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Saturday, March 15th, 2025 09:26 pm
There's so much, where to begin? Well, it depends. Most of this is Narnia, though there are a few other things, too. To decide if you are interested in "Not My Children's Narnia" (I'm an adult writing mostly adult characters for mostly adult readers) try Under Cover, or the first three chapters of The Stone Gryphon, Part 1 (Oxfordshire 1942), and/or the first four chapters of By Royal Decree. If you don't like those, you probably won't like the rest of it.

Edit in March 2021 to add the following:
I'm not going to attempt to update this badly dated list.  The best reading lists are on my AO3 series pages.  The items below are useful, particularly for things that were never added to AO3 (and which I should probably get to at some point).

Never tell me the word count )On Fanfiction.net
On Archive of our Own

The Other Stuff
Liliandil and the Just King aka it's not all about you
Kwong Lee is a bad Buddhist
Lie Back and Think of Narnia -- Peridan, Flobber and meaning of the word "fark"
The Horse, his boy, the girl, her horse, the Rat and the Trickster stories are here and here
You need a wolf to run a mole to ground -- The Stone Gryphon AU
Morgan and Edmund On Two Hearts Day in the Lone Islands and Acceptance of the terms (after the departure of the Four)
Comment Fic, Give the Pevensies A Friend
More Comment Fic, including why Edmund and Leszi don't get along, why Morgan and Peter don't get along, and Jalur and the Cub.
And Then The World Blew Up (only here because really, how can you resist Sherlock Holmes, L.King's Mary Russell (no relation to Mary Anning Russell of TSG -- a coincidence), Ramses Emerson and Edmund Pevensie in Jerusalem in 1918?  The F List and I couldn't and comment fic madness resulted. The only thing missing was Miles Vorkosigan and maybe his mother.)
Lots and lots of Alternate Universe Stone Gryphon stories (where everyone lives and nobody dies and there are adventures) are scattered all over this LJ and spread to others. The easiest way to find out about the camels in the Sahara, spies in Moscow, alligators, and Che Guevara is to go to the TSG AU tag
Eustace, Jill and Quebec
The Great Mother's Day Debate in which the Just King argues for posting Chapter 8 of By Royal Decree so that he can have sex and accuses Rthstewart of disrupting expectations because she's worried her children will grow up to be like him.
Food for Thought, in which I channel the mind and writing of a 16 year old girl who blogs about going through her Great Grandmother Susan's wardrobe.

Because people sometimes ask, On the Narnia side, you have, in chronological order:

The Palace Guard (chronologically first but written after By Royal Decree)
By Royal Decree and at AO3
Chapter 1 of It’s The Thought That Counts
Black as Rat and Crow
Harold and Morgan: Not A Romance (in progress, maybe)
Two Hearts Day (part of H&M: Not A Romance)
Acceptance of the Terms (part of H&M: Not A Romance)

Deny the Child (sequel to Acceptance of the Terms by the awesome Anastigmat)

I love not the man less but nature more the Great Bonding of The Monarchs To Narnia
comes first chronologically but I do not recommend reading it until you've been through at least the Narnia stories and probably Part 1 of TSG. And maybe not even then. It's not for everyone, though its assumptions are sprinkled throughout the overall story arc.

 

On the Spare Oom side you have, in chronological order,

The Stone Gryphon, Part 1, Oxfordshire 1942 and at AO3
Chapter 2, It’s The Thought That Counts
The Stone Gryphon, Part 2, The Queen Susan in Tashbaan and at AO3
The Stone Gryphon, Part 3, Apostolic Way
(up to Chapter 15)
Rat and Sword Go To War

I personally think that before you start Part 2 of The Queen Susan in Tashbaan, it's a good idea to skim By Royal Decree and Harold and Morgan (even though unfinished) because there’s a lot that happens there, especially in terms of Edmund’s story, that is relevant. The Palace Guard is relevant to the Good Beasts and other personalities who crop up throughout The Stone Gryphon. I don't have many true surprises but one of them is spoiled in Chapter 2 of the It's The Thought that Counts so you might want to read Chapter 14 of The Stone Gryphon, Part 1, Oxfordshire 1942 first.

Stories outside this (intended to be) cohesive vision are:

Under Cover and at AO3
The Maenad of the Maquis and at AO3
Follow The Star and at AO3

Oh My Gawd, it's sooo long, so here's a short cut

A Timeline of events in The Queen Susan in Tashbaan
Partial cast of characters through most of The Queen Susan in Tashbaan, including character key to the allegorical code used in the story.
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Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024 08:14 pm
So, I don't know about you, but I am super stressed about the American November 2024 election. Work this week has been absolutely impossible with my obsessive doomscrolling. I had been optimistic and now it is just horror and dread.

In the middle of all this, I had inquiry from a reader about where to find a story, since I referred to it but it wasn't on AO3. Oh. Turns out I had 3 stories on ff dot net that I hadn't cross-posted. I wondered what else I hadn't posted... and found 17,000 words of stuff, most of it from 2009-2013 and much of it in the form of Live Journal comment fic. (BTW 2013 was when a piece of federal legislation passed that changed my life and continues to dominate my work today). I was also very irritated by a reader who said my Susan Pevensie was a self insert as I posted earlier because, LOL friend, I know how to do a self insert. So I decided to add the Great Mother's Day Debate too.

As a sidenote, in that debate, I refer to the little "Twilight reading tart" who wants to "play" with my spawn and it's mentioned that I'm making macaroni and cheese and chicken nuggets for the kids playing in our fish pond. This WAS written 15 years ago after all and the Twilight reading tart has grown to a lovely woman. I was at her wedding shower this weekend and, as a gift, I gave her a collection of her favorite recipes I've made for her over the years, including, the mac and cheese.

Time flies.
Hodgepodge (17505 words) by rthstewart
Chapters: 10/10
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Peter Pevensie, Susan Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie, Jill Pole, Eustace Scrubb, Polly Plummer
Additional Tags: Golden Age (Narnia), Spare Oom, Talking Animals, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies
Summary:

A collection of Narnia-based short stories, trial balloons, and commentfic written over the last fifteen years (WHUT?) now reposted here.




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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 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!!
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.

and a personal rant about critics )


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Sunday, September 25th, 2022 09:07 pm
Well, [personal profile] snacky wrote me the awesome don't know where you're coming from but you're coming soon Peter/Sansa and ran the exchange![personal profile] syrena_of_the_lake wrote some wonderful things this year, including two gifts for me,Crouching scientist, hidden dragon a Eustace time travel with talking dinosaurs story (yes really) andAll shall love me and despair about the Narnia war machine, goose on a moose


And I did three stories!

For Love and rock music,
Fly By Night (15571 words)

Summary: Two months after D-Day, WC Reginald Tebbitt (code name Scribe) receives an urgent message from his agent, Mrs. Susan Caspian. Mrs. Caspian is still operating secretly in Nazi-occupied France under the name Jeanne-Louise Lambert (code name Rat). Tebbitt launches a desperate rescue mission and enlists the assistance of Rat's brother, Harold Linch aka Edmund Morgan aka Edmund Just aka Harold Jaller aka Justin Merle (code name Crow), who is reputed to be the fourth best forger in British Intelligence.


Yes, a return to war-time France, The Stone Gryphon and the Lucy and Edmund part of the story, Heart and Crow Make the Peace. the unwritten except I keep filling it in in bits and pieces. This follows the chapters, Heart and Crow Go To War and Kiss me Like a Soldier Headed For War, Rat and Sword Go To War, Black, White and Gray Wolf In Between (where Lucy runs away from school and Helen is visited by Briony, Hound and Nag and Chaos and Inspired Genius.Love and Rock Music is the primary Susan/Tebbitt shipper and has been insistent that I not kill off David Lowrey (who? Yeah, I know, but SHE remembers this minor character from TQSIT) so when I drew her for the Fic Exchange I decided to throw sense and most of my carefully constructed historical fiction research out the window and go for it.

The Star Wars/Narnia xover was for vialethe, syrena_of_the_lake, waywren and be_themoon. It turns out that in one of the recent Leia-focused Star Wars novels, the author Beth Revis gave Leia a sword and named it Rhindon, after Peter's sword. Really. So, well obviously I HAD TO USE IT. It's part of my Susan Joins the Rebels series.

Queentessential (5547 words)
Summary: Once a queen of Narnia, always a queen of Narnia. Or Princess of Alderaan for that matter.
 

And last, utter crack of the Washington DC insider variety, modern AU, Lucy Pevensie is a vampire crashing the conservative Heritage Foundation Halloween Party.  Stay away if politics are not your thing or if you aren't comfortable with fictional murder of the Republican Congressional leadership and a couple of Republican governors. 
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Monday, September 19th, 2022 09:52 am

Reveals are up!  I got three amazing stories, including

The Sansa Stark in Narnia story I’ve wanted FOREVER
don't know where you're coming from but you're coming soon

Eustace Scrubb, Time Travel and Dinosaurs

Goose on a Moose Narnia War Machine

 

Everything is there, gen, het, slash, canon compliant and AU, Golden Age, Spare Oom, crack and crying, and crossovers (including Shadow & Bone, Star Wars, and GoT).  4 stories are meaty over 10K (for a 1K exchange, LOL) and there are plenty in the 1-3K and 4-8K range.  

I have three stories in the collection!  A huge thanks to [personal profile] snacky  for an amazing exchange.

Really, it's all SO GOOD.  I can get a little frustrated with exchanges because they are never meaty enough for me.  I love character stories and set up but having introduced some great concept or idea, then I want to see what happens next.  Everything I've read for the NFE is so satisfying. 

SO GO! READ!  I've got 3 stories in the collection, none of which are a surprise, AT ALL.  Duh.
 


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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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Monday, October 25th, 2021 02:13 pm
So a whole bunch of my favorite people in the world flew into town to celebrate my birthday. We went to a Renn Festival, played Cards Against Humanity with our own "edits" as in black card, "What do they teach in these...." and answers such as "Wild Dryad Tree Sex" and "Further Up and Further In." You get the picture.
And we found a bottle of Cabernet wine bearing the "Edmundo" label and of course bought it! And drank it. Then went back and got some more. 3 bottles of Edmund were spent. AND WE NEED FIC ABOUT EDMUND RETIRING TO RUN A VINEYARD AND BACCHUS COMING TO VISIT.

Someone gave a presentation on BTS. We baked a lot and ate an enormous quantity of carbohydrates. It was AMAZING.
One gift was, no lie, a Narniapoly -- Monopoly style board game with spaces such as "Otter Romp. lose 75 Turkish Delight" and "You've been audited by a Lone Island Banker, pay 25 Turkish Delight."It is AMAZING. Pictures below, with 3D printed figurines including a Gryphon, a Welsh Corgi, Aslan, Susan, Lucy, and Tumnus.

We had two baristas who made amazing drinks with whip and caramel and froth and espresso shots.

It was so, so wonderful and I have the best time and we all of course want to do it again IMMEDIATELY.
Everyone was vaxed by the way and we all tested, either before leaving home or rapid tests at the AMAZING rental house. Some pics below. They got me a crown. I cried many times.

And I encourage everyone to check out remix that went live!! ( I STILL OWE REVIEWS OF NFE. So far behind. ACK). There are some lovely stories by Nasimwrites, Vialethe wingedflight, embraidery, Liz Culmer and other favorites.

I wrote a thing for the incomparable and amazing syrena_of_the_lake and it's part of the "museum-verse" Narnia AU that [personal profile] snacky started. I had so much fun with it. Syrena has written for me for remix at least twice,

The Scrubb Method (the fighting dragons with you remix) (4290 words) by rthstewart
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jill Pole/Eustace Scrubb, Jill Pole & Eustace Scrubb
Characters: Eustace Scrubb, Jill Pole, Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Talking Animals, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Modern Narnia, Narnia-Museumverse, Background Jill/Eustace
Summary: Rumors of the Pevensies Reborn are circulated widely throughout Paravel City. Teekicheek, Head Librarian of the Royal Archives, finds the fans annoying but otherwise hasn't given it much thought. She's got a thesis to write and a lack of credible source material.

Read more about the remix I received. Or just skip to the pics! )

HERE ARE THE AMAZING PICS FROM MY BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION!! AREN'T YOU ALL AWESOME?!














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Friday, March 5th, 2021 04:54 pm
So yesterday I spent a couple of hours trying to organize all my 3SF fills and I realized it amounted to about 15000 words? In the month of February, so obviously not limited to 3 sentences! 7 stories altogether. There's one more still to go.  I covered, ahem, a lot of ground in these.
Let me know if you have any questions.

The brief link is here, from my Tumblr post.

Three's a Crowd (3484 words) by rthstewart
Chapters: 15/15
Narnia fills for the Three Sentence Ficathon
Mostly Golden Age, with some Spare Oom

Following in the footsteps of the goddess (1025 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: Susan Pevensie
Additional Tags: Calormen, Gods and Goddesses, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Mythical Beings & Creatures, Golden Age (Narnia), Trickster Gods
Summary: Susan makes a choice. Written for ElementalRaven for the 3 Sentence Ficathon Spoiler: It's not 3 sentences


Like A Rolling Stone Gryphon (4987 words) by rthstewart
Chapters: 10/10
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
Series: Part 16 of The Stone Gryphon
Summary: Numerous fills in The Stone Gryphon AU for the Three Sentence Ficathon Spoiler: Often not three sentences

Not Narnia!
Three In Zero Gee (788 words) by rthstewart
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Expanse (TV), The Expanse Series - James S. A. Corey
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Amos Burton, Naomi Nagata, Praxidike Meng, Mei Meng, Chrisjen Avasarala, Clarissa Mao, Erich, Camina Drummer
Additional Tags: 3 Sentence Fiction, 3 Sentence Ficathon
Summary:Various fills for the Three Sentence Ficathon. Combination of Book and TV. Spoiler: Not always 3 sentences


A băga mâna în foc pentru cineva (put your hand in the fire for someone) (917 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
Series: Part 12 of The Stone Gryphon
Summary: For Vialethe and loveandrockmusic, in which a daring rescue is made. Written For the Three Sentence Ficathon
Spoiler: Not three sentences
Narnia, rthverse Susan/Tebbitt, to kiss in cars/and downtown bars/was all we needed

Meet and Greet (1903 words) by rthstewart
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Susan Pevensie, Peter Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie, Caspian (Narnia), Bacchus (Narnia)
Additional Tags: Mythical Beings & Creatures, 3 Sentence Fiction, But Not 3 Sentences, Gods and Goddesses
Summary:For the Three Sentence Ficathon, Narnia, any (minor) gods and goddesses. Spoiler: not three sentences. Caspian meets the VIPs at the Revel

Falling Into Place Like Dominoes (1371 words) by rthstewart
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis, Star Wars - All Media Types, Chronicles of Narnia - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi/Susan Pevensie
Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Susan Pevensie, Bail Organa, Breha Organa
Additional Tags: Crossover, Crossover Pairings, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, The Problem of Susan
Series: Part 3 of Susan Joins The Rebels
Summary:  Fills for Vialethe for the 3 Sentence Ficathon. Susan joins the Rebellion


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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
Summary:

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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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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Friday, December 4th, 2020 09:02 pm
So, someone on Tumblr asked me, do you still do prompts? And I realized that prompts are almost the only think I do as I bumble and stumble along through the nightmare that is my COVID to-do list (this weekend, finish a manual, write a comment on New York weed, prepare for 2-day FDA meeting next week AND have to do slides for a presentation the same time as the meeting) blergh.

Into the Jungle came about because LoveandRockMusic noted an article about the Rainforest Cafe closing and wouldn't it be hilarious if the Pevensie next gen showed up and the animals really talked and the monkeys tortured Edmund.

So, on November 17, I opened a google doc and started writing, egged on by Larm and[personal profile] syrena_of_the_lake . Also, ElementalRaven on AO3 had reviewed almost EVERY single story I'd done and I promised a gift in return. They wanted some other things but liked the Next Gen too. Rainforest Cafe is one of those places that I should have spent a lot more time in than I did. My spawn was born in 1999 and the cafes started opening in about 1997. We LOVE animals of course. But there is a predominance of big primates and spawn was never a fan of the great apes. So we didn't go that often. The thunderstorms also made them pretty nervous. But I certainly knew it -- we were the ideal generation. So, this is a love story to the Rainforest Cafe, all 11,000 words of it.
Into The Jungle (10940 words) by rthstewart
Chapters: 2/2
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: Peter Pevensie/Original Female Character(s), Edmund Pevensie/Original Female Character(s), Lucy Pevensie/Original Male Character(s), Susan Pevensie/Original Male Character(s)
Characters: Peter Pevensie, Susan Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Spare Oom, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Original Character(s), Talking Animals, Next-Gen, Magic, original male character/original male character - Freeform, Alternate Universe-rthverse, Origial Character: Trans, Background Relationships, Background Homophobic Behavior
Series: Part 7 of Everybody Lives Nobody Dies Narnia AU
Summary:In April 1998, an outsider is welcomed into the House of Pevensie, currently in residence at the Rainforest Cafe in Piccadilly. The results are predictable.

Something I note at the beginning is that, as it is set in April 1998, Harry Potter is beginning and of course would be a thing for a family with a history of magic, portals, and talking animals.  Philosopher's Stone had been release in June 1997, Chamber of Secret was coming it in July 1998, and Philosopher's Stone had been picked up by Scholastic and would start showing up in the US in September 1998.  So, there's a fair bit of Harry Potter in this story and I gently poke fun at Where would the Pevensies by sorted?  And, given the ugliness in the last year or two, some people might not be interested in a story that features HP at all.  if that's the case, you'll want to skip it.  But I deliberately make one young person trans just to show the better view and two young men in love are the pov characters.  So, there. 

I also ended up creating a family tree to keep all the next gens in my head.   I was going to say, "to keep them straight" but so many of them aren't.  I know, it's silly but here we are because as Scott says to Theo, there are more Pevensies in this Everybody Lives Nobody Dies story than there are hoodlums at a football match. 

By the way, I didn't get it Brit picked, so if you spot anything, let me know.  Thank you!

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Sunday, September 20th, 2020 08:21 pm
Three more,


The Ladies' Spellcasting, Divining and Sorceress Hunting Society (5856 words) by rthstewart
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Jill Pole, Letitia "Letty" Ketterley, Polly Plummer, Mrs. Lefay, Digory Kirke
Additional Tags: Magic, Treat, maybe background f/f
Summary: The Ladies' Spellcasting, Divining and Sorceress Hunting Society has a new recruit.
This one... hmmm. will, at some point, get a post all its own. I knew WingedFlight wanted witchy Jill and I had no idea until I read their Dear NFE Author that [personal profile] edenfalling liked my two stories with Letty and Mrs. Lefay and then Polly and Letty. This wasn't the story I'd intended but is much much better for it. To emphasize it is not part of my TSG series. It's a gift for two fabulous people and I hope they enjoyed it.

This one was for the wonderful [personal profile] syrena_of_the_lake for her birthday and guardyanangel and reader Eva. Eva had written me after the posting of the Star Husband really wanting some comfort for Susan -- even if some of her siblings return to Spare Oom, Susan herself has been deprived of the time with loved ones, the agency of making her decision, and the comfort of Aslan. Eva made a compelling case and several people have, over the years, wanted a scene with Susan and Lambert reunited. So, here we are.

At The Crossroads (2474 words) by rthstewart
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Susan Pevensie
Additional Tags: Original Character(s), The Problem of Susan, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Treat, Alternate Universe-rthverse
Summary: Susan has promises to keep and a wish that is finally granted.

And last, the one that absolutely wrecked and ruined me, where I, completely out of the blue, ended up shipping Susan and that rat bastard Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Beweep My Outcast State (7941 words) by rthstewart
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis, Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Chronicles of Narnia - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Susan Pevensie/Obi-Wan Kenobi
Characters: Susan Pevensie, Obi-Wan Kenobi
Additional Tags: Crossover, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Fade to Black, Canonical Character Death, The Problem of Susan, Treat
Summary:Obi-Wan Kenobi, in exile on Tatooine, begins looking for her perhaps before even noticing her. The Force and simple observation tell him the obvious - she's not from around here. She says she's from London. Does she mean Lonera? Or maybe Lothal?
more ranting about this story and the life-ruiner OW )





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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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Sunday, September 13th, 2020 10:37 pm
The Narnia Fic Exchange went live and wow. So many stories. So many options and crossovers and pairings. Gen and smut, AU and canon-compliant, something for everyone. It's glorious. I wrote A LOT.  Like HUGE amounts between this exchange and the AU Exchange  (in the next post)

I got 2 lovely stories and was one of numerous recipients of 2 group treats.
My main gift, a delightful, sense-filled Golden Age slice of life:
Some Light Mischief (1318 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Edmund Pevensie & Lucy Pevensie & Peter Pevensie & Susan Pevensie
Characters: Lucy Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie, Peter Pevensie, Susan Pevensie, The Swimming Moose, The Bulgy Bear(s) (Narnia)
Additional Tags: Golden Age (Narnia), Talking Animals, Slice of Life
Summary: Sometimes, Lucy feels as though she is existing at the fringes of other people’s stories — watching their lives unfold around her as she goes nowhere — but she has faith that her time will come. Patience requires a certain brand of courage, and though that courage is occasionally hard to come by, she is and always will be Lucy the Valiant, Queen of Narnia.

And a Dawn Treader Jurassic Park fusion where Eustace turns into a Troodon instead of dragon. The Eustace voice is wonderful and his character journey is just terrific.
Voyage of the Dawn Troodon (2446 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Eustace Scrubb
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Jurassic Park Fusion, Treat
Summary: It’s the familiar story: boy runs away from shipmates, boy explores strange island, boy finds enchanted treasure, boy turns into... wait, what?
 

And then, a group treat for my DnD group.  Narnia plus DnD.  OMG this is amazing. Peter keeps drawing his sword. Lucy rolling Nat 20 for seduce werewolf. DMs notes about Cordial of the Fire Flowers -- "A few drops of this potion will restore full hit points. Takes two rounds of initiative to administer. Item has a maximum of 10 charges. Each dawn, the cordial regains half of 1d4 expended charges, rounded down. If the last charge is expended, the diamond bottle shatters into stardust and is destroyed. Note: This potion will not restore severed limbs or missing body parts."
Roll for Initiative (2197 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Caspian/Lucy Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie & Lucy Pevensie & Peter Pevensie & Susan Pevensie
Characters: Peter Pevensie, Susan Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie, Caspian (Narnia), Trumpkin (Narnia), Nikabrik (Narnia), Jadis | The White Witch
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Dungeons & Dragons, Werewolf, Hag, NFE Madness 2020

And last, we have the gorgeous erotica (heed the tags and warnings) -- what it says on the tin.

Four times Caspian slept with a Pevensie (and one time he slept with them all) (3076 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - All Media Types
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
"Orgy, I'm not kidding it's a Narnian orgy, Incest, But it's okay because they're dead, Unexpected Problem of Susan!, And all the pairings, literally all of them - Freeform, 5 Things, 5+1 Things, It's really 4 Things but there's also a Star so 5 is fair

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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 thingI 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
Summary:

"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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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
Summary:

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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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, [personal profile] 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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Saturday, September 21st, 2019 11:37 pm
After posting Black, White and the Gray Wolf In Between, I had a number of requests from readers for more Narnians landing in Helen's drawing room. Ask and you shall receive.

Hound and Nag (5570 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
Characters: Lucy Pevensie, Helen Pevensie, Original Narnian Character(s), Original Female Character(s) of Color
Additional Tags: Spare Oom
Series: Part 13 of The Stone Gryphon
Summary:

Helen learns about Rat and Crow and gets another visitor (or two) from Narnia.

 
It took me a week, but I had a lot of fun with this one.  Though lurking  underneath there are buckets of angst.  As Heart and Crow Make the Peace begins to organize itself, there are certain themes and loss of love and loved ones are principal ones.  I've been thinking about it a lot lately.  So, I started waltzing around it a bit here. 

Thank you!  And responses to the lovely comments on other posted stories comes tomorrow. 

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Monday, September 16th, 2019 10:44 pm
So, this is only for those who are really super interested in the backstory behind this story.

First, some research! Oxford Famine Relief Committee will become Oxfam. Research on Oxfam took me here and here. Edith Pye was one of the founders of the famine relief committees and others who were involved included Vera Brittain and the Canon of the Oxford University Church at the time.

It was a late decision was to add Helen and Briony. I was trying desperately to get this story done as an NFE treat and I realized that there was an enormous about of follow up -- Lucy going into the mountains to find the Witch's Forgotten Remnant and bring them home. I needed some way to handle that economically. At the same time [personal profile] einahpets -- the fabulous fan artist who contributed art to this year's NFE -- posted a short prompt -- essentially, children in adult bodies and others finding out about Narnia. Welp, that's my jam but how could I do a whole separate story? And then, voila, add Helen and Briony and all the problems were solved.

Chapter 18 of AW was supposed to be titled The Least of My Brothers and Sisters, which if you've now read Black, White and the Gray Wolf In Between, also fits. I will post an update to AW indicating that the story ends at chapter 15 -- it's a logical break, and will then begin posting Heart and Crow Make the Peace, with Chapters 16 and 17 of AW becoming new chapters 1 and 2 (with some clean up) and Black White and Gray as the new chapter 3.

And on to much blather about where this story came from and that it has been 10 years in the making. Ware, this is only for those who are really interested in the backstory of the backstory and some things about what should be in here and isn't, yet.


More for the very few who might be interested )

Last, though I should be working on answering reviews and then jumping to the conclusion of Star Husband and then back to this, several readers, after reading Briony showing up in Helen's dining room really, REALLY want another character appearance. So... maybe I'll get that done this week.<
Thank you so much. I could never had done it without you.