Some things

[thisbluespirit]

1. unconventionalcourtship is back! Yes, you can sign up for the annual fest in which you choose a romance novel summary and then kill it with fanfic or art create something based, at least roughly, on it! It's fun, laid back, and comes with a free generator that never fails to make everything better for at least a short while. (Shipping not required! You can use the summary however you choose.)


2. genprompt_bingo is open for a new round! I'm very fond of this one - it has great prompts and no restricting theme (the gen is solely about the prompts, not the fills, you can ship away as much as you like). Mind you, not that I've finished my last card yet, and I do think I was close to a bingo.


3. Nothing to do with writing, and less frivolous also, but another of my old telly faves Jennifer Wilson died yesterday.

Back when I first started venturing into the b&w and/or beige world of old Brit TV, I was chasing David Collings about the place, and acquired S1 of Special Branch (1969), because he was in it. Jennifer Wilson played a female Det. Sgt. in the b&w episodes and I loved her so much that eventually, I went off to watch The Brothers, which I have waffled about here more recently. I know nothing much else about her, really, but she just had a such a wonderfully warm and natural presence on the screen. (Mariocki, on tumblr, who told me, always calls her "lovely Jenny" when talking about her Brothers character (also Jennifer), and that's about right. She was 89 and had a good career and a good innings, but it's always sad when good people leave.

I made a thing, but I will do one with more roles in soon.

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[persiflage_1]

You know how we often joke about the generator being haunted? Yeah... About that...

650) Lord Diablo's Demise by Meg-Lynn Roberts
The sinfully beautiful Lady Kate Lethbridge Stewart was a gambler and the black sheep of her family. About to be forced into a marriage of convenience, the devilish miss engineered her own demise, never having dreamed that faking her death would lead her to the heavenly refuge of spirited heiress Martha Jones, the daughter of a physician.

[thisbluespirit]

LOL, it's completely on your wavelength there!

[persiflage_1]

Yes!

[john_amend_all]

I wonder if it's like the One Ring, except you get romance plots rather than power according to your stature.

The other day I asked it for Babylon 5 prompts and got dangerously-close-to-canon Delenn/Ivanova — no surprises there.

535) A Forbidden Temptation by Anne Mather
An unwanted desire…
With the death of her wife still raw, Susan Ivanova's mood is dark and dangerous. She’s not looking for a woman – until she meets buttonedup but beautiful Delenn, who stirs her senses back to life. Yet Susan cannot act on her feelings because Delenn belongs to another!
An impossible affair…
Trapped in a fake relationship to safeguard her family, Delenn knows crossing the line with Susan would risk everything she holds dear. Beneath the hunger she sees in Susan’s eyes is the promise of something more… but is it enough for her to surrender to a taste of the forbidden?

But then I started on coding up another batch of summaries, and found one was called Season of Shadows and another had a heroine called Delene (sic). As Valen would doubtless say, there are no coincidences.

(In the generator's hands, that last prompt became:

671) The Woman Who Wasn't There by Marie Ferrarella
Detective Dayna Mellanby had never met a woman who didn't like her — until Agent Lydia Bennet gave her the cold shoulder at a crime scene.
Thrown together by a murder investigation, Dayna's attempts to woo the sexy parole officer were met with staunch disinterest. Lydia hadn't escaped the clutches of her abusive ex just to fall prey to another smooth-talking pretty girl, and Dayna Mellanby was lethally charming. But that's where the similarities ended — and Lydia was learning that Dayna had more beneath the surface.
When the stakes couldn't be higher, did she dare risk everything for a chance with this intriguing woman?

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[thisbluespirit]

I wonder if it's like the One Ring, except you get romance plots rather than power according to your stature.

I rather hope not, because in that case, I don't know what it says about me that I get Dalek Sec so often! And Baldrick. And Rimmer. And, indeed, Rimmer/Baldrick.

And, ha, ready-made B5 romances? Glad you felt up to coding in some more, after all!!

[a_phoenixdragon]

Arrghhh...sorry she has passed. May she rest in peace.

YAY for fic challenges! Eeee!!

*HUGS*

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks! ♥

[liadt]

Thanks for the plug \o/

Sorry to hear about Jennifer Wilson, the gifs are pretty with their seventies style<3

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, thanks! I don't know if you've caught her in anything yet, because, of course, she was tied up in The Brothers for years in the 70s, but she was just lovely, and a very fine actor.

And er. UC, I also did a tumblr post with all the most obscure covers you made! I'm sure that will have brought in the millions! (Well, tbf, it did have appeal to my followers, given my usual content.)

[liadt]

Thanks for the tumblr promo too! Nice to see adding my old covers to the bannners post wasn't wasted and Avon/Orac was in the larger size:D

[thisbluespirit]

Someone reblogged it just for the Avon/Orac!!

[liadt]

Lol!

[singe]

It's a lovely thing!

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, tahnks! ♥