Hallowe'en Trick or Treat Meme

[lost_spook]

Memed from justice_turtle and dbskyler:

In honor of All Hallow's Eve, I'm inviting trick-or-treaters to my 'door.' Comment "trick-or-treat" to this post and...well, you know the drill. Treats can be anything that strikes my fancy (pics of fave actors or pairings, one sentence fics, graphics, a few words why I'm glad to have you on my flist, etc. etc.). The more "houses

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[persiflage_1]

Trick or Treat!!

[lost_spook]

Hmm, what can I find that you don't know, or I haven't already tried to rec you?! So this will be a strange pic'n'mix 'treat'! ;-)

Since it is for Hallowe'en, what could be better than a spooky gen Jonathan Creek fic? One Foot in the Grave

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This another Chesterton poem that I like (although the Great Minimum is still my favourite. Aside from maybe his Christmas ones):

The Pessimist

You that have snarled through the ages, take your answer and go

[persiflage_1]

The only other thing I recognised besides Who was Bugsy Malone (all the kids in the 'gangsters and molls' outfits).

I'll check out the fic tomorrow - but thanks for sharing the vid and poem.

[lost_spook]

:-)

[john_amend_all]

Trick or treat!

[lost_spook]

I started this as a sequel to TTR: Murder at the Mill. It gets less and less likely that I will ever finish it, but maybe it will answer for this meme? (I was riffing Michael Innes rather than Agatha Christie

[lost_spook]

Hmm. You might as well have all there is, since it's been sitting on my pc for two years. This takes place later

[john_amend_all]

Now I'm feeling all guilty that the snippet I wrote for you was so short :-)

(I particularly liked the Inspector attempting to question Miss Pollard).

[sallymn]

Trick or treat, yes please!!

[lost_spook]

Okay, I thought, for you it should be words. I tend to like small collections of words (quotes, heh), so here are some.

Also, this makes me think of you now, even if it is not your era of DW: "For some people, small, beautiful things are what life is all about." (It's the icons.)

(Some of the quotes make sense, some are just for the words, some because they amuse me & they're mainly from things I've randomly collected at some point.)

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And by what witchery in the western hills
A throne stands empty for a thousand years.

The trees looked more than ever like sulky phantoms, obliged by an unkind spell to linger shivering out there in the wet.

"I'm undefined, that's my trouble. I like to think of myself as a shady, rather mysterious figure about the household, but I'm not, I'm not. I'm just the general dogsbody."

From witty men and mad
All poetry conception had

"We would not, even if we could, be ostentatiously vulgar."

Passionate peace is in the sky--
And in the snow in silver sealed

The most frightening word there can

[sallymn]

Oooh, I've saved this - I may need help with inspiration in this writing month, and some of these have echoes in my mind...

[lost_spook]

Aw, that's nice. :-)

Also, I left off any attributations, but if you want to know who said any of the less obvious ones, I do have that info. Somewhere. (I just wanted random word-snatches for you, heh.)

[dimity_blue]

Trick or treat!

[lost_spook]

It seems only right to find recs for your newest shiny fandom.

I have a total of three...

Obverse (125 words, gen. Jonathan Creek/Sherlock crossover.)
Our Days Begin With Trouble (562 words, gen, Crossover with SJA.)
Also, which you won't have seen, because it's not posted anywhere else, a long gen missing episode type fic (in blog entries) by my flister jjpor who is so good at writing it oughtn't to be allowed...: http://jjpor.livejournal.com/tag/sherlock (Scroll down for Pt1).

Have a Georgette Heyer fic from last Yuletide while you're at it: The Intrepid Vincent.

:-)

[dimity_blue]

Ooh, thanks for the links! I'm always on the look out for good fic! ::runs off to read::

[justice_turtle]

Trick or treat! :-)

[lost_spook]

Since you have read just about everything, ever, and seen every pic and catalogued the entire internet, I don't know if I can come up with anything new. Well, here goes:

Two comms:
dianawynnejones (It may not be madly active but it has a LOT of members and anything question, mad theories, what book do I read next posts will get instant responses. There is some fic on there not elsewhere.)

isurrendered You've probably come across it, but I seem to think you weren't quite around when the I Surrendered meme went viral? Anyway, it's a great example of the net and LJ being ridiculous & creative at the same time. And you should check out Mammoth Season. :-) (I'm not explaining; the comm info should. If not, then I will

[justice_turtle]

'Since you have read just about everything, ever, and seen every pic and catalogued the entire internet, I don't know if I can come up with anything new.'

*giggles* I really haven't. Only most of everything. XD

F'rinstance: I hadn't seen isurrendered at all! I think I came in at the very tail end of the phenomenon, and completely missed figuring out where to investigate it. *wasted a whole pile of time, yes, and is not done* (And yes, Mammoth Season was indeed hilarious. XD)

I had stumbled across dianawynnejones, but am waiting to explore it till I've read more of her books, so as not to spoil myself. (Some fandoms, like Who, I don't mind being spoiled on; some, like S&S, I mind dreadfully. I think DWJ is one of the latter

[lost_spook]

Oh, cool. I didn't do too badly there, then! :-) I couldn't remember you being around when we were all getting our brains eaten by the I surrendered meme. (It's quite a good way to get ideas for original fic, but a terribly dangerous meme to try if you don't want your brain eaten