once and future boys-with-swords

[whynot]

Guys, look at the things wot I can haz! I can haz new Merlin icon! See those two guys in my icon? They DO IT ALL THE TIME. All the time. I can haz delicious account! Someone there already took the name 'lassiter', but if you go to the delicious of 'lassiter', there are actually no bookmarks bookmarked at all. What a waste! HARRUMPH.


Anyway. FOR MY FIRST TRICK, I and my lovely assistant bedlamsbard will go straight for the crack and write Peter Pevensie/Prince Arthur. Rated, uh, somewhere between R and NC17? I dunno. I think it's trying to develop plot, but don't worry, we've got a big stick ready in case it tries anything fancy.

Apparently I only write fic in comments now?


ALSO. My demography professor recommended to us a documentary series called Up, directed by Michael Apted. And I was like, "Michael Apted, Michael Apted... why does that sound so familiar?" Oh, could it be that he's the dude directing Voyage of the Dawn Treader? Narnia, I can't escape you if I tried.

But, see, this kind of gives me hope that Our Heroes in Dawn Treader will kick even more ass. The entire premise of the Up series is that it follows the lives of 14 people, starting from the age of 7 (7 Up, released in 1964), making a profile every 7 years until -- well, it's still ongoing. The latest installment is 49 Up was released in 2005. It's supposed to illustrate how circumstances have affected the way these people grew up. How can this project not inform Apted's feel for character continuity? I wager he'll have a feel for portraying how people grow, recover from heartbreak and triumph, and lose and find grace.

Dear Michael Apted,
Please awesomize Our Heroes from PC the way that PC awesomized Our Heroes from LWW. I BELIEVE IN YOU!

Seacrest out.

Comments

[animus-wyrmis.livejournal.com]

...I think I might just have to start tracking all your entries and all bedlamsbard's entries for commentfic. :D :D :D

Agh this might make VotDT AWESOME, which will be good because it is my favorite of all the books, except for the end because I was under the impression that the kids went to Narnia to save it from the White Witch/Miraz, not to meet Aslan, LEWIS. But it is 90% Lucy and Lucy is my favorite character (except that lately I really like Susan too), and she is awesome in it, especially because she fails.

Although. Lucy/Caspian is practically canon (she tells him fairy tales!), and as Ben Barnes is old and Georgie is...not, I worry that this might come across as creepy. Which won't bother the fandom but might bother normal movie-goers who are not used to Narnia shipping.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

hey, how is the fic you said you were having issues with?

lately i am warming up to lucy too (my 'the other sister') . and i think when dawn treader comes out, i will have no choice but to like her even more, 'cos i will probably be writing fic of her.

i don't think it'll be creepy; little girls have crushes, especially stupid crushes. it happens :D

[animus-wyrmis.livejournal.com]

it is problematic. I will probably be emailing you soon! But I am sick and my computer just died. (The tech people were like "It is your hard drive. We're going to have to give you a new one. Everything's backed up, right?" and luckily most stuff is backed up but OMG WHAT IF I'M MISSING SOMETHING.)

<3 <3 Write more of it! (It is so weird. I really don't like Narnia incest, but I really like it when you write it, I don't get it.)

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

haha i felt that way when i sent my computer off for warranty.

MAYBE I WILL.

icon love!

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

your icon knows WHERE IT'S AT. hell yes.

[lettersandliars.livejournal.com]

I FULLY encourage your comment ficcing. Especially the crack.

Michael Apted directed something else that I've seen, too. I'm never going to remember it, but it's going to bother me ALL DAY.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

haha awesome! 'cos it's kind of... addicting? MUCH LIKE CRACK.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you have a big stick ready, but plot is scratching hopefully at my front door, wagging its tail and blinking its big brown eyes.

er. perhaps in this case it's not a plot bunny so much as it is a plot puppy.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

GUESS WHAT IS IN YOUR INBOX

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I AM LOOKING AT IT NOW.