life in bullet points

[bedlamsbard]

* I have been vaguely scarce because I had a midterm and a quiz today and a paper due Monday that I was working on all weekend. Those are all over! Let us rejoice.

* I finally cracked and asked my mother to ship my box set of the Chronicles of Narnia down here. No idea where I'll put them, since I'm OUT OF ROOM on my bookshelves, but maybe if I take my DVDs off the shelves and just stack those on top of the books I can squeeze them in there...

* Currently rereading: Winter House, by Carol O'Connell, one of my two favorite mystery writers.

* Current status on Dust 3: unbegun. STUDYING, ducks, and there are some internal timeline issues I have to work out before the chapter starts, since I'm skipping slight chunks of time.

* Other thoughts on Dust: there's the more famous Eliot poem "The Waste Land" that's also got a line about dust...I know "Dust in the Air" is the full title, but I was glancing over "The Waste Land" the other day and spotted the line "I will show you fear in a handful of dust." Just, you know, food for thought.

* starsimpulse points out that The Last of the Mohicans soundtrack isn't a bad accompaniment to Dust.

* ineptshieldmaid and I have been writing Peta (me) and Edwina (hers) at each other here, and it looks like it's developed a plot...

* lassiterfics and I wrote Susan/Edmund, Peter/Susan, Peter/Edmund, and Peter/Susan/Edmund here. (With bonus Wordle analysis!)

* Possibilities for NaNo include:

FIC: HIGHLY LIKELY

In This Hollow Valley
immortal!Susan and resurrected!Peter. Pros: plot more or less known, should cover 50K, easily made unrecognizable as fic. (Special Agent Susan Regina! This amuses me far more than it probably should.) Cons: fic, crack.

Be Like Water
Petaverse. Pros: plot completely known except for a couple small wrinkles, will cover 50K THREE TIMES OVER, can always throw sex in when the plot seems to be slowing, has been promised for ages and ages now. Cons: extremely easily recognizable as fic, crack.

untitled #1
werewolf!Pevensies. Pros: plot times three, should cover 50K, can disguise as original fic. Cons: crack.

FIC: MUCH LESS LIKELY

untitled #2
pirate AU. Pros: plot, could probably cover 50K, can disguise as original fic. Cons: boring as of now, crack, research.

untitled #3
Everse. Pros: half of a plot, will definitely cover 50K, sex somewhere. Cons: crack, the other half of the plot, easily recognizable as fic.

untitled #4
Chrestomanci/Narnia crossover. Pros: vague inkling of a plot, crack. Cons: crack, slight lack of the rest of the plot, easily recognizable as fic TIMES TWO.

ORIGINAL FIC

untitled #5
Ellis and LaMontaine, a pair of NYPD homicide detectives. Ellis is new to homicide, LaMontaine is a transfer from the NOPD. Pros: original fic, currently in New Orleans. Cons: plot, beyond the whole "LaMontaine may or may not be a serial killer" thing.

untitled #6
modern days Narnia copy. Pros: original fic, vague plot-like type thing. Cons: rip-off of Narnia, could just write fic (did just write fic, to tell you how interested I was in this), and Peter is more fun than Kavan anyway.

untitled #7/#1
werewolf!Pevensies recast as originals. Pros: original fic, plot. Cons: crack, would have to come up with new names for all the characters.

On a Pale Horse
the Spaceforce novel, a.k.a. the senior project novel. Pros: original fic, plot, established characters, world, world-building, sex, violence. Cons: OH GOD NO I DON'T WANT TO LOOK AT THIS FOR ANOTHER YEAR OR SO.

*blinks* It is...a little disturbing how many of these have "crack" as a con. Probably because I'm not sure my non-crack fic covers 50K. "Dust in the Air" is not on this list because I'm going to keep working on it anyway, and I still cherish fond hopes of it not being 50K.

Comments

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I think the White Witch is responsible for their wolfiness somehow. Like, they were human when they went into Narnia, but something happened...Maugrim turned Peter right before Peter killed him, I think. And the others were turned later -- Edmund got captured by a pack of rogue wolves years later! And Peter comes rushing in at the last minute to save the day, but it's already too late. And Susan and Lucy -- Lucy made friends with a wolf that turned out to be a traitor and got turned by accident, and Susan was the last one. Maybe Peter turned her.

...oh dear.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Peter probably bit her by accident, or she decided that it would be easier and more practical if they were all werewolves (not to mention tactical advantage occasionally). The Narnian werewolves don't have any mention about silver or the moon and can change at will. (considering they're only mentioned, what twice? The one that's there for the summoning that bites Book!Caspian)

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking accident, personally. Maybe the time he got possessed by the White Witch, or something of the sort.

Me being me, I'm thinking about the friggin' political ramifications of Peter being a wolf. *bangs head into desk*

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

me too. see the comment in the other post. But how could it not affect it? Fer crissakes, see the English kings. Mary Queen of Scots essentially got kicked off the throne for marrying someone the lords disapproved of. James I had a habit of giving stuff to his boyfriends...

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

*nods* It would have been even harder for Peter to hold than the throne than it already was. And what did Aslan think of this? I mean, he has to have his four kings and queens on the thrones, but aside from Edmund, he doesn't seem like particularly the forgiving type. And while it isn't Peter's fault, well...werewolves are the White Witch's creatures.

There'd be a balance for Peter between playing human and playing wolf -- and he would have had to do the latter when dealing with the White Witch's Narnians, who probably would have been more eager to bow the knee to him. That's about the only up side. And he would have repressed it until some point in time when he really needed it, or spent a lot of time as a wolf, or something...

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

maybe more scouting or midst of battle? Because I could see Edmund taking advantage of his wolfiness in his position as undercover/spymaster.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

As far as Peter goes -- I think he'd have to be forced into using it, and if we're using Warsverse background, my bet would be the year he spent with the Red Company, because then he's going to have no reason to think it's that odd. Especially since the Red Company may have a few weres or part-humans in it anyway...

Which will, of course, lead to his eventual alienation from his siblings when he returns home. *muses*

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

oh yeah. Being used to cutting loose in the red Company, where it was accepted as a really good trait of Breakneck's, used to its full advantage, and come back and it's something he only used when utterly necessary.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

And it will probably have Susan worrying he's gone darkside, because werewolves are dark creatures, and if Peter's not bothered by it anymore...

On the other hand, with the Red Company, he would have learned exactly how to fight as a were, so a definite advantage there.