I am terrified to use the words "swan song"

[bedlamsbard]

Y'all want to know what's hilarious (uh, at least to me)? That according to the official Narnia timeline, by the time "Dust in the Air" takes place (five years after LB), Eustace, Jill, and Peter are all the same age, and all the other Pevensies are younger. And Tirian's older, obviously, because he pointed out in LB that Peter looked younger than him, and now he's even older.

This is hilarious. I have to use this somehow. I'm not sure how, but it will come out.

Also, y'all have probably not noticed it, but I went through the first chapter of "Dust" and changed a couple thing. One paragraph where I used "then" in every sentence, one instance of "Edmund" to "Eustace", and the season. The season is no longer fall; the season is spring. This is important. Not to the plot (although hell, what do I know at this point? I'm making it up as I go), but thematically. The seasons in Narnia are kind of important to me -- hi, Great Summer, anyone? King of Summer, Queen of Spring? LWW makes this obvious, but it's the end of winter and the beginning of spring/summer, while PC takes place in late summer and VotDT is a late summer/early autumn kind of story. SC is a winter type story. LB should be winter, but instead it feels overwhelmingly like autumn. (Personally, I don't feel that we ever see the summer of Narnia except in HHB, which doesn't really count except in all the ways it does; the summer of Narnia is the Golden Age and summer dies and nothing lasts forever. Summer is fleeting, summer is nothing but moments caught in time, summer is an illusion and a heat shimmer, but sometimes summer is the most important time of year.)

"Dust in the Air" is spring. Make of this what you will.

And, uh, it kind of has a soundtrack, or at least a playlist, but the song I've listened to the most while writing this has been Emmylou Harris's One of These Days, which is from my Lucy playlist, but another four of them are from my Edmund playlist. This is more for the end of the story than the beginning/middle, but, well. *shrugs* On the other hand, this song and this song are also on the playlist, so who knows what the hell my brain is on right now.

ETA: Or possibly I can't do math, or I have been using more than one version of a Narnia timeline, or God, who knows what right now. Wait, no, it's the latter one: I have seen Eustace and Jill's year of birth as being both 1933 and 1934. Canon gives us Peter's DOB as 1927, which would make him 13 in 1940, but Warsverse Peter is either 14 or 15 in 1940 -- the dates for him being in WWII don't add up otherwise. I am so confused, y'all have no idea.

Comments

[franceica.livejournal.com]

I am so confused by the Narnian timeline. I can't remember where does their age come from? I really don't remember it stated in the books. But maybe it's just me with my terrible memory.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

It's not stated in the books. If I remember correctly, the years between them are stated, and then we know Edmund just finished his first year at school in LWW and that Lucy's starting her first year in PC; in LB, either Jill or Eustace says that all the Pevensies have finished school. This (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narnian_timeline) is the timeline on Wikipedia that I was using, but I checked out the Narnia omnibus at the bookstore today, and its "official" timeline has 1933 for Eustace and Jill's year of birth instead of 1934. So -- basically no one knows. Especially since the actors look older than the characters, and I write movieverse. *throws up hands*

[franceica.livejournal.com]

Yes, I normally goes with the Wikipedia timeline, too. Because it's the first I come across. But since it is not stated in the book, and we are anyway talking about movieverse here, so I think as long as it's internally consistent, it'd be alright. Forget about the official timeline! *still confused*

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

*nods firmly* And anything else gets put on the pile of "a year is a long time! there are birthdays there! and none of Lewis's other facts add up either, so ha."