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NFE Reveals

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.

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I am the greatest anon fail ever -- Actually, I did not think any of the stories were by you, so at least you had one reader convinced neither of those stories were yours. :-)

I did guess the authors of 2-3 stories correctly, but was wondering when your stuff will be up so I was very surprised to see the master list posted this morning!

(Also, I now take back my comment about you not writing the Kingmaking scene in the latter story's posting.)

I guessed you for the final story (although Chirpy Lucy seemed different enough from your Madcap Lucy that it did throw me a bit - I like both of them, BTW), but I would not have pegged you for Jess In Time.

I hope, next year, that my life will have calmed down enough that I can dare trust myself to sign up for the Fic Exchange. Both last year and this, I read through the stories, thinking how fun it would be to do one, but knowing that there is no way I could commit for it right now. Soon, hopefully, soon!

I guessed you on both of those -- the first for the extensive research, and the second for the capital letters, plus I doubted anyone else would quite dare to write the first meetings of the monarchs and their Guards. Of course, I have no room to talk... :-)

Thank you for writing and sharing such awesome stories!

Haha, yes! I haven't read everything yet, so I'm keeping away from the masterlist for the moment, but I called that you wrote the journal entries. Because they are so lovely and just... everything.

I hadn't picked Jess, but I had thought the last one was likely. I wasn't completely certain, because there are a few subtle differences to the voice in TSG, but it seemed fairly probable to me. That last one is superb - there is a lot of very, very powerful imagery, but what really struck me was the P/E conversation about going back or moving forward - reviews are owed, and will come (eventually), but it's a great story.

I figured out Jess half-way through reading. Then you said your second one was coming in the last give, but for some reason I got thrown because you kept referencing yourself in the references and you pushed a few boundaries where you normally would fade to black! I still owe feedback on that one, too (I got behind towards the end there). In short: I loved it!

You are sneaky! I didn't spend much time thinking about who wrote what, although I did peg

edenfalling and

bedlamsbard. I think I thought about you being Jess, because of the research, but the voice was so different! So, good job you!

I don't know if anyone identified mine, especially since I pinch-hit and nobody but Snacky knew for sure I was participating. *grins*

I kept reading Jess going, "this is the most rth-story of the fest, but..." The visuals were one thing, but I REALLY did not see you pulling off the slang & LJ-format. I was eyeing some of the folks I know do role-plays for the author.

ILNM, now, that one I DID peg as yours. And also I knew how long it took you to write. :)

It's funny, I didn't connect you to Jess until only a couple days ago when I thought, "Hm, maybe, despite the visuals..." SO much fun, and so many adorable details.

I've been slow getting through the fics so I haven't read your other one yet (nor the last third of the stories) but I am quite looking forward to it now!

Yay! As I noted in a direct message, I had you pegged for Jess, but not until a good halfway through the story, and even then I thought maybe the author was just someone you influenced...

...until the Last Battle and the reveal of the nature of Susan's argument with Peter and her feelings about the whole thing. It just so absolutely flowed from your foreshadowing in Apostolic Way and your general thematic direction that I was 99% certain it was you. Also, it was a much larger chunk in your more typical writing voice.

But whether this ends up being how it's handled in AW or not, thank you for providing such a beautifully realized disagreement, where it's truly a matter of perspective. Is Susan being the Foolish Faun who isn't taking the initiative that Aslan is asking for? Or is Peter being presumptive and trying to circumvent rules that, unlike so many silly societal boundaries broken in your other fic, were in place for very good reasons?

Also, great job making Jess irritating at first but wonderful in the end.

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

I loved every minute of both of your pieces. And I read ILNM twice. So far.

So is there an Edmund/Lucy version running around in that brain of yours?

Doctor Dolly

There's been far too much else to do over the last two weeks - I've hardly been online at all. I've got at least six or seven new updates from ff.net sitting in my alert mailbox, yours now probably being the eighth - I won't read it in a rush, though, I'll rather wait until I've got more time and can appreciate it. I've enjoyed the spoilers ...

It annoys me, though, that I cannot seem to remember which poem "I love not man the less but nature more" is quoted from. I should know it, but it escapes me.

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Jess's fic

The Revels and everything else

Revels....

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