Hiding fandom in the underwear drawer since 1977

So, as previously stated, I got two stories in the Narnia Fic Exchange and authors are now revealed. 
The Polly Plummer character study, Draw the Patterns Out was by the lovely LittleRaven.

Rack n Roll was by the incomparablesyrena_of_the_lake .

Do go and check out the whole exchange here!

I had three stories. 
My main gift, A Wolf in King's Clothing is per the requests of my recipient, Hydrangea, an AU, steampunk, urban fantasy mild Lucy/Caspian with Spare Oom as magical and Narnia as the "mundane." And added werewolves.
You read that right. Yes, that really weird story was MINE.  I WROTE LUCIAN.  WITH ADDED RINGS.  Because way back when, we were all joking on Twitter about were-Caspian and I had no idea it was a thing.  And then Hydrangea's prompt presented itself, and so here we are.  I really struggled at the end but am very happy with how it turned out.  The story hasn't gotten much love but if you're willing to try something that really pushes the bounds of Narnia fic and is definitely way further out there than anything I've done before, I hope you'll give it a go.

And then we have the small and silly written in a day Cocktail Hour, in which Fooh continues to show himself to be a remarkable Guard as he helps Peter navigate a cocktail hour in the Seven Isles.  Cocktail Hour harkens back to my NFE of last year, Father Goose.  Snacky dearly loves Fooh and had views on Edmund's poor treatment of Princess Peony AKA Even More Dim, in By Royal Decree and so here is a bit of her revenge, presenting an idea I've had for a long time.

And last, we have Black, White and the Gray Wolf In Between.  I need to jigger Apstolic Way somehow but readers should assume that this is the next chapter in The Stone Gryphon. In other words, I updated Apostolic Way.   One way to think on it is that chapters 16 and 17 of AW are really chapters 1 and 2 of a new book, Heart and Crow Make the Peace.  Black, White and the Gray Wolf In Between is chapter 3 of this new book Heart and Crow Make The Peace, which will tell Lucy and Edmund's story and bring us to the end of the war.   Elements of this story were hinted at in the first chapter of Father Goose.  And, it begins to tell the tale of the Traitor Noll and the Mole Spies, a story that had its origin 10 years ago in a post on the old NFFR boards and has been referenced many times across multiple stories.  It's been a long time in coming and I'm really happy to be able to share it with you. 

Phew.  Got that? 

Assignments went out for the Narnia Fic Exchange. Earlier in the week on Twitter we were having fun with were-Caspian and the Hag's missing body in the PC illustration by Pauline Baynes where he gets bitten. The image manip is courtesy of metonomia I suspect we'll be seeing a lot of this for the NFE this year, as well as ladies in love.



My own sign up was pretty much the same as last year and I included a link to it in my sign up.  I'm nothing if not predictable.  Ignore Last Battle.  Just about anything else is OK though I'm not a fan of Jadis or the Telmarine era.  My assignment is going to be.. interesting.  In a good way!  Something new!  VERY NEW.


I got a nice query from a long time reader who was starting a re-read and wondering about reading order, which reminded me that I had a story on FF.net that never made it to AO3, Lost in Translation. LiT was all prompted by reader feedback and questions and most, but not all of it, ended up in other works, especially Rejection of the Terms (there's a cute part in LiT where Peter is doting on a pregnant Morgan and I thought of updating it, setting it later, aligning it with the other stories, and including Seth Stanleh but eh, I think we've all moved on). Anyway, the part that had nearly disappeared into the Internet ether is the Knighting of the Otters. So I pulled it from LiT on ff.net and posted it last night.

I'm working hard on the final update to Star Husband which has gone in a very unexpected direction.  WOOT.  Maybe next week?


AND, in other news, because I know you are waiting with baited breath -- Komo's G/I tract appears to be on the mend.  It's blazingly hot so I"m not getting the dogs out for walks unless very early in the morning or in the evening after a thunderstorm but, as near as I can tell (he's very secretive about where he does his big business) things are normal or nearly so.  We'll be trying a super hydrolyzed, allergen-free commercial diet and see if that solves the issues -- he's exhibited a bundle of symptoms sfor a long time -- including LOTS of water drinking -- and these all seem to have abated.  HOPEFULLY we can get him on to something more nutritionally adequate than boiled rice and chicken.