rthstewart | 10,000 words of fluff

*applauds*

I can't resist: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m15vt83CDa1r7fkeeo1_400.gif

I love you. Really. Even if you have no idea what I've written and why it is fluffy. Really. HILARIOUS.

<3 I aim to please. :)

Rth appears to have lured my husband over to the dark side. Not sure how that happened.

Loved Narnia's heartbeat. And yay for fluff. It's cold, grey and wet here, and I felt very much in the mood for cocoa and fluff.

As I just informed your spouse, my own spouse has no idea I've written 1.5 million words of fiction over the last nearly 20 years. That bit about hiding fandom in the underwear drawer is not a joke. That's where he found my Star Wars Radio Drama.

And thank you for reading and reviewing. I really appreciate it. It is so fluffy but I know that we needed to read something of the good times that the widower remembers in AW.

Errrr.... my own long suffering spouse has no idea that I've written 1.5 million words of fan fic.

Thank you.

You should write fluff more often VBEG

The relief of being in Narnia is clear, the Narnias acceptance of Narnia is better stll, and Aslan is really real, and really there. What else could you want?

doctor dolly

What else could you want? Booze? Chocolate? A foot massage? A LOTTO win?

Fluff. Oh gawd I wrote FLUFF. Seriously, it was everyone commenting over here that we really needed to see some of the happy that got me here so thank you, to you and everyone else.

Ermm - your idea of fluff has an awful lot of ants, worms and grubs in it. I'm now trying very hard not to picture a Narnian lottery jackpot.

Would you like your ten million slugs all at once, or spread over twenty years?

Edited 2012-06-11 09:56 (UTC)

Oh, *THIS*. And the fluff is adorable too. Not cotton candy sickly, just enjoyable.

I may have just spit up my morning coffee on to the keyboard. And a Leopard looking at the offering and snarling, "I don't eat grubs" in the way that Dracula says, "I don't drink wine." Maybe they have separate lotteries ... one for the grazers (back up the hay wagon to the pasture, please), one for insectivores (ten million slugs over 20 years (my lifespan is only 5 years you dolt), and carnivores (one dumb cow or llama a month)....

Oh, yes, you definitely need categories:-) What are they using the lottery to raise funds for? (assuming it's a British-style state lottery, that is)

I don't know, I kinda liked Morgan and Edmund at a Revel...

You can purge all side effects of penning fluff.

doctor dolly

This was just what I needed today. I like Aslan meeting Morgan and all the Narnians bringing gifts to Morgan.

Thanks for writing!

You are welcome! Thank you for reading so much!

And it is such lovely, lovely fluff!

Well, no worldbuilding, politics, smut, brother bonding, kinks, angst or anything else that makes for compelling reading. just the sort of fluff that gets in your eyes and nose.

As I just said in my ff comment - it's fluffy, but not sickeningly so. Just suitably fluffy. And lovely.

That comment is based on my favorite quotes from this chapter - those that are short enough to use as quotes :-)

Edited 2012-06-10 20:59 (UTC)

Thanks so much! I'm glad you liked the heartbeat. That was something where back in I love not man the less, during the riddling, it's actually Edmund who feels the magic first in the wood where the meet the salamander. It comes up from the ground and my thinking is that as Morgan becomes more Narnian, she begins to feel it more herself. I brought a lot of that story here, though it's a different spin. I'm still working out the relevance of that bonding and Frank and Helen's oath to what is going on here between Edmund and Morgan because DUH the oath taken includes children and grandchildren so it's the BIG THING IN THE ROOM and they've not discussed it yet. Some of that is coming in the next chapter. And Morgan has seen the book in the library discussing the bonding and she's curious about it and may be motivated to do something about some of it.

YAY FLUFF!!! Just what they needed. And everything about Morgan meeting Aslan was perfect (including Edmund freaking out and Aslan disapproving of that). I've been stuck in bed with a horrible cold for a week and this was a lovely bit of reading to have :-D

Well thank you. you were one of the major proponents for arguing that we really needed to see some of the good times and happiness between them that causes Edmund to remember this relationship so fondly in AW. To be grieving, even in the quiet way he does, there needs to be something to grieve. So, this whole part of the arc is there because you and a few others said it needed to be there. I would have otherwise just picked it up one way or another in Cair Paravel and, as so often happens, readers make this better. (Longer, but oh well. We're on a journey together).

I just wrote above that I pulled a lot of I love not man the less in to this chapter, obviously. It's a different sort of bonding but there are parallels and I'm still sorting out how Edmund and Morgan react to that. I want to pull some of that in without in anyway diminishing the Monarch's bonding of Susan and Peter -- Morgan is not a monarch and never will be, but I could see her being very curious about the rituals and trying on her own to accomplish some version of some of them. The ritual death (in the water) and the giving of the blood (the walk with the goddesses), the Revel and the smoke are the ones that I'm especially toying with. Morgan has a real intellectual curiosity and a commitment to Narnia and that could lead her to do more.

I liked the fluff. It wasn't overly fluffy and I enjoyed reading and seeing the happiness of the Narnians as they returned home. I think it's kind of fitting for the warm summery nights we are currently having -- it's like one big awesome campfire party. :-)

A campfire party with campfire songs! Which is where I got some of them, actually!

Thank you!

It's glorious fluff! Thank you so much.
There's so much to enjoy in this chapter. Just that little scene between Morgan and Edmund in the stable, where he asks her to fasten his buckles. And Morgan aware of Edmund's well used sword and she realises that yes, he has had to use it to kill. Then Morgan choosing to meet Seth because she wants to try to grow in compassion. So much in one scene.

I also really like seeing Edmund's delight in returning to Narnia. In fact seeing Edmund's joy in just ambling round The Narnian wilds with no real duties, just meeting his subjects and introducing Morgan, reconnecting with the magic at it's heart, is wonderful. Since we usually see Edmund in some office or at best somewhere around the palace, seeing him in the wilds is a refreshing change.

Then there is the humour: Aslan's deadpan joke, Edmund's mortification at the less than perfect introduction of Morgan to Aslan. And I love it that Edmund is still trying to impress Morgan with his martial prowess. Maybe a big sword thingy will do the trick! I would love to hear Sir Leszi's comments when Edmund first shows up at the training ground with his new claymore.

By the way, if Edmund doesn't want Peter on his new handball court, who is he intending to play with? The centaurs? Sir Leszi?

Once again, thanks for a delightful read.

ClaireI

I think Lucy would LOVE handball and she's way better at it than Edmund or Peter.

I'm fond of the stable scene myself, for various reasons. E pointed out that Morgan's awareness that Edmund had killed is something that will come back when her own son is in line. Her first real experience with it, I think, is the siege of Archenland and I've had in my head a number of ways that plays out with Susan and Morgan waiting behind at Cair Paravel while Edmund and Lucy ride off and Peter at the northern border when Leszi dies. That's going to be hard for her.

And as Leszi played a role in the courtship way back when by continually sending flowers to Morgan's rooms that she was allergic to, I suspect he'll probably surprisingly accommodating of Edmund's attempts. Like all of the scheming Narnians, he doesn't want their best chance for a succession damaged.

Thanks so much. I really appreciate hearing from you.

Ah I cant stop smiling after reading this chapter! Loved it.

Louise :-)

Thank you! I so appreciate it! It is wonderful to know you are reading and that you enjoyed it!

Don't doubt yourself, Ruth. You have just made my heart easier after a long day filled with grief and loss. Thank you for that gift.
~Syrena

Syrena, I am very sorry for a day of grief and loss. I can well imagine what might trigger such a thing. May you be comforted.

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Wonderful fluff!

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