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[bedlamsbard]

I see next semester is one of those semesters where all the English courses interfere with the other classes I want to take. And someone explain to me why I suddenly want to take a bunch of classes on Christianity? (Most of them are in the Classical Studies department, that's why. I'm taking Intro to the Hebrew Bible and that's it.) I should probably do this fancy thing where I take classes that meet graduation requirements, huh? Rather than classes that just amuse the hell out of me.

And nobody even talk to me about Dust, since I just realized that I canonically have to factor in talking owls large enough to carry a grown person. WTF LEWIS WTF. Not to mention that this chapter is going to, like, win awards for being rewritten so many times. I know what happens. I just don't know how to make it happen.

And no, before anyone asks, this is unfortunately not one of those times where I can solve all my problems by switching POVs; this needs to be from Susan's POV because otherwise there are far too many loose ends. The most I could do would be to push this chapter back a chapter and write the Lucy or Jill chapter back at Arn Abedin instead -- and trust me, the option seems more and more attractive by the minute.

In far more interesting news than my ability to make a mountain out of a molehill, be_themoon and I are writing Merlin/Narnia commentfic! I think it's supposed to turn into Peter/Arthur at some point, but at the moment the moment it's more about the secrets Peter's keeping and the slips he makes from time to time. AND SHEER AWESOME.

Now, if you want me, I'll be over here in the corner writing Peter/Susan porn, pretending Dust doesn't exist, and watching House.

Comments

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

Okay, so if a 5.5 pound GHO with 5' wingspan can kill and eat a 12ish pound skunk but probably not fly any distance while carrying it.... let's say it could carry a 2 pound squirrel (that seems high, but whatever.)


So to carry a 150 pound human, the owl would have to be GINORMOUS.

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

PS: Doing the math on this is allowing me to escape reformatting a W2K box. *hearts you*

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

CANON. THIS IS CANON. WTF LEWIS WHAT WERE YOU ON.

At least we can probably dial the size slightly because Eustace and Jill were much younger than Peter and Susan are currently? OH MY GOD WHAT.

Tower or dungeons, tower or dungeons...

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

Tower! only because pevensies and co are more likely to have gum to spit on the orcs, I mean calormenes.

VSD (oh I feel ancient!) ftw.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

But it is much easier to escape the dungeons! And with the dungeons I get to wax rhapsodic about how creepy Rilian built a whole castle beneath the castle.

Choices, choices...

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

Oooh.

Maybe dungeon, then. Maybe it's a mid-level dungeon, so there could still be gum to drop on the guards. Especially if the guards are say, centaurs, because have you ever tried to get gum out of horse hair? It's WAY worse than people hair, since it's so much 'stickier' (which is, coincidentally, why it makes such nice violin bows). The pony I leased freshman year of HS got GUM IN HIS TAIL the weekend before the first show of the year and the other girl who rode him CUT IT OUT when I left to go get some stuff to try and get it out (ice wasn't working) and we had to ride him all season with a big chunk out of his tail and it looked awful.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

There are extenuating circumstances. Like, drag Peter up to the tower, or drag Susan down to the dungeons? I was originally going to have Susan find Peter, but that is a big castle, and it's not like there are neon signs saying, "LOWER LEVEL DUNGEONS THIS WAY."

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

Yeah, neon signs would be more Las Vegas than N.O.

(Hmm... Maybe that's what Tashbaan has grown into....)

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

...wait, minor world-building subplot idea...must muse.

There are neon signs in NOLA! Just not in Cair Paravel, alas.

Or maybe Tirian and Eustace can get in on this?

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

Yes, I know, but the whole feel of the city is different.

I haven't been to NOLA in years, maybe this fall for one of the LA clusters (dog shows).

Tirian and Eustace should get in on it but I can't imagine they're going to be all that helpful, at least from what we've seen so far.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Hey, if you come to NOLA you should drop me a line! Seeing as I live there half the year and all.

They would be slightly more helpful than one might think -- Tirian spent his entire adolescence sneaking in and out of the castle. I just don't want to bring them in because I think it would complicate the story more, but on the other hand...

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

Oh, I was thinking more in terms of whininess than actual utility. :P

But yes, I would definitely drop you a line (and buy you lunch, because you totally rock.)

Also, since when has COMPLICATED been a bad thing? :P

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

They're getting much better about that! There would probably just be some mocking about how both Peter and Susan got themselves captured.

The story is already REALLY COMPLICATED, and this chapter is, too.

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

True. I just wanna read it!

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

*whimpers* I just want to WRITE IT.

[almostinstinct.livejournal.com]

Oh, man. I forgot how creepy Rilian is. You've gotta work that in somewhere. Like, I'm sure he's a nice guy, but he's not someone I'd want to spend time with... (I was hunting for your Peter/Arthur commentfic. Just passing!)

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

The exposition got dropped when I changed the way Susan got down to the dungeons. *sigh* I'm going to try and have Tirian work it in later, because seriously, it's creepy.

Rilian is creepy as hell, and they remember that three hundred years later.

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

Besides, even if you assume 100 pounds! That's still a REALLY FRELLING MASSIVE OWL.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

A HUGE OWL.

Serioiusly, Lewis, what were you thinking?

[alexseanchai]

The Bible has lots of good stories and it's hard to do any halfway serious study of English-language literature (and, I'm betting, the literature of any other language of a people that's been Christian for ages) without tripping over references to the Bible and to Christian theology left right and center, is a better reason why, I'd think.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Which is the major reason I'm going to take at least one class; I have next to no working knowledge of the Bible, and I kind of need it both as an English and a history major.

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

I'm not exactly sure what we're writing either, but your summary works fine for me. Feel free to turn it into Arthur/Peter anytime you want, though. :) I tend to be a bit shy of starting to write such things, and I have never done slash before. D:

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

You just have no idea how hard it is not to throw another one of the Pevensies in there. Susan, anyone?

...which might not go so well for the Arthur/Peter.

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

LOL

Actually, that would probably be fine too. Peter got there somehow, right? And the other Pevensies have to be... somewhere. Unless they're dead D: or something like that.

Ahahaha, now I'm imagining Susan suddenly appearing and Peter being all 'OMG SUSAN. *kiss*"

*long stunned pause from everyone else*

"... Not another one!"

"WHO KEEPS SENDING THESE PEOPLE?"

Arthur would pout in a corner. So would Morgana.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I totally have a plan for this. *facepalm*

ARTHUR/PETER/SUSAN is the answer, clearly.

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

*types quickly*

Is there ever any other answer?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Guy comes through the door with a crossbow is always a good one.

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

Well, if you're talking happy ending answers here.

Crossbows are a recipe for angst. *looks guilty*

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Answer to "what comes next?", I mean.

SEX CAN BE ANGSTY TOO.

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I wonder if there is anything in the world that is not angsty. ANYTHING.

Mm, crossbows. FUN.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure we can firmly say that everything in the world can be angsty.

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

... I feel very sorry for the Pevensies now. *pats* And Merlin-people.

Poor things, they're just going to go through life being tortured in fanfic.

Oh well.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Better than going through life dying horribly in a train wreck!

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

THIS.

Poor kids.

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

ALSO. 6.3K, WHAT ON EARTH.

I am going insane.

In a good way, I think. *thoughtful*

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

Also, I am not at all sure what the timing of this is. How long before LB is in canon? I DON'T KNOW. D:

It's definitely after VotDT, I think, and apparently Peter and Susan and Edmund aren't arguing lots. And Arthur keeps referring to Peter as young. *frowns*

Am confused. I'll be in the corner considering things.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

LB is nine years after LWW. A few years before that, I'd think. Only you had Edmund flying, and he wouldn't be old enough to join the RAF until...well, LB or the year before.

Peter is still pretty young, though; in LB, he'd only be -- twenty-three? Twenty-two?

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

Mmm, yes. *considers*

This is turning into LB revisionism/rebelling against Aslan, isn't it? :P

I keep forgetting how young they are according to canon - I tend to think of them more movie-age, or a bit older, because it makes more sense in my head. I shall have to remember this. Mm. So soon before LB I guess? Does that work for you?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Sure. I think I'm doing something completely crazy now, though. *facepalm*

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

Crazy is so very fine with me. XD

... you know something I realized recently? LB really isn't canon in my mind. Dust is, or that Stardust/Narnia crossover fic you did, or really anything except for what canonically happens.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

LB isn't canon in my head either. *bats eyelashes* Magician's Nephew isn't, either.

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

Yay completely disregarding canon!

Magician's Nephew is WEIRD. It's my favorite in terms of the writing style, but the plot never struck me as fitting with the rest of Narnia. *eyes dubiously* Silly Magician's Nephew.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Creation myth, that's the only thing I can say. CREATION MYTH.

I'm not sure how the professor and Polly fit into it, but STILL.

[westingturtle.livejournal.com]

And someone explain to me why I suddenly want to take a bunch of classes on Christianity?

Because Kings is ridiculously pretty, and then you can keep making allusions in Narnia fic that makes it all SO MUCH MORE TRAGIC.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Knowing the way my mind works, that's probably it.