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heliopausa) wrote2016-06-20 12:29 am
heliopausa) wrote2016-06-20 12:29 am
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2 Narnian things, and 2 things tenuously related
As promised, I've posted the next in the Atrementus series, Nymphs and their Ways, here, on AO3. (Maybe later on ffnet.). I'm really pleased that I managed to do it, and feel more confident that I'll actually buckle down to writing the whole series. Maybe I can manage the third by the end of next week. (It should be quickish, since that one won't be illustrated.)
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adaese.livejournal.com has suggested a reread of Prince Caspian, over here. I don't know when, but I suppose starting pretty soon. :)
On Sunday evening in between cooking up a storm I watched a whole story's worth of 1980s Doctor Who episodes. (I said tenuously! They're both popular fantasy series. :D) It was 'Logopolis', with the Fourth Doctor, and Teagan and Nyssa and Adric. I liked Teagan very much, and in this I liked Adric (whom I've never really caught up with. I don't know where he comes in, and I haven't seen him leave). I liked someone being as intelligent (if not as experienced) as the Doctor. I really liked the Master turning up, looking like the Sheriff of Nottingham, though the dolls thing was strange and unexplained; it needed a little more context,I thought. It's never been seen before as a Master technique for getting rid of inconveniences, has it?
Or maybe it has. I can see I'll have to search out out the preceding story, in any case, because I'm not sure if the Master actually looks like Nyssa's father, or if she just thinks he does (through skillful use of a changed voice or something - hypnotic suggestion). If next weekend turns out to have spare time...
Minor grouch: It grated a little every single time they said the name of the planet, because I felt Logopolis should be about words, and the people there were all about numbers instead. But overall, I enjoyed it a lot. :)
(Part of the fun was noting how hard the BBC worked on saving money on the sets. Of course, that's a hundred times better than skimping on the actors, or the writing.)
I was with a friend in a bookshop on the weekend - one which theoretically specialised in architecture books, but it also had some art books - and was having a sale! The friend I was with bought this beautiful book at a knock-down price. (Tenuous connection: lots of the pictures look very Narnian, which is to say very Pauline Baynes.
Though that's a good deal more violent than hers. Still, if I do have to attempt art again, I'll know where to turn for inspiration. :)
adaese.livejournal.com has suggested a reread of Prince Caspian, over here. I don't know when, but I suppose starting pretty soon. :)On Sunday evening in between cooking up a storm I watched a whole story's worth of 1980s Doctor Who episodes. (I said tenuously! They're both popular fantasy series. :D) It was 'Logopolis', with the Fourth Doctor, and Teagan and Nyssa and Adric. I liked Teagan very much, and in this I liked Adric (whom I've never really caught up with. I don't know where he comes in, and I haven't seen him leave). I liked someone being as intelligent (if not as experienced) as the Doctor. I really liked the Master turning up, looking like the Sheriff of Nottingham, though the dolls thing was strange and unexplained; it needed a little more context,I thought. It's never been seen before as a Master technique for getting rid of inconveniences, has it?
Or maybe it has. I can see I'll have to search out out the preceding story, in any case, because I'm not sure if the Master actually looks like Nyssa's father, or if she just thinks he does (through skillful use of a changed voice or something - hypnotic suggestion). If next weekend turns out to have spare time...
Minor grouch: It grated a little every single time they said the name of the planet, because I felt Logopolis should be about words, and the people there were all about numbers instead. But overall, I enjoyed it a lot. :)
(Part of the fun was noting how hard the BBC worked on saving money on the sets. Of course, that's a hundred times better than skimping on the actors, or the writing.)
I was with a friend in a bookshop on the weekend - one which theoretically specialised in architecture books, but it also had some art books - and was having a sale! The friend I was with bought this beautiful book at a knock-down price. (Tenuous connection: lots of the pictures look very Narnian, which is to say very Pauline Baynes.
Though that's a good deal more violent than hers. Still, if I do have to attempt art again, I'll know where to turn for inspiration. :)
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Quite a few of the pictures aren't religious figures. Quite a few are, of course, but there's also botanical/medicinal illustrations, and astronomical/astrological illustrations, and love-stories as well. :)