Ronan Boys nonsense (now on Tumblr), reading roundup, and The Martian movie

[hamsterwoman]

Today is apparently International Fanwork Day? Or so AO3 informs me. Anyway, I accidentally made a fanwork anyway, sorta. So, remember my Raven Cycle poems (on AO3), which are all ikel89's fault? For a while I've been trying to figure out if there was a way to release them into the wilds of Tumblr, and that got me down the path of turning them into

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[hamsterwoman]

I believe so, yes. There's another, older, sister too but I can't remember her name right now.

I think Guinevere *is* the older sister... the twin sister who died right after birth didn't get a name, I think, or at least it isn't in the book. In the passage where Guinevere is named in this book, Whyborne is talking about her having inherited their mother's willowy frame, like he did. Or does he have two surviving sisters? I thought it was just the one...

the misunderstandings between Whyborne and Griffin keep happening till about the third book. It makes sense given Whyborne's background with his family and all

Ah, that's good to know, in a forewarned is forearmed sort of way. I know misunderstandings are a staple of the genre, and I thought they were handled reasonably in this book, bu-ut I can see my patience for them eroding if they keep happening in the next couple. I mean, misunderstandings do happen with new couples, often even the same ones a couple of times over! But it's even more tedious to read about than it is to experience in real life :P

But, yeah, I did at least think that Whyborne's family issues made me more willing to accept that an intelligent person would persist in falling into the misunderstandings trap.

I like Crane and Stephen as individual characters

I like them both, too (Crane more than Stephen, though), but I mostly find myself enjoying their interactions with other people (Crane and Merrick or Leo, Stephen and his justicar team) more than with each other. Partly because I don't actually like them much as a couple; not even the "why are they suddenly in love" you mention, but the tropes that their coupledom is built on are rather not my kink (the size difference and possessiveness and so on). Naturally, that makes the Magpie books a frustrating read... :P

[hours_gone_by]

I think Guinevere *is* the older sister...

Ah, you're right. I'm getting things twisted around in my head. Too much fiction? No, that's silly.

[hamsterwoman]

Too much fiction? No, that's silly.

Haha!

I did wonder what the other sister had been named, since there are many fewer Arthurian names for girls than for boys... Elaine?