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Last night I posted to ff.net the LJ story I did last year for

venilia for the Narnia Fic Exchange, Food For Thought. It's without the pictures of course and I tweaked it a bit. If you missed the story, before, it's here on ff.net and here, complete, on LJ. I'm curious whether any of those who avoid my work due to its (perceived immoral) content will check out Food For Thought given the rating and description. (I even took out the words ass and crap a few times). I suspect not, but we'll see. I admit that was one of my reasons for posting it as an alternative to the long, angsty and combative things I was contemplating last week. I need to get the whole thing up, pictures and all, on AO3, but that's going to be a while.

The previous meme has turned into an awesome free-for-all and it's now

econopodder 's fault that I'm contemplating the point of view of Artoo Detoo. With

knitress the three of us spent a long time discussing Leia and what is and isn't known in the Star Wars EU about Padme after we saw the Avengers. Really, I don't want to go back to Star Wars fic. Really. I've not even managed to get up all the Stuff chapters and that's finished (which should also go up on AO3, eventually). Oh, for those of you bound for CJ Con, have a GREAT TIME! So jealous!

As Clairel asked, I'l post that my monarda (bee balm) is doing much better.

I've got some comment fic floating around now in the last couple of entries, so I'll collect that after I write something about Jill and Eustace hanging out in Canada in the TSG AU for Clairel's ask in the meme. As for Harold and Morgan, 4,000 words of one chapter done, 15,000 or so in the next, so it's going.

She wasn’t nervous. Maybe she should be. Aslan was… well she wasn’t sure. He was real. He was really real. He was really a real Lion. The Narnians were all so happy to see him. Mostly, Morgan felt a growing anger as she studied her list of talking points. She had so many questions and she could already tell she'd was probably not going to get answers to many of them. Are you the cat I dream about? Where did they come from? Are you going to send them back? Is that what you mean about what came to Narnia could leave the same way? Why don’t they remember where they came from? Did you make them forget?

First things first. She'd start with the easy one.

Morgan took a deep breath. “Why am I the way I am?”

“What do you mean?" the Lion asked.

“Why am I so different?"

The Lion was silent for so long, things were obviously off to a bad start. If he wouldn't answer something this simple and basic, he surely wasn't going to answer something really important, like Why did you keep Narnia under Jadis for so long and why did you let Harold meet her?

But finally, he said, "I do not understand your question, Morgan. Why do you love so fiercely? Why do you give your loyalty to others? Why do you do the right thing, for the right reason, with no regard to the consequences to yourself? ”

“Well, I was really wondering why I’m so peculiar. Wait…” She groaned and clutched the list in her fist. “See? This is what I mean. You just complimented me and I didn’t even think to say thank you.”

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Love it. Aslan:...Can you repeat the question? And Morgan brought notes! What a dear.

(I LOVED the background on the General and Roblang and Leszi BTW. It was perfect.)

Can't wait to read the rest of this....

doctor dolly

For some reason I just picture Artoo having this complex internal life that just goes totally over the heads of everyone around him...not that I'll ever write about it, but it just sprang to mind. Of course instead of leaving for Origins I'm just home from vending at World Steam Expo and have Con Brain out the wazoo (12am Port Parties, refined and educational and delightful as they are, are not beneficial when you get to bed "early" at 1:30am and have to be up and chipper and ready to sell at 7:30am. "It seemed like a good idea at the time" is pretty much my motto at cons...)

OH MORGAN of course you brought notes and your thoought process is perfect :DD

Glad the bee balm is doing better! Is the weather calming down for you now?

And yes I saw that! Saving it for after my workshift tomorrow :D

Hello rthstewart!

I know it's still a long way to go, but I can't help imagine how H&M's wedding going to be like because, wow, would I really like to see that! Haha

A big fan,
Louise :)

I'm glad you liked them! Most of that is actually genuine head cannon, as opposed to stuff I just make up on the fly.

which would all go a lot faster if I hadn't just written 1,000 words of Eustace and Jill in TSG AU.

I really think Artoo knows all and says nothing? I mean the Dude's seen it all and managed to avoid a mind wipe. Econopodder's idea was ... what was Artoo's reaction when he lands back on Tatooine with 3PO? He's been there. He's stayed there. On the Lars farm, and all. Knitress was arguing that the droids are like the furniture, but I can't help thinking that someone like Mon Mothma would think to say to Leia, you know, a Senator for Naboo had droids very like that one. There were rumors of a Jedi going in out of her apartments too -- I think that's in the novelization..

Errr, stopping now.

And I know. Origins... sniff.....

Thank you for stopping by Louise! Any other requests? No need to be a stranger!

I don't know, I kind of think that they ARE a little like furniture--I don't know that anyone would remember one astromech over another, or at least would notice AND think they might not have been wiped. If anything, I'd think they might vaguely remember Threepio, especially if he's a 'custom' design, as he's the more humanoid/interactive one. While Artoo can kind of cruise below the radar.

And yeah. Origins. I really wanted to go, but moving it RIGHT after WSE--if it's between go and MAKE $800, or drive farther and just spend, and be really exhausted, it's kind of an easy call.

I should feel guilty that my prompt on Eustace and Jill, slowed you down in your other writing, ...but I don't. I'm selfish, that's what I am. With luck, everybody else will adore it too.

The bee balm looks lovely, and I can't see any residual mildew so that sounds good. I think I may have some coming up in my garden, but it's to early to tell yet and it may just be weeds. There's certainly plenty of those.

Morgan and Aslan. It sounds like Morgan's list contains all the questions we have wanted to ask Aslan over the years. I don't think she is going to be satisfied. It sounds like this is going to be the beginning of a very tricky relationship between the two. A sort of negotiated peace, live and let live truce maybe? Certainly different from the relationship between Aslan and everybody else. It's gong to be fascinating.

ClaireI

That'll be all for now, thanks. :)

I would like to know about how you got the names of Jalur, Jina, Fooh and Beehn and Dalia though. They're the perfect names for the perfect guards!

Louise

Hello again! Naming is something that really stresses out some authors. Me, not so much. I'm very casual about it and usually, but not always, think about some trait in a character and pick a name associated with it.

Fooh and Beehn come from this guy,

the podracer announcer in Star Wars The Phantom Menace (which I somehow managed to see in theaters 13 times).

Jalur is a very popular name for tigers -- it means "stripe" Malay

Dalia is Hebrew or Arabic derived and means gentle, tender, branch, or bough, or thereabouts. I know in the first draft where she appeared I had a lot of problems with spelling it.

Jina, I don't remember. It might have been a variation of one of my dog's names, which was derived from Romanian "Giţa" which translated roughly as "piggy" and also Jina from Swahili and Jean in Hebrew which give you a gracious named child of God.

Because of my poor planning, I ended up with too many names that begin with J and M.

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