Hiding fandom in the underwear drawer since 1977

So,  Chapter 9 of AW went up today, on the second anniversary of when I started posting TSG.  Yikes.  My notifications through FF.net are completely screwy.  I am not getting them at all or they come 12 to 24 hours later.  This doesn't help my perennial anxiety whenever I post.  So, do let me know, here or via a review if you got it. 

A huge thanks to all of you who made note of letters that you wanted to read and thought should be included.  In looking through this chapter, it really is a sum and substance of so much that has gone before and so much of what is to come. 


( The Research )

( The Highlights and Lowlights )

This could be subtitled, Confessions of a Mary Sue Mom  the contours of which are laid out here during the Great Mother's Day Debate in which the Just King perceptively noted that I wanted to write the Pevensies so that they would be role models to (my) children and my greatest fear (other than my assistant getting into my laptop) was that my children would grow up to be like Edmund and this was why I didn't let him conclude By Royal Decree by having sex with Evil Banker Morgan.

If you've been paying attention, you will have noticed that a thematic element that is pervasive on the Narnian side of the vision (establishment of a human succession), is worming its way into TSG.  We have the flashbacks as the end of TQSiT to Cyrus with Peter and Morgan, Mrs. Pevensie's (she still does not have a first name) ruminations to Tebbitt and the Colonel, Edmund's flashbacks regarding Morgan and Aidan's small relations, Fooh and Beehn with Peter and Dalia, Thomas Clark's relationship with Jack, and now Mrs. Pevensie again, plus the little John Lennon looking for beatles [sic] and Yi and Maureen's son.  And of course, Mrs Pevensie's long discussion with Peter in AW7.

Fact is, sitting as I do as so very, very old, when I see the college age or even high school age F List women saying "But I can't tell my parents!" I jump up and down and say "Yes!  Really!  You can!"  And so, ideas of being shut out, of a mother's estrangement from children and spouse, the burden of raising children as de facto single parents (even if not divorce or death, work and war called fathers away then and still does today) are all weaving their way in here and some of this is perhaps a bit more personal than I normally go.  I am exploring the effect of the War and separation on family life as well as the continuing issue of Mrs. Pevensie's peculiar relationship with her children.  You can expect an appearance of Mrs. Goodwin eventually and I think the revelation that Mrs. Pevensie is not quite a stodgy as her children think. 

So, by the way, should I call Mrs. Pevensie "Helen" as the films name her?

Further edit:  I got whacked about in the last two days with some of the usual critique I've garnered over the years plus a new accusation that, frankly, troubles me a lot.  It doesn't change what I'm doing or my approach to the story nor does it make me conclude that I am a reprobate, that I have ruined Narnia, or that I should just wander off to write Twilight fic with others of my ilk.  But, having just posted on the subject of the relationships among parents, spouses, and children and the issues of race, ethnicity and prejudice, and in the wake of the last two chapters exploring themes of justice, retribution, and compassion, I'm going to be retooling the next chapter a bit.  Peter and Susan are due for a long, long talk.  I'm working some things out and the overdue conversation between Peter and Susan will be the vehicle for some of it.

Oh look!  Another snow day when there's no snow!  In that case, why not update with Chapter 6, Change of Heart, Part 2, here  A huge thanks to snacky  for the beta!

( Footnotes are love, and more about Chapter 7 )

 

( 5,000 words of pointless dialog and other blather )

 

First off, wow and thanks so much. I'm just floored by the response so far and it's scary how much happier I feel when there is a story providing a framework for fandom interaction. I really and truly appreciate it.
( Procrastination )  

So, the following is 800 words of birthday fic for Autumnia! Who is yet another totally awesome person born in the month of October.

Yes, indeed, this is an excerpt from the 7,000 plus words and growing Chapter 1 of Part 3 of TSG, Apostolic Way.  The chapter is entitled, The Other End of the Varsity Line.

Peter and Edmund are at Radcliffe Hospital and have just run a gauntlet by the Nurses’ Station and a very flirtatious Nurse Hawkins. Immovable Object (Peter) meets Irresistible Force (Nurse Hawkins) with snarky Edmund providing snarky running commentary.

( Just a little bit for Autumnia. If I had been more productive, it would have been a whole chapter. )

Chapter 22 went up, and it's relatively short, but covers two things that really are best dealt with separately. 

( There are two things that happen... )