This and that, fic and dogs not barfing

[rthstewart]

Assignments went out for the Narnia Fic Exchange. Earlier in the week on Twitter we were having fun with were-Caspian and the Hag's missing body in the PC illustration by Pauline Baynes where he gets bitten. The image manip is courtesy of metonomia I suspect we'll be seeing a lot of this for the NFE this year, as well as ladies in love.



My own sign up was pretty much the same as last year and I included a link to it in my sign up.  I'm nothing if not predictable.  Ignore Last Battle.  Just about anything else is OK though I'm not a fan of Jadis or the Telmarine era.  My assignment is going to be.. interesting.  In a good way!  Something new!  VERY NEW.


I got a nice query from a long time reader who was starting a re-read and wondering about reading order, which reminded me that I had a story on FF.net that never made it to AO3, Lost in Translation. LiT was all prompted by reader feedback and questions and most, but not all of it, ended up in other works, especially Rejection of the Terms (there's a cute part in LiT where Peter is doting on a pregnant Morgan and I thought of updating it, setting it later, aligning it with the other stories, and including Seth Stanleh but eh, I think we've all moved on). Anyway, the part that had nearly disappeared into the Internet ether is the Knighting of the Otters. So I pulled it from LiT on ff.net and posted it last night.

Otter Nonsense (4427 words) by rthstewart
Chapters: 1/1
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Edmund Pevensie/Original Female Character(s)
Characters: Edmund Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie, Peter Pevensie, Susan Pevensie
Additional Tags: Golden Age (Narnia), Jalur, Otters, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Everybody Lives, Nobody Leaves, Humor, Banker Morgan
Series: Part 8 of Golden Age Stories
Summary:  Honours are bestowed on two very unworthy recipients.
 

I'm working hard on the final update to Star Husband which has gone in a very unexpected direction.  WOOT.  Maybe next week?


AND, in other news, because I know you are waiting with baited breath -- Komo's G/I tract appears to be on the mend.  It's blazingly hot so I"m not getting the dogs out for walks unless very early in the morning or in the evening after a thunderstorm but, as near as I can tell (he's very secretive about where he does his big business) things are normal or nearly so.  We'll be trying a super hydrolyzed, allergen-free commercial diet and see if that solves the issues -- he's exhibited a bundle of symptoms sfor a long time -- including LOTS of water drinking -- and these all seem to have abated.  HOPEFULLY we can get him on to something more nutritionally adequate than boiled rice and chicken.

Comments

[snacky]

Honestly, I didn't see the hag's body until we discussed on Twitter. I really always thought she was a disembodied head.

[rthstewart]

I can honestly say that, like the nature of Aslan and Jadis, and the Problem of Susan, it was a thing that never occurred to me until people smarter, more creative and more observant found it first.

[hydrangea]

I swear, NFE is my favourite time a year! It's so much fun (and so much fascinating work!) to figure out what to do with prompts that might/might not have been what you expected.

The muses are with me this year, so I hope I will have a fun writing time. Hope yours will be wonderful too!

[rthstewart]

Excellent! And I loved the story you did for Winged last year. It was amazing.

[generalleia]

Oh I'm so glad his GI tract seems to be settling

[rthstewart]

Of course now he's become obsessed with me and I really didn't need that. Also wondering about walks given how beastly the weather is.

[generalleia]

Nooooo!

Hopefully the weather cooling down today will help some

[autumnia]

So glad to hear Komo's doing better! And yes, all of you should stay inside where it's hopefully cooler. I've had to work from home for a few days this week due to office demolition work and every time I've gone out and come back inside, I felt like I had walked through a sauna with my clothes on. Ugh, the humidity.

So I'm intrigued by this talk of the Hag's missing body and it's hard to tell in the black and white illustration but the rest of the Hag is there, behind Cornelius's body. For reference, I'm now looking at the version where Pauline Baynes colored in the illustrations for the anniversary editions of the books and yes, it's a bit clearer that the Hag's body isn't missing. :-)

[rthstewart]

As I told Snacky, the Hag's missing body was just one of those things about Narnia that I never noticed until I hung out with people who were smarter and more observant and more creative than I am.

[galadryels]

Glad Komo is feeling better. If you want, I can ask around at work about hydrolyzed diets. The ones I know are all prescription, but I can ask the vets about OTC ones they might recommend?

[rthstewart]

I'd be curious which Rx diets they recommend. There are several -- Purina, Hill's and Royal Canin all have ultra-allergen free lines. They are all super expensive, with the Royal Canin Ultramino being the most dear. And we're not sure if it even is an allergy. We're sure it's NOT many other things given extensive ultrasound, xrays and blood work. He appears to be responding to Baytril? Maybe? And he's stable on boiled chicken and rice. What was very unusual -- so much so that they referred it to their inhouse veterinary staff -- is that the Hill's I/D -- which is supposed to be substitutable for chicken and rice started the bloody diarrhea all over again. I'm not buying into fad diets and novel proteins. Those have a way of being associated, in another year or two after their introduction, with dead dogs.

[galadryels]

the one i'm most familiar with is hills z/d for hydrolyzed diets. really weird that i/d was a problem, that's our go-to for upset stomachs. i'll ask around.