[fic] Along the Midnight Edge

Title: Along the Midnight Edge
Rating: 18
Genre: drama, romance
Pairings: Edmund/Caspian
Wordcount: 80k
Warnings: it is rated 18 for potentially disturbing themes
Summary: Narnia ended a mere two hundred years after Caspian’s reign, as though he was the climax of her 2,500 years’ history. He was. There were stories unfolding in Narnia of which none of her rulers were aware, and stories must run their natural course, even though their heroes are dead.

Author's note: whew! This was a long, long ride (for me). Together with OTBE this story is over 100k, and given that I’m usually quite succinct, it is an achievement. :D

On to serious business: this story should stand well enough on its own, but it is a direct sequel to On a Transparent Belt of Ether. Certain events are referenced, though should be explained well-enough in context.

Important note on the universes: this is primarily based on the books. Primarily, I say, because book!Caspian just didn’t fancy book!Edmund, like movie!Caspian did. That, and it might be worth noting that there is a number of things I very much liked about the movies, which bugged me in the books. So it is a bit of a mix and match canon.

Titles from the poetry of Walt Whitman.

Credits and thank yous: This story wouldn’t be what it is if it wasn’t for the input of seraphim_grace and miss_labelle. Betaed by kispexi2 and yami_tai. Thank you all! <3

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Party!

I might fail NaNo this year. This makes me very sad. :( The thing is, I'm 25k in and I haven't even gotten to the part I thought this thing is going to be about - I'm finishing an angsty flashback of doom at the moment.

I rather enjoy writing Rosamund though, she is adorably stuck-up. I'm hoping to finish the story, even though constant obstacles with world building slow me down. Sigh.

I feel vindicated in my failure, because I managed to write 49k in the three weeks immediately before NaNo. Altogether that brings my yearly word count to... well, a whole lot. o.O Let's see, 120k for Narnia, another 100k for XMFC... I have been busy this year!

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Picked up Hunger Games. Thus far (that is, twenty pages in) I like it a lot, barring the unfortunate first person pov, which I believe I remarked on many occasions I despise. I've also seen a trailer for the movie, and it looks really good.

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On the subject of movies, Brave can't get here soon enough. Eee!

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I got to write a speech this weekend. Well, beta a speech, but I got directions that the betaing is to be total, so I basically rewrote the whole thing. :D Shame I won't get to hear it performed, but what can I do?

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... over the past week I've watched the entire first season of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I'm... not sure what to make of it. It's certainly cute, no doubt about it, the cute is pretty much the defining feature of the show. But, the Wild Mass Guessing page on TVTropes is looong, and well. Suffice to say that out of the six main characters six have a nervous breakdown in the first season alone.

This includes an episode in which the resident Happy Pill pony flips out completely and hosts a tea party for a pile of rocks, a sack of flour, a mote of dust and what was it, a bucket? It's terrifyingly creepy.

Okay, I'm not saying I recommend it to you all, because it requires a high tolerance for cuteness, and I mean sky-high - watching Disney movies doesn't cut it - but the show is quite clever and the heroines (yes, the ponies) are well rounded characters.