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thisbluespirit1. Here's an offer!! (It's very exciting...) Since I now have my very own copy of Enemy at the Door, this means I have the TV-recorded set that Liadt gave me going spare! I am willing to post anywhere, if you think you can watch them. (I'm not sure how these things work with recorded DVDs, but at least they shouldn't be region-coded...)
It was made 1978-80 by ITV, so dull, slow-paced TV of the time (though with more location filming than was average). It focuses on small, mundane incidents, mostly and there is much angst/death/people committing suicide/having their lives ruined every episode, so you don't want to ask for it lightly.
However, it is also very well-written, thought-provoking and covers the German Occupation of the Channel and has a really good cast (Bernard Horsfall, Simon Cadell, Alfred Burke & John Malcolm are some of the leads). With an equally starry (for 1978-80 UK, obv.) guest cast each week. There is a young Anthony Head (in eps 4&5, in his first TV appearance), John Nettles*, Peter Woodward, John Normington, Martin Jarvis, Gary Waldhorn, Joss Ackland, James Maxwell and more. And there are many, many more women in it than I just made that sound. (The world is sexist and they are less famous to me, that's all. Also there are a lot of soldiers.) I would be very happy to post it to the first person on this post who would like to have it. (It also has an awesome and brave Librarian in episode 2, though I realise that's a thing that probably impresses me more than other people.)
It is very good, though. Honest.
* John Nettles is a Channel Island policeman from Hampshire called Sergeant Lewis. You can have fun working out what relation he must be to Bergerac or Barnaby. Or maybe he's a Time Lord who's got into the habit of being in the British police force, or some other Immortal Police being.)
2. I went to leave a comment on the proper Yuletide post about why Blake's 7 was eligible, went back to the Hermit Library and confirmed to myself that it was in fact ineligible. I have now fired myself from the task. (The theoretical overlap from looking at authors on both sites was 200-400 fics, but I managed to find the alphabetical title list on it this time and in practice, while they're many of the same authors, the fics are different, so we're over on two counts and the age of the fandom isn't relevant any more.) So, no Blake's 7 in Yuletide! Tragic. I can't decide whether to wistfully leave my nomination in just in case or change it. I might go change it now. Or possibly blow up the Hermit Library, of course... The moral of this being, don't ever ask me to argue in favour of anything.
It was made 1978-80 by ITV, so dull, slow-paced TV of the time (though with more location filming than was average). It focuses on small, mundane incidents, mostly and there is much angst/death/people committing suicide/having their lives ruined every episode, so you don't want to ask for it lightly.
However, it is also very well-written, thought-provoking and covers the German Occupation of the Channel and has a really good cast (Bernard Horsfall, Simon Cadell, Alfred Burke & John Malcolm are some of the leads). With an equally starry (for 1978-80 UK, obv.) guest cast each week. There is a young Anthony Head (in eps 4&5, in his first TV appearance), John Nettles*, Peter Woodward, John Normington, Martin Jarvis, Gary Waldhorn, Joss Ackland, James Maxwell and more. And there are many, many more women in it than I just made that sound. (The world is sexist and they are less famous to me, that's all. Also there are a lot of soldiers.) I would be very happy to post it to the first person on this post who would like to have it. (It also has an awesome and brave Librarian in episode 2, though I realise that's a thing that probably impresses me more than other people.)
It is very good, though. Honest.
* John Nettles is a Channel Island policeman from Hampshire called Sergeant Lewis. You can have fun working out what relation he must be to Bergerac or Barnaby. Or maybe he's a Time Lord who's got into the habit of being in the British police force, or some other Immortal Police being.)
2. I went to leave a comment on the proper Yuletide post about why Blake's 7 was eligible, went back to the Hermit Library and confirmed to myself that it was in fact ineligible. I have now fired myself from the task. (The theoretical overlap from looking at authors on both sites was 200-400 fics, but I managed to find the alphabetical title list on it this time and in practice, while they're many of the same authors, the fics are different, so we're over on two counts and the age of the fandom isn't relevant any more.) So, no Blake's 7 in Yuletide! Tragic. I can't decide whether to wistfully leave my nomination in just in case or change it. I might go change it now. Or possibly blow up the Hermit Library, of course... The moral of this being, don't ever ask me to argue in favour of anything.
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Date: 20 Sep 2013 08:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 21 Sep 2013 12:19 pm (UTC)It might have made me badly behaved in my spare nomination, though. *cough* But if B7 isn't around, what's a Spook to do, dammit?
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Date: 21 Sep 2013 09:29 pm (UTC)(I am such a bad person. When it comes to Yuletide nominations, I just like to sit back and watch while AS MANY OBSCURE FANDOMS AS POSSIBLE get added to the list. ;P)
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Date: 22 Sep 2013 06:59 am (UTC)And then I altered B7 to House of Eliott, because there was interest in that and last time I nominated it, two other people requested it, but nobody got fic. So I may request it if I don't do Chalet School, but hopefully other people will as well.
*guilty*
I suppose I should put my changes on the list, but I'm a bit tired and no one had done either of those last time I looked.
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Date: 22 Sep 2013 08:05 am (UTC)...okay, I should DEFINITELY go to bed right now before I actually insult you or somebody else. O_O *hugs goodnight/morning/whatever*
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Date: 22 Sep 2013 12:21 pm (UTC)*hugs back*
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Date: 21 Sep 2013 01:44 pm (UTC)i also think that b7 shouldn't be in really, as regarding their rules. but - we shall see.
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Date: 21 Sep 2013 03:50 pm (UTC)I am not sure, because it is a bit borderline still and very old, but yeah. I'm definitely thinking I should maybe get rid of the nomination and put in House of Eliott or something instead. Or Midnight Is A Place.
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Date: 21 Sep 2013 05:52 pm (UTC)i think i remember you saying something like you always write b7 so maybe this is the yuletide gods telling you that this year will be different and they will not just assign you to that fandom (it is a good fandom, though. let's face it).
if you did remove your nomination - there would still be /a/ nomination... but it's more likely that the fics requested/produced will be B/A if you take away your characters. either that or travis/carnell, which... i would read. i guess people could just request 'avon - doing a thing with jenna and vila, which would get round the character thing. since most fic is about avon and he is already nominated).
anyway - good luck!
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Date: 21 Sep 2013 07:22 pm (UTC)Well, someone else may also have nominated, not on the spreadsheet. They usually do. But if it is so likely to be ineligible, I am minded to use my nomination on something that will be okay.
Or I can just request Silver again, but I was trying not to do that. I wrote S&S last year and got fic for it the year before already. But I cannot have enough Silver and other Elements and S&S generally. :-)
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Date: 20 Sep 2013 07:57 pm (UTC)I still have it on my Amazon wishlist, though admittedly not as a high priority (but that's only 'cos I want Judi things MORE!)
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Date: 20 Sep 2013 07:59 pm (UTC)(You're sure, though? You didn't really go for B7 S1 and this is pretty slow, too? Although, admittedly, no quarries!! You get the sea.)
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Date: 20 Sep 2013 08:01 pm (UTC)But it's WW2 related - that's why I was interested.
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Date: 20 Sep 2013 08:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 21 Sep 2013 05:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 21 Sep 2013 11:56 am (UTC)It'll either be a long time coming, or I'll post it on Monday. It all depends.
Where are you up to with TWW now?
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Date: 21 Sep 2013 01:43 pm (UTC)I think I'm up to episode 14...
My excuse for being so slow is that I've been devouring books like reading's going out of fashion!
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Date: 21 Sep 2013 03:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 21 Sep 2013 04:18 pm (UTC)And that's true...
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Date: 20 Sep 2013 08:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 20 Sep 2013 08:34 pm (UTC)Really, you don't have to nominate at all, but if you do, you get to nominate up to four rare fandoms with up to four characters each. And then when everybody signs up, the nominated fandoms are what we choose from, because otherwise it would be impossible to run as an exchange. And at that point, I choose from the list what to request (fic! for me!) and what I feel able to offer to write (why did I offer that?) and get and give fic and it is awesome. Last year was extra specially awesome as I had SEVEN gift-fics. Two of them were drabbles in the extra collection, but still SEVEN fic, FIVE whole Yuletide fics.
It is a bit complicated till you get used to it, though, because there are also hippos and bears and mandatory flanicking and stuff. But it's the best fannish thing going, it is really is. :-)
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Date: 21 Sep 2013 08:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 21 Sep 2013 11:02 am (UTC)And, yep, you are 1 of 4 authors who are responsible for 491 of the B7 works on AO3. I've been looking into numbers for this!! For which you are awesome, btw.
There is a thing coming up in the new year called
Oh, I dunno - there's Heyer, Chalet School, Time Team - all sorts of things I've seen nominated so far! :-)