Title: armies march on their stomachs, wearing hand-knit socks by AlexSeanchai
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing:
Word Count: 87
Summary: "Men may fight the battle, but women wage the war."
Why I Rec This Fic: I don´t envy the Pevensie children being suddenly thrusted into rueling a whole kingdom – that said it makes many interesting stories, I specially like to think about the early days of their reign. And Susans practicality has always been my favorite trait.
Title: Five Battles Susan Pevensie Won by cofax
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Word Count: 260
Title: and the sun pours down like honey on our lady of the harbour by romans
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensies,
Word Count: 703
Summary: "Men wrote songs about Susan the Gentle long after the train crash."
Why I Rec This Fic: Middle Aged Susan Pevensie who is happy and having adventures and magic.
Title: feeling warm and bright by embraidery
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie, Original female character
Susan Pevensie/Original female character
Word Count: 826
Summary: Yuliana tosses her long hair over her shoulder as she turns to grin at the crowd. Her whole family cheers and tosses grains of rice. Susan smiles as she applauds. The lady knight meets Susan’s eyes. She grins but quickly hides her smile, bowing to her queen, hair cascading down around her before she flicks it back over her shoulder.
Why I rec this fic: There should be more femslash for Susan, she deserves it.
Title: Undertow by liptonrm
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie, Susan/Orginal female character
Word Count: 1500
Warnings: dubious/non con
Summary: "Freedom has its cost."
Why I Rec This Fic: Creepy atmospheric and weirdly fitting for Narnias early Golden Age.
The Problem of Susan
Title: what of those who live long? by guardyanangel
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Word Count: 36
Summary: "Susan, at the funeral."
Why I Rec This Fic: Short but poignant.
Title: Grief That Can't Be Spoken by CountlessUntruths (KaliCephirot)
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Word Count: 164
Warnings: canonical character death
Summary: Prompt: 'there's no problem with Susan'.
Why I Rec This Fic: I especially like the prose of the first sentence the character holds a great much back but that first sentence is unbashful angry in a way I just appreciate for this character, she deserves to be angry, my poor brave girl.
Title: nylons and lipsticks and— by TolkienGirl
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Word Count: 223
Warnings: canonical character death
Summary: "Susan had feared that grief would be silent, but she never expected it to be so loud."
Why I Rec This Fic: I especially like the beginning brave practial Susan.
Title: Untold by cofax
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Peter Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie
Susan Pevensie
Word Count: 238
Summary: "Even in Aslan's Country, there are unreliable narrators. Set during The Last Battle."
Title: Lamp post by orphan_account
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Word Count: 353
Summary: "She feels a pang every time she passes a lamp post."
Why I Rec This Fic:
Podfic here: by argentumlupine
Title: the iron queens by Elizabeth Culmer (edenfalling)
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie, Jadis
Susan Pevensie/Jadis
Word Count: 348
Summary: "In the cold and dark of Narnia after the end, Susan offers Jadis a bargain."
Why I Rec This Fic: Badass Susan and „redemption“ only though the characters own terms, I am always there for (female) characters x agency.
Title: Rapture by Chibifukurou
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Susan Pevensie/Original female character
Word Count: 455
Summary: "Aslan had sent her away, told her that her purpose was in the world outside of Narnia. She’d listened, even if Peter and Lucy hadn’t been able to. Edmund she thought could have joined her in surviving in a world without Narnia, but he wouldn’t have survived the loss of Peter and Lucy."
Why I Rec This Fic: the fabulous adventures of Susan after narnia. Queer Susan!
Title: The Queen of All the Living by theladyscribe
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensies, OCs
Word Count: 547
Summary: "At age sixteen, Susan Pevensie starts a girl gang."
Why I Rec This Fic: I like Susans adventure in her own world and I like her interacting with other female characters.
Title: Wrong Side of Heaven by SailorSol
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensies,
Word Count: 717
Summary: Susan inherits the wardrobe
Why I Rec This Fic: Great use of an object to explore Susans situation at that time.
Title: once and always by Vail
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Word Count: 853
Warnings: Canon character death
Summary: "Susan is not asked to identify the bodies."
Title: queen over chlorine and red swimming suits by SearchingforSerendipity
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Word Count: 872
Summary: Post Narnia: slight AU: Susan as the Queen of the eastern sea
Why I Rec This Fic: the fabulous adventures of Susan after narnia. Love how her determination and strength shines here.
The sports world does not take kindly to her at first. Invaded territory never does, even if they are few and far between that understand Susan's contest. Her form is flawless, her performance is beautiful and her growth in skills relentless. She makes it look easy. Worse, she makes it look easy while looking beautiful, and there are many who don't forgive that.
(It's a good thing that Susan had long stopped asking for forgiveness)
Title: Dedication by Elizabeth Culmer (edenfalling)
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Word Count: 1070
Summary: "Susan's journey to accepting Narnia as her new home is not easy, either within or without."
Why I Rec This Fic: This fic makes narnia feel like a very real place, I also like it how it focus the rebuilding of the country on community and organization (not battle and top down authority)
Archenland sends aid and Susan buys what stores she can from Calormen and the ocean islands in return for Jadis's stolen treasures and the regalia of the former kings, but winter is coming back again, breathing the learned despair of a hundred years, and no courage, no care, no wisdom, no faith, can change the brutal calculation of mute numbers and promise that this strange land given into their care will survive to see the anniversary of its deliverance.
Title: Between a Past and a Present by theladyscribe
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Word Count: 1138
Summary: "To get to Giza from Cairo proper, they have to cross the Kobri Kasri al-Nil.
Susan hates the bridge, with its lions guarding the entrance. Their eyes seem to follow her whenever she passes by them, their stern gazes sharp knives between her shoulders."
Why I Rec This Fic: Susan and stone lions post Narnia is a good little mini genre/trope.
Title: We Need to Talk About Susan Pevensie by dirgewithoutmusic
Fandom: The Chronicles of Narnia
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Word Count: 1272
Warnings: Period Typical Sexism
Summary: "A lion told her to walk away, and she did. He forbade her magic, he forbade her her own kingdom, so she made her own. Susan Pevensie did not lose faith. She found it."
Why I Rec This Fic: There is a lot of interesting points, Susan after Narnia is just a pool of potential, I like that she fights for what she thinks is right.
Podfic of it here by irrationalpie
Susan living through WW2, huddling with her siblings, a young adult (again), a fighting queen and champion marksman kept from the action, until she finally storms out against screaming parents’ wishes and volunteers as a nurse on the front. She keeps a knife or two hidden under her clothes because when it comes down to it, they called her Gentle, but sometimes loving means fighting for what you care for.
Title: You'll Come Back When It's Over by Kiwipineapple
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie,
Word Count: 1309
Summary: "Many Years Later, Susan Remembers"
Why I Rec This Fic: Susan and stone lions post Narnia is a good little mini genre/trope.
There were lions all over this ancient city. Susan used to love those majestic beasts, but these statues were making her anxious. Maybe they were the reason she felt watched. Those blank stone eyes seemed to be following her around.
Title: Imaginary Menagerie by unoriginal_liz
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Edmund Pevensie & Lucy Pevensie & Peter Pevensie & Susan Pevensie
Word Count: 1320
Summary: "It wasn't surprising they'd played at being Kings and Queens that summer."
Why I Rec This Fic: Great prose.
Because she knows the truth, that Narnia and Aslan are pretty names, but they are empty. They are pretend, and while they are nice, nicer even then many real things, the fact remains – they are not real, the way that wardrobes are real, or being Grown Up is real, or train accidents are real.
Title: Queen of Morning by Sister Coyote (sister_coyte)
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensies,
Susan Pevensie & Avaris Tarkheena, Susan Pevensie & Reepicheep, Susan Pevensie & Lucy Pevensie
Word Count: 1349
Summary: "King Peter's courage and King Edmund's wisdom and Queen Lucy's boldness I would have," Reepicheep said, with a bow and a flourish, "but for a keen eye and a graceful hand, I could find no better, my archer queen."
"Aravis," Susan said, "I am not sure I can tell you what you need to hear. I have been a Queen these long years, but I am queen and sister, not queen and wife. I have never been wed. You will make decisions in tandem with your husband - not soothe the quarrels of your siblings. Or cause them, for that matter."
"I cannot see you causing a quarrel," Aravis said, and Susan knew it was only half compliment. So easy to see her, Queen Susan the Gentle, as meek, will-less, shallow, frivolous, too silly to be at the center of any real conflict.
So she said, "I cause enough of them. They are simply not the quarrels that are solved by the clash of swords."
"Then you have no advice for me?"
"Tell tales, and ride among your people," Susan said. "Be who you are. Whatever they may say about you."
Title: what susan forgot by dirgewithoutmusic
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Pevensie Siblings
Word Count: 1494
Warnings: Body Dysphoria
Summary: Memories and what you make of them.
Why I Rec This Fic: I love the style of this piece, so many interesting and important things are touched upon.
podfic by RickyPulcifer here
"Let’s talk about what Susan Pevensie forgets: her older brother’s face, the sound of dryads gossiping in the leaves, and occasionally her house keys.
Susan forgets the tune of her favorite Narnian lullaby, the one Mrs. Beaver had sung to Lucy when they were still small, the one Susan had planned to sing to her own children, back when she had thought they would be there forever.
They say Susan forgets Narnia, but she doesn’t forget all of it. She puts it aside. She forgets faces and names, tax
rates and the color of her favorite court shoes. Susan never forgets the weight on her shoulders that came from that responsibility, that power, that loss. She sometimes forgets she is strong enough to carry it.
Sometimes she remembers."
Title: Pageant by acrosticacrumpet
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie
Word Count: 2017
Warnings: Sexism
Summary: "What happens to Susan is simple. Terrifyingly so."
Why I Rec This Fic: I do not like Susans siblings talk like they talk about her in canon so it’s nice to read about them reflecting about why she may act like she did.
Title: old enough to start reading fairytales again by aletterinthenameofsanity
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Susan Pevensie/Original Male Character(s)/Original Female Character(s)
Word Count: 2482
Summary: She traces her fingertips along the wood of the outside of the wardrobe, but she never makes an attempt to open it. She isn’t even tempted to open the door. She doesn’t want to open the door, to see if Aslan has given her a glimpse into the world he never gave her siblings back when they needed it.
She has more than made her peace with this world- she has fallen in love with it. She has fallen in love with the people here, her job, and her briefcase. She has no desire to return to her old kingdom, not when she has built her own here.
Why I Rec This Fic: More fabulous adventures of Susan post narnia featuring polyamory.
Title: a call rattling in her bones by dirgewithoutmusic
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Pevensie Siblings
Word Count: 3145
Summary: "Here, on this drab concrete, her people are untouchable, indefensible; herself is vanished, her kingdom gone; she can feel the loss like a wound. She has lost her power, but that trust, that responsibility remains. It circles her ankles, trips her in the school hallways."
Why I Rec This Fic: Makes me cry every time, I really like the practical details about her ruling of Narnia that makes her and the world feel more real.
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