NFE Reveals

[rthstewart]

So, snacky and caramelsilver have run the best NFE ever, with terrific fic and wow, what a roller coaster.  The reveals and full story summary are up

I am the greatest anon fail ever, and I will post more later, but suffice to say:

I am jess_in_time and wrote Food for Thought which is written as a series of Live Journal entries, complete with attempts at teen slang and extensive visuals.

I also wrote the last story that went up yesterday, for anastigmatfic, I love not man the less but nature more. You can also read it here   I owe a huge number of thank yous and research notes and yeah, some meta too as this is the so-called "kingmaking" story and that I have been meaning to do for years.  It was a really personal and emotional thing for me to complete that story and enormous challenge.  More later on that.

There is lovely work here in the NFE.  Please go read and review the stories presented.  A special thanks to bedlamsbard for her story to me, Written in the Dust. LJ is also screwing with user names again. Every time I click on the edit button, it starts moving names around.

Comments

The Revels and everything else

[h-dash-h.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for giving us all the glimpse into the Bonding ceremonies and particularly Peter's participation in the Revels and Susan's romp with the Goddesses.

With Susan, such a lovely hint of sensuality when Lucy observes touches that she was fairly certain were considered improper in that other place. It matched so perfectly the point at which you'd established Susan- not wanting the Revels, *yet*. But realizing that she will want such things soon. And I love that she doesn't bother with the laces on the way back, showing that her feelings on such things have changed.

With Peter, such a great job showing his reluctance and confusion but also the determination to do right by his land and his subjects that is so fundamental to his character. Your description of his encounter with the hesitant Satyr was perfect, and really quite hot. Brief allusions sometimes work better than long, involved descriptions. And in particular, the last line describing Peter at the Revels was wonderfully evocative without getting too explicit. Not that I'd object to the porn-tastic version of that scene, but it would not have fit with the rest of the story at all. What you wrote did.

Other high points: Edmund understanding, in his intellectual way, that he and Lucy have become more comfortable, and Peter needs that acceptance that he can readily provide (and, due to the societal problems specific to male homosexuality, Susan and Lucy cannot).

Also, Lucy's thorough identification as a Narnian due to her young age. So much of her later character in your universe flows from her core personality being formed under Narnian rules. Edmund to some degree as well, but his intellectual nature causes him to internalize it differently (and great to see him and Lucy discuss that).

Well done!
-H

Re: The Revels and everything else

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Thank you and I appreciate you saw in these parts what I intended. I've written reams of navel-gazing on the subject of those final three challenges -- Smoke, Walk, and Revel. I don't think I'll post it - it's even more self-absorbed then Jess_in_Time is. The essence of the Revel was why I entered the fandom in 2008. And... just spent 15 minutes rambling and I'm cutting that too. As the story began to take shape over the last month, Snacky has been walking me through it and she knew the challenges I'd set for myself in writing it. She also saw sooner than I did what was happening. I don't personalize fic but that's what happened here. The story was a challenge for the Pevensies, but it was for me as well, and undertaken for similar reasons of love. In my case, though, it was a love of writing, the Narnia 'verse, the characters, the readers, and my recipient, Anastigmat.