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[thisbluespirit]

The YA/Children's Book fanfic exchange The Exchange at Fic Corner is live! I have barely poked about in it yet, but everything I have so much as looked at seems excellent, so you should go and have a read if you like any of the 100+ children's books & series that have been written for. (Chalet School, Narnia, Harry Potter, Diana Wynne Jones and many more!)

I'm just recovering from the shock of it not being anonymous (I don't pay enough attention to stuff), as I was so low about everything, I wouldn't have written any treats if I'd realised, and so had a shaky moment on seeing everything all out in the open already. (Anonymity feels so much safer right now.) However, I've recovered a bit now and am sure soon I'll have more recs. In the meantime, I have this very awesome fic written for me in Midnight Is A Place! I don't think it requires much knowledge of the source to enjoy, either. It has music and storytelling and Anna-Marie's complicated plan involving frogs, and feels very right for an Aiken fic, so it's wonderful:

The Curse of the Blue-Eyed Tiger (2707 words) by vanillafluffy
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Midnight Is a Place - Joan Aiken
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Anna-Marie Murgatroyd, Lucas Bell, Julian Oakapple
Additional Tags: Found Family
Summary:

Anna-Marie's new friend stirs up unhappy memories for Lucas.

So, that is a thing that was well worth the wait. (I've known I had a MiaP fic since last weekend and it has been very hard being patient and counting down the days through a rather miserable week.)

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Ooh! I've just finished writing my own latest fic, and I'm too tired to start typing up the 29 or so pages tonight, so I shall go and have a look...

I'm QUITE sure your fics are good. *cuddles*

[thisbluespirit]

Cool! There are some lovely things in there that I've peeked at so far. :-)

And thanks. ♥ I hope so - and I've had dinner and watched Downton Abbey now, so I am far more able to cope with not being anonymous!

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Heh. What do you think of Downton so far? (I want to smack Thomas - I mean Barrow - upside the head AGAIN!)

[thisbluespirit]

I am just so happy when Downton is on, I have no critical faculties concerning it. Thomas is... back to usual, what a shock. :lol:

I LOVED Violet telling Robert that when he talked like that, she felt like sending for Nanny and having him sent to bed with no supper.

Also I love Mrs Hughes more than ever.

So, yes, I am enjoying it a lot. I expect it probably could do something to annoy me one day, but mostly it is my TV happy place. All the deaths notwithstanding and even though it has never had David Collings in it. ;-D

(Hmm, but I have lost my DA icon, bad me.)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Well true - I confess, though, to muttering "You stirrer" at him when he told that lying tale to Cora.

And yes, Violet's sassiness is even more spectacular so far this season! I LOVE HER TO BITS AND PIECES!

Ditto on loving Mrs Hughes, too - I want a Mrs Hughes, please!

You've lost your DA icon?!

[thisbluespirit]

Violet is amazing, always. ♥

If everyone had a Mrs Hughes, the world would be so much better run.

And, heh, yes, not so much lost it as discarded it for something else! I need to see to that - although, actually, I need to get my Yuletide icon back soon as well...

:-)

[recessivejean.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't have written any treats if I'd realised

In that case I am most selfishly glad you didn't realise--truly, I love what you wrote for me, and (once I'd assured my students I hadn't sat on something sharp) I didn't even mind having squealed out loud at seeing it. It was a delight.

[swordznsorcery.livejournal.com]

I like your Enid Blyton story. It's a very nicely done piece. Good to see that side of Dinah and Philip's relationship for a change, as well as something pre-Jack and Lucy-Ann. I don't think you need worry about not being anonymous!

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

She is!!

Haha, that is very true. Let's clone Mrs Hughes and make the world a better run place!

Ah, I see.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, thank you very much! And I feel better today anyway and recovered from the shock. :-)

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, well, I'm glad, too, really - and I should learn to read instructions and guidelines and rules properly instead of being startled by lack of anonymity or have to redo things because I didn't write in black ink... ;-)

And I'm glad you enjoyed it - and hope your students weren't too startled!! I suppose I had to post it, really, otherwise there'd have been no Blyton in the whole exchange - what is the world coming to?

[recessivejean.livejournal.com]

You're not alone in that, I was sure the rules I read said authors would be anonymous for a week after story reveal, so I was a little surprised everything was immediately open.

otherwise there'd have been no Blyton in the whole exchange

Exactly! And it doesn't appear to have been nominated for Yuletide either, at least that I've seen, so I am doubly grateful there is something there. The Adventure Series are my absolute favourite of hers, and really, when I saw the notification in my inbox, there was no way to keep from squealing! My students will survive ;)

[liadt]

I'm sure your treats were appreciated as much as you did your MiaP one. It's a good week for David Collings related fic \o/. And Owl Service fic!

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you! I've been a bit low and I don't deal well with the unexpected when I'm low - but I feel better now, and you're right, the recipients seemed to like them. :-)

I really need to re-read The Owl Service - such a great book, and I found I couldn't remember enough to read the fic. But, yes, owl Service fic! That's far and away the best of Alan Garner, as far as I'm concerned. It is a good week for David Collings related fic!! lolmac has been writing a cracky dark!laundry!fic (er, there were reasons) and Part Five has MacGyver meeting a suspiciously familiar-sounding figure... ;-)

[liadt]

Or be lazy like me and watch the Owl Service DVD;) Is there no escape from wandering elements:D? Silver will soon beat the Doctor in crossing over.

I like how with your icon, under mine, Pitt has two Wilberforces looking at him;p

[thisbluespirit]

:lol: I should think re-reading what is only a very short book would be a lot easier than watching my way through a whole serial!!!

*repeats the pattern to infinity*

;-)

[thisbluespirit]

:-)

As to yuletide - there's never any way of telling till we get to see the Tag Set!! The Adventure Series doesn't tend to get nominated very often though - The Famous Five is a bit of a regular occurrence.

[recessivejean.livejournal.com]

Yes I was only peeking at the partial tag set before it went down again, so there's still hope. I did see something of hers nominated, but it wasn't Famous Five or Adventure Series. I don't think it's one I was familiar with.

I nominated Adventure Series I think two years ago . . ? I missed nominations last year, and this year I used them all up on other things, so I just hope somebody else put in for it. It is far and away my favourite. I never quite identified with any of the Five enough to feel the same affinity for those books . . . though I did once have a dog who could have doubled for a mini-Timmy ;) He was supremely discerning about the company he kept!

[thisbluespirit]

Now it's up, I think I saw The Faraway Tree Series and Malory Towers, both of which I loved - but I read all the Blytons, really, when I was young. Faraway Tree, Malory Towers, Five Find-Outers and Dog and the Adventure Series were the ones I liked the best. I read all of them, though - any Blyton I could get my hands on, for years!

:-)