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Narnian fanfic
Dec. 29th, 2007 12:50 pmInspired by reading Yuletide Treasures I decided to try and overcome my natural inclination towards shying away from fanfic and write a Narnian piece. It's maybe a bit overly long, and I'm not sure if it's very good, but I quite like it.
As a random note, I've never bought into the 'Susan doesn't get to go to Narnia because she grows up and discovers sex' line. First of all, I never read it that way. I always thought that Susan doesn't get to go to Narnia at the end of the Last Battle because she's stopped believing. She's stopped believing in things that are magical, or intangible, or not obviously real and material. Susan's ending is a warning against letting 'here' and 'now' and 'shiney stuff' become too important and all that there is to you. Furthermore, I never believed that it was a 'banned from Narnia forever' type ending. CS Lewis, in a letter, apparently said that he always hoped that Susan would find her way back to Narnia in the end.
That is what has been floating through my brain as I wrote.
As an additional, my timeline for the Chronicles of Narnia has the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe taking place in 1940, when Susan was about 13. Everything else, date-wise, is sort of based off that.
Finally, the pictures referred to in the text can be found here and here.
( Susan's daughter remembers... )
As a random note, I've never bought into the 'Susan doesn't get to go to Narnia because she grows up and discovers sex' line. First of all, I never read it that way. I always thought that Susan doesn't get to go to Narnia at the end of the Last Battle because she's stopped believing. She's stopped believing in things that are magical, or intangible, or not obviously real and material. Susan's ending is a warning against letting 'here' and 'now' and 'shiney stuff' become too important and all that there is to you. Furthermore, I never believed that it was a 'banned from Narnia forever' type ending. CS Lewis, in a letter, apparently said that he always hoped that Susan would find her way back to Narnia in the end.
That is what has been floating through my brain as I wrote.
As an additional, my timeline for the Chronicles of Narnia has the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe taking place in 1940, when Susan was about 13. Everything else, date-wise, is sort of based off that.
Finally, the pictures referred to in the text can be found here and here.
( Susan's daughter remembers... )
