Category: Fanfic

Summer of Narnia 2025 Fanfic Reviews, Part 2 [Review]

  More reviews of Narnia fanfic I’ve read. All of these are on AOW. Note some may be locked to users not a member of a site. An anchor in the drift, by booksabouttrains This story is a HHB AU in which Shasta doesn’t escape with Bree in time and winds up being a slave …

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Summer of Narnia 2024 Fanfic Reviews, Part 1 [Review]

Here’s some Narnia fanfic I’ve read over the past year. Modern Narnia: A History, by Twinklestar This is one of those fics that applies a pseudo-historical tone — and a meta one — to the Narnia series AND Narnia fanfic. It’s written like a textbook intended for a college literature class. An interesting little snippet. …

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Y/N [Reading Challenge 2024]

Y/N by Esther Li Penguin Random House, 2024 [ #23  Out of the park on first at-bat: A debut ] Update on Authors Watercooler Reading Challenge 2024. I wasn’t getting anywhere with my paranormal pick, The Death of the Necromancer by Martha Welles. Who, unknown to me when I picked it in January, also wrote the …

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Fanfic Warning Labels

I was waiting for the right time to post this. Can be applied to non-fanfic writing as well.

Zepped Again! (Part III)

In this post I’ll showcase some pieces of fan art I didn’t get around to last year or have found since then. Like the two fluffy yaoi romantic fantasies below. Jimbert of course.

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Worldbuilding Wednesday 5/15/24: Let’s Talk About the Milky Way (Part 4)

There are interpretations of the Milky Way other than the arms of a distant galaxy. The Milky Way candy bar, invented in 1923 in Minneapolis, is still going strong domestically and globally. Its inventor was one Frank Mars, who gave his name to — you guessed it — the Mars Bar. You’d think he chose …

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A Narnia Fanfic Cornucopia [Reviews]

It’s time for another group review of Narnia fanfics! This time, the form is a buffet featuring authors on AoW who I haven’t written reviews on before. I had plenty of time to read, as I was sick with bronchitis during a heatwave (yeah, that’s fun) and couldn’t do much else. Gale and the Dragon, …

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Malignment in Emerald [Fanfic]

I realized I didn’t announce this particular fanfic. It’s on AoW. I am tired of this slander. Oh, I suppose I should be flattered that all of Narnia thinks of me as a femme fatale… the cunning, poisonous witch who seduced a crown prince and kept him in my thrall. The lute-playing enchantress who created …

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