LINKDING

<blockquote>It has been years since Mr. Strange or Mr. Norrell have been seen in England, and the Learned Society of York Magicians has quite rebuilt itself. Miss Catherine Holloway sets off for her first experience of their meetings.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The last one won't shock you!</blockquote> ➤ a clickbait-style internet article in the future of the world of JS&MN!

<blockquote>The Guardian's cultural critic Leslie Shoemaker analyses the first few episodes of "The Revival of English Magic," a new BBC One television drama focusing on the life and times of esteemed magicians Jonathan Strange and Gilbert Norrell. Article originally published on Oct. 23, 2019.</blockquote>

<blockquote>York, 1997. A schoolteacher reads a peculiar essay on the history of Faerie.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"It is John Uskglass's magic that we do" if so, I want a refund.</blockquote> ➤ omg this is ridic and amazing and I love it and I cackled my way through it ➤ (futurefic about academics discussing the identity of the raven king plus the everlasting strangeite vs norrellite debate)

<blockquote>"If you do not return, so help me, Jonathan, I will come and I will find you. And I will bring you back myself."</blockquote>

<blockquote>"I was sold. Bargained away for the sake of a wicked man's career." Emma Pole, clawing at her chains.</blockquote>

➤ haven't seen the source material so I don't actually recognize any of the characters but it's excellent at doing atmosphere and feels like it fits the book pretty well so I enjoyed it anyway

<blockquote>While traveling in Faerie, Strange and Norrell encounter Henry Lascelles. He is half-conscious, ill, and murderous, and he has made a powerful enemy.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The arrival of the Misses Enderwhild in London caused a great stir in Society, for they were to be chaperoned by Mrs Arabella Strange.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Emma Pole has avoided sleep and magic as much as possible for many years. One night, she cannot hold them both back, and she finds herself reunited with an old acquaintance.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In the beginning, Lascelles would stride up to each challenger proudly, delivering his message with all the flair of a stage actor. But with enough repetition, anything can become a bore, even faerie duels.</blockquote> ➤ intriguing! I am curious about what will happen after the events of the story

<blockquote>Jonathan tries. Oh God, does he try.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"John Childermass!" said a voice behind him, very pleased, and Childermass turned to see the person he had met in the pub. He could still not make out whether they were a man or a woman, or their age, or indeed any feature of their face; but he could see, now, that they were wearing a long, long coat the color of moss. (Too like moss; he thought he saw insects crawling within the fabric.) In which there is a visit to Faerie, an unexpected reunion, and a bargain made.</blockquote> ➤ feels right, and does the raven king right, which is hard to do!

<blockquote>Years have passed since the events of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Strange's whereabouts are still unknown, and the Government has urgent need of him. Finding him falls to John Childermass who has Dark Forebodings of the complexity of the task. He is right, as usual.</blockquote> ➤ excellent pastiche of the style of narrative, and a well-written story.

<blockquote>The sand shall make a door for me and I shall pass through it. The stones shall make a ship for me and I shall travel upon it.</blockquote> ➤ what an unexpected and amazing crossover. I'm not sure I'm quite getting the ending, but the story is overall great

<blockquote>Welcome to The Great British Bake Off.</blockquote> ➤ I did not expect a modern AU involving baking to have this much in the way of Lady Pole feels

<blockquote>In which Jonathan Strange loses his voice while in Faerie, and complications ensue.</blockquote> ➤ this fic really gets the characters and their relationship, and the world of JS&MN in general

<blockquote>Just short of 1.5k of my Quatrevingt-treize/Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell crossover, which I brooded on for all two hours I couldn’t get to sleep last night and which seems to have sprung up full-grown when I did sleep.  You may perceive my idea of the history of French magic in this world is radically different to that of English magic; that is by design; I have lots of Arguments for this which I will be pleased to expound on to anyone who is curious, possibly through the writing of more fic. ANYWAY. YEAH. HERE GOES.</blockquote>

<blockquote>England’s first two magicians of the modern age are somewhere near Venice.</blockquote> ➤ great groundedness in setting, and great female oc. The one with the marcolina. And I really appreciate this bit of a look at non-english magic

<blockquote>In the aftermath of Strange's and Norrell's departure from England, who is entitled to be a magician?</blockquote> ➤ great concepts though the writing does not live up to the book

<blockquote>"A man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one." —Dr. Samuel Johnson Or: A very important fic about Childermass fighting with Drawlight and Lascelles over what waistcoat Mr. Norrell should wear to the ball.</blockquote>

<blockquote>it is ONE WEEK ‘TIL JONATHAN STRANGE ON THE BBC so have another inexplicable jonathan strange & mr norrell/les miserables crossover</blockquote> ➤ in which Cosette learned magic at the convent, yes good

<blockquote>A Les Miserables/Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell crossover. It's not only England that has rediscovered magic. Courfeyrac convinces his friends to look to a different kind of ally in their fight to free the French people-- and French magic.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Childermass and Vinculus met a Lady at the crossroads.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Let us take a moment to discuss French magic. For several centuries it was thought such a thing did not exist, but that was only because it is nearly invisible. French magic is in essence Parisian magic. Parisian magic is panache. What turns a gamin’s crust of bread into a feast? What makes the flower in a seamstress’s hair more radiant than the diamonds on a queen’s neck? What opens the locked door of a lady’s chamber to the gentleman thief? Magic, only, no one notices it. Paris looks at the exceptional, the superlative, the truly unusual and the genuinely supernatural, shrugs her shoulders and says “Yes – that’s me!” Only when the English magicians you have heard of became notorious did France lift its head to pay attention; and Bonaparte, though in every other way a genius, did not have any sense of magic. He had no use for anything that could not be known, and French magic is most of all in those four words: je ne sais quoi. That was in 1815. In 1831 France was in a prosaic mood with a prosaic king, and magic was being studied at the Ecole Polytechnique, which is to say, leaking out of the city. These are the circumstances in which Courfeyrac and Marius went to see Combeferre.</blockquote> ➤ somewhat uneven but on the whole delightful

<blockquote>When the Raven King was six or seven, he was left in a small dark house in Faerie for about a year.</blockquote>

<blockquote>To the city of York, in the year of our Lord 1780, there came a young man who had fallen upon hard times.</blockquote> ➤ or, how Childermass came to work for Norrell. ➤ An interesting story, and somewhat unsettling and stick-in-your-head in the way that any good fic about the magic of JS&MN ought to. ➤ It's -- oh, I'm describing it wrong. But this fic is extremely effective at feeling utterly like a part of the world of JS&MN.

<blockquote>Martin Pale, last of the Aureate magicians, was traveling in Faerie when he met a child who had been abducted from England over two hundred years earlier. This is what happened afterward.</blockquote>

➤ Sam tries to figure out how to save Dean from hell using the book Life of Jonathan Strange, amazing depiction of everything