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Dec. 25th, 2017 08:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skygiantsI am extremely excited to announce that my Yuletide gift this year inaugurated the Crossroads Series tag on the AO3: Let us go then, you and I, a fic about how vet student Laurie and a vengeful warrior Griffin met and entered into a tragic interspecies relationship that by the time the actual books begin is in full swing and never explained!
Laurie would never, later, admit this to him, but her very first thought was: Aslan?
"I won't refuse it," Laurie said. Thought: I deeply resent how much less fun being the heroine of a doomed romance is, compared to reading about it at thirteen.
I'M SO HAPPY.
As you may remember, I rediscovered the Crossroads books, an obscure portal fantasy series about vet students who go perform minor surgeries in a constantly endangered fantasyland, earlier this year. I had no expectations that I would ever receive fic for it; a million thanks to my mystery author for proving me wrong.
While we're talking about books I loved in the 90s: one of my other best holiday presents this year was a set of Fionavar Tapestry cover art, fromgenarti. I'm mentioning this because a.) I'm extremely delighted b.) I NEEDED A SEGUE AND HEY, HAVE WE ALL HEARD ABOUT THE FIONAVAR TV SERIES? I am still trying to sort out how I feel about this, but I definitely have some basic requirements:
- amazing 80s hair for everyone, but especially Kim
- I expect serious commitment to the tragic Arthurian threesome and by that I mean Arthur and Lancelot had better make out by the end
- the CBC had better not cut Dave's law notes, the best joke in the series
- if Paul doesn't make someone cry in the first episode then honestly what is even the point
FIONAVAR FRIENDS, please tell me your hopes, fears, and dreams about this thing that is apparently happening!
ETA: And now I have a surprise Madness treat as well! Conversations with Righteousness, which very impressively manages to explore a whole bunch of the things I most wanted to see about Orth and Aria and Righteousness and The Shadow Of Ibex in several quick readable chatlogs.
Orth: Do you want to remember where you end and Righteousness begins? Here’s my advice, for whatever it’s worth: remember where your costume ends and you begin. Yours isn’t a suit, but you’ve still got one. Don’t become it.
A YULETIDE THAT KEEPS ON GIVING. :DDDD
Laurie would never, later, admit this to him, but her very first thought was: Aslan?
"I won't refuse it," Laurie said. Thought: I deeply resent how much less fun being the heroine of a doomed romance is, compared to reading about it at thirteen.
I'M SO HAPPY.
As you may remember, I rediscovered the Crossroads books, an obscure portal fantasy series about vet students who go perform minor surgeries in a constantly endangered fantasyland, earlier this year. I had no expectations that I would ever receive fic for it; a million thanks to my mystery author for proving me wrong.
While we're talking about books I loved in the 90s: one of my other best holiday presents this year was a set of Fionavar Tapestry cover art, from
genarti. I'm mentioning this because a.) I'm extremely delighted b.) I NEEDED A SEGUE AND HEY, HAVE WE ALL HEARD ABOUT THE FIONAVAR TV SERIES? I am still trying to sort out how I feel about this, but I definitely have some basic requirements:- amazing 80s hair for everyone, but especially Kim
- I expect serious commitment to the tragic Arthurian threesome and by that I mean Arthur and Lancelot had better make out by the end
- the CBC had better not cut Dave's law notes, the best joke in the series
- if Paul doesn't make someone cry in the first episode then honestly what is even the point
FIONAVAR FRIENDS, please tell me your hopes, fears, and dreams about this thing that is apparently happening!
ETA: And now I have a surprise Madness treat as well! Conversations with Righteousness, which very impressively manages to explore a whole bunch of the things I most wanted to see about Orth and Aria and Righteousness and The Shadow Of Ibex in several quick readable chatlogs.
Orth: Do you want to remember where you end and Righteousness begins? Here’s my advice, for whatever it’s worth: remember where your costume ends and you begin. Yours isn’t a suit, but you’ve still got one. Don’t become it.
A YULETIDE THAT KEEPS ON GIVING. :DDDD
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Date: 2017-12-26 05:17 am (UTC)I am very excited about the Fionavar series. Here is what I want:
- Jennifer does not get the personality transplant post-pregnancy.
- They do not cut the flying unicorn.
- They do not cut the sea serpent eating ALL the elves.
- Diarmuid and Paul make ME cry.
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Date: 2017-12-26 05:24 am (UTC)If they cut the sea serpent eating ALL the elves I will personally go to Canada and explain, at length, individually,, to EVERY EXECUTIVE INVOLVED IN THE SERIES, why they have just destroyed it and need to provide me with personal recompense.
(I am looking forward to all the things that will make me cry, but I've just realized another thing I need from the series is that they pronounce Diarmuid's name properly, as 'Dermott.')
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Date: 2017-12-26 05:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-26 05:32 am (UTC)(Maybe they'll skip all the pretense and just call him 'Francis Crawford.')
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Date: 2017-12-26 05:35 am (UTC)That would be better.
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Date: 2017-12-28 01:01 am (UTC)The fact that you can really see the LOTR fingerprints on that whole section makes it even funnier. I should not laugh at the idea that Frodo and Gandalf and all got EATEN BY A SEA SERPENT on the way to the Grey Havens. And yet.
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Date: 2017-12-29 03:04 am (UTC)