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

[astrogirl]

Well, in that case, let me add the other recent and awesome UK comedy that I assume everyone else already knows about, Derry Girls, into the mix.

That I have heard of, and while from the vague descriptions of it I've heard it doesn't sound much like my sort of thing, I have seen so many enthusiastic recommendations for it from people whose tastes I trust that I can only assume it must, indeed, be worthwhile. It may or may not already be on the infinite list, or that portion of it that resides in my various streaming service watchlists. I should probably check.

Yay! We shall have a lovely discussion about it in a decade or two, then. XD

Yeah, that sounds just about right. :)

Let the evil cartoon triangle bang the angsty guy! XD

LOL! But, no, I refuse! That triangle is a jerk, and I take far too much pleasure in not giving him what he wants! :)

(Eventually, I will probably give in and let him. But not in this fic.)

it's actually a flower & jewel meanings bingo, so that's just that particular flower/jewel meaning, but I immediately thought of tumblr and jinxed myself on it.

Ah, OK, that would definitely make me feel better about it, but even so, I totally understand the problem with that association. :)

If only I could be bothered to be organised about bingos.

It really does help to be strict with yourself about picking a line and sticking to it... as long as you don't then talk yourself into going for the blackout because there are still a bunch of other prompts you want to write.

[thisbluespirit]

That I have heard of, and while from the vague descriptions of it I've heard it doesn't sound much like my sort of thing, I have seen so many enthusiastic recommendations for it from people whose tastes I trust that I can only assume it must, indeed, be worthwhile.

I missed the first two series, because I rarely get on with ch4 sitcoms, but people were going on about it, and the gifsets of Sister Michael on tumblr were all very funny, so I recorded repeats of S1-2 just in time to watch my way almost straight through it, and, yeah, it really is amazingly well done. It's one of those things where someone has written about a very specific time and place and experience and yet somehow managed to do it in a way that clearly has something universal about it. Plus, for the most of the time, it's pure chaos and extremely funny. Especially Sister Michael. The gifsets were not wrong.

Anyway, so, yes, I absolutely third, fourth or tenth or whatever the rec.

(If you do ever get to it, here's a clip, because it's one of those shows where the soundtrack is important and, inevitably, copyright has messed with it on Netflix, and while I'm sure most of those are ok, in the final scene of s1 crimes were committed. idk if this plays in your region (and don't watch it yet) but link to be stashed somewhere so you can see the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SN14w6BLf8 )

LOL! But, no, I refuse! That triangle is a jerk, and I take far too much pleasure in not giving him what he wants! :)

Lol. Okay. Bad Triangle, no smut! (Not yet.)

It really does help to be strict with yourself about picking a line and sticking to it...

Yeah, the times I've done that, I've been much better at it! But OTOH, I do like having an ongoing card and writing things I just felt like writing, and then posting them while protesting, "Look, I had to write it, it fitted square x over there in that corner of the card that's of no use to me, how could I not?" XD

[astrogirl]

Anyway, so, yes, I absolutely third, fourth or tenth or whatever the rec.

Noted!

If you do ever get to it, here's a clip, because it's one of those shows where the soundtrack is important and, inevitably, copyright has messed with it on Netflix, and while I'm sure most of those are ok, in the final scene of s1 crimes were committed.

Oh, ugh, I hate that. Right, I have duly stashed the link away, and will try to remember it, if and when. Thank you!

Lol. Okay. Bad Triangle, no smut! (Not yet.)

I will let him have a kiss, but it will be a Kiss of Betrayal, and then I will laugh at him. :)

But OTOH, I do like having an ongoing card and writing things I just felt like writing, and then posting them while protesting, "Look, I had to write it, it fitted square x over there in that corner of the card that's of no use to me, how could I not?" XD

Ooh, yeah, that is really handy reasoning to have in your pocket, I cannot deny it. :)

[thisbluespirit]

I have duly stashed the link away, and will try to remember it, if and when. Thank you!

Remembering is always the trick, isn't it? XD

[astrogirl]

It really is! Fortunately, every once in a great while I look over the place where I save all the random links, so I can see them again and wonder what they heck they are and when I put them there. :)

[thisbluespirit]

LOL, yes. Past self, please explain yourself! What was this for? XD