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Wow, has it been almost 10 years?

Looking over my AO3 bookmarks from the past few months, current fanfic reading themes are: Biggles, various series by KJ Charles, The Old Guard, and as always revisiting old favorites from tiny fandoms!

Lately I have been delighted to find so many recommendations for queer romances -- my TBR list is happily very long.

I continue to be much more of a reader than a writer, but am enjoying everyone's posts here.
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It has been two years, so I guess it's time for another post :)  This month's fandom reading seems to be Captain America stories, along with random selections from my Delicious bookmarks (recently, Due South, Rosemary Sutcliff, Professionals...).  Amused to discover that over the years I have accumulated about 3600 bookmarks!  But, I love to re-read stories -- if I enjoyed it the first time, I'll probably want to return to it again in the future.  Now to work on leaving comments on those stories I've read 10 times...

Still here

Jan. 27th, 2011 12:37 pm
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Having two rare quiet days.  Re-watched Hot Fuzz again last night -- still fabulous even though it's not at all "my sort of movie".  Wandered into fanfic for the BBC Sherlock series and am becoming very intrigued!
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[livejournal.com profile] tree_and_leaf posted a link to a "put yourself in the story" romance novel plot generator.  When I saw that one of the options for "If you could travel anywhere, where would you go?" was "the unknown reaches of Mars," I couldn't resist:

Life has been tough on super successful businesswoman Gedge, who has constantly been at someone's beck and call. So when she journeys to the unknown reaches of Mars with magnificent military man Bracy, it feels like a dream! Charisma. Power. Danger. In just days, Bracy has taken Gedge's world and changed it. He can't ever be hers, but what she is feeling is as old as time itself.

Shy Gedge came to the unknown reaches of Mars to relive her great-grandmother's adventure. But as the fairy-tale trip draws to an end, her adventure—with Bracy—has only just begun...




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Finally watching more of season 3 for the first time (Strange Bedfellows and I Coulda Been a Defendant), and I just have to say:

Bob Fraser, singing "Watching the Apples Grow," while sitting in his office in Fraser's closet? This is why I love this show!!

Plus, Elaine is finally a police officer. We're proud of you, Elaine!

< /complete geekiness >

Back to knitting...Christmas presents are almost finished :)
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Borrowed from tree_and_leaf:Put your MP3 player on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first is the title.

My mp3 player only has a couple of short stories on it at the moment, so I tried it with my "Music for Canning" playlist on the computer. (The fact that I have such a playlist says a lot about how essential music is to Getting Anything Accomplished in Our Kitchen!)

Is There for Honest Poverty

Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
To the heavens above us O look and behold
Come all you jolly fellows, come listen to me song
Farewell we call to hearth and hall

He was the captain of the Nightingale
The standard on the Braes o' Mar is up and streaming rarely
There was no one like him, horse or foot
Shepherds, arise, be not afraid

I'm a forester in the woods and ye're the same design
I do not look for holy men to guide me on my way
Wha will ride wi' gallant Murray, wha will ride for Geordie's sel'
A damsel possessed of great beauty, as she stood at her own father's gate

And can it be that I should gain an interest in my Saviour's blood?
Come all ye jolly shepherd lads that whistle through the glen
Light of the world, thy beams I bless
Who would true valour see, let him come hither

There is a land beyond the stars
Sunset and evening star, and one clear call for me
There were six and six nobles rade roon Banchory fair
As we marched down to Fenario.

***

Hmmm...well, it's no worse than some of my teenage poetry-writing attempts, anyway :)

Sources for the lines )

Book meme

May. 10th, 2008 11:24 pm
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Borrowed from [personal profile] daegaer:

What 5 series/books/movies can you rewatch/reread time and again?

1.  Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

2.  Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

3.  Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

4.  Golden Chronicles series by Patricia Veryan

5.  The Dark Secret of Weatherend by John Bellairs


I could extend this list on indefinitely, because if I like a book at all I do tend to re-read it, but these have all exceeded the "read more than 10 times" mark.

 


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(Hope I'm not falling into the habit of only posting near major holidays...)

We recently finished watching series one of Torchwood on DVD, which we really enjoyed, for the most part (we really did not take to "Random Shoes"!).  The "Captain Jack Harkness" episode in particular was all of my historical fiction dreams come true :)

Somehow, contrary to my usual behavior, I have not delved into Torchwood fanfiction -- because I find myself too busy wandering around in Professionals fandom!   Now, mind you, I've never seen so much as a single episode of this show (*note to self - get busy researching DVD region converting technology!*), but that has never stopped me before -- I spent many hours in college reading Starsky and Hutch fanfiction before I had access to a television and some episodes to watch.  And then there were all of those Sentinel fanfics (although when I actually watched the show I was awfully disappointed -- I just don't see any chemistry between those two)...

This is making me behave like more of a lurker than usual, since I feel odd commenting on stories when I have no idea how true to character they really are.  Also, I feel like a kid in a candy shop --  for the last few years I've been reading mostly in wonderfully-written but miniscule fandoms.  A big, long-established fandom is rather overwhelming!

All this rambling here is taking up reading time -- enough! 





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Apparently, my real reason for making sure I had today off work was to bake slow-rising loaves of bread and swim around in the Yuletide story archive.  I'm having fun with this new randomized fandom browsing page, and have created rather a long list of fandoms to read!
Some stories that have caught my eye (all mild ratings, fear not):
I'm still working my way through the many Lord Peter Wimsey stories, but greatly enjoyed And the Better Man (Peter and Bunter during WWI) and Ducenti Quinquagenta (set right after Gaudy Night).
Psmith Ails (nice fluffy Mike/Psmith, complete with sky blue pajamas)
Homecoming (Bracy/Gedge from George Manville Fenn's incomparable Fix Bay'nets, just after they return to England)

And hey!  People are writing fanfiction for Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog!!  Very nifty.

Now, back to bread-making (wait! just one more story!)....
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Two "online radio" websites I've been enjoying lately:

Radio Britfolk
"Traditional and contemporary folk music of Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England."  Includes lots of great artists who are relatively unknown in the US.  My favorite part is the The Britfolk Billboard, which is a 3 hour block of music.  The order of the tracks changes every time you start up the page, and they rotate on and off every few weeks, so you can hear your favorites again. 

Pandora Radio
I heard about this a while ago, but just tried this week and am already hooked.  You type in a song or artist you like, and it tries to create a "radio station" of songs it thinks you will like based on the attributes of that song.  You then tell it whether or not you like the songs as they go by so that it can refine the selections.  This is part of the Music Genome Project.  I've been quite pleased with the songs it's given me so far (the theme of my station seems to be "lots of harmony singing"!) -- it went from the Watersons to Stan Rogers to sea chanteys to Ralph Stanley and then back to English folk again.  Don't know that I would have ever combined them together in one set, but in fact I do like all of them!

Enjoy, and happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate it!


ETA: Poking around in the documentation for Pandora Radio -- looks like their licensing doesn't allow it to be heard in most countries outside of the US.  So that might not be so useful to some of you, sorry...  Radio Britfolk at least seems to work internationally -- it comes from the UK and I have had no problems playing it here in the US.
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Last night we saw the first four episodes of "The Invasion" (Patrick Troughton era) with -- Cybermen!   This is one of the stories where the film is not complete, so episodes 1 and 4 are actually animated versions, using copies of the soundtrack that fans taped off their televisions.  That took a little initial adjustment, but when we came to the live-action episodes we could see how well the animators recreated some of the rooms and people.  I was amused to discover that I am able to recognize Sgt. Benton perfectly even in animation!

It has been a great story so far -- a complicated villain, UNIT, daring rescues -- now we are eagerly awaiting the arrival of the second disk with the rest of the story!
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Eeeeeee!!! 
My library has finally purchased the Ian Carmichael dramatizations of the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries!  (As you see, this news is sending my punctuation into full Miss Climpson mode.)
I'm hoping to make time next week to see "Murder Must Advertise" (& then to see "Clouds of Witness" again -- one of my favorites).

Hooray!

GIP!

May. 26th, 2007 10:24 pm
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....I think I'm finally getting the hang of making these.  The quote is from an episode of House ("Sex Kills"), a new interest in my household...
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Title: "Four Lives of Jane and the Gallant Hussar"
Fandom: Song -- "The Gallant Hussar"
Rating: G

This is based on a broadside ballad called "The Gallant Hussar".  The words can be found at http://www.nls.uk/broadsides/broadside.cfm/id/15036 -- I recommend reading them first.  
In some versions of the song, his name is Edwin; I am using the name from Eliza Carthy's version, which is Edward.

Many thanks to [livejournal.com profile] daegaer, Willow and Toad for beta reading! 


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Four Lives of Jane and the Gallant Hussar )

Doctor Who!

Mar. 5th, 2007 10:18 pm
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Okay, I know that most everyone has already met the 10th Doctor long ago, but we just got the DVD in the mail, so

Christmas Invasion!  God rest ye merry gentlemen!  The Christmas tree!  And -- TEA!!  Good for anything that ails you....



...This is also doubling as a GIP, as I have now finally moved on from having only one icon.  Thought I would give Sgt. Benton the honor of being the second icon :)
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Some of you might enjoy this discussion about different types of AUs in fanfiction:
"So, let's talk about AUs, and what makes them work (or not). "
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"Mostly plants" meme from [personal profile] oeconomist[Unknown site tag]
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A variation on last time.  List what you ate today (or yesterday, if it's too early in the day today) by base ingredients. Bold plant-based items which are unprocessed at time of purchase, and italicise those which are processed. Anything which is processed in a single step which you could do at home counts as "unprocessed", eg. shelling nuts, drying beans."

oats, brown rice, corn, soybeans, millet, barley, oat bran, sunflower seeds, and flax seeds (many-grain hot cereal)

milk chocolate, wheat flour, sugar, vegetable oil, glucose-fructose syrup, cocoa powder, ammonium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate, "flavourings" (how mysterious!), salt (delightfully unhealthy British chocolate)

eggs, flour, butter, sugar, salt, yeast (homemade challah bread)

lentils
, kale, tomatoes, onions, garlic,
cumin, pepper, olive oil (lentil soup)

wheat flour, soybean oil, salt (crackers)

soybeans, cane juice, vanilla flavor, sea salt (soy milk)

cashews


...and innumerable cups of hot herbal tea (darn cold!  go away!).

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Without going into the usual footnoted detail that causes me to put off posting things here...Willow and I and a few of our friends have been having an ongoing discussion around natural/local/organic/seasonal food for the last few years.  Last year we tried a Community Supported Agriculture (farm share) program for the first time, with reasonable success and many learning experiences (this year, I hope, will be the year we learn to put up tomatoes in jars).
This week I've spent a fair amount of time sitting on the sofa nursing a cold and following various leads around the internet.  Today I have been reading the blog of Cathleen Hockman-Wert, who is the co-author of Simply in Season, a cooking-with-the-seasons cookbook I'm hoping to look at (as soon as I find a library system that has it!).  One of her entries dealt with a simple meal of dried pears, oatmeal bread and cheese that she brought on a plane trip...the part that caught my eye was this:

"But munching on my bread and cheese and dried pears en route to Baltimore, I had to think about why that meal was so much more satisfying to me...The heart of it is this: I knew and liked the story of my food."

This is something that appeals to me as well.  When we eat the bread that Willow just made and brought out of the oven...when we enjoy the spaghetti sauce from the CSA tomatoes we froze last summer...when we eat the apples from a local orchard..we enjoy having a connection to our food.

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Are there books that you find yourself re-reading at this time of year?

Some of mine are:
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy (Christmas caroling around the village, with mixed success!)
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper (lots of midwinter and Christmas traditions -- I've read this one out of the series about 10 times as often as the others!)
Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (the Dulce Domum chapter, with the mice caroling -- by the way, their song has been put to music and recorded by the group The Gladly Solemn Sound as The Fieldmice's Carol)
The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter
Lament for a Maker by Michael Innes (not holiday related, but full of snow and cold and gloominess -- a good winter book!)

Any others?


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This looked fun...

my xmas stocking )
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