Fannish things

1. So hc_bingo are doing their March Amnesty recs challenge again, which means I get a strip and make of rec list of at least 15 fanworks (using any one or more of the squares):

loss of identity

forced soulbonding

isolation

That's a lot easier than the set I had last year, I think. If nothing else, I must have some Spooks stuff bookmarked for loss of identity, among other things. I do enjoy doing this one and always wind up reading unexpected stuff for it!


2. I also think I've finally got my belated yuletide assignment done. I need to edit it once more and get it betaed, and then I can post to the NYR collection. \o/


3. My space_swap assignment seems pretty nice, too, so fingers crossed for that - especially as I am going to try to sign up for hurtcomfortex too. (The sign-ups are close, but hurtcomfortex is due a whole month after space_swap, and oddly, that might actually be less stressful than just having one exchange going with such a long writing period.)

A post of Dracula parallels

So, I've been meaning to share some of this here for ages, and here goes. I've been giffing my way through the Dracula adaptations I've seen so far (6 currently) and have completed five, with Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) still to go. (I got stopped by people spoiling my fun by suddenly making a new Dracula in the middle of all this, which meant people were taking notice of my posts and it was too much. Also now I'm not up to date! Damn them. Couldn't they have waited? ;-p)

Anyway, I'm not a visual person, or not without prompting, which is one of the things I really enjoy about screencapping, iconing and giffing, because it makes me look at visual media in ways I never do otherwise. So this isn't anything profound, but in the process, I noticed some interesting visual nods from one production to one or more of the others, so here is a post about that.

( Cut for giffage and vampires feat. 1931, Hammer, TV 1968, TV 1977 & TV 2006 )

It's going to be interesting doing BSD in this light, because, though this blows my mind, the previous version it seems to be most obviously referencing is... my much-loved shaky old 1968 TV version. How very dare. 0_o