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Narnia Fic Exchange

Saturday, September 28th, 2024 09:47 am

Woops.

So, first off, the Narnia Fic Exchange went live with 29 incredibly high quality stories. I received two amazing stories and wrote two related ones that fill out some Golden Age missing bits that also feed into the update I just made to Heart and Crow Make The Peace.
For the NFE, I wrote:

The Doctor is In - rthstewart - Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis [Archive of Our Own]

Mischief and Murder - rthstewart - Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis [Archive of Our Own]

The Doctor Is In ties closely with scenes from TQSiT and is pre-Royal Guard, where the Four deal with their first combat/command losses and Narnia farewells. It then switches to Archenland and unexpected backstory on Queen Helen of Narnia. Mischief and Murder is backstory of Willa and Sallowpad from the Long Winter and then fast forward to post Culinary Diplomacy to the assassination attempts, which in turn leads to the establishment of the Royal Guard in The Palace Guard. Got that? Both stories tie into to the newly begun Heart and Crow Make The Peace. LOL. Oh self.

I received 2 wonderful stories and recommend you go read them and tell the authors how wonderful they are!!

The Silver Charonosaurus - Chapter 1 - Syrena_of_the_lake - Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis [Archive of Our Own]

A wonderful Silver Chair AU by @syrena-of-the-lake with DINOSAURS
And a lovely exploration by a FIRST TIME AUTHOR of my crack ship Susan Pevensie/Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Stranger Things in the Heavens - Wish_upon_a_story - Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis [Archive of Our Own]

( and a personal rant about critics )

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oh yeah and another thing -crackfic gift

Saturday, February 5th, 2022 11:05 am

I did a crackfic gift for Be-themoon, Snacky, Animus_wymris and WingedFlight. Leverage/Narnia xover. yes, really. Complete crack but with a return to the Evil Bankers and a bunch of dangling threads from Harold and Morgan Not A Romance. I was going to finish it up and get the second, concluding chapter done because The Big Thing I've Been Expecting Since November 2015 finally was released. Based on some sleuthing, we thought we weren't going to see it until March but, eh, so that's where I'll be the next 3 months. We got a 120 days to work on it.

The Fur and Feathers Job (6773 words) by rthstewart
Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis, Leverage
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Alec Hardison/Parker/Eliot Spencer
Characters: Lucy Pevensie, Eliot Spencer (Leverage), Alec Hardison, Parker (Leverage), Susan Pevensie, Peter Pevensie
Additional Tags: Evil Banker Morgan, Crossover, Alternate Universe, Golden Age (Narnia), Con Artists, Background Relationships, Talking Animals, Golden Age (Narnia): rthverse, Crack Crossover, Background: Edmund Pevensie/Original Female Character
Summary: Narnia needs leverage.

I had tons of fun working on this and I'm really looking forward to the actual heist. Because damn, trying to steal a lot of money from an island stronghold isn't easy when you have to use a rowboat. There are a zillion spin offs here that are possible and I want to write all of them. Morgan and Parker discussing exchange rates and being autistic; Parker talking to Rabbits; Hardison determining that Narnians use the imperial system of distance measurement but measure weight by "stone" that does not correspond to any known weight because Helen didn't bring a one pound anything in her pocket, Eliot and Lucy swordfighting (yeah, I lowkey ship it), Eliot and Cook discussing the introduction of precursors to baking soda and baking powder; and so on.

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But wait, there's more, Gift Fic

Tuesday, January 5th, 2021 09:00 am

As a thank you to my amazing friends who did the TSG Calendar, with LARM being the chief instigator, I wrote a short fic that was posted and then AO3 crashed last night. Does anyone know what the cause was? LARM said something about it being a Mando fic? I saw Tumblr going on about Chapter 10 of something called Heat Wave.

In any event, this is Susan and Tebbitt. It took me FOREVER to get it going -- absolutely demoralizing to stare at 400 words for 2 days. And then I got them out of Ukraine and it finally started to move. I go back to this part of the world a lot for my espionage because I lived there right after the wall came down and it's all still very vivid. We never made it all the way to Ukraine, though our colleagues did. The Balkans were a very very strange place in those days.

The city that they are in, Dnipropetrovsk, now Dnipro, was a "closed" city by sometime in the early 1950s because of the manufacturing and in particular its contributions to the Soviet defense programs and ICBM development. I have no idea if spies actually moved along the river tributaries of the Black Sea and were I really serious about writing this as a genuine spy novel, that would require a lot of research.
( blather about espionage and sacrifice )

There's A LOT going on here. Thank you!

Home Thoughts, From Abroad (5348 words) by rthstewart
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Susan Pevensie/Original Male Character(s)
Characters: Susan Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Cold War, Spare Oom, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Alternate Universe - rthverse, Original Character(s), Original Character(s) - Reginald Tebbitt
Series: Part 11 of The Stone Gryphon
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A mission to Dnipropetrovsk to uncover Soviet ballistic missile manufacturing goes badly awry for Mrs. Susan Caspian (code name Rat, aka Susan Pevensie) and her partner, Robert Browning (code name Scribe aka WC (retired) Reginald Tebbitt).

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Tales of the Calormene Trickster or What I did for NaNo

Friday, January 1st, 2021 07:43 pm

I wrote more. Things! This story (nearly done, but for the last little bit that I'm still fiddling over) is the story I've wanted to do forever of the retelling of Horse and His Boy from the perspective of the Calormene Trickster. I used some of my NaNo time for it before I got distracted by Into the Jungle and the Beru story.

Rat and Cat (16431 words) by rthstewart
Chapters: 4/5
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Aravis Tarkheena, Shasta | Cor (Narnia), Hwin (Narnia), Bree (Narnia), Edmund Pevensie, Susan Pevensie
Additional Tags: Calormen, Trickster Gods, Golden Age (Narnia), Goddesses, Mythical Beings & Creatures
Series: Part 1 of Tales Of The Calormene Trickster
Summary: The Horse And His Boy And The Mare And Her Girl, the way it really happened.

The first tale in Tales Of The Calormene Trickster

The third story in the series (Flee From Memory is the second, already finished and posted)

One Step Back, Two Steps Forward (3854 words) by rthstewart
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Hwin (Narnia), Peter Pevensie, Peridan (Narnia), Tumnus (Narnia), Bree (Narnia)
Additional Tags: Golden Age (Narnia), Talking Animals
Series: Part 3 of Tales Of The Calormene Trickster
Summary: When she thought about it, Hwin realized spy sounded far more impressive than dumb slave.

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yep it's all a dumpster fire but so much good media

Saturday, October 10th, 2020 09:13 pm

Except the Season 5 Expanse trailer dropped and after the first 3 episodes drop, they will be going to weekly, so I'm thrilled.

Watch on YouTube

So it looks like we're going to get some variation of the "Don't call me Chrissie" and "I think she likes me." And honestly if we don't get that epic encounter from Nemesis Games nearly word for word, I'll cry. Also, interesting and sad that Cas Anvar is so de-emphasized in the trailer and wasn't included on the NYCC cast panel. I assume the reason is the ongoing investigation into the many reports of his harassing conduct at Cons.

The Mandalorian is coming. Also, I really enjoyed Enola Holmes. It's super fun and on Netflix and there's a new series of GBBO.

And of course The Old Guard on Netflix which is very much this season's favorite fandom flavor. I loved it. I've watched it about 5 times and that scene where the team is going through Merrick? Yeah, I've watched that as many times as I've watched opening sequence of Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing, now on Amazon Prime. 20? 30? I kinda start my day with it.

And then there is Dune. I'm one of those people who read Dune right after being bitterly disappointed in the Foundation Trilogy probably 40 years ago. I loved the book, hated the sequels, and it's one of those books that I'm frightened to go back and read because I might not love it and I know that whole white savior thing would really bother me now. Still, the trailer looks amazing and gender bend Liat Kynes, YES PLEASE.

Watch on YouTube

Also, my old story Food for Thought got recc'd on fanacke by the lovely

beatrice_otter so that was super nice.
And Snapes on the Astral Plane is back with this piece from Jezebel, a lot of which I don't agree with but it's fun to revisit a favorite wank and I
guess some Kylo Ren fans are upset with the comparison. I'm not touching that one.

Are you reading or seeing anything fun? What's made you happy during these grim times?

( Me, my spawn and our run-ins with the Purity Police (like mother like spawn) skip if you don't want to read wank )

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NFE Reveals Part 1

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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LUCIAN EXCHANGE REVEALS

Saturday, December 14th, 2019 07:03 pm

So, I got two absolutely wonderfully stories from starbrow,
King In Wolf's Clothing which is a remix of my Wolf in King's Clothing Lucan story for the NFE. I was really hoping someone would do a missing scene or some other facet of that story since I left so much still that could be said, and I adore what Starbrow did -- with apologies to Lucian's, as it is mostly Caspian/Edmund. It''s just great.

And then, the achingly perfect To His Queen, which was my request for a quintessential, book canon, delicate tale of longing, shall never be, doomed romance that will never, ever be. A single kiss and a lifetime of regret and buckets of angst. It's just lovely.

WingedFlight did another Lucan story, seeking horizons, for several of us that was really great.

And then there's what I wrote.

I wrote two stories, both for Be_themoon, and others.

The first is a basically a rip off of the Being Neighborly chapter from Little Women, after @larmalot suggested on Twitter the idea of the Pevensies as the equivalent of the March girls and their rich neighbor Laurie/Caspian looking at them wistfully out the window. So I copy and pasted the chapter and moved things around and changed it up a bit and turned it into a Lucy/Caspian pre-romance fusion.

Being Neighborly
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Caspian/Lucy Pevensie
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Fusion, Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, Pre-Relationship
Summary Caspian is locked in his tower and feeling poorly. Lucy sets out to rescue the Prince.

The second is a much different thing. I wrote M rated fic for the first time in over 10 years. Edmund/Bacchus, Lucy/Maenads, Lucy/Caspian, so m/m, f/f, and m/f. M rated. Did I mention that? Also voyeurism. And orgy. What it says on the tin. AUTHOR CHOSE NOT TO USE ARCHIVE WARNINGS.

Also, this is NOT part of The Stone Gryphon. I tend to get a lot of hate when I deviate from my usual, and especially with gifts. The worst things I've ever gotten have been for gifts I wrote for other people where readers assumed that I would be delivering more of my usual. This is a standalone, though I've hinted around at this kind of thing for awhile -- Lucy's jokes to Thomas in Father Goose weren't such a joke after all. And I did write Maenad fo the Maquis, 10 years ago and this borrows from some of that.

Opens the Gates of the Heart
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Caspian/Lucy Pevensie, Bacchus/Edmund Pevensie
Additional Tags: Voyeurism
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"Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!"
Euripides, The Bacchae

Being a good Telmarine means Caspian isn't prepared for the God of Joy.

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On Thanksgiving Eve, I blew up the Last Battle

Friday, November 29th, 2019 02:21 pm

I posted the last chapter of Star Husband on Wednesday, Chapter 5, Further Up and Further In, Part 2.

And a lot happened. A number of readers were unhappy that I split the chapter up but in all it was 18,000 words. And A Lot Happened.
As I mention in the notes at the beginning, if you're looking for canon-compliant fic, best jump off the train now.
I'm just going to put a few things down here. No need to read on! If you enjoy the story, thank you for reading.

( Read more... )

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Star Husband, Chapter 4, Further Up Further In, Part 1

Friday, November 22nd, 2019 10:18 pm

Woops. I posted Chapter 4 of Star Husband. When we last left that story, Jill and Eustace, summoned by the High King, were haring back to England from Nova Scotia, with everyone having terrible dreams of the end of Narnnia. The chapter was getting really long, so I decided to post the first half of it, which really annoyed some readers. I find chapters in excess of 12K or so to be really hard on readers but wow seriously misjudged that. Anyway, the final chapter should go up this weekend.

The Star Husband (32543 words) by rthstewart
Chapters: 4/5
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Polly Plummer, Lucy Pevensie, Eustace Scrubb, Jill Pole, Digory Kirke, Peter Pevensie, Susan Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie
Additional Tags: Native American/First Nations Culture, The Problem of Susan, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Series: Part 9 of The Stone Gryphon
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There are two new tags, Problem of Susan and AU-Canon Divergence. To explain just how much of a Problem of Susan it isn't, I went ahead and posted a number of excerpts from earlier stories where Susan (and Edmund, and Tebbitt and even Asim) all use Narnia as code for espionage. You can read excerpts to refresh if you interested at Not Just A Silly Children's Story.

And so, this chapter finally brings me full circle to plot development 10 years in the making. I posted the chapter Lion's Business in Part 1 where I created the Narnia as a "silly children's story" in April 2009. So finally seeing those words come back, was actually pretty emotional for me. I'm not sure it delivered. Maybe the final chapter will do that. Not sure. Or maybe it's just too long and .... trails off to drown in ocean of self doubt.

Anyway, long week, it's up, it's done and my thanks.

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LUCIAN EXCHANGE

Monday, October 14th, 2019 06:28 pm

So Metogator and WingedFlight have started a little Lucy/Caspian or Lucy, Caspian exchange on AO3. 500 words or art! Do join us!

The link is here on AO3 and the Tumblr link is here

Also,

syrena_of_the_lake wrote me a gift about Vultures in Narnia and it's amazing, A Bone To Pick Go tell her how wonderful it is!

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Star Husband, Chapter 3

Thursday, August 8th, 2019 01:37 pm

Obviously, I need a month's vacation at the beach in order to regain my writing productivity. I'm still not as fast as I used to be but gosh it's wonderful to write again. I just posted Chapter 3 of the Star Husband.

BUT... That story had always supposed to be 3 chapters, ending with Jill and Eustace in an AU vision in the early 1950s. However, things have happened and my thinking has changed and now I'll be adding a fourth chapter, ominously titled Further Up and Further In and, well, it's not what I expected, it's not I intended 10 years ago when I started this amazing journey but it's where I've decided to end up after receiving enormous insight and assistance from readers WHO STILL STOP BY and leave amazing comments after all this time.

Star Husband is now firmly in TSG and where Star Husband goes is where TSG ends up, though these last two chapters are told from Eustace and Jill's far more narrow viewpoint. The final chapter 4 is about half done. But eek, really need to get started on my Narnia Fic Exchange.

So, if you are still there and still care, do let me know what you think! Each chapter of this story is wildly different from the other. I'd never thought I'd learn so much from the Mi'kmaq legend that I first read 3 years ago in Halifax. But that's really a metaphor for this whole journey for me. Thank you!

The Star Husband (23642 words) by rthstewart
Chapters: 3/4
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Polly Plummer, Lucy Pevensie, Eustace Scrubb, Jill Pole, Digory Kirke, Peter Pevensie
Additional Tags: Native American/First Nations Culture
Series: Part 9 of The Stone Gryphon
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There are many stories about the love between humans and stars told in the folklore of the Mi'kmaq, a First Nations people indigenous to Canada's Atlantic Provinces and the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec. Over 25 years and three visits to the Fossil Cliffs of Joggins, Nova Scotia, Polly, Lucy, Eustace and Jill all hear the Mi'kmaq tale of the Star Husband. As happens, each hears the same story and takes away a different understanding.

Part of the Stone Gryphon story cycle.

Here's Scrubb's Willys Wagon.
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Snowflake challenge Day 5

Saturday, January 5th, 2019 07:49 pm

Day 5

In your own space, promote three communities, challenges, blogs, pages, Twitters, Tumblrs or platforms and explain why you love them. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

So this is super fun and my recs are all over the place.
First, though I've recc'd this on Day 2, if you're into terrific fic with many different takes on the Problem of Susan, the Narnia Fic Exchange is uniformly high quality, with lots of crosses, AUs, and many other fun things. The stories are often very fem-centric -- lots of ladies. The 2018 challenge was super fem-slashy, which was just delightful. it's supportive, people comment a lot and the stories are great. The comm is here and you can find the more recent years fics here. You'll find older stories on the Dreamwidth/LJ comm.

Because it's been around for so long and she is amazing and so is the group, you can't go wrong with Club Jade, the first fan comm I ever joined after AOL Star Ladies. Founded in 1995 around the Star Wars Legends/Expanded Universe and Mara Jade and the webmistress Dunc began blogging in 2004. Tumblr is here and Twitter is here and the webpage which will eventually take you back to our Club's roots in fanfic and filk. Note that it is clubjade.net -- that's because at the time we got the domain, .the club jade .com was an Asian porn site. So we had buttons for an early con saying "Club Jade -- not the Asian porn site you're looking for." We're a lot quieter than we used to be.. Sometime I"ll tell you about the Con where Luke and Mara got married, Mike Stackpole, Aaron Allston, and Tim Zahn attended, I dressed up as a Mardi Gras float and people thought I was getting married to the Mary Franklin (she runs the Celebration Cons now) and Elvis officiated. The Men in Black broke up the party.

And this one is kinda out there, but it's a great interection of food, politics, agriculture, food safety, tech, biology, and North Carolina. Dr. Sarah Taber on Twitter. I'm in some of the same business she is and I learn a lot. In the same vein, I follow John Rogers, who may lean more libertarian than I am but he's smart, funny, political, and biting and again, I learn a lot (also the writer for Leverage).

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3SF Narnia fills

Monday, December 31st, 2018 01:49 pm

Despite the difficult holiday, I've managed a few 3SF fills, with more to come, I hope. I got the Narnia-TSG type ones up yesterday. (I did some others that are an LOTR cross. That will come later). Chapter 2 is, maybe, a bit of surprise if you've not followed the blather going on in comments in AO3 on the last chapter posted of AW. I'd hoped to actually do more writing this holiday HA HA HA. But it will happen, with a resolution to wrap TSG up in 2019, 10 years after I started it. YIKES.

And do come and join in the 3SF! Here's are prompts that still need to be filled, 3SF Part 1 (but no new prompts) and here is 3SF Part 2 for new prompts and fills

Still More Chips off the Stone Gryphon (2370 words) by rthstewart
Chapters: 10/?
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Peter Pevensie, Susan Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie, Eustace Scrub, Jill Pole, Caspian (Narnia), Digory Kirke
Additional Tags: Canonical Character Death, The Problem of Susan, 3 Sentence Fiction, 3 Sentence Ficathon
Series: Part 10 of The Stone Gryphon
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Fills from the 2018 3 sentence ficathon; includes some fills that are canon compliant and others that are AU, Everybody Lives, Nobody Dies

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POSTS AND REVEALS

Sunday, October 7th, 2018 12:15 pm

WOW it's been a busy couple of weeks and I've got another story due next week. BUT

First, Narnia Fanfic Exchange and NFE Madness reveals are up and live. So many good stories this year. I owe reviews!!

I got a wonderful story from Rustedeaglewings, The Night Before Battle, with a Caspian pep talk by the Four.

I also received a group gift of the hilarious crazy Added to the chat by the incomparable WingedFlight.

I wrote two stories,
Rat Catchers, featuring Polly Plummer as a member of the Women's Land Army on what is believed to be the eve of the Nazi invasion of Britain, September 1940. Freudiancascade was a huge help as a sensitivity reader for the character of George. I discovered at the last moment that I'd miffed the dates of certain events in the story. VERY annoying but it was too late to change the action, so yeah, don't get your history of the most inept spies of WW2 from that story.

The second story is one I'd really wanted to tell about Thomas the polyamorous bisexual goose and I really wanted to write something for

syrena_of_the_lake who has gifted me with some wonderful things. Father Goose is here and it explores a number of things long hinted at, including Briony and Lambert (and hints of Briony's own story), the death of Mr. Noll the spy, Susan's romance with Rafe Linch, and then it makes a jump into solid Stone Gryphon AW territory.

Then, last night, I posted a look back at The Queen Susan in Tashbaan. Love and Rock Music (LARM) had seen this NSFW picture of an naked American airman in the midst of air-sea rescue in the Pacific theater during WW2. She wanted me to put Wing Commander Reginald Tebbitt in. There were some problems, obviously, and she had some ideas involving a hot air balloon accident and a convent.

autumnia came to the rescue with the idea of involving HIs Lordship, Lord Halifax the Penguin. And so, Booze Cruise is the result, an insert into The Queen Susan in Tashbaan. Also, I, like Susan, had a strong desire to let all Congressional leadership drown. She's a better person than I am.

As I was working on this story, I realized how important that complex Narnnia conceit was in TQSiT. Using the fake Peridan and Queen Susan allowed me to insert real Washington DC people but filtered through several layers -- the Narnia code, Susan's own letters, and then Peter and Edmund's interpretations of them. Here, it's straight up DC story telling and I just couldn't insert the real people that were the inspiration for their Narnia/TQSiT counterparts. So, I just don't put their names in and use titles. It's awkward, and is far more fiction than historical.

SO, I have posted over 36,000 words in the last month.

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Chronicles of Narnia to be produced by Netflix

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018 09:45 pm

From EW and many other places

The streaming service is adapting the beloved fantasy franchise into new films based on the seven fantasy novels that launched in 1950 with C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The Chronicles of Narnia is the tale of four British children during World War II who escape into an alternate magical world.

“It is wonderful to know that folks from all over are looking forward to seeing more of Narnia, and that the advances in production and distribution technology have made it possible for us to make Narnian adventures come to life all over the world,” said Douglas Gresham, stepson of C.S. Lewis, in a statement released by Netflix. “Netflix seems to be the very best medium with which to achieve this aim, and I am looking forward to working with them towards this goal.”

It’s not yet clear how many pieces of content will be produced and what form they will take. Producer Mark Gordon describes “multiple productions” and “both stellar feature-length and episodic programming.” Gordon added, “Narnia is one of those rare properties that spans multiple generations and geographies.” ....

One immediate concern of fans after the announcement was made was whether the Netflix versions would water down the books’ Christian themes — a frequent criticism of the titles distributed by Disney. “I do not trust Netflix to do justice for the series! They will be trying to take God out of it like other companies have [for other] Christian movies,” wrote one commenter...

So of course we've been yacking about it all day on Twitter. Thoughts? Fancasts? Given Gresham's involvement, I'm assuming this is likely for younger audiences, family themed, and probably more Christian themed -- I guess Netflix does have a production line for that sort of content.

You know what I want to see -- True Beasts, adults in children's bodies, humor, politics, espionage, multiculturalism, and wild dryad tree sex. I think Bible Study is the more likely outcome but who knows? Someone on Tumblr pointed out that this likely means an influx to Tumblr fandom and AO3 of purity police, though maybe they'll stick to where most of them still remain on Narnia fansites and fanfic.net? And it will probably skew young, too. And even in fandoms that are definitely (cartoons, etc) adults still have room to play in the sandbox. And new original content and visuals does spur creativity.

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The Star Husband, Chapter 2

Monday, September 3rd, 2018 08:58 am

It has taken all summer but I have finally written a thing. And with this thing done and hopefully my long hiatus over, I can move on to and back to other pressing things, including the NFE and Remix.

The Star Husband (16004 words) by rthstewart
Chapters: 2/3
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Polly Plummer, Lucy Pevensie, Eustace Scrubb, Jill Pole, Digory Kirke, Peter Pevensie
Additional Tags: Native American/First Nations Culture
Series: Part 7 of The Stone Gryphon
Summary:

There are many stories about the love between humans and stars told in the folklore of the Mi'kmaq, a First Nations people indigenous to Canada's Atlantic Provinces and the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec. Over 30 years and three visits to the Fossil Cliffs of Joggins, Nova Scotia, Polly, Lucy, Eustace and Jill all hear the Mi'kmaq tale of the Star Husband. As happens, each hears the same story and takes away a different understanding.

Part of the Stone Gryphon story cycle.

This story began after a visit to Nova Scotia and a visit to a museum in Halifax where I learned about the Mi'kmaq story of the Star Husband. This chapter was supposed to be a thin little thing with Asim musing, as he does, that a magician cannot overpower God. But, the experience of the Chinese in Liverpool has been a part of Stone Gryphon for years. It was the reason I introduced Liverpool and Kwong Lee and Lin Kun's daughter in law and grandson in AW. And that story took on immensely poignant significance this summer as family separation became the official policy of the US Government. Again. Added to this, in-story, were my musings in Flee From Memory that Lucy might have left a daughter behind in Narnia. I still don't answer that here. Did she? This author has had a hard time crossing that bridge and burning it behind her.

And for people of faith, how do you cope with such profound evil and still trust in a benevolent God? And what of people, like me, who are just tired of fighting the same fights over and over, who are depressed and despairing, because resistance is such hard work. What do you do about the bears? As Lucy learns from Rita and Asim, it helps immensely to have friends, good food (chocolate), drink, and to let others bear the burden for a time. (Meds and therapy can help too, if you have access to them!)

And then you get up and try to keep doing what others have been doing long before you and will continue to do when you again tire. The Prophet's instruction is a good guide for all. Feed the hungry, visit the sick, free the captives.

The road to writing this has been tortuous and there were many, many resources. If I got something wrong please, kindly, tell me. Sources include but are not limited to those identified at the story's end:

The deportation of the Chinese sailors from Liverpool after the War are here and here among others. I've had the halfandhalf.org site bookmarked since about 1996.
The history of the US government removing indigenous children from their families is summarized in numerous sources. You can start here.
The Magdalen Laundries are here, among other places.
There are many excellent resources about the Residential System in Canada (and the US, though not part of this story) that was, essentially institutionalized abuse and pedophilia of aboriginal children and erasure of aboriginal culture. Sources include here and here.
In Australia, the practice of removing indigenous children from their families and institutionalizing them is referred to as the Stolen Generations. Sources include here, and here.

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The Gift of a Moose

Thursday, August 23rd, 2018 09:34 pm

the wonderful

syrena_of_the_lake has written my a delightful ficlet about a very grumpy Narnia moose because of my no good, rotten very bad day. It's great fun and I'm so grateful.

Sauce for the Goose (652 words) by Syrena_of_the_lake
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia - All Media Types
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary:

Not everyone is a fan of the moose song.

(Contains bawdy lyrics.)

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10th Anniversary of the Narnia Fic Exchange!

Saturday, July 7th, 2018 09:08 pm

The schedule is up for the 10th anniversary of the Narnia Fic Exchange! You can read about here and here. I hope you'll come and play, too.

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Yuletide!

Sunday, January 7th, 2018 02:13 pm

Over and gone, but finally an update...
I got an AMAZING Marion Ravenwood/Narnia crossover!

Make a Plan Tomorrow (4506 words) by Amilyn
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Indiana Jones Series, Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Marion Ravenwood/Colin Williams (addressed)
Characters: Marion Ravenwood, Mutt Williams, Susan Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie, Harold Oxley
Additional Tags: Crossover, Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, Grief/Mourning, Loss, Loss of Spouse, Loss of Parent(s), Narnia, Post-Narnia, The Problem of Susan, World War II, Post-World War II, London, London Blitz, Children, Toddlers, parenting, Misses Clause Challenge, POV Female Character, Female Protagonist, Female Characters, Bechdel Test Pass
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But men, good ones or not, did one thing. They left her. As a result, Marion had seen so much more of the world than most women her age. Hell, she'd seen more of the world than most women alive. Her experiences were diverse, including things not right for "polite conversation." She would rather know more than be limited.

This is an amazing story and I'm so happy that Amilyn has received the praise it is due. Definitely check it out and tell them how awesome it is. Amilyn wrote a wonderful Marion, Lucy, and Susan, and toddler terror Mutt is just incredible. What I especially love is that Marion is not necessarily really likeable. She is enormously sympathetic and empathetic but she's brittle -- and SO YOUNG. She grows a lot over the story. The depiction of grief is wrenchingly, achingly perfect.

I wrote an unsuccessful story for Killjoys. I'm not sure what went wrong as I had a pretty clear idea of what I wanted to do and added a second chapter to push the point and more explicitly meet the prompt. My recipient was gracious and kind. The story just didn't work.

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