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[bedlamsbard]

Why yes I did get up at seven to do my laundry, because frankly I feel having clothes to wear would probably be a good thing. (I actually do have clothes; it's just that I'm out of jeans and the only bra I have left is bright green and I have this feeling it will be Seen under the only shirt I have that would go with the skirts that I haven't worn yet.)

This is why I'm up. That and I'm still reading about the friggin' Persian wars, which are actually fascinating -- as far as I have a specialization in anything, my specialization is in military history -- but I'd rather be working on Dust. Or the crackfic Lass and I have been writing in comments all over the place. (Narnia/Stardust! Narnia/Merlin! Peter/Arthur, because you can never have too many arrogant, deadly, blond royals in one place.)

I realize it is now eight, but I did in fact get up at seven. And now I should see what I can put together out of my remaining clean clothes and go to breakfast. *sigh* Because I'm not free till 12:15.

Comments

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

OOOOOH, Persian wars. LOTSA GOOD MILITARY STUFF. Though, frankly, I prefer Alexander the Great's army. PHALANX FTW. XD

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Dude, the Persians are totally being reflected in the Calormenes in Dust. Too bad for the Narnians! (Or at least, the Persians' tactics of ripping out tongues and generally being nasty.)

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

OUCH. Well, I can totally see how Persians = Calormenes. TURBANS FTW! XD

So where do you draw Narnian fighting style from? That's not a really good question to ask since they have so many types of soldiers, but you know I meant like the Pevensies, etc.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I am, uh, trying to avoid getting beaten with sticks for making them Arabs. So! Persians instead.

*snorts* Do you mean individual fighting, or tactics/strategy as a whole?

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

Ehe, they seem very Arabic to me anyways, so whatever.

Uhhhh, both?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

As far as it goes for individual fighting, I more or less make stuff up from what I've read and seen onscreen; I don't have any sword-fighting experience. For tactics and strategy, I have an interest in military history, so I do a lot of reading in that area, both fiction and nonfiction. (As I've mentioned elsewhere, my senior project novel was military sci-fi, so all I read for eight months was military history and military memoirs.) And just having common sense generally helps too. *grin*

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

Well, makes sense. :D