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Re: delicious shutting down, I am mildly heartbroken because it warms my fuzzy organizational heart, and massively heartbroken because [a] it's such a lovely convenient way to find fic by specifics like pairing! and [b] I'll be honest, one of my favorite features was the ability to plug in the URL for one of my fics and see the notes people had made on it. However, all is not lost! I've seen these links around, but I figured I'd signal-boost: go here to export your own delicious bookmarks so at least you won't lose years' accumulation of favorite fics, and go here for some encouraging brainstorming on the subject of a possible fan-friendly delicious clone.

Re: other things I am doing to cheer myself up, at the moment I am eating chocolate, as you do, and watching Narnia films, ostensibly in preparation for seeing Dawn Treader sometime in the next few days. The funny thing is that I have to be sure to really make time to watch the Narnia movies, because I am so FEELINGS FEELINGS FEELINGS about them. Seriously, I cry all the way through The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Why? I'm not even sure! I sort of waffle between whether Lewis or Tolkien is responsible for my first really fannish whatever, because I made my mum endlessly reread The Hobbit to me when I was four and I had a hilarious Elven Mary Sue when I was ten (alas, she never made it to paper, but she was BFFs with Frodo and had a romance with Faramir and Eowyn's son, it was awesome); on the other hand, I actually remember having ~theories~ about the Narnia books when they were first being read to me, and I still vividly recall the sheer joyful anticipation of a week in first grade when my family had ordered the BBC Narnia series and I could watch them ALL THE TIME, and I believed in Aslan so, so much. Basically what this means is that when I watch these new films and they are all pure and earnest and Aslan resurrects triumphantly as the dawn breaks behind him, I am damn well going to happily cry all over everything.

Do -- do any of you get all FEELINGS FEELINGS FEELINGS about Narnia? Surely this is at least somewhat a shared experience.

Re: Yuletide: AHAHAHA WHAT YULETIDE, WHAT COULD YOU POSSIBLY BE TALKING ABOUT, FUCK OFF, I AM WATCHING NARNIA FILMS.

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and I still vividly recall the sheer joyful anticipation of a week in first grade when my family had ordered the BBC Narnia series and I could watch them ALL THE TIME

we (there are four of us and we ALL love them) freaking WORE THOSE TAPES OUT. they're so good/amusingly bad, Aria, they're so awesome. SO GOOD. I can quote them still. (DID YOU KNOW Tom Baker played Puddleglum?! Also, Warwick Davis played Reepicheep and Glimfeather in the BBC versions, and he played Nikabrik in the new Caspian? ISN'T IT ODD THAT I HAVE FEELINGS ABOUT THIS.) I have read the books a few times, but I think a good bit of my attachment does come from the BBC because those serials were awesome.

also they didn't feel the need to put extra plot in Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I'm really stressed out about this bonust plot, Aria. also why do they keep having the White Witch, I know Tilda Swinton is cool and everything, but it's going to be really confusing in the Silver Chair when suddenly the Green Witch is the problem.

I totally feel your feelings about LOTR/The Hobbit vs Narnia, too. The Hobbit was the first chapter book I remember reading and it was like, my favourite book for years and years and years, I read the cover off it and still know the riddle scene and then the movies were a crystallising fannish experience for me and a big part of my teen years. I FEEL YOU ARIA. I FEEL YOU. (also I feel you re: yuletide. aaaah.)

OH I CAN'T DECIDE WHETHER TO USE MY CRAPPY ROLEMODELS ICON OR MY CRAPPY FANTASY PRIDE ICON SO TORN.

OH WEIRDEST NARNIA FEELING: you know at the end of Prince Caspian (new version) where they played that Regina Spektor song? EVEN THOUGH that moment was a) weird, Susan/Caspian, what's with that and b) just kinda awkward!, THAT SONG NOW MAKES ME CRY AND FEEL NARNIA FEELINGS. and think about peter and susan and edmund and lucy. and how they're heroes. and how they would feel if they met harry potter (my inner soul is FULL of hideous crossovers.) and how Dairine would feel if she met them (SEE) which she could do because the YW multiverse is totally the everything-exists-somewhere kind.

THAT SONG REGULARLY REDUCES ME TO TEARS.

Re: hideous crossovers, omg, seriously sometime ... last week, I don't even know why, I started writing bewildering YW/Narnia fusion fic in which Lucy finds the manual at the professor's house, takes the Oath, and accidentally worldgates into Narnia for her Ordeal. Then I got totally stuck on the issues of [a] whether her siblings also conveniently get wizardry, and more importantly when, and [b] the complicated inherent mythology, oh my god -- I mean, clearly baby Digory was a wizard way back when, and he and Polly were involved in Narnia's original Choice, but he's also the one who brought the freaking Lone One into Narnia in the first place. So then I got a headache and stopped. But I would love to keep going, because DD's mythology delights me much more than Lewis' does, and I am all for things that make Narnia a little less Christian allegory.

THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE ABOUT DIGORY AND POLLY AND NARNIA'S CHOICE. I actually don't think Digory bringing in Jadis makes it all that bad, he's sort of like whatsisface in Holiday. With the Unfortunate Relationship with Hot Hot Evil. (IDK about Peter and Susan but Edmund MUST be a wizard and he gets OVERSHADOWED and then! Oh man Lewis' obsession with Sexy Seductress Evil becomes much better when you read it through a YW lens!) You could in a way construct pre-LWW Narnia as being in the opposite state to the one the Alaalids are in in WH - stuck in this kind of overshadowed space because of an unfortunate problem with their original choice that let in Jadis only instead of lounging around in a meadow somewhere, it's ice palaces and turning people into stone. (Like all the Alaalids in the cavern! I'm starting to think there are significant influences there. Esemeli's so often described as having an icy beauty!)

AHHH THIS MAKES SO MUCH SENSE. :DDD I mean, I think I have to reread Wizard's Holiday before I can write it, but -- yes, I love that! Also, clearly Edmund is also a wizard and gets overshadowed. Oh Edmund. *_*

DO IT ARIA, DO IT.

&edmund;

Haha, the number of Narnia fics I am suddenly writing: UNREAL. (I mean, technically only two. The other one is an alarming one about Susan. Still, this is two more than usual!)

I want to see this fic so much, no lie.

THOSE BBC TAPES, SO GREAT. I have this sudden urge to rewatch them now! Everyone was so earnest! The White Witch sort of hilariously overacted! which, who knows, maybe that was the director's fault. I love it anyway, because she had such dramatic line readings, so now when I'm watching the new film and Tilda Swinton pleasantly asks Edmund how he came to be in her dominion, I have the BBC Witch in the back of my head going, "And HOW did you come to enter MY DOMINION?!?" Sometimes people would go, "But Aria, those movies are awful, you do know that Aslan's a freaking puppet, right?" and I was always like "Yes, but I don't CARE, you're MISSING THE POINT."

Re: Tom Baker being Puddleglum, yes! Actually it's a bit of a problem, because there's this notion that Tom Baker is the Quintessential (Old School) Doctor, and ... no, he's not, guys, he's Puddleglum in SPACE, because I imprinted on Puddleglum HARD. I have this elaborate vision, actually, of Four and Adric and Nyssa and Tegan AND JILL AND EUSTACE all having space adventures. Jill and Tegan get on well. Adric and Eustace are really awkward around each other, and Eustace has a crush on Nyssa. It's great.

Re: using the White Witch over and over and OVER, I ... find it difficult to mind because I love ~Edmund's issues~, but I hear you. Assuming they make Silver Chair, I'm a little worried about what they'll do with it.

I read the cover off it and still know the riddle scene

AHA, RIDDLES IN THE DARK WAS YOUR FAVORITE THING TOO. *HIGH FIVE*

Wow, I just got my childhood fannish glee all over you. I hope you do not mind!

I have this elaborate vision, actually, of Four and Adric and Nyssa and Tegan AND JILL AND EUSTACE all having space adventures. Jill and Tegan get on well. Adric and Eustace are really awkward around each other, and Eustace has a crush on Nyssa. It's great.

<3333333 Write this, please? =D

""But Aria, those movies are awful"

Uh, no!

IA completely in the way the oldschool delivery threatens to overshadow the new versions' in the head. Things like - you know that bit when Peter kills Maugrim in LWW? And in the BBC movie they've, like, put a red gel over the camera lens? I WANTED IT TO BE RED IN THE NEW MOVIE. I was like, where is the melodramatic music. (SPEAKING OF MUSIC !!!!!)

JILL AND EUSTACE need space adventures SO BAD. They'd actually be awesome at them, look at how well they do in (the only good bits of) The Last Battle.

Also I completely know what you mean about Edmund's issues. It's just! Eustace has issues too you know!

*CHILDHOOD FANNISH GLEE HIGH FIVE BACK*

OKAY THE EMBED DIDN'T WORK HERE TRY THIS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-gxEk51OQs&feature=related

OMG THAT VID. *___* I just. Their little FACES! Mr. Tumnus! The Dawn Treader! THAT MUSIC. I grinned so hard.

YES WHERE WAS THE RED GEL DURING THE PETER-FIGHTS-MAUGRIM SCENE. I seriously wonder that every single time. Oh, and the whole killing-Aslan-on-the-Stone-Table scene is also especially disconcerting re: the difference between the new and old White Witch deliveries. On the other hand, I love that it means I can see which direct book quotes they kept in! I was delighted in the Caspian movie when this happened during the scene where they try to call up the Witch again, and the werewolf has that terrifying speech about how he is hunger and thirst and can lie on ice and drink blood &c &c, I CAN PROBABLY RECITE IT. Hilariously in the new film the werewolf has a much more dramatic delivery than in the BBC version. XD

YES, JILL AND EUSTACE HAVING SPACE ADVENTURES. :D I refuse to write that one, though.

Everyone's issues are great! And I hope they do make the Silver Chair so we can have more time with Eustace's. Honestly after that I will stop crossing my fingers for more movies, because although I'd adore a Magician's Nephew one, it is not IMPERATIVE, and I doubt they could pull off Horse and His Boy without massive skeevy issues, and I actively don't want a Last Battle movie. So.

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