.

Other books I read, and I'm remembering this now, include the Little House on the Prairie books, the Prydain Chronicles, the Dark Is Rising books, most of Michael Crichton, and Tom Clancy. I'm trying to remember if I got into fandom in 2001 or 2002; I know it was one of those two years but I don't remember which one. My references give me 2002 and --

FanLore gives me a date. I remember that I started reading the DT on Schnoogle, but I also chased it back to the Pit of Voles, and it was taken down in 2001, so I started in fandom in 2001. Except the dates don't quite add up. *frowns* I'm pretty sure it was 2001, though.

Dude. According to Wikipedia, William Moseley auditioned to be Harry Potter in PS. I AM SO GLAD THAT DID NOT WORK OUT.

i must study politics and war so my sons may study mathematics and philosophy, john adams

OH LOOK literary Peter has returned.

And man, but he's eloquent. I'm not sure if that's my mood or his mood, but man, but he's eloquent.

...PETER. You are not allowed to ruthlessly plagiarize my Brit Lit class, even if it does prove how well-educated you are. Except he pretty much is, and I'm going to get snapped at for using the terms improperly, probably. OH WELL.

...cannot quote LotR; that was not written yet. Damn, that's one reference I could probably do. But at least Tolkien stole his sources. Fine, go ahead and quote Renaissance literature, American patriots, and Roman poets if you want. Be literary; it will just freak people out.

Also, Dust has passed 80K.