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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 Michael Connolly on Oct 20, 2021 13:10:15 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! It's all lies!
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Oct 20, 2021 13:14:37 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! It's all lies! 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.
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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 fritzmaitland on Oct 29, 2021 7:03:19 GMT
October 28th - The Stalls Of Barchester Cathedral. I've heard BBC4 are screening the Ghost Story for Christmas version on Hallowe'en. Having not seen that, nor read the story, here was a perfect chance to rectify both. I found the story incredibly hard to get into at first, as the first few pages are packed densely with ecclesiastical and architectural terms, but once *spoiler* the 92 year old has taken a header down the stairs (blame the maid!) and the new incumbent has taken over and started to hear whispers, things begin to take off. By criminy, this is not a good advert for autumn.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 29, 2021 10:24:53 GMT
October 28th - The Stalls Of Barchester Cathedral. I've heard BBC4 are screening the Ghost Story for Christmas version on Hallowe'en. Having not seen that, nor read the story, here was a perfect chance to rectify both. I found the story incredibly hard to get into at first, as the first few pages are packed densely with ecclesiastical and architectural terms, but once *spoiler* the 92 year old has taken a header down the stairs (blame the maid!) and the new incumbent has taken over and started to hear whispers, things begin to take off. By criminy, this is not a good advert for autumn. As it is the most faithful to the original stories I think "The Stalls of Barchester" is the best of the five MRJ adaptations in the first Ghost Stories for Christmas run. I don't think that this shot gives anything away. So much for subtlety.
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Post by David A. Riley on Oct 29, 2021 13:08:48 GMT
October 28th - The Stalls Of Barchester Cathedral. I've heard BBC4 are screening the Ghost Story for Christmas version on Hallowe'en. Having not seen that, nor read the story, here was a perfect chance to rectify both. I found the story incredibly hard to get into at first, as the first few pages are packed densely with ecclesiastical and architectural terms, but once *spoiler* the 92 year old has taken a header down the stairs (blame the maid!) and the new incumbent has taken over and started to hear whispers, things begin to take off. By criminy, this is not a good advert for autumn. As it is the most faithful to the original stories I think "The Stalls of Barchester" is the best of the five MRJ adaptations in the first Ghost Stories for Christmas run. I don't think that this shot gives anything away. So much for subtlety. This is my favourite TV adaptation too. None of the others comes close to it. It's one I never tire of rewatching.
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Post by fritzmaitland on Nov 1, 2021 13:22:58 GMT
'The Stalls Of Barchester' was very good. Lawrence Gordon Clark deals with the pre-spook preamble very well, and really delivers on the chills. A unexpected treat to see a host of familiar television faces completely divorced from their familiar roles too. Marvellous stuff.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 8, 2021 13:39:17 GMT
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! I just found out your not very, very old at all! Noam Chomsky is very, very old, and he now looks like Gandalf: Who knows, perhaps when you get very, very old you will look like a Lord of the Rings character, maybe Galadriel (can't think of many other female LOTR characters, as Tolkien was a bit of a misogynist, maybe Goldberry, and some Hobbit ones, like Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, but they all had very hairy feet). When people on here get very, very old what film characters, or book characters would they like to mutate into? Miss Haversham might be fun: But of course it is impossible I'd be jilted at the alter, as I am the most beautiful woman alive (and don't have Hobbit feet), so I'd just have to pretend I'd been. More nonsense from me soon!
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 8, 2021 14:09:27 GMT
I do have to say it's likely I'll marry a very, very old billionaire. He will probably be foreign (anyone not British obviously) as most oligarchs are nowadays. It would be a requirement he knows some English though, as there must be some communication, so he knows when I want a new diamond. I don't mind if he looks like Gandalf at all, and I'm not keen on Hobbit feet, but Sauron is a no no. No evil Lords of Darkness need apply. Anyway, from what I can gather he is a huge floating eye, which is a bit intrusive, and I'd feel I'm being spied on all the time. I'd want some privacy. Tom Bombadil seems a fun guy, and he could loot a barrow or two to keep me in jewellery, but he talks in rhyme all the time, which I think, even though I enjoy poetry, would become annoying. Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo! Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal the willow! Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo! Hey! Come merry dol! derry dol! My darling! Light goes the weather-wind and the feathered starling. Down along under Hill, shining in the sunlight, Waiting on the doorstep for the cold starlight, There my pretty lady is, River-woman's daughter, Slender as the willow-wand, clearer than the water. Old Tom Bombadil water-lilies bringing Comes hopping home again. Can you hear him singing? Hey! Come merry dol! derry dol! and merry-o, Goldberry, Goldberry, merry yellow berry-o! Poor old Willow-man, you tuck your roots away! Tom's in a hurry now. Evening will follow day. Tom's going home again water-lilies bringing. Hey! Come derry dol! Can you hear me singing?
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 8, 2021 14:10:37 GMT
Can anyone place the image I added above? It's very obscure. I wonder if anyone has ever seen it.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 8, 2021 14:37:40 GMT
I found this image of Tom Bombadil
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Post by andydecker on Jan 6, 2022 10:51:00 GMT
Another edition. Wordsworth Limited Edition 1992
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Post by weirdmonger on Aug 8, 2022 15:57:26 GMT
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Post by weirdmonger on Aug 11, 2022 16:11:58 GMT
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