A few of my favorite and not so favorite things

[rthstewart]

I have, finally, a complete draft of the NBB.  Now it is time to edit, with the wonderful help of autumnia who has patiently endured my early draft, complete with misspellings and typos.  Amine_eyes was going to help too and I'm just so lucky to have such great support.  (I've been through a real bout of the OMG IT SUX recently.  autumnia has kept me from chucking

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[lotl101]

If you need another eye to edit, I'm always here. Granted, the offer may be from the selfish desire to see NBB early. I make no claims to noble action there. So, most profoundly, YOU'RE DOING IT RIGHT!

Also, I've been meaning to send you a few pictures that I think you'd appreciate from a trip to Ireland. Namely, Lynch crests all over Galway, landscapes that made me wish, and think, that Dryads were real, and stone work lions. My fellow students were rather confused when I started laughing upon seeing them. Even more so when my explanation was "not a tame Lion, indeed." Which brings me to the question of how can I send you pictures?

Much agreement on the state of politics, and I hope those who are ill recover speedily!

[rthstewart]

I would love to see the pictures! Thank you! My email addy is just rthstewart@gmail.com. Or you can post them on your LJ and I can download/copy paste. Or you can post them on google docs and I can see them that way, or any photosharing site.

I loved Galway. It's one of those places I'd stay in until the money ran out.

And thanks for the vote of confidence. I really appreciate it (and need it at the moment). Thank you!

[lotl101]

I have something like 800 pictures to sort through so it may be a while, but I shall send them to you as soon as I can. I absolutely loved Ireland, and I'm so glad I was able to go this winter. It was really bittersweet coming home. I miss it so much, but I'm glad to be home.

On an unrelated note, I wanted to tell you that the pdf for BRD from AO3 is incomplete. It only goes up to page 12 or so, at least the one I downloaded. Also, Stone Gryphon 1 gives me an error when I try downloading it.

Unrelated to the other unrelated note: one, how do Narnian beings handle things like parasites? It's a topic of interest for me, future-professionally. Also, there's some pretty cool research on how animal parasites affect humans (see the most recent post on my lj). and Two, if hummingbirds are rude, and songbirds promiscuous, what are Canadian geese like? They're very annoying by where I live, which led me to imagine them in Narnia.

[lady_songsmith]

Canadian geese are vicious in ANY world. I would bet they make excellent soldiers. Flee the geese!!!

[turkeyish]

Go you, re: NBB! I had to drop out, but I'm greatly looking forward to what everyone else comes up with.

I, too, am looking forward to the Hunger Games film.

And I love those pictures! So interesting.

[rthstewart]

For Hunger Games, I heard that one of the promos the studio did was send an invitation to the media inviting them to the Hunger Games. The invitation included a white rose. CREEPY. I'm very excited for it.

I AM sorry you dropped out. Your Narnia stories are just terrific, but RL can be a pain!

[autumnia]

I love how there's a partial sketch of a Knight's armor on that page of Sir Gawaine.

There are a great many cats on that window. No wonder Peter was amused.

And it has been a fun and very educational experience reading the draft! I am glad that you will not be chucking the whole thing into the English Channel river, and I'm sure others feel the same way. :-) The parachute experiment and comment is reminding of me of your NBB actually.

A lot of people seem to like "Once Upon a Time". I had thought of watching it but never did get around to it, though I have read up some summaries/recap about the show. Maybe I'll try to catch it in reruns over the summer when there's nothing new on tv.

[rthstewart]

Isn't that page amazing? it's funny, in looking at the cat window, I remember reading that they were supposed to be monkeys and I thought the sculpture really did look more simian than feline. As for OUAT, I dunno. I really, really want to like it. After a steady diet of BBC, the monochromatic look of it is really bothering me.

And thank you again for the review and beta. I know it was a slog and I really appreciate it.

[autumnia]

I had to stare very hard at that photo to make out that they were actually cats and not something else. They don't look much like cats from the photo point of view.

And oh yes, my tv world has been mostly BBC and a bit of ITV and another UK channel. Going back to normal American shows have looked so dull in comparison these days (with the exception of the random special on PBS).

By the way, have you started to compile the footnotes to the NBB? I would think they'd take up an entire chapter of their own! :-)

[rthstewart]

yeah, footnotes. oh gosh....

[varnafinde]

"(I've been through a real bout of the OMG IT SUX recently. autumnia has kept me from chucking it all into the river)."

autumnia, you've been doing a great and important job!
rth is probably the only remotely sensible person who might have had such ideas about that NBB. It seems you have helped her come to her senses. Good work.

rth, I'll wait patiently ... And I'm happy about the other chapters you've been able to write alongside the project.

[autumnia]

autumnia, you've been doing a great and important job!

I know! I am honored to represent rth's many rabid fans clamoring to read about Peter and Susan and their exploits here. :-) Chucking those tens of thousands of words into the river would be a very sad thing indeed.

[rthstewart]

Thank you! And with the Friends locking, it means you can customize who sees an LJ post, you can limit it to a group, large or small, but it means that only those people with accounts, who you designate, can see the post. It's much more controlled than other networking sites.

[wellinghall]

Pleased to be of service :-)