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Did everyone have a good Thanksgiving/Idul Adha? Everyone that's not a turkey, goat, or cow? GREAT. Wonderful! I just sent off a request for extension for Solstice. 'Cos, you know. Overambitiousness with overcompensation. You know how it goes.

What have I been up to? Trying to compile my notes for Ideologies/Mythologies, make a cheat sheet for my awesome assignments and also that final. Networking like a motherfucker! I woke up today and the first thing I did before showering and food was send shmoozy emails to contacts of contacts in DC, goddamn. You know. Just trying my best to not be homeless next semester. YOU KNOW HOW IT GOES. But then I got distracted by It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I only want fic for it in the way that I want fic for any thing I'm exposed to for more than 2 hours.

Oh, and I'm up to 4.02 of Friday Night Lights I'M GLAD IT'S BACK.

I didn't sign up for

xover_exchange, but here are some of the prompts that I thought of that need to be written by someone:

Narnia/X-Files. Susan moves in next to Mulder's apartment, and the two end up unexpectedly bonding over lost siblings and stories no one else believes.

X-Files/Harry Potter. Mulder and Scully investigate grisly murders, weird disasters, and people losing their memories. Little do they know that these crimes are being committed by Death Eaters. Some insight on what the Wizarding World is like in the US would be great, as would what Voldemort's influence outside of Britain actually is.

Harry Potter/Leverage. The team goes on a job in the wizarding world.

X-Files/Merlin. Uther invites Sir Fox Mulder and the Lady Dana Scully to come to Camelot and get to the bottom of strange happenings that Uther thinks is caused by evil sorcerers.

Leverage/Skins. Cassie is hired to be the Leverage receptionist.

Narnia/Merlin. Jadis and Nimueh are living together, occasionally irritating each other but also helping each other to get over the past. Or maybe instead of living together, they play chess together. Or play croquet together. I'm not picky.

Also Godric Gryffindor and Aslan should hang out.

I really wanna find out about the goats that get stared at by men and where the wild things hang out but there are no cineplexes in suburban Massachusetts where these are playing? THE SUBURBS ARE DUMB. DUMMMMMMMMMB.

OBSERVATION: After an It's Always Sunny marathon, everyone gets really argumentative in creative ways over really stupid shit. Except the show is called "The Weather Sucks in Boston".

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Jadis and Nimueh playing chess together would be too intense. I think they should lighten up - that is, they probably would lighten up, if they had to hang out in an apartment together. Jadis is not as young as she used to be, when she first made it to England. The lack of carriages to stand on and ride is disappointing to her. Instead they have these things they call cars but look nothing like the cars she knows about. Nimueh drives her around in one though once, because for some reason Nimueh's magic is better at that sort of thing, and she has fun ordering the other woman around and pretending that Nimueh is actually being ordered around. really they are just going the same place, anyway, so it works out fine between the two of them.

the goats that get stared at by men and where the wild things hang out
wait what?? what on earth is that first thing, I can figure out the second but what? also I heard where the wild things are is way too depressing and like incorporates adult issues into a kid's book. which I shouldn't be complaining about, I mean that's Narnia fanfic essentially and I take great joy in ruining childhood fantasy, but still :/ depressing is depressing is depressing.

I AM WITH YOU ON THE SUBURBS THOUGH
GODDAMN I AM NOT GOING BACK THIS SUMMER SO HELP ME GOD

omg so when do you need your solsfic thing back, aaaagh I'm sorry I've been so absent from the nets this week what with some stupid paper and thanksgiving funtiems. *guilty* I will give you feedback I swear even though I'm not v. good at editing.

Just two old-school ladies trying to make it in a modern world! When the spring thaw comes and turns the fields into fields of slush, Jadis wrinkles her nose and says she remembers when the world had PROPER winters.

lol the Men Who Stare At Goats. The George Clooney movie? And he is also in Fantastic Mr. Fox, which I also want to see, but NO ONE WANTS TO SEE IT WITH ME, WHAT. HOW CAN THEY TURN DOWN ROALD DAHL AND FOXY FOXES. And haha that is kind of why I want to see this new Wild Things movie. I've never been of the kind who are ALL ABOUT WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, and in fact I barely remembered it before I read the synopsis for the movie, but it seems pretty interesting, and might be relevant to my final anthro paper which might be about secret fantasy worlds in modern stories. I THINK.

I got an extension until Dec 5, so no sweat! You are quick like a bunny with this monster, and you hit on some of the stuff that had been bothering me, so I reckon we're more or less on the same page.

proper winters! her reindeer had to pull her uphill both ways in 100 years of snow!

okay I never actually heard of that movie, but IMDB's one-line summary intrigues me. it sounds freaking weird but it intrigues me. I don't know enough about Mr Fox but Roald Dahl = genius, so yay. An anthro paper sounds like a great reason to see the Wild Things :D it sounds like a really cool paper.

yaaay, glad I can sort of help!

Eventually they start celebrating holidays together. They celebrate every winter, because Jadis like the winter, sometime after it's gotten cold but before the shops start decorating for Christmas, because Nimueh never went into that sort of thing and Jadis has some sort of hangup about Christmas. Nimueh's never understood what--something about cats, or tables, or promises, or something. It's a pity. She's always wanted a cat to curl up with on the sofa and play with the knitting.

They don't play chess because any king who's less powerful than his courtiers is a king who deserves to be conquered, but they do enjoy a nice game of Risk now and then.

Nimueh and Jadis playing at taking over the world? How appropriate! And awwww kitties. Nimueh would like cats. She seems like the cat-stroking villain type, looking in her scry, stroking her kitty, biding her time.

CATS OR TABLES OR SOMETHING

any king who's less powerful than his courtiers is a king who deserves to be conquered
fjklsjfkdls <33

and and and maybe they celebrate holidays that they had back where they came from, the ones that aren't celebrated anymore or are now called by another name, claimed by a different god. Well, maybe 'celebrate' is not quite the right word. Usually it's just having a cup of good tea, or nice wine.

"We cast a great beast from the land," Jadis says. "We celebrated for that."

also during the summer they'd get into arguments about the electricity bill because Jadis insists on keeping the AC up at ridiculous temperatures.

Do they get drunk and talk about destiny? Nimueh knows you can't outrun it but Jadis thinks it's just another thing to be bent to her will.

And they disagree about the decor. Jadis thinks that white, all white, maybe some very pale ice blue is the best. And Nimueh is going for more of a cave motif. Some stalagmites and things.

Who DOESN'T get drunk and talk about destiny? Determinism, cause and effect, free will. "You don't need these things when you have magic," Jadis says, but Nimueh thinks that these things are why magic works in the first place.

"But stains show up on white."
"Then perhaps you should stop being so messy."

"Did Merlin defeat me because he was destined to do so, or was he destined to defeat me because he could?" Nimueh muses.
"If you'd killed him first, it wouldn't matter," Jadis says.

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