*flails wildly*

[bedlamsbard]

Trust me to write a scene that involves me Wikipedia-ing various types of hawks, eagles, and falcons in order to accurately write descriptions of hippogriffs. I am terrified of birds. (Although. Actually. To be honest, I am not as afraid of birds of prey as I am of, say, sparrows. GOD I KNOW I AM SO WEIRD.)

What, didn't y'all know that Narnia had hippogriffs? Of course Narnia has hippogriffs. I have no idea why I didn't think of this before. HIPPOGRIFFS. Oh my God. Totally just as cool as griffins. Maybe not as sexy.

I am so hyped up to be back at Dust, you have no idea. Water is cool, but whatever, Dust is where it's at. And there has barely been any Peter! I am happy like whoa. (Not because of the no Peter thing. Because I love all these characters. And this 'verse. And this entire friggin' story. This will probably fade quickly, but what the hell, must use it while it lasts. AND DUST OHMYGOD.)

Water is a sprint; I know where it's going and how quickly it's going to get there. (Well, it's PC. We all know what it's doing.) Even with three parts, it's still rather a sprint, because the main action gets over with fairly quickly, relatively speaking.

Dust, now -- Dust is a marathon. An awesome marathon. I know where it's going and roughly how quickly it's going to get there. (Read: not quickly. MARATHON. Dust is the Greco-Persian Wars of Narnia, kids! Complete with a Thermopylae and a Salamis. A Marathon and a Plataea, too. But what am I saying, we're not there yet.) And Dust is -- oh my god. *flails wildly* I forgot how much I loved this story! Oh my god! It is just so...well. I don't want to say epic, but, well. It is. It is not crack.

Also, it just hit 30K.

*flails some more*

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[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

AND THEN WE HAVE SUPERSPY SUSAN.

caspian is just like, "Okay, I am sleeping with her, and yet she keeps kissing her brother and her sister, and I may be down with that, I DO NOT KNOW."

WHEN IT IS DONE. which is not. yet. but i know exactly where it is going.

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

there are at least a couple of parts in my calormen fic where people are going to wonder, "uh... are they, like, having sex?" and i will not specify! i will just continue to describe what they are doing on that bed in this (not so) vague way!:

“Edmund,” Susan breathes. “O my brother, what have you done to me?”

“Don’t you trust me, Su? I thought we’re to trust each other, you and I.”

Her skin is raw and sensitive with magic; he can tell from the way she mewls at every brush of the sheets on her skin and how she curves into his caresses. Her eyes are unfocused and her breathing unsteady. Edmund kisses her face and she lets herself be lulled by it, kisses him back and her warm hands cup his face, slide down his neck and turn into fists clutching his shirt. His sister unfurls in his arms, and he exerts only the gentlest pressure in holding her still, holding her close. Edmund makes no unexpected movements and speaks very slow, very soft, the way one would to a dangerous animal caught in a trap. There is nothing to fear, he is telling her. More importantly, there is nothing to fight.

uhhhhhhhhh okay so out of context it sounds like edmund is date-raping his sister. (maybe IN context it sounds like he is date-raping his sister too, who knows with me. god, self.)
THIS FIC IS SO CLOSE TO DONE I CAN ALMOST TASTE IT kfs;l'

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

GUH.

also, that is far less vague than the Peta/Susan kissing up above, and definitely less vague than the Peter/Susan, Susan/Edmund, Peter/Edmund, and Peter/Susan/Edmund in this chapter.

WHEN IT IS DONE IF YOU NEED A BETA YOU KNOW WHERE TO COME. i'm just sayin' here.

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

indeed i will crash upon your shores like a wave upon a sand, fic in hand to seek your wise counsel!

it is like, how much can i talk about them groping each other and still not have it be sex or explicit hanky panky. i mean, okay, so there is a little explicit hanky panky, but like... up to what point can i have it be explicit and still not have it be incest?

oh the questions that keep me up at night!

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

that is my question exactly! i mean, when do i have to change dust from "gen" to "implied het, slash, threesome, incest, canon character/oc, human/nonhuman, dubcon, underage, and WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE"?

i mean, hello, peter and susan sharing a bed and stuff like And as for Peter – well, she won’t give her brother too much credit for remembering her clothes, but maybe Peter will remember this dress too, and susan being all, "OH EDMUND PETER MIGHT BE ANNOYED WITH ME IF YOU HAVE NO BALLS," and also, She knows his body well enough that she doesn’t have to wonder what he’d feel like against her, because she knows from two worlds, two – three – timelines.

gen. honestly, i swear it is GEN.

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

AHAHA. for serious! my header is going to be like, "edmund/jadis-ish, edmund/susan-ish, & edmund/oc-ish. but technically it is gen. warning: sort of incestuous overtones." that should cover it. i mean, in that excerpt above, probably he's just snuggling with her because she's spazzing out from magic!

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

but of course! and they're pevensies, they're all sort of incestuous anyway.

(of course, you see what happens with this mindset: it spills over into my mental plotting for the werewolf story, and suddenly nathan isn't just having sex with sebastian, he's also sleeping with his three siblings and possibly the other members of his pack, occasionally.

(this is what i come down to. incestuous werewolves. ohmygod.)

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

dude, there's like another random traveler who has just now somehow chanced upon our peter/arthur and is also asking for more. i think we were not in the wrong to take that to the word.doc!

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

whoo! who woulda thunk it? *bemused*