not a tame lion

[aria]

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.

Comments

[labellementeuse]

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!)

[aria]

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. *_*

[labellementeuse]

DO IT ARIA, DO IT.

&edmund;

[aria]

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!)

[(Anonymous)]

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