Yuletide tag set

[thisbluespirit]

The Yuletide tag set is open and as usual, full of fascinating possibilities.

Aside from my own nominations and wheeler-dealings, I was particularly pleased to see Chalet School back again, The Dean's Watch by Elizabeth Goudge, which is my favourite of hers and I didn't know there was anyone around who knew it, let alone wanted it for Yuletide. It used to be a regular Christmas re-read of mine. Maybe I'll manage it again this year, who knows? Anyway, The Browning Version is back again and Duchess of Duke Street, which I have come close to nomming myself in the past and never thought I'd see. Amazing. And there's also Jonathan Creek, New Tricks, Upstart Crow, You Rang M'Lord, Ripper Street, Stage Door, & Wolves of Willoughby Chase.

And all my noms got through all right, so yay. Next up letter writing and reading while contemplating what is actually sensible to offer and not get too carried away.

At the moment, I'm still probably planning on requesting Doctor Who (BFAs), Department S, Dracula (TV 1968), Press Gang & Shadow of the Tower, but there are some very shiny other things in there too...

Comments

[theseatheseatheopensea]

Very shiny indeed! Sooo exciting! :D

[thisbluespirit]

It is!

*points to icon* The shiniest bit of all.

[theseatheseatheopensea]

Haha, yes! The shiny Elements are nominated! Yay! :D

[liadt]

Lots and lots of shiny for you!

(BTW The link goes to Hammer Horror)

[thisbluespirit]

Ha, whoops - fixed now!

[osprey_archer]

I've enjoyed the other Elizabeth Goudge books that I've read, so I think I'll give The Dean's Watch a try. Should I save it for Christmas, do you think?

[thisbluespirit]

I was reading through her stuff a while before I got ill, and it varied, but some of them I really loved. I still have one unread somewhere waiting for the day when I again have sufficient brain to appreciate it.

The Dean's Watch is set around Christmas time, I think, and is quite Christmassy in a quiet Elizabeth Goudge sort of way, so possibly? I don't think it's mandatory, though!

[auroracloud]

I don't know how to narrow down my fandoms to be able to choose what to request! There are soooo many things in the tagset! It clearly wasn't such a good idea to get into so many recently published sci-fi book series that have fans. :-D (Except that it was. But you know.)

[thisbluespirit]

The things you don't request will still have fic you can read! It's a win-win situation. I wish you luck. ♥

[auroracloud]

Hopefully! And I can always try to make sure of that by writing some myself, hee.

[kalium]

No Niche... </ predictable >

But on the TV front, yay for Blackadder and the Good Life and Upstart Crow and so many others. And the Other Media section is a delight as always. One of the youtube series listed there is actually made by someone I know.

[thisbluespirit]

Ha, some things you really have to nominate yourself, it's true.

The Good Life! I failed to spot that. That's great. :-D

[jhall1]

I wonder if anyone has ever written any "Ever Decreasing Circles" fic, as I thought that was even better than TGL.

BTW, I think "Upstart Crown" should have been "Upstart Crow".

[thisbluespirit]

I am pretty sure I found at least one fic for it on ff.net one time, so yes. It might have been nommed before, not everything gets written, sadly.

BTW, I think "Upstart Crown" should have been "Upstart Crow".

Ah, so you spotted my deliberate error!


*quickly fixes it*

[cyphomandra]

I didn't realise you were a Chalet fan! An aunt gave me five EBD hardbacks when I was small, and with my usual talent for approaching things by the wrong end I started with Redheads even though School at the Chalet was right there. I have since read them all and some of the extras (including the notorious Chalet Girls Grow Up); my sister collected them, but sadly lost them all in a fire.

The Dean's Watch is on my unread bookshelf, but it does have rather a lot of company.

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, yes! They're my comfort read when I have no spoons for anything else even now. I started wrong, too - I read one of the later ones first - The Chalet School Wins the Trick maybe?

I had a CS gift for YUletide one time - someone wrote me Mary-Lou having an archaeological adventure involving a ghost.

my sister collected them, but sadly lost them all in a fire.

Oh, no!! They're so hard to get hold of these days, too. 0_o

[cyphomandra]

Oh, no!! They're so hard to get hold of these days, too. 0_o

I think she has managed to track down some of her favourites, but not necessarily as hardbacks. My mother had some old girls' annuals with EBD stories in them as well - I liked a historical Cavaliers and Roundheads story, although I've forgotten the name. I was more of an Antonia Forest fan - have you read her books?

[thisbluespirit]

Yeah, the hardbacks are very hard to come by!

I never read Antonia Forest. I was interested, but our library only had the last in a series, so I never tried it. And these days they're only available in those very off-putting Faber classic editions (clearly designed with the sole aim of making sure no child will ever pick up any of them save by force). I've heard a lot of people praise them, though, so it sounds as if I missed out.

[a_phoenixdragon]

EXCITING!!

*HUGS*

[thisbluespirit]

As ever!

[kerk_hiraeth]

Interesting that before this morning I had never heard of Elizabeth Goudge and have now seen her name four times. Opinion is evenly divided between unbearably despressing and one of my favourites.

kerk

ps. nit quite as vuinatge as yourself, but I think I'm becoming obsessed with a TV show that ran from the autumn of 1999 to the spring of 2002 in the US, called Once and Again. So compelling written and, in three very young actors' (Evan Rachel Wood; Mischa Barton & Julia Whelan) cases, stunnigly acted that I think I will have to find the two seasons that exist on DVD; and am awfully tempted to get the third season; very unofficially, as well. One episode has acting by Wood (aged less than 14 1/2 at the time) and Barton (just over a year and a half older, and already having appeared in Lost and Delirious) that can only be described as almost unbelievably real; in one scene particularly, that it's as hard to watch as it is to tear yourself away from.

kerk

[thisbluespirit]

Interesting that before this morning I had never heard of Elizabeth Goudge and have now seen her name four times.

Ha, isn't it funny how that seems to happen so often?

And I hadn't heard of Once and Again, but it sounds very interesting. I'm glad you're enjoying yourself with it. (Funnily enough, I'm just watching Lost now.)