I heard the BBC showed the first Narnia movie over Christmas. So did ABC, so I watched it because I couldn't go out anyway. After that I watched "Ice Age 2" (when I told my sister, she said "I thought you said you saw Narnia On Ice").


( more stuffs )


I forgot, I also got new pjs for Christmas. I'm surprised at how thankful I am for everything this year, even stuff I'd normally be "eh" about. I'm actually wearing the pjs now.

I also have an urge to write Harry Potter fic for no apparent reason.

Saw a bad, old, weird episode of "Law and Order" in which the victims were a couple named Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cullen.

No shortage of suspects there.

It's not you, it's me. Oh who am I kidding, it's totally you.

And Narnia's trying so hard not to start crying in the middle of the restaurant, and it's Christmas and Narnia got all dressed up and everything.

It is not the end of things. Disney was only the distributor, and forked over a lot of the money for it- it will not stop the movies from being made, provided they can find another distributor. Warner Brothers is the one I’m rooting for (they need something to extend their Harry Potter good will)- it’ll probably be FOX though. Unfortunately, as I understand it, FOX were the people who helped ruin “The Dark is Rising”.

I’m just thinking about the movies that got greenlit by Disney instead and despairing. Stuff like “Bolt” and “Beverley Hills Chihouha” (a concept I hate so much I'm not even going to try and spell the title right) and the Tinkerbell thing and yet another remake of “Escape to Witch Mountain”, and %&%&#@ High School Musical 3 (I don't normally have a problem with sparkly pre teen fluff-it has a legitimate place in our culture- unless it starts edging out things with more substance and right now I am not in the mood for HSM). Disney clearly has decided that from now on, they only care about the bottom line and they will churn out as many forgettable empty calorie practically straight to video movies as they can in order to make money.

They released it at the wrong time, promoted it poorly, and even though it didn’t exactly flop, then went “you didn’t live up to our RIDICULOUSLY HIGH expectations so we’re washing our hands of you.” And the announcement comes out on Christmas.

I would not have been so generous in my opinion of the Twilight movie if I’d known there really might not be anything better coming up (besides Harry Potter).


Speaking of Narnia, and other shows- I dreamed some kind of Dr. Who episode last night in which some people stole genetic material from Skandar to do experiments and accidentally created a bunch of clones.

....that could so be a real episode. I mean, in a "names have been changed for privacy's sake" version. Anvils about science, religion and child actors!

Twilight, with puppets!


Chronicles of Narnia, cartoon. For some reason, it takes place in the seventies in North America. But they really don't take advantage of this opportunity for an AU. Also, why does Edmund have glasses? For some reason, out of all of them the one I always pictured most likely to have glasses was Eustace.

Lucy’s red and white outfit in Disney's PC looks like it might be another “Renaissance or Renaissance-inspired Mary Magdalene art” inspired design. I got this Magdalene calendar from a friend, and I was salvaging the pictures from it and saw one that looked familiar. I don’t know the artist but I’m going to look it up. But Magdalene is wearing something similar, only a lot busier and...head scarfier...than Lucy's.

I don’t have time limits for being interested in fandoms, but I do with fan fic for each fandom. I realized that I generally stop *writing* in a fandom when I’ve said whatever it is I need to say through the voices of the characters. I had one Buffy fic in me that I feel like was worth keeping, maybe two. I can take that fic and turn it into something that will help me later, but basically, I said what I needed to get off my chest. Other people write those characters way better than I ever did, if I ever did write them in an especially special and memorable way, it was because I needed so badly to write that at that specific point in time (and probably part of giving it up was spurred on by realizing that after all that stuff I did and went through, I was still completely invisible).

It’s not that specific point in time anymore, I’m not the same person I was when I was writing Buffy fic. I always take what I learned from Buffy fic, and use it in other things but the Buffy character voices are dead, if they were ever genuinely there in the first place. There are lots of things a person can do in and for, a fandom that don't involve attempting to write fic for it.

I’ve got a feeling I’m far from done with the occasional HP or Narnia or AGATB fic. And Bible fics, well, you’re never really done with the Bible.

But it’s honestly time to start using these skills and ideas for something more lasting. I keep saying that, and I keep trying, hopefully it will stick soon.



Some Edmund and Jadis vids. I was going to write a bit about them, but I decided not to do that today.
(In My Skin)
Not a fan of the song but I love the constructed reality here and the video effects used to make it.

(Ice Queen) by Within Temptation. I’m really starting to like this band, I’ve seen their songs popping up in all sorts of different fanvids.

(Song for a Winter’s Night)
This one features another constructed reality, where Edmund is grown up and…well, I guess you have to watch. But they’ve included clips from a non Narnia movie to create the storyline.

this poor man was named Edmund Jadis. It’s a good thing he was born in 1841, you can’t live down a name like that. If he’d been born in the late twentieth century, every time he introduced himself people would say “what were your parents thinking?” Or “I bet you were a handful” and would keep giving him Turkish Delight as a gift long after that stopped being funny.

It also brings up horrible thoughts about what would happen if those two characters somehow bred.

Heh. My sister read "Midnight Sun" and thought it was awful. And then we had a discussion about how all the secondary characters in "Twilight" seem like they wandered in from a better book.

I realized that if I actually had an opinion on "The Girls Next Door", I seriously needed to get some fresh air. So yesterday was laundry day. And then I went to my parents to watch Prince Caspian and switch cars.

( I noticed some things in the movie that I hadn't noticed before. )

Two of the Narnia dolls, Peter and Edmund, arrived this week. My mother informed me when she picked me up this afternoon that I had a huge package at home. I sort of knew it was them because I haven't ordered anything else. And I was worried because I didn't want them to all come in at once, right now. I can't afford that. But it was only two of them and guess what? Cherished Friends, probably due to the extreme delay in getting the dolls produced, dropped the pre order price on all the Narnia dolls by twenty to thirty dollars! So I have two new dolls *and* my bank account is safe.

They are gorgeous, too. Tonner's gotten really good at making dolls modeled on real people that avoid the Rictus Grin of Death that so often happens to plastic faces meant to mimic real facial expressions. They look just like Will and Skandar but not in a creepy way, it's like the general *idea* of their faces, not like they were shrunk, and paralyzed.

Ed needs long trousers though, the shorts just don't work.

In other news, Facebook gives me Impotent Rage Headaches.

Vote here



Peter and Caspian are winning so far by a disturbing landslide. C'mon, people! (as long as you don't go voting for the scary woman who rules a frozen wasteland with an iron fist and has mysterious power over men's ability to make sound judgements... we've already got one of those).

*sadly trails off to internetless apartment*

Finished "Incantation". Review to come later. When I can write it without CRYING.

I'm exaggerating. But it is...not a cheerful book. I should have waited a few days to read it.

Anyway. I also thought up some Susan/Edmund femdom which will either make people love me or hate me.

No one will be able to come and get me until Saturday, it looks like. Yeah, I need to get online at home. In the meantime, I'm bringing my sewing stuff to work on my costume, and I'm going to turn my chair away from the tv while I'm writing.

Fandom is bad for my blood pressure. I actually got a rage headache last night, which hasn't happen in awhile.

And no, it's not about badfic writers.

It's about the attitudes some *good* writers have.

And other thigns I'd love to rant about. Seriously, I want to make this ranty entry saying all sorts of nasty things about a bunch of people I barely know, who barely know me and probably don't deserve any of it. It's also likely I don't mean any of it, so saying it would just be a Bad Idea.

I need to just focus on my own stuff.

ETA: I was also thinking today that I'd better get my food into the apartment before my family eats it and I walked into the kitchen and my mother has her hand in my box of crackers.

Normally I feel kinda weird posting "updates" on fics I'm writing but I've run into a giant snag with my Caspian/Edmund.

It's movieverse, so this is kind of a bigger problem than it otherwise would be. If Ed doesn't get out of the castle during the raid, there will be no one to stop Jadis from coming back.

Obviously her first action will be to reconquer Narnia which means storming the castle again -because you can kind of see Nikabrik's point, Jadis never tried to pretend the Talking Animals didn't exist and many of the animals and trees and stuff were actually on her side-In her eyes, Narnia is hers to horribly abuse.

So Edmund hears the castle being breached and thinks "Peter!" or maybe "Aslan!" and in She walks.

I had such a simple little fic too, and then I had to go and remember that. Well, I guess I can just insert a line or two about maybe Susan stopping Jadis in this one and then do an "alternative take" on the whole thing in another story. But I didn't exactly want to make this into some kind of *project*.

For the amount of babbling I do about Narnia, you’d think I’d be able to write more fic for it. Not true. I’ve only done three so far, plus the playlist shuffle meme. I think all this meta is unconsciously about how I haven’t jumped as enthusiastically into fic writing as I’d hoped I would. “Instead of actually writing fics, why don’t we analyze the books and movies and actors to death?” On the other hand, maybe meta is my contribution to the fandom. I must have the largest collection of Narnia meta in the (journal based) fandom now. Which would really mean something if I was posting them on Livejournal but I’m not so it’s more like no one even knows it’s there.

I feel very much like I’m stuck outside looking in. I'm not really making friends, they're all over there and I'm all over...here. So mostly I just observe and comment to myself which feels pretty off. Because whenever you think no one is listening, so you can do or say whatever you want, it usually turns out that they were.

You'd think the Narnia fandom would have jumped ship too. Considering a large portion of the fic concerns underage characters and underage actors. I think they were worried when Strikethrough first broke, but the real surge in the fandom happened way after, when people started thinking they were safe again. So, it's all on Livejournal.

I was going to link two Cosmicdance entries on LJ when I realized, only two people ever comment on those now, and one of them already has and we’re already having a nice discussion that no one else will join in on so why bother extending the invitation to anyone else? They know where to find the journal if they want to read it.

If there was a widget that would automatically ship links to my LJ whenever I posted using certain tags, so we could all have it both ways, that would be cool.

I have got to do some fiction writing or something. But it's like I'm drowning in meta essays-some day those files will finally get cleaned out. Maybe like half of the stuff I'd like to say isn't even worth saying.

( Narnia: Books versus Movies versus Movies pt2 )

THE FILMS
Only Actor to Appear in Both the BBC and Disney Versions: Warwick Davis
Best Stunt Casting: Tom Baker as Puddleglum in the BBC version of “The Silver Chair”.
Best Foreshadowing In the Films: The sign at the empty train station in the new LWW that says “Beware of Trains”.
Runner Up: The lyric in Regina Spektor’s “The Call” that says “I’ll come back when it’s over”.
PRODUCT TIE INS
Strangest Official Tie In Product: The Stuffed Aslan Doll. People said it was like having a stuffed Jesus and isn’t that a little sacrilegious? But then, Stuffed Jesus Dolls also exist, so…
Best Tie In Product: Tonner’s 16 inch movieverse!Pevensie dolls.
Best Unintentional Tie In Product: Keiko Mecheri’s Turkish Delight scented perfume
Best Narnia Related Name Of a Musical Group: Silverchair
Runner Up: After Edmund.
Runner Up: Aslan
Runner Up: Narnia

Oh, and Happy 17th Birthday, Skandar! He seriously was born under the same sign as his character, lol.

( My Personal Narnia Soundtrack )

I heard this today. Which fit in so well with the plot bunny that I think I basically have some kind of, oh dear, original novel brewing in my head. Like I needed another idea. Ideas are never the problem. But maybe after the mystery is done, doing something short along those lines would be good practice for teh Big Epic Fantasy ideas I have.

Going to look at the apartment tonight!

You can picture movie!verse Peter and Caspian having angry!sex or rival!sex but there’s no romantic storyline there. The only potential there is for one night stands and they hardly have *time* for that. But Caspian/Edmund provides us with an opportunity for one of those great stories where all the plot points can also be read as moments along a romantic timeline. In such a way that you realize if the author had been inclined to do so he could have made them gay and it would slide easily into the plot, and only knowing he probably wouldn’t prevents you from suspecting it was on purpose. Peter and Caspian is kinda hot but Caspian/Edmund is a romance, a coming of age love story that involves clothes sharing, bondage (sadly though, not with each other), power struggles, reconciling with a relative who doesn't like your lifestyle or your friends, and ultimately being dumped for some chick who lives on a magic island because it's time for both of you to move on to your real lives.

ETA: Also, they are a Narnia slash pairing with major characters that is human/human and *not* incest. So if you don't like incest, that's a good pairing choice.

( Huhh. )

I've decided to mak September "Finish Your Fics Month". I will finish the three fics I've been promising to do, and then the minute I'm done that it's back to real work.