For the NFE Prompt

[rthstewart]

snacky  posted some great new prompts to get the quick fic juices flowing for the Narnia Fic Exchange.  For the prompts:  "Undercover mother" and "Every family has its secrets" I offer the following:

The Blitz ended and her children returned from Professor Kirke's home strangely altered.  Though she was too busy to pay it much mind before, now Mrs. Pevensie began to find the propaganda of the Ministry of the Information strangely ironic.
                         
Every family has its secrets of course, but it did seem that her children had a very great many of them and brought new meaning to the phrase, "The mother is always the last to know."  To that end, she, again found the exhortations of the Ministry of Information ironically applicable.  In the home of Undercover Mum, the walls did have ears, though the chilling stories her not so young children told were for hers alone.

Comments

[snacky]

Yay! What a great idea for the prompt! I love those posters!

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It's turning it all a bit upside down, but it was fun!

[wingedflight21.livejournal.com]

Mrs. Pevensieeeeeeeee. <3333333333
This is gorgeous! Undercover Mother!

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!!

[animus-wyrmis.livejournal.com]

I really like this with Mrs Pevensie. What a nightmare, having such traumatized kids!

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

I have a lot of fun with Mrs. P. She's really pretty awesome, if with a tendency to self pity. I'm starting to think that maybe I should do something with her for femgenficathon

[florentinequill.livejournal.com]

<3 Awesome. I can't wait to see more Mrs. Pevensie-children interaction in TSG series. The bits I've read so far in Apostolic Way are maddeningly tantalizing!

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

I'm waiting to get there too! With all the Harold and Morgan going on in my head right now, I've had something planned in about... 1947? and now I'm wondering if I should do it with Mrs. P instead. She can be a lot of fun to write.

[sedri.livejournal.com]

Seconding the above - your Mrs Pevensie is fascinating, and having had no idea these posters even existed, I find them chillingly appropriate.

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

The posters are from the Saint Andrews archive... I should add a credit, actually.
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~pv/pv/courses/posters/index.html

It's a course called "Weapons on the Wall." the WW2 propaganda posters are great -- US, UK, and Nazi (well not great but very interesting) and the racism in the US anti-Japanese ones are really chilling. I was just trying to find the ones for the Commonwealth nations, which were interesting because they showed men of color (Indians, Africans, etc) as part of the UK war effort. I saw at one about a bunch of US ones about prevention of STDs, which was a priority for some in the US command.

[jn208505.livejournal.com]

Really great!!

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[elouise82.livejournal.com]

Darn you, woman. I am in the midst of packing up my entire house. I do not need inspiration for a pre-children, pre-marriage Mrs Pevensie story bursting into my brain right now! Have you no compassion?

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Oh, then I won't mention that I updated, too, huh?

Good luck with the packing!!!

[elouise82.livejournal.com]

I'm promising myself a leisurely, enjoyable read of H&M once we are settled into our new place. Gotta have some reward for this miserable task!

[lady_songsmith]

OOh, I love the use of the propaganda posters!

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[belle-of-books.livejournal.com]

Oh! I love it! So good. Those posters are so right for that prompt. I love these types of stories...

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much!! I'm glad you enjoyed it. It was fun to do!

[harmony-lover.livejournal.com]

Fabulous! Prpoganda posters are so fascinating - there's some from WWI that I've used in research that are disturbing, to put it mildly. These are amazing, and I love the idea of Mrs. P reflecting on the changes in her children, via these gov't images. Thank you for the fic!

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Thank you! The posters are something -- the Americans ones and their characterizations of the Japanese are very distressing especially.

[harmony-lover.livejournal.com]

I remember that. The depictions of both Germans and Japanese get to be quite disturbing when they're examined through our current sensibilities. Some of the implications and slurs on posters from World War I are equally disturbing. On the other hand, when you think about the vilification of Islamic people in recent years, it's not hard to see that prejudice and war are still being used as convenient bedfellows. It's very sad. While these posters are fascinating as historical artifacts, it's dreadful that such wars don't seem to stay in the past.