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Not time’s fool (9611 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 6/?
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Caspian/Lucy Pevensie
Characters: Lucy Pevensie, Caspian (Narnia), Ramandu's Daughter | Liliandil, Edmund Pevensie, Peter Pevensie, Polly Plummer, Digory Kirke, Eustace Scrubb, Lord Rhoop (Narnia)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Romance, Sailing, Prophecy
Series: Part 3 of An ever-fixèd mark
Summary:

“You see,” Edmund began, and all leaned in, visibly listening, “it wasn’t just romance that kept Lucy in Narnia. She is with Caspian, now, but she also had a – a vision isn’t quite right. She was shown a prophetic image in a magical book, and Aslan vouched, later, personally, for its truth. She acted as she did to attempt to divert what she saw, and I think we’d better do likewise, on our end. Here’s what you all need to know.”

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Not time’s fool (8098 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 5/?
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Caspian/Lucy Pevensie
Characters: Lucy Pevensie, Caspian (Narnia), Ramandu's Daughter | Liliandil, Edmund Pevensie, Peter Pevensie, Polly Plummer, Digory Kirke, Eustace Scrubb, Lord Rhoop (Narnia)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Romance, Sailing, Prophecy
Series: Part 3 of An ever-fixèd mark
Summary:

“You see,” Edmund began, and all leaned in, visibly listening, “it wasn’t just romance that kept Lucy in Narnia. She is with Caspian, now, but she also had a – a vision isn’t quite right. She was shown a prophetic image in a magical book, and Aslan vouched, later, personally, for its truth. She acted as she did to attempt to divert what she saw, and I think we’d better do likewise, on our end. Here’s what you all need to know.”

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Not time’s fool (4504 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 3/?
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Caspian/Lucy Pevensie
Characters: Lucy Pevensie, Caspian (Narnia), Ramandu's Daughter | Liliandil
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Series: Part 3 of An ever-fixèd mark
Summary:

“You see,” Edmund began, and all leaned in, visibly listening, “it wasn’t just romance that kept Lucy in Narnia. She is with Caspian, now, but she also had a – a vision isn’t quite right. She was shown a prophetic image in a magical book, and Aslan vouched, later, personally, for its truth. She acted as she did to attempt to divert what she saw, and I think we’d better do likewise, on our end. Here’s what you all need to know.”

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Not time’s fool (1309 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Caspian/Lucy Pevensie
Characters: Lucy Pevensie, Caspian (Narnia)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Series: Part 3 of An ever-fixèd mark
Summary:

“You see,” Edmund began, and all leaned in, visibly listening, “it wasn’t just romance that kept Lucy in Narnia. She is with Caspian, now, but she also had a – a vision isn’t quite right. She was shown a prophetic image in a magical book, and Aslan vouched, later, personally, for its truth. She acted as she did to attempt to divert what she saw, and I think we’d better do likewise, on our end. Here’s what you all need to know.”

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Even to the edge of doom (24646 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 11/11
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Caspian/Lucy Pevensie
Characters: Lucy Pevensie, Caspian (Narnia), Edmund Pevensie, Eustace Scrubb, Drinian (Narnia), Bern (Narnia), Aslan (Narnia), Ramandu’s Daughter | Liliandil
Additional Tags: Canon Rewrite, Aged-Up Character(s), Sailing, Romance, Eventual Romance, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Royalty, POV Multiple, Teen Romance, Self-Doubt, Book/Movie: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Prophecy
Series: Part 2 of An ever-fixèd mark
Summary:

The spirit that had awoken in her in was, Lucy knew, part of her former life, her life before she’d gone back to being a schoolgirl again. Not stuck visiting family, or bored and dreaming during lessons, but striking out with knife, claws, and faith for freedom, for justice, for her people, for what was right.

Coming back to Narnia meant taking on a mantle of majesty. She felt, not old, not young, but the Queen again.

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Even to the edge of doom (23143 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 10/11
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Caspian/Lucy Pevensie
Characters: Lucy Pevensie, Caspian (Narnia), Edmund Pevensie, Eustace Scrubb, Drinian (Narnia), Bern (Narnia), Aslan (Narnia), Ramandu’s Daughter | Liliandil
Additional Tags: Canon Rewrite, Aged-Up Character(s), Sailing, Romance, Eventual Romance, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Royalty, POV Multiple, Teen Romance, Self-Doubt, Book/Movie: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Prophecy
Series: Part 2 of An ever-fixèd mark
Summary:

The spirit that had awoken in her in was, Lucy knew, part of her former life, her life before she’d gone back to being a schoolgirl again. Not stuck visiting family, or bored and dreaming during lessons, but striking out with knife, claws, and faith for freedom, for justice, for her people, for what was right.

Coming back to Narnia meant taking on a mantle of majesty. She felt, not old, not young, but the Queen again.

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Even to the edge of doom (20895 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 9/10
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Caspian/Lucy Pevensie
Characters: Lucy Pevensie, Caspian (Narnia), Edmund Pevensie, Eustace Scrubb, Drinian (Narnia), Bern (Narnia), Aslan (Narnia)
Additional Tags: Canon Rewrite, Aged-Up Character(s), Sailing, Romance, Eventual Romance, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Royalty, POV Multiple, Teen Romance, Self-Doubt, Book/Movie: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Prophecy
Series: Part 2 of An ever-fixèd mark
Summary:

The spirit that had awoken in her in was, Lucy knew, part of her former life, her life before she’d gone back to being a schoolgirl again. Not stuck visiting family, or bored and dreaming during lessons, but striking out with knife, claws, and faith for freedom, for justice, for her people, for what was right.

Coming back to Narnia meant taking on a mantle of majesty. She felt, not old, not young, but the Queen again.

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Even to the edge of doom (18359 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 8/10
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Caspian/Lucy Pevensie
Characters: Lucy Pevensie, Caspian (Narnia), Edmund Pevensie, Eustace Scrubb, Drinian (Narnia), Bern (Narnia), Aslan (Narnia)
Additional Tags: Canon Rewrite, Aged-Up Character(s), Sailing, Romance, Eventual Romance, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Royalty, POV Multiple, Teen Romance, Self-Doubt, Book/Movie: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Prophecy
Series: Part 2 of An ever-fixèd mark
Summary:

The spirit that had awoken in her in was, Lucy knew, part of her former life, her life before she’d gone back to being a schoolgirl again. Not stuck visiting family, or bored and dreaming during lessons, but striking out with knife, claws, and faith for freedom, for justice, for her people, for what was right.

Coming back to Narnia meant taking on a mantle of majesty. She felt, not old, not young, but the Queen again.

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Even to the edge of doom (15883 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 7/10
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Caspian/Lucy Pevensie
Characters: Lucy Pevensie, Caspian (Narnia), Edmund Pevensie, Eustace Scrubb, Drinian (Narnia), Bern (Narnia), Coriakin (Narnia), Aslan (Narnia)
Additional Tags: Canon Rewrite, Aged-Up Character(s), Sailing, Romance, Eventual Romance, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Royalty, POV Multiple, Teen Romance
Series: Part 2 of An ever-fixèd mark
Summary:

The spirit that had awoken in her in was, Lucy knew, part of her former life, her life before she’d gone back to being a schoolgirl again. Not stuck visiting family, or bored and dreaming during lessons, but striking out with knife, claws, and faith for freedom, for justice, for her people, for what was right.

Coming back to Narnia meant taking on a mantle of majesty. She felt, not old, not young, but the Queen again.

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Even to the edge of doom (13445 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 6/10
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Caspian/Lucy Pevensie
Characters: Lucy Pevensie, Caspian (Narnia), Edmund Pevensie, Eustace Scrubb, Drinian (Narnia), Bern (Narnia), Coriakin (Narnia), Aslan (Narnia)
Additional Tags: Canon Rewrite, Aged-Up Character(s), Sailing, Romance, Eventual Romance, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Royalty, POV Multiple, Teen Romance
Series: Part 2 of An ever-fixèd mark
Summary:

The spirit that had awoken in her in was, Lucy knew, part of her former life, her life before she’d gone back to being a schoolgirl again. Not stuck visiting family, or bored and dreaming during lessons, but striking out with knife, claws, and faith for freedom, for justice, for her people, for what was right.

Coming back to Narnia meant taking on a mantle of majesty. She felt, not old, not young, but the Queen again.

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Even to the edge of doom (11123 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 5/10
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Caspian/Lucy Pevensie
Characters: Lucy Pevensie, Caspian (Narnia), Edmund Pevensie, Eustace Scrubb, Drinian (Narnia), Bern (Narnia), Coriakin (Narnia), Aslan (Narnia)
Additional Tags: Canon Rewrite, Aged-Up Character(s), Sailing, Romance, Eventual Romance, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Royalty, POV Multiple
Series: Part 2 of An ever-fixèd mark
Summary:

The spirit that had awoken in her in was, Lucy knew, part of her former life, her life before she’d gone back to being a schoolgirl again. Not stuck visiting family, or bored and dreaming during lessons, but striking out with knife, claws, and faith for freedom, for justice, for her people, for what was right.

Coming back to Narnia meant taking on a mantle of majesty. She felt, not old, not young, but the Queen again.

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Even to the edge of doom (9003 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 4/10
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Caspian/Lucy Pevensie
Characters: Lucy Pevensie, Caspian (Narnia), Edmund Pevensie, Eustace Scrubb, Drinian (Narnia), Bern (Narnia), Coriakin (Narnia), Aslan (Narnia)
Additional Tags: Canon Rewrite, Aged-Up Character(s), Sailing, Romance, Eventual Romance, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Royalty, POV Multiple
Series: Part 2 of An ever-fixèd mark
Summary:

The spirit that had awoken in her in was, Lucy knew, part of her former life, her life before she’d gone back to being a schoolgirl again. Not stuck visiting family, or bored and dreaming during lessons, but striking out with knife, claws, and faith for freedom, for justice, for her people, for what was right.

Coming back to Narnia meant taking on a mantle of majesty. She felt, not old, not young, but the Queen again.

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Even to the edge of doom (7067 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 3/10
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Caspian/Lucy Pevensie
Characters: Lucy Pevensie, Caspian (Narnia), Edmund Pevensie, Eustace Scrubb, Drinian (Narnia), Bern (Narnia), Coriakin (Narnia), Aslan (Narnia)
Additional Tags: Canon Rewrite, Aged-Up Character(s), Sailing, Romance, Eventual Romance, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Series: Part 2 of An ever-fixèd mark
Summary:

She never really had felt old, although she’d been many ages, some of them quite a bit older than her current adolescing form. The spirit that had awoken in her in was, Lucy knew, part of her former life, her life before she’d gone back to being a schoolgirl again. Not stuck visiting family, or bored and dreaming during lessons, but striking out with knife, claws, and faith for freedom, for justice, for her people, for what was right.

Coming back to Narnia meant taking on a mantle of majesty. She felt, not old, not young, but the Queen again.

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Even to the edge of doom (4258 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 2/10
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Caspian/Lucy Pevensie
Characters: Lucy Pevensie, Caspian (Narnia), Edmund Pevensie, Eustace Scrubb, Drinian (Narnia), Bern (Narnia), Coriakin (Narnia), Aslan (Narnia)
Additional Tags: Canon Rewrite, Aged-Up Character(s), Sailing, Romance, Eventual Romance
Series: Part 2 of An ever-fixèd mark
Summary:

She never really had felt old, although she’d been many ages, some of them quite a bit older than her current adolescing form. The spirit that had awoken in her in was, Lucy knew, part of her former life, her life before she’d gone back to being a schoolgirl again. Not stuck visiting family, or bored and dreaming during lessons, but striking out with knife, claws, and faith for freedom, for justice, for her people, for what was right.

Coming back to Narnia meant taking on a mantle of majesty. She felt, not old, not young, but the Queen again.

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Can you believe it, I'm gonna finish this Narnia AU I started in 2006. W00T w00t!

Even to the edge of doom (1945 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 1/10
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Caspian/Lucy Pevensie
Characters: Lucy Pevensie, Caspian (Narnia), Edmund Pevensie, Eustace Scrubb, Drinian (Narnia), Bern (Narnia), Coriakin (Narnia), Aslan (Narnia)
Additional Tags: Canon Rewrite, Aged-Up Character(s), Sailing, Romance, Eventual Romance
Series: Part 2 of An ever-fixèd mark
Summary:

She never really had felt old, although she’d been many ages, some of them quite a bit older than her current adolescing form. The spirit that had awoken in her in was, Lucy knew, part of her former life, her life before she’d gone back to being a schoolgirl again. Not stuck visiting family, or bored and dreaming during lessons, but striking out with knife, claws, and faith for freedom, for justice, for her people, for what was right.

Coming back to Narnia meant taking on a mantle of majesty. She felt, not old, not young, but the Queen again.

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the thing that gets me about the way Pullman has it all end up in His Dark Materials - more than the muting of Lyra, the generic alterna-afterlife stuff, the gratuitous heterosexuality – the thing that really gets at me is the narrative insistence on children's obedience. imo that's a hard conservative value, and gives the lie to Pullman's self-positioning as a humanist alternative to Christian fantasists, C.S. Lewis in particular. Read more... )
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I don't know why I feel driven to speak for C. S. Lewis - I don't deny that he was everything everyone says he was. But I get frustrated, because other people's perception of his authorial position in relation to his text just do not match up with my own. and the things that I find lovable about him are erased in the mismatch. Read more... )

(this is mostly coming from my attempt to read through Ana Mardoll's chapter-by-chapter Narnia decon; I respect Ana like crazy, but I get antsy with other feminists and Lewis-reading, because I see him as such a damaged little beast that I want to defend him, and then get frustrated with myself because in general I try to avoid defending white Christian dudebros. I don't think anyone needs to give him a pass. Nevertheless - some girls do woobie!Loki, I got my Jack Lewis)
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Interesting convo over at Shakesville that deconstructs the "but rape is historically realistic" canard by showing all the historically realistic ways medieval women had to gain power that are written right out of Westeros.

More and more, Game of Thrones reinforces my conviction that it's essential to include author positionality in SFF analysis, maybe moreso than in other genres? because of the imaginative freedom/responsibility worldbuilding confers. GoT has some cool-sounding ladypersons in it, but I look at the author and I look at the stans and I don't think their fantasy about ladypersons in a crypto War of the Roses with dragons added is the same as mine. There's an investment in - I don't quite know the word, but bad history and rape culture and something liked medievalist evopsych? which I do not, will not, share. Sometimes you can cut the texts up and rearrange the pieces; but Rape Rape Martin, from what I can see, lays down some hard patterns; those books kind of sincerely scare me, I'll admit it. And the question becomes if it's worth doing the work.

Ironically, bc Martin is so often presented as an improvement on Tolkien, Middle-earth is actually much better at allowing realistic paths to power for women apart from fighting or fucking; there aren't many named ladypersons in LoTR but of the few there are two are Ioreth and my personal cotdamn hero Lobelia Sackville-Baggins. And maybe it's part of the reason why I'll always love Narnia best of all: because women in Narnia gain power through insight and imagination, and they don't have to fight OR fuck if they don't want to. It's much easier for me to mentally wander around Gondor or Cair Paravel and add in realistically diverse, complex, and powerful women than I feel like it would be to attempt the same thing around the Iron Throne.
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Clipping for vids results in odd juxtapositions; I do it without listening to the film, just letting one of my (many) (massive) iTunes playlists spool out as I go. Clipping The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe tonight, had two really fun bits of synchronization: Regina Spektor's "Open" over the alt-Crucifixion scene, and then, less dramatically but more lolariously, "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" cuing up to the big dramz final battle scene, Jadis hitting the chorus.

(Yes I should be going to bed earlier, but I'm on a late-night schedule right now and have no hard incentive to change that, and anyway I don't like going to bed, I've never liked going to bed. You can't make me. Screw "early to bed and early to rise.")
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meme responses: stuff about Dollhouse, Star Trek, and Narnia )

Also, I want to link to Ana Mardoll's piece at Shakesville on the acquittal of Ezekiel Gilbert for Lenora Ivie Frago's murder, because this is one of those cases I want to point to whenever people (so often in the form of my undergraduate students) assert that we've changed since the (inevitably indefinable) Bad Old Days. It's an impulse that I find really frustrating, because it makes me not want to celebrate our successes, knowing that any mention I make of victory will be taken as a total declaration of the end of the war.

eta: also I passed the graduate Spanish test-out I took yesterday! Which is awesome, because it means I don't have to take HISP 492 for the rest of the summer, and have both the foreign language requirements for my degree covered. Which means that as soon as I defend my prospectus, I'll be ABD. I am chilling out today, but this weekend is going to be for writing; I think I have most of my prospectus worked out mentally, but I need to just sort of pound out the words.

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