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[bedlamsbard]

It strikes me that on occasion my Pevensies are the least heroic heroes ever.

This comes from the first five hundred words of Dust 9 being Peter throwing up, for those that were wondering. (He also woke up in bed with a prostitute on a floating brothel-slash-casino, but let's not go there yet.)

Welcome to New Orleans Cair Paravel. Seriously, city would have been a hell of a lot more wholesome if I'd gone to Wellesley instead of Tulane.

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who needs a wholesome city? not US!

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

Depends on what your definition of heroic is. Read a lot of old Anglo-Saxon or Scandanavian myths, and it's basically kill,drink,kill,drink (and you know "shag" was in there, too, they just sometimes cleaned it up for public recitals).

As long as, ultimately, they do the right things...or at least *important* things...affect many people, kill stuff, and have sad endings that end up in whatever the local equivalent of Valhalla is, they're heroes. :)


It's like Olivander says in Harry Potter-Voldemort did great things. *Terrible*, but great...and to some people, he *was* a hero...


That's probably not helping.

Re: who needs a wholesome city? not US!

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know. It's not all fun and virgins, sometimes it's drugs and hangovers!

Or, well, it's Peter. Seasickness.

[almostinstinct.livejournal.com]

*glee*

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Lewis would have thrown a fit.

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

I EXPRESS CYNICISM AT THAT LAST STATEMENT.

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Well, Cair Paravel would probably be Boston instead of New Orleans. I'm just sayin', here.

DUST 9: IN WHICH THERE IS MORE DRINKING, MORE DRUGS, MORE CRIME, AND MORE PROSTITUTES.

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

SMUGGLING?? MUSHROOMS??

SEND ALL THE PROSTITUTES TO MY ROOM, THERE IS ENOUGH SILVERMIST FOR ALL

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

lass, i, i just wrote this scene:

He’s probably standing still too long; a man slides out of the crowd beside him and runs a hand up his thigh, lingering on his hip. “How much?” he asks, lips against Peter’s ear.

Peter catches his wrist and twists until he hears bone crack. “Not for sale,” he says. “And even if I was? Far more than you can afford.”

REALLY CAN IT GET ANY WORSE?

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

can it? they do say you must always challenge yourself.

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gosh, i don't know. i'm kind of afraid to find out.

i have to admit that i am kind of depressed i dropped the peter/vespasian flirting from four chapters back, though.

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

eh, peter seems to get in everyone's pants everywhere anyway.

hey, also i was watching the bourne supremacy the other night and jason bourne reminded me of your pevensies.

unrelatedly, ON YOUR PREVIOUS COMMENT, i have this to say after some suspicious googling: numb3rs?! seriously?!


eh, i dunno about the dice thing. i dunno if dice is a constant enough motif. i want something like... "the whiskey bottle is always half full" or something like that. what about "tricks of the light"? or "sleights of hand" or "legerdemain" or, i dunno, something to do with money.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

well, i mean, he's definitely getting into vespasian's pants, it's just that i switched povs so the lead-up is no longer there, which means i have to put it in elsewhere. *dramatic sigh* also, tirian's jealous aggrieved outrage is kind of cute. also the way the rest of the pevensies just kind of take it in stride.

OH HEY. i wanted to see those again, i haven't seen them in years. *thoughtful* my pevensies are probably more closely based off the team in "the unit," which is a cbs show about an army special forces unit. of course, if we were to talk about all the influences on my pevensies and my narnia, we'd be here all night.

NUMB3RS. SERIOUSLY. i went through all the shows i watch that feature fbi agents and the only one i could come up with where it seemed reasonable was numb3rs and colby. although. on second thought, ncis and tony dinozzo would also have worked. that, later.

*trolls through gambling quotes* "the language of the game is money"? "cards are war, in disguise of a sport" (well, not the whole thing, obviously)? "kick over the table"? "patience, and shuffle the cards"?

well, while we're here, fun and relevant gambling proverbs: "a smith & wesson beats four aces," and, "if you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time."

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

ooh tirian's jealous now, eh??

i watched like one numb3rs episode and i was not impressed. it was the episode about the young hollywood star and his hangers-on, and the dead girl in the tub. ON THE OTHER HAND, i did watch the first episode of LEVERAGE, and it was a good first date, i will definitely be calling it back. do you still watch leverage? parker's annoying, but hardison is AWESOME and by the end of the episode they're a little family following timothy hutton around like he is high king.

something with aces would be cool, because yes four of them. maybe something with gunsmoke. something shiny and metallic. something unrooted. hmm.

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it is actually kind of an interesting dynamic. i think i'm dropping the tirian/vespasian tension -- there's a bit about vespasian having always wanted tirian's throne, and it's unnecessary, because, well, hi, everyone wants tirian's throne -- but tirian is all outraged because no one should treat the high king so lightly! and some other stuff.

“Will you attack soon, then?” Vespasian asks, his eyes narrowing as he looks at Peter. The High King is a decade younger than him, at least, and looks it. Worse maybe is the fact that Peter looks like the boys that Vespasian takes into his bed - golden-haired, blue-eyed, full-lipped. Not just a handsome man, but a pretty one, and Vespasian has always liked his men and his boys pretty.

Tirian turns his glare on his cousin, but if Vespasian notices, he makes no sign of it, and while Edmund’s gaze flickers toward Tirian, Peter’s doesn’t waver. He answers with solemnity, “No, I won’t. We don’t have enough men, and I don’t know enough about the situation here to risk what soldiers we have in an open attack. You were saying something about a fleet when we arrived?”
...
“The Black Fleet is the most notorious pirate fleet in the Eastern Ocean,” Vespasian says, his eyes on Peter - or the High King’s mouth, more likely. “A nation at sea, claiming to be descended from Caspian the Seafarer himself during his voyage to the end of the world -”

Edmund snorts. “That I severely doubt,” he says. “I was there; Caspian, the poor bastard, was not getting himself -”

“Ed,” Peter says, and he falls silent.

“Will they help Narnia?” Peter asks.

“It depends on what you can offer them,” Vespasian says, and smirks.

Peter puts his head to one side, thoughtful and - if Tirian didn’t know better, because the High King of Narnia can’t possibly - a little coquettish. “Who would I have to talk to?”

Vespasian is a true Telmarine; his skin is ruddy, his hair thick and dark, and he stands chin-height to a minotaur. Next to him, Tirian looks like an imposter: small and slight, red-haired, blue-eyed, freckled, a throwback to his great-grandfather’s first wife, who was a barmaid in Archenland when they met. Bastian had married for love the first time; for politics the next two, after his father the king had ordered him to put red-haired Nealie aside. Looking at Vespasian look at the High King makes Tirian grind his teeth in irritation, because he shouldn’t be looking at the High King at that, flirting beneath long, dark lashes as if it isn’t Peter of Narnia he’s talking to, High King over all Kings until Narnia’s dying day.

“Casmyn Wavewalker,” Vespasian says. “The King of the Sea, and grand admiral of the Black Fleet. And if you listen to him, as pure a descendant of Caspian the Seafarer as I or my cousin Tirian here.” He smiles at Peter, but the High King’s expression is sober.

(you know me, i like to drop fic all over the place.)

i saw the one ep of leverage and that was it. *flaps hands* we shall see. numb3rs is not my television baby -- CRIMINAL MINDS. THE UNIT. LIFE. but seriously, you do not want to know how much tv i watch -- but it's very good.

"aces high"? "aces wild"? "dead man's hand"?

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

i saw the first bit of that ficbit somewhere.

leverage is pretty adorable. they probably encountered the pevensies on some job and are like "YOU're going to steal this thing? no no, WE are stealing this thing." "WE'D LIKE TO SEE YOU TRY."

i like dead man's hand.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

i have a bad habit of dropping bits of fic all over the place, multiple times.

*giggles* have you ever seen the italian job?

dead man's hand, aces and eights! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_hand)

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

i have! i don't remember much from it though. also the thing about leverage is that it seems to be a vehicle of anger against insurance companies, which is kinda funny.

interesting, interesting. i prefer "aces and eights" because dead man's hand is a bit dark?
i feel like some name to do with alcohol maybe. hard liquor. maybe 'hard liquor'. hey, more relevant wikipedia links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_confidence_tricks 'salting the mines'? 'three card monte'?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

i haven't seen it in an age, alas.

i got nothin' at the moment. *pouts* i suppose we could go for the obvious and "confidence."

what about cocktail names? "singapore sling"? "whiskey sour"?

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

what about "80 miles per hour"?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

*blink* i do not see the relevance.

"roll the bones"? to go back to the gambling. (i kind of like the classic gambling stuff, but that's just me. it's got style.)

"blood and whiskey?"

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

'cos they live life on the fast lane!

oh yeah, didn't they call dice bones or something. whiskey and something. 'gunsmoke and whiskey'?? 'a smoking gun and a shot of whiskey'??

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"thicker than water"? for the family reference.

meanwhile, i am trying to do my fic roundup, and trying to figure out how to work commentfic into it, because i want to know how much i actually wrote in fandom this year. we're halfway through september, not counting commentfic, and i'm already up to 84K!