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).

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 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.

So, I've started this new thing called, Part 3 of The Stone Gryphon, Apostolic Way, and there’s no way a reasonable person could possibly figure out what has already happened in the previous 500,000 words of Part 1 and 2 and the attendants Narnia-based stories.  Is there a short cut?  The beginning of Chapter 1 to Part 3 in fact does include a brief synopsis of what has gone on before.

But, for animus_wyrmis and others who might wish to read a few more things, as I will concede that not every chapter or word is crucial, here are a few shorthand links that might allow you to get a flavor for things and/or to focus on the things that interest you.

This chapter is a Very Important Chapter (hereinafter VIP Chapter). Really. If you read nothing else, read this one. Yes, I recognize that it’s mostly about Edmund and Peter but there is a good dollop of Lucy.  Susan is there, too, but she’s off talking with Aslan about how it totally is not her fault that Rabadash was an ass.  More to the point, it is about why and how the Narnia experience is relevant to the journeys the Friends of Narnia all undertake in Spare Oom.

Chapter 1 of Part 3 is really important to the direction of Lucy's story. Also, this chapter (Heart and Mind) tells you a lot about where Lucy is coming from, including that she was a Knight in Peter’s Order, she talks to dead people, she talks to Aslan, she was the Sword Master, and she’s got some issues with religious authority.  This chapter summarizes what Susan’s goals are for Part 3 (key word filing system).
( Go here for lots and lots of linkity links )

Some rambling meta, over here rather than clogging up animus_wyrmis's LJ on Give the Pevensie A Friend.  Given the number of OCs who run around in my stories, the creating of friends (or even more of them) wasn't a problem.  It was shutting up about them. 

( Peter )
( Susan and Agnes )
( Lucy )
( Polly and Richard )( Susan, George, Moles, and Parts 3-4 )I felt badly I hijacked another person's thread, so thought it better to move it over here.

A Spare Oom Timeline for The Stone Gryphon Parts 1 and 2, through TQSiT, Chapter 17, because you asked

It might not be a 100% or add up completely, but this here's a timeline as best I can manage.  By the way, thanks so much.  The reviews have been astonishing and I'm truly grateful.

( A timeline for The Stone Gryphon, Parts 1 and 2, 1942 )

Really, I'm done with Chapter 15 of TQSiT, and just trying to finish 14 and having a very difficult time of it in the general, I sux mode, why am I doing this again?

So, in the meantime, I give you a new book about the real Mary Anning

( Women of British Archaeology and the Men Who Hindered Them )