#susan/liliandil

[supernovasilence]

hey. hey it's pride month. *throws these at you and then collapses face down on the floor*

Anyway, I'm out of time so please don't look too closely at Liliandil's hair or Eustace's anything or ask why Eustace is still not looking the same direction as everyone else. There are pretty boys everywhere and he is easily distracted, okay? At least he's not staring disconcertingly out of the screen anymore. Lili is deliberately that tall, though; I headcanon her star heritage gives her unusual height.

[always-a-king-or-queen]

C 👏 S 👏 LEWIS 👏 WAS 👏 NOT 👏 MISOGYNISTIC

IM SO SICK OF THIS TAKE

“But he said girls shouldn’t fight in battles—" No, actually. What he said was “Battles are ugly when women fight.” Which literally translates to “in a war where women are required to fight to help win it, it means the war itself is really bad.” And this literally just means that the war has gotten so bad that women have to fight, not that women shouldn’t fight. Just that they shouldn’t be forced to. Anyway, remember Lucy?? Lucy who rode to battle in The Horse and His Boy?? Lucy who fought as an archer?? “But Susan didn’t—" Yeah. Because she didn’t want to. No one was forcing her not to fight. She had free will to fight or to not fight, and she chose not to because she didn’t want to, not because a man made her stay home.

“He punished Susan for growing up—" S i g h. This is the one I see the most often. “He did Susan dirty” “he made her suffer because she liked lipstick” “etc etc blah blah blah” First of all Narnia is a children’s book series. For CS Lewis to delve into why Susan forgot Narnia, talk about her dealing with the death of her entire family, discuss her grief, and write about her eventual return to Narnia (more on that in a second), it would’ve made for a pretty dark and heavy children’s book, and Lewis said that he didn’t think that was something he wanted to write. But he also encouraged people to finish Susan’s story themselves, and said she might eventually make her own way back to Narnia. Not only this, but Susan’s name means lily, and the waters around Aslan’s country are covered in lilies. Coincidence? I think not. I think it symbolizes she was going to go back. (Especially considering I think Lewis was very careful in choosing each of the Pevensie’s names, since they all relate to their character).

Also, Lewis did not condemn Susan simply for growing up and liking makeup and clothing and boys. If so why would he have written about Aravis and Shasta/Cor, or Caspian and Liliandil? Why would he have written about Susan and Lucy being beautiful and having many suitors? So no, he wasn’t condemning her for that, and in fact he wasn’t condemning her at all. It’s extremely probable that her family’s death would have brought Susan back to her senses. Because here��s the thing: she forgot. She threw herself so much into the world and approval and convinced herself that her life as a queen and her acquaintance with Aslan was all a silly game they played as children, that it wasn’t real. But, she very well could remember again, and I 1000% believe she did.

“All his female characters were weak and did nothing—" My friend. Lucy Pevensie was a female. She discovered Narnia. It was because of her. Her siblings would never have found it without her. Lucy is one of THE most important characters in the entire series. And her title? The Valiant. Lucy’s very title as queen denoted her bravery and fortitude without one even knowing her. As for Susan, she was not any weaker for being “The Gentle.” I would say gentleness is honestly one of the strongest traits a person can have, because it takes a lot to live and be gentle. Also remember Aravis? A major character in The Horse and His Boy and future wife of Shasta, Aravis literally nearly killed herself to escape an arranged marriage. She was not someone to be dictated to; she made her own choices and escaped rather than submitting. And in the end, she’s still fiery, just a little more humble and with less of a chip on her shoulder. Then there’s Polly, who is the more logical person in The Magician’s Nephew and tries to stop Digory from ringing the bell that wakes the White Witch. A boy causes her to awaken, not a girl. It was Digory’s fault she woke up, not Polly’s!!

Also, Peter and Edmund do not ignore their sisters because they’re girls. They listen to what they have to say and speak to them as equals. They don’t forbid them from fighting; Susan chooses not to, but Lucy goes straight into the heart of the battle with them! So don’t even say Lewis made his female characters weak. They were the backbone of much of the series and without them much of the plot would never have happened!!

So don’t you ever say to me that CS Lewis was misogynistic because it’s the furthest thing from the truth

[luucypevensie]

Letter A?

AHHHHH THANK YOU GRETA! We’re going to go with the one that introduces us! Tagging the Narnia moots: @ginger-grimm, @dancingsunflowers-ocs, @rose-of-oz, and @bi-ologistofthehills

Full Name: Allison Gene Lewis

Nicknames: Ally, Ally Lew

Hogwarts House: Gryffindor

Gender: Female (she/her)

Sexuality: Polyamorous Pansexual

A Song I Associate With Them: The Black Dog by Taylor Swift

3 Important Relationships: Isaac and Skye Lewis, her younger siblings whom she would do anything for (we’re counting them together because Allison loves them both equally); Susan Pevensie, her best friend and partner-in-crime, and Peter Pevensie and Liliandil, the loves of her life (once again counting them together because they’re in a poly relationship together)

BONUS - Merlin, her platonic soulmate and each other’s voice of reason before doing something stupid (and then doing it anyway)

2 Fears: Losing her siblings in any shape or form and her parents

1 Element of their backstory: Allison became Isaac and Skye’s guardian once it became clear that their parents were unfit to take care of them (Allison had filed for emancipation the minute she turned 18)

[noybusiness]

@headspace-hotel Yes, that's a really devastating concept for the children's return in Prince Caspian.

My mother and I both always found the image of all the unexplored pools in the Wood Between the Worlds exciting.

Are you thinking of the Telmarines? The Telmarines came through a portal on an island. The Archenlanders are descended from King Frank V's second son and his followers. The Calormenes are descended from Archenlander bandits.

Yes, there are Roman gods in Narnia, like Bacchus and Silenus, not to mention all the river gods, wood gods, nymphs and fauns. C.S. Lewis considered paganism the precursor to ecstatic Christian spirituality and didn't have an issue with nature gods subordinate to Capital G God.

Yes, stars in Narnia are sentient. The protagonists meet Ramandu, a resting star, and Coriakin, a somewhat fallen star, in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, as well as Ramandu's daughter, who appears to be half human since she's said to have the blood of the stars in her veins rather than to be one herself (unlike in the 2010 movie, where she's a star and named Liliandil). Ramandu's daughter marries Caspian and is the mother of Rilian; she's murdered by the Lady of the Green Kirtle's serpent form. In The Last Battle, the protagonists see all the star-people come down to earth at the end of the world.

@queen-of-carven-stone Lucy or Susan didn't almost marry a star. Are you thinking of when Lucy was forced by the Dufflepuds to go into that manor and reverse the invisibility spell cast on them (by themselves) after they were changed from regular dwarfs called Duffers into monopods by the magician Coriakin, who is a former star being punished for prideful ways by having to govern foolish subjects? There was no forced marriage aspect, though.

I'm not sure whether I read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in book form first or saw the 1989 TV serial first. The 1989-1990 TV serials of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and The Silver Chair were very faithful to the books and I recommend seeing them if you're able to, actually. Most scenes are transferred straight from the page to the screen. Great imagery, intros and music, too, very mysterious and evocative, and I can still hear the music as we speak. The same composer did the Brideshead Revisited TV serial, Geoffrey Burgon. I especially loved the winged panther and cockatrice in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Tom Baker (the Fourth Doctor) played Puddleglum in The Silver Chair. Warwick Davis (Willow in Willow and Nikabrik in the 2008 Prince Caspian film) played Reepicheep in Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, as well as Glimfeather in The Silver Chair.

narnia has actually way too many completely devastating concepts in it that are not explored At All

[solstce]

wear your heart on your sleeve

by statuesquue for embraidery, goldenretrievers46

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: F/F

Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - All Media Types

Relationships: Susan Pevensie/Ramandu's Daughter | Liliandil, Lucy Pevensie & Susan Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie & Susan Pevensie, Peter Pevensie & Susan Pevensie

Characters: Susan Pevensie, Ramandu’s Daughter | Liliandil

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Fashion & Models, designer au, Dress shop AU, Friends to Lovers, they're soft okay

Language: English

Summary:

Susan's been in love with Liliandil for literal years. She knows there's no chance of Liliandil liking her back.

But when Liliandil invites her to a gala, she can't turn the offer down, even if nothing will happen...

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The bell jingles, and Susan feels a gust of wind enter the shop, no doubt ruffling the carefully arranged gowns. Inwardly, she curses.

“Hi, welcome to Radiance Designs, how may I help you?” The practiced words fall effortlessly from Susan’s lips, her fingers rapidly typing up the beginning of her essay. College was such a bitch .

“Su, look up from your work for one goddamn second,” a familiar voice says exasperatedly. Startled, Susan finishes her sentence and looks up.

“Lili!” She crows, abandoning her post behind the desk to hug her best friend of six years, Liliandil.

The other girl returns the hug with warmth. “It’s good to see you too.”

Susan releases her friend, and, standing back, looks her over.

Fuck, she looks stunning. As per usual.

“You’re taller,” she complains finally, hands on hips. “Now I’m the short one.”

Liliandil chuckles. “Which is precisely why I’m here.”

Keep reading

[narniaconfession]

Even if I am neutral on the Caspian / Susan relationship, I honestly do not find anything real, worthy, in the relationship between Caspian and Liliandil.

Their communication was just flirting in the movies with no proof that they were fitful for each other while in the books it was this Sleeping Beauty archetype that wasn’t true love, and he just decided when he saw her to marry her. Not to mention that in the books Liliandil isn’t even given a name. She’s just there… so yeah I cannot take this seriously sorry.

I can’t understand why Narnia fans are so insistent on this ship…

[bcbliophile]

I lost the ask, but someone asked me for a list of my muses sexualities. 

shadowhunter  muses Clary Fairchild : Bisexual Kaelie Whitewillow: Bi/female leaning Helen Blackthorn Lesbian Dru Blackthorn Pansexual Liv Blackthorn Bisexual Emma Carstair Bisexual Christina Rosales Pansexual twilight Bella Swan Bi Rosalie Hale Bi Alice Cullen Bi/Male leaning Rachel Black pansexual narnia Liliandil bi Susan pan Lucy straight/curious 

asoiaf Alicent Hightower Bi/Targaryen leaning Alyssa Velaryon bi Daenys Targaryen pan Rhaenys Targaryen pan Helaena Targaryen bisexual Alysanne Targaryen straightish Sansa Stark bisexual Lyanna Stark pansexual harry potter Helga Hufflepuff pansexual Rowena Ravenclaw pansexual  Tonks  Straight  Susan Bone bisexual Hannah Abbot bisexual  Fleur Delacour straight/open to experimenting  Daphne Greengrass bisexual  Pansy Parkinson lesbian 

Peter Pan Wendy Darling bi Tinkerbell pansexual  mythology greek Hera pansexual Aphrodite bisexual Persephone bi/male leaning Helen of Troy bi/ female leaning 

by request

Alona The Nymph Pansexual Clarke Griffin Bisexual  Galinda Upland Pillow Princess/ Bisexual 

[blackskiesbeautifultimes]

Kira wouldn't deny him and it wasn't as if there were much of a way to prevent pregnancy in Narnia so if they were bound to have more children she knew they were. "That's just because you're so possessive," she noted hissing at how sensitive that was though the hiss turned to a deep low moan.

"You didn't love me, you loved a ghost," She replied cooly, "the spirit of a queen who never was and never could be yours. Why dig up the past? I don't understand everyone's obsession with it." She didn't understand her siblings and the friends of Narnia continuing to want to be there, how could Peter allow his daughter to be there when he had had what he did and suddenly didn't anymore? Susan shook her head, "go home Caspian" that was if they'd have him back. While Liliandil might forgive him Rilian would make things difficult for both of his parents because of Caspian's actions.

@fallingpoppies

Kira would know the Narnian air from any line up she was asked to identify it in. She'd grown up in after all. She knew from the friends of Narnia that things had moved on quite a bit from her youth, and her uncle was even older than her father. But, she hadn't expected to be the one called to assist in some way.

"Right, you may as well let me know what it is I can do to help, save my kingdom." She wasn't sure if RIllian would even recognize her, though anyone who had seen the High King would know she was his daughter, the resemblance was difficult to deny.

[inlovewithfictionalmensblog]

My love, my everything, my soulmate

Pairing: King Caspian X fem!reader

Warning: a lil angsty, Sweet FLUFF, bestfriends to lovers.

Summary: King Caspian and Lady Y/n have been the best of bestfriends since forever, but as they mature feelings appear making the two confused in what to do.

(Not a soulmate AU!) (Aesthetic made by me)

Caspian and Y/n have always been inseparable. Sticking hip to hip. Overprotective over the other, even as children. One would take the blame of the others actions, one would bleed for the other, cry together, mourn together. Laugh together.

But most of all, love together. Y/n, since a child has always loved sword fighting. She was in awe of every soldier in the kingdom. Every sword she saw, she was absolutely in awe of it.

She faught side by side with Caspian during the ward of miraz. She was there when Caspian was crowned King, she was there when Susan left him in shatterd pieces. She was there when he first visit his parents grave.

She was there when he first announced the journey of the dawn treader, there when he cried, or needes a shoulder. She was there when he had nightmares of his uncle. She was there when liliandil left him because she was too afraid on the land in narnia. She was there to fix him up, bring him back up and remind him who he was.

Which is why Caspian did not know what to do without her. Y/n sat in her balcony in the art room, the room Caspian had asked to be made specifically for her. It was connected by her bedchamber.

Her hair was up, she had her glasses, and her white dress had all types of colors on it. Caspian chuckled behind her, y/n almost jumped, looking behind her, she saw her bestfriend.

"Caspian" she started, her brush painted in green as she drew trees. "I thought you had a meeting with the lords" she asked.

"I did, it stopped early. I see the first thing you do after we returned from the journey is painting" Caspian smiled at her, walking forward absolutely amazed at her talent. In front of him the canvas was decorated by a beautiful painted forest, with deere, dryads and lakes.

"You never cease to amaze me" Caspian breathlessly gasped, looking at y/n and smiled down at her. The sun made y/ns skin glow like gold sparks, her beautiful eyes lighting up even more, her smile widened up at the small compliment.

Caspian had never noticed how beautiful y/n truly was, until the conversation during the journey back from the dawn treader.

FLASHBACK

After the pevensies and scrubb left back to their world. Y/n and Caspian were left to sail back to the ship in silence. Y/n glanced at Caspian many times to check up on him.

She sighed, lifting her hand to his shoulder, giving it a gentle squeeze. She smiled sympathetically at him. In which he returned it almost incredibly sadly.

A stinging feeling went up through y/ns heart. Seeing him like this was a weakness y/n could never handle. It broke her.

-

Caspian was in his cabin, when he heard a small knock was heard. He mumbled a small 'come in'. Not taking his eyes off the paper down on his desk.

A sound of heels made him look up. It had been 2 months into the journey back home. Caspian has not been any better.

Y/n sat next to him. She sighed, making him look curiously at her. She swallowed, blinking before looking at him.

"You were there, when i lost my mother. You held me, as i mourned her death. I was numb and broken. Because i lost the only family i had left--"

Caspian was going to speak but y/n spoke faster.

" you hated the way i was, you hated me seeing me cry...sad..or generally just...numb" she grabbed his hand, her thumb caressing his knuckles. "You were there for me...so im gonna be there for you" she almost whispered.

"Losing people you care about is not something you can easily get over. You lost your bestfriend...reepicheep, two bestfriends who were like your little siblings. Its not easy to take it in and act Alright...and thats okay. But you dont have to pretend with me..so p-please" y/n choked up a sob as she saw Caspians eyes water.

"Im here Caspian...I'll always be here...c'mere" y/n wrapped her arms around him. His head on y/ns chest as he let the tears he held on for so long fall down. His hiccups made y/n wince. Her own tears falling down. She had been so angry at both susan and liliandil. Both left her king with a broken heart, and now she had to pick up the mess and put it up together. Not like she minded.

"I-its hard" he stuttered, y/n closed her eyes, kissing his head. Making Caspian blush at the sudden action. He had never blushed at her actions before.

"It'll get better. I promise darling"

END OF FLASHBACK

Ever since, he had stared at y/n a totally different way, noticing hiw she fidgeted with her fingers whenever she was angry or nervous or stressed. How she bit down her lip whenever she was consecrated, how her nose would twitch whenever she smelled her favorite fish. How her eyes would light up at the mention of chocolate cake.

He also noticed how she would glance at him, differently. A way he could not put his finger to it.

"I love painting Caspian, you know that. And i wasnt able to do that when we were in the sea for nearly 9 months" y/n giggled. The sound making Caspians stomach fall into emptiness, the emptiness filled with nothing but butterflies.

"And yet you're still so good at it" he said touching y/ns arm gently. Y/n gulped down and stared at his hand, the hand had rings to it, the cold gentle feeling on y/ns arm making shivers down her spine. She blushed.

She furrowed her eyebrows, why was she blushing? Why was she feeling this? No. Nooo dont..

"Is everything alright?" Caspian asked concernly. Y/n looked at his eyes, blinking and nodding.

"I-i uh yes, im fine..just headache" y/n chuckled. Yet Caspian still had his worried look.

"Do you want me to call over Dr, Ombre?" Caspian offered kindly. Y/n shaked her head gently, "no, its fine Caspian. Must be a little tired"

Caspian nodded , smiling down at her.

"Well, I'll ne in the library if anything, darling" Caspian smiled leaving the chamber.

Darling. If y/n has been called darling by Caspian so many times. Why did this time affect her so much?

She shaked her head, continuing her art.

-

The next morning went too quickly, Caspian had not been seen by anyone, and it was starting to worry y/n.

She walked down the echoey hall down to Caspians bedchamber. No awnser, she looked around, to see Caspian in his bed, still in his king clothing, with papers surrounded around him.

She smiled lightly, shaking her head. She assumed he had not slept at all. She called a maid in.

"Yes, lady y/n?" The maid whispered softly.

"Cancel the Kings meetings and appointments. He needs his rest, oh and please, would you mind bring his breakfast when it is done?" Y/n asked sweetly at the lady maid.

"Yes, my lady"

"Thank you" y/n smiled sweetly. She closed the door behind her, walking...no. tiptoeing, slowly and quietly picking up every paper and stacking it up, his chamber was a mess, books everywhere, papers everywhere.

She decided to clean a little, she had woke up before the sun rose, usually Caspian would wake up before y/n, but this time he didn't. She picked up the books lining them up in the small library counter Caspian had, organizing it. She picked every paper and put it in its place. She sighed tiredly, sitting down on the chair. She looked at him, tilting her head lightly. Smiling at the sight of Caspian asleep. His beautiful dark chocolate eyes were no where to be seen, since his eyes were closed into a dreamy dream. A string of hair on his face, his mouth slightly opened, soft gentle snores heard.

Y/n walked up to Caspians bedside, tucking a piece of his hair to his ear, she smiled when he moved a bit. She pecked his head softly.

When she waited, she grabbed a book, sitting at the chair, reading 'the cruel prince' . Finally as the sun came up, Caspian stirred, groaning. Squinting his eyes at the sun. Y/n looked up at smiled.

"Y/n?" He guessed, as he rubbed his eyes, he saw more clearly to see y/n on his chair, her red dress with gold designs. Her hair put up into a half up half down bun.

"Hello sleepy king, i cleaned your chamber. You weren't awake when i woke up. I got worried, so i came here to see your chamber a mess. Breakfast should be on the way" y/n smiled at him. He smiled at her appropriately.

"Thank you, darling" he smiled. There it was again, the smile and the 'darling'. She tensed up.

"Dont mention it casp, you needed rest, i cancelled your meetings and appointments" y/n randomly confessed with an innocent smile.

"Why?" Caspian told her. "Because you need a day off where your not king, you're forgetting your a man too"

Caspian got up, looking down. Y/n sat next to him. "If i dont act like king then who am i?" He muttered. Y/n layed her head on his shoulder.

"You're a man, a son, a bestfriend" y/n smiled at him. "And soon, you'll be a husband and a father"

Caspian blushed at those words. But he frowned. "I dont want to marry if its not for love, and i wouldn't want my child to have parents who dont care for each other"

"I dont know Caspian, you cant randomly fall in love with someone you've only met for 4 months, so i understand where your coming at. But you have to work fast, Lord berum is very impatient. They expect a wedding soon"

Caspian looked at Y/n. Her eyes said everything. He loved her, he was in love with his bestfriend. The way her eyes saddened made him want to take all the sadness away and make her happy. Hold her, love her, marry her. Cherish her.

He got up, not knowing what he was about to do.

"Later, meet me at the gardens" Caspian smiled at her excitedly, pecking her head, running out to who knows where.

-

Caspian had announced to her that they were going horse riding, walking out to the gardens as promised. Caspian had his horse destier and calambia.

Y/n smiled at Caspian, petting her horse.

"Whats the occasion?" She asked, squinting her eyes at the bright sun.

"Oh, nothing. To the waterfall" Caspian smirked, destier running making y/n gasp running forward too.

-

After the horse race, Caspian and Y/n stopped at the sight of the waterfall.

"Do you remember how we found this place?" Caspian asked y/n. Y/n nodded.

"We were running away from your uncle, when he specifically told us to not eat the cookies..but we did. We ran and ran, but you fell making me fall, when we looked up...we met with the waterfalls" y/n smiled at the memory, Caspian stared at her in awe.

"Do you remember when you faught with Prince Liam when he flirted with you, and i told you, you were completely badarse? When we were 15?" Caspian said to her, y/n chuckled but nodded.

"You said in return 'dont fall for me prince' and i said 'no premises' but it was only meant as a joke" Caspian stared at her, his grin going even wider when y/n stared at him confusingly.

" that day, was probably the day i realized i loved you not in a friend, in a romantic way. I just never admit it to myself because it was too much. But, listen, it was four am, and we were laughing crying from the ache in our stomachs because of how much we were laughing and i looked at you...and i knew" he paused.

"Knew what?" Y/n asked, her head was everywhere. Her bestfriend was in love with her, as she was with him.

"I knew, that you were my love, my everything, my soulmate. I-...im in love with you." Caspian smiled. Y/n had years perking up her eyes.

"I-" she paused looking at the waterfall. Her head was calculating everything. Caspian frowned. His eyes losing hope. When he stepped away, y/n shot her eyes at him. She lifted her hand to his chest. She looked at her clothed chest, her hand to his heartbeat, feeling it race rapidly. She looked at him, grinning like a child who just received a present.

She jumped into his arms.

"Im in love with you too" she breathlessly sobbed. She was happy, Caspian chuckled happily taking her in his arms, spinning her around. Finally putting her down, his hands held y/ns face, gently.

"Can i....can i kiss you?" He politely asked, y/n nodded, closing her eyes when she felt his soft lips. Both moving their lips in sync, enjoying the moment they had now. Holding each other tightly, as if it were the last time they were allowed to gold one another.

But no.

Now, they had all the time in the world.

[solume]

Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - All Media Types, Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia (Movies) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Caspian/Susan Pevensie, Susan Pevensie/Original Male Character(s), Caspian/Ramandu’s Daughter | Liliandil Characters: Caspian (Narnia), Susan Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie, Peter Pevensie, Rilian (Narnia), Eustace Scrubb, Jill Pole Additional Tags: watch me join my childhood fandom ten years afterwards, this is just to heal my broken heart after The Last Battle, this book left me in tears, Also blame the movies for making suspian more interesting than caspian x his unamed wife, but this is still canon compliant ish, since it happens after the events of The Last Battle, Canonical Character Death, also english is not my native language i just am THAT salty about this book’s ending, The Problem of Susan, Fluff and Hurt/Comfort, but mainly fluff, they are disgunstingly in love, soulmate material and all that jazz, Lucy ships it, edmund is a scheming little shit but we love him, peter is constantly two seconds away from vomiting, or gouging his eyes out, or taking caspian out, your pick, Aslan is an asshole but he’s got a divine™ pass, Susan has a daughter, Healing, Grief/Mourning, but like in a good way, let Susan have some peace, and closure, and just overall HAPINESS, since the train thing was incredibly VIOLENT you know, I am severly sleep deprived, it’s very self-indulgent, sorry for the occasional errors, I am not a native English speaker, and also wrote that in the span of an evening Series: Part 1 of Susan’s happy ending Summary:

And what if all that Susan ever dreamed of in this bleak Londonian life was just a wish away ?

In the winter of 1953, leaning over her newborn daughter’s crib, Susan Mason, formerly Pevensie, tries to hold back her tears. She thinks of happier times, when there was laugh in the air and a crown on her head, and with all that she is, all the soul that 1949 has left her with, she wishes that she could give even a fraction of that bliss to the tiny babe sleeping right here. Maybe it’s the nostalgia, or the date, or the fact that she hears the door of their tiny apartment open, but for the first time in twelve years she says it. She says it with hope, hope for a better life. She says it like it can actually resolve everything, a mantra.

A prayer.

“Aslan”

[supernovasilence]

mmmmmm I truly can't decide between Narnia merpirate (because that sounds AWESOME) and Narnia souvenir (because it's so mysterious)

- ciar

Thank you for the ask! Merpirate is based on this aesthetic I made for MerMay last year. Sadly it is not about mermaid pirates, but about a merman (Edmund, shapeshifted into a human and pretending to be a shipwreck victim to get aboard Caspian's ship) and a pirate (Caspian, hoping Edmund's a mermaid anyway because mermaids are said to collect treasure). They're both trying to gain the other's trust so they can rob them. Neither one plans on developing real feelings...

It gets rather dramatic, and Edmund's siblings get involved, and the last line of my notes is "caspian goes back to his ship with a co-captain and three feral extras, and did you know? having 4 sirens around lets you hunt and rob so many more ships and they all end up so rich". So I guess there are mermaid pirates in it after all!

Across the deck, Edmund stood backlit against the setting sun.

            He tossed aside his right-hand sword and wiped a smear of blood from the corner of his open mouth. Caspian had given him only one blade, but he’d found another in the midst of battle, and wielded both easily. Though he used no style Caspian knew, he'd clearly learned somewhere, and he was fast, a snarling shadow streaking over the deck. More than one soldier had surrendered before Edmund got anywhere near them.

            The sword he’d dropped had been from the Dawn Treader’s armory; he examined the one he still held. His lips were still parted as he panted softly. He ran thoughtful fingers over the jewels inlaid in the sword’s golden pommel and quillons, shimmering blue-black as the sea and scarlet as blood, and then his sharp teeth glittered as he grinned.

            Caspian’s head was full of the setting sun. There were no thoughts, only thick, burning red. Edmund looked up, as though sensing his gaze, and grinned at Caspian—almost exactly as he’d been grinning at the sword. His raw delight was too great to be smothered into his usual careful smirk. His death-pale cheeks looked almost human for once, flushed with exertion, but the shadows turned his eyes into dark, unreadable pits. The dying sun outlined him in gold.

"Souvenir" on the other hand, is more a canon divergence than a full au, with the Pevensies staying in Narnia to rule with Caspian, and featuring my completely wild rarepair, Susan x Liliandil.

            Peter and Susan did not go on the voyage to the East. Caspian was the one who had sworn at his coronation to find the lost lords that his uncle had sent away. These days, where Caspian went, Edmund went too (Susan wondered if they would have finally realized their feelings by the time they got back), and Lucy was alight with curiosity about the utter East: strange lands, far seas, perhaps even Aslan’s country itself.

            But someone had to run Narnia while half her royals sailed. No one knew how far they would travel, or how long till they returned; of course the High King could not go. And Susan was too fond of her comforts to really enjoy a long sea voyage into the unknown. One warrior, and one diplomat—they would manage their kingdom fine.

            “Bring me a souvenir from the utter East,” Susan teased her family as she hugged them goodbye, swallowing her jealousy, her fear.

            She did not expect them to bring her back a star.

[oakashandwillow]

i know i say this every year but genuinely, this year was very very golden and full of DELIGHT. the quality, the spread! there's a ton of world building and lore, some beautiful crossovers, quite a few stories about minor or less explored characters (TWO lasaraleen centered fics, a mrs. lefay backstory, jadis and her sister in charn, multiple very delightful OC's!!).

i received FIVE GIFTS this year (lies down, weeps in love) and several stories that were not for me specifically but are so up my alley i count as gifts in my heart. my dearest @siterlas wrote me Susan & Edmund and the fallout of an espionage mission gone awry with heartfelt convos and stolen wine. feather moon, scarlet sky.

The wonderful lotl101 wrote me Faramir and Edmund meeting, with perfect courtly language and the immediate understanding I've always felt those two would have. Bellum Horibilis.

Starbrow knows that me and @bywayofmemory are Problem Children and wrote us a deeply tragic Susan/Edmund at the end of the world. But the end of all things is at hand.

The inimitable @rthstewart wrote me and two others a story about the origins of Cair Paravel that is both delightful and mixed with tragedy, as all the best legends are, and with such a sure character voice. Raise Me Up.

And pencildragon wrote for quite a lot of us an absolutely delightful story about Jill and Eustace running into a circular time loop with a million cameos of us helping them to get out. It is hilarious and lovely. Unamoosed.

I wrote only the one thing, but once again NFE has brought me back to Liliandil and Caspian (and Miraz Junior) and the various tragedies and triumphs and complications of their lives and reigns together. It is, of course, sad. the world may be tiny, but the heart's enormous.

if i kept reccing this post would get way too long so i shall stick to my gifts and what i wrote and simply say that there is a LOT to be enjoyed and loved this year, the quality truly blew me away, and i am so delighted to be a part of it again. <333

NFE 2023: That's a wrap!

The authors have been revealed! Check it out here:

I hope everyone had a good time! We'll see you all next year!

[tzedekarchive]

i’ve just released a new colouring pack, with 6 unseen pieces, and a bonus piece of the lines from my last casmund art. it includes: aravis, lucy, liliandil & susan, as well as a dryad piece and a mermaid piece! 

if you decide to buy and colour them in, please tag me if you post them online! i’d love to see what you do with them!

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[luucypevensie]

🏳️‍🌈 + the Lewis siblings? <3

MY CHILDREN THANK YOU FAE! Tagging the Narnia moots: @dancingsunflowers-ocs, @ginger-grimm, @bi-ologistofthehills, and @ginevrastilinski-ocs

allison - poly pansexual

isaac - gay

skye - lesbian

peter - poly pansexual (i saw an edit someone did headcanoning peter as pansexual and i was hooked)

susan - bisexual (totally canon that susan had a mini crush on ally in lww)

edmund - bisexual

lucy - lesbian

caspian - that boy is a raging bisexual and you cannot convince me otherwise

liliandil - genderfluid poly pansexual (they/them)

BONUS - THE MERLIN GANG BECAUSE THE MERLIN AU WITH THE LEWIS AND PEVENSIE FAMS HAS GOTTEN OUT OF CONTROL

merlin - biromantic demisexual

arthur - bisexual

morgana - lesbian

gwen - bisexual

lancelot - bisexual

gwaine - poly pansexual

percival - poly bisexual

elyan - straight ally

leon - aromantic asexual king

mordred - bisexual

elena - polyamorous heterosexual

mithian - bisexual

[elwinged]

For the ask meme; wear your heart on your sleeve 👀

hi hannah!!!!!!

okay so wear your heart on your sleeve is my susan/liliandil fic i've been working on for FOREVER and it's set in the same 'verse as i like you a latte! feel free to prod me to write it haha :)

check... out... my... wips...? and ask me about them???

[something-tofightfor]

Completely genuine question: are there any love interests for Barnes's characters that you actually like? I have yet to find anyone who I enjoy seeing him with, although Caspian/Susan were kind of sweet. But that could just be me. 😆

This is a good question! Let’s play. 

Dunstan: I honestly can’t blame the woman... instead of trying to actually get help, she drags him into her tent? Cart? whatever? and has her way with him. You gotta get it where you can, and as far as one night stands go, this worked for me. (But having a kid... yikes)

Caspian: I think that all of the Pevensie children are terrible (with the exception of Edmund) ... and I think Susan is INSUFFERABLE. I don’t mind Anna Popplewell, but I don’t think that Susan was a good fit for him, and I think the kiss was unnecessary. Liliandil makes more sense; she’s “Narnian” in the sense that she’s not from another realm/world/reality. 

Dorian: Sibyl... meh. They were never on the same page. Emily ... I think he actually cared for her (as much as he could) but I don’t like Rebecca Hall as an actress much. 

Young Man: I think that with Celia, Ben was really, really good. I felt the pain that both of them felt, and this was really hard to watch because it felt real. I liked this relationship a lot, even though there wasn’t a ton to it in the way there would have/could have been if this timeline was the main focus of the movie. 

Ryan Brenner: Jackie Laurel could have gotten fully run over and flattened by that truck and then replaced in rest of the movie with a sock on a stick and it would have made more sense to me than Ryan with her. I HATE Katherine Heigl, but I honestly think that with the way that role was written, I would have hated Jackie no matter who played her... but KH just made it so much worse. 

Tom Ward: Alright, so Alicia Vikander rubs me the wrong way. She was a NIGHTMARE on the set of Tomb Raider, and she just seems very young and very immature to me. I liked the idea of Tom and a witch together, because they were so different and wanted very different things... but Alice was never really defined enough as a character for me to give her a chance past that. 

John Whittaker: Alright, so this may surprise you... but I actually liked him with Jessica Biel. They seemed to play very well off of each other, and their relationship was genuine. I think a lot of it comes with watching this movie so many times and knowing that JB played it exactly as she needed to - he was never going to be IT for her, but she thought he could be enough. John/Sarah I was not a fan of, because the way she looked at him was just a mix of disappointment and envy all at the same time, and I didn’t appreciate that at all, even though Charlotte Riley was a very pretty woman. 

Josh: This movie was a fucking disaster, first of all. While I didn’t like him with either woman much in terms of characters, I think the edge has to go to Eliza Dusku. Sarah Roemer couldn’t act her way out of a wet paper bag, and even though the dialogue is super cringey between Josh and Renee and the sex scenes are worse... they physically LOOK nice together. 

Neil: The most lovable walking disaster EVER, I actually really liked him with Krysten Ritter. I think they complimented each other, and it was a fun story to tell. It’s hard to step away from him as this character, I think, but Gloria tried her damndest. 

Alejandro: I.... don’t like Amanda Seyfried much, because I feel like she plays the same character in every single thing she’s in... and TBW is no different. This movie was a mess, too, and I realize that everyone was just working with what they had, but there was no chemistry there. 

Nick Tortano: Alright, so the “quiet game” scene is one of my ALL TIME FAVORITE BEN BARNES SCENES in any movie or show he’s ever been in. I think Allie was a good match for him, because she made him realize in a very short amount of time that there could be more to life than The Family. I liked their interactions, and the way that they could play off of each other and make it believable. 

Stoya: .... Ben Barnes and Mary Elizabeth Winstead were SO GOOD together. It was barely 10 minutes of screen time, and... it was GREAT. I really like her (what up Jessica Bennett from Harmony) and I really like him, and I think that they have just the right type of connection and I would have loved to see more of the two of them because I need to know WHERE IS STOYA!?!!?

Logan: .... Ben Barnes standing next to Talulah Riley was SOMETHING ELSE. They���re both gorgeous, and while she wasn’t an actual LOVE interest... they made a good pair. I’d also cut off my left arm (I’m left handed) to see him kiss Clementine, because Angela Sarafyan is a GODDESS. 

Billy: Out of Dinah and Krusty, obviously I think he had more chemistry with Dinah, but I still didn’t like it because of what they tried to make it be. If it’s just two consenting adults using each other for sex and information, it’s one thing, but they tried to make it seem as if Billy was the only deceptive one. Based on LOOKS, I think ARR is pretty, but I don’t think she looks good WITH BB. Dumont... I don’t like FL at all, so I wasn’t even a fan of the CASTING, let alone what they did with her and Ben’s characters. 

Benjamin: If you were in the room with me just now as I typed that, you would have heard and seen me let out the biggest sigh in the entire world. Ben Barnes and a geriatric psychopath (I don’t mind Julia Ormond, but they had her looking ROUGH in Gold Digger) is not appealing in the slightest to me. I get that they were trying to make it seem ***real*** like love could conquer all and  that it would be realistic that someone that looked like HIM would settle for someone that looked like HER ... but I never felt it. She was not a likable character, and there were a lot of times he wasn’t, either... but I felt ZERO sympathy for Julia Day in ANY episode of that show, while Benjamin’s story (and the way Ben played it) was the one where all of the feeling was kept. Benjamin had more chemistry with Julia’s friend Marsha in five minutes... and that’s sad. 

This probably wasn’t at all what you were looking for, but, here you go.  Bonus: Here are five actresses that I think Ben would be GREAT acting opposite of/having an onscreen romance with 

- Charlize Theron

- Lizzy Caplan

- Yvonne Strahovski

- Phoebe Tonkin

- Odette Yustman