Oh goddess it's a HUGE birthday -- no really --

[rthstewart]

I reposted this from Twitter so apologies if you see it there or on Tumblr but I'm kinda all over the place.  Very much at sixes and sevens as this monstrous birthday has me in real disarray. I’ll be in a better place for a thrilling Event later in the month!
But for now, welp, anyone follows me here knows me through fandom going back to mid-90s and especially fanfic (approx 2 mil words over 27 years)  and/or the 3 sentence ficathon. 
To mark this horrific milestone, if you’re so inclined, I’d love to hear from you, somewhere, anywhere, about something I wrote, did, said, or sponsored that you liked, remember, or that helped. I'm rthstewart everywhere. 

If you see me, you can also lie and tell me I don't look a day over 50.  Or 55.  56.  ...

Comments

[brokenallbroken]

Happy birthday, rth!

The Stone Gryphon got me back into Narnia fandom long after I thought I had outgrown it along with the vague cultural Christianity in which I was raised. As someone whose godbothering only includes Jesus as a swear word, I thought there was no room for me in his fursona's fandom, especially once I started to understand what Lewis was really saying and doing in TLB. Your approach to the Pevensies, their faith, their adulthood, and Everybody Lives Nobody Dies showed me I was wrong about much of that. So thank you for giving me a door back into something I had enjoyed so much as a child.

(incidentally, my grandmother's maiden name was Stewart. While I doubt we're related, it's always a nice moment of feeling "aaayyyy, I'm not the only one" when I see your name)

[rthstewart]

Good goddess, we could be related. My own grandmother's maiden name was also Stewart, on my mother's side. This is the Stewarts of Kentucky family -- Knott County-- deep Appalachia folk. Albert Stewart, the Appalachian poet, is in the family tree. I didn't know anything about them until the mid-90s. I'd assumed that side of the family spontaneously appeared in Detroit in WW2 but the Stewart family's roots are deep in that part of the US.

And thank you. I so appreciate you saying that my Narnia work was interesting and useful for you. I'm deeply grateful for your support and friendship.

[brokenallbroken]

I'm not sure how long we were in northern Wisconsin. From WWI, at least. Grandma never talked about her own grandparents. (not sure if she knew them, TBH)

I'm glad the crazies didn't drive you out of the fandom. Every new tidbit and chapter is a delight.