getoutnowash9

A CELEBRATION FOR THE AGES

The holidays are over,  &  after a private moment of rest, Cair Paravel opens its doors to all Narnians once more.  As the snow covers the trees,  &  the winds become chiller, the monarchs  &  all Narnians prepare for the first of the big celebrations of the year. A celebration that commemorates the love one feels for family, friends,  &  significant others. 

 As people on Earth celebrate Valentine’s Day, all Narnians celebrate the most beloved Queen Helen’s Day. That is, of course, the very theme for this month’s #cairparavelnet event. So come join us as Lucy dances with the dryads  & Susan sings with the mermaids. Join us in this month’s event to celebrate all sorts of love.  HOW TO PARTICIPATE

Reblog this post.

Make any sort of creation  (gifsets, graphics, playlists, art, fanfiction)  in relation to Relationships in Narnia.

Tag #cairparavelnet when you publish your creation.

Write   “#cairparavelnet’s February event: Queen Helen’s Day” somewhere in your description so people know what it’s about.

Feel free to make as much or as little as you want for this event.

Join us in Cair Paravel by going into Spare Oom  (optional).

PROMPTS -Favorite familial relationship -Favorite friendship -Favorite romantic pairing -Fancasts for Queen Helen I

Remember; the prompts are only there to inspire you.  You can either make something having to do with the prompts, something you come up with entirely, or both.  So go on  &  create; we can’t wait to see everything you make!  Thank you for joining, smile because you can,  &  have fun!!

the lion, the witch and the wardrobe:

- nothing this film is 10/10 adaptation and I love it. great balance of respecting the book and expanding the story. series will be different which is interesting but for me almost certainly can’t be better

prince caspian:

-  Lucy being furious 80% of the time. in the book she’s angry a lot and messes stuff up just like the others and I’m sad they took that out of her character. when they first meet Trumpkin she nearly punches him in the face and Peter has to hold her back and I think it’s an eternal tragedy that we never got to see Georgie and Will do that 

- Peter and Susan’s characterisation. The film kinda swapped their responses to being back in Narnia and took some of their character complexity away. I want to see Susan pushy and hurting and difficult and Peter quietly heartbroken, like they are in the book. I’m sad because I think Will and Anna would have done this really really well 

- Edmund’s main goal for maybe the first half of the book seems to be to get a good night’s sleep. in the book he believes Lucy and everything but is cross that she always has her visions at night and wakes him up and I wish we’d seen that

- Edmund and Peter being chill bros. if LWW is the peter-and-edmund conflict book, PC is the susan-and-lucy conflict book and that did not translate at all. in the book the boys mostly hang around Plotting together and I think it would have been fresher to see them as a team in the film

the voyage of the dawn treader:

- Caspian being a silly. A lot of the book is about him learning about being a man and a king and also he cries a lot. in the film he is very Dashing and effortlessly heroic. his learning curve is mostly erased

- Edmund having a brain and also some chill. He’s canonically very clever and a skilled manipulator. but there are some scenes where his ability to command is contrasted unfavourably with Caspian’s and that’s doing his character dirty. and in the book he’s pretty suspicious of the star’s daughter because he is Sensible and has Been Here Before with ethereal women promising stuff, rather than in the film where he’s all ooo pretty 

- in reference to the two above: the conflict between Edmund and Caspian. in the book it stems from Edmund’s more developed understanding of the sacrifice of being a king, but in the film it’s a power struggle based on reawakened envy over being ‘second best.’ in the goldwater scene in the book, Edmund is actually vaguely possessive of Peter and makes a point about being closer to him than Caspian is, rather than STILL being bitter over being ‘second’. Later in the book there’s a scene where Edmund almost full on fights Caspian to stop him abandoning Narnia and his throne and Caspian throws a fit because he can’t have what he wants. I guess I’m just annoyed that they took away Edmund’s wisdom and peace with himself for this conflict and to make Caspian cooler

- I just think Edmund is a fantastic character and Skandar plays him well and it’s a shame the VoDT script made him less awesome

- also the general nastiness of VoDT. it’s perhaps the most sanitized adaptation, in the book things get really dark and scary for a while. I’d love them to have taken a more LWW-style angle where stuff is still kid-friendly but isn’t shy about how serious and difficult some of the stuff that happens is

Peter is the one that i feel was maligned the most. I mean, yes, it's understandable to imagine him angry and testosterone -filled because he has no outlet for all that sword-fighting greatness in England. But Peter just handled it internally. In PC, he is mature, thoughtful and almost unreasonably brave. He's angry at Lucy for waking them and pulling at them to do the opposite of what makes sense to him, but the closest he comes to lashing out is *not* saying something supportive to Lucy when he knows he should. Because he is endlessly supportive of his siblings, surprisingly so. I know, so many adverbs!!!

But you are so right about Lucy as well! She was so frustrated and angry and yes, nearly attacks Trumpkin and is easily as ready to fight as Edmund. She is not the sweet little girl they made Georgie be, and it would have been so much better to lwt her be real!

Edmund is so very sleep-deprived and grumpy and i love him. And his reponse to Trumpkin's disrespect is so fiery! Peter stops him pretty quick, but Edmund was winding up to defend Peter's high king status and general magnificence. I just love how protective Edmund is, offering to fight Trumpkin partly because of the insult, but also because of his own brand of cold logic that leads him to say that Peter has more to lose than he does. Probably true. And Peter gives away easily, no ego present at all. 

Susan is the practical one, and comes up against the others when they are inspired by something greater than self-preservation until she sees Aslan again. Edmund calls her a wet blanket, and she mostly is, except that i love her soft heart, never wanting to hurt someone or make them feel lesser. She is so caring for Trumpkin's ego in the book, and in the movie as well(?) I can't make myself watch it again!

Caspian was just....not Caspian at all. I hated him being aged up, hated his accent, hated the way he was set against Peter (!!!!???) And hated him being a sort of suitor for Susan. I have grown absolutely allergic to that characterization of him from how many fanfics are written exploring that pairing and the angry, selfish, ego-driven Peter. Sigh.

My last axe to grind is the fight scene of Peter with Miraz. I mean. It's slow, ponderous....such a misuse of slow-mo tech. It's just shot badly. In the book it's visceral and a bit of it is fast and furious so that everyone holds their breath. Too many of the extras watching look bored and only Edmund seems to care.

There's a lot of room for improvement there! But i am mostly concerned with casting. How can they ever find a better quartet than William, Anna, Skandar and Georgie? 

Easily Paleo-ified with some tweaks to the stir-fry sauce.

Examples: 

crippling debt 

lonliness 

a building is on fire 

the world is going to end 

failure 

a broken heart

guilt 

noises they can only hear 

seperation 

lack of strength 

lack of wit 

someone has too much pride 

forbidden love 

encouraged love? 

Pick a problem, give it to a character, and let them try and solve it. 

here’s the thing about being depressed in real life: it’s lonely and isolating and scary and numbing and there are times when you so badly want someone, anyone to notice, but you can’t bring yourself to tell them what the problem is because then they’ll know, and sometimes there’s other terrible shit you’re dealing with in tandem and sometimes it’s just the depression, but either way, it can easily reach a point where you start wishing something visibly awful would happen to you just so you’d have a reasonable excuse to be feeling as though it already had, like it would somehow be easier to wake up wanting to die if you could blame it on something other than just your brain, if there was a cause, even though you rationally know it doesn’t work like that, that it would only make things worse; and it’s messy and hard and it goes on forever and there’s no simple catharsis, you’re often surrounded by people who don’t understand or whose issues don’t play nicely with yours even though you’re both trying, and you can’t see a reasonable end in sight and you just want to believe that it’s going to get better - 

and here’s the thing about hurt/comfort in fanfiction: it takes all that fear and pain and loneliness you’re feeling IRL and channels it into characters you care about, characters who always pull through against all odds, characters whose stories you can control, characters whose lovers or friends or parents can tell them the things you wish that someone had said to you, and you know from the outset that even when they’re bloody and crying, it’s going to get better for them, that they’re going to be good to each other and fix each other and listen and understand, because that’s what those stories are for, it’s what they do, and whether you’re the one writing them or reading them, they speak to that place in you that hurts, they show you it can get better, they tell you it’s not your fault, they let you feel all the grief in your life in a way that’s safe, cathartic, hopeful, because the story brings you through the darkness and out the other side - 

When the team snapped out of the vision Cosmo became a Very Busy Dog, pinging passengers around between Lions in their desperation to reunite. Coran wouldn’t let go of Allura for ages, and she and Lance hugged for another deca-phoeb. And then of course Keith and Shiro just clung to each other the whole time like they expected the other to disappear at any moment. 

Designing A World

City and Town Name Generator

How To Create a Believable World

Fantasy Religion Design Guide

Fantasy Map-maker

The Language Construction Kit

Fantasy Name Generator

The Pagan Name Generator

Writing Fantasy: Tools & Techniques

Fractal World Generator

Creating a Magic System

The Middle Ages

A Large List Of Articles On The Middle Ages

Middle Ages Weapons

Medieval Clothing

Medieval Clothing Pages

Medieval Name Archive

The Domesday Book

European Nobility Titles

Mythology

General Folklore

Various Folktales

Heroes

Weather Folklore

Trees in Mythology

Animals in Mythology

Birds in Mythology

Flowers in Mythology

Fruit in Mythology

Plants in Mythology

Folktales from Around the World

Egyptian Mythology

African Mythology

More African Mythology

Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

The Gods of Africa

Even More African Mythology

West African Mythology

All About African Mythology

African Mythical Creatures

Gods and Goddesses

Aztec Mythology

Haitian Mythology

Inca Mythology

Maya Mythology

Native American Mythology

More Inca Mythology

More Native American Mythology

South American Mythical Creatures

North American Mythical Creatures

Aztec Gods and Goddesses

Chinese Mythology

Hindu Mythology

Japanese Mythology

Korean Mythology

More Japanese Mythology

Chinese and Japanese Mythical Creatures

Indian Mythical Creatures

Chinese Gods and Goddesses

Hindu Gods and Goddesses

Korean Gods and Goddesses

Basque Mythology

Celtic Mythology

Etruscan Mythology

Greek Mythology

Latvian Mythology

Norse Mythology

Roman Mythology

Arthurian Legends

Bestiary

Celtic Gods and Goddesses

Gods and Goddesses of the Celtic Lands

Finnish Mythology

Celtic Mythical Creatures

Gods and Goddesses

Islamic Mythology

Judaic Mythology

Mesopotamian Mythology

Persian Mythology

Middle Eastern Mythical Creatures

Aboriginal Mythology

Polynesian Mythology

More Polynesian Mythology

Mythology of the Polynesian Islands

Melanesian Mythology

Massive Polynesian Mythology Post

Maori Mythical Creatures

Hawaiian Gods and Goddesses

Hawaiian Goddesses

Gods and Goddesses

List of Gods

Encyclopedia Mythica

Mythical Creatures & Beasts

Questions To Ask When Worldbuilding

The World

Physical and Historical Features

Magic and Magicians

Peoples and Customs

Social Organization

Commerce, Trade, and Public Life

Daily Life

Basics

Alternate Earth

Not Earth at All

Climate and Geography

Natural Resources

World History

Specific Country(s) History

Rules of Magic

Wizards

Magic and Technology

Miscellaneous Magic Questions

Customs

Eating

Greeting and Meeting

Gestures

Visits

Language

Ethics and Values

Religion and the Gods

Population

Government

Politics

Crime and the Legal System

Foreign Relations

Waging War

Weapons

Business and Industry

Transportation and Communication

Science and Technology

Medicine

Arts and Entertainment

Architecture

Urban Factors

Rural Factors

Fashion and Dress

Manners

Diet

Education

Calendar

Magic

The Hypertext List of Spells

Gemstone Properties

Gemstone Meanings

Crystal Healing

Fairy & Other Spirits