Tag: 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.

Summer of Narnia 2024 Fanfic Reviews, July [Review]

It’s time for another group review of Narnia fanfics! Featured artwork: Jill and the Lion. This is the scene from the first chapter of The Silver Chair where Jill, abandoned by Eustace on Aslan’s Mountain, has to decide whether or not to drink from a stream guarded by a dangerous lion who talks to her. …

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My Narnia Fanfic

Since the end of the 2023 Summer of Narnia, I’ve written more Narnia fanfic on Archive of Our Own, which I’ll link to below. Shades of Green Series Stories about different aspects of Prince Rilian and the Green Witch, some serious, some erotic, some humorous. Each story exists in its own universe. Contains currently five …

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The Romantasy Explosion

Since we’re nearing Valentine’s Day, let’s talk about… Romantasy. As implied by the name it’s a mashup of Romance + Fantasy, a subgenre exemplified, perhaps platonically, by Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses series, whose eponymously named first book came out in 2015. Marketed as YA, the fantasy novel was about a …

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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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