Somebody please stop me! Before it's too late!

[dolorous_ett]

I've been mulling over in my mind whether to go for this month's omniocular "Anywhere But Here" challenge, where we are provided with a variety of fascinating locations for stories. (And yes, this is a plug - if you're  not familiar with this comm, go and have a look - I promise you won't regret it).

It's a tricky one, this. I don't want to write about what

Comments

[lazy_neutrino]

I think I might just die of pleasure if you wrote that. I used to love Eagle of the Ninth. I read it over and over at school!

My omniocular fic is turning out to have a little bit of het in it. Hmm. I think it's OK. I think.

edited to include missing phrase

[dolorous_ett]

I used to love Eagle of the Ninth. I read it over and over at school!

So did I. And I liked The Silver Branch a lot as well. (can you remember what happened to the Eagle in the end of all her books, by the way? Was it permanently destroyed, or just stashed away somewhere again? - not that I'm researching the loopy idea stated above, oh no...)

As to the het thing, I sympathise. I was going to take the opportunity to write a story in Tibet and move on to the second part of my SS/HG series (the one where they scupper any other relationship for each other by snide comments, awkardness and passionate glowering, but never have the bottle to do anything about it). But that would be well and truly not gen. Hence the Eagle of the Ninth.

Re: edited to include missing phrase

[lazy_neutrino]

Tibet would be fun, too. Antagonism and UST while snuggled up tight against the cold.

I thought the Eagle got stashed away, but I'm not sure. I think I remember The Silver Branch, but it wasn't such a defining book for me as The Eagle of the Ninth.

Re: edited to include missing phrase

[tree_and_leaf]

It did. I think it was mentioned in the Lantern Bearers, which was about carrying on after the Army pulled out of Britain.

What I really remember popping up again and again was the green dolphin ring, which even came up in some of the mediaeval ones.

I really liked the Eagle of the Ninth - and I was thrilled when Lindsey Davis dedicated one of her Falco novels to the late RS, for 'all the children who know how far it is from Vectis to the Wall'.

[_redux]

Decent Hagrid-fics are hard to find, so I won't discourage you at all. Go ahead, I say! :)

[dolorous_ett]

Well... maybe I should go for it, then. At least the Hagrid part - the Eagle of the Ninth element is hard to incorporate without making him seem a total buffoon, which I don't really want to do. Big is not the same as stupid!

[_redux]

And amen to that! Sentimental doesn't mean stupid either.

Sorry, one of my pet peeves - I like Hagrid, no matter what the bloody fandom thinks of him.

[dolorous_ett]

Well, I'm obviously not part of the fandom, then, because I quite like Hagrid. If everyone was like Hagrid, the world would be a much happier place (and more chaotic).

[dolorous_ett]

*heh* I remember it well. Although if I recall correctly, you were saying most of the really funny things.

If - when - I do write that story, the Awful Artefact of Ultimicity is definitely going to figure, though there may also be an infestation of Fengshui dragons...

[dolorous_ett]

One of the things I want to do in the Tibet-fic if I can ever get it going is to take a few bitchy side-sweeps at the sappy ignorant Orientalism you sometimes see in the West, and which is particularly annoying over Tibet, which is a sad, fascinating and complex place, but emphatically NOT sappy! And no sapppy Orientalism is complete without a dash of gratuitous Fengshui...

[bufo_viridis]

Wait a moment, eagle of the Ninth? Same kind like the Eagle of the Tenth Ulpia Victrix? (My Hadrian Wall readin were reduced to Puck of Pook's Hill)
if yes, the second question goes: what are you drinking and how I can bring you more of it to smoothen the process of creation?

[bufo_viridis]

Actually Ulpia Victrix was 30th or rather XXXth. Sorry! But it supported Septimus Severus and later Alexander Severus...

[dolorous_ett]

The Eagle of the Ninth is a great book for older children by Rosemary Sutcliffe. In it, a young man invalided out of the legions goes north of Hadrian's wall in search of the lost Eagle standard of the Ninth Legion (IX if you prefer), which went north and never returned. (In other words, this particular bird of prey is probably not going to be susceptible to Hagrid's Owl Treats!)

It's a great story - one I still read when I'm in the mood for xian shu - and there are sequels too.

[tree_and_leaf]

xian shu? Please explain for us wimps who only speak Indo-European languages!

[saralinda]

DO IT DO IT DO IT

[dolorous_ett]

Hmmmm...

*wavers*