Ohh, Friends! Yes! Though my posts here tend to be exclusively fandom related. I keep my real identity elsewhere as I'm really far too old to be cavorting about like this. What I had meant about how do cool people like you find weird me is always something I am curious about because if this happens on ff.net, I'll go and look at someone's profile and I see nothing in the stories the person favs, the authors the reader likes, and the fandoms they frequent to indicate where they found me. On LJ, same thing -- if someone into Narnia stories and fandom found me, I'd not be too surprised as I tend to pop up there, but without that network, I'm always left scratching my head thinking, nifty, someone found me somewhere. I had one reader who found my story By Royal Decree via corsets.
In any event, Part 1 that you just read -- yes, Peter can come across as being "perfect" except that he's really missed the boat, Aslan is really frustrated (to the extent a deity can be frustrated) and the man's in for angst wallowing before he figures it out. I've written recently to E that the Peter of this vision is very much a reaction to the Angry!Stupid! Peter of the Prince Caspian film and resulting fandom - -WAAAAAH, I'm not King anymore, this WORLD SUX, stomp stomp. I appreciate AU characterization as much as the next person but I really don't see that in the Prince Caspian book, so this is very much a reaction to all that angst. I like to think that the stories are really low on overall angst.
Thanks for saying that about the voices. I do tend to jump around a bit, though in Part 2 it is, until the very end, nearly all Susan with some Peter and Edmund tossed in. Part 2 is a HARD and demanding story to read with its multi-layered story telling. Most readers picked up the "code" about the same time that Peter does and really not knowing the Narnia characters doesn't matter because it is NOT the true canon Narnia characters in the story -- it's a conceit, a made up story, to get by the censors and once, as revealed in chapter 3, the gig is up (around chapter 19), the dual action disappears entirely. It's actually better to not know that Sallowpad was a Raven who appears once in Horse and His Boy or who Prince Cor is -- the characters that appear here are not the characters of the Chronicles.
As it turns out, I was glad to have that option of telling the really dodgy bits in Narnia code where I was dealing with real people and real events. It became a form of historical fiction and I was glad to be able to use the Narnia bits to distance myself from real Congresswomen, ambassadors, generals, and newspaper heiresses and reporters.
No, this is not a typical Narnia fic by a long shot. I'm an adult, writing adults, for adults. This means a lot of things, including the fact that I include adult content and thematic elements (e.g., premarital and extra marital sex, female cutting, moral use of power in pursuit of national goals, euthanasia, genocide) and I take some grief for some of those things -- especially the sexual content (see above). And Part 2 is demanding enough that it takes a certain reader to even stay with it -- footnotes indeed. You have to be interested in the War and in the things the British did to engage the Americans in the War to even be interested in the story. Plenty of readers are interested in something more fun and less taxing.
So thanks, and I love to hear from folks! Friending commences.
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In any event, Part 1 that you just read -- yes, Peter can come across as being "perfect" except that he's really missed the boat, Aslan is really frustrated (to the extent a deity can be frustrated) and the man's in for angst wallowing before he figures it out. I've written recently to E that the Peter of this vision is very much a reaction to the Angry!Stupid! Peter of the Prince Caspian film and resulting fandom - -WAAAAAH, I'm not King anymore, this WORLD SUX, stomp stomp. I appreciate AU characterization as much as the next person but I really don't see that in the Prince Caspian book, so this is very much a reaction to all that angst. I like to think that the stories are really low on overall angst.
Thanks for saying that about the voices. I do tend to jump around a bit, though in Part 2 it is, until the very end, nearly all Susan with some Peter and Edmund tossed in. Part 2 is a HARD and demanding story to read with its multi-layered story telling. Most readers picked up the "code" about the same time that Peter does and really not knowing the Narnia characters doesn't matter because it is NOT the true canon Narnia characters in the story -- it's a conceit, a made up story, to get by the censors and once, as revealed in chapter 3, the gig is up (around chapter 19), the dual action disappears entirely. It's actually better to not know that Sallowpad was a Raven who appears once in Horse and His Boy or who Prince Cor is -- the characters that appear here are not the characters of the Chronicles.
As it turns out, I was glad to have that option of telling the really dodgy bits in Narnia code where I was dealing with real people and real events. It became a form of historical fiction and I was glad to be able to use the Narnia bits to distance myself from real Congresswomen, ambassadors, generals, and newspaper heiresses and reporters.
No, this is not a typical Narnia fic by a long shot. I'm an adult, writing adults, for adults. This means a lot of things, including the fact that I include adult content and thematic elements (e.g., premarital and extra marital sex, female cutting, moral use of power in pursuit of national goals, euthanasia, genocide) and I take some grief for some of those things -- especially the sexual content (see above). And Part 2 is demanding enough that it takes a certain reader to even stay with it -- footnotes indeed. You have to be interested in the War and in the things the British did to engage the Americans in the War to even be interested in the story. Plenty of readers are interested in something more fun and less taxing.
So thanks, and I love to hear from folks! Friending commences.