Fannish things
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.
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Date: 6 Apr 2025 07:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 6 Apr 2025 07:53 pm (UTC)I got 47 of 100 for movies, 13 of 100 for TV shows, and 25 of 100 for books!
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Date: 6 Apr 2025 08:26 pm (UTC)Love that you have two separate books both called Nemesis on your list.
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Date: 6 Apr 2025 09:06 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 6 Apr 2025 09:25 pm (UTC)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.)
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Date: 6 Apr 2025 10:02 pm (UTC)(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!)
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Date: 7 Apr 2025 02:16 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 7 Apr 2025 02:48 pm (UTC)43!
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Date: 7 Apr 2025 09:33 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 8 Apr 2025 03:39 pm (UTC)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!
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Date: 13 Apr 2025 06:04 am (UTC)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
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