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Chapter 2 of Herd Mentality is up, with triggering warnings for dubious consent/rape, physical and emotional abuse.
I don’t like writing violence and I especially do not like writing point of view violence. There’s a reason why I pull back to tell things from outside points of view and this is one of them.
But in the last month or so, as I was reading the patheos blog and, among other things, the entries by Libby Anne, Love, Joy and Feminism, I realized that I had something to say how I believe certain aspects of American Christian culture are immoral in their treatment of women and children. The terrible violence done to Rose was the way to say it. [discussion of purity culture, abuse, rape, abduction, and other triggering issues below]
Chapter 17, Kiss Me Like A Soldier Headed For War is up.
A huge, huge thanks to those who read and reviewed the last chapter. One again, I owe lots and lots to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
starbrowandbuttonloopsfor their gentle encouragement.
( Cut for a few research notes and links )
And now we meet John Pevensie. There were about a zillion different ways this encounter could go, with John going from sloppy, drunken, maudlin mess, to suave sophisticate playboy, to absolute monster. I’ve previously said that he was one of the villains of the piece and I’ve obviously backed off from that. He’s a jerk, not excused, but understandable, and so very much a product of his time.
And yes, you are right, George isn’t being especially insightful into his own duplicity, is he?
Character blather below
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So, thanks!
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A huge, huge thanks to those who read and reviewed the last chapter. One again, I owe lots and lots to
starbrowandbuttonloopsfor their gentle encouragement.( Cut for a few research notes and links )
And now we meet John Pevensie. There were about a zillion different ways this encounter could go, with John going from sloppy, drunken, maudlin mess, to suave sophisticate playboy, to absolute monster. I’ve previously said that he was one of the villains of the piece and I’ve obviously backed off from that. He’s a jerk, not excused, but understandable, and so very much a product of his time.
And yes, you are right, George isn’t being especially insightful into his own duplicity, is he?
Character blather below
( Below the cut )
So, thanks!
Originally posted at http://rthstewart.livejournal.com/96073.html
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So, let’s see. I realized I should probably put up a few notes about my NFE’s. I had a terrible time with posting and I’ve had to do a lot of RL writing. But it's done and up and one part of it in particular, Katyn, deserves special discussion.
( Behind the cut for blather and notes )And, I need to thank
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snacky again for running a wonderful exchange. A true bright spot apart from the great stories has been that I've gotten to know some new people better, including tantella (the LJ account for Avia Tantella Scott), starbrowsings (Starbrow), heliopausa (Heliopause) and pencildragon11 (oldfashionedgirl95) (and one of her nearest and dearest! Waves!) We've also gotten stories from people who I've admired for a while but haven't seen Narnia work from them ever or in a very long time, including therck, freudiancascade and Ruan Chun XianAnd this is, I remind myself, the real wonder of fanfiction -- the act of creating, the joy of sharing, and the growth that comes from the inclusive, vibrant communities that grow around those creations.
I had seen a book of Dr Suess' political cartoons at the Newseum last year and now courtesy of io9, I found out that the University of California at San Diego has made them available online. They are savage. Also, predictably, with regard to depictions of the Japanese, horribly racist. It's always interesting to see how cartoonists differently depicted the "enemy Asian" (Japanese) and the friendly Asian (Chinese). While by no means excusing the problems, Suess is biting in his attacks upon racism, antisemitism, Nazis, appeasement, isolationism, and other issues and institutions.
Here are three, and do check out the rest of the collection:
Here are three, and do check out the rest of the collection:
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| Ho hum! When he's finished pecking down that last tree he'll quite likely be tired published by PM Magazine on May 22, 1941, Dr. Seuss Collection, MSS 230. Mandeville Special Collections Library, UC San Diego, http://libraries.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dswenttowar/#ark:bb5461618q From: Dr. Seuss Collection, MSS 230 |
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| Relax, Sam, I assure you the express turns off right here! published by PM Magazine on September 9, 1941, Dr. Seuss Collection, MSS 230. Mandeville Special Collections Library, UC San Diego http://libraries.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dswenttowar/#ark:bb2697086r From: Dr. Seuss Collection, MSS 230 |
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| Listen, maestro... if you want to get real harmony, use the black keys as well as the white! published by PM Magazine on June 30, 1942, Dr. Seuss Collection, MSS 230. Mandeville Special Collections Library, UC San Diego http://libraries.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dswenttowar/#ark:bb1092978w From: Dr. Seuss Collection, MSS 230 |
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FYI, I'm posting Rat and Sword Go To War on ff.net and AO3 where it's been really, really quiet. Oh well. The feedback on AW 15 has been amazing and I'm thrilled and so grateful for that.
For first time readers, a glossary of terms for Rat and Sword and cast of characters is here (such as, what does RTU mean? and what's a Sten?)
Also, here's a map if you get confused about the geography (and boy did I get challenged on the east, west, right and left flank and I never did quite figure out exactly where the panzer divisions were).
Otherwise I'm puttering around with Remix Madness against my better judgement and really allergies have got me seriously wanting to cut my head off. Anything exciting with you?
This is making me go all AWWWW but admittedly I've got a soft spot for yellow labs. Our current dog is a reject from an assistance dog program (and oh gosh, if you meet her, you know why).
For first time readers, a glossary of terms for Rat and Sword and cast of characters is here (such as, what does RTU mean? and what's a Sten?)
Also, here's a map if you get confused about the geography (and boy did I get challenged on the east, west, right and left flank and I never did quite figure out exactly where the panzer divisions were).
Otherwise I'm puttering around with Remix Madness against my better judgement and really allergies have got me seriously wanting to cut my head off. Anything exciting with you?
This is making me go all AWWWW but admittedly I've got a soft spot for yellow labs. Our current dog is a reject from an assistance dog program (and oh gosh, if you meet her, you know why).
So happy Tuesday after Happy Cat Sacrifice Day! By whose authority am I back and work?
Easter dinner for 20 was fabulous though I'll assume my jet lagged state was responsible for the gross over-estimation of food (coupled with my epic failure at math). I also had to prepare for 2 readings at the church’s Easter Vigil mass (Moses parting the Red Sea, and all of Pharaoh’s army, his chariots and charioteers and something from the book of Ezekiel I didn’t like much).
econopodder made awesome carrots (gingery and yummy) and salad and knitress brought massive quantities of cheese and garlic bread and we had 5 desserts. The kids began a gigonormous water fight battle and now there are plastic bottles, nerf guns, and sleds (used as shields) all over the yard. I had jelly beans and the last of my Firenze biscotti for breakfast.
I have been frantically checking for any comment on Rat and Sword. Why yes, I am obsessed. I never sleep well after a posting.
Why am I at work again?
A few more rambling bits of navel gazing about Rat and Sword. Just move along if you aren't interested.
( Rambling about rat and sword )
Easter dinner for 20 was fabulous though I'll assume my jet lagged state was responsible for the gross over-estimation of food (coupled with my epic failure at math). I also had to prepare for 2 readings at the church’s Easter Vigil mass (Moses parting the Red Sea, and all of Pharaoh’s army, his chariots and charioteers and something from the book of Ezekiel I didn’t like much).
econopodder made awesome carrots (gingery and yummy) and salad and knitress brought massive quantities of cheese and garlic bread and we had 5 desserts. The kids began a gigonormous water fight battle and now there are plastic bottles, nerf guns, and sleds (used as shields) all over the yard. I had jelly beans and the last of my Firenze biscotti for breakfast.I have been frantically checking for any comment on Rat and Sword. Why yes, I am obsessed. I never sleep well after a posting.
Why am I at work again?
A few more rambling bits of navel gazing about Rat and Sword. Just move along if you aren't interested.
( Rambling about rat and sword )
 | Gelateria del Teatro Dinner in Rome |
 | Want to buy an elephant? Elephant mosaic from Ostia Antica -- hawkers in the commercial part of the town of Ostia would sell you an elephant. This was their advertising. |
 | Cupid and Psyche Art work in the home of a wealthy citizen of Ostia |
 | Pan This column was near a fountain and shows the god, Pan |
 | Mithras slaying the bull Given my TSG wanderings into the origins of Christmas, learning more today about the cult of Mithras and his "birthday" on December 25 and the relationship between this worship and early Christianity was fascinating. Our guide was terrific on how much early Christians co-opted other belief systems and how the Christian system was different from Roman and Jewish beliefs and why it caused so much conflict. |
I am also happy to report it is very quiet this evening. YEAH!
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I had seen this in my io9 feed, and lady_songsmith brought it to my attention that the American Museum of Natural History is hosting an online briefing today at 12:30 PM Eastern Time, US, to discuss research into the nature and color of feathers on Microraptor, a pigeon-sized, 4 winged dinosaur from 130 million years ago. You can read about the webchat and research here.
So very, very cool.
lady_songsmith brought it to my attention that the American Museum of Natural History is hosting an online briefing today at 12:30 PM Eastern Time, US, to discuss research into the nature and color of feathers on Microraptor, a pigeon-sized, 4 winged dinosaur from 130 million years ago. You can read about the webchat and research here.So very, very cool.
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Thank to those who weighed in on AW 13 and 14 and Happy New Year. I've now thrown myself into in the Big Bang (oh god, what have I done? A War story. WAR, I tell you. From she who has never fired a gun and flinches from first person shooting games). Work proceeds. I'm currently writing about Peter not vomiting.
- Not thirty minutes into the training flight and the deck of the Waco they were trapped in was awash in the vomit of hardened men. He was, quietly, proud that he’d retched on only four of the twelve training flights. That was eight better than his CO. Major Howard had gotten sick every time they went aloft in the Waco.
For his fortitude, Peter won win twenty schillings and 9 cigarettes in the Company-wide betting pool.
But this lead me to the realization that it was all exposition and so I should write, you know, real time vomiting and why Peter was pretty much inured to the smell of it being accustomed as he was to the stench of giants, wet sheep, and stewing offal meats. Which meant he had something to fix his gaze on which meant I needed to know what was inside a Waco CG-4 glider. (Yes, I will explain why everyone is sick in the first place). 15 minutes of google-fu later and I hit the jackpot.
138 years of Popular Science available on line. For free. This is from the February 1944 issue. On page 94 is the article about the gliders. Also on page 104, Daily Workouts Guard Your Health is the 1944 version of softcore porn in a science magazine. What is cool is that these are the actual scanned magazines so you get the ads and diagrams and it's a wonderful slice of history. And science! [edit -- RAWRR it won't let me link to the pages directly so you'll have to go to the table of contents and link to pages 94 and 104 or scroll through it or search "glider" and "workout."]
An hour later, I've been skimming science articles about Darwin from 1894 and a long discussion about kangaroo like dinosaurs from the 1920s and the history of how mental illness was assumed to be the result of demonic possession. It's time to shut the browser.
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Finally, I get Chapter 14 up, after a detour to something hinted at in Under Cover.
There actually isn't that much research that I haven't already discussed before.
The King's Speech took some research to find and while it's quite the info dump, I just didn't feel right editing it. The part in the House of Russell was in my previous Christmas story but edited slightly to fit better within TSG.
I did have fun with Susan's fashions and spent a lot of time here looking at the pictures of French fashion from the 1930s. I imagine Susan wearing something like this:
Source: HPrints Also at this stte, you can see pictures of the sort of lovely things that First Officer Pole has in her attic.
Oh, I dropped the hint that Michael Pole is with the RAF Photo Reconnaissance Unit flying out of RAF Benson in Oxfordshire.
Edmund's musing on the Leipzig War Crimes tribunals come from various sources and while generally reviled as a failure were also precedent-setting. My particular spin on it comes from Telford Taylor's The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials. You can read the basics in the wiki entry.
This page has good information about the context of Foreign Secretary Eden's statement to the House of Commons on December 17, 1942 regarding what would eventually be called the Holocaust.
Thanks toadaese, Doctor Dolly, anastigmatfic, h_dash_h and felipemarcusthomas who have been invaluable as I juggled with the different interactions.
That's all. Thanks so much for reading. I'm now at the point where I can really turn to the NBB. First check in is in a week and I've not started, so here's hoping I can pull it off. And that's all for now. I do hope I hear from folks. I was two days late posting this. I promised Christmas Day, but I felt I disappointed by using the King's Christmas Message and the repeat of the Russell House part, so I wrote the Under Cover tie in. Writing that segment took a little time.
There actually isn't that much research that I haven't already discussed before.
The King's Speech took some research to find and while it's quite the info dump, I just didn't feel right editing it. The part in the House of Russell was in my previous Christmas story but edited slightly to fit better within TSG.
I did have fun with Susan's fashions and spent a lot of time here looking at the pictures of French fashion from the 1930s. I imagine Susan wearing something like this:
Source: HPrints Also at this stte, you can see pictures of the sort of lovely things that First Officer Pole has in her attic.
Oh, I dropped the hint that Michael Pole is with the RAF Photo Reconnaissance Unit flying out of RAF Benson in Oxfordshire.
Edmund's musing on the Leipzig War Crimes tribunals come from various sources and while generally reviled as a failure were also precedent-setting. My particular spin on it comes from Telford Taylor's The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials. You can read the basics in the wiki entry.
This page has good information about the context of Foreign Secretary Eden's statement to the House of Commons on December 17, 1942 regarding what would eventually be called the Holocaust.
Thanks to
adaese, Doctor Dolly, anastigmatfic, h_dash_h and felipemarcusthomas who have been invaluable as I juggled with the different interactions. That's all. Thanks so much for reading. I'm now at the point where I can really turn to the NBB. First check in is in a week and I've not started, so here's hoping I can pull it off. And that's all for now. I do hope I hear from folks. I was two days late posting this. I promised Christmas Day, but I felt I disappointed by using the King's Christmas Message and the repeat of the Russell House part, so I wrote the Under Cover tie in. Writing that segment took a little time.
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Chapter 13 is up. This wound up at over 20,000 words. After dithering, I decided to post it in two pieces. I will post Part 2 on Christmas Day as it is set on Christmas Day. With Yuletide and all the other challenges, I figured this would get buried, but I hit the send anyway because now it’s time to turn to the Big Bang.
Thanks toadaese and wellinghall for their enormous assistance on foodstuffs and UK Christmas celebrations then and now. Also, there was a lot of information through google-fu, including here, here, Christmas Under Fire, and the Peoples’ War
There was also this report about a teenage girl who was “French” kissed by a dashing Frenchmen in black silk pyjamas,
Thanks also tolady_songsmith for Christmas information as well.
I found terrific information on the Christmas Eve Nine Lessons and Carols at King’s College, Cambridge in several places, including the College’s own site here and here and the very useful site here.
I once again returned to the work of the amazinganastigmatfic and refer back to her Deny the Child in which Morgan coshes Aslan with a candlestick. I thought a lot about Edmund in this part, for all that we don’t have his point of view much. We cover a lot of ground with him as we get the promised discussion of what it was to be a traitor from DT, some understanding with his mother, his reaction to and meeting Jill, his comfort to Lucy and hopefully a sense that he is not angst-filled and is moving in the right direction. My thanks to anastigmatfic,h_dash_h, and Doctor Dolly who all shared thoughts on this in comments.
Some of the period touches on important cultural milestones, including the release of Casablanca in December 1942 to coincide with Operation Torch, the influx of over paid, over sexed, over fed jitterbugging American GIs, and the release of White Christmas.
Here's a great video about Jitterbugging and such,
"Having learned the steps you now forget them." At about 5:32 you get all the American soldiers dancing and you can just imagine Mrs. Pevensie's reaction.
( The Mass Observation project, Helen, the little Kinsey report, and its conclusions about intimacy in 1949 )
Peace to you and my deepest thanks.
Thanks to
adaese and wellinghall for their enormous assistance on foodstuffs and UK Christmas celebrations then and now. Also, there was a lot of information through google-fu, including here, here, Christmas Under Fire, and the Peoples’ War There was also this report about a teenage girl who was “French” kissed by a dashing Frenchmen in black silk pyjamas,
Thanks also to
lady_songsmith for Christmas information as well.I found terrific information on the Christmas Eve Nine Lessons and Carols at King’s College, Cambridge in several places, including the College’s own site here and here and the very useful site here.
I once again returned to the work of the amazing
anastigmatfic and refer back to her Deny the Child in which Morgan coshes Aslan with a candlestick. I thought a lot about Edmund in this part, for all that we don’t have his point of view much. We cover a lot of ground with him as we get the promised discussion of what it was to be a traitor from DT, some understanding with his mother, his reaction to and meeting Jill, his comfort to Lucy and hopefully a sense that he is not angst-filled and is moving in the right direction. My thanks to anastigmatfic,h_dash_h, and Doctor Dolly who all shared thoughts on this in comments. Some of the period touches on important cultural milestones, including the release of Casablanca in December 1942 to coincide with Operation Torch, the influx of over paid, over sexed, over fed jitterbugging American GIs, and the release of White Christmas.
Here's a great video about Jitterbugging and such,
"Having learned the steps you now forget them." At about 5:32 you get all the American soldiers dancing and you can just imagine Mrs. Pevensie's reaction.
( The Mass Observation project, Helen, the little Kinsey report, and its conclusions about intimacy in 1949 )
Peace to you and my deepest thanks.
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I just posted Chapter 12, Ties that Bind from Apostolic Way.
So, lessee.
We have a further development of the different bonding systems of the animal kingdom. In addition to the citations from the last entry, here, I offer the following, which explains something of Richard's reluctance and shock upon learning of the behaviors, a discussion thath_dash_h and I continued. The following article addresses, among other things, just how long it took for the scientific community to even acknowledge what they did not see for decades.
Can Animals Be Gay, New York Times, March 31, 2010, Jon Mooallem
From Bailey and Zuk,Same-sex sexual behavior and evolution, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, June 16, 2009, I quote the following:
It is crucial that scientific contributions from animal studies shed more light than heat on the topic of same-sex behavior, so it is useful to define promising directions for future work and identify pitfalls to avoid as the field matures.
We get a lot more of Aidan and Lucy and a glimpse of Edmund and Morgan. Doctor Dolly had asked what bonding Edmund and Lucy did if Susan and Peter had bonded with Narnia. That answer is here in the chapter, and would be covered, eventually, in Harold and Morgan. Aidan is quite the Stu character -- but I really cannot imagine Lucy in an angsty or combative relationship. She's chosen a really good guy.
And, finally, we have a scene with Mary and Peter alone, which was another one people wanted to see as we'd not seen them in the same space since way back in Part 1. Which means of course, I simply had to do homage to camels, the Amazon, Scotus, andanastigmatfic. Thank you! The devastating reveal teased of in the last chapter is that Peter is irresistible camels. I don't do OTPs, but if I did, that is THE ONE.
Then we get to the codebreakers. The descriptions come from a couple of places, including this book by Sir F.H. Hinsley, the BBC site, WW2 The People's War and a big huge World War 2 book that describes everything in detail, on each day of the war. Each day.
So, I hope you like it. I didn't hear from a whole bunch of the usual people with the last chapter, so I'm a uneasy about posting this. But it's done and I don't hold things hostage and the next one is well underway. Those albatrosses and the references to Lysistrata will become more relevant. Then I turn to the Narnia Big Bang, Rat and Sword Go To War. The deadline is February, so I'm going to be focusing on knocking out a war story in about 2 months.
And do check out the 3 sentence ficathon. Awesome writers, really creative stuff and it's a terrific time suck (in the best possible way)
So, lessee.
We have a further development of the different bonding systems of the animal kingdom. In addition to the citations from the last entry, here, I offer the following, which explains something of Richard's reluctance and shock upon learning of the behaviors, a discussion that
h_dash_h and I continued. The following article addresses, among other things, just how long it took for the scientific community to even acknowledge what they did not see for decades.Homosexual sex between ostriches was interpreted by one scientist as “a nuisance” that “goes on and on.” One man, studying Mazarine Blue butterflies in Morocco in 1987, regretted having to report “the lurid details of declining moral standards and of horrific sexual offenses” which are “all too often packed” into national newspapers. And a bighorn-sheep biologist confessed in his memoir, “I still cringe at the memory of seeing old D-ram mount S-ram repeatedly.” To think, he wrote, “of those magnificent beasts as ‘queers’ — Oh, God!”
Can Animals Be Gay, New York Times, March 31, 2010, Jon Mooallem
From Bailey and Zuk,Same-sex sexual behavior and evolution, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, June 16, 2009, I quote the following:
It is crucial that scientific contributions from animal studies shed more light than heat on the topic of same-sex behavior, so it is useful to define promising directions for future work and identify pitfalls to avoid as the field matures.
We get a lot more of Aidan and Lucy and a glimpse of Edmund and Morgan. Doctor Dolly had asked what bonding Edmund and Lucy did if Susan and Peter had bonded with Narnia. That answer is here in the chapter, and would be covered, eventually, in Harold and Morgan. Aidan is quite the Stu character -- but I really cannot imagine Lucy in an angsty or combative relationship. She's chosen a really good guy.
And, finally, we have a scene with Mary and Peter alone, which was another one people wanted to see as we'd not seen them in the same space since way back in Part 1. Which means of course, I simply had to do homage to camels, the Amazon, Scotus, and
anastigmatfic. Thank you! The devastating reveal teased of in the last chapter is that Peter is irresistible camels. I don't do OTPs, but if I did, that is THE ONE.Then we get to the codebreakers. The descriptions come from a couple of places, including this book by Sir F.H. Hinsley, the BBC site, WW2 The People's War and a big huge World War 2 book that describes everything in detail, on each day of the war. Each day.
So, I hope you like it. I didn't hear from a whole bunch of the usual people with the last chapter, so I'm a uneasy about posting this. But it's done and I don't hold things hostage and the next one is well underway. Those albatrosses and the references to Lysistrata will become more relevant. Then I turn to the Narnia Big Bang, Rat and Sword Go To War. The deadline is February, so I'm going to be focusing on knocking out a war story in about 2 months.
And do check out the 3 sentence ficathon. Awesome writers, really creative stuff and it's a terrific time suck (in the best possible way)
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Chapter 10 of Apostolic Way, Lionsgate, just went up. It is HUGE, but as the first part of it is a re-tread of Under Cover, I did not split it.
Links to information on owl hearing are here, here, and a cool video here:
The discussion of convergent evolution here and here.
Green Tree Python
Emerald Tree Boa
Images courtesy of wikicommons
I did a lot of google fu regarding what Indians of the state of Gujarat eat for breakfast and have links to many, many recipes for handvo and theplas as well as soap rationing, maps in the UK in 1942, what to do with your garden in October in the UK, and the growing of runner beans on wigwams. There are some things I couldn't nail down and so just inserted them, like the assumption that Russell House is of fairly recent construction and so has advanced, indoor plumbing, gas rationing for zoo personnel, and other things.
Gerald Durrell's biography is here, among other places.
Again a huge thanks to Clio and Miniver who both helped enormously in the development of Jill -- Clio with research regarding her background in Jamaica and Miniver who over a year ago mentioned the possibility of Jill as Afro-Caribbean.
The discussion of convergent evolution here and here.
Green Tree Python
Emerald Tree Boa
Images courtesy of wikicommons
I did a lot of google fu regarding what Indians of the state of Gujarat eat for breakfast and have links to many, many recipes for handvo and theplas as well as soap rationing, maps in the UK in 1942, what to do with your garden in October in the UK, and the growing of runner beans on wigwams. There are some things I couldn't nail down and so just inserted them, like the assumption that Russell House is of fairly recent construction and so has advanced, indoor plumbing, gas rationing for zoo personnel, and other things.
Gerald Durrell's biography is here, among other places.
Again a huge thanks to Clio and Miniver who both helped enormously in the development of Jill -- Clio with research regarding her background in Jamaica and Miniver who over a year ago mentioned the possibility of Jill as Afro-Caribbean.
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Hello out there! A few things! First, sign ups for the Narnia Big Bang are underway! Only 10,000 words! or 20,000 words! And Artists! yes, please the Big Bang needs those who are good with art in whatever format -- fanmix, icons, drawing, digital, etc. etc. So, go! Sign up! Narnia Big Bang.
On the subject of writing, I am, having pepperedl_a_r_m regarding what Richard Russell looks like post hospital stay. (Really, I have no idea). Clio has been helping with Jill. I am, oddly, writing the events immediately post-Silver Chair for the third time -- once in a draft that didn't survive the decision to abandon the initial outline and write TQSiT, a second time for Under Cover, and now this time. I'm over 10,000 words in and it's going pretty well. My latest issue has been what I could lop off and do for the Narnia Big Bang -- which I really want to do. It's all overwhelming and daunting, and I'm feeling the failure acutely. I also recently saw a tattoo on a woman that said, "You're doing it wrong" and have considered that very appropriate given some of the latest. Why do people always add the "but"?
In really, really exciting news, that I just saw via Twitter, the Royal Society has just made all its articles available online for free that are over 70 years old, going back to 1665, including Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment, Isaac Newton's first paper and Thomas Huxley's paper Remarks upon Archaopteryx lithographica which I cited in TSG.
( Sneak peek behind the cut )
On the subject of writing, I am, having peppered
l_a_r_m regarding what Richard Russell looks like post hospital stay. (Really, I have no idea). Clio has been helping with Jill. I am, oddly, writing the events immediately post-Silver Chair for the third time -- once in a draft that didn't survive the decision to abandon the initial outline and write TQSiT, a second time for Under Cover, and now this time. I'm over 10,000 words in and it's going pretty well. My latest issue has been what I could lop off and do for the Narnia Big Bang -- which I really want to do. It's all overwhelming and daunting, and I'm feeling the failure acutely. I also recently saw a tattoo on a woman that said, "You're doing it wrong" and have considered that very appropriate given some of the latest. Why do people always add the "but"?In really, really exciting news, that I just saw via Twitter, the Royal Society has just made all its articles available online for free that are over 70 years old, going back to 1665, including Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment, Isaac Newton's first paper and Thomas Huxley's paper Remarks upon Archaopteryx lithographica which I cited in TSG.
( Sneak peek behind the cut )
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Chapter 12, Comings and Goings.
So, here we are at the end of a story arc long contemplated but almost not told when H&M began its slow decline this time last year.
First off thanks to those of you who read here and gave me the courage and incentive to pick it up. There was a lovely response to my Two Hearts Day piece and then E asked for Acceptance of Terms. Anastigmat’s pic fic of Morgan with the lion broach and Deny the Child followed. For a character who was introduced two years ago for no purpose greater than to allow Edmund to riff on his titles and as a jab at the conduct of evil investment bankers, we all are now stuck with Evil Banker Morgan of the House of Linch.
If you are interested, here are some notes on what would have been/should have been:
( What might have been )
( Morgan, her pov, and her story )
( TMI, RL and musings on the ethics of business practice )
( Regrets and whinging )
It’s on to the Narnia Fic Exchange now, and my femgenficathon. I had a brainwave for Part 3 of H&M two days and I need to let that gel a bit. I should return to AW before people forget it exists.
Thanks again!
EDIT: For those interested in the Susan/Director of Linch ship, I blame Min, Linea, and H for this, which is also in the comments below.
So, Chapter 9 of AW went up today, on the second anniversary of when I started posting TSG. Yikes. My notifications through FF.net are completely screwy. I am not getting them at all or they come 12 to 24 hours later. This doesn't help my perennial anxiety whenever I post. So, do let me know, here or via a review if you got it.
A huge thanks to all of you who made note of letters that you wanted to read and thought should be included. In looking through this chapter, it really is a sum and substance of so much that has gone before and so much of what is to come.
( The Research )
( The Highlights and Lowlights )
A huge thanks to all of you who made note of letters that you wanted to read and thought should be included. In looking through this chapter, it really is a sum and substance of so much that has gone before and so much of what is to come.
( The Research )
( The Highlights and Lowlights )
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So, Chapter 8, The Queen Susan in Finchley, is up.
There’s not much research here. The information on the SS Seatrain came from here.
( And some babbling and hand flailing and what not )
There’s not much research here. The information on the SS Seatrain came from here.
( And some babbling and hand flailing and what not )
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