domingo, 10 de mayo de 2015

WHAT IS GOING ON AROUND HERE

So I will have very important homework next week from Thursday to next Thursday. All right, maybe I will be too busy to post anything beyond my review of the Go Princess Precure episode du jour.

There's also the songfic in Spanish, a Jaimienne story based upon Moriría por vos and set during the supper of Harrenhal in a Regency/Napoleonic AU. Its title will be "La Última Cena para los dos" (The Last Supper for Both of Us/Them), and there will also be an English (Our Last Supper) and a Swedish (Den sista nattvarden) self-translation. Intoxication, Roose planning a ruse, everything seen through Jaime/Brienne alternating POVs (1st person), red and blue writing à la Ende.

Nowadays, however, there is updating in Septa Poppine (still in Tale IV, which is half-way through) and the Baratheon Saga, whose opening verses, a Swedish translation of Eliza Cook, have been replaced by one of my favourite Dickens openings: the famous "best of times, worst of times" paragraph, which I have done into Spanish and plan doing into Swedish. I felt that I just had to open the Baratheon Saga with it, since this is a universal statement, which can be said of any period in history, whether the French Revolution Dickens referred to, an era before that (30 Years' War, for instance), or an era after that (Kaiserzeit, World Wars, or even the present crisis).

SPOILERS COMING UP FOR SEPTA POPPINE!
As for Septa Poppine, the Dornish story has been sent by me into a Facebook fic contest. Only that I submitted it too late! The next date for the contest will be the 30th of June, and then, I will take no chances!
So I am halfway across the Septa Poppine fic, and it does read like nineteenth-century children's fiction. Containing counterparts of Maria Theresa, Christina of Sweden, and soon of Rasputin (!), healing an ailing child crown prince included. The fifth story will include an ice dragon (who will share a special bond with our outcast hero, Sedrik Harlaw) and a court of trolls whose female ruler will force the mortal lad to marry her... Yet the fourth one will be the longest (with Renly and Elysenne fighting a war, the reveal of her true gender, the coming of victory and peace through alliances with both the Reach and Dorne, and a final battle, the marriage question, the engagement challenge, Renly falling for Elysenne, the test of courage and strength [facing off the fiercest warriors on Tarth], the two tests of wits [the gold, silver, and steel caskets containing pictures of the Princess of Dorne, the widowed Queen of the Reach, and Elysenne, respectively]; the two cups, one of them laced with poison], Elysenne's surrender, their wedding and their twins with different hair colour (Alyn Tarth and Argilac Durrandon, look like Kyle and Ken Katayanagi).


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