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Like with the last two weeks, I'm doing a discussion post!

Cousins, what sorts of characters do you most like seeing explored in Young Wizards fanworks?

(I have a particular fondness for sentient technology/vehicles, but much of the variation featured in the series delights me. There's lots of conversational potential - and that includes 'in conversation with the original text'!)

unfavorableinstigation

As a continuation of the last week's post, I've been working on a crossover concept for Young Wizards and my latest obsession, Kamen Rider Gotchard.

What's been on your minds lately, Cousins? Where have you been bringing things together that, to most people, would seem entirely separate?

(Only if you are comfortable sharing, of course. ^^; And just commenting on the triple drabble is fine, too.)

unfavorableinstigation

Dai, everyone! In light of

3weeks4dreamwidth's event, I'm sliding in here with a fanworks question for you all:

Promo Blurb for the event, for those interested

3weeks4dreamwidth is celebrating Dreamwidth's anniversary!
Come join in for fun, memes, activities, and more ♥

What's one Young Wizards crossover that brings you joy?

It can be a straightforwards 'characters meeting' deal, a fusion of two (or more!) different worlds, or simply thematic resonance.

I know a look at my AO3 list of YW works gives a good view on what crossovers I've liked in the past ~~plus my ongoing effort to invoke thematic crossovers with every DW RP game I've joined, not that that's particularly of interest to most people in this comm~~, but not all fun crossovers are embodied in fic!

So, Cousins, what crossovers have you enjoyed?

[If anyone is interested in making more posts because of the event, I'd be glad to see more posts! But even without that, I'll try and post here at least once per week for these three weeks.]

labellementeuse.livejournal.com

Can anyone remember in which book Tom or Carl says something along the lines of, "After all, most people think it's normal to have a nameless sorrow at the bottom of your heart"? I feel like it's Dilemma but I don't see it on a flickthrough.

( the reason why I want to know is spoilery for New Who through season 5 )

readingredhead.livejournal.com

I've known for a while that I'm largely the kind of reader (and student of literature) that I am because of writers like Diane Duane who showed me how magical plain old words can be. But explaining this to other people has always been a bit difficult...especially when those "other people" are the kinds of people who work in university English departments and Take Literature Seriously. I've always been frustrated by these people, for a number of reasons, but I am a grad student in English lit and I should be able to give them an argument on "their" terms about why books like So You Want to Be a Wizard are not just awesome, but integral to literature as a whole.

So, with a lot of this in mind, I ended up writing something like an informal analytical essay (but also like a celebration) about the power of words in So You Want to Be a Wizard, which you can find on my blog if you're interested. I've been piecing this together in my spare time for a while now, and I'd love to hear any thoughts that you might have on it.

labellementeuse.livejournal.com

Heads up: DD has commented in the most recent entry with a June 2000 date for SYWTBAW. HM OPINIONS.

labellementeuse.livejournal.com

DD posted about the New Millenium Editions that she's self-pubbing as ebooks. Go and read the post, but the bullet points are:

DD gets a lot of feedback from readers, which is reflected in sales, that the early four books are confusing, alienating, boring, or weird in their technology. "Readers" here means new readers, young readers, readers in the actual target market who are sort of essential.

She wants to fix those pesky timeline issues.

She wants to fix what she describes as "quality of writing issues", clunky bits, etc

If she does it herself and releases them now, she'll have solid new versions to give to the publishers if they ever do a reprint (possibly when #10 happens).

So?! What do we think? Shall we have a bitter old fan bitchfest?

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desrose.livejournal.com

Moderators, please feel free to delete this but...

Does anyone know where I can find a hardback copy of Deep Wizardry? (Not library-bound but hardback... hardback has a jacket, library-bound is just a book in hard form)

I swear I've looked all over the place! I've tried Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and Rare Books!

It's the only one missing in my collection. If you have any suggestions I'd greatly appreciate it.

Oh, and it has to be under $40. I'm afraid I'm on a limited budget as most out-of-schoolers tend to be.

Thanks so much!

EDIT: I also have a very very rare hardback copy (but not what I'm looking for) so if anyone is looking for collecting really really old (but in great shape) Diane Duane hardback, I have one!

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ana-banana27.livejournal.com

I've been lurking here for a long time and finally decided to make a LiveJournal and talk to some fellow Young Wizards fans. I have a sort of interesting story with how I met the Young Wizards series, so here it is: I've been reading the Young Wizards series since 2009. I was recommended this series in sixth grade when I took a reading quiz. When I told my friends that later on, they described it as "fate" or "destiny" for me to read the Young Wizards series. I picked up the first book the summer after sixth grade and instantly loved the book. But for some strange reason (that I still can't figure out today) I abandoned the first book. (Don't hate me! I was only eleven.) So I went into seventh grade and found the book (and the rest of the series) in the library, so on 9/11/09 (I figured out later on), I picked up the first book for the second time and read it. But this time, I kept on reading. :-)

So that was my story of how I met the Young Wizards series. I hope I didn't bore all of you with my story.

Was I supposed to tag this entry? As you can tell, I'm new to LiveJournal and here.

Thanks for reading and I'm hoping I revived this community a little too.

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labellementeuse.livejournal.com

So this is a really silly question, but stopping to ask it lets me procrastinate on my

wrisomifu obligations, so obviously I just can't resist. Is there canonical information on how Nita takes her coffee? If not, how do you think she (and everyone else) likes it?

We know that Harry and Carl both like it strong, and Tom likes it a bit more refined. That's the only canonical stuff I can think of (and I think they all like it black? Maybe Tom takes milk?) I feel like Nita probably takes milk (wait, Ameripick question: should I be saying creamer instead of milk?). Dairine likes it black because she likes to be, you know, tuff. Anyone else?

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kd7sov

Hello, all you lovelies. I just had a thought, and this seemed to be the place for it.

In SYWTBAW, when Nita is reading the Manual, there is special mention that "No one should take the Wizards' Oath who is not committed to making wizardry a lifelong pursuit. The energy invested in a beginning wizard is too precious to be thrown away. Yet there are no penalties for withdrawal from the Art, apart from the knowledge that the Universe will die a little faster because of energy lost…"

Somehow, something I hadn't fully realized before struck me: it's not getting the Manual that makes someone a wizard, it's taking the Oath. The candidate is given a choice, and if they do not take the Oath there is no loss. Now, obviously, most people would go for it, but what about those who don't?

I suspect that there are two possibilities. Either, like former wizards, they gradually forget what they know, or - more interestingly - they are in a unique position to know about and help wizards in more mundane ways. People like Millman, perhaps, although he could have a situation more like Carmela's.

Do any of you have thoughts on this matter?

borg-princess.livejournal.com

I've pretty much got Harry Potter on the brain 24/7, and then lately, I've been going through a few of the YW books in preparation for getting A Wizard of Mars this Friday for my birthday. *bounces* Both fandoms got jumbled in my head and I kept seeing similarities and the interesting differences in the ways the two authors handled different concepts and themes, and eventually, I had to put it all down in a word doc to exorcise it from my brain, lol, so I could function instead of endlessly pondering YW vs HP. Because fun as it is, so distracting!

I don't pretend to be objective in any way, this post is pretty much how I think Diane Duane rocks in so many ways that JKR fails to measure up to, and all the things I love about YW and how it's also dealt with in HP. My HP f-listers disagree with pretty much everything I wrote, lol, I'm curious to see if you guys would agree.

If you're interested in a discussion, take a look here at my journal.

espreite.livejournal.com

There's been an idea running around my head for a couple of weeks now that's given me some questions about how the Manual works in forms other than the book/technology forms that we mostly see it in the books. AWAB mentions how some wizards get the manual as a subconscious "knowledge" type thing, and have to memorize parts of it, but how do the wizards with oral Manuals start off?

Second, I know that the Speech registers as one's native language when spoken, but does this happen when the Speech is written? I think this may have been mentioned in Wizard's Holiday, but I can't remember.

And last thing: How exactly did wizardry work in premodern times with the smaller amount of scientific knowledge than we have today? I'm curious how much the Manual grows, if at all, with human knowledge. It may be that people in previous times just had a lot more to learn in basics from the Manual, but I have no idea, really.

Any thoughts on this stuff? Kind of theoretical, but I figured this was the best place to ask. :)

rare-fandom.livejournal.com

So according to the young wizards website and amazon.com, A Wizard of Mars is going to be released April 14th, 2010.

Now that we have a definite date, anybody want to throw out any predictions, hopes, fears, random comments?

pepperjackcandy.livejournal.com

I wonder what happened to the Alaalids during WaW. Like, did Druvah have a similar problem to the one that Tom experienced?

I hope that was unspoilery enough.

My brain tends to cast books without my active participation. I don't say, "I wonder who'd play . . .," I just sort of realize one day that whoever it is is the person I've been seeing in the role. I just realized today that Larisa Oleynik, circa 1994, is quite possibly who I've been seeing as Dairine.

And I've long known that Molly Hagan is who I see as the One's Champion (even when the One's Champion's supposed to be male). I'm working on a manip to that effect.

And I've been pondering the logistics of crossing over YW with Rick Riordan's Camp Half Blood series. I doubt you could make them the same timeline, since the cosmology is so radically different between the two, but with the Long Island thing and the blue food thing (plus certain similarities between certain fight scenes).

Maybe CHB is in a timeline where the Powers only ever had one identity on Earth? Like the Champion only ever was Athena. What the heck happened with the CHB Earth's Choice, though . . . .

readingredhead.livejournal.com

I just read this book for the first time after owning it for a couple of years, and as I'm in the habit of writing up my thoughts about books I read, I've posted some musings on my tumblr account. Figured I'd share and see if anyone else has something interesting to say about this book -- I don't hear much about it, but I really enjoyed it!

starlady38.livejournal.com

I finally got around to reading To Visit the Queen, and posted a few thoughts on it here. Does anyone know if

dduane has said anything about more Feline Wizards books?

pepperjackcandy.livejournal.com

Superman has a facility with language. He speaks all human languages fluently, and writes for a living.

He also has proven, at least once, that he is willing to die in the line of duty.

Magic is also one of his weaknesses.

So, if he had been offered the Oath as a (pre-)teenager, and had taken it, could he kick his own butt?

And would he be able to convince kryptonite not to hurt him?

And I still need a YW icon.

nakotaco.livejournal.com

So, a discussion topic for you guys:

I lent my copies of the first four books to my best friend recently, hoping to have someone irl to squee over them with. Turns out, she didn't like them, and when I asked her why, she said that she "Didn't like the message that children can and/or should play God."

Which was baffling to me, because not only is that something I've never ever thought of, when I did think about it... it seems to me to be the opposite of what she's doing.

I don't know if this is just because she's religious (Christian, specifically) and I'm not, but I do know I've never seen that idea suggested by anyone in fandom.

Input, guys? What do you think? Do the stories encourage children to "play God?" Discourage it? Not take a stance at all?

*pokes fandom, hopes for revival*

yukinoomoni.livejournal.com

I'm re-reading the series again (to my delight and in anticipation of the latest book out in Feb), and there's something I've come across that perhaps is my own misinterpretation.

In the first three books, Nita's father is called "Harry". However, in the fourth one, he's called "Ed".

Am I missing something?

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One more week, one more post!

Being the bridge you'd like to see in the world

Crossovers: Favorites, Thoughts, and Connections?

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Words as a Source of Power in So You Want to Be a Wizard

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The Rewrites!

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Hello! Intro post coming up!

Silly question

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Contrast and Comparison

Some theorizing on the Manual and the Speech

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Random Musings re: WaW, "Casting," and Crossover Possibilities

Stealing the Elf-King's Roses

Thinky thoughts on To Visit the Queen.

Not Really a Crossover Plotbunny, Just Something I've Been Wondering

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