Narnia Fic Exchange and Anons and sundry

[rthstewart]

It is that time of year to spread the good word of the Narnia Fic Exchange, moderated by the fabulous caramelsilver  and snacky .  Come and play!  join in!

Last year, I wrote Maenad of the Maquis and Under Cover for the exchange.  The divine athousandwinds  wrote the fabulous More Than Kisses Letters Mingle Souls for me.

I had dinner with the fabulous intrikate88  and was actually asked for identification to confirm I was above the age of legal drinking.  Fabulous.  Good thing I had my wallet.  I was also able to use the Adipose from Dr. Who Season 4, Partners in Crime as a very relevant example in a presentation to a room of important people.  I am also devastated because my favorite pink baby doll t shirt now has a big ink splotch on it. 

I'm also on Twitter and Tumblr though I don't do much with Tumblr except be intimidated by all the dread visuals.

Also, it never rains but it pours, but two unsigned anon reviewers, Jim and Reader of the Open Range.  Jim, the riffs on investment banking, Bonfire of the Vanities and such are deliberate.  I was writing the prequel, By Royal Decree in the spring of 2009 when the US economy was in a freefall brought about by the conduct of evil investment bankers.  Worldbuilding snuck in there as well.  When Morgan describes in Chapter 7 her solution to the problem of sharing the risk regarding the wheat farmers and the millers, she is describing a primitive form of a derivative investment vehicle -- though not a mortgage backed security.  I'm not a financial person at all, though I live very, very closely with related issues of consumer credit and protection.  Some of Morgan's discussion of how you can't and should not be able to avoid responisibility through long, legalistic, dense disclaimers people can't possibly understand (chapter 4) is an issue of personal interest and the culture of the banking houses, with their very aggressive management structure, punishing hours, and status conscious environment are a thoroughly modern critique of many modern American workplaces of which I am a survivor. 

Reader of the Open Range -- I'm too old to have experienced Sesame Street first hand and my own children moved straight to Thomas the Tank Engine, Rescue Heroes and dinosaur movies.  However, I believe the Muppet Show to be one of the most delightful things ever to be on television.  Thank you for your lovely commentary but really, I cannot imagine trying to tackle Harold and Morgan, chapter 8 without reading something before it!  These later chapters are, with the exception of Edmund, all OCs!  You might want to check out the story's prequel, By Royal Decree.  If you peruse here, you will see where the H&M story is going -- it is closely tied to my bigger work, The Stone Gryphon. 

Work proceeds with 9, but I'm adding more and so that will take a few days.  It's over 7,500 words.  I also owe a few review replies.  I've put a couple of snippets in comments to the previous entry (I think).  Oh, question...  am I right that we get no physical description of Lord Peridan other than he rides a bay horse in HHB?

Comments

[autumnia]

There's no description of Peridan at all in the books. I was going to say he's probably fair-haired since Edmund was "the leader of the fair-haired men" but that's not absolute since from Shasta's POV, "they were all as fair-skinned as himself, and most of them had fair hair".

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Good point about being fair haired. I've made it ambiguous for the moment. Thanks!!

[linneasr.livejournal.com]

I just went over and read "More than kisses, letters mingle souls" and what a joy! More, in a literary context where Harold and Morgan is progressing so beautifully, it strikes me that, even though we meet Polly and Digory in TSG when they're older, if they had stayed in Narnia, they might have been able to come to a sexual place in their relationship in much the same way that Edmund and Morgan have. That was a confusing sentence. Anyway, what I mean is that help of the Talking Beasts was crucial to H & M coming together, and maybe, if D & P had reached adulthood in a world where the Talking Beasts, Dryads, Naiads and everyone were more accepting of themselves and their own sexuality, perhaps Digory would have been able to, as well. Eventually.

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

It is a wonderful story. She did a gorgeous job of it.