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[bedlamsbard]

Rereading The Lies of Locke Lamora is making me want to write the AU where the Pevensie are the best damn thieves in the business and Caspian is a mark who then becomes their newest recruit. Set in a fantasy kingdom, of course.

We are now on version friggin' three of Dust 3; I think I've written, like, seven thousand words for this chapter overall counting the two cut versions. It's all talkyface and exposition; I need some action here! I'll have Peter do something rash; that always works well.

Current crisis of the moment: take two English classes next semester or two history classes? I'd do both, but that puts me over the credit limit by one credit (it wouldn't if I wasn't taking band; that's the one credit. And Japanese is four credits, what the hell, everything else is three). I have to take ENLS200; it's a major requirement. The other English class I'd take would be Intro to Creative Writing, which meets once a week. I'd rather take two history classes, but to do the creative writing concentration I have to have four creative writing classes by senior year. (Which, uh, actually shouldn't be that hard.) I'm definitely taking an honors history class, because I don't have any honors classes yet and if I don't take one this coming semester I'm going to get kicked out of the honors program. *winces* I'll either take the honors class Victorianism or Dante and His World, and then there are a couple other history classes I'm interested in. One is Early Middle Ages and the other one is Temples and Festivals in Ancient Greece. I'm also probably taking a science class called Natural Disasters (I'm going to see if I can do my lab science at CWU this summer), and Japanese 102. And concert band, obviously. Thoughts? Advice? Bedlam, you're crazy?

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[almostinstinct.livejournal.com]

Bedlam, estas loco. I'd go for the literature, just to get it out of the way- gives you more freedom to do what you want to do later.

[caramelsilver.livejournal.com]

Know I want Pevensie thieves! I totally have a thing for thieves right know, as in, I'll buy and read any book that has thieves in them. (Particulary pickpockets!) That book? Is it good?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD GO BUY IT RIGHT NOW. It is fantastic! It is snark and fantasy and absolutely freaking amazing world-building and oh my god, get you to a bookstore this second! (And the sequel too, Red Seas Under Red Skies.)

[caramelsilver.livejournal.com]

OKAY! Cool. I've been looking for a good book lately.

[lyamainu.livejournal.com]

Temples and Festivals sounds awesome!

[snacky]

You? Are a crazy woman. But I'd take the two history classes, because it sounds like you have some really good ones to choose from.

When battling giants...

[almostinstinct.livejournal.com]

Do you campaign at the Northern Frontage or in the Northern Frontage? Wikipedia is obscure.

...answered my own question.

[almostinstinct.livejournal.com]

On apparently. NM. :)

Re: When battling giants...

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Is it bad that I have no idea what you're talking about?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

And the prof's really good too; I have her right now for my Greek Tyranny and Democracy class.

Re: When battling giants...

[almostinstinct.livejournal.com]

I needed Peter and Lucy offstage, so I was looking for enemies. Wiki helpfully provided me with "the Northern Frontage" where giants live. I was flummoxed as to whether the "Northern Frontage" was a place or a country, or, I don't know a mountain or something. Turns out it's just a frontier, and Lewis himself wrote "on the Frontage" in PC.

So, you can't be "at the Frontage" but you can be "on the Frontage".

Re: When battling giants...

[almostinstinct.livejournal.com]

Enemies for them to be fighting, that is.

Re: When battling giants...

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Wow, I have...no memory of that in the books. WHICH I NOW HAVE, by the way.

[lyamainu.livejournal.com]

wow... you get all the cool classes.

*sulks at her community college curriculum*

Lacking money sucks.

Re: When battling giants...

[almostinstinct.livejournal.com]

Well, now you know! And YAY, BOOKS! I stumbled across a copy that was all-in-one after seeing the movie, figured it was fate (or, uh, tie-ins *cough*) and bought it.

Re: When battling giants...

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

It says so much about my priorities that I had to have them shipped down from Washington. *facepalm* Wait, that was mentioned in PC?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Scott Lynch's two books are amazing and I highly recommend them. If you, uh, didn't guess.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

The history classes have cool names, at least. *grin*

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I may just talk to my advisor and see if I can go over the 19-credit limit by that one credit, but, well. *shrug*

[caramelsilver.livejournal.com]

I've put them on my shopping list. Next time I'm out shopping books I'm buying it=)

Re: When battling giants...

[almostinstinct.livejournal.com]

Not the film, but the book. Caspian's tutor is telling him about the missing lords. I GOT IT OFF WIKI, OK? I ADMIT IT!

Re: When battling giants...

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

*checks because I CAN* The book just says "northern frontier", or at least my edition does.

Re: When battling giants...

[almostinstinct.livejournal.com]

OK. YOU WIN. *changes fic*

YOU AND YOUR BOOKS (AND ME BEING TOO LAZY TO WALK ACROSS TO MY BOOKSHELF...)

Re: When battling giants...

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

The books generally just say the north -- I mean, you have Peter fighting giants in the north in HHB, and the Telmarine lords fighting giants in the north in PC, and Caspian beating the giants in the north in VotDT, and then there are just giants in the north in SC.

*trying for helpfulness*

...I just remembered there were friendly giants in Narnia. Shit. Guess who has to work that in now!

[caramelsilver.livejournal.com]

I've put them on my shopping list. Next time I'm out shopping books I'm buying it=)

Re: When battling giants...

[almostinstinct.livejournal.com]

NOT ME! *goes back to her self-contained character-driven drama*

Re: When battling giants...

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Who wants to bet that they've gone feral by LB, just like half of everyone else in Narnia!

Re: When battling giants...

[almostinstinct.livejournal.com]

Why not? Although- aren't there "friendly" giants in PC?

OK, I have to go write implied incest nao. I'm actually writing it out in script form, to tighten things up. *is wierd*

Good luck w/ your giants!

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

*does a cheering dance for Early Middle Ages* or failing that, Dante. Actually, Victorianism looks interesting too.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I'm definitely taking Dante or Victorianism because I need the honors class, and they're both honors classes -- probably Dante, because my concentration as a history major is going to be Ancient and Medieval Europe, and Victorianism is Modern Europe. So one of those two for sure, and one of the others maybe. *grin*

Re: When battling giants...

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Situations have changed by LB, three hundred years later. Tirian's dumping Narnian history on my head.

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

*does an extra cheering dance for Early Middle Ages*

*googles*

OH MY. TULANE HAS ROY LIUZZA. In the english dept, not history. But DUDE. *flails*
Er, that is to say, if you get to take anything taught by Roy Liuzza I will be eternally jealous.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

*raises eyebrows* I take it he's famous or something? Er, in academia?

You know this just leads to me cycling through the course listings for the English department for spring semester.

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

Er, well, I don't know about FAMOUS. But he's *good*. He did the Other Translation of Beowulf: ie, not the one in the Norton Edition which is so pretty to read, but one in unstructured verse which sticks pretty closely to the original.
I *know* I've used his stuff before, can't remember why though. And he might be involved with the Old English Newsletter.

Googling Roy Liuzza brings up Uni of Tennesse, though. So possibly This Tulane page is out of date. Or Tennessee are out of date. One or the other.

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

B-but talkyface is good!

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

*digs through Tulane website* He's not showing up on either the Dept. of English faculty page or on any of the course listing for spring 09, so chances are Tennessee and not here. Alas!

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Not if it doesn't advance the plot and just serves for exposition.

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

Woe! Stupid outdated webpages...

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

Aaaah, true. D:

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Although we are getting a ton of Narnian history.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Silly Internet, not having the CORRECT information.

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

METAAAAAAA! ♥

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

EXPOSITIOOOOOOOOOONNNNNN! Thanks to Tirian, the exposition fairy, who feels that his purpose in life is to tell Peter the parts of Narnian history that may not get him killed for the crimes of his ancestors. Tirian? Totally a bookworm.

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

I CAN SO SEE THAT. Tirian's room @ the Cair (they, like, rebuilt the Cair, right?) = YOUR BOOKSHELVES. *nods*

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Totally WORSE than my bookshelves. And he knows it all encyclopediacly too. IN CASE ONE COULDN'T TELL FROM HIM QUOTING NARNIAN LIT IN CH. 1. So far in Ch. 3 he's only quoted Caspian's memoirs.

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

LOL.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

And by Caspian's memoirs, I also mean "Once More for the Ages."

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

Really now? Well, I'm looking forward to that!