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

[ilysia-039.livejournal.com]

I am thinking that it is time I explored Dr. Who. I've never watched a minute of it, but have heard about it from so many people... and you make it sound so interesting...

And Narnian world religious history! Fantastic. The whole bounds of the Winter issue is something I've actually been obsessing over for a bit, and I think it's plausible to say that the Islands were in isolation for the time being. I mean, I think it was Ruth who pointed out that salt water doesn't freeze, and Jadis would have called herself Empress if she'd ruled only the kitchen garden. But really, I've always considered Jadis to be a sort of Narnian problem; Archenland and Calormen seem to have made it through intact and I can't imagine that she would ignore those two lovely countries just to the south only to go after a few miserable islands. Just my two cents.

Also: your journal title- Ingrid Michaelson, yes? I can't believe I just noticed that. *facepalm*

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

The lovely thing about Who and Narnia, like Buffy and Dark Materiels and Secrets of Droon is that interdimensional travel is assumed, so you don't need any confusing explanation. It just IS and it's very easy to "run with it" as the saying goes. They lend themselves beautifully to xovers. The statues could even be some animated sort of horrid creature that Jadis thought was a Daughter of Eve that wasn't and they then escaped through a rift between the worlds... and... so many possibilities...

[wingedflight21.livejournal.com]

Or maybe there were these... uh, I dunno, Siren things - you know, the version of sirens that you really, really rarely hear about where they have the body of a woman and the wings of a bird - or was that just from a story I made up? Anyhow, some women with wings in Narnia (could include men too, I guess) and they were all turned to stone by Jadis but something went wrong so they were never after able to be turned back by Aslan (maybe they'd done something wrong so this was their punishment?). But anyway, I love the idea. I'm thinking this must be done.

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

And then, Meto LJ exploded with harpies, matriarchy, mer-folk, bedlamsbard, and the origins of Tash. We need a world building icon or three.