Share and enjoy! (Holmsians and Arthuriana)

[actourdreams]

Friends! Comrades! And more importantly, readers/watchers/listeners! I have a proposal. I'm looking for books/movies/fanworks/whatever based on the Sherlock Holmes, er, mythos, and Arthuriana. For Holmes, I would prefer something that kept to the spirit/setting of the original books (though I do enjoy the Mary Russel novels, so that's relative

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[kuzujuk]

Well... I don't have much for recommendations, but I do enjoy Merlin for a bit of very, very silly play with Arthurian legend. Gwen is adorable and Morgana is a badass (though I have not seen season 2 yet).
And Sherlock Hound. :3 Clearly I lean heavily into silliness with the things I watch.

On Rosemary Sutcliff - have you read The Shield Ring?

[actourdreams]

HOOOUUUND! We were somehow able to watch that with Grand Charles in the room. My theory was that he must have been blind enough not to tell what was going on. :P

I thought I had, but Google informs me I'm getting it mixed up with the Shining Company. Which I was getting mixed up with the Lantern Bearers.
On a Sutcliff-related note, I saw in the bookstore that they're trying to market her books by putting big, muscley, tattooed, shirtless dudes on the cover.

[kuzujuk]

Heehee!

I think it is the only one of hers other than her Beowulf that I have read, because Rosie gave it to me a while back. It is very good.
Haha muscly tattooed guys. XD I suppose it makes a kind of sense...?

[actourdreams]

OH MY GOD you haven't read Song for a Dark Queen? Or The Shining Company? Get thee to a library! I'm actually pretty sure you may have read Brother Dustyfeet (the one about a boy with Shakespeare's traveling company), because we lent it to your house... Anyway. Song for a Dark Queen is about Boadicea.

Tangentially, is Mars Attacks happening this weekend?

[kuzujuk]

Nope! None of 'em! Not even the Shakespeare one, in fact. *adds to the list of Things To Read Come January* D:

Provided Netflix get it to me, yes - and you're welcome to come over Saturday afternoon even if they don't.