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chomijiAs of this moment,
- 34 people are offering to write Tamora Pierce - Tortall series or The Fifth Element fics
- 33 are offering Eureka (tv)
- 32 are offering Anne McCaffrey - Dragonriders of Pern, Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden, The Middleman (tv), or Sandman (comic)
and - 31 are offering Diana Wynne Jones - Castle series aka Howl series or The Mummy series (movie)
Hmmm. I would consider myself middling competent to write four of those (Pern, Secret Garden, Sandman, Howl), have experienced one additional one (5th Element), and have never seen/read a bit of any of the others.
I'm fascinated that Burnett's enjoyable but rather didactic children's story is as popular as any of these more recent items ... .
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Date: 2008-11-03 11:21 pm (UTC)I didn't know Diana Wynne Jones was involved with The Mummy series (movie). Which one is that?
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Date: 2008-11-03 11:24 pm (UTC)XD
You're just teasing, right? Those are meant to be two different items, just like the first bullet is two different items and the third bullet ("32 are offering ...") is four different items.
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Date: 2008-11-03 11:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-03 11:35 pm (UTC)now, that you pointed out, my question didn't make sense - (run and hide in the corner. My brain must have gone awol for a moment!)
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Date: 2008-11-04 12:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-05 12:04 am (UTC)Howl for Yuletide
Date: 2008-11-05 08:02 pm (UTC)The movie gets its own entry, Howls Moving Castle (movie), and currently 31 people are offering to write for it, and 4 people are requesting stories from it.
(Hey, Jedi-san, you ought to sign up!)
Re: Howl for Yuletide
Date: 2008-11-05 08:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-05 08:09 pm (UTC)I have such mixed feelings about Pern! The first two Menolly books were a huge part of my late teen years, and I still ennoy re-reading them. But by the time I was in my mid-20s, I felt the other books were mostly pretty bad - the writing is awkward a lot of the time, and some of the interpersonal stuff is very squicky for me.
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Date: 2008-11-05 11:25 pm (UTC)Oh ... my ... >stares at pix some more<
Yes, he definitely has all my ancestral hormones kicking in! (Hell, I even like Adrian Brody ... .)
I might well like the Mummy films, but you know me and movies ... anyway, I was just noting what a weird selection of stuff was popular for those writing. A lot of it is not particularly fannish, at least not the way I use the word.
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Date: 2008-11-05 11:39 pm (UTC)Sandman would be a bit scary - it has the largest body of work, really, when you think of all the info conveyed by the pictures. I'd have to re-read Howl, but that would be no big hardship. I don't think I'd really want to do Pern, but I would be OK at it. Secret Garden might be fun - it's an old favorite and a comfort read.
All I remember from Fifth Element is lots of visual snippets and a sense of amazed wonder!
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Date: 2008-11-05 11:43 pm (UTC)(Yuletide mash-up)
Date: 2008-11-06 02:23 am (UTC):-)
No worries!
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Date: 2008-11-06 11:32 pm (UTC)Well, you can only do that if the requester has indicated "any" for the characters. If someone really wants a story involving Desire, for example, it's no good relegating that one to the sidelines ... and Lord, that just gave me a sicko yen for a crossover involving Desire and Kanzeon Bosatsu ... .
Re: Howl for Yuletide
Date: 2008-11-07 10:34 pm (UTC)Yays!
I have a list I've been working on ... I think I'll break down and make myself commit it tonight.
(Gorgeous Guys with Sizeable Schnozzes)
Date: 2008-11-09 03:49 am (UTC)Fehr's very decorative in that, but I like martial arts stuff in movies well enough (including sword fights) that I got annoyed at the constant cutting/clipping (mostly on the part of the YouTube creator, not the original film maker) so that I couldn't really see how the fights went.
The folks who don't think Brody is hot probably like the Brad Pitt type. I'm glad he keeps Angelina happy, but he just doesn't do it for me ... .
(Adrian Brody pix)
Date: 2008-11-09 03:57 am (UTC)(Heh, gorgeous Brody pix by a pro fashion/celeb photographer, Patrick Hoelck, here and here ... !)
Re: (Adrian Brody pix)
Date: 2008-11-09 04:20 pm (UTC)LOL! I thought the same, except he's fuzzier than a Minekura boy - not something that worries me, but very rare in a manga drawing. (Somewhere, someone was talking about a couple of B&W drawings where you could see that Gojyo had leg hair ... .)
(BTW, did you see the posted draft of the big story?)
Re: (Gorgeous Guys with Sizeable Schnozzes)
Date: 2008-11-12 04:19 pm (UTC)The Dokugakuji from the live musical version is not beefy enough! I always thought I liked a long, lean, dark one too ... but look what I ended up with! (Of course, he used to be thinner - but we've both always tended to be square and muscular. The Yound Lady didn't have much of a chance to be anything else ... .)