Fic Thoughts

[metonomia]

So, guys, what if the Weeping Angels from Dr Who were in Narnia/came from Narnia?  Because, because...something happened and so they didn't actually get woken up when Aslan de-stonified everybody (maybe because they would be dead of old age by that point or something).  So basically Jadis magic-spawned a whole new race (they all turned human-women-looking and grew wings, yeah hello plot-hole, I see you), and that's why they're weeping, and they go around throwing people back in time because they wish they could go back in time themselves and not get stonified. Petrified. Whatever.
OR it's the remnants of Charn.  The Deplorable Word turned them all into psychopathic but nice killers with crazy time manipulation skillz.
Basically what I'm saying here is that I want the Doctor to cross paths with Narnia lots more.

Then, I'm writing Narnian (world) religious history, and for most of it I'm just making it up however I darn well please, because it's fun, but one thing I wanted to run by all y'all.  What do we think about the Lone Islands in terms of contact with Narnia during the Winter?  My vote is for isolation, because I want them to be incubating a basic Aslan-based religious culture whereas in Narnia during that time they add a bunch of gods/spirits because they need to pray for as much help as they can get, plus also the prophecies seem to say that Aslan has peaced-out until Adam's flesh and blood (holy henna, what if Aslan/the Emperor zapped Adam's literal flesh and blood onto those thrones? Ew.) arrives, and yeah.  But anywho, does it seem plausible that the Witch would have just left off at the shores of Narnia and not tried for the conquering of the islands?  Except, she calls herself Empress, I think...


*goes back to evaluating Geoffrey of Monmouth for literary vs historical value*

Comments

[metonomia.livejournal.com]

I agree, it's totally the magic thing - she wants to subvert the magic of Narnia to herself so she wouldn't travel too far away from where Aslan sang it into being, and also I think she might be tied to the land somehow by dint of her being there when it was created and also because she ate that apple.

It IS an inspiring song, isn't it? And I can listen to it whether I'm happy or sad, and it always makes me feel better, and it's so pretty, with such fun lyrics!

[ilysia-039.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, the apple, yes. And since the world started in Narnia... that's where all the power is, where all the magic is. Why on earth would you want mountains or a great bloody desert when you can have pretty Narnia and all its crazy magic?

[metonomia.livejournal.com]

Well, the matriarchal tribespeople from the desert would disagree there, but yes, exactly!

[ilysia-039.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, the matriarchal tribespeople would disagree, but everyone knows they're mad from spending so much time in the desert, poor things.

Though I do wonder, if all the magic is centered in Narnia, what, exactly, Tash is doing in Calormen.

[metonomia.livejournal.com]

Tash was the eagle-formed sky god of the desert peoples (who came from another planet, not earth, to Narnia soon after its creation), given to them by Aslan to guard them in the desert, and stolen by the first Calormenes (Archenlandish rebels) along with many women as they rode through the desert toward the oasis that would become Tashbaan. The Calormenes then dreamed/prayed Tash into his better-known form, and also dreamed his cohorts like Zardeenah.

[ilysia-039.livejournal.com]

*blinks*

Narnian (world) religious history indeed.

This is so fantastic. I have no words.

[metonomia.livejournal.com]

*shifty eyes*

I have a whole notebook filling up with this stuff. It is extremely diverting.

[ilysia-039.livejournal.com]

*peers around room*

Oh, yes, diverting is one word for it. I find myself tragically less organized; every month or so, I go on the Great Paper Scrap Hunt to find all of the notes and histories that I've scribbled and then hidden away.

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Whoa. So awesome. So, maybe Tash represents a more patriarchal view and you have a whole cult of the Mother Desert worship? Maybe the Tash of the desert worship is a sequential hermaphrodite and so can change sex? The dream concept is so cool -- it reminds me of the dreamtime of the aborigines -- I would think in that harsh landscape where there is so little, the landscapes of the mind would be very visual and rich.