Updates
1. In Yuletide, I see that TWO people have offered the 1968 Dracula. I am all faint with the shock. I would have been matchable with just my three nominated super-obscure fandoms! (But possibly difficult.) In celebration, I removed one of my other requests. I was worrying about maybe not wanting it quite as much as the others - and two other people have similar requests so there's a chance of fic I will enjoy anyhow. (I don't think I've ever done that before.)
2. Over on AO3, someone has translated a previous Yuletide fic of mine (Of Elements and Existence) into Russian. I can't read Russian, but putting it in Google Translate suggests (despite its usual incoherency) that they did a good job, as I can certainly recognise my fic coming back at me.
3. I am continuing my voyage into old film! Well, old film containing Margaret Lockwood, anyway. I have now watched her first leading role in the 1938 Carol Reed film Bank Holiday. The description makes it sound fairly awful but actually, notwithstanding the working class stereotypes, it was pretty sweet and fun. Not at the level of The Lady Vanishes but then most films aren't. Anyway, Margaret Lockwood is a nurse who goes off on a bank holiday weekend with her boyfriend, but can't stop thinking about a man at the hospital whose wife has just died. The resort is crowded and we follow a whole bunch of characters who all keep intersecting briefly, and, as I said, it all ends up being better than I expected. There was even a black character with lines, which is more than most 60s films can manage.
Margaret Lockwood is still very pretty and endearing:
The hero doesn't get anything to do but be a damsel in distress. (Mostly in the rain, though he does angst on the rooftop at one point.)
Crossposted from Dreamwidth -- Comments there:
2. Over on AO3, someone has translated a previous Yuletide fic of mine (Of Elements and Existence) into Russian. I can't read Russian, but putting it in Google Translate suggests (despite its usual incoherency) that they did a good job, as I can certainly recognise my fic coming back at me.
3. I am continuing my voyage into old film! Well, old film containing Margaret Lockwood, anyway. I have now watched her first leading role in the 1938 Carol Reed film Bank Holiday. The description makes it sound fairly awful but actually, notwithstanding the working class stereotypes, it was pretty sweet and fun. Not at the level of The Lady Vanishes but then most films aren't. Anyway, Margaret Lockwood is a nurse who goes off on a bank holiday weekend with her boyfriend, but can't stop thinking about a man at the hospital whose wife has just died. The resort is crowded and we follow a whole bunch of characters who all keep intersecting briefly, and, as I said, it all ends up being better than I expected. There was even a black character with lines, which is more than most 60s films can manage.
Margaret Lockwood is still very pretty and endearing:
The hero doesn't get anything to do but be a damsel in distress. (Mostly in the rain, though he does angst on the rooftop at one point.)
Crossposted from Dreamwidth -- Comments there: