two things

* I don't even know what it says about my state of mind that I'm currently concerned what the chances are that LB-era Narnia (pre-conquest) had some form of assembly or parliament or congress or something of the type. I know there's the Council of Lords in PC; I wouldn't be surprised if something of the sort had stuck around during Caspian's era -- not necessarily the old Telmarine lords, but perhaps some of the younger, more progressive ones, as well as the prominent Narnians like Glenstorm and Trumpkin. A Council of Lords -- the Small Council? Something like that -- would probably not be elected, but now I'm wondering if the Narnians had some form of representative government. It doesn't seem completely mad, even by the old Narnian system (Golden Age; I doubt there's any kind of House of Representative or House of Commons, but I'm fairly certain that the Narnians had no problem voicing complaints or requests to the Pevensies) or the Telmarine system, and I can kind of see the Pevensies and the Narnians pushing the concept on Caspian, given the circumstances. Thoughts?

* I've been hunting down good A Song of Ice and Fire art and all I can say is "Look! It's Peta!" More or less -- blue eyes, with a tabard over the armor, and with Rhindon, of course -- but that's more or less what Peta looks like in my head. Slightly softer face -- for a younger Peta, I mean. But even the tilt of the head -- Peta's a little more arrogant than Peter is, or at least a little more outspoken about it.

ETA: ...possibly this is just an excuse to rail about how civilization leads to big government, and big government leads to taxes, and some other stuff! And urbanization and industrialization! And a certain feeling of nostalgia for the simpler days of yore, and my Victorianism class is really showing here, isn't it?

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NO SUSAN YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO START A RIOT IN CAIR PARAVEL.

It's not that I'm not planning to have a riot in Cair Paravel, I'm just not planning to have a riot in Cair Paravel right now, and there cannot be a riot in Cair Paravel, because Tirian probably would have heard about it Dust 11. Maybe not. *hisses*

Fortunately, I think I can stop it quickly, before anyone else is, um, killed.

THIS IS NOT THE RIGHT TIME FOR A RIOT.

ETA: Gee, I wonder what it would be like to have a character who doesn't casually kill people for kicks? Not that I'd know. Susan: 5. Calormenes: 2. Narnian mob: balls, but no game.

wip meme. since it's been a while.

Stolen from lassiterfics.

You know, the meme where you post a line from each of your WIPs.

( and I have a lot )

*looks up* Okay, that's sad, that's just sad. And I'm not even counting all these random bits of scenes that I have lying about -- I actually have this one completed scene from the werewolf 'verse, I'm just holding out on posting it because...um, I'm not sure why. Who wants werewolf!Peter/Susan, extremely early version? And then a couple of scattered scenes from stories that aren't technically in progress yet, like the swan princess story and the (other) time travel story.