beyond the wide world's end

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.

I keep watching Merlin vids and applying them to Narnia. (Specifically, Red and Unsteady Ground.)

Unsteady Ground really makes me want to go back to time-traveling Edmund, but not the time he goes back to before the Long Winter (it has a name! "Danse Macabre." However, I'm not sue it'll ever get written), but at some point when -- circa VotDT, maybe -- he ends up back in the Golden Age. I think he and Lucy are the only Pevensies that could go back and not change things; I think Peter and Susan would try.

It's also now on my Dust playlist. And my LB AU playlist. (At some point I'm probably going to start a Golden Age playlist. *dramatic sigh*)

You love God
Yes, you love your president
You want them both
But we must keep them separate
The left hand don't know where the right hand is at yet
The children don't know yet that we're bombing Baghdad

OH PEVENSIES.

I know what's bothering me about Merlin! Besides the horrendously bad CGI, the complete lack of a decent fight choreographer or military advisor (NARNIA YOU HAVE GIVEN ME RIDICULOUSLY HIGH STANDARDS), and the complete mutilation of the Arthurian mythos. That's all incidental.

Not enough snark.

I mean, there's a fair amount of snark, but for some reason I keep expecting more. I also want more Merlin and Arthur interaction, but whatever, I'm sure that will come in time.

My other problem: there's a quote from one of the Keladry books, I think Squire, where Kel asks Raoul what he and Alanna and Jonathan and Gary were like as pages and squires. And he says, "( Like puppies in a basket )

Apropos of nothing, for some reason, I was absolutely convinced throughout the entire first episode that it was going to end with Arthur (and Merlin in tow) being spirited off to the middle of nowhere, and that the entire first season was going to be them traipsing around Britain (Albion, whatever) trying to get back to Camelot, and maybe gathering a ragged crew of wannabe knights along the way that would later form the core of the Knights of the Round Table. And Arthur and Merlin would grow as people and have an unbreakable bond! And Arthur would be able to survive in the rough, and also to understand the ordinary people of Albion! And then in the finale they'd make it back to Camelot and have to save Uther's life somehow, and then Arthur is thrown in prison because no one thinks he's really Prince Arthur, and then he breaks out and saves Uther's life. And then season two would be about Arthur readjusting to court life, and more adventures. I mean, seriously, words cannot contain how friggin' confused I was at the end of Ep. 1 because I was so convinced that that was what was going to happen. I mean, a vague pretense at the myth!