also, I am trying to make Caspian sympathetic, which I have been told I'm bad at

I am pretty sure all my Rilian fic is just a thinly-veiled excuse for me to amuse myself by writing about Narnian lit. Heh. Heheheheheheheh. (Not just Narnian lit. So far, we also have Telmarine sonnets and Terebinthian tragedies. Also Narnian masques.)

There's actual content too, I promise! Maybe. Somewhere. Once I get Rilian out of his rooms. (Rilian's life is sort of boring. School work, no friends, grieving and slightly over-protective father. Am not entirely certain why he doesn't have any friends, I think it has to do with rank and some of the weirdnesses of Narnian-Telmarine society, and he was possibly just born during one of those years when there weren't a lot of children being born. Also I think the court is still in mourning and so a lot of the nobility may have taken their children home? Not really sure. Rilian's an only child, and it never strikes him as odd; he's used to being alone.

...oh, dear gods, possibly Rilian is me. Er, although neither of my parents have been murdered by a terrifying magical snake-woman, I am happy to report. Nor am I a princess in a magical land. Alas. On the bright side, I haven't been kidnapped and held prisoner for ten to fifteen years of my life either, which I shall personally count as a win.)

ETA: So far my favorite character in this story is Lady That Woman Whom Doctor Cornelius Disapproves Of (not her real name). Not sure she'll appear on-screen or not, though. She's spunky. Y'all would like her. She ran off from her husband and now lives with thinly-veiled Ben Jonson figure and designs sets for his fancy court masques. (So basically she's his Inigo Jones, which will never not sound like the name of a pirate instead of a set designer.)

ETA2: Typo in ETA 1. "Disapproves of," not "approves of." Doctor Cornelius is not a fan of That Woman, as he calls her.

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Studying. So much studying. *weary* If it's temporal, I understand it, if it's spiritual/theological, I probably don't. (Luther's justification of faith alone makes no sense to me, but there are supposed to be options on the test, so if that one comes up, I can hopefully just ID something else instead of trying to explain what that means, because I really kind of, um, can't. Rodrigo Borgia, though, I totally have covered. Please be on my test, Pope Alexander VI! You and your family and your compatriots amuse me, which probably isn't the best basis for historical interest, but it's been working pretty well for me so far.)

Communion and the Lord's Table and anabaptism I sort of get. Dates -- eh. I'm not too great with dates, but we'll see.

At some point I'll switch off Age of Reformation and do my Latin homework, then try and start going through the slides for the Etruscans & Early Rome.

...okay. General terms done. Short break, then I'll look at the IDs from the readings I mostly didn't do. Whoops. Well, that's why I have time to do it now and tomorrow! (My class isn't till 4:30, though I have a 9:30 Etruscans midterm on Tuesday. WHOO.)