#rthstewart

[chasingmypen]

@rthstewart

[ricardian-werewolf]

A long post about Rthstewart

Something @rovinglemon and I were talking about while facetiming and watching Prince Caspian - her on the TV and I on my ipad in my little dormroom - was how @rthstewart's Narnia series is what we believe as canon.

I've always felt a sense of detachment from Narnia, like I, as an autistic woman do not belong in that world. How easily my fate could become that of Susan's if my belief in Aslan so much as wavers an inch from the imaginary line Narnians must tread. I'm an atheist partly because of my own experiences and disbelief in the non-tangible. However, I do believe in ghosts and the paranormal because of fiction and my work on The Great War.

But reading @rthstewart's Stone Gryphon series and her side novels set during the golden age of Narnia made me feel like I could have a place within that world. @rovinglemon agrees, and we've discussed at length also how Rth's works take the existing canon and with the sheer mind-boggling level of detailed research she's done, makes Narnia something wholly alive. The world is not static because it is so completely tangible that I return to it time and time again. It's become how I relax after working on essays for my midterms and studying. Every time, without fail, I pick up the page or chapter that I'm on, and I am lost to the world around me. Her writing is so incredibly well written that it is often hours before I can be torn away from her stories. It is in her writing of Morgan especially that I find myself at home as an autistic person. Her mannerisms are similar to mine and Rth's evident care and research in writing Morgan's character as an autistic person shines through so well that I have yet, and doubt that I will find any fault in her portrayal, which is something so many altistic writers struggle with, especially headliners such as Mark Haddon either flat-out ignore, or attempt to rationalize their grevious misdeeds behind the NYT's Bestseller list.

Rth's writing of the Four also must be commended. RL mentioned on our call about how Peter's intelligence as shown through Rth's writing is a different kind to Edmund's or Susan's. Sword (in the Rat and Crow code), is less about the boy-against-boy blindsided idiocy that Prince Caspian sets front and center stage, and instead makes the Four - Sword, Rat, Crow, and Heart, into people fundamentally struggling to survive in a world that will never understand them. Their maturity in the bodies of children sets them apart, and it shows in the best of ways, whether they reign as Kings and Queens, or exist in what I call their "English Exile," that they are flawed people who question Aslan's greater plan, but are fundamentally trying to make the world both a better place and answer to the creed as Friends of Narnia.

So to @rthstewart, I raise my glass to you, and look forward to whatever next you plan to be writing.

[thefannishmkp]

Fic Rec: Oxfordshire 1942, Book 1 of The Stone Gryphon by @rthstewart

In the summer of the Dawn Treader, Aslan tries to get Peter’s attention. But, it’s all Greek to Peter as he studies with Professor Kirke and meets unusual people who seem vaguely familiar.

[image description: a book cover featuring the fic’s title and author. visual elements include an illustration of a gryphon, old and yellowed writing, and the lower half of a man wearing a satchel and holding a book. /end image description. ]

[shakespeareintellectualbadass]

Asks!! Asks for friend!!!! 2, 4, 7, 20 pls!! <33

Gen my beloved!! <3

2. What is home to you? This is a tricky one. The people I love most are all home to me - my parents, my cousins, my best friends. The places I love best are home too - the lake at my grandma's house, the whole city of London. And yet I still feel like I haven't found home, when "home" means the place that I belong forever. I belong with all these people, yes, but not all the time; they have partners and lives of their own, and as much as I come back to visit I am not meant to stay indefinitely. I love to travel as much as I do because I am still searching for the place and people who will be the home I always return to.

4. What magical creature would you be? Oooooh depends on our definition of creature and which magical universe we're talking. Maybe an elf, maybe a mermaid; I love forests and I love to swim. Equally I could be a phoenix, as I'm very resilient, or a kneazle, as I am often cat-like.

7. Beach, castle, or forest? Forest!!! I adore disappearing into the trees for a while. It makes me feel centered and relaxed and connected with the world. Bonus points if there's a lake.

20. What color are you? My best friend reliably informs me that I am lavender - soft, gentle, regal, comforting. In rthstewart's Narnia universe (which I HIGHLY recommend, one of my all time favorite book series, start here), she describes gentleness really wonderfully, through a magical fire salamander talking to Queen Susan the Gentle about her new title: "Why gentle? Not harsh or severe, a gentle scolding, a gentle tap. Good breeding, high station, chivalrous as a knight that you shall never be. To tame or break, that will never be you. Easily managed? I suppose that's true enough, though you are the one doing the managing not being managed, if you take my meaning... The trick is, gentle isn't weak. Everyone thinks it is, and isn't. Gentle is getting your way without anyone noticing it. A tide is gentle until you drown in it. A tree grows gently until its roots strangle you." That's always resonated with me (as so much of rth's work does). I can be soft without being a pushover. I love being soft and comforting! I am a gentle person by nature; that does not mean I am not fighting for what I believe in.

[winterhopeinferorose]

Please if you are looking for some great fanfic to read you must check out https://archiveofourown.org/series/15017. Some of the best stories I have ever read. I suggest By Royal Decree. A short story I promise will get you hooked

[isagrimorie]

rthstewart: Shaw and Food and Shaw, Food and Bear.  Oh yes.  Gosh I miss that show and I wish they'd stuck to their guns.  There was so much that could have been even better than it was.

Yes, this! Also, I watched the last season of Person of Interest together with first season of Westworld I realized there was a lot of bleed through from Westworld because a lot of the things Harold and Root were debating? And the whole Samaritna v The Machine thing? Answered in 1st series of Westworld and it annoyed me so much.

Because Westworld and Person of Interest were telling two different stories! This is the dangers of producing two shows together.

[beatrice-otter]

rthstewart replied to your post “freenarnian: feenyxblue: rohans-daughter: ...”

Blessed by the gardeners for they regrow what war destroys. In the Tolkien pantheon, the healers and growers are the most exulted. It took me a long time to understand that. I was, for a time, so frustrated with Eowyn's ultimate fate bc it seemed dismissive... until you realize who else are gardeners and healers.

What is it that gets everyone talking about how Aragorn must be the long-lost rightful king?

When he heals someone.

The hands of the king are the hands of a healer.

[edenfalling]

In which rth issues a challenge in response to an infuriating article about yet another Male Pro Writer who's discovered fanfic and decided that somehow what he's doing is Different and Better than what millions of women have been doing for generations.