Sep 05, 2006 13:33
While looking for some material for my P/S fansite, I came across a little piece of gold...for the P/S shippers.
Unfortunately, I closed the window after saving the page on my hard drive, so I can't remember where I got it from. Anyways, here it is...
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Susan/Peter... C.S. Lewis must be rolling like a mad man in his motherfucking grave, but the amount of almost-canonical Susan/Peter is actually sort of amazing. I understand that family dynamics are different in different familes, in different times, and in different nations, but it's sort of amazing.
One of the most interesting Peter/Susan -- and Peter, too, really -- bits is in LWW when Peter makes his first kill, and Aslan knights him Sir Peter Wolf's-Bane.
"Then, after a bit, Susan came down the tree. She and Peter felt pretty shaky when they met and I won't say there wasn't kissing and crying on both sides. But in Narnia no one thinks any the worse of you for that. "
Well...HELLO, C.S. LEWIS. HELLO, TEN MILLION FICLETS.!
I mean, Jesus! A young untried warrior is called by magical means to slay a wolf and save a fair maiden in peril. After a struggle, he kills the wolf. Fair maiden climbs out of the tree. Kisses are exchanged; the girl's father gives the warrior half of his kingdom and his daughter's hand an -- oh, wait, wait. You mean it's incest? But in Narnia, no-one thinks any the worse of you for kissing your sibling.
Are the big red FAIRY-TALE INCEST flags flying up the poles at this point yet?
The creepiest thing in this scene, though, may be the fact that Aslan actually purrs when the wolf shows up. "It is your sister's horn," said Aslan to Peter in a low voice; so low as to be almost a purr, if it is not disprespectful to think of a lion purring., and that's weird as hell even if you take into account the idea that Daddy Aslan knows Peter will kill the wolf.
Evil Dumbledore, nothing, man. Aslan is a creepy motherfucker, and he's supposed to be Jesus.
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Well, even C.S. Lewis said it. So take that those haters, heh. Off-Topic pimpin': I hope you like my icon :) Aslan taking a tea cup. I made it myself, and along with the Ryan Merriman one, this one is LOVE.
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