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Sunday, September 20th, 2020 07:31 pm
The Narnia Fic Exchange Reveals are up! There are some astoundingly good stories, as always. I feel badly doing recs because they are all so good. But there are a number of stories without a lot of love so do go check them out. Everyone I wrote for has left reviews for this exchange, unlike my AU Exchange story, so that's pretty annoying.

But yes, I wrote A LOT -- 5 stories altogether. I have different things to say about different stories and I think I'll do that in separate posts.
Oh god, I just realized I actually did 6 stories, not 5. I'm such a horrific loser.

I did two for Fictionpenned who also wrote the lovely Some Light Mischief for me!

Resting Capybara Face (A Narnian Fur Pas) (2239 words) by rthstewart
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Lucy Pevensie, Susan Pevensie, Peter Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie
Additional Tags: Family, Golden Age (Narnia), Treat, Tournaments & Court Events (Golden Age), Talking Animals
Summary:The visit started out well enough. None of the Hounds mentioned that any lady was having a puppy. But as the Horses would say, it was all uphill from there.

And a Lucy Pevensie + Arya Stark crossover, Lion and Wolf
Lion and Wolf (7467 words) by rthstewart
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia - All Media Types, Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Lucy Pevensie, Arya Stark
Additional Tags: Crossover, Alternate Universe, Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, Family, Golden Age (Narnia), Talking Animals
Summary: "Not all gold lions on red are our enemies, Arya. Do give them a chance. I would prefer allies, not adversaries.” Then Bran went even more vacant and dreamy. “And see if you can prevail upon a raven to return with you. I would like to speak with one.”

Arya isn't in the Seven Hells if hell is nice weather, calm sea, and good fishing, but she's not in Westeros, either.

Both came very easily to me and I really enjoyed writing them, with the Capybara story coming together in about 3 hours after my computer crashed a few hours before the deadline.

Four Times Peggy and Susan Did Not Shoot Things (and the one time they did) (11137 words) by rthstewart
for long time reader guardyangel
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia - All Media Types, Agent Carter (TV), Captain America (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Susan Pevensie, Peggy Carter, Original Characters, Edmund Pevensie
Additional Tags: World War II, War Crimes, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, Alternate Universe-rthverse, Original Character Death(s), Spies & Secret Agents
Summary:Susan Pevensie, Peggy Carter and the four times they did not shoot fascists, and the one time they did. A relationship spanning decades that is marked by lipstick, cabbage, coffee, spying, and scotch.

Very much part of and a continuation of my Narnians Assemble AU.  There's -- wow a lot in that story -- an immense amount of research for a relatively short thing and a crossover at that.  I kill off an OC.  I had a hard time trying to fit this within the 5 times formula because I couldn't think of a 5th.  I'd had in my head forever the idea of Susan and Peggy both being at the opening of the Cabinet War Rooms.  The research for the first chapter, regarding the massacre in those villages was something I'd hinted at years ago with the war crimes of the Das Reich.  As I was researching the massacres, I discovered the National Archives Intelligence reports and spent a day combing through those, trying to read the handwriting.  It was interesting.  Horrifying.  I"d been wanting to deal with horizontal collaboration for awhile and was able to get at least the prospect of it.  And then we have Nuremberg and the very dodgy actions of T-Force.  There could have been a whole story just there but I cheated.  And then Susan, as the young grieving widow and being a real spy.  Uhhmmm  Larm hated it.  I enjoyed writing the last chapter.  I thought  of dealing with something with Susan trying to tell Peggy about Hydra but it just didn't seem to fit.  So, two old ladies taking down one bad guy.





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Monday, March 30th, 2015 09:37 pm
So I finally got around to posting some of my 3SF Fills.
Narnians Reassembling (685 words) by rthstewart
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Agent Carter (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Susan Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie, Peter Pevensie, Steve Rogers, Peggy Carter, Miriam Fry, Angie Martinelli, Jane Foster (Marvel)
Additional Tags: 3 Sentence Fiction, 3 Sentence Ficathon, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Series: Part 3 of The Narnians Assemble AU
Summary: Three sentence ficathon fills with Narnia and MCU. Susan at the Griffith, Peter and the Howlers, Lucy and Thor

More Chips Off The Stone Gryphon (1202 words) by rthstewart
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Peter Pevensie, Susan Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie, Digory Kirke, Eustace Scrubb, Jill Pole, Puddleglum
Additional Tags: 3 Sentence Fiction, 3 Sentence Ficathon
Series: Part 6 of The Stone Gryphon
Summary:Fills from the 3 sentence ficathon; includes some fills that are canon compliant and others that are AU, Everybody Lives, Nobody Dies

Mary Anning Russell Pevensie Goes To Jurassic Park (and the Cretaceous Period) (828 words) by rthstewart
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Peter Pevensie, Eustace Scrubb
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Jurassic Park - Freeform, Dinosaurs, Raptor Red - Freeform, 3 Sentence Fiction, 3 Sentence Ficathon
Series: Part 6 of Everybody Lives Nobody Dies Narnia AU
Summary: For [personal profile] syrena_of_the_lake  who wanted Mary Anning Russell and dinosaurs

I had a problem with posting yesterday.  They are all up now, in their entirety.

Thanks so much for the nice words.  First up, Susan had a conversation with Cook about a difficult dinner party with many, many things on the Cannot Eat List.
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Monday, October 6th, 2014 07:44 am
Thank you to all who sent birthday wishes. That was very nice. It was a really putrid day, as my birthdays so often are. I mean, starting the day with a fraud alert on your credit card, so very much not fun. Happy Birthday to you from Chase Account Holder Card Services. Fortunately, I had already ordered my peanut butter pretzels and coffee from Amazon so those deliveries were uninterrupted. The weekend improved as it went on, most especially beacause of the Narnia Fic Exchange and Madness reveals. The Main Collection is here (25 stories of awesome) and the Madness Collection is here.

I got 4 madness stories. WHAT??? Also, I wrote one, plus 2 stories for the main exchange and received an amazing gift. So...

What I received
I received a wonderful Temeraire/Narnia cross by the superlative wingedflight21 An Unusual Dragon Situation Returning to Cambridge after a voyage across the Eastern Sea leads Eustace to realize that he is not the same boy who fell through the painting. He has grown in unexpected ways. It's wonderful. I'd spotted the fact that there was a Temeraire cross in the collection and was hoping it was for me and it WAS. As always, Winged's Eustace voice is pitch perfect.

Madness was an embarrassment of riches. edenfalling wrote A boat, beneath a sunny sky, a glorious slice of Aravis and Lasaraleen having a small adventure and brilliant bit of characterization
edenfalling ALSO wrote a wonderful and insightful Polly and Digory story, about the war to come in response to the prompt by several people, How the Skeleton Aches

The wonderful adaese wrote the wry and poignant
A correspondence between Bibi Tarkheena, wife to Kidrash Tarkaan, lord of Calavar Province, and her aunt Latana, High Priestess of Zardeena, being a selection from the Calavar archives, presented here for the edification and instruction of young ladies.
Which explains the whole of Aravis' situation from the point of view of the not-so-evil stepmother.

And I received The Little Sea by Transposable-Element which is a wonderful bit of Calormen pantheon and worldbuilding.

Thanks so much to the generous people who wrote these wonderful, wonderful works! GO! Read and Review!

I had huge problems writing, at first.  I've been incredibly busy with work writing and I've felt that Narnia, its fandom fen, and I are in the middle of an especially messy and painful divorce.  I've really wanted to just chuck it all and go to ground so it was really, really hard to write, at first.  Eventually, I forced myself, word by word and finally came out with three stories.


And what I wrote

I did two stories for the main exchange, one of which was blindingly obvious and one of which was definitely not.
My assignment:
That we may hear the whispers of the gods, for [personal profile] bedlamsbard  (a very intimidating person to write for, let me tell you!)  Anyone who has read some of my musings on the Calormene Trickster god would have recognized this story.  It was a real mess in early drafts and was truly saved by freudiancascade.  Aravis isn't an  easy character for me for some reason.  I really enjoyed Lasaraleen and Hwin in this story.  I'd also wanted to do a much bigger story, hinted at here, of Cor's abduction (again) and Aravis riding off to rescue him.  Also hinted at, but not something I could develop, is that Aravis and Cor have issues, both individually and as a couple, and that Cor's time as slave definitely left its mark.  Freudiancascade asked me during one round of review if I really intended to imply that Cor and Aravis were probably queer -- and I said yep, that was intentional.  I really wanted to play with gender issues and how complicated that was by their personal histories and Archenland politics, but I just couldn't pull it off without it coming out incredibly sexist, so I tossed a lot of that.  The abduction was simply too big a story for the NFE -- this already clocked in at 10K, so I stripped out a lot and tried to focus in on Aravis becoming comfortable in her own skin.  I ended up blundering into sexy times even in one draft.  Egads. 

The second story, a pinch hit, surely a surprise, As Waves Make Towards The Pebbl'd Shore for our NFE  mod and all around only good things should happen to her ever, [personal profile] snacky .  Peter/Caspian is one of Snacky's OTP's and she deserved a story written just for her for all her amazing work as mod and everything else.  So I wrote Peter/Caspian slash!   

A comment or two asked what was going on with the buzzing in Susan's purse.  That, as it turns out, is explained in my madnness story, Susan and Peggy Go Shooting (Again)which is a continuation of my Avengers MCU cross from the NFE  2 years ago.  I'm not sure if this is quite what the lovely [personal profile] aurilly had in mind but I had a lot of fun with it, particularly writing Peggy Carter, Howard Stark, and Col. Chester Phillips. 

That's all!