Beyond the Roundels

I fell out of posting and managing to keep up for a bit, for various reasons, but anyway, here are some things:

1. halfamoon is running again, with prompts every day - it's an annual two-week fannish celebration of female characters etc (1-14th Feb.)


2. fic_promptly has started up again, if people want regular commentfest type posts!


3. In Brit Cosy Crimes fandoms, what they give you with one hand, they take away with the other, which is to say that the BBC has brought Shakespeare & Hathaway back from the dead and Sebastian will get to wear more ridiculous costumes, but ITV countered by cancelling McDonald & Dodds, so there will alas be no more improbable crimes in Bath.


4. I don't want to keep linking to Sesskasays's reactions, but she made it unspoiled to Caves of Androzani, really appreciated it and was not ready for the ending, and it was probably the best first time reaction to that one I've seen. (Of course, this now means that she has to contend with The Twin Dilemma, but we all have to go through that sooner or later... ;-p)


5. In things I have been watching and listening to and should write about properly, because they were all good and interesting: - I listened to another J B Priestley Time Play adaptation, I Have Been Here Before.

In a charity shop (one of my reasons for not keeping up was my friend took me to town for the first time since November) I found one of those inexplicable 3 films in 1 DVDs that are usually random things you have never heard of, only this one was Tom Jones (1963), A Passage to India, and An Ideal Husband; and I'd wanted to see Tom Jones - I think I must have found it via Julian Glover being in it, but parts of it were filmed in my home town! But it was quite expensive online secondhand so I'm still impressed with this piece of serendipity. I enjoyed it and I recognised said home town quite clearly. XD (The street they used, Castle Street, is not only where I was born, but, if you have been around long enough to remember me talking about my family history, it was where one of my direct ancestors came to a tragic end in a cesspool. Yes, I am working class, lol.)

Also I have now finished The Jewel in the Crown! It was indeed very good and the last episode suddenly produced unexpected Peter Jeffrey, who wasn't even actually evil as such, for a wonder.

There are various laid back fests going on right now, for February, or half of it, and I was thinking I might like to try see if I could do something little for one of them in the process of getting well. At least the thought of it is nice! Also I've finished my hc_bingo card (\o/) and thought maybe some low-key other one might be good, and so...

small_fandoms is hosting a drabblethon (perfect drabbles, for fandoms with under 100 works)

halfamoon is running again till Feb 14th, to celebrate women/female-identifying characters in fandom, with daily prompts (but you can post anything to do with female characters in fandom anyway).

Plus, re. the bingo thing - guess what? allbingo is having a Valentine's Bingo fest for February and you can generate your own card, and they still have the Language of Flowers set allowed for that, and I did not even try to resist.

(I ended up going for Language of Flowers + Language of Gemstones + Romance Novel Titles because how could I decide between those? Even if a sensible person would have done. You can have mini-cards, and ther are a bunch of non-gem/flower prompts, and since the comm's chief purpose is a place to finish bingos for bingo comms since gone bust and the like, if I wind up coming along three years later with my Feb 2023 card bingo is the comm's raison d'etre anyway, which makes it a nice extra, I think. Here's mine, anyway. I like it!

( My customised bingo card of flowers and gemstones )

Another belated halfamoon entry, this time for Day 9's prompt "Rescuing the Knight"; also for allbingo square "Snapdragon - Gracious Lady."

Mission of Mercy (565 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Padmé Amidala & Obi-Wan Kenobi
Characters: Padmé Amidala, Obi-Wan Kenobi
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Rescue, Community: halfamoon, Community: allbingo
Summary: Padmé goes to the rescue of a Jedi Knight in distress.

* waybackexchange, an exchange for fandoms over 10 years old (for fic, podfic, art and vids) is now taking nominations! (I'm in two minds about signing up, because I like a bit of a gap between things, but OTOH, I do have rather a lot of elderly fandoms, and it's great to see vids as an option in a general exchange.)


* halfamoon - coming up soon! The annual celebration of female characters running 1st-15th Feb, with a prompt list here for advance warning, and there are usually some other fun bits too.


* plus a Sci-Fi/Fantasy prompt meme (actually a commentfest). Looks like fun!

1. halfamoon | halfamoon is back! A two week celebration of female characters in fandom, from 1-14 Feb.



(Even though I know it's coming, I never prepare, so I'll have to see if I can still do something...)


2. First proper draft of my NYR fic is typed up! Now for hetswap... (I have an idea at least, but it does need to be more than a scribbled idea at some point soon; the deadline's the end of the month.)


3. dw_guestfest will be back soon. I just want to have a breather and get some words down for hetswap first before I open it for prompts, but I'll post there presently and try and put together a 2017 schedule for the fest.


5. who_allsorts is still a thing! As is dw_allsorts! I need to go claim myself a second table, for the theme "Historical." I'm excited. I shouldn't have signed up for ten more things than I needed to, though. (Sliiight exaggeration.)


(I'm not ignoring rl events, it's just... here be fannish distractions if anyone wants them, because we all need such things, whatever they may be. Others will bring the links and do the stuff, I shall just continue to try to get well and try to bring small good things and distractions for the moment. But sometimes you do feel the need to just say that, because WTH, indeed. :-/)

Title: The Sky I Choose Is Blue
Author: lost_spook
Rating: All ages
Word Count: 1870
Characters/Pairings: Cally/Sapphire (B7/S&S), Steel, Kerr Avon.
Notes/Warnings: Vague spoiler for B7 S4 (ep1). Telepathy.
Summary: Sapphire is assigned to retrieve a moment of stolen time – a moment that contains Cally. (Blake's 7/Sapphire & Steel).

I wrote this for halfamoon last year, but didn't manage to type it up in time. I thought I'd try again this year. (So it's actually one of my earliest S&S fics. Just because someone had to write it.)


( The Sky I Choose Is Blue )