For reference reasons I put together all these birth dates of figures from my various mid-centuryish literary and historical fandoms. Some odd juxtapositions, you might say, but it's really interesting to see how they all fit together ( Read more... )

I was supposed to be spending the weekend working on longer projects. Instead I've committed shortfic. Depressing shortfic.

...Enjoy?

Beneath a rougher sea (1082 words) by Naraht
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Charioteer - Mary Renault
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alec Deacon & Ralph Lanyon
Characters: ( Read more... )

This afternoon
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Very slowly working my way through Mary Renault's non-Charioteer contemporaries. I liked Return to Night much better than The Friendly Young Ladies, so am baffled to note that it seems to be much less popular. Only a few brief discussions over at MRF and apparently no fanfic at all, apart from a short mention in ITOW. Maybe because it's not as ( Read more... )

Found an interesting review of The Charioteer here, by
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I wrote a fic... surprise, yet another one about The Charioteer....

Washing-up, Ward B (1858 words) by Naraht
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Charioteer - Mary Renault
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Nurse Adrian & Andrew Raynes
Characters: Nurse Adrian, Andrew Raynes
Additional Tags: Male-Female Friendship, ( Read more... )

I am now resorting to dubious lit crit analysis in order to have anything at all new to say about The Charioteer, but I was reading about Turn of the Screw recently and it occurred to me... isn't Laurie rather like the Governess? Bear with me ( Read more... )

The third and final installment in my Ralph/Andrew epic, which is 32k in total. No, I don't know what got into me either...

For the duration (15073 words) by Naraht
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: The Charioteer - Mary Renault
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ralph Lanyon/Andrew Raynes, Alec Deacon/Sandy Reid
Characters: Ralph ( Read more... )

Are you going through post-book-discussion withdrawal? Or maybe that's just me? Anyway, here are some fic recs in no particular order. I've tried to represent a wide variety of characters, pairings and themes, and to link to unlocked posts whenever possible. I'm sure I've left someone out (other than myself, of course...)

Our sole defence against ( Read more... )

( Spoilers, lots )