Fannish things

[thisbluespirit]

As I said, I sort of stopped updating properly for a bit. Just the usual low patch, but I navigated last month's better in terms of posting than this month's.

1. I did manage to do three Fannish ficlets for no_true_pair and still have some rainbowfic ones I'll post for their amnesty, so that is quite good. Although I was quite blurry, I'm not sure how they turned out, really.


2. unconventionalcourtship is back! Time to pick a terrible romance novel and kill it with fanfiction or whatever your preferred approach is. As ever, you can ask the brilliant Unconventional Courtship Generator for ideas if you don't want to personally wade through Mills & Boon's back catalogue.


3. genprompt_bingo is open for a new round!


4. I don't know what is happening with this year, but I received a NYR gift from edwardianspinsteraunt for The Winslow Boy! It is amazing! I need to go comment properly, and will soon, but spent all day finishing off doing the 100 list thingies going around (see point 5.)

At the Threshold (5149 words) by edwardianspinsteraunt
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Winslow Boy (1999)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Robert Morton/Catherine Winslow
Characters: Robert Morton (Winslow Boy), Catherine Winslow, Desmond Curry
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Kissing, Vulnerability, questionable decisions, Confessions (of various sorts), semi-resolved sexual tension, Angst with a Happy Ending, past Catherine Winslow/John Watherstone
Summary: Catherine learns earlier of Sir Robert's sacrifice - a discovery that has surprising results.


5. I've been doing the tumblr-moved-to-Dreamwidth top 100 personal favourite/foundational movies list, plus, because I picked it up from lirazel (who I think was the one that added the other two categories), also 100 TV series, which took the longest. In the meantime, while it moved round my flist, it became solely a book list meme instead, because I suppose that is tumblr vs Dreamwidth for you, lol.

I'm not entirely surely fiddling with things for a week has made my lists any less weird. (You have to bear in mind that my most influential/favourite things, like everyone, tend to be from when I was growing up/younger but then also I have spent the last 15 years having appalling trouble trying to just read or watch anything and at least 5 or so years of that time solving that problem by watching slow-paced Brit TV, some of which was genuinely awesome and then the loss of DVDs for the past 3-5 years has completely scotched any means I had of watching anything not on terrestrial UK TV or the iPlayer. But it does make my list look like it was made by someone whose next words will be muttering about isn't modern stuff too Ruined By The Woke, which is very distressing to me, but that's why. I might mutter that people should write TV episodes like they're one act plays again instead of a soap opera installment and that it honestly doesn't have to cost THAT much to be good, but that's as far as it goes re. the worst effects of all the beige tv on my brain, I promise. It was excellent beige TV! And the bits that weren't, I was looking at James Maxwell's nose or Alfie's face or Suzanne Neve's awesome anyway. And the reading has been even worse, except the few books that worked could at least be from any era, because so far they haven't changed how that works. BUt, still, they had to be old enough to be chanced upon in charity shops so...)

If you want distractions of clicking things and telling me that you also watched/read about 10 of these, here is the film list, the TV List (much beige TV included some of which I had to add manually) and the books list.

No doubt I have forgotten obvious things and would probably make different lists again next week, but I had fun. It had some of the most obscure books and films on it, it just had issues with the TV sometimes.

Comments

[persiflage_1]

I shall have to take a look at those 100 lists.

[thisbluespirit]

XD

[theseatheseatheopensea]

Low patch begone! *hugs*

I got 47 of 100 for movies, 13 of 100 for TV shows, and 25 of 100 for books!

[thisbluespirit]

I got 47 of 100 for movies, 13 of 100 for TV shows, and 25 of 100 for books!

Oh, that's pretty good! I don't expect many people to match me on very many of the TV ones, really, and those results seem pretty high for the rest, especially the films. (I have good taste buried in there somewhere, then! XD)

[glinda]

Welcome back, glad you're out of the low patch. 38 films! That's a comparitively really good hit rate for me on these lists! And 18 on the book list. Mostly what these list quizes have told me is who on my reading/following lists are within the same general age range as me as I'm mostly matching on films/books I saw/read when I was a kid!

[thisbluespirit]

Mostly what these list quizes have told me is who on my reading/following lists are within the same general age range as me as I'm mostly matching on films/books I saw/read when I was a kid!

Yes, and who's in the same country, if you didn't already know it! XD 38 films is quite high! I think that's about as high as I've got on anyone else's yet, but I haven't really watched films as much until lately, really. The other two lists took a bit of doing, but I ran out of space quickly and keep thinking of more, whereas I got to about 30 on the films and then had to sit down and think hard about what I'd watched growing up and at college and things.

[osprey_archer]

34 for movies, 40 for books, and 15 for TV shows! And 15 is probably a bit high tbh because there were definitely some where I was like "well I've watched a good chunk of that show but not ALL of it" and counted it anyway.

Love that you have two separate books both called Nemesis on your list.

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, that's pretty impressive! I knew my TV list matches would generally be low with most people, but, heh, it is my list! So I think anyone who gets over 10 just shows that we friended each other for reasons. :-)

Love that you have two separate books both called Nemesis on your list.

I had to decide between that and The Moving Finger on the Christie front, but Nemesis is, I think, one of her very best. I can have two Nemeses!

[sovay]

If you want distractions of clicking things and telling me that you also watched/read about 10 of these, here is the film list, the TV List (much beige TV included some of which I had to add manually) and the books list.

Oh, sure!

Films: 73 of 100. We must not have talked about Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

TV: 32 of 100 . Counted generously in the sense of whether I had ever seen an episode, although in most cases I had in fact seen the entire show. (In others, I had seen different adaptations than the ones you chose.)

Books: 81 of 100. Multiple of which I had not thought about in decades! I associate many of them with the Cambridge Public Library.

*hugs* for the low patch, usual or not.

[thisbluespirit]

Films: 73 of 100. We must not have talked about Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

Oh, that's high! And the book list even more so! Gosh! I was threatening to propose to anyone who got that high, but I promise to restrain myself. XD

I feel like actually we might have talked about B&B in passing at some point, in between other things, but I can't be sure. It was a great childhood favourite for a period. I never owned it, nor recorded it off the TV, so it was a repeated rental viewing and a high treat for birthdays.

TV: 32 of 100 . Counted generously in the sense of whether I had ever seen an episode, although in most cases I had in fact seen the entire show. (In others, I had seen different adaptations than the ones you chose.)

I mean, I haven't seen all of all of them, either! (I think mainly the X-Files, but there might be something else - but I watched 7 out of 9 series of that and it was a huge thing for me at uni and beyond, so I couldn't exclude it.)

81 of 100. Multiple of which I had not thought about in decades! I associate many of them with the Cambridge Public Library.

Oh, which ones? (I mean, the random resurrected memories, not all 81, unless you want to continue distracting yourself by talking about whatever number out of 81 books that we both like, in which case, I am here for that, lol.)

Anyway, clearly our fictional oppression of each other has been going well even on top of shared tastes that brought us together. Even if I'm defnitely going slower on my side. I get there in the end! Usually. XD

(I might have put They Came To A City In but it is too soon to decide, and J B Priestly did at least get Laburnum Grove in there.)

[thedarlingone]

I've seen 18 on the films list, which is honestly quite a lot better than I expected based on how I usually do with these lists (2-5 for most of the "popular Tumblr films" or what have you), and I even skipped a couple where I wasn't sure which version I'd seen, like Much Ado and Sense & Sensibility.

On TV shows it came out to 5, which isn't surprising because I haven't seen many TV shows in my life. I did count Doctor Who and The West Wing although I haven't seen nearly all of either one.

On books I've read 26, which is less than it felt like it should be, but I also haven't done a ton of reading since I left the best library system in the world (my apologies to all other library systems, but it is true).

I'm not sure I've even seen 100 TV series in my life. I might be able to piece together a top 100 media of all types combined. It would probably be an incredibly odd mishmash.

(I'm headachy due to the air pressure here so I think I am not very coherent but it's good to see you around.)

[thisbluespirit]

I've seen 18 on the films list, which is honestly quite a lot better than I expected based on how I usually do with these lists (2-5 for most of the "popular Tumblr films" or what have you), and I even skipped a couple where I wasn't sure which version I'd seen, like Much Ado and Sense & Sensibility.

Oh, you should be 19 at least, then. *handwaves airily*

On TV shows it came out to 5, which isn't surprising because I haven't seen many TV shows in my life. I did count Doctor Who and The West Wing although I haven't seen nearly all of either one.

That means, that out of the few TV series you've seen in your life, quite a few then overlap with ones I love or have really loved at some point. <3

(I'm headachy due to the air pressure here so I think I am not very coherent but it's good to see you around.)

*hugs* And you! I just sometimes get in very low-energy states where I just use up my spoons on things other than posting and lose the swing of it altogether for a little bit, but it comes and goes.

[hamsterwoman]

I definitely feel like your book list had a lot more books that I didn't even recognize the titles of, vs ones of my American flisters. But will not try to draw any conclusions from that :)

(I also took a crack at your movies and TV shows, but I don't have a baseline there, lol, and also it's not surprising that my numbers are low because, other than the current unexpected Britcom rabbit hole and a couple of things I'm passionate about, I really didn't use to watch stuff!)

[thisbluespirit]

I definitely feel like your book list had a lot more books that I didn't even recognize the titles of, vs ones of my American flisters. But will not try to draw any conclusions from that :)

Yeah, I'm not sure I'm representative. XD

I also took a crack at your movies and TV shows, but I don't have a baseline there, lol, and also it's not surprising that my numbers are low because, other than the current unexpected Britcom rabbit hole and a couple of things I'm passionate about, I really didn't use to watch stuff!

I don't expect many people to match highly on the TV one anyway. Although I still think, given the ones you do tend to get on with, that you'd probably enjoy Derry Girls and Red Dwarf if you get the chance. But we have Taskmaster and what more do people need? Oh, apart from B5 and B7, also important. <3

[beccadg]

If you want distractions of clicking things and telling me that you also watched/read about 10 of these...

I got 55 of 100 movies, 31 of 100 TV shows (you personally got me into both Blake's 7 and Sapphire and Steel), and 20 of 100 books. Book list would be higher, but there were a number that I've been meaning to read without actually getting to. As it is, I'm very happy to know we've both read Lloyd Alexander's High King, Ellis Peter's One Corpse Too Many, and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.

[thisbluespirit]

I got 55 of 100 movies, 31 of 100 TV shows (you personally got me into both Blake's 7 and Sapphire and Steel), and 20 of 100 books.

Oh, that's pretty high for the first two!

I'm very happy to know we've both read Lloyd Alexander's High King, Ellis Peter's One Corpse Too Many, and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.

Oh, yes, and much re-read on all fronts at various times! <3

[pedanther]

I got 24 for movies, 30 for TV shows (using the generous definition of "seen" where I've seen at least one episode), and 34 for books.

[thisbluespirit]

That sounds pretty much like a good average sort of result. Hey, look, we friended each other for a reason! *points to important overlaps*

[dimity_blue]

Hello! I'm glad you've popped up again. So have I. :D

[thisbluespirit]

Hurrah! *hugs*

[lirazel]

I thought I was the only one who imprinted on Lady Jane when I was young!

43!

[thisbluespirit]

I thought I was the only one who imprinted on Lady Jane when I was young!

I didn't, actually, although I absolutely would have done if I'd seen it growing up. Anne of the Thousand Days stands in for my general imprinting on my Mum's random historical angst-fest films. But I watched it a couple of years ago when I started trying to just watch any historical films I found and I really liked it - it was just well done, well shot, lovely score by Stephen Oliver and see above for imprinting on angsty film Tudor beheadings. In this case, with bonus Michael Hordern holding your hand. idk what more a person could ask for!

It suited my mood at the time and has stayed in my head since, so in it went. <3

I did a little gifset for it on tumblr when I watched it.

ETA: Oh, sorry, I can see you already there in the notes from whenever now that I look.

[astrogirl]

Interesting lists! I got 27 on the films, 20 on the TV shows, and 28 on the books. These results frankly astonish me. I would have thought we had more overlap on television, beige or otherwise! But I suppose that does explain why we have to keep lamenting about not having enough fandoms in common. And I'm really not much of a movie-watcher, to the extent that I seriously doubt I could come up with 100 things to put on my own list if I were making one, so I figured I might match single-digits on that one. The fact that it skews towards older stuff really made a difference, there. Honestly, I think the vast majority of those I watched a very, very long time ago, to the point that for a lot of them I know I saw them, but couldn't tell you anything about them at all. Anyway, neat exercise!

I think I'm going to go sign up for a new bingo card, even though I'm only two-and-a-half stories through my existing one. (At least, god, I hope I'm at least halfway through the one I'm currently writing. It's the one I'm posting as a WIP, and the estimated chapter count just keeps ticking up and up and up. I don't understand it! It doesn't even have much of a plot! Why have I not sensibly stuck to writing one-shots?!) But last time I didn't request a new one because I hadn't finished the current one, I ended up wishing I did have a next one to start on as soon as I did.

[thisbluespirit]

Interesting lists! I got 27 on the films, 20 on the TV shows, and 28 on the books. These results frankly astonish me. I would have thought we had more overlap on television, beige or otherwise! But I suppose that does explain why we have to keep lamenting about not having enough fandoms in common.

I mean, this kind of list does tend to include a lot of childhood/teen favourites, and with TV, very few of those crossed the pond, even before we get into my whole beige TV adventures. The thing is that we overlap on nearly all my main fandoms - Doctor Who, Sapphire & Steel, B7, OUaT, which is important!

If it makes you feel better, The Avengers went on and off the list like a yo-yo (because I haven't watched by any means all of it and, much as I do like Cathy, I'm not sure how I feel about that era yet, and I was horribly late to the party, so it didn't get to be formative) and The Prisoner was on for a bit and then got the boot, because, again, good, but not formative and also I watched it in a bad patch and haven't quite mustered up the strength to rewatch it again since. And I couldn't include Good Omens, even aside from anything else, because I've still only watched half of it.

I just need to get access to some streaming and sort myself out, but here we are.

In modern things, if you haven't already seen them, Detectorists and BBC Ghosts are both really lovely comedies I'm sure you'd enjoy (not the US Ghosts, although that's fun too, but the original is rather special, I think.)

And, actually, with the rise of streaming, some of the older ones are more available these days! I don't think that would include Doomwatch sadly, which I think you would find particularly interesting, but original Survivors must be out there and it's incredible, made my hair stand on end, even if sometimes for being horribly 70s, but most of the time in the good way. (I haven't recced it for a while, because post 2020 the "everyone dies in a flu pandemic" apocalyptic scenario was just too soon.) Anyway, it's Terry Nation's other awesome and bleak 1970s series.

And Wish Me Luck was a 1980s/90s WWII drama about women in the SOE that I watched, inappropriately, when I was 10, because apparently my parents are not adult supervision. It gave me nightmares about being interrogated by the Nazis for years, but I adored it regardless, loved Matty & Liz & Emily & Faith, and (non-evil!) Julian Glover. I gather it's been on Tubi lately; idk if it still is or if it's streaming other places as well. I love S1-2 particularly, but s3 has a hell of an ending.

I mean, and anything else that's already on your list, of course! I'm not greedy! XD

/steps down off usual annoying TV soapbox and pretends to be a reasonable flister *shiftyeyes*

And I'm really not much of a movie-watcher, to the extent that I seriously doubt I could come up with 100 things to put on my own list if I were making one, so I figured I might match single-digits on that one.

This meme started out as just films, and I was all: yeah, I've been watching more films lately! I can do that! I got to 32 and was... nooo, I can't. XD I did then sit down and think hard about childhood favourites and other things that I watched that made an impact, but I think it would have been more honest at about 80-90 at most, and I still could easily swap things round. Which means that a lot of them are just the sort of things that everybody saw if they were within a reasonably wide-ish age bracket at the time. I have been trying on and off to amend my lack of film-watching these last few years, and it's been fun so far, and I have at least gained a better idea of what I actually do and don't like.

The books one, though - I could have done 150, no problem, even though it's been so hard to read for so many years, because of the CFS. (Which is, touch wood, genuinely getting so much better this last year or two, even if I still must keep to a very limited amount at a time. But I can usually read pretty much anything I choose to within that limit and even enjoy it! Can you imagine? o_O)

But last time I didn't request a new one because I hadn't finished the current one, I ended up wishing I did have a next one to start on as soon as I did.

Aw, then obviously you must have one! I am tempted, but I'm still working on Round 24 and being rubbish at it, lol. (I'm also doing a 2023 allbingo Valentine's card and it's so stupid, I have TWELVE squares filled, two lines only needing one square filled for a bingo and I still haven't finished it. I'm at the point where I'm just, maybe I should do a black out because I'm nearly halfway there and it's ridiculous? My genprompt_bingo one isn't as bad, but it still has seven squares done, with no strategic sense in them at all.)

[liadt]

Thanks for the UC plug!

I'm not surprised the lists took ages, 300 things is a lot!

'The Winslow Boy' keeps going, it's going to take over MCU!

[thisbluespirit]

My pleasure!

300 is a lot, and also not enough, particularly for books. XD (Did you do it? What was your TV score in particular if so?)

'The Winslow Boy' keeps going, it's going to take over MCU!

It does have twelve works now, so I'm sure the next 120,000 or whatever we need to do write to catch up will be fine!

[tinny]

No doubt I have forgotten obvious things and would probably make different lists again next week

IKR? I'm tempted to do this (and you're right, I've only seen book versions around my flist so far :D), but needing to sign up for a site just for that... um. Probably not.

But the idea of "formative" is different than "favorite", and I haven't spent much time thinking about it so far, so it's probably worth spending some time on that. I probably will do it offline and just pick ten or so each instead of 100. Who knows. :D

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, I hesitated to sign up, but, oh well, sometimes you need the distraction of making things for people to click, what can I say? XD

But the idea of "formative" is different than "favorite", and I haven't spent much time thinking about it so far, so it's probably worth spending some time on that. I probably will do it offline and just pick ten or so each instead of 100. Who knows. :D

It did eat up a surprising amount of time!

[scripsi]

40 of the books, 35 of the TV shows and 29 of the books. :)

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, that is very impressive! We overlap quite a lot. <3

I just did yours, and I got 35, which the results tell me puts me in third place out of users who have clicked through your list, so, heh, we definitely do. There were a couple of others where I'd read a book by that author (or more) but not the one(s) you'd chosen.