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Huh, interesting. I just realized I had thematic image clusters scattered throughout Dust that all deal with identity, names, and masks. Go back way to the first couple chapters and you've got the use of the Pevensies' sobriquets as titles for demigods, you've constantly got them having to prove to other people that yes, they really are the kings and queens of old, you've got Tirian's kingship issues, you've got the recurring scars, you've got who the Pevensies were in England bleeding into who they are in Narnia and vice versa (Peter, I'm looking at you), you've got Susan pretending to be someone else in Dust 5, you've got Peter, Tirian, and Eustace pretending the same thing in Dust 7 and 9 (not that it works)...

I realized this because I have more of the same elements recurring in Dust 11-13. Tirian, you poor bastard...

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Today in my Japanese class, a NROTC midshipman and an Army ROTC cadet went after each other (verbally), man. Well, the cadet started it, and the midshipman was the civil one. Kind of makes me wish I'd stayed AFROTC just so I could weigh in, but then again...

Oh my God, I have to do so much reading this weekend. London Labour and the London Poor may actually be relevant to Dust, though. Vaguely. Othello is just going to end in Peter quoting it, I'm afraid.

ETA: If looking for summer work, staying at Tulane is Not The Way To Go. Washington has the highest minimum wage in the country; Louisiana goes by the federal minimum wage and it is low.

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Of course it takes me ten thousand words to get back into the swing of writing Dust. Of course it does. Why would I think differently?

Tirian, hon, you are a darling, and man, we are about to see some Narnian-Calormene political maneuvering. The Cair Paravel nobles still have some fight in them, they do. And Tirian has a few tricks up his sleeve now that he's back on his home ground.

Please don't make me have to rewrite this chapter ONE MORE TIME. I actually know what's going to happen.

Of course this all happens on my busiest day of the week, and also the weekend where I have to read, like, five hundred pages and go on a field trip. A field trip wherein I fondly expect to hear my name five million times -- we're going to the levee breaches.

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I have this sudden urge to write a version of Shine So Bright from Peter's POV.

Guys. After Constellated, every time I have the sudden urge to rewrite a story from an alternate POV, I damp it down very quickly. Because it leads to what we fondly call "brain death."

Case in point: "A Legend's Not a Legend Till It Ends", the Peter POV of Once More for the Ages. Which was begun -- oh, back in September. Although. Looking back at Legend, Peter's way eloquent again. I suppose he switches between being all death, destruction, and chaos NOW and being nostalgic and bitter and angry.

In other news, I appear to be writing werewolf!Pevensies again. Back in LWW, which means the scene starts out with Peter in a cage and surrounded by the White Witch's army, all of whom are mocking him. HE IS SO LITTLE. And so scared out of his mind he can barely think.

yes. occasionally peter does sleep with women.

Oh my God, a momentous occasion: one of Peter's (few) female lovers walked her way into my brain. Her name is Yazmeen, she's a Calormene thief, and I am about fifty percent sure she's playing Peter somehow. Peter is about a hundred percent sure that she is. That is...about all I know. Well, that and how she presented herself to Peter:

"You seem to draw people to you, your majesty. Good people. Osumare Seaworth, Edeny Yricsdottir, Aliecer Greyjoy, Caron of Oldhill...people I've heard of. Soldiers, sailors, nobles, spies, even a few assassins...but no thieves."

"I have a few pirates," Peter says idly.

Yazmeen smiles a little, her teeth white against her dusky skin. "A pirate isn't the kind of thief I mean."

Peter sits up abruptly, tapping his pen against the scarred rosewood of his desk. "I think you're speaking to the wrong person," he says. "You want my brother Edmund, not me."

As you can see, they clearly get off to a good start.

I also know that she's not around by the end of the Golden Age. Do I know anything else? No. (One of the above names she dropped is new to me too. Osumare Seaworth and Edeny Yricsdottir we know, Aliecer Greyjoy I know of and he should be appearing at some point in time -- I think he may be a Telmarine, but I'm still not sure, but he is a soldier and he runs the army boot camp at Cair Paravel -- but Caron of Oldhill is brand new. He's an Archenlander. I think he may be connected with Cor going missing somehow, but hey! Who knows, not I.)