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[be_themoon]

Apparently, when I have no school to do but yet need something to do - I do sort-of school anyways. In this case, research for a paper that might never get written, about the prevalence of children's stories in which at the end most/all of the protagonists either choose to leave or are forcibly kicked out of the fantasy land they have found. exhibit a, naturally, being Narnia. I even have a timeline now! For series, the date is the year of the first book's publishing.

1865 - Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. English, forcible eviction.
1900 - Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. American, chooses to return home.
1904 - Peter Pan (the play) by J. M. Barrie. English, chooses to return home. (The book adaptation was published 1911.)
1950 - Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis. English, forcible eviction.
1965 - The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper. English, forcible eviction.

Anyone know of other children's literature, at any point in time, in which the children find a different world and have to leave it at the end?

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[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

sometime this needs to be written, all these witches, with their stories about the boys who escaped and sometimes killed them, and their amusement at the futility of such acts. they always return.
THIS TOTALLY NEEDS TO BE WRITTEN.

Back when I was still in the process of falling in love with Z, this was one of the things that sealsed the deal. http://zempasuchil.livejournal.com/79383.html

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

I knew I loved Z for a reason! (a multitude of reasons, actually.)

I knowww! I would write it but I have apocabigbang and school starting up and.

... BAD LASS.

"Magic certainly loves it's kings," Jadis says, and Nimueh nods.

"They're just figureheads," she says. "They too are used and tossed aside, sacrificed for other ends." The Snow Queen says nothing, adjusting a figure in the equation she is always revising, searching for infinity.

"Still, it is a comfort to know that they didn't last," Jadis says, her lips stained with wine.

"Rex quondam, rexque futurus," Nimueh says. "They will return."

"And so will we." Their lips curve in knowing smiles, and the Snow Queen turns and accepts the glass of wine Nimueh offers her.

"To time," she says, and drains it dry.

[zempasuchil.livejournal.com]

(COMMENTSTALKING YOU GUYS = MY EGO ASPLODE. YOU GUYS YOU MAKE MY DAY OMG <333333)

also I love your cold queens story idea! and their kings are mere boys, too! Nimueh's got a real grown-up king, the others are apparently reckoning with some other force, the hand behind the figurehead, whatever it is.

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

I WANT THESE MAGICAL QUEENS TAKING OVER THE WORLD. Killing lions and shit. Wearing their manes for war trophies! Doesn't Camelot have a lion on its shield? It's perfect.