Remix Redux!
May. 2nd, 2011 10:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingSo, both the main Remix Redux 9 and Remix Madness 2011 archives are open, though stories remain anonymous. (I have given links to the search-by-fandom pages, since I think they are easiest to navigate, but you can also click the 'works' link on the left and search by other criteria.)
I wrote three stories this year -- the first two for my assigned remixee, and the third just because I loved the original fic to bits and had an irresistable structural idea for a remix. Ironically, the Remix Madness story is the longest of the three, though half the point of Remix Madness is that there aren't minimum wordcounts anymore. *headdesk* Ah well, I never claimed to make much sense.
But enough about me. Let me talk about the story someone else wrote!
An amazing and wonderful person (whom I, alas, cannot praise by name for another several days [ETA: it was![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
furies]), took Endurance, my first stab at the 'problem of Susan' issue, and turned it into Once a Queen (The Reality Bites Remix): Susan, and Narnia. What a tangled web we weave.
I am going to quote my comment at you, because I still don't have proper words, dammit.
Oh! *is speechless*
*attempts words anyway*
Okay, so first of all I love you for the way Susan's fears and doubts grow so naturally out of her childhood and her position in the family. They make sense -- they're not just tacked on for drama. And for all that she turns away, for all that she resents aspects of her situation, she doesn't truly forget or reject anything. She tells Aslan yes.
I love that her survival is not a tragedy; it's an opportunity. (Which is always how I've read The Last Battle anyway.)
I love the little practical details, like the barrister and the will being in probate, or Susan unpacking and putting away her siblings' clothes, because Susan is all about little everyday details and they bring a feel of solidity to the story.
I think, though, that what I like most is Susan leaving Lucy's eyes open -- because she and Lucy saw Aslan together, maybe? Because Lucy is still seeing Aslan right then, though her body is cold and empty in the morgue? I don't know, but something about that changed gesture really speaks to me.
Thank you so, so much for this. It's beautiful.
...
Now go read it and agree with me and tell the author so.
I wrote three stories this year -- the first two for my assigned remixee, and the third just because I loved the original fic to bits and had an irresistable structural idea for a remix. Ironically, the Remix Madness story is the longest of the three, though half the point of Remix Madness is that there aren't minimum wordcounts anymore. *headdesk* Ah well, I never claimed to make much sense.
But enough about me. Let me talk about the story someone else wrote!
An amazing and wonderful person (whom I, alas, cannot praise by name for another several days [ETA: it was
I am going to quote my comment at you, because I still don't have proper words, dammit.
Oh! *is speechless*
*attempts words anyway*
Okay, so first of all I love you for the way Susan's fears and doubts grow so naturally out of her childhood and her position in the family. They make sense -- they're not just tacked on for drama. And for all that she turns away, for all that she resents aspects of her situation, she doesn't truly forget or reject anything. She tells Aslan yes.
I love that her survival is not a tragedy; it's an opportunity. (Which is always how I've read The Last Battle anyway.)
I love the little practical details, like the barrister and the will being in probate, or Susan unpacking and putting away her siblings' clothes, because Susan is all about little everyday details and they bring a feel of solidity to the story.
I think, though, that what I like most is Susan leaving Lucy's eyes open -- because she and Lucy saw Aslan together, maybe? Because Lucy is still seeing Aslan right then, though her body is cold and empty in the morgue? I don't know, but something about that changed gesture really speaks to me.
Thank you so, so much for this. It's beautiful.
...
Now go read it and agree with me and tell the author so.
