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I have had the same three lines stuck in my head since I woke up this morning:

"They're saying it's a miracle."
"Do you think it is?"
"A malicious one. The hardest thing about this world is living in it."

Not that that's cryptic at all.

guys, I am STUDYING

If I somehow commit natural disaster fic within the next five days, it's because I'm studying for my Natural Disasters midterm. No, really. REALLY.

See, it makes so much sense! Edmund and Lucy are in the Seven Isles conducting Narnian diplomacy by means of Narnia's economic and military diplomacy, a.k.a. "speak softly and carry a big stick", and there is this volcano on one of the islands that may or may not be about to blow, what with the earthquakes and the ominous black cloud. It's just venting off steam, say the rulers of the islands. It's never erupted. And then! Pyroclastic clouds! Lava flows! Ash falls! Escaping gas that fills the valleys and kills hundreds of people while they lie sleeping because they haven't evacuated yet! And since it's hurricane season in the Great Eastern Ocean, lahars, killing thousands and thousands of people! Also, a big chunk of the island has fallen off into the sea, sending a tsunami rushing around the ocean, devastating Galma, Terebinthia, the Lone Islands, Archenland, Calormen, and most importantly Narnia's eastern seaboard!

HOW WILL THEY EVER SURVIVE?

...seriously, no, it's studying. Tsunami, earthquakes, volcanoes! Studying!

Also, there is a serious lack of natural disasters fic in Narnia.

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I really need to be studying. I have a Japanese quiz and a Literary Investigations midterm tomorrow, and I need to study.

On the other hand, I am seven rows from being done with my Narnia bag. (It is not technically a Narnia bag, but it is in scarlet and gold and has a lion rampant on it, and I changed the patterns so that it's a Narnia lion and not a Gryffindor one.) And my writing mojo is...not where it should be, thanks to the midterm tomorrow, the two midterms next week, the Victorianism paper next week (Oh. My. God. I think I have forgotten how to write a history paper. That or I never had an idea how to write a history paper in the first place), and the Ancient Novel paper the week after, as well as my roommate lending me the entire series run of Buffy.

*sigh* Coming weekend, maybe, unless another of my teachers drops a paper on me. School sucks. (And I know exactly what's happening, too! ARGH.)

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Huh. This is new. I think I figured out a way to turn the immortal!Susan story -- sans crack crossovers, obviously -- into an original, while still keeping the "they were kings and queens in a magical land during WWII" aspect of it. (It involves Faery, somehow. That part's still being worked on.) Also, because not everything I can write can have massive amounts of incest in it (ha! try telling this to the colonial fantasy story or the werewolf story), the Peter character and the Susan character are no longer siblings. The Peter character definitely has a younger sister and possibly a younger brother; the Susan character definitely has an older brother but I'm unsure whether or not she has younger sibs. All of them are dead by the time we get to 2009 and the FBI thing.

Also, Morgan le Fay may make an appearance. (In a generally beneficial sort of way. Not, like, evil, just immortal and cynical.)

In other news, remember when I said I'd like to see what the Revolutionary War would have been like with magic? Apparently it's already been done.

Okay, studying now.

no, really, sometimes I arrive on time

Interesting. I'm going through Buffy for -- more or less the first time the actual canon; it's a long, long story; I read the scripts way back in, oh, probably 2002, but I've only seen bits and pieces of the actual show -- and for some reason find myself shipping Buffy/Giles really hard. (My BtVS OTP has always been Buffy/Spike, which, well, still true, but for early Buffy -- I'm about halfway through S3 now.) And, okay, the last ep I saw was "Helpless", which, well, YES.

Also, dude, teenage rebel Giles in "Band Candy." Barrels of awesome. The PTB should have played with that much more.

bedlamsbard, ten years late to the party, as per usual. (No, really, the me getting into Narnia when the canon came out? That was shocking. Possibly a first time, even.)

Really, I think I blame Narnia for the "I ship everyone/everyone" thing. Because I used to OTP hard. (Okay, not so much with everyone/everyone in BtVS, but nearly so.) A few months ago I got about halfway through S1 of Roswell before I got distracted by something less pretentious and I was still shipping everyone/everyone. And don't even get me started on Merlin. Is it bad that I really want John/Sarah on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles? Which seems to be a pairing that is impossible to find. Also Sarah/Derek, which...also, surprisingly, hard to find. There is also that part where I am afraid to venture out into the deep dark world of fandom, because I am so picky as a reader.

I need to go dig up some of the BtVS fic I haven't read in ages. (Granted, it was all Buffy/Spike, but still. I hope it's still online.)