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[bedlamsbard]

I feel like writing Peta/Caspian. Prompts, please?

Also, argh, because I switched out my contacts...before I realized that my boxes of new contacts aren't clearly labeled which set is right and left, and my eyes aren't quite equally horrible. (Close, but not quite.) I think I have them in the right eyes, but they kind of hurt, which is, uh, bad.

ETA: Never mind, I'm wearing glasses today; I don't feel like screwing around with these until Everything Is Resolved.

ETA: Wow, you guys are in the mood for domesticity today. I was thinking porn. *bemused*

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[aella_irene]

Just after Rilian was born, with Peta still dozy from whatever painkillers she's been given.

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"That can't possibly be a baby," Peta says, sounding a little dreamy.

"I'm pretty sure it's actually a baby," Edmund assures her, squeezing her hand.

Peta raises herself up to look at the wrapped bundle in Caspian's arms. "Are you sure?" she asks dubiously. "It looks a little...squashed."

"It's a boy," Caspian tells her, looking like he's been hit over the head by a minotaur. "Look, it's your mother," he tells the baby, and puts his son in Peta's arms, where he latches onto a nipple immediately.

Now Peta looks shocked.

"If it's not a baby," Edmund says, "I really don't want to know what it is." He squeezes his sister's hand again.

"Maybe I'll kill you later," she says to Caspian.

"Whatever you want," Caspian says, the same way he'd said it when she announced that she was going to go riding this morning, pregnancy or not. He leans over and kisses her lightly on the mouth. "What are you going to call him?"

"I suppose you have a vote in this too," Peta says magnanimously. "But not Caspian the Eleventh."

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHA I love them!

*dies of love for them*

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

SO ADORABLE.

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

"it's sort of squashed!" AHAHAH. Peta...

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"I do not care if I'm nine months enormously pregnant. I am going riding now."

No wonder Caspian developed a spine. He kind of had to...

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

I'm imagining a GIANT RAGING ROYAL FIGHT about six months into the pregnancy- some military crisis, Edmund, Caspian and Lucy arming up to head out, and turning around to find Peter all ready to go.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Well, Peter would be fine. Peta, on the other hand...

It's a good thing it was the Telmarine castle and not Cair Paravel. They never would have succeeded in locking her in her room if it was Cair Paravel...

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

Oops, yes, typo.

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We are very close to crossing an mpreg line here. *bemused*

*is back to picturing the climax of "Be Like Water", where Peta meets Queen Prunaprisma in Castle Telmar. "Hello, Pru," she says, unsheathed sword bloody in her hand. "Surprised to see me?"*

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

AHAHAH. Nice.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Followed by Caspian coming in with his sword at his cousin's throat, saying, "Hello, Aunt Pru. I'd really rather not spill a kinsman's blood if I don't have to."

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

mew.

OH GOD I HATE BEOWULF SOOOO MUCH.

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We are doing Beowulf for the next week and a half! And watching the movie. The 2007 movie. *bemused*

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

I'm doing Beowulf for this semester. Every bleeding week. In the original. It is interesting to study but horrible to translate. Although today's section (which I, ah, didn't finish), the Hildeburh Digression, was fun. It had heads exploding in cremation pyres!

The 2007 movie is an abomination. NORMAN STONE MOTT AND BAILEY CASLTES IN FIFTH CENTURY DENMARK WTF? Also stone doesn't burn.

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Oh, lordy. Wait. What heads exploding? I don't remember that bit.

My English prof is very excited about the movie. She just hasn't seen it yet. *really bemused* She seems pretty awesome -- such a spaz, though.

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

In the bit where the scop sings about Hildeburh and her brothers and sons all fighting each other and dying and so on, it describes her putting her brother and son on a pyre, and they go up in smoke, and heads melt and blood boils and so on and so forth. Which is apparently what happens- the fat deposits in the skin melt, so that the faces melt, and then the brains and blood boil and explode, and so on.

For that, I dislike your English prof on principle. The movie is a disgrace to both Beowulf and Neil Gaiman. Hmph.

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My English prof is a Milton expert, which should tell you everything right there. I am quietly horrified at having to read Paradise Lost again; I wrote a fifteen-page paper on it in junior year and was really hoping to never have to look at Milton again. I like Paradise Lost better than Dante's Inferno, though. *scowls*

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

Ehehehe, Milton... I like Milton, he appreciated a good Anlgo Saxon poem when he saw one. Having said that, I've never read ALL of Paradise Lost, just the fun Satan bits.

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I read all of Paradise Lost. I procrastinated on my reading and more or less read all of Paradise Lost in a weekend. That was painful. *winces*

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

ouch. definitely ouch.

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My paper was about the Satan bits, though. I was just wandering around the high school going, "...Satan. Is a good guy! Is a heroic figure! Through the Greek ideal, but in the Christian ideal..."

...that kind of creeped people out.

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

"...Satan. Is a good guy! Is a heroic figure! Through the Greek ideal, but in the Christian ideal..."

Ah, bollocks to the Greek Ideal. He's a heroic figure in the germanic ideal!

... ah, well, ok, ok, there's probaly Greek in there. No one says a poet has to have just one inspiration. Satan's characterisation, and the description, and all of that, are heavily borrowed from an Old English poem known as Genesis B. When I was studying Gen. B. I discovered that nearly all the work on its MS, the Junius MS, had been done by Milton people, so possibly there's some influence on the rest of the poem, too. [/end medieval rant here].
(P.S. Gen B is one of the most AWESOME things ever written. I swear.)

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I did not know that. My paper, though, was fifteen pages on Satan and the Greek heroic ideal, which really did get me odd looks because I wandered around saying, "Satan! Satan satan satan!"

*cough*

Hey, you have a minute for me to babble Petaverse thoughtfully at you?

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

Ahaha. Well, I stood on the corner near the uni library declaiming Gen B in my own translation: HELL SUCKS! IT'S VERY NARROW BUT ALSO WINDY AND BOTH HOT AND COLD AT THE SAME TIME! That got me some odd looks, too.

I'm at work but feel free to babble and I shall read when I can, or when I finish in about four hours ;)