Fic: Another Adventure

[nfe_gremlin]

Title: Another Adventure
Author: venilia
Recipient: miss_morland
Rating: PG
Possible Spoilers/Warnings: The Magician’s Nephew, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
Summary: Old friends don’t stand on ceremony, and I knew the Professor when he was still in knickerbockers.

AN: Thank you to the mod, caramelsilver for her patience, and to my darling dubh_ceol who not only

Comments

[liminalliz]

!!!! THIS IS SO GREAT!!! I really enjoyed reading this!

[venilia]

Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it! :)

[makinhistory]

Oh, I liked this a lot - I never considered the fact that OF COURSE Diggory would want to tell Polly of the Pevensies' adventures in Narnia! Fantastic integration of the prompt and your own interpretation, as well as bits and pieces of 1940s England and the kind of adventurist professorship we all have come to know and love (hurrah for Indiana Jones!).

Once again, great job! :)

[venilia]

My prompt was pretty awesome! I originally wanted to tell all these little stories about Digory traveling and having adventures, but then it wasn't Narnia. Polly, to my mind, is a spy for the British government. Plummer. Polly Plummer. This is somewhat inspired by Pauline Bayne, who, besides illustrating Narnia, drew secret maps for the British government during WWI. Only Polly gets out more.

I love bits of history in my fic. It's the chips in the cookies of fiction!

Glad you like my fic!

[caramelsilver]

I really love your Polly! She seems so awesome. Great story! I especially liked this line: “Or when a train stop has a name that sounds right, or when you get turned around after a pub on a cool night and there’s something in the breeze, or when the day is just right and the letterman brings your post. Yes, yes.” It's so great and very... Lewis. I adore the clear friendship between these two. I think you did a wonderful job filling the prompt.

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[venilia]

Thank you so much!

You know, my beta was also fond of that line, and said much the same thing. I think that means I succeeded in capturing those breathless little moments in life where you think, "Yes, here, there's magic here. There's an adventure here. If I just look at it right, I'll be able to see!" If I have, then I'm glad.

I love Polly and Digory's friendship in the books, especially because it's so platonic, yet so deep.

Polly's pretty awesome all around. Everyone remembers Aravis and Jill as cool adventurers, but I think Polly gets overlooked, which is unfair. :)

[zempasuchil]

This was such a neat idea! And I love the tone, you've got Lewis' world and characters down so well :D Adventurer Polly is AWESOME. And Chant! Is this a Chrestomanci shoutout? anyway, I am intrigued by this adventure. lovely fic!

[venilia]

I'm fond of adventurer Polly too.

IT IS TOTALLY A CHRESTOMANCI SHOUT OUT! And you're the first one to get it! Gold star!

Thank you very much for your comment. I'm glad you like my fic so much. :)

[miss_morland]

Oh gosh, how much do I love this? SO MUCH. &hearts

Where to begin?

Polly and Digory's characters -- older, wiser and more experienced than their younger selves, but still, when it comes down to it, the boy and girl who once saw the creation of Narnia -- are wonderful. I love their friendship and their shared longings (the whole 'do you still wait for it?' section made me shiver, because that's precisely how they'd feel); I love the fact that Polly's a spy; I love the parallels the Professor draws between himself and Edmund; I love the way you tie the box from Atlantis into the story, as I was always fascinated by that particular mysterious detail.

A pleasure to read, and precisely the sort of story I was hoping for -- thank you so much. &hearts

[venilia]

I am so glad you like it!

Polly and Digory are pretty awesome separately, but together they rule any situation they're in! Awesome powers, activate!

Glad you like the 'do you still wait for it' part, because I think it defined and shaped the whole thing. It certainly made me realize where the fic was going and what it had to cover to get there. :)

I blathered on about it in one of the above comments, but Spy!Polly was somewhat inspired by Pauline Baynes secretly drawing maps for the British Government during WWI. I tried to sneak a little of that idea in with the drawing of the cup.

The Atlantis box has always fascinated me. I've always wanted to know more about Mrs. Lefay and how she came by it. The cup came out of nowhere. IDEK.

So, so happy my fic was what you wanted!