The Stone Gryphon

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Creators:
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Series Begun:
2010-10-01
Series Updated:
2024-09-26
Description:

The Stone Gryphon is a sprawling Spare Oom story of war, espionage, immoral acts done in service of moral ends, natural history, dinosaurs, Alice in Wonderland, cunning corvids, tequila, D-Day, theology, spirituality, love and sex. If the Dawn Treader can be on the wall of a spare bedroom in Impington, Narnia can be found in other places, too. The Friends of Narnia just have to learn where to look. And upon returning from Narnia, the Pevensies probably didn't just sit around waiting to die in a fiery train wreck.

"No, no! The adventures first," said the Gryphon in an impatient tone: "explanations take such a dreadful time."
L. Carroll, The Adventures of Alice In Wonderland

"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
Francis of Assisi

"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
L. Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Notes:

The Stone Gryphon has been ongoing for over a decade and is still not complete. It's getting there, though, with a September 2024 update to Heart and Crow Make The Peace. Until I retire, updates will continue to be sporadic, unfortunately, as I'm still writing to pay the mortgage.

A word about content warnings, triggers, and squick. If you want a good idea of the nature of my Narnia work, I suggest reading the first 3 chapters of Oxfordshire 1942. (On the Narnia, Golden Age side, try Chapters 1-3 of By Royal Decree). A careful read of those chapters will give you a good sense of what you are in for.

TSG is set during World War 2 and, as such, reflects much of that era, including, but not limited to: internalized homophobia; period-consistent alcohol, swearing, smoking, and marital infidelity; racism, misogyny, and antisemitism. The story reflects many varieties of the human condition, race, class, culture, religion (and no religion), gender, sexuality, and neuro-divergence.

While I chose not use Archive Warnings, I do not believe any apply with one exception discussed below. No dub con, torture, physical abuse, or child abuse. No non-canonical character death (OCs do die).  As to mental illness, in TSG, one terminally ill original character harbors occasional depression and suicidal ideation. Another character has PTSD. Some characters have depressive episodes.

If anything is triggering, drop me a line and I'll let you know how to avoid it should you choose to read.

Underage sexual content is vague -- a few paragraphs in I love not man the less but nature more and Rat and Sword Go To War might involve characters who are 16-17.

Stats:
Words:
630,155
Works:
14
Complete:
No
Bookmarks:
644

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