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thisbluespiritI wasn't very well for most of the week, although I'm beginning to feel a bit better again now, so my Yuletide reading got severely curtailed. However, reveals have happened and I can see who wrote my gifts, and ha. XD (I did have my suspicions...) Thanks lurking_latinist! The S&S one was by TheBigCat so you can see that I did indeed get very lucky all round (and do seem to have been, quite incestuously, double-assigned. *\o/*)
Anyway, as I said, I did manage to complete my assignment and to write a last minute treat - thanks toluthien for providing a fandom beta for the former and to persiflage_1 for helping me out speedily on Christmas Eve with the other!
My assignment:
Chance Is A Fine Thing (4254 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Snowdrift and Other Stories - Georgette Heyer, Hazard - Georgette Heyer
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Granville Carlington Marquis of Carlington/Helen Morland
Characters: Helen Morland, Granville Carlington Marquis of Carlington, Original Characters, Ralph Morland, Lionel Winter, Marmaduke Shapley
Additional Tags: Yuletide, Pre-Canon, Post-Canon, Regency, Pining, Weddings
Summary: Helen's luck was also in that night.
Last time I was assigned to write Heyer, it happened with an unfortunate combination of events that forced me to default, so I was especially pleased to complete this one. It's for one of Heyer's short stories, Hazard, which has always been my favourite out of those (and a lot of other people's, I think). mardia's request was great, and easy to put something together for (in my head, anyway). I went from feeling very smug about the first draft to realising Part 3 was extremely lacking in... uh, everything... and then spent a week, much later than should have been the case fixing it (Part 3 is everybody's favourite part, so far, it seems, so it was worth it! Originally NOTHING HAPPENED in that bit; I can't tell you why I thought that was a good idea.) Anyway,luthien said it was okay and the recip liked it, so I think it must have turned out all right! (I got NO other comments on it for days so I did start to wonder if they just hadn't liked to tell me the awful truth, but then another arrived, and it was okay.)
I also wrote Sapphire & Steel. I'm sure anyone who read this anon and knows me will know it was me already! (I have to say, I got comments the first day fromsovay and lurking_latinist and panicked for a minute that I was, in fact, not anon and my flist had somehow seen me. lol.)
Started as a Whisper (3026 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sapphire and Steel
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sapphire/Steel (S&S), Sapphire & Silver & Steel (S&S), Lead & Steel (S&S)
Characters: Steel (S&S), Sapphire (S&S), Lead (S&S), Silver (S&S), Other(s)
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Pre-Canon, Post-Canon, Assignment One, Serial: s03 Assignment Three, Serial: s06 Assignment Six, numbers stations, Gossip
Summary: There’s a saying – careless talk costs lives. But that’s not how it always goes…
Anyway, I love Sapphire & Steel and it was lovely to write this. It wasn't the fandom I was sure I was going to try and treat, so that bit was surprising to me at least. But aaahhhh I miss S&S when I don't write it for ages. No other fandom is like it. I just tried to make this not quite so obviously me and went for it, incorporating as much of Emmzzi's request as possible. I wish I'd started it not actually with less than 40 hours to go and had a bit more time for adding in more elements-are-their-element stuff, that I managed with Jet. But I wasn't feeling well that week, either, so I was v chuffed to have written this. And spent most of it just thinking I love S&S, I love S&S... XD
lurking_latinist! The S&S one was by TheBigCat so you can see that I did indeed get very lucky all round (and do seem to have been, quite incestuously, double-assigned. *\o/*)Anyway, as I said, I did manage to complete my assignment and to write a last minute treat - thanks to
luthien for providing a fandom beta for the former and to persiflage_1 for helping me out speedily on Christmas Eve with the other!My assignment:
Chance Is A Fine Thing (4254 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Snowdrift and Other Stories - Georgette Heyer, Hazard - Georgette Heyer
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Granville Carlington Marquis of Carlington/Helen Morland
Characters: Helen Morland, Granville Carlington Marquis of Carlington, Original Characters, Ralph Morland, Lionel Winter, Marmaduke Shapley
Additional Tags: Yuletide, Pre-Canon, Post-Canon, Regency, Pining, Weddings
Summary: Helen's luck was also in that night.
Last time I was assigned to write Heyer, it happened with an unfortunate combination of events that forced me to default, so I was especially pleased to complete this one. It's for one of Heyer's short stories, Hazard, which has always been my favourite out of those (and a lot of other people's, I think). mardia's request was great, and easy to put something together for (in my head, anyway). I went from feeling very smug about the first draft to realising Part 3 was extremely lacking in... uh, everything... and then spent a week, much later than should have been the case fixing it (Part 3 is everybody's favourite part, so far, it seems, so it was worth it! Originally NOTHING HAPPENED in that bit; I can't tell you why I thought that was a good idea.) Anyway,
luthien said it was okay and the recip liked it, so I think it must have turned out all right! (I got NO other comments on it for days so I did start to wonder if they just hadn't liked to tell me the awful truth, but then another arrived, and it was okay.)I also wrote Sapphire & Steel. I'm sure anyone who read this anon and knows me will know it was me already! (I have to say, I got comments the first day from
sovay and lurking_latinist and panicked for a minute that I was, in fact, not anon and my flist had somehow seen me. lol.)Started as a Whisper (3026 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sapphire and Steel
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sapphire/Steel (S&S), Sapphire & Silver & Steel (S&S), Lead & Steel (S&S)
Characters: Steel (S&S), Sapphire (S&S), Lead (S&S), Silver (S&S), Other(s)
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Pre-Canon, Post-Canon, Assignment One, Serial: s03 Assignment Three, Serial: s06 Assignment Six, numbers stations, Gossip
Summary: There’s a saying – careless talk costs lives. But that’s not how it always goes…
Anyway, I love Sapphire & Steel and it was lovely to write this. It wasn't the fandom I was sure I was going to try and treat, so that bit was surprising to me at least. But aaahhhh I miss S&S when I don't write it for ages. No other fandom is like it. I just tried to make this not quite so obviously me and went for it, incorporating as much of Emmzzi's request as possible. I wish I'd started it not actually with less than 40 hours to go and had a bit more time for adding in more elements-are-their-element stuff, that I managed with Jet. But I wasn't feeling well that week, either, so I was v chuffed to have written this. And spent most of it just thinking I love S&S, I love S&S... XD
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Date: 2022-01-01 03:25 pm (UTC)I'm glad you felt pleased at completing your Heyer fic. I hope you can catch up on your reading:)
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Date: 2022-01-01 05:53 pm (UTC)I'm glad you felt pleased at completing your Heyer fic. I hope you can catch up on your reading:)
I've decided not to try. I think I will make a All the Yuletides bookmarking project sometime, but I can't read fic unless it's something I know v well or am v excited about at the mo, and that's not fair to the authors either, because then I'm just all 'meh' at the most excellent fic going.
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Date: 2022-01-02 03:40 pm (UTC)I can't read fic unless it's something I know v well or am v excited A good rule!
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Date: 2022-01-01 05:57 pm (UTC)And thank you again for your help! I appreciated it a lot, and glad your gargoyle fic has gone down well. It sounded very exciting! (I am going to read RoL one day, but the books turn up cheaply in my local charity shops, so I am waiting to find it there, I just keep finding everything but Bk 1!)
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Date: 2022-01-02 02:36 am (UTC)RoL is a terrific series. You can probably find a copy of the first book at the library, if libraries are your sort of thing - and also the audiobook, again if that's your sort of thing. The RoL audiobooks are my favourite audiobooks of any I've ever listened to.
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Date: 2022-01-02 12:51 pm (UTC)I can manage audio plays, with multiple voices, but audiobooks are generally a bit of a no-no concentration-wise. And I'm slow enough with the audio plays when it's not summer (in summer they replace some of my TV watching and help when I don't sleep so well because it's like never dark.) I'm glad they're good, though! Some have such great narrators, I'm almost tempted for a minute before I remember that it won't go well for me. XD
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Date: 2022-01-01 07:07 pm (UTC)Congratulations! Seriously.
And spent most of it just thinking I love S&S, I love S&S...
And I love numbers stations, so I especially enjoyed this one.
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Date: 2022-01-01 11:11 pm (UTC)I didn't, just because I've been so stupidly busy I've only been slowly making my way through the Yuletide fics, and I still haven't gotten past M on the fandom list! Nice to know I'll have some fic from you to look forward to when I reach S. :)
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Date: 2022-01-02 10:40 am (UTC)Nice to know I'll have some fic from you to look forward to when I reach S. :)
It was very me. You would definitely have known it was me if you had read it. *nods*
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Date: 2022-01-02 04:36 am (UTC)"Hazard" is one of those short canons that I was totally going to read before Yuletide and then didn't. But I am sure I will get to it eventually and then I will also get to "Chance is a Fine Thing," which looks delightful!
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Date: 2022-01-02 10:34 am (UTC)I was looking through your Dreamwidth tags trying to decide what they should read in the book club and I saw Julius Caesar and thought, oh.
Ahaha. I'm glad to have obliged! I have to say, I did think at that point that the odds on my writer knowing me had risen quite a lot. I love JC! And it was perfect in the fic. Katrina, what have you unleashed...? (My old telly fave David Collings was Cassius one time. It was awesome. I hope that stone cold classic vid plays in your region ok. XD)
Btw, one tiny, tiny detail, but the alien race is the Geonin. (I had to do a ridiculous amount of Googling, script and reference hunting in the summer - Radio is so hard to get confirmation on with stuff, so you're not just going, well, it sounds like... lol.) But more to the point, when I Googled again to check I wasn't just wrong as usual, I found the BBC have repeated a few eps, which means it's up on the radio site and includes a couple of brief, deleted clips, which maybe you will enjoy too: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r2pgs/clips (While the iPlayer is region-locked, the Radio stuff is not, so you should be okay with it.)
"Hazard" is one of those short canons that I was totally going to read before Yuletide and then didn't. But I am sure I will get to it eventually and then I will also get to "Chance is a Fine Thing," which looks delightful!
It's one of the short stories from Heyer's collection (now Snowdrift, prev. Pistols for Two). I like it the best out of all of them - I think it's pretty fun and charming with a likeable pair in it.
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Date: 2022-01-03 03:17 am (UTC)That is quite the Cassius experience! XD
Oh, hooray, it's been repeated! And I immediately had to go and listen to the 'Saving Shakespeare' clip, of course. Thanks for sharing!
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Date: 2022-01-03 10:43 am (UTC)https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/writersroom/entries/75dc6f21-d1d9-35c0-9e53-885ade934b21
Some S1 ep scripts were packaged into a 'play' (goes straight to PDF download): www.hackneyplayers.org.uk/Virtual%20Scripts/welcometoourvillage.pdf
The BBC page takes a lot of hopping about but does include quite a bit of info between all the pages (& lots of recording pics): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04m9qm2
Wikipedia is brief, but what's there is pretty accurate + links to reviews & the bbc pages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Our_Village,_Please_Invade_Carefully
And I immediately had to go and listen to the 'Saving Shakespeare' clip, of course. Thanks for sharing!
Yes, me too! I liked the other little one as well. It coincidentally tied in with something in your fic very well. XD
That is quite the Cassius experience! XD
The 1979 BBC JC is simultaneously genuinely great and also very cracky. When I was very very ill I watched it a lot and hugged the dvd case. And fell asleep like that, and its plastic is still wrinkled with my misplaced love. Heh.