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angst with no happy ending ???? in this economy ????

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forget Susan and Lucy (don’t) but please don’t tell me Lewis didn’t like female characters when Polly “don’t touch the obviously cursed bell, you absolute walnut” Plummer, Jill “my litigious bestie and I are here to fight the Antichrist” Pole and Aravis “‘I did not do any of these things for the sake of pleasing you’” Tarkheena exist

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The snow queen from Narnia

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day 2 & 3 - together again & open doors

did you know that amy originally wrote the song 'together again' for the first narnia film? did you also know that when we adopted my cat narnia, her name was originally nadia, but i thought narnia sounded way cooler? well! now you do!! anyway, here's a drawing of my cat narnia entering narnia through an evanescence-inspired wardrobe (i used some of the designs from the actual door on the 'open door' album cover)

(ignore the fact that this wardrobe doesn't actually have any doors, it was too hard to draw and i couldn't be bothered, and now it just looks even more like a magical portal <3)

also. i did not expect this to turn out so well! i'm gonna frame it and hang it up somewhere around the house 🐈

🌙 i'm using cyndline's 2024 evtober prompts

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Fandom: The Chronicles of Narnia Character/theme: Susan Pevensie after The Last Battle Song: ‘Keep Us Connected’ by Celia Rose Gooding

I've included some thoughts and a general plot summary below the cut...

I was absolutely devastated when I first learned of Susan losing her whole family to a train crash in The Last Battle. And that Peter, Edmund and Lucy were still so young at the time. That was far too tragic an ending for all of them and I don’t think I’ll ever be over it :(

Right from the very first moment that I heard this song in the musical episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, it immediately made me think of Susan in this stage of her life and I knew I had to make a video with it. Then I proceeded to take a whole year to actually finish it lol

The general story here is that Susan initially has a tough time dealing with the loss of her family. Over time, this eventually turns to acceptance and with it, she also finds her way back to her memories of Narnia and all that she shared there with her family. She goes on to live a long fulfilling life and when she eventually dies, she is reunited with her family in Aslan’s Country. So, the beach scene at the end of the video is meant to be representative of that reunion in Aslan’s Country :)

Additional footage used from: - The Little Mermaid (2018) - The Last Birthday (2017) - Smallville S03E12 - Hereafter

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I did 2 Golden Age stories for the Narnia Fic Exchange with extensive notes on the first one, The Doctor Is In. I also describe where I am with a planned update on Heart and Crow Make The Peace. More coming soon!!

I received 2 wonderful stories and recommend you go read them and tell the authors how wonderful they are!!

A wonderful Silver Chair AU by @syrena-of-the-lake with DINOSAURS

And a lovely exploration by a FIRST TIME AUTHOR of my crack ship Susan Pevensie/Obi-Wan Kenobi.

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How good is your Narnia trivia knowledge?

I’d like to think I got a little tricksy with this one, but let’s see how you all do!

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“Aleksis and Sasha Kaidanovsky, husband and wife pilot team. They hold the record for longest sustained neural handshake, over eighteen hours.”

“I’ve heard of them. Perimeter patrol on the Siberian Wall.”

“That’s right. Under their watch, it went unbreached for six years.”

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NFE 2024

The collection opens today at 4 pm ET. Finish up those last minute treats!

If anything changes, we'll post an update.

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where's that masterpost of quotes that have no right going as hard as they do. I'd like to submit "Protagonism is best left to teens and the insane"

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how many narnia blogs are even out there

I think I figured out what polls were meant for

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I think I figured out what polls were meant for

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have you ever heard it? can you remember?

i. The gulls were crying. The gulls were always crying, in her memory. Whatever far off places Susan travelled after her family was gone, she always came back to the sea.

ii. The beach at Cair Paravel was the first place in Narnia where she really felt at home. She'd wade into the water with her eyes shut and feel she could be in England, on holiday with her mother and father. She'd open her eyes, and there would be waves cascading endlessly towards her.

iii. Before long, she knew every tidepool, every shoal.

iv. There weren't any bathing suits in Narnia, but no one seemed the least scandalized when Susan took to swimming in her underthings. There wasn't anything else for it, and she had to swim. She just had to.

v. She wasn't the only one of her siblings to love the sea, of course. Edmund loved sand and sailing and reading on the beach, and Peter liked to gaze out at the ocean and think. Lucy spent even more time at the beach than Susan did; she would rise before dawn and sit on the rocks as the sun rose over the waves. Susan was never sure whether her little sister was there to greet the sunrise, or to wait for Aslan.

vi. But for Susan, it was sense-memory. Water was water, wherever she was, and it always reminded her of home. She'd go out past the breakers, pull her limbs into a familiar breast stroke, and she'd feel like she was everywhere she loved all at once.

vii. Aslan came, and she was soaking wet to greet him. He laughed, in his lion-ish way, and didn't mind at all when Susan embraced him.

viii. Somehow, Aslan never got drenched from his journeys across the sea, but he was damp as though with mist. The scent of salt and brine clung to him, an overtone to that fierce, wild smell that was his own. Susan breathed in deep, those two scents she loved most in the world.

ix. In England, back at school, she'd go to the swimming pool and imagine she was in Narnia.

x. It wasn't the same, of course. The swimming pool at her school had no crying gulls, no smell of salt, no cascading waves. There was no Aslan coming towards her from the T-line at the other end of the pool. But if she submerged herself completely, Susan could imagine.

xi. She swam with her eyes shut too often, and her coach was growing irritated. It was affecting her times in practice, which would bleed over into competition if she wasn't careful. Somehow, Susan couldn't be bothered to care.

xii. One weekend, she and Lucy snuck away to visit the boys, and they all went down to the lake to reminisce about Narnia. When Lucy and Edmund spoke of their summer sailing the eastern sea, Susan was positively stiff with jealousy. Yet when they all dove into the water in the end, her heart pounded out a rhythm of home, home.

xiii. Six years after her last trip to Narnia, Susan hadn't touched a bow in four years. She still went swimming every week.

xiv. After the railway accident, she went to live by the sea. She missed her family, and she couldn't stand to live in the places they had lived. She wanted to forget.

xv. Susan had missed the salt air. She had missed the waves. There was a feeling of home by the sea that she couldn't quite place; a soothing echo of long ago dreams and fairytales.

xvi. But there were the gulls crying, "Can you remember?" and it broke her heart all over again.

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So many fics, so little time.

narnia has actually way too many completely devastating concepts in it that are not explored At All

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