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My assignment for snacky:
Letters From The West (2378 words) by tielan
Chapters: 3/3>
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences>
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply>
Relationships: Edmund Pevensie & Lucy Pevensie & Peter Pevensie & Susan Pevensie>
Characters: Edmund Pevensie, Peter Pevensie, Susan Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie>
Additional Tags: POV Edmund Pevensie, Family, Epistolary>
Summary: Edmund is sent to deal with a situation out near the western wilderness. He writes letters back to his family in Cair Paravel.


I actually wanted this to stretch out over a longer period, including Edmund growing up and having to face more adult decisions than is probably warranted for a teenager, but found myself struggling to complete it the way I wanted. So this is King Edmund the Just, Count of the Western March, in his early days of ruling (while he still remembers his childhood), trying to be fair. I based a lot of it on Edmund in the Prince Caspian movie, facing down the Telmarines (and at times Peter), knowing what he knows and not backing down.

And along the way I got to answer what happened to all the humans who'd once lived in Narnia (Frank and Helen, for starters, and then all the other countries of humans around them, most of which don't have the 'magical' creatures, and think about how you actually fairly deal with a bunch of people who decide this land is there for the taking (when, really, it's not).

There was a small reference in my Cor/Aravis fic 'Son of Kings, Daughter of Tisrocs' about the end of Narnia's Golden Age (after the Pevensies disappear) where Cor says that they're not going to annex Narnia: Archenland is enough.

Hm. Still have to write that fic about Caszhi of the Shinar. Also, the fic where Caszhi meets Susan after The Last Battle and sparks Susan's faith again.

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So this one was obviously mine. Duh.

evening spread out against the sky (2641 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1>
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences>
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply>
Relationships: Maria Hill & Steve Rogers>
Characters: Maria Hill, Steve Rogers, Nick Fury>
Additional Tags: Pre-Movie: Avengers (2012), Friendship>
Summary: Her job is to inform him of the options. Of course, telling them all to go to hell is an option, too.


The request was for Steve/Maria having interactions before the Avengers, perhaps she talks him into joining the Avengers, and I kind of thought about that first waking scene in CA:TFA. Lying to Steve from the get-go probably wasn't one of Fury's best ideas. Having someone who shoots straight with him, who's frank about wanting him for their work but who's also going to leave the door open for him if that's what it takes? Maybe that tipped the balance from emphasising what he's lost to helping him acclimatise into the future.

I might continue this series into the future, running off my own steam rather than the recipient's request.

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And two short-and-humourous Bridgerton fics for Kate Week 2024:

Steal Her Kisses (33 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1>
Fandom: Bridgerton (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences>
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply>
Relationships: Anthony Bridgerton/Kate Sharma>
Characters: Kate Sharma, Anthony Bridgerton>
Additional Tags: Kate Week 2024 (Bridgerton), Kate Week (Bridgerton)>
Summary: Seven for a secret soonest being told...


This one was technically written for Kate Week and it's about Kate, but it's not really Kate-centric, so I ended up withdrawing it from the collection:

Marriage Agreements For An Agreeable Marriage (302 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1>
Fandom: Bridgerton (TV)
Rating: General Audiences>
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply>
Relationships: Simon Basset & Anthony Bridgerton, Anthony Bridgerton/Kate Sharma (background), Simon Basset/Daphne Bridgerton (background)>
Characters: Simon Basset, Anthony Bridgerton>
Additional Tags: Fluff and Humor>
Summary: "How, exactly, is it that you come to be bargaining the marriage settlements for my wife?"

Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings, stretched his long legs out in his best friend's office and paused. "Your wife, Bridgerton? She's not your wife yet."

'Marriage Agreements' is a counterpoint to the Werewolves AU Bridgerton fic 'Next Time They Duel', because I felt like it.

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I had at least one more treat I wanted to write, but it's sitting at 1.6K and I'm staring at it trying to work out where the characters go from here. (It's Lee Adama/Kara Thrace, if anyone wants to suggest a next-course-of-action other than frakking. They're already doing that.)

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I believe I may need more Bridgerton icons. Also, I need to hunt up my old Narnia icons.

It's mostly Kate-centric, because, well, this is me...

dawn steals softly (984 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Bridgerton (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Anthony Bridgerton/Kate Sharma
Additional Tags: Riding, Kate x Anthony Week 2022, Vignette
Summary: The sun rises swiftly along the wadi, shifting the colours of the sky above Kate from pale grey to rose to saffron dawn, before the brightness of the day bursts into the vivid gold of the early morning.

For the Kate/Anthony Week, Day 1 prompt: riding at dawn.

There's an AO3 collection, and I rather liked the one where someone wrote angry geese of destiny. (I mean, the geese are 100% there in their meeting. It's totes The Angry Goose Of Destiny!)

Anyway, on to finish this ridiculous wedding epic. Took over my brain for the better part of the last couple of weeks and I am going to finish it tonight. I AM.

Fixits is what happens when I get a fave who doesn't get love in-canon.

Unusually, my fave and her OTP are for once actually the focus of the media property (however badly done), and so there are many other people who are producing/getting involved! It's kind of exciting! Although after toiling for 10 years to produce and encourage ~850 fics for Maria/Steve, it's been, oh, two weeks, and there's well over 1000 fics for Kate/Anthony. The speed at which the Anthony/Kate tag moves is unbelievable.

*sigh*

Give me five people who can write like the wind, plot like a villain, and obsess like a fangirl, and I can change the face of a pairing in a fingersnap.

I never had five people in Maria/Steve fandom. I barely had one at any point in time.

Also, the Bridgerton fandom skews...young, so far as I can see. And the people with the worst takes (Edwina deserved better than the show gave her, Penelope is an awful person) are always the ones who have a media publication for their platform.

So far there's the multichapter-only-two-written-so-far:

formed, not declared (4185 words) by tielan
Chapters: 2/?
Fandom: Bridgerton (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Anthony Bridgerton/Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma, Edwina Sheffield | Edwina Sharma & Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma & Mary Sheffield | Mary Sharma
Characters: Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma, Edwina Sheffield | Edwina Sharma, Mary Sheffield | Mary Sharma
Additional Tags: Romance, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Sharmas as family
Summary:

In the froth and flutter of the season, the ton - and royalty - so easily forget this simple truth: a diamond is formed, not declared.

And I have about 2000 words to a fic about the wedding-which-we-didn't-get-to-see. With Hindi wedding traditions, and Kate dealing with stuff that we didn't get to see her deal with in the show. Hopefully that'll be out mid-week.