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Post by ropardoe on Oct 25, 2021 13:47:59 GMT
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Post by ropardoe on Oct 20, 2021 15:43:07 GMT
I have no idea what "KirkSpocking" is, but it sounds Satanic. Please use my Conservative Thinkers rating system to describe the horridness level. Thank you. Star Trek slash fiction involving Kirk and Spock, of course.
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Post by ropardoe on Oct 20, 2021 10:33:50 GMT
Incidentally, I was in SF fandom from the late ‘60s, so I remember when slash fiction was confined to KirkSpocking. I was never into that particular partnership!
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Post by ropardoe on Oct 20, 2021 10:18:05 GMT
The first point is that there is, in my experience, a great deal of interest (growing, in fact) in MRJ’s stories among younger people and school children, so no need to produce newer versions for them. The second is that these graphic adaptations aren’t intended for children. They are for adults who are into graphic novels etc. And they are actually very good. Reppion and Moore have adapted the text of the stories very sensitively, and the artwork is mostly excellent. So there! Young people increasingly read fanfiction. It's a boom area, and I think lockdown has increased its popularity immensely. At least it is reading, and hopefully they can use it as a jumping-off point to other literature, but mostly its an escape into a favourite world, and supplies a personal need. Harry Potter is a popular one, and superhero stories based on the film and TV characters, not usually the comic ones. There are subgenres, like gay romance, where the characters date each other. I love fanfic - I’ve always loved cross-over fanfic, and (once I was introduced to it in the ‘80s) slash fanfic. Also nowadays I enjoy the more inventive creepypasta. People are writing it from love rather than to gain a reputation or for money, and I love that. So it’s not just for the young folk - I’m very, very old!
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Post by ropardoe on Oct 20, 2021 8:52:10 GMT
The first point is that there is, in my experience, a great deal of interest (growing, in fact) in MRJ’s stories among younger people and school children, so no need to produce newer versions for them. The second is that these graphic adaptations aren’t intended for children. They are for adults who are into graphic novels etc. And they are actually very good. Reppion and Moore have adapted the text of the stories very sensitively, and the artwork is mostly excellent. So there!
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Post by ropardoe on Oct 2, 2021 8:48:32 GMT
Don’t worry. It’ll come. It’s the Autumn issue and there’s still plenty of Autumn to go.
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Post by ropardoe on Aug 9, 2021 7:29:51 GMT
Happy indeed. And I know what Sarob’s new few books will be - not allowed to give details, but I can say that folk won’t be disappointed.
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Post by ropardoe on Jul 25, 2021 15:02:55 GMT
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Post by ropardoe on Jul 15, 2021 8:34:00 GMT
I’ve been waiting for someone to mention E.G. Swain’s “The Man with the Roller” - a photographic take on “The Mezzotint”.
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Post by ropardoe on Jul 6, 2021 18:33:14 GMT
I remember it was a lot of fun but not much in the way of detail. In fact nothing in the way of detail. All conventions (SF and fantasy) have merged into one for me. Hi Ro. Was there ever another one? Can't believe the leaflet is in near pristine condition. As mentioned, I found it among several Haunted Library newsletters some time ago, set them aside, forgot where, only chanced upon them yesterday while looking for something else entirely. Also a flyer: 'Ash-tree Press is proud to announce the forthcoming publication of THE FIVE JARS by M. R. James.' I'm really pleased! You’re asking me - given my admission about my memory? No actually there was another, which I only remember as different because it was at another hotel. More recently, the Ghostly Company has had a Black Pilgrimage get together in Chester (and another planned for later this year all being well).
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Post by ropardoe on Jul 6, 2021 8:34:27 GMT
I remember it was a lot of fun but not much in the way of detail. In fact nothing in the way of detail. All conventions (SF and fantasy) have merged into one for me.
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Post by ropardoe on Jul 3, 2021 16:37:27 GMT
Mis Bradshawe's attempts to repair a rare surviving Commonwealth Shield in Marston Church are hindered by the ghost of a churchwarden loyal to the King. The story is inspired by a genuine Commonwealth Coat of Arms discovered in Ramsey Church, Essex. This is very, very rare - they were commanded to be removed from all churches at the Restoration (it survived because it was recycled - there is a Charles II Coat of arms on the other side!).
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Post by ropardoe on Jul 3, 2021 16:33:32 GMT
Please supply full name of author. Thank you. Mary Ann Allen - The Angry Dead (Crimson Altar Press, 1986: Richard H. Fawcett, 2000) Fully revised reprint of the collection coming out later this year from the Occult Detective Magazine folk.
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Post by ropardoe on Jul 3, 2021 13:40:19 GMT
Told you my brain wasn’t in gear yet - and probably won’t be today. If it had been, I'd have remembered that one of my own, Jane Bradshaw, stories is based around a Civil War artefact (a genuine one incidentally): the title is "Hold Fast”.
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Post by ropardoe on Jul 3, 2021 9:43:50 GMT
Here are three, anyway:
“The Particular”, Ghosts & Scholars 32 (reprinted in The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Mazes)
“Old Martin” (G&S 22)
“Autumn Harvest” (G&S 34)
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