We have to stop meeting like this... Anyhow... Anyone objecting to the slash (which I do distinguish from the 'cest), hasn't read Lewis' own words on the subject, bothered to understand the prevalence of it in English male institutions including the boys public schools, or the prevalence of same sex coupling in the natural world. I'm not interested in building the case for it in Narnia, but it's there.
For whatever reason fic picks up on this, although I think it's maybe a 50/50 divide? There seems to be the question of "How much do they remember?" and if the answer is "a lot!" then authors tend to either have them as sticking with their little clique and being depressed, or somehow turning out to be leaders at school.
Well, I suppose, yes. Sorry, to ramble a moment, bear with me, but this is something on which I have not shut up in the 300,000+ words I've written in the last year. I take the very different approach that there's a reason they are sent back and that to accomplish here what they did there means they have to remember everything. There is virtually no angst of the "OMG WAAAAH! I'm not in Narnia anymore" variety. In fact, the whole point, which has become clearer and clearer, is that the worlds are not separate at all, but overlapping, and that Narnia is very relevant here. This is not a cast out of Eden vision, but a vision of embracing Spare Oom and bringing more of the Narnian values of tolerance into this world and using their experience in rebuilding a shattered nation (twice) into a war-torn England. It is a wholly optimistic vision.
(Man, I feel so bad because your fics, I have not read them! And they sound so cool! But wow they are *long*,
Pfbbt. If you are interested, and truly no worries if you aren't, you can get a flavor of it all in the two shorts -- Black as Rat and Crow and In The Spirit of the Season. You won't know any of the backstories, but that never stops me from reading. Talking Beasts as point of view characters who think like beasts! Sex! Tolerance! Multi-culturalism! Espionage!
As for Polly and Digory, well in **my** warped head, Digory is a world famous expert on the Oxford Franciscans and has been constructing a theological and philosophical theory of environmental stewardship that rests upon something other than let's save animals and the environment because of how it makes us feel and because animals are cute. Polly is a libertine and self taught naturalist and conservationist who has traveled the world in the company of polygamist biologist and sometime lover, tried to trace the whole of the Nile but crocodiles ate their native guide, now works at Whipsnade -- a naturalistic zoo in England, hangs out with Julian Huxley, is trying to reintroduce the extinct beaver into England, and gets amorous when she drinks alcohol. Spy? That's Susan. But I am so reading that spy story. OK, I'll stop now. Really. I am, frankly, out of my mind.
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Anyone objecting to the slash (which I do distinguish from the 'cest), hasn't read Lewis' own words on the subject, bothered to understand the prevalence of it in English male institutions including the boys public schools, or the prevalence of same sex coupling in the natural world. I'm not interested in building the case for it in Narnia, but it's there.
Well, I suppose, yes. Sorry, to ramble a moment, bear with me, but this is something on which I have not shut up in the 300,000+ words I've written in the last year. I take the very different approach that there's a reason they are sent back and that to accomplish here what they did there means they have to remember everything. There is virtually no angst of the "OMG WAAAAH! I'm not in Narnia anymore" variety. In fact, the whole point, which has become clearer and clearer, is that the worlds are not separate at all, but overlapping, and that Narnia is very relevant here. This is not a cast out of Eden vision, but a vision of embracing Spare Oom and bringing more of the Narnian values of tolerance into this world and using their experience in rebuilding a shattered nation (twice) into a war-torn England. It is a wholly optimistic vision.
Pfbbt. If you are interested, and truly no worries if you aren't, you can get a flavor of it all in the two shorts -- Black as Rat and Crow and In The Spirit of the Season. You won't know any of the backstories, but that never stops me from reading. Talking Beasts as point of view characters who think like beasts! Sex! Tolerance! Multi-culturalism! Espionage!
As for Polly and Digory, well in **my** warped head, Digory is a world famous expert on the Oxford Franciscans and has been constructing a theological and philosophical theory of environmental stewardship that rests upon something other than let's save animals and the environment because of how it makes us feel and because animals are cute. Polly is a libertine and self taught naturalist and conservationist who has traveled the world in the company of polygamist biologist and sometime lover, tried to trace the whole of the Nile but crocodiles ate their native guide, now works at Whipsnade -- a naturalistic zoo in England, hangs out with Julian Huxley, is trying to reintroduce the extinct beaver into England, and gets amorous when she drinks alcohol. Spy? That's Susan. But I am so reading that spy story.
OK, I'll stop now. Really.
I am, frankly, out of my mind.