Moving on from Archivefail!

[rthstewart]

With my previous post, which l_a_r_m has now dubbed Archivefail! nearing 100 comments, I'm going to stop commenting over there. I won't close the comments or anything. While I have thought for a while that aspects of the Narnia fandom were regrettably ripe for a wank, I did not think it would be this particular variety. I have it on good authority from snacky that even here we aren't there yet.

Admittedly someone trying to lecture snacky and cofax7 on the history of fandom is pretty funny. There has been some additional comment activity which lady_songsmith linked to which included an allegation of threats of exclusion from the fandom because the blogger told an author With Lots of Very Important Friends that I think the way they treat their readers is despicable.

I don't think that's me (I don't think I've been called despicable by a reader (yet)). But if it is, that means you all are Lots of Very Important Friends and I certainly agree with that.

So with that, prompts for Narnia Big Bang begin tomorrow!!! Are you thinking of prompts to help people get ideas? I posed some in NFFR chat last night:

Beaver ninjas
Gay giraffes (which I'm actually going to use in the next chapter of AW)
VE Day

Also, it looks like the NFFR AsCast will be getting going again. Thoughts? Suggestions? Ideas?

Comments

[autumnia]

Ah, the wonders of the telephone. And yet, I'm reminded of an episode of "Downton Abbey" where the Downstairs folks were trying to figure out how to use it and were also thinking it should not be used in case of dire emergencies.

... and I don't suppose the Zoo is calling to ask her to come down and sort out the mess about some strange Lion running amok at Experiment House?

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

and I don't suppose the Zoo is calling to ask her to come down and sort out the mess about some strange Lion running amok at Experiment House?

http://rthstewart.livejournal.com/57392.html?thread=903984#t903984

This marks the third time I will have written this segment -- once in a draft that had this scene occurring in 1947 when Experiment House was but a few miles from Russell House (Sorry, Ma'am, I'm so late this morning but there was a dreadful ruckus at the school and the hospital staff were called in), and then again in Under Cover. I think it's one reason why it's taking me so long. This is squarely in the area of territory I'd never, ever intended to cover.