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.

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[sentientcitizen]

Dawn Treader is by far my favourite of the books, unless I have read the Last Battle more recently, in which case the Last Battle is my favourite. (I am given to understand that I am pretty much the only person in the world who feels this way about Last Battle, mind.)

THE POINT IS, I love the Dawn Treader book, and I did enjoy the movie! So you might too! Although. I am actually slightly less fond of it in hindsight, mind, thanks to Sophia pointing out how they took Lucy's sole moment of agency. The fuckers. *sigh* BUT while I was watching it, aside from a few excessivly cheesy moments that totally made me sporfle (SEVEN SWORDS, guys! SO IMPORTANT!) I was mostly just sucked into the PRETTY and the NARNIA and the REEPICHEEP OMG. (There is nothing at all not to love about Reepicheep in the movie, which is good because he is my favourite non-Pevensie character an all seven books.) It's not as good as, er, either of the other movies, but it's still a good romp. And. The pretty. My god, I could waste hours of squee on the costumes alone, never mind the wonderfull special effects. *happy sigh*

I told my parents pretty much everything, but I think in this specific case they found out because I told my friend Steph all about my grand plans to get into Narnia, and she told her Mum, and our Mums were best friends at the time, and... yup.

I was raised in an ostensibly Christian family (although now that I'm older I realise that Mum's an Easter-and-Christmas Christian, and Dad's just generally religious in a I-can't-concieve-of-the-universe-without-God sense but likes the Christian church because it's what he's used to). I... seem to remember my Dad trying to explain the whole stone table = cross thing to me? But I don't recall, you know, caring. Becaue. Aslan! *laughs* Poor Lewis - he'd be so appaled with us.

D'you mind me asking how you ended up in a catholic school, with parents like that?

[sentientcitizen]

(Because I am paranoid, I feel to need to clarify that "d'you mind" was an actual question, and the answer can be, "yes, actually, I do" and I will not care.)

[aria]

I have met a couple of other people who also like the Last Battle! I am in fact always curious to hear why people like it. I just, I can't, because when I was five it was the most horrifying ending possible and it still kind of is. Which is entirely personal preference! Them all dying creeps me out a bit, and of course the problem of Susan is the problem of Susan, but really what alarmed me is the idea that frolicking Narnia adventures forever and ever without adversity was supposed to be happy. It always struck me as static and therefore terrifying.

I think I am willing to be excited about the Dawn Treader movie! I mean, I am especially excited because I just watched Prince Caspian again and I want MORE, so. :D

Ahh, that explains it! I never ever told anyone about the getting-into-Narnia thing; it was too ... sacred, maybe? Something like that.

Heh. Poor Lewis would be appalled with us all! This pleases me slightly, because I am contrary.

I... seem to remember my Dad trying to explain the whole stone table = cross thing to me?

My dad did the same! And even before I really got what that meant, I did have this one quite Catholic friend when I was little; she always wore a cross necklace, so that's what I associated it with, and when my dad told me about the stone table = cross thing, I immediately went, "Well, it's a good thing that in Narnia they don't wear stone table necklaces! That would be awkward." XD

I do not mind! It was actually just a process-of-elimination thing where it was the best school in the district; I actually totally loved my Catholic school, which did indeed have the uniforms (plaid skirts! but I usually wore khakis, so) but didn't have any nuns. The only lasting effects I took from it besides a good education are a lot of geeky facts about the Gospels and the accidental memorization of the Lord's Prayer. :D