ZOMG NFE REVEALS AND MADNESS ROUND

[rthstewart]

Thank you to all who sent birthday wishes. That was very nice. It was a really putrid day, as my birthdays so often are. I mean, starting the day with a fraud alert on your credit card, so very much not fun. Happy Birthday to you from Chase Account Holder Card Services. Fortunately, I had already ordered my peanut butter pretzels and coffee from

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[anonymous]

I'm still reading all the NFE stories, but I really enjoyed your Cor/Aravis one. I was struck by your commentary here: Freudiancascade asked me during one round of review if I really intended to imply that Cor and Aravis were probably queer -- and I said yep, that was intentional.  I really wanted to play with gender issues and how complicated that was by their personal histories and Archenland politics, but I just couldn't pull it off without it coming out incredibly sexist, so I tossed a lot of that.

And it reminded me of Aral/Cordelia from the Vorkosiverse. Where Cordelia is Aral's perfect partner, because he's attracted to soldiers in a world that can only accept him with a woman and that has only male soldiers. And then Cordelia arrives and solves his problem. And that's gender issues and the complications of personal histories and Barrayar politics, and well, maybe it comes across as kind of sexist when you think about it, but it totally works. So I really like the echoes of that in your story. (I was actually hoping someone would take on your prompt about a Narnia-Vorkosigan Saga crossover!)