You were super and very kind, pinch-hitting under those difficulties. I've already said how much I loved especially the wintriness of your story - and the tackling of the frozen waterfall looks like being a great sequence on its own! Would/will the source of the water/ice become the pivot of the mystery? :D I'm wondering with much antici....pation! (No pressure! The story is great as it stands, as being about learning to begin to love a land so alien.)
The whole Liln story has bothered me, too, though for different reasons. I wrote this this as a starting point for my thinking about it (that was possibly going to be the starting point for an adventure too!). Yes, the damsel-in-distress is tedious and sexist - I'm glad that in canon it's only reported, and reworked into a ballad at that, so we can assume unreliable narrator to the nth degree. (I assume unreliable narrator reasonably often in Narnian canon).
I didn't pick you as the writer! :) I did pick "White Lady", but I supposed your other two were Madnesses.
Thank you again for nobly coming to the rescue (talk about damsels in distress!) with a pinch-hit. I loved the wintry feel of it, paralleling Aravis's lostness in the castle, and then swinging around so beautifully at the waterfall. The two sisters knowing each other so well was gorgeously warm and funny, too. I'm smiling right now in recollection!
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Date: 2015-09-07 03:59 am (UTC)(No pressure! The story is great as it stands, as being about learning to begin to love a land so alien.)
The whole Liln story has bothered me, too, though for different reasons. I wrote this this as a starting point for my thinking about it (that was possibly going to be the starting point for an adventure too!). Yes, the damsel-in-distress is tedious and sexist - I'm glad that in canon it's only reported, and reworked into a ballad at that, so we can assume unreliable narrator to the nth degree. (I assume unreliable narrator reasonably often in Narnian canon).
I didn't pick you as the writer! :) I did pick "White Lady", but I supposed your other two were Madnesses.
Thank you again for nobly coming to the rescue (talk about damsels in distress!) with a pinch-hit. I loved the wintry feel of it, paralleling Aravis's lostness in the castle, and then swinging around so beautifully at the waterfall. The two sisters knowing each other so well was gorgeously warm and funny, too. I'm smiling right now in recollection!