Blame Be_The_Moon -- Egotistical Meme

[rthstewart]

So my whining in the previous post generated a Harold and Morgan Plot The Narnia Census comment fic courtesy of autumnia  keeperofqkeys and min023 I burned the dinner but it was fun.  On the plus side, thanks for the lovely comments.  I'm at 7,337 words, of which I'll probably use most of it, and I'm not half done, so that means probably another two parter.  The problem is

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[rthstewart]

Burned food is a fact of life for me. I do adore cooking and baking and I do a lot of baking at the holiday time. If I get distracted, however, I tend to ignore the two separate timers I set. Or, I neglect to set them. I multi task and for instance on Thursday night when Autumnia gave me the brilliant Harold and Morgan take the census, I had chicken on the grill for wraps. It was fine... just cooked thoroughly.
As for Susan, as I've mentioned, I did originally envision telling her story at all. I did not envision her being a spy and to the extent I was going to tell her story, it was going to follow a fairly predictable pattern I'm embarrassed to admit now. But, then Miniver and others asked, "Well, what about Susan's adventures?" At that point, I had been in the fandom longer enough to realize that like what was typically done with Kings in fandom, I did not like what I was reading about Susan AT ALL. She therefore became a deliberate reaction to fandom convention that has her making lists, throwing parties, ordering flowers (from which Peter and Edmund are always hilariously running), being placed in sexual situations with no or ambiguous consent, and forgetting Narnia only to return after a horrible ordeal. A lot of my rendering of Peter in Part 1 is the same reaction to fandom convention. I don't consider the attack upon Edmund as severe (though it is pretty adoring) and Lucy is by and large ignored. So..

Eustace never knows the right thing to say. Ever. He provided infinite possibilities for comic relief. "Oh, so you are not married? So you just live together? That must be very awkward for people who do not understand." "You study God? How? Isn't that really dull?" "You work at a zoo? I've never been to one, though I do have lots of dead things pinned on cards. Do you think animals feel pain here? I mean, I'm sure they do in Narnia, but... Oh, maybe I should stop doing that? Did you know that raw dragon meat is delicious?"

[min023]

Ah, so lots of it is a rebellion against the general trend. Your way is so much more constructive - I just don't read them to the end, or don't come back - you write some quality rebut-fic. I'm fascinated by all your responses above - brilliant, really brilliant. No wonder you've got a hard-core readership that keeps coming back. Hope you're not too exhausted by the big cook-up : )