#folktail

That is such a good question, okay, I'm pumped for this one, let's go!!!! (this is gonna be based purely on vibes, tbh)

yeah vaguely, though full disclosure i don't usually tend to get in the weeds of characters' sexuality headcanons just 'cause i personally do not feel a strong pull towards labels as i used to and kind of just go idk man, i'm queer and that's all you gotta know. in the pevensies' case i definitely never write anything in specific detail because obviously they wouldn't be using anywhere near the same labels as we have today in their time in england, and in narnia i don't think they think of sexuality or love that way at all. like it's part of society in an entirely different way there and at least partially because half your subjects are like. trees. and jungle cats. and shit. does that make sense?

that being said if you put a gun to my head and said "give me the closest label to what you have in mind when you're writing them" it would be something like this: to me susan is very much aroallo. she is not into romance. she'll have relationships and trysts and such but it's never romantic, and indeed in narnia is usually through a political lens. i don't think she has a gender preference. lucy i've always perceived as some flavor of aroace, rings the most definitively poly to me out of all of them but again, i don't think narnian culture is particularly monogamous (sorry not sorry clive), and i feel like due to growing up almost fully in narnia that first time she's definitely a lot more sex positive and not bothered by any of this than certain siblings fighting the demons of internalized homophobia every second (cough peter cough). edmund i'm like, idk man. i make textpost memes about him being bi because he does have a certain energy but i have no strong opinions and i don't feel like romance is of much interest to him (hence perceiving him as some flavor of aro) but i am tickled by the edmund/bacchus ship through a much less "actual relationship" and more "casual fling they've done once or twice for fun" lens than your typical edmund/bacchus content i've seen.

peter is the only one where i look at him and i go you are absolutely gay. like obviously headcanon what you want, my interpretation doesn't make yours less valid or whatever but i look at him and i go hello friend of dorothy. i think it was probably jester freakcliff who said first he's the kind of guy to be like sorry i'm in a committed relationship with my wife, narnia, the country, and he's right about that. he's again some nebulous flavor of aro/queer/idk to me where it's like, i don't think he's gonna get into your traditional marriage and i don't think he'd ever have kids either UNLESS it was for the sake of narnia's future. it wouldn't be something he chose otherwise or wanted. (really can't see any of them wanting that + to me susan is sooooo bad with kids and corin was probably a crazy outlier where they happened to strike up the world's most unlikely friendship) like do not be mistaken about my caspeter shipping. can't see those guys getting "officially" slash traditionally married. they'd just be consorts where everyone knows but it's not a big deal. u see my vision. idk maybe demi is like the closest i can get to describing what the fuck is up with peter in my head but it doesn't really matter.

i'm just being very me about all of it tbh. it's difficult to define anything when you sort of exist out of all the traditional frameworks for talking about these things and the closest i have to anything is just saying "aro" not even "queerplatonic" bc i don't really mesh with the way people use that term anymore.

susanfic SWEEP. what i'm getting from this is i need to write more susan.

sasa i am So sorry i let this languish so long i really did want to write something for it and my brain has just been completely shut off for weeks. ALAS. but i'll answer it now bc if i don't i'll forget it forever

Write a scene from [perchance to dream] in another character’s POV

okay so here is where i would put my scene. if i HAD it. this one requires some context actually. originally ptd had an extended ending—it included what happens after the end cutoff, with peter waking up to find caspian there and his reaction. that was all from caspian's pov, but i had some friends read it and they suggested the fic might feel better if it ended sooner because it felt like it was dragging there by the end. as such i chopped it all out and i agree, i think it was a good call. but if i were writing another scene from this fic in someone else's pov i would actually write that scene but from peter's pov because i think it would be crazy and fun.

alternatively not ptd but can u imagine their last kiss in north of desire/the peterfic before they leave except edmund or susan half walked in on it and yeeted themselves back into the hedges because oh god oh fuck so that IS happening. hehe...

8. What is your favorite line/section from [perchance to dream]?

the scenes involving the rebuilt cair paravel make me crazy tbh. like why'd i do that.

14. What makes you happiest? New fic comments, kudos, bookmarks, user subscribers, story subscribers, or Tumblr asks?

i can't see bookmarks because of my ao3 skin that filters most stats out, and i also cannot see user subs because of this, and i rarely open my stats page in general so i can't see story subscribers most of the time. they are all meaningless to me. kudos is just like a silly name in an email and more often than not is like "wow, so this one person read 12 of my fics and didn't leave a single comment. that feels real good (not)." i love getting comments or people in my tumblr inbox telling me things they liked about my fics or asking me about them. fandom is a community and fic is a conversation. asks and comments mean i'm not just saying shit into the void. it's nice. i like knowing what people enjoyed and are curious about. it inspires me or reassures me that thing i thought was cool was cool. you know? idk most metrics people regard of as making a fic "big" or whatever on ao3 do not affect me at all and are indeed hardly visible to me so. they don't make me feel any happier.

31. What fic meant the most to you to write?

the susanfic. it's just like falling snow is a fic i've been holding in my heart since i was a little kid. it meant the world to me that i wrote it, and that i love what i wrote.

🍬 ⇢ post an unpopular opinion about a popular fandom character

stiles isn't the best character on teen wolf. stiles isn't even, like, the third best character on teen wolf. he works as a character because he's part of an ensemble cast, most importantly acting as a side character tangential to scott. i wouldn't care if they killed him. he's fine, i guess.

and due to the way the books were written edmund is atually the most boring pevensi— [i am taken out back of the narnia fandom and shot].

☁️ ⇢ what made you choose your username?

story time! it used to be ElsaTinuviel on deviantart bc i was like. 12. and really into frozen + lotr. i started going by zanna later on and so my ffn and my tumblr and my ao3 were originally zannatinuviel. then i was briefly an art major and i had to formulate a personal social media branding for class. my professor was like "absolutely no one can spell or remember that username, get a better one" so i reached out to like 15 different artists i followed (mostly on instagram i think) and asked them how they chose their usernames and what they thought made a successful one. i got a lot of answers about "spelled like it sounds" "double letters" "no dashes or symbols" and "vowels!" so i ended up mashing "zanna" with "violin" (or "mandolin", it could have been either, but i think violin bc my roommate was letting me learn to play hers that semester?) at like 2 am and turned it in for a grade. i use the same user across all platforms now, post-dropping out of the art degree, because i've experienced firsthand how frustrating it can be if you really like an artists/writer on one platform but cannot for the life of you figure out if they're on another one if you want to, say, send a writer an ask, contact an artist to ask if they have a print shop, or reblog on tumblr art that you liked on instagram and want on your blog. it's also super embarrassing when you find out someone who you look up to on ao3 has actually been following you on tumblr all along but you didn't know. because of username.

anyway i've stuck with it ever since out of sheer habit (and how fun it is when people call me zanna zannolin) but i admit sometimes i have thought about deleting all my social media and either staying gone 5ever or using a completely different username and pseud out of sheer desire to forget how cringe younger me was lollllll. i got better! but man why did i care about all that.

More lore! So, I did write down most of it here, but there are a few more things to add.

During the sword lore scene, I put in a little detail about Peter doing a twirl with his sword as a tic. It eventually didn't make it into the fic because I couldn't work it in as organically as I wanted to, but there originally was a scene where Caspian did the same thing, having it learned from Peter. A fun fact about the tic is that it is one of my sword tics, and funnily enough I only noticed after I had already put it in (it's also way easier to do with a one and a half handed sword than it is to do with a longsword, as I have empirically confirmed).

Also, there was a lot of thought put into adding elements from different, non-European cultures because one of the things I really liked about the movie is how they made the Telmarines feel very culturally distinct from Narnia, and I wanted to expand on that, while also adding my little twist of taking inspiration from beyond Europe, since it's something I would really like to see more of in fantasy fiction. That's how I ended up choosing different Latin American inspirations for different parts of Telmarine culture, and why I decided Galma would be based on Rapa Nui.

I chose flamenco and Irish dance as inspirations for the two types of dance mentioned in the fic because they're two of the dancing styles I know the best (my sister used to dance flamenco, and I've been doing Irish dance for over ten years now). I chose this song specifically for the Telmarine dancing section because it's one I once saw my sister and her group dance to, but also because in part of the chorus the lyrics go "Y un sol pa' que te ayude a despertar sin mí/Y un barquito de vela/Y un viento de levante pa' llevarte a todas partes" ("and a sun to help you wake without me/and a sailboat/and a rising wind to carry you everywhere") which felt very fitting for the story.