I am so looking forward to that Edmund scene! However long it takes to get there. One thing I love about Apostolic Way is the feeling of how much territory it has to work through. I also love that you're addressing the rather complicated question of how to relate to your parents as adults (with the additional twists of the children still appearing to be children). Their mother *not* being an idiot, not being in denial, and just trying to find a way to still relate to them. And them (particularly Peter) trying to find a way to find some sort of new balance. Hopefully he's noticed by now that Aslan did not pop up and swallow him (or Susan) whole for letting a little bit of Narnia out. Quite the contrary. Anyway, I'm looking forward to their father's eventual return and how he deals (or doesn't deal) with them as they are.
I did like Edmund's response back to his mother, it just didn't hit me so hard as the Journal entry (which I was very much not expecting). I'm quite glad that Evil Banker Morgan popped in, as she's come to occupy such a vital role.
To answer some of your questions:
I don't quite recall how I got into fanfiction. I know it was during a period when I was habitually depressed in my early-mid-20's. My main portal was the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Unconventional relationShipper's List web archive, which for quite some time during the run of the show and for a while after I checked regularly. But how I found that site I don't remember. I also know that I ran across fic while looking for info on X-Men after liking the movies but before I started buying the comics. And then at some point I got on LiveJournal (but even my not-under-my-own-name account is fairly easily connected to me, so I almost never comment on fic with it- perhaps I should add another account).
More recently I tend to check Twisting the Hellmouth semi-regularly for new fic. I love crossovers as a really well-done integration of worlds is always fun. While sick for several weeks back around November/December, I got bored enough to start poking around other fandoms that I had generally avoided in search of more fic. I read an enjoyable Buffy/Narnia crossover so I started looking around for that, and braving the enormous volume of fanfiction.net (which I usually only do if I've run out of more focused archives to check). I find Narnia fandom tricky because incest fic really does not do it for me, and it is so astonishingly prevalent. Although I do tend to like Problem of Susan fics, whether I like how the author solves the "problem" or not. But I set the ff.net filters for "completed" and "over some huge number of words" and TQSIT came up, looked fascinating, and required me to go read TSG part 1 first.
And I just loved it. More than anything else I'm a sucker for detailed, consistent character development, and whether you do it on purpose or not you're great at that. You worry about spending so much time on original characters, but they're great characters and they fit into your world equally as well as the canon characters. Maybe that fits with my love of crossovers- TSG is something of a crossover between canon Narnia and a historical fiction view of both our world and the Narnian golden age.
And as noted before, you're addressing themes that are relatively rarely handled in fanfiction, but are very much of interest to me. Every once in a while I run across a work of fiction (fan or otherwise) that really matches where I am and provides fodder for my own internal musings, and right now AW/H&M is one of those works.
Ever since then, especially once I realized that you actually do update and this is all not in immediate danger of dropping off, I've checked back regularly. I have commented at least once, and I think twice, before, but I can't recall exactly where. They were shorter comments, I think (but I did sign them as "H").
Enough rambling for now- I've hit the word length limit for comments anyway :-P At some point I'll have to comment more with the parts that wouldn't fit :-)
Re: Looking forward to more of any and all of your stories!
I did like Edmund's response back to his mother, it just didn't hit me so hard as the Journal entry (which I was very much not expecting). I'm quite glad that Evil Banker Morgan popped in, as she's come to occupy such a vital role.
To answer some of your questions:
I don't quite recall how I got into fanfiction. I know it was during a period when I was habitually depressed in my early-mid-20's. My main portal was the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Unconventional relationShipper's List web archive, which for quite some time during the run of the show and for a while after I checked regularly. But how I found that site I don't remember. I also know that I ran across fic while looking for info on X-Men after liking the movies but before I started buying the comics. And then at some point I got on LiveJournal (but even my not-under-my-own-name account is fairly easily connected to me, so I almost never comment on fic with it- perhaps I should add another account).
More recently I tend to check Twisting the Hellmouth semi-regularly for new fic. I love crossovers as a really well-done integration of worlds is always fun. While sick for several weeks back around November/December, I got bored enough to start poking around other fandoms that I had generally avoided in search of more fic. I read an enjoyable Buffy/Narnia crossover so I started looking around for that, and braving the enormous volume of fanfiction.net (which I usually only do if I've run out of more focused archives to check). I find Narnia fandom tricky because incest fic really does not do it for me, and it is so astonishingly prevalent. Although I do tend to like Problem of Susan fics, whether I like how the author solves the "problem" or not. But I set the ff.net filters for "completed" and "over some huge number of words" and TQSIT came up, looked fascinating, and required me to go read TSG part 1 first.
And I just loved it. More than anything else I'm a sucker for detailed, consistent character development, and whether you do it on purpose or not you're great at that. You worry about spending so much time on original characters, but they're great characters and they fit into your world equally as well as the canon characters. Maybe that fits with my love of crossovers- TSG is something of a crossover between canon Narnia and a historical fiction view of both our world and the Narnian golden age.
And as noted before, you're addressing themes that are relatively rarely handled in fanfiction, but are very much of interest to me. Every once in a while I run across a work of fiction (fan or otherwise) that really matches where I am and provides fodder for my own internal musings, and right now AW/H&M is one of those works.
Ever since then, especially once I realized that you actually do update and this is all not in immediate danger of dropping off, I've checked back regularly. I have commented at least once, and I think twice, before, but I can't recall exactly where. They were shorter comments, I think (but I did sign them as "H").
Enough rambling for now- I've hit the word length limit for comments anyway :-P At some point I'll have to comment more with the parts that wouldn't fit :-)
thanks,
-H