I don't really see how longer fics are more difficult on LJ. Bedlam's managed XD. I can see how maybe the fandom on ffnet is more concentrated because everyone posts to the same place and there's more a sense of community, so maybe you're more likely to keep up with things? Whereas in LJ fandom, even the Narnia fandom is kind of divided, uh, or even MORE concentrated into slash, RPF, and refuting Lewis. And even within these categories, there are different cliques.
EPIC ARAVIS FIC ABOUT COLONIALISM?? \o/! TELL ME MORE.
I don't tend to see Aslan as dark, at least not in a malicious way. Distant, maybe. Inscrutable. And Jadis may be a psychopath but that's part of why she's so interesting! It's like how some people protest that omg Mordred is not evil he's just fucked up and oppressed, and, yeah, exactly. But it's not about "I think XYZ but" but "I think XYZ and".
I think the argument that Narnia is #1 on her list of Fantasy Journey Endings would be much stronger if the kids were ever given a chance to use any skills acquired at home, or even shown enjoying themselves with any non-Narnia person at home, like, ever. Trufax. I wish Gilead had written about Narnia, but she only mentioned it in footnotes. Moar academic articles about Narnia plz! I didn't read the Oz parts too closely, I just skipped ahead to the parts about Alice and Peter Pan and Where The Wild Things Are because those are the texts I'm familiar with.
And hooooooow can they not be screwed up afterward?!?! Well maybe that's the point, that they are a little bit different. 'Cos Lewis is saying, "Yeah, you're kind of out of step with things because you are sticking to your ideals i.e. Christianity! And that's okay."
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EPIC ARAVIS FIC ABOUT COLONIALISM?? \o/! TELL ME MORE.
I don't tend to see Aslan as dark, at least not in a malicious way. Distant, maybe. Inscrutable. And Jadis may be a psychopath but that's part of why she's so interesting! It's like how some people protest that omg Mordred is not evil he's just fucked up and oppressed, and, yeah, exactly. But it's not about "I think XYZ but" but "I think XYZ and".
I think the argument that Narnia is #1 on her list of Fantasy Journey Endings would be much stronger if the kids were ever given a chance to use any skills acquired at home, or even shown enjoying themselves with any non-Narnia person at home, like, ever.
Trufax. I wish Gilead had written about Narnia, but she only mentioned it in footnotes. Moar academic articles about Narnia plz! I didn't read the Oz parts too closely, I just skipped ahead to the parts about Alice and Peter Pan and Where The Wild Things Are because those are the texts I'm familiar with.
And hooooooow can they not be screwed up afterward?!?!
Well maybe that's the point, that they are a little bit different. 'Cos Lewis is saying, "Yeah, you're kind of out of step with things because you are sticking to your ideals i.e. Christianity! And that's okay."