Signed up for Yuletide. My Dear Author letter, if anyone's interested (Daniel Deronda, Sharing Knife & Philip Marlowe). I ended up abandoning poor Garland Briggs in favour of Catherine Arrowpoint in shock at more than one person having nominated DD. (I gather someone last year took up Leavis's notion of splitting out Gwendolen's plot.) I've offered ( Read more... )

I've been defeating the object of Fanlore's Stub September by adding lots of new articles -- three fans, three Buffyverse female vampires and a lot of Blake's 7 articles, mainly websites & essays, but also one on Dayna ( Read more... )

Stories that are magical, charming, whimsical, atmospheric...

( 5 recs in Grand Budapest Hotel, The Listeners, M*A*S*H, Princess Bride, Twelve Kingdoms )

Stories that build up new worlds or shine light in corners of old ones, stories that focus on minors & original characters...

( 6 recs in artworks, Chalion & Sharing Knife series, A Child's Christmas in Wales, The Hour, Incredible Hulk )

Dark disturbing tales, stories about ghosts and all the other things that inhabit the dark...
( 5 recs in classical mythology, Graveyard Book, Hinterland, Tam Lin, Watership Down )

A smaller set than many years, but I'm still going to attempt to split them by theme. Here lie stories about women being sisters, daughters, wives, lovers, friends, rivals, collaborators, witches & storytellers, women coming into their power...

( 6 recs in Arthurian legends, historical RPF, Howl's Moving Castle, The Tempest, Watership Down, Welsh mythology )

Resurrection, zombies, Frankenstein's monsters & more than one flavour of anthropomorphised Death... seven very different takes on death not necessarily being the end. Another couple of my favourites (*)

( 7 recs in Calvin & Hobbes, Discworld, Frankenstein, Peter Pan, Romeo and Juliet, Songs )

Magical, charming stories, including three of my favourites (*)

( 5 recs in Discworld, Irish mythology, Omar Rayyan, Puss in Boots, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio )

Getting back to my interrupted set of Yuletide 2013 recs, here are sequels or AUs that fix problems in canon. Only a short set, but each of these works is long & satisfying.

( 4 recs in Moby Dick, Much Ado About Nothing, The Stand, Twin Peaks )

I wrote The Emerald Band for Zaganthi, 'The Speckled Band' in the 'A Study in Emerald' universe. (SiE is Neil Gaiman's crossover of Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos with Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, and if you haven't read it you should do so.)
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