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rthstewart ([personal profile] rthstewart) wrote2019-11-22 10:18 pm

Star Husband, Chapter 4, Further Up Further In, Part 1

Woops. I posted Chapter 4 of Star Husband. When we last left that story, Jill and Eustace, summoned by the High King, were haring back to England from Nova Scotia, with everyone having terrible dreams of the end of Narnnia.  The chapter was getting really long, so I decided to post the first half of it, which really annoyed some readers.  I find chapters in excess of 12K or so to be really hard on readers but wow seriously misjudged that.  Anyway, the final chapter should go up this weekend. 

The Star Husband (32543 words) by rthstewart
Chapters: 4/5
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Polly Plummer, Lucy Pevensie, Eustace Scrubb, Jill Pole, Digory Kirke, Peter Pevensie, Susan Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie
Additional Tags: Native American/First Nations Culture, The Problem of Susan, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Series: Part 9 of The Stone Gryphon
Summary:

There are two new tags, Problem of Susan and AU-Canon Divergence.  To explain just how much of a Problem of Susan it isn't, I went ahead and posted a number of excerpts from earlier stories where Susan (and Edmund, and Tebbitt and even Asim) all use Narnia as code for espionage. You can read excerpts to refresh if you interested at Not Just A Silly Children's Story. 

And so, this chapter finally brings me full circle to plot development 10  years in the making.  I posted the chapter Lion's Business in Part 1 where I created the Narnia as a "silly children's story" in April 2009.  So finally seeing those words come back, was actually pretty emotional for me.  I'm not sure it delivered.  Maybe the final chapter will do that.  Not sure.  Or maybe it's just too long and .... trails off to drown in ocean of self doubt.   

Anyway, long week, it's up, it's done and my thanks. 
 


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[personal profile] harmony_lover 2019-11-23 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my goodness. What a huge milestone for you! So impressive. I love every word of your universe that I have read, and I am grateful for all of the Narnia you brought back into my life with your wonderful stories. :) <3 Somewhere in here I will get back to reading and hopefully get back to some of my own Narnia fics!
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[personal profile] harmony_lover 2019-11-25 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
I hope you and your family do, too! *Hugs* <3
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[personal profile] brokenallbroken 2019-11-23 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
I hate that I can only push the kudos button once.
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[personal profile] yalumesse 2019-11-23 09:00 am (UTC)(link)
SAME
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[personal profile] yalumesse 2019-11-23 09:01 am (UTC)(link)
I read the chapter when you put it up but I had no idea it was such a full-circle moment for you. Congrats!
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[personal profile] yalumesse 2019-11-25 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you for continuing to write! I've never seen such long-term dedication to one fandom, and the quality of character complexity and histories that comes of it is amazing. I will love Morgan till the day I die and Queen Susan in Tashbaan is always a favourite re-read. <3

[personal profile] writerkit 2019-11-23 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay! I'm so pleased, and I love how *we* know immediately what's happening but everybody else gets it wrong because they don't quite know it. And the whole thing comes down to... for someone who's sleeping with *Mary* of all people Peter is really quite parochial; you just know Mary would be 100% behind what Susan's actually up to if she knew about it-- woman succeeding in male-dominated thingie! Heroic dashing adventures!

(Also you notice how it never occurs to Jill and Eustace to wonder *why* Susan needs a false identity card to go to parties with her boyfriend or why one that says she's *married* is letting her go around with her boyfriend, or where she got one that's really well made.)
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[personal profile] autumnia 2019-11-28 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugh, for some reason this post did not surface to the top of the page when I was skimming Dreamwidth the last week or so. No wonder I got so confused when you mentioned new fic elsewhere and I didn't see anything about it.

I think I need to start from the beginning as it looks different from the last time I read it. But yay, new fic for me to read then. :-) And 12K is nothing if one has time (or vacation days) to read it all in one go!
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[personal profile] autumnia 2019-11-29 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
Alrighty, I finally got through the entire story all over again and now I'm still trying to process it all. So this is your answer to the Problem of Susan, and I love it even though I hurt for Susan as we are seeing her through Eustace & Jill's POV and knowing they don't have the entire backstory as the reader does of why Susan is acting like this.

Ah Susan, I sooo feel for her here and of course she's right this time and Peter is wrong and still doesn't realize it until he ends up on the other side of the Stable Door. Everyone was wise to avoid whatever conversation Edmund wished to have with Peter about all that. I love that here, Polly, Scrubb and Pole get an explanation of why Susan denied Narnia.

Oh, and I'd love to see what happens when Edmund meets his son! Will we get that reunion at all? We saw him with Morgan and his Guards, hopefully, we'll get the Father and Son meeting soon too.

As for Eustace and Jill, oh Eustace -- he's still so oblivious and alluring at times but at least he confesses his feelings for Pole before they get aboard the train. I think everyone's seen where their relationship will go except for themselves. :-)

Oh, and I LOVE getting Jill and Eustace's POV here of Tebbitt. At least they had more of an open mind when first meeting him and he's certainly a charmer here!