Idle thoughts and links on a Sunday morning

[heliopausa]

Bother, bother, bother... it's no longer Sunday morning, and due to too-long delay, I've lost nearly all of a long post, and nothing's left but the links, essentially. I suppose at least it spares you all the idle thoughts!

There was this story which begins by being about a not-exactly plagiarism,but ends in mulling the possibility that tumblr is changing the mode of self-expression from private individual creation to a more collective, curatorial form. (The idle thoughts I had were about whether this wasn't more akin to the old commonplace book method.)

Then there was the Owl as stealth warrior and I wondered about writing some more Narnia, with a story about Peter in the North, giving the Owl Shortfeather a much more active role than just messenger. (That link talks about a wingspan of nearly six feet! attacks with razor-sharp talons!)

and there was the death of a man in the Northern Territory, who will be much missed. I'm sorry I lost those stray thoughts - in sum, a great story-teller, a sharp analyst of people and situations, a valuable doer of things, and not a scrap of malice in him.

From the same source, a tiny glimpse of more traditional indigenous story-telling, in contemporary life.

and that's it from the Lost Post! :)

Comments

[heliopausa]

"be able to"? - possibly, if pushed, with an extremely light child! But I would think that falls into the "don't try this at home" category of possibility. :D

As for the Giants - I'm thinking of exploring something of their history and societies (no, they're not mentioned in TMN) in the Peter in the North story, with the assistance of Owls.

[marmota_b]

I asked that question mostly because all this makes me wonder how big exactly Glimfeather is!
(And while we're there, awww shucks on male Glimfeather - in Czech "owl" is default as female, so the translator just went with it. Lots of animals are default as female, in fact, so I've unwittingly grown up with a much more gender-diverse Narnia than English readers did... Aww shucks on the first joke being male. I think I ought to make a post about it, because it was one of those things that were eating at me, fandom-wise.)

[heliopausa]

Aw, shucks, too, that I made Shortfeather male in The Ivory Merchants, especially since I've found out that the female of the Bubu bubu is larger than the male.
However - cheerful point! Sallowpad is never defined in the books as male or female, so the fanficcer can go for either! (Though I've only ever read one fanfic which decided she was female.)

[marmota_b]

Ravens (and rooks) are default male in Czech (crows, jackaws, jays and magpies are all female, though). So it did not occur to me and I'm not sure I could switch my thinking that way, used as I am to a male Sallowpad with a male Czech name - as much as I would love to... Just like I have a lot of trouble thinking of Glimfeather and all the Owl Parliament as male. Aw shucks once more.
But I'll just go on throwing them in elsewhere. Sallowpad needs a partner, after all, because Ravens work that way. Asta the Dog librarian should logically be one of Methos' allies in Cair Paravel, and I think Bella the Squirrel Monkey will get to play a larger role later on, too - a Golden Age needs an artist (or preferably lots of them)!