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Cordazar Calvin Broadus would like you to get yours before his.
There are some things you should check out.
1. FIC: Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alice_pike. Narnia, Golden Age, Edmund/Lucy, PG13. BIOMEFIC. Which, okay, isn't a real term, but you know how 'and sometimes you hear the silence speak' is like, "Deserts!!" and 'The Light of a Different Sun' is all, "The tropics!" This fic is like, "THE ARCTIC," and it is so. Fucking. Incredible. You guys. Edmund and Lucy are Arctic explorers, just read it.
2. THINGATHON: All hail the Gwen/Morgana Thingathon (Week 1)! Before you can post a prompt, you must answer a prompt, and it doesn't have to be fic. It can be icons! It can be fanart! Whatever!
3. SNOOP DOGG
4. CHEESE, EVERYTHING'S BETTER WITH
5. RAMADHAN: starts in like two weeks, and eid_ka_chand (and maybe![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
eid_fic?) needs YOU to make some fic/meta/picspam/whatever about Muslim characters. I'm, uh, lapsed, but since Islam has informed who I am and is a part of my family and culture, I'll be playing in that sandbox when the time comes 'cos -- and I'm gonna quote dhobikikutti here -- "[c]elebrating Eid is personal for me because it is a festival I share with friends and relatives, but wanting to see more characters like them in fandom is political. Because I think that fiction has enormous possibilities for inciting change in how we define 'normal', and whom we learn to love and care for despite differences in culture."
The call to action! The list of Muslim characters! Set this on percolate, guys.
...Okay, so I'm scrolling down that list of Muslim characters and, under 'TV Shows', I SEE: THE ADVENTURES OF SINBAD. omg. WHO REMEMBERS THIS SHOW.
Quoth TV Tropes, "The story followed the adventures of a caucasian Sinbad, his older brother Doubar, Firouz the alchemist, the mute Rongar, and Celtic sorceress Maeve."
Where to begin.
So anyway, I totally read Adventures of Sinbad fic and shipped Sinbad/Maeve. MY DARK PAST.
IN OTHER NEWS. The "Will lives!" Merlin AU is bugging me to pay attention to it. Ask me questions about it or give me prompts or something, because I want to flesh it out some. THE STORY SO FAR: he returns with them to Camelot. Also, ask me questions/give me prompts about Gaius? Because he's been niggling too.
1. FIC: Fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda by
alice_pike. Narnia, Golden Age, Edmund/Lucy, PG13. BIOMEFIC. Which, okay, isn't a real term, but you know how 'and sometimes you hear the silence speak' is like, "Deserts!!" and 'The Light of a Different Sun' is all, "The tropics!" This fic is like, "THE ARCTIC," and it is so. Fucking. Incredible. You guys. Edmund and Lucy are Arctic explorers, just read it.2. THINGATHON: All hail the Gwen/Morgana Thingathon (Week 1)! Before you can post a prompt, you must answer a prompt, and it doesn't have to be fic. It can be icons! It can be fanart! Whatever!
3. SNOOP DOGG
4. CHEESE, EVERYTHING'S BETTER WITH
5. RAMADHAN: starts in like two weeks, and eid_ka_chand (and maybe
eid_fic?) needs YOU to make some fic/meta/picspam/whatever about Muslim characters. I'm, uh, lapsed, but since Islam has informed who I am and is a part of my family and culture, I'll be playing in that sandbox when the time comes 'cos -- and I'm gonna quote dhobikikutti here -- "[c]elebrating Eid is personal for me because it is a festival I share with friends and relatives, but wanting to see more characters like them in fandom is political. Because I think that fiction has enormous possibilities for inciting change in how we define 'normal', and whom we learn to love and care for despite differences in culture."The call to action! The list of Muslim characters! Set this on percolate, guys.
...Okay, so I'm scrolling down that list of Muslim characters and, under 'TV Shows', I SEE: THE ADVENTURES OF SINBAD. omg. WHO REMEMBERS THIS SHOW.
Quoth TV Tropes, "The story followed the adventures of a caucasian Sinbad, his older brother Doubar, Firouz the alchemist, the mute Rongar, and Celtic sorceress Maeve."
Where to begin.
So anyway, I totally read Adventures of Sinbad fic and shipped Sinbad/Maeve. MY DARK PAST.
IN OTHER NEWS. The "Will lives!" Merlin AU is bugging me to pay attention to it. Ask me questions about it or give me prompts or something, because I want to flesh it out some. THE STORY SO FAR: he returns with them to Camelot. Also, ask me questions/give me prompts about Gaius? Because he's been niggling too.
no subject
Sweeter words I have not heard today.
Yeah, it change it up every year. Stupid lunar calendar.
Gaiussss. I wonder if Gaius's master did both the magic AND medical tutoring, or if Gaius ever had to go to Geoffrey and bully him into finding magic scrolls in the library or something. I think a little of both. (Geoffrey grumbles about it a bit, why can't Gaius do his own damn research, Geoffrey has books to reshelf! But Geoffrey indulges his friend.) Magic wasn't outlawed back in the day, and everyone had access to at least a little bit of it. Even Gaius's master. Just little things though, like maybe in enchanting a cauldron hot or something.
I'm not sure if Gaius ever had a real magical apprenticeship. I lean towards no. Possibly magic was just so ubiquitous and benign that he picked up some stuff here and there, and pursued it as a hobby and matter of intellectual curiosity, but he wasn't super all about it.
It is possible that his master was killed by Uther for using sorcery, and Gaius has issues about it, because he didn't or wasn't able to do anything. The line between "didn't" and "wasn't able to" is getting finer and finer, he finds.