Long Ago and Far Away

Ran errands today

Thu, 29 Dec 2022 16:43:25 GMT

So far so normal, you're thinking; isn't that what just about everybody does? Aye, they do; however in my case my balance is so badly shot that I need to walk using sticks to keep myself upright. This, along with an inability to carry much, gives you an idea of how difficult it is.

On top of this is the fact I've done something to my lower back that means it hurts every time I'm not super careful about how I move and hold my body. Yippee.

Still. I managed to make my purchases at the pharmacy, and get my business done at the post office, without seeming to damage myself any further. Which is more than I thought I'd manage when faced with having to leave the house today. Maybe things are on the up?

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Long time no post

Fri, 11 Nov 2022 09:52:19 GMT

I'd forgotten I even had this account. Still, I could do worse than post in it every once in a while now I've found it again 😉

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Edmund/Caspian: No Greater Love

Wed, 30 May 2018 21:26:54 GMT

Title: No Greater Love
Characters: Caspian X,
Relationship: Edmund/Caspian
Setting: Dawn Treader
Notes: Filmverse.
Rating: T
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: Characters you recognise belong to C. S. Lewis.
Summary: Edmund has become more important to Caspian than almost anything.

( With this change in his priorities, what sort of king will he become? )

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Caspian/Edmund: A Sea Nourished with Loving Tears

Sun, 13 May 2018 21:57:45 GMT

Title: A Sea Nourished with Loving Tears
Characters: Caspian X, Other(s)
Relationships: Edmund/Caspian
Notes: Filmverse; the title comes from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.
Rating: M
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

( As it is, these remain: faith, hope and love, the three of them; and the greatest of them is love. )

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A little bit of change does nobody any harm.

Sat, 31 Mar 2018 13:08:52 GMT

I ditched Facebook this week, or at least deactivated it. And this afternoon I took everything off my Livejournal account, because most of it is LGBT+ friendly and the laws of the Russian Federation (where Livejournal servers are) are anything but. I may, at some point in the future, delete both.

On top of that, I went through the privacy settings on my Google accounts and cut off their access to my data as much as I can. I need a rethink of my Google Drive contents as well, but there's no way I can delete all of that just yet without an alternative storage option in place.

Now to figure out how to keep my Pinterest and Goodreads accounts going now I'm not using Facebook.

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Caspian/Edmund: Matter

Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:57:13 GMT

Title: Matter
Characters: Edmund Pevensie
Relationship: Edmund/Caspian
Setting: Dawn Treader
Notes: Filmverse.
Rating: T
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: Characters you recognise belong to C. S. Lewis.
Summary: Edmund, in leaving Caspian, is for ever present.

( Because there's different forms of existing, and this is one of them. )

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Caspian/Edmund: A Smoke Raised with the Fume of Sighs

Tue, 06 Mar 2018 23:53:24 GMT

Title: A Smoke Raised with the Fume of Sighs
Characters: Caspian X, Edmund Pevensie
Relationship: Edmund/Caspian
Setting: Dawn Treader
Notes: Filmverse; in this story, as in the film, Deathwater and Dragon Island are one and the same. The title comes from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.
Rating: M
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: Characters you recognise belong to C. S. Lewis.
Summary: Edmund tries not to let what he knows is coming ruin what he has now.

( It was hard enough to leave him the first time, when the two of you were beginning to get to grips with what lies between you. You think leaving him this time might kill you; but you know better than to speak such thoughts aloud. )

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Caspian/Edmund: Aeternitas

Mon, 08 Jan 2018 21:13:46 GMT

Title: Aeternitas
Characters: Caspian X, Edmund Pevensie
Relationship: Edmund/Caspian
Setting: Silver Chair, I suppose. Sort of.
Notes: Filmverse casting. A wild AU, given how The Silver Chair and The Last Battle deal with the respective deaths of Caspian and Edmund. But I don’t care. I wanted to write a Caspian allowed to die with the Edmund he remembers, and is haunted by, at his side when it happens. The title is the Latin word for eternity. The quote at the beginning comes from the song You Raise Me Up by Secret Garden.
Rating: M
Warnings: Major Character Death
Summary: Caspian is close enough to eternity that he can almost touch and taste it.

( It's the end of days. )

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Caspian/Edmund: Irresistible [double drabble]

Mon, 01 Jan 2018 12:44:19 GMT

Title: Irresistible
Characters: Caspian X, Edmund Pevensie
Relationship: Edmund/Caspian
Setting: Dawn Treader
Notes: Filmverse.
Rating: T
Warnings: None
Summary: This was inevitable. The one surprise is that it took this long.

( You don’t remember, after, who moves first. )

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Caspian/Edmund: Faith [double drabble]

Sun, 10 Dec 2017 23:27:48 GMT

Title: Faith
Characters: Caspian X
Relationships: Edmund/Caspian
Setting: post-Prince Caspian, then Dawn Treader
Notes: Filmverse. The summary is a quote from the book Stardust, by Neil Gaiman.
Rating: T
Warnings: None
Summary: You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.

( Aslan himself said Ed would come back to Narnia. )

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Caspian/Edmund: Decisions [drabble]

Sat, 02 Dec 2017 21:34:50 GMT

Title: Decisions
Characters: Caspian X, Other(s) (mentioned)
Relationships: Edmund/Caspian
Setting: Dawn Treader
Notes: Filmverse, although the encounter with the Sea Serpent is in its bookverse setting. This happens in the same timeline as, and is set between, Light & Shadow and Reality Check.
Rating: M
Warnings: None
Summary: Some decisions are difficult; this was never one of them.

You make up your mind; you can’t leave him, not when he’s still unconscious and nobody knows when (or if) he’ll wake.

So your court, such as exists on this tiny sovereign piece of Narnia floating on the open sea, will have to come to you.

You’ve decided.

If they need to see you (or have you sign anything, although why that’s necessary, when that was the whole point of installing Trumpkin as Regent, is beyond your comprehension), they know where you are. You owe Edmund this much, at least. If not more.

You can’t, and you won’t, leave him.

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Book Review: Somewhere Inside of Happy, by Anna McPartlin

Wed, 29 Nov 2017 22:03:56 GMT

Somewhere Inside of Happy by Anna McPartlin

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This took longer to hook me than I thought it would, and at the beginning (before Jeremy Bean's absence is noticed) there was a whole lot of stuff happening that didn't interest me much.

It picks up. And then we find out what happened to Jeremy, and it's heartbreaking. I'd figured out who was involved, by that time, but I was wrong about the how and the bizarre inanity of the surrounding circumstances and how utterly destroyed the other person involved is by it make it even bleaker than it already is.

I hesitate to say I 'like' a book about serious topics like this one, for obvious reasons. But this is a sensitive treatment of the issue and well-written.

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Caspian/Edmund: Reality Check (3/3): Reckoning

Sat, 25 Nov 2017 13:55:31 GMT

Title: Reality Check (3/3)
Chapter Title: Reckoning
Characters: Caspian X, Edmund Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie, Other(s)
Relationships: Edmund/Caspian, Caspian & Lucy Pevensie
Setting: Dawn Treader
Notes: Filmverse, although the encounter with the Sea Serpent is in its bookverse setting. This happens in the same timeline as, and is a direct sequel to, Light & Shadow.
Rating: M
Warnings: None
Summary: ‘You almost died, Ed.’ Your voice cracks from the strength of the emotion you’re feeling. ‘Don’t you understand that? You almost died! I almost lost you!’

( Ed’s awake, at last. )

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Caspian/Edmund: Reality Check (2/3): Joy

Tue, 21 Nov 2017 22:41:34 GMT

Title: Reality Check (2/3)
Chapter Title: Joy
Characters: Caspian X, Edmund Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie, Other(s)
Relationships: Edmund/Caspian, Caspian & Lucy Pevensie
Setting: Dawn Treader
Notes: Filmverse, although the encounter with the Sea Serpent is in its bookverse setting. This happens in the same timeline as, and is a direct sequel to, Light & Shadow.
Rating: M
Warnings: None
Summary: Edmund wakes.

( You’ve spent days here, watching over an unconscious Ed and waiting for time to finish the work Lucy’s Cordial began. )

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Book Review: The Wild Girl by Kate Forsyth

Mon, 20 Nov 2017 22:51:10 GMT

The Wild Girl by Kate Forsyth

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Overall, I like this book.

I did not know that Dortchen Wild and Wilhelm Grimm were married in real life when I read this for the first time, so the part towards the end when she is free of her father made for anxious reading; I was glad to discover they did marry, and the quote from Wilhelm's autobiography makes it seem that it was a happy marriage.

Herr Wild, Dortchen's father, is so very possessive of his daughters in the story that it raised a red flag pretty much straight away, and those parts of the story are very dark indeed. Other darkness, from the seeming never-ending wars and the constant shifting of control of the area between German, French, and Russian power was well done, and I learnt a few things about herbology in passing that I hadn't known before.

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Book Review: Dear Lucy, by Julie Sarkissian

Mon, 20 Nov 2017 22:29:14 GMT

The first thing you need to know (given my current obsession with Narnia) is the Lucy of this book is not Lucy Pevensie!

Dear Lucy by Julie Sarkissian

My rating: 1 of 5 stars

There are things I like about this book - the main narrator (there are three, but the developmentally-disabled titular character takes up the majority of the book), and the talking chicken.

Other than that, this book is full to the brim of WTFery. The true story of what happened to Stella at the hands of Mister, seemingly choreographed by Missus and of which we never get the full details but we see enough to guess at the true horror, is the main one but Lucy's mother appears to be an absolute piece of work as well.

I don't think this is a book I ever want to re-read.

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Caspian/Edmund: Reality Check (1/3): Vigil

Fri, 17 Nov 2017 15:01:57 GMT

Title: Reality Check (1/3)
Chapter Title: Vigil
Characters: Caspian X, Edmund Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie, Other(s)
Relationships: Edmund/Caspian, Caspian & Lucy Pevensie
Setting: Dawn Treader
Notes: Filmverse, although the encounter with the Sea Serpent is in its bookverse setting. This happens in the same timeline as, and is a direct sequel to, Light & Shadow. Thanks go to glory_jean for the beta; all remaining mistakes are my own.
Rating: M
Warnings: None
Summary: Caspian nearly lost Edmund, for ever. And he’s not coping with it well.

( It takes time, and a lot of it, before Ed wakes. )

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Caspian/Edmund: Transition (2/2): Discovered

Wed, 04 Oct 2017 21:14:25 GMT

Title: Transition (2/2)
Characters: Caspian X, Edmund Pevensie, Other(s)
Relationships: Edmund/Caspian
Setting: Dawn Treader
Notes: Filmverse, I suppose. A sequel to Vulnerable.
Rating: T
Warnings: None
Summary: A decision made in a heartbeat on a whim brings unlooked-for consequences.

Chapter One: Night

( Your mind is churning, turning over the events of the day to analyse them. )

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Caspian/Edmund: Transition (1/2): Night

Wed, 27 Sep 2017 21:14:45 GMT

Title: Transition (1/2)
Characters: Caspian X, Edmund Pevensie
Relationships: Edmund/Caspian
Setting: Dawn Treader
Notes: Filmverse, I suppose. A sequel to Vulnerable.
Rating: T
Warnings: None
Summary: Becoming a pair again after so long apart takes time. And, of course, time – or at least any kind of surfeit of it – is the last thing you have.

( But Ed is worth every second you can spare, and more besides. )

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Caspian/Edmund: King of Hearts (2/2): King

Sat, 02 Sep 2017 11:11:42 GMT

Title: King of Hearts (2/2): King
Characters: Caspian X, Other(s)
Relationships: Edmund/Caspian
Setting: Dawn Treader
Notes: Filmverse, I suppose.
Rating: T
Warnings: None
Summary: As soon as you have the chance, you engineer it so you can spend time with him alone, and ever since then you’ve been flirting with him, on and off, trying to make up for lost time.

( It has been a long and lonely three years. )

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Caspian/Edmund: King of Hearts (1/2): Knave

Mon, 28 Aug 2017 12:26:10 GMT

Title: King of Hearts (1/2): Knave
Characters: Caspian X, Other(s)
Relationships: Edmund/Caspian
Setting: Prince Caspian
Notes: Filmverse, I suppose. This part is short; the second is rather longer.
Rating: T
Warnings: None
Summary: There was so much you longed to do the last time you had him here, but you weren’t comfortable or confident enough to make a move.

( Something is different about how you behave towards Ed. )

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Caspian/Edmund: Light & Shadow

Wed, 02 Aug 2017 22:30:28 GMT

Title: Light & Shadow
Characters: Lucy Pevensie, Caspian X, Edmund Pevensie, Other(s)
Relationships: Edmund/Caspian, Lucy Pevensie & Edmund Pevensie, Caspian X & Lucy Pevensie
Notes: Filmverse, although the encounter with the Sea Serpent is in its bookverse setting. This happens in the same timeline as, and is a direct sequel to, A Matter Of Life And Death.
Rating: M
Warnings: None
Summary: You didn’t know what was happening, until it was almost too late.

( But it’s strange what a near-death experience can teach you about people you think you know. )

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Caspian/Edmund: (Je N’ai Pas Oublié) La Chanson Que Tu Me Chantais

Sat, 15 Jul 2017 19:51:15 GMT

Title: (Je N’ai Pas Oublié) La Chanson Que Tu Me Chantais
Characters: Caspian X, Other(s) Mentioned
Pairing: Edmund/Caspian, Caspian & Ramandu’s Daughter
Setting: Post-Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Rating: T
Warnings: None
A/N: I have tried to ship Caspian with Ramandu’s Daughter, but it doesn’t work for me. As a King, however, Caspian has little choice about whether he marries; this might help explain some of his behaviour here. The title is from the poem Les Feuilles Mortes by Jacques Prévert.
Summary: He’s no longer here, but that doesn’t mean you aren’t still in love with him.

( If anything, the opposite is true. )

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Caspian/Edmund: This Is Home

Wed, 05 Jul 2017 23:08:33 GMT

Title: This Is Home
Warnings: None
Notes: Filmverse. Yes, this is post-Voyage of the Dawn Treader Edmund/Caspian. No, I don’t give a fig for canon. All characters you recognise belong to C. S. Lewis.
Character(s): Caspian X, Edmund Pevensie, Other(s)
Pairing(s): Caspian/Edmund Pevensie
Rating: T
Summary: You’re making the conscious decision your unconscious mind reached weeks ago: you cannot leave him.

( The Lion pronounces it time for you to leave, never to return to Narnia. )

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I am writing (well, editing really) again.

Sun, 02 Jul 2017 23:33:48 GMT

It's been a while, hasn't it? Lurgy and other things have kept me from writing much over the past three weeks. But I'm starting to have a bit more energy, and with a bit of luck I should be posting a new work in the next few days.

(Edmund/Caspian, natch.)

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