Unthinkable Wings

On a trip to London yesterday (where I saw some old friends, and British Library sandwiches and rather excellent tapas were consumed*), I finally remembered to take both a notebook and a pencil for fic writing purposes. I intended to write Narnia fic, in which Jill joins her local Guide company and - well, unfortunately, that's as far as I've got - but instead have half a ficlet where Edmund and Eustace argue about politics.

*head-desk*


* Not during the same meal.

I'm awfully behind the curve on this, but you were supposed to list 15 OTPs amd draw conclusions from them. Or were you supposed to let your flist do so? IDK.

Anyway, my conclusions are (i) I have a great tendency just to follow canon (though the fact that a pairing is canonical doesn't mean I'll necessarily be interested in it)
(ii) I like my romantic heroes, by and large, to be intellectual, but also to know one end of a sword from each other (metaphorically speaking)
(iii) I may also have a thing about older men and younger women (though this is not reflected in my own romantic history, such as it is). Although to an extent this may just reflect that in older fiction the men are always older than the women.
(iv) there are friendships which I find fascinating but that I don't see as sexual, so I made a separate heading for them.

( Ten ships, and five friendships )

I've had this kicking about on my hard-drive for a while, not sure why I haven't posted them. Two more vignettes in my Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe AU set in Nazi Germany.

PG, 2610 words. References to anti-Semitism; contains naiveté about abhominable organisations.

Part one is here

( I don't think Daddy likes the H.J. Last time he was home on leave his face got all twisted up when he looked at you in your uniforms. )

I found this on an ancient 'three things' meme I am afraid I never finished... But I think it works well as a drabble. Susan, just before The Last Battle



Her family thought that she was running wild, but she was utterly sick of having to be the responsible, grown-up one. All she wanted was a normal, carefree girlhood, with parties and friends and nice clothes and dancing. She never much cared about men. The attention was exciting and some of them were charming, but the thought of actually marrying, or even being alone with them made her feel shut-in and frightened. She wasn't sure why, but it had something to do with a dream she once had, about being trapped in a house in a hot, dusty city.

Why not - this is a deserving classic. Courtesy, this time round, of dolorous_ett

Name a character from one of my fandoms, and I'll give you either:

(a) three facts about them from my personal canon/fanon,
(b) a reason he/she sucks,
(c) a reason he/she is awesomecakes,
(d) five things that never happened to that character, or
(e) five people that character never fell in love with and why.

For the purposes of this exercise, my fandoms can be defined as Doctor Who (including SJA but not including Torchwood), Harry Potter, Narnia, the Wimseyverse, "Master and Commander", Arthur Ransome, Star Trek: TOS and DS9, John Buchan, Dalziel and Pascoe (bookverse only, unless you count my belief that the TV characters have been gradually replaced by pod people) and Wolfram von Eschenbach (just to be pretentious). I also tentatively append the Vorkosiverse, as I haven't read all of canon yet. I would like to add Hermann Kant's "Die Aula", but I think I am in a fandom of one on that count (though one day I might crack and reveal my theory as to why canon as it stands doesn't stack up, and what conclusions we might draw from this - other than that our viewpoint character is charming, but ultimately a self-centred idiot, if not something worse).

Powerpoint is annoying me; I can't work out why it won't let me add a JPEG slide (it may be that the file's too large, I suppose; even if I dump the jpeg in Firefoz and try to cut and paste from that, all that it pastes is the directory path to the file).

Also: do any of you more presentation minded people out there know if there are any projectors/ beamers on the market that can't be hooked up to Macs to run PP presentations- or what cable do you need to do so? (My contact at Freiburg claims that I won't be able to use my own mac to run the presentation; I find this hard to believe, and would rather not have to deal with the inevitable problems with special characters if I ported it to a PC, but I am not entirely sure of my ground on PCs)

Arguably my real problem, though, is that I have just been bitten by the plot bunny for a (depressing) Narnia AU, in which the Pevensies are German, in more or less the same time frame, or possibly either slightly earlier, or more towards the end of the war†. Edmund would be angry with his older siblings because they had begun to question the stuff they have had shoved down their throats in the HJ, and with Lucy because she is too young to really understand what is going on, but inclined to take the side of the others; the parents, who are of course off-stage, would be uncomfortable with the regime, though not in any particularly active way. (This bit is inspired by the Scholl family, where the parents - good Catholics - were passively anti-Nazi, but the older children were initially enthusiastic members of the HJ, before slowly spotting the massive moral problems).... and I certainly shouldn't be thinking about this when I should either be getting on with the paper or making dinner.


† No, I don't know what my obsession with Really Depressing AUs is, either. Morbid streak a mile wide, apparently.

After a somewhat unplanned weekend out of range of the internet, I have discovered that my email account is on the blink and I can't get at anything :( Will postpone trying to sort it till tomorrow, in the hope it will sort itself...

In the meantime, I wrote a Narnia drabble. It's not what I set out to write, but there you are; it's the first Narnian thing I've written. It's also as shippy as I generally get, which is to say not really by normal fandom standards....

( Voyage of the Dawn Treader, sort of Caspian/ Lucy, U )

I can't believe that icanhaztardis, or whatever it's called, doesn't allow non-member commenting. How paranoid is that?

Not that I had anything vital to say - I was just rather baffled by the person on a thread comparing Narnia and Doctor Who, who suggested that Mickey= Eustace.




Yeah, that was my reaction, too. They may both start out as annoying wet blankets and end up rather awesome - but they're annoying in diametrically oppposed ways. Actually, I can't think of any Dcotor Who characters who resemble either reformed or unreformed Eustace - except perhaps Adric?

I may well be the last person on LJ who lists Lewis as an interest to see the film, but I finally got round to it yesterday...

( Spoilerish review here )