[Fic] "The Pleasures of the Flesh" -- Chronicles of Narnia/Six of Crows

I am trying to catch up on some internet housekeeping, so here is an absurdly belated Narnia Fic Exchange reveal post!

I wrote a story for Starbrow:

The Pleasures of the Flesh (1827 words) by Elizabeth Culmer
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis, Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Inej Ghafa & Susan Pevensie
Characters: Inej Ghafa, Susan Pevensie
Additional Tags: Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, Golden Age (Narnia), Recovery, Pre-Relationship

Summary: The Wraith arrived in Port Paravel on the coattails of a late March storm, gliding into harbor as the dregs of the gale spent themselves on the palisaded shore and trickled away in skirls of fog and aggravation.

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I probably had relevant things to say about my writing process for this story back in September, but alas, I have forgotten most of them in the intervening months. Mostly I was pleased that I could finally fill a crossover prompt! Generally the crossovers people request for NFE are fandoms I either don't know at all, don't know well enough to write, or am not interested in writing (either at all, or just not in the requested context), which has been a minor sorrow of mine for some years. But! This time I had the relevant knowledge and interest (Inej, my beloved!), and I took gleeful advantage.

As always, I wanted the story to be longer but ran out of time, alas.

[Fic] "What's To Come Is Still Unsure" -- Tam Lin (Pamela Dean)

More internet housekeeping, this time in the form of a belated Yuletide reveal post!

I wrote a story for twistedchick:

What's To Come Is Still Unsure (2363 words) by Elizabeth Culmer
Fandom: Tam Lin - Pamela Dean
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Robert Armin/Molly DuBois, Janet Carter & Christina & Molly DuBois
Characters: Molly DuBois, Janet Carter (Tam Lin - Dean), Christina (Tam Lin), Robert Armin
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Slice of Life, Pregnancy, Complicated Relationships, Awkward Conversations

Summary: After the excitement of Halloween, Molly was happy to settle back into the familiar rhythms of college life: the daily grind of lectures, readings, and labs; odd meals at odder hours; rambling discussions that began in marine neurobiology and ended in the history of riots at musical and theatrical premieres.

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As I said in various places (though possibly not this journal?), I found my assignment hilarious because I had already written an immediately-post-canon fic for this book back in 2016: The Morn Is Hallowday, in which I tied up a canonical loose end by showing how Molly explained the events of Halloween night to Tina, who hadn't been present.

So I decided to explore some of twistedchick's other requests to see if I could write something in a new-to-me fandom. In the event, some of the canons in question seemed too long for a quick Yuletide review, and the one I did get halfway through reading just wasn't sparking for me in a fannish way, so I figured I'd write what is, effectively, a sequel to my previous Tam Lin fic... because a few people had commented on wondering what might happen to Molly and Robin and I wanted to find out myself!

There's also a bunch of Janet and Thomas in the background, as well as Molly's friendship with both Janet and Tina, but really Molly is the star of the show, and the various ways she does and doesn't want to face up to what the reality of magic and fairy bargains with Hell mean for her relationship with Robin.

[Fic] "Desdemona's Holiday" -- Chalion

Last bit of internet housekeeping (for now...).

And then I wrote a Yuletide treat for sholio, because I liked the prompt. :)

Desdemona's Holiday (1301 words) by Elizabeth Culmer
Fandom: Chalion Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Adelis Arisaydia, Nikys Khatai, Alixtra (Chalion)
Additional Tags: Family

Summary: Adelis returns to Vilnoc for a family visit (carefully wrapped up in diplomatic pretexts), only to discover that Penric and Desdemona have once again found themselves in a tricky situation.

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sholio asked for a story in which, through some form of handwavium, Adelis and Desdemona get a chance to speak without Penric acting as intermediary. I found a canonically plausible method. :D

This is really chapter 1 of a somewhat longer story, but deadlines being what they are, I posted a complete scene and I am going to try REALLY HARD to get the rest written this year. (I have made a start on the next scene! ...It's from Desdemona's point of view, which is fun, but it also unexpectedly required me to do a bunch of urban planning and that promptly bogged me down, alas.)

Tangentially, I am very pleased with the name I came up with for Tanar and Adelis's child, because it's exactly the kind of careful political flattery you get at imperial courts. :)