#strange and norrell

[setaripendragon]

WIP Game

No one tagged me, I tagged myself in because I want to and you can't stop me =P And I'm tagging everyone who sees this that writes! Do it! Dooo iiit!

Rules: In a new post, list the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it. And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

I don't actually have a WIP folder, I have WIP folders, plural. So, I'm adding a rule that I can't have posted any of the fic online anywhere for it to qualify, and I also have to have worked on it some time in the last... four years?

Let's see if that keeps me below the 50 fics mark (place your bets now)...

A Song of Ice and Fire

Codywan In Westeros

King Eddard Stark

Time-travel TyrionSansa

Pevensie Starks

Cat SI

Assassins Creed

Desmond's PLP

Desmond meets Darcy

ATLA

The Lost Nomads

Ursakoda Canon Crossover

Charmed

Phole Time Travel

Dimension Hopping Chris and Wyatt

Gramarye Book 2

Critical Role

Molly Lives... In Caleb's Head

Molly Does a Time Travel

The Patchwork Bower

Slave AU

OT3 Does a Time Travel

FullMetal Alchemist

Time Travel Outsider PoV

What Is Remembered Forever

RoyEd Adopts Harry Potter

Ed Gets Time Swapped

Wei Wuxian as a RoyEd Baby

A Body for a Body

Psychic Wolves AU

RoyEd Time Travel

RoyEd Arranged Marriage

Rise of the Guardians

Hold Out Your Hand Sequel

Everyone Loves Pitch

The Journal of General Kozmotis Pitchiner

Kingsman

Time Travelling Eggsy

The King's Whores

Chavs and Gentlemen

Kingsman's Wolves

Lord of the Rings

Durincest Polyamory

On the Hunt

Sam Time Travel Adventure

Courting Fate

Seven Ladies Time Travel Epic

Gimli As Celebrimbor Reincarnation

Thilbo Reincarnation

Polyamorous Hobbits

Marvel

Three for a Marriage Four for a Birth

Soulmarks Book 3: Our Song

Heterodyne Legacy #2

One Piece

Secret Marriage

StrawHat Time Travel

Trans Sanji

Who Are You

Peaky Blinders

Time Travel

Soulmate Colours

Heart of Birmingham

Self Insert AU

Pride and Prejudice

A Better Timeline

Sherlock Holmes (Elementary)

Friends in Low Places

Skyfall (James Bond)

Calendar Novel: Time-travelling Q

Harry Potter Crossover

JAQ Polyamory Negotiations

Q Has a Symbiote

Fathers and Daughters

Star Wars

Obi-wan is a Slut

Firefly Crossover

Egg-preg Drabbles

CodyMace Time Travel

404 Battalion Not Found

ABO GAR

Aitash Tu Akos

Release My Soul

Strange and Norrell

All Other Wives

Miss Jennifer Strange

ArabellaChildermassSegundus Time Travel

SI: Childermass Family Drabbles

Supernatural

DeanHotch

GabrielJess

How to Make a Baby with an Angel

Atlantis Sideplot: Princess Mia

Wayward Hunters: Where Are the Winchesters

Time Travel Wish Fulfillment

Rising Star #2

Teen Wolf

Noah and the Tattoos

The Blue People Movie (Avatar)

Tsu'tey's Twins

Time Travel Fix It

The Untamed (MDZS)

In Memoriam

WangNingXian Reincarnation

Ed as Zangse Sanren

Zangse and Changze Save the Day

WangXian Reborn as RuoShan

The Witcher

River God and the Sorceress

Curse of the Black Sun

VesiJask: The Sacking of Kaer Morhen

Torchwood

Old Guard Ianto

Aaand the total comes to 90! At least it's less than a 100... And that's just the stuff I've worked on recently! (Yes, four years is recent. I have fics I haven't actually touched in 6+ years that are still marinating in my brain, waiting for the pieces to fall into place) If you've trawled through all of those to get here, you've got more stamina than I do!

Please ask about anything that piques your interest! I'd love to talk about some of these, see if it gets the creative juices flowing. (Also feel free to ask about any of the WIPs I have posted on here or Ao3!)

[mr-craig]

An interesting easter egg from The Church on Ruby Road: The book on Cherry's bedside table is Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, a book about magic returning to England. After the salt thing from Wild Blue Yonder, the Toymaker's return in The Giggle, and now goblins in The Church on Ruby Road, it looks like a recurring theme in these new episodes is... the return of magic to the Universe. 🤔

[thinkanamelater]

Alternate title for JS&MN. Trust me I am friends with Susanna Clarke

Edit: now with a sequel

[recycledmoviecostumes]

Costume designer Annie Hardinge likely created this sweet little gown for the 2013 movie Austenland, where the piece made its debut on Keri Russell as Jane Hayes. It went on to be reused in the 2015 television mini-series Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, where Lucinda Dryzek’s Flora Greysteel considered it while holding it up to herself in front of a mirror. Suki Waterhouse wore it the following year to portray Kitty Bennet in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, though it can best be viewed in a deleted scene. The gown also had the distinction of being used in both the 2019 short version and the 2022 film version of Mr. Malcolm’s List, first by Olivia Caley as Lucy and later by an extra. It was used again on extras in the 2020 first episode of Belgravia, as well as the 2022 second season of Sanditon.

Costume Credit: Anne81, bellcs, Chai tea latte

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[katabay]

jonathan strange and mr norrell is hands down one of my favorite shows, but a little while ago I realized. that I’ve never actually. read the book.

like I loved the show so much I am absolutely fucking baffled that I never once thought ‘oh let’s check it out from the library and have a good time part 2’

& something about the weather lately (extremely windy) brought it to mind, so I checked it out from the library and I’m having a great time reading it so far 🥳

⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app / tip jar!

[shadesofbrixton]

Streaming Content for Cult Fandom

So I went poking around trying to find a free streaming source for Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and stumbled on this YouTube account of a guy named Owen Davies who is remastering some series that are difficult to find streaming these days. His mission is charming:

Somehow, my channel seems to have turned into a project to remaster and preserve pre-HD media (films, TV shows, miniseries, etc.). I hope you enjoy what's here. [...] I don't monetise my channel or any of its content. It wouldn't be right to do so, since most of it is original work by industry professionals that I've just attempted to clean up and polish with a modern HD/4K shine. YouTube is my hobby, not my source of income. If you run across any ads on my content, I assure you they've been put in place by the legal rights holders in order to gather revenue - which is what allows me to legally make most of this content public :^)

If you need a free, easy way to stream the following shows, he has them in lovely organized playlists ready to go:

Stephen King's Rose Red (2002)

The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells (2016)

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2015)

The 10th Kingdom (2000)

Dead Like Me (2003)

Farscape (1999)

Merlin (1998)

Jim Henson's The Storyteller (1988)

Roar (1997)

...and lots more! A lot of "cult" TV content that has been kicked to the curb by its original streaming providers, or is only available in specific countries. In an age when digital content is just disappearing because CEOs consider it too expensive to bother retaining, it's really cool to see someone doing restoration work that also makes things available to the public for free.

ETA: I know there's debate around losing the "grittiness" of old media and whether 4k restoration removes that magic. I get that debate! For me, this is more about preserving content that is disappearing/hard to access. Okay, enjoy the show!

[fluentisonus]

also I like how in the end none of the really profound or important or anticipated things happen to strange or norrell, even when they're doing the magic for them -- the raven king doesn't appear to them, he appears to childermass and vinculus; the power in the landscape returns and it doesn't come to their aid, it goes to stephen black -- that strange & norrell, the ones who've spent the whole book as the faces of english magic in the most important london circles, don't see any of it; and when the Magic with a capital M does come there it's there for childermass, who spends the whole book working for norrell with no acknowledgement, or vinculus, a magician no one believes, or for stephen black, who's been consistenly alienated & overlooked within the main story to the point that few of the main characters even remember him, and it comes to them in the most ordinary and lonely parts of yorkshire, away from great houses & from london, all while the titular characters sit in a library thinking their spells haven't worked, is just so satisfying somehow

[occasional-owl]

[robertaramayo]

PERIOD DRAMA APPRECIATION WEEK | Favorite adaptation |Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2015)

Two magicians shall appear in England... The first shall fear me; the second shall long to behold me; The first shall be governed by thieves and murderers; the second shall conspire at his own destruction; The first shall bury his heart in a dark wood beneath the snow, yet still feel its ache; The second shall see his dearest possession in his enemy's hand...

[setaripendragon]

For those unfamiliar with the wonderful world of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, a mossoak is a fairy creature made out of a log of wood pulled out of a bog and enchanted to resemble Jonathan Strange's wife (in order to trick him into giving his real wife to the fairy). Of course, because she's stolen someone else's identity, she doesn't have a name of her own. I'm writing a story where she gets one, but I can't decide which one.

All names were picked from the most contemporary 'baby name book' I could find (which was, admittedly, 1860s instead of 1810s, but then, there weren't name collections like that before then, so I think it can be forgiven).

Reasoning and meanings under the read more so that you can pick a name just by how it sounds if you want, but if you're like me and think way too hard about this sort of thing, you can take a peek first and then make your choice.

Amaranth - 'unfading flower' obviously a nice uplifting plant-related name. It's also entirely possible that the mossoak is immortal for as long as the bargain remains unmade, so it felt appropriate.

Diarma - feminine form of Diarmid; 'oak-father' literally one of only two names in the book that had anything to do with oak trees.

Melanthusa - 'dark flower' given that something of a big deal is made of her wearing black when Jonathan so hates to see his wife in black, this felt appropriate.

Minna - 'born in memory' given that the mossoak was 'born' from Arabella's tears this felt particularly poignant.

Petala - 'a young leaf' figurative for a young girl or maiden. I like the poetry of it, and it also makes reference to the fact that the mossoak, despite being technically very old, is very very young when it comes to this being human business.

Scione - 'one who lives in the shade' this has a very nature-y vibe, but also, the mossoak is very much living in the shadow of another, and it gave me very bittersweet feels.

Sylvia - 'from a forest', which doesn't need much explanation, I don't think, but it also means 'strange', which is both funny and also poignant, because she is a bit alien to everything human.

Thalia - 'flourishing', a wish for the future in terms a tree would understand? I just really like the name and the meaning seemed to fit.

Zillah - 'shadow' in the sense of shelter and protection from the sun, which is appropriate both in the sense of her once having been a tree, but also, again, in the sene of her being a shadow or echo of Arabella, and also, perhaps, of needing protection.

[goavajuice]

Tbr stack :)

[thinkanamelater]

I made a text post similar to this before but the thought just keeps popping up in my mind

[derangedrhythms]

It was a beautiful shade of blue, but then again not exactly blue, it was more like lilac. But then again, not exactly lilac either, since it had a tinge of grey in it. To be more precise, it was the colour of heartache. 

Susanna Clarke, from ‘Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell’

[the-huldra-king]

thought of this in the shower and couldnt do anything else until i made this

[puddinginthemix]

Two-thirds through a re-read of Piranesi, driving in the evening, and having that experience that can happen to you while reading a Susanna Clarke novel: the clouds look more cloud-y. The rain looks more rain-like. A flock of birds wheeling through a grey sky makes your breath catch. The writing appears on the world.

[pangur-and-grim]

how do people place book illustrations for chapter books 😳 is it usually at the end of the chapter, or just randomly wherever?