Oh rth, how hasn't your fic inspired me and shaped the way I see so many Narnian characters?
There's your Peter, such a solid pillar and yet unsure of his place in a world where he isn't King and can't quite fathom what to do with himself, how to best use the potential he knows he has in a world that doesn't live up to the high standards he so wishes it did. Any Peter I ever write is always at least a little bit your Peter.
There's your Caribbean Jill, such a great and logical place to take her character, a brilliant way to add some diversity to a very pale world, a much-needed new perspective. And that while retaining her essential Jill-ness, that fire and stubborn spirit and so, so much love for Eustace.
Speaking of which, EUSTACE, MAN OF SCIENCE. I honestly did not like Eustace before I read your work - I just remembered the twerpy jerk from Dawn Treader - and now he is one of my favorites. So much solid, dogged passion! His endless curiosity and quest for dragons! God, I love him. You write him so well; he inevitably makes me smile at his oblivious but sweet antics in any story you write with him.
I would be remiss if I didn't mention Tebbitt, who makes me swoon to this day.
The world you've created in TSG is such a tremendous achievement. Nobody else writes Pevensies-in-England, Everybody Live Nobody Dies stories like you, with your incredible level of research and care and just love for everyone.
And you are that way in real life too. Thank you for everything, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
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There's your Peter, such a solid pillar and yet unsure of his place in a world where he isn't King and can't quite fathom what to do with himself, how to best use the potential he knows he has in a world that doesn't live up to the high standards he so wishes it did. Any Peter I ever write is always at least a little bit your Peter.
There's your Caribbean Jill, such a great and logical place to take her character, a brilliant way to add some diversity to a very pale world, a much-needed new perspective. And that while retaining her essential Jill-ness, that fire and stubborn spirit and so, so much love for Eustace.
Speaking of which, EUSTACE, MAN OF SCIENCE. I honestly did not like Eustace before I read your work - I just remembered the twerpy jerk from Dawn Treader - and now he is one of my favorites. So much solid, dogged passion! His endless curiosity and quest for dragons! God, I love him. You write him so well; he inevitably makes me smile at his oblivious but sweet antics in any story you write with him.
I would be remiss if I didn't mention Tebbitt, who makes me swoon to this day.
The world you've created in TSG is such a tremendous achievement. Nobody else writes Pevensies-in-England, Everybody Live Nobody Dies stories like you, with your incredible level of research and care and just love for everyone.
And you are that way in real life too. Thank you for everything, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY.