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I completely forgot that What Abigail Did That Summer was coming out this month! This is what happens when I don’t write down everything in my day planner. Should have set an alarm for that. I probably won’t get around to reading it for a bit now. 

The small amount of research I wanted to do for the Babysitting fic is coming along nicely though. Except, I’m not sure what to do about names. Maybe I can get away with no names? That seems like a bad choice, Turnip. 

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I wish all writers who haven’t been able to write in a long time bc of depression a very I love u and I promise u will write again

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I really meant to have this be a more frequently updated blog, but life has been getting in my way. But, I did acquire paperbacks of all the novels so I can reread them and take notes now. I still need to get the graphic novels though.

Stories I’ve made outlines for and started, in order of how easy they will be to finish: 1. Short kidfic in which there is babysitting and singing - Nightingale’s POV 2. Silly and self indulgent, Peter Can’t Stay Out Of Fairyland - Peter POV 3. Nightingale’s romantic/sex life through the decades 4. More serious sequel to #2 focusing on Bev/Peter and the future, and where Nightingale fits in - Bev POV 5. What if Ettersburg went really bad in different way and Nightingale left the Folly? And Peter isn’t a cop? Meet cute that leads to intrigue and magical spies. Peter/Thomas. Requires so much research. - Peter POV 6. What if everything was all angst all the time? Nightingale has lived for a long time and seen a lot terrible things. Sometimes it’s hard to keep track of himself. Pretty dark, I’m not sure if this can actually go anywhere. - Nightingale POV

There’s another idea that I haven’t outlined, and will not be doing so. It’s basically me putting a few favorite tropes and kinks in a hand basket and then skipping merrily down the road to hell. That will stay safely in my head. (It would be a no magic AU, Peter POV)

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[Image description: two screenshots of Chris Fleming with subtitles, parts of which are blanked out and replaced with new words so that it reads “Okay, was anybody going to tell me that magic is real” on the first one, and “or was I just supposed to interview a ghost and find out myself”. End id.]

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I keep trying and failing to write a coherent post about Peter Grant’s mum and his relationship with his mum but there’s nothing I can say that isn’t just.  Look at this scene and see how in three paragraphs and a single line of dialogue we get both an understanding of who his mother is, at her core, and an understanding of what she made Peter into.

And then to follow this scene by Peter going to face down one of his biggest traumas simply because it has to be done? It might be just pms but I’m crying yall

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rivers of london fic where kim reynolds goes to philly to investigate rumors of a newly discovered genius loci and it’s gritty

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You know, if they get on with a RoL tv series anytime soon it’s possible that a show about a brilliant young black man who solves problems with science, his Nazi-tank-destroying boss, his second-generation immigrant local goddess girlfriend, his former political refugee Somali hijabi co-worker, and their other queer and non-white colleagues fighting a rich white prick who espouses white supremacy might be seen as slightly too on-the-nose for the current state of world affairs, but I think that’s exactly what we need right now. 

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Candid of PC Sahra Guleed at balls o'clock in the morning, mid January.

Photographed and archived by Peter Grant in 2014.

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I’ve been thinking and there seems to be several times where trauma seems to play a big role in humans being changed by magic in RoL, it seems important 

I’m wondering if this is going to be seriously explored in the book now that Peter is in therapy

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Watched Bridgerton, didn't really care for it, but now I have a new top contender for a Peter Grant fancast.

Meet Regé-Jean Page.

He's quite a bit hotter than I imagine Peter, but adaptations tend to add a few levels of hotness to the mains anyway, and I'm sure he can look suitably dorky in a hi-vis PC Plod jacket anyway.

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“his fist twisted and I felt the power as the smell of white willow and mown grass, as the sensation of rough wool and a young voice singing something choral - high and sweet. and behind it the impression that I stood amidst the precision gears of a vast clockwork orrery - smoothly and patiently reordering the cosmos to match its creator’s design. give him a place to stand, I thought, and I believe he could move the world. he certainly made short work of the wall.” 

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attempting to stand on the shoulders of giants and construct a workable floor plan of the folly…….

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Toby (the ghost hunting dog)

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I forget where exactly, and I can’t find it now, but Ben Aaronovitch said something about when he wrote Rivers of London he wanted to write something completely different from a TV show. This is hilarious to me because instead he wrote something that would adapt wonderfully to TV. Each book is a contained season with the beats for episodes. The characters would be great for it, defined with distinct personalities and traits that would contrast interestingly on screen. It would need special effects of course, but I can think of ways to make learning forma and sensing vestiges interesting for the screen. It wouldn’t translate exactly from the book, but that doesn’t need to happen. 

Just, I’m sorry sir but you failed and created something great for the screen.

(Please let me know if I’m misremembering what he said, or if you know where he said it.)

Edit: It looks actually it the idea may have roots in a tv idea after all http://temporarilysignificant.blogspot.com/2012/06/at-last-truth-where-story-really-starts.html?m=1

Thank you @ilikesallydonovan 

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Why I love Peter Grant

There are many wonderful texts on this topic doing the rounds, but I’d like to add one point of view I haven’t seen discussed:

The way Peter doesn’t ever question Molly and Foxglove not speaking.

I’m a sometimes nonverbal autistic person, and in Peter, I see someone who really respects the fact that not everyone will speak.

When Peter is captured and spends time together with Foxglove, he lets her tell her story even if it takes a huge amount of time. He lets her do things in her own pace, even if night falls while she’s telling the story and they must stop for sleep.

(Also: when they have escaped and Foxglove is fascinated by the everyday items at the corner shop, Peter gently guides her towards the matter at hand. Not ”don’t touch it” but ”let’s come back to this later”.)

Peter seems to have this wonderful attitude towards life that everyone he meets is a complete person and has the right to be met at their own terms. And I love him for that.

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I have vague thoughts about how Peter could  be viewed as a classical tragic hero, except hopefully with a happy ending. Might come back to this.