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Fics have been revealed, authors have been revealed, and now I can link to things!

I received three amazing gifts this round!

The Truth Without Lying (18560 words) by ViaLethe
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis, A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Susan Pevensie/Jon Snow
Characters: Susan Pevensie, Jon Snow, Lucy Pevensie, Sansa Stark
Additional Tags: Golden Age (Narnia), Secret Relationship, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Crossover Pairings, Spare Oom, Family Issues, The Problem of Susan, Canonical Character Death, Forbidden Love
Summary:

Susan remembers everything, other than how Jon Snow had gotten in that wardrobe along with them. It's everyone else who's forgotten.

This is a gorgeous, heart-breaking Narnia/ASOIAF crossover with Susan Pevensie/Jon Snow, and basically Vialethe crawled in my head and found out everything I ever wanted in a fic and gave it to me, and it's lovely and I love her for it.


Next up, another Susan/Jon fic:

International Relations (1770 words) by Syrena_of_the_lake
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis, Game of Thrones (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Susan Pevensie/Jon Snow
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Fusion, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Treat
Summary:

All is not well at Winterfell University, but Susan Pevensie will be damned if she grants one more midterm paper extension. (Jon Snow, however, has seen the army of the damned, and came prepared.)

Another one totally tailored for me! Action and humor, and I literally laughed out loud! It is so much fun!


Finally, Caspian bangs all the Pevensies, because why not?

Four times Caspian slept with a Pevensie (and one time he slept with them all) (3076 words) by Starbrow
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - All Media Types
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Caspian/Peter Pevensie, Caspian/Susan Pevensie, Caspian/Edmund Pevensie, Caspian/Lucy Pevensie, Caspian/Peter Pevensie/Susan Pevensie, Caspian/Edmund Pevensie/Peter Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie/Ramandu's Daughter | Liliandil, Caspian/Lucy Pevensie/Ramandu's Daughter | Liliandil, Edmund Pevensie & Lucy Pevensie & Peter Pevensie & Susan Pevensie
Characters: Caspian (Narnia), Peter Pevensie, Susan Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie, Ramandu’s Daughter | Liliandil
Additional Tags: Caspian is the Narnian bicycle, He is very okay with this, Orgy, I'm not kidding it's a Narnian orgy, Incest, But it's okay because they're dead, Unexpected Problem of Susan!, And all the pairings, literally all of them - Freeform, 5 Things, 5+1 Things, It's really 4 Things but there's also a Star so 5 is fair
Summary:

What it says on the tin.

I mean, how can I not love this fic, starring my beloved Caspian? Also the tags send me to another dimension! :D

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I wrote one fic, for Aurilly because she's the best:

a shaped romance (2115 words) by Snacky
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis, Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Edmund Pevensie
Characters: Edmund Pevensie, James "Bucky" Barnes
Additional Tags: Romance, Kidnapping!, no real action though, Crossover, bucky in narnia, Narnia Fic Exchange 2020
Summary:

Adventure and a weird sort of romance with Edmund and Bucky!

I rewrote this like, seven times before I was satisfied with it. That said, I think it came out well in the end! I am intrigued by Bucky and Edmund as a pairing, and it took me a while to make them work. And I wanted them well-adjusted (mostly) and happy. I laughed out loud at a couple of parts when writing it, so that seemed like a good sign.

I cut the smut, though, sorry (available upon request). :D

Hello! Greetings from Cape Cod! I am in full vacation mode, eating breakfast late and on the deck, getting ready to spend the day at the beach, reading in the sun, and floating in the surf.

No sharks spotted, so my body is safe from nibbles, in case you were worried. :D

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I did this meme over on Twitter (thanks rthstewart!) but it was fun, so let’s bring it here!

Tell me the one fic you associate with my username. In exchange, I’ll tell you a secret about that story.

It can be a scene that was deleted or never written or character motivations or even a story from my shameful past.

Ask away! Perhaps a scandal will be revealed!

I saw Josh Groban at Tanglewood last night. He was, as expected, delightful. Everything I wanted and MORE.

(Did I ever mention Josh Groban is my fancast for Fingon from Tolkien's Silmarillion? Random Snacky fact.)

Tanglewood is a wonderful place to see a concert. Out in the middle of nowhere, very low key, surrounded by nature -- a perfect place to take a nice long walk, have a drink on the lawn, and hear some great music. If you're ever out in the Berkshires, I highly recommend it!

My mother treated me to the concert, and we stayed overnight rather than drive home last night. Unfortunately we stayed in kind of a terrible dump? My mother was like, "okay, but I got a GREAT deal online" which was good, except we were right on the highway, and I'm pretty sure there was some crack dealing going on. I didn't see any mice or roaches, which was a positive.

Anyway, we were up and out early, to breakfast. My mother claims she has learned a lesson: "nothing cheap online is ever very good" which I don't think is entirely true, but maybe just look at Yelp or something before booking a dump?

After breakfast, we went to the Norman Rockwell Museum, which is also out in the middle of nowhere. It was great driving to all these places, seriously, so beautiful, surrounded by mountains. The NRM is also a great place to walk around and bring a picnic, but if you like Norman Rockwell (I do) and are interested in Americana (I am) and also have a bit of nostalgia for a perfect small town life that you never experienced (I... not really, but it's fun to imagine), this is the place for you! There's an entire gallery just devoted to his Saturday Evening Post covers, and I could study them all day long. The thing I love the most about Rockwell is how every single one of his pictures could tell a detailed story, and there's a lot about that and how he did it in the museum.

From the museum, we treated ourselves to a wonderful lunch at The Red Lion Inn. This place has been around in some form or another since colonial times, and it's a lot of fun to walk through and get the antique vibe. Lunch was great, and if you go, save room for the warm brown sugar cake for dessert. OH MY GOD, SOOOOO GOOD.

I need to find a recipe now.

I am writing and posting this entry on my laptop!

This is remarkable because my laptop has been on the verge of death for several weeks now. It's a 2012 Macbook Pro, so it's already had a pretty good life, by laptop standards. Last year, it had a problem starting up (it wouldn't), so I took it in to the local Mac repair place (not an Apple Store, but an "Apple certified" repair shop), and they did some kind of repair magic and got it to work again. One thing they suggested was replacing the hard drive with a solid state drive in the future, so I kept that in mind.

Unfortunately it's been super slooooooooooooooooow ever since, and it crashes when I have more than one program open, and sometimes it crashes so hard that all I can do is shut it off and walk away. So that's been frustrating. About two months ago, the trackpad started to die, and then the crashes got even worse, so off I went to the Mac repair shop again. They had me leave the laptop and said they'd order a trackpad and quote me on replacing the HD with an SSD.

So replacing the trackpad was a reasonable cost, but they didn't recommend replacing the HD because the laptop is so old that Apple considers it a "legacy" product, and they wouldn't be able to warranty the work because of the age, blah blah I didn't understand anything but "too old." Still, they gave me the quote, and with parts and labor, it was going to be around $600 to swap out the drive.

I said "no thank you" and I went online and found a couple of guides on how to replace the HD in an old Macbook Pro with an SSD, and said to myself, "Oh, I think I can do this." When I picked up the laptop from the Mac repair shop, the customer service person was like, "I have a 2009 Macbook Pro and I swapped the drives and it's still working great!" So like, hint taken, my friend.

I bought an SSD and the tools I needed from Amazon. Everything arrived yesterday, so last night I cloned the old drive to the new, and then this morning I opened up the computer and swapped the drives and AMAZINGLY I didn't screw it up, and now everything is working great. It's all speedy and I can open multiple programs at once, and iTunes doesn't take 20 minutes to open, and I can actually use Photoshop Elements again!

So now I feel extremely techie! And I've very pleased with my accomplishment, and I had to share it with you all.

Oh, and the trackpad works great again!

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In other news, I watched The Umbrella Academy and I loved it. I went in with no expectations and I was delighted by the messed up family of would-be superheroes. Anyone else watching?

My cable company sent me a new modem yesterday. It was unexpected! They sent me an email saying "we're sending your new equipment" and I had to call them and say, "what new equipment?" and they were like, "hmmm someone was supposed to send you an email" WHICH GUESS WHAT, THEY DIDN'T.

In any case, they were sending me a new modem, at no charge, to upgrade my speed. They said I had one of the oldest modems and the speed was Not Good.

So okay, I got the modem yesterday, I followed the instructions to hook it up, and of course, it didn't work. So I had to call the cable company and they had to flip some switches on their end (I guess? Maybe they pushed buttons?) to get my tv, internet, and phone to work. But it finally did, so that was a relief. Then I had to go out to the local cable store to return the old modem, so they wouldn't charge me for it.

I didn't really get a chance to test it out until today, and you know what? It really IS super fast! I'm kind of amazed at how quick I can use the internet! I'm also amazed that I didn't realize how slow it was until today.

In other tech news, my laptop (a 2012 Macbook pro) is not doing well. I think the hard drive is dying and I'm planning on swapping it out with a solid state drive. Also the track pad only works intermittently, which is SUPREMELY FRUSTRATING. I don't know what the deal with it is -- it could be the battery, which fucks things up in Mac laptops often, or it could be that the trackpad is really just... dying, I guess. Which means I'm looking at a trip to the local Apple store.

Once my finances improve, that is. Thyroid cancer is not just bad for your health, it is bad for your wallet. :(

The problem with having a playlist called "singalong" is that I actually sing along with all the songs as they come up, and I don't realize I'm doing it.

This brought to you by me just noticing I was singing "Jet Boy Jet Girl" at my desk with my coworkers around.

Hey, it's me! With a fic/art combo that I posted! Many thanks to musesfool for looking it over. Also thanks to bedlamsbard because I'm pretty sure she came up with Beaversdam University.

We'll See You in the Pages of a Magazine (0 words) by Snacky
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia - All Media Types, Chronicles of Narnia (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Peter Pevensie, Susan Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Modern Royalty, News Media, magazine, Fictional Media, Mixed Media, Fanart
Series: Part 3 of Welcome to the Golden Age
Summary:

Ten years after their coronation, the Kings and Queens of Narnia are interviewed by the magazine,The Narnia Chronicles.

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There are actually words, but they're contained in the artwork, I promise!

I posted two stories to AO3 last night! I am now attempting to keep track of such things here!

They were cross-postings from tumblr, based on submitted prompts. If you like minor ASOIAF characters and crack pairings, you might like these!

First, a ficlet:

things you said after you kissed me (451 words) by Snacky
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Arthur Dayne/Lyanna Stark
Characters: Arthur Dayne, Lyanna Stark
Additional Tags: Tumblr Prompt, Prompt Fic, Alternate Universe, Ficlet
Summary:

Lyanna and Arthur may regret their impulsive act, but they wouldn't change it.

And then a short fic:

Adventures to Come (1342 words) by Snacky
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Arthur Dayne & Ashara Dayne
Characters: Arthur Dayne, Ashara Dayne
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Sibling Bonding, Family Fluff, Prompt Fic, Originally Posted on Tumblr
Summary:

Ashara and Arthur Dayne before they ever left home.

This could be fun! And maybe I'll post more, haha?

Pick any story I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you the equivalent of a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you’d expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

My fic is here.

I just read a thread that devolved into people arguing about whether they thought of Robert Downey Jr's dick when they wrote smut.

(Spoilers: Smut writers say no, not thinking about RDJ's dick specifically, just a general dick for smutty purposes. People do not believe this say it's a little like raping RDJ to write about his character having sex because OF COURSE you must think about his dick.)

There were no winners. Except me. Who laughed and laughed.