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There's so much, where to begin? Well, it depends. Most of this is Narnia, though there are a few other things, too. To decide if you are interested in "Not My Children's Narnia" (I'm an adult writing mostly adult characters for mostly adult readers) try Under Cover, or the first three chapters of The Stone Gryphon, Part 1 (Oxfordshire 1942), and/or the first four chapters of By Royal Decree. If you don't like those, you probably won't like the rest of it.

Edit in March 2021 to add the following:
I'm not going to attempt to update this badly dated list. The best reading lists are on my AO3 series pages. The items below are useful, particularly for things that were never added to AO3 (and which I should probably get to at some point).

Archive of Complete and Work in Progress StoriesOn Fanfiction.net
On Archive of our Own

The Other Stuff
Liliandil and the Just King aka it's not all about you
Kwong Lee is a bad Buddhist
Lie Back and Think of Narnia -- Peridan, Flobber and meaning of the word "fark"
The Horse, his boy, the girl, her horse, the Rat and the Trickster stories are here and here
You need a wolf to run a mole to ground -- The Stone Gryphon AU
Morgan and Edmund On Two Hearts Day in the Lone Islands and Acceptance of the terms (after the departure of the Four)
Comment Fic, Give the Pevensies A Friend
More Comment Fic, including why Edmund and Leszi don't get along, why Morgan and Peter don't get along, and Jalur and the Cub.
And Then The World Blew Up (only here because really, how can you resist Sherlock Holmes, L.King's Mary Russell (no relation to Mary Anning Russell of TSG -- a coincidence), Ramses Emerson and Edmund Pevensie in Jerusalem in 1918? The F List and I couldn't and comment fic madness resulted. The only thing missing was Miles Vorkosigan and maybe his mother.)
Lots and lots of Alternate Universe Stone Gryphon stories (where everyone lives and nobody dies and there are adventures) are scattered all over this LJ and spread to others. The easiest way to find out about the camels in the Sahara, spies in Moscow, alligators, and Che Guevara is to go to the TSG AU tag
Eustace, Jill and Quebec
The Great Mother's Day Debate in which the Just King argues for posting Chapter 8 of By Royal Decree so that he can have sex and accuses Rthstewart of disrupting expectations because she's worried her children will grow up to be like him.
Food for Thought, in which I channel the mind and writing of a 16 year old girl who blogs about going through her Great Grandmother Susan's wardrobe.

Because people sometimes ask, On the Narnia side, you have, in chronological order:

The Palace Guard (chronologically first but written after By Royal Decree)
By Royal Decree and at AO3
Chapter 1 of It’s The Thought That Counts
Black as Rat and Crow
Harold and Morgan: Not A Romance (in progress, maybe)
Two Hearts Day (part of H&M: Not A Romance)
Acceptance of the Terms (part of H&M: Not A Romance)

Deny the Child (sequel to Acceptance of the Terms by the awesome Anastigmat)

I love not the man less but nature more the Great Bonding of The Monarchs To Narnia
comes first chronologically but I do not recommend reading it until you've been through at least the Narnia stories and probably Part 1 of TSG. And maybe not even then. It's not for everyone, though its assumptions are sprinkled throughout the overall story arc.

On the Spare Oom side you have, in chronological order,

The Stone Gryphon, Part 1, Oxfordshire 1942 and at AO3
Chapter 2, It’s The Thought That Counts
The Stone Gryphon, Part 2, The Queen Susan in Tashbaan and at AO3
The Stone Gryphon, Part 3, Apostolic Way
(up to Chapter 15)
Rat and Sword Go To War

I personally think that before you start Part 2 of The Queen Susan in Tashbaan, it's a good idea to skim By Royal Decree and Harold and Morgan (even though unfinished) because there’s a lot that happens there, especially in terms of Edmund’s story, that is relevant. The Palace Guard is relevant to the Good Beasts and other personalities who crop up throughout The Stone Gryphon. I don't have many true surprises but one of them is spoiled in Chapter 2 of the It's The Thought that Counts so you might want to read Chapter 14 of The Stone Gryphon, Part 1, Oxfordshire 1942 first.

Stories outside this (intended to be) cohesive vision are:

Under Cover and at AO3
The Maenad of the Maquis and at AO3
Follow The Star and at AO3

Oh My Gawd, it's sooo long, so here's a short cut

A Timeline of events in The Queen Susan in Tashbaan
Partial cast of characters through most of The Queen Susan in Tashbaan, including character key to the allegorical code used in the story.

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Thank you for writing it all out again. I hadn't realized how many pieces you actually post here, and it was so much fun to run back and read them all!

Always a pleasure, rth. I particularly like the OCs; they're like new friends in an old story.

Thanks! I put it all in one place for the Remix challenge. I do hope someone picks one of my mine.... I'd love to see another take on something I've done.

So you've finally succumbed to a master list! I've been pondering about doing the same for a while now (I have a copy with all the appropriate links saved on my desktop for months) but have yet to do so. It's rather scary to see how much one has written since they dove into the fandom, don't you think?

Scary indeed. I'm at my 2 year anniversary as Rthstewart in 2 days. I posted my first chapter of Part 1 on March 22, 2009. I think Chapter 1 got 1 review and I just looked -- I must have posted 3 chapters at once. You reviewed Chapter 3 on March 23, 2009. You, Ilysia, and Miniver were there from the very, very beginning.

I did this for the remix. Are you going to do it? Are you eligible in Narnia or another fandom?

Has it been two years? Really??

I've actually gone back to look over the reviews for TSG, and I realized the more chapters you posted, the longer (and more detailed) my reviews got. But I never really looked at the dates.

As for the remix, I qualify in two of the fandoms, maybe 3... but I'm going to pass. I haven't even looked at my fanfics in the past few weeks. Too busy cleaning and organizing! I'd call it Spring Cleaning but it's a long project I started right after the New Year. :-)

Hey, I'm suffering the signs of rth-withdrawal: hovering around your liveblog, checking FF.net, even looking through A2O3. Salivating, eyes rolling in my head... Well, maybe not those last. Eager for your next chapter, though!

I'm sorry! I've been working on more Harold and Morgan, actually, trying to fill in the gaps. There are many gaps. It's taking time, but there will be new content and old all smashed together to tell some greater part of the tale:

“Good morning, Mr. Hoberry,” Edmund called as the Faun entered the breakfast room – with an empty tray.

“Good morning, Sire,” Mr. Hoberry replied.

By the Lion, what was wrong with everyone? Mr. Hoberry knew he disliked that title.

The Faun began clearing the dishes.

“Did I miss breakfast?” Edmund asked, when it seemed that nothing was to be coming.

“You did, Sire.”

And with that extraordinary statement, Mr. Hoberry swept out of the room.

So, no Morgan, no security briefing, no breakfast, no morning correspondence, no proper title, and a Tiger so sour he would curdle milk.

Edmund dumped the rest of the sugar into his tea to make it more palatable. “Jalur, has there been some catastrophe that has befallen Narnia of which no one has informed me?”

“It depends upon the definition,” the Tiger said eventually.

“War, invasion, pestilence, earthquake, flood, fire, death?”

“No.”

“Then what is the nature of the catastrophe?”

Jalur remained sullenly silent.

Well, it was time to remedy the ever growing list of the Things That Seemed Very Wrong. He would begin with finding Morgan. And the first place to look for her was the Tower Library.

Ooooooo! Hurray! More Jalur! More of Morgan! Thank you for this little drop of fic, just enough to tide me over.

Why do I have the feeling Morgan is upset with Harold ? xD

Thank you for this little bit of pleasure :-D Now I am even more impatient, the wait is excruciating and delicious all at once !

Marie

Morgan is pissed, but really, it's her own fault. Their mutual failure to understand one another reaches an all time high.

I know you can't see it but I'm cuddling my laptop's screen. Or rather I was since I can't cuddle the screen and type out my comment at the same time.

Explanation so you're not backing away from the laptop-screen-cuddling crazy person xD I made the mistake of expecting a certain level of writing in my college fiction writing class, forgetting that most of the people haven't written fiction before. And I have to politely critique the stories despite wanting to curl up in a corner and cry or brain my classmates with basic grammar/spelling textbooks >.> Bad me I know. They can't improve without more experienced writers pointing out what could be done better but ARGH. So right now, seeing anything well written on my screen makes me happy and restores my faith in writing-humanity if that makes sense.

*cough* Right. So, reading your stories at any point in makes me want to heap tons of probably repetitive and unoriginal praise upon you but I'll skip that. I always enjoy getting the tidbits from the various stories you're working on since it keep me as a reader engaged and wondering what happens before/after/behind the scenes. I'm excited to see more of the Lone Islands arc once you conquer the dialogue and plot issues. I find strikethrough and whiting out text are wonderful tools that let me play with different outcomes of current plot strands without losing previous bits of writing in case the new bits don’t work and I end up going with my original ideas.

Sorry I haven't gotten back and responded to this lovely comment. I've been working very, very hard to beat Harold and Morgan in the Lone Islands into shape and at 15,000 words for this chapter, it's a slog. Thanks so much. The support means the world to me and I feel badly that I'm leaving readers hanging so much.

And you might think its repetitive and unoriginal, but feedback is enormously helpful to me. Over and over there are things that in the story, or things that are better in the story, because readers put them there.

Dear rthstewart !

During last week I have read all Your stories and I really, really love them. Those were first Narnian fic I have read, but I spend a lot of time in Harry Potter fandom, reading mostly long adult (not essentially with sex but with adult view of life ;-) ) stories.

In points:

- I especially liked seeing different genres in different stories (like in Vorkosigan Saga).

- Narnian parts were the most boring - everyone is nice, loves Aslan and nothing bad happens during those stories, because every little quarrel is immediately resolved. Lonely Islands and Washington were much better.

- I would like read Your timeline of Pevensies' stay in Narnia - how old are they when Edmund meets Morgan etc.

- I liked a realistic view of law, reading and writing it (although I haven't tried reading contracts aloud as an aphrodisiac). My favourite was Pierce acknowledging Edmund's skill in Narnian treaties.

I am waiting for the next parts !

hello Magdalaena and welcome! I am delighted to see another reader from Europe! I think I might have done a Narnian timeline -- I'm not sure and will have to look it up. Morgan appears in Year 10 approximately, so we will assume that Edmund is in his early 20's at the youngest -- between 21 and 23. I do assume that the Narnian days, weeks, and years are longer -- though I do not say how much longer. Do not be a stranger and I look forward to getting to know you! Thank you very much!

Well, I've been gone a while, and it's a very good thing you put all your fics in one place. It made it easier for me to catch up with everything I missed since... was it July ?

First, I'm sorry I disappeared like that, when I wanted very much to continue to support you. A lot happened IRL, and I distanced myself from Narnia for a while. I'm not going to describe my life in details (I just heard you think "Thank God !"), but I will say that I've been living in Toronto, Ontario, since July, and will be here at least until next summer. So, well, that was a pretty big change for me, as you can imagine. And I love it !

Anyway, I've read, I think, everything you wrote on Narnia since I was away. And I want to thank you again. For Harold and Morgan, for I still love them, for "Apostolic way", this story captivates me, for "Food for thought", a very unique way to write a fanfiction, wich I enjoyed very much, and learned a lot from, and everything you've added to your beautiful universe.

That's it, I think. No endless comment (for once), just : I'm back, and thank you so much, and please, please, please, more ! :-)

Marie

Welcome back Marie and thank you for stopping by and reading! I do hope all is well! Moves are very stressful!

Thanks so much for coming back and reading! I'm glad you are enjoying it! There's been lots of stuff all over the place -- the pic fic and the AU community and the comment fic which have spread over several journals and now on to Tumblr as well. it's such fun! Something I found when I responded to someone today after she responded to the Peter, Dalia, Caspian thing I just posted is how much I rely on the fic to get the conversation started. The fic provides the framework.

So, I'm glad you are enjoying it. I've hammering away at the next chapter of AW which is going in a character direction I had not anticipated. I like it very much but it's yet more going there.

So thank you and welcome back and I do hope life settles.

Oh, I forgot : it took me a while to understand that "Unquenchable Fire" was a cross-over. I just couldn't understand, at first, how on earth there could be dragons in England !

I'd never heard of "Temeraire" but I'm going to borrow it to the library (they have a truly wonderful system, here !) and I'll give it a try :-)

And haven't been a huge Narnia fan in a long time, but I just wanted to say that I really, really like the way you write Narnia!

I just started college, so I'm not going to be able to finish reading your fics for a long time - winter break, if I'm lucky - but I adore Palace Guard, By Royal Decree and I love not the man less but nature more. Narnia as you write it is full of both light-hearted silliness (especially the corsets and Edmund's issues with them!) and an undercurrent of deep, deep contemplativeness, and it's a fun combination to read. Here's hoping to come back and be able to comment about the rest of them at a later time- and about your non-Narnia stories as well!

Thanks so much! Good luck with school and the attempts of my critics notwithstanding, for the moment, I'm not going anywhere, so all the stuff will still be here! Thank you for reading!

I've been reading through your works on AO3 with much enjoyment. I really like the grown-up take on it all, from the Golden Age to back in Spare Oom to the AU future with them all living. I don't really see how you would fit your version of Susan with Lewis's exclusion of her in TLB but I prefer your version to Lewis's bloody annoying choice. When back in Spare Oom, your kings and queens are a bit too perfect and capable of doing everything, but at the same time I appreciate that is also a good development of them actually having lived an extra 15 years or so more than their seeming age.

Small quibble - there are a couple of written tics that you use that I don't think fit the typical British speech pattern entirely. You often say 'likely' where many British people would say 'probably' (eg 'likely for a long time' rather than 'probably for a long time'). Having said that, one of my work colleagues does that too so it is not unheard of by any means. Also overall I think the returned kings and queens are a bit too formal in their speech (though again I grant the effect of 15 years as a royal). Small Britpicking quibbles though!

Once again, many thanks! I am still working through the list so I have much enjoyment stil to come, I know.

Thanks so much. If you are so inclined, I'd love to hear how you found my work and what stories you've read. I really appreciate you taking the time to let me know you are reading and enjoying the stories.

Hmm, the point about Susan not fitting the books. My issue has always been Peter's condemnation that she's not a friend of Narnia -- a really beastly thing to say. The story has set up -- though now paused temporarily -- the roots of Susan's schism with Peter. Peter doesn't believe espionage is appropriate for the Gentle Queen, and especially, after the war to prevent the spread of the Iron Curtain. Peter's uncomfortable with gray and becomes rigid about it. Susan has hopelessly muddled Narnia with espionage and can't speak of it and Peter disapproves of this choice of hers. The others, Polly, Jill and Eustace, well, they don't know the truth at all.

Peter and Susan will ultimately disagree over the use of the rings -- already set up in two offshoots. I think that Peter and Susan have a genuine, fundamental, heartbreaking split along two seams -- whether dodgy acts in service to noble ends is a moral choice and whether acting is a lack of faith in Aslan or not acting makes you the Foolish Faun.

As for their perfection... hmmm. I see them all as pretty flawed, in specific ways. They are more mature, to be sure, but Peter's got a whole host of duty and commitment issues, a bit of latent sexism, and in these things, Mary, for all her irritation, sees him the most clearly. Susan can be very deceptive and passive aggressive. Edmund's emotional maturity has definitely reverted though he's beginnign to make progress where AW has been currently paused. And Lucy, oh never look before you leap, no moderation at all Lucy.

As for the language, yep, I can see how my lack of Brit picking would annoy. I've tried and over the years have gotten better at it but it will never read as British 1940s unfortunately. Thanks so much for coming by.

Sorry it's taken me a little while to get back. I've been on a bit of a fanfic tear for the past while; I'm keen on Anne McCaffrey/Pern but when I got through all the fics I was interested in I went further afield: from Dorothy L Sayers (whose books I love) to Arthur Ransome via crossovers (not really read any Swallows and Amazons but now feel I know the characters much more!). Then I think I perhaps found some Swallows and Amazons crossover with Narnia fic, and the rest is history...

Thanks for the further details on Susan. I had started to get an impression of what you outline above but of course not as strongly as you explain. It is really sad what C S Lewis did and I am really interested in the way you are untangling/tracing/explaining it in your own terms.

Yes, the Pevensies are flawed in character terms. But in terms of what they can and can't *do* they are almost perfect (Peter's difficulties with Dun Scotus aside).

I'm not saying the Britpick issues are annoying, though I do notice them. There's not many, but you write a huge amount so clearly I'll see them multiple times :-)

Anyway, more reading. I've just finished with Harold and Morgan getting together (apart from the epilogue with Ed Jr). snif, sob. The chapter with Morgan meeting Aslan made me laugh for sure, as well as think! You must have enjoyed writing that one.

For some reason I can't message you, but if you;re interested it's the three sentence ficathon this year over at caramelsilver's livejournal, and you give awesome prompts.

Um, why did you just give me access to protected posts?

I didn't! I grant access to everyone (Maybe if we know each other for another 10 years!) and have layers of additional filters for protected posts, real life stuff, people I know in real life, who have stayed at my house, we've been to Cons together, etc. For me "grants access" is my first layer for, basically anyone with a DW account. I can delete you if prefer. It's in no way intended to be reciprocal.

Nah, I'm good, I was just wondering if you clicked the wrong thing by mistake.

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