Love Is A Dancing Thing

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Challenge #7: In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a wishlist of sorts.

1) "Light" history blog recs. Blogs today are either dead or dead serious.

Erm, that's about it really!

Here is kingstoken's book bingo card for this year:

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I really like this year's card. The prompts are more skewed towards fiction than non-fiction, but I've managed to fit sixteen of my TBR pile to the squares and most of them are NF. The only problem is that NF books are slower reads. I've got lots of fiction book recs to fill in the gaps though:)

Title: New Bride (899 words)
Author: Liadt
Fandom: The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Rating: General audiences
Categories: F/F
Warnings: None
Relationships: The Bride of Frankenstein/Elizabeth Frankenstein
Characters: The Bride of Frankenstein, Elizabeth Frankenstein
Additional tags: post-film

Summary: Elizabeth Frankenstein is fascinated by a monster.

Notes: There's a lot of lovely Bride/Monster fanart out there, but she's not that keen. Perhaps, I should have written an essay on the impulse to heteronormativity or something, but I did a fic instead.

Written to fulfil the 100fandoms prompt #91: right.

Write a fic, forget to mention it!

Title: Unique Looking (117 words)
Author: Liadt
Fandom: Son of Frankenstein (1939); Frankenstein and related fandoms, Universal Monsters Universe
Rating: General audiences
Categories: M/M
Relationships: Frankenstein’s Creature/Ygor
Additional tags: Body image issues

Summary: Ygor seeks to cheer the Monster up over his looks.

Notes; Written for the genprompt bingo round 20 prompt: Unnatural (Events, Weather, Beings) and Hurt/comfort bingo round 12 prompt: body image issues.

Title: Waiting for the Monster (1232 words)
Author: Liadt
Fandom: Son of Frankenstein (1939)
Rating: General audiences
Categories: M/M
Warnings: None
Relationships: Ygor/Frankenstein’s Creature
Characters: Ygor, Frankenstein’s Creature

Summary: He does things for me - Ygor (Son of Frankenstein (1939).
The monster has done a lot of things for his friend. Ygor thinks about them as he waits for the baron to make him well again.

Written for the 100fandoms prompt no.57: sleeping.

Notes; After watching Son of Frankenstein I went looking for fic and found none. Therefore I had no choice but to write fic;p

Afterwards, I went looking for The Black Cat (1934) works because I thought there was bound to be fic for that, but there is none. Fandom, I am very disappointed with you.

The sole work on AO3 for The Black Cat is an ace, if spoilery, fanvid which is some consolation.

Title: Woof Night (4820 words)
Author: Liadt
Fandom: What We Do In The Shadows (2014)
Rating: Teen
Categories: M/M
Warnings: None
Additional Tags: Adultery
Relationships: Anton/Deacon Brucke, Anton/OFC
Characters: Anton, Deacon, OMC, OFM
Summary: When a chance encounter with a mysteriously sexy stranger leads to a night he'll never forget, independent Deacon can't believe his luck. Until the morning after...when the stranger turns out to be Stu's pack leader, Anton. Not to mention he'll be working with him to bring his latest hippest designer knitting venture to life.
Anton can't believe his bad luck. Hitting the sheets with a vampire isn't the smartest move he's ever made. Or is it?

Notes: Written using the summary for 'Nothing but the Best' by Kristin Hardy for the 10th Unconventional Courtship Challenge \o/

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/47600554

Yes! It's that time of year again when I spam up your reading page for unconventionalcourtship! The multifandom fic challenge is now on its tenth round! I'm going to do some banners for participants at the end to celebrate the anniversary.

There is personal celebration for me this year as I have defeated the UC generator's attempts to hide anything workable from me and I have a summary and a Muse that appears to be awake, unlike last year. I thought I'd have to chop off the end of the summary's paragraph as it seems to position one of the pairing worrying they're not good enough for the other which didn't seem likely, so I decided the other would be thinking how great they are \o/

And for those that like to combine challenges genprompt_bingo has started a new round:D

Challenge #13: In your own space, rec three fanworks that you did not create.

Shut Up and Kiss Me by tarathemeerkat (Father Brown; Father Brown/Herule Flambeau; General audiences; 3113 words)

Summary: Father Brown had been led to some strange places in his investigations and usually relished it, but a party full of bored socialites and aristocrats who only want to ply him with alcohol and make a mockery of him was one he'd rather not have been led to. Luckily, Hercule Flambeau was there and always willing to provide a distraction...

Terrible title, great fic:D

The Darkplace Christmas Special by tarabas (Garth Marenghi's Darkplace; General Audiences; Thornton Reed, Rick Dagless, Liz Asher, Lucien Sanchez, Dean Learner, Garth Marenghi; 1352 words)

Summary: “I’m proud to say that the Darkplace Christmas special was so scary that only a few scenes of it exist today. The whole thing was simply too horrifying, too radical, that top brass deleted most of our recordings. It was the only way they could deal with what they’d seen.

Like an actual episode except it's fan fiction and that means reading words which isn't like watching a TV show, although words can paint a thousand pictures as the readers of Garth Marenghi's novels will know. The penultimate paragraph is as good as anything in the show it might even be better! And a bonus Easter egg for Doctor Who fans.

a beautiful friendship by janie_tangerine (Casablanca (1942); teen; Rick Blaine, Louis Renault; 4485 words)

Summary: “Oh, Rick,” Louis shakes his head, “I take it all back. That makes you more of a sentimentalist than anything I ever heard you say. And almost than anything I ever saw you doing.”
“Almost?”
“Letting that plane go is still quite unmatched, my friend.”
“Louis, f**k you,” Rick snorts, but it’s obvious he doesn’t really mean it, and now that he thinks about everything in retrospective… that does sound entirely more likely than stealing the Church’s fund, or rich women being involved.
“So, all things considered, you’d rather throw your lot with us poor, defeated Frenchmen?”
“Not even a question,” Rick says, “and now are you going to keep on asking me things or are you going to greet our guys that are about to come up on shore?”

What trouble did Rick get into in the US? This fic gives a convincing answer.

Challenge #14: In your own space, do the Fandom Wrap Challenge.

What were your top 5 fandoms for 2022 based on the amount of time you interacted with them?
A poor year fannishly until the autumn and then it all took off, before then I thought I used up my ability to get fannish about new to me things. It seems my brain can still be taken over.
1. Old films
2. Classic Doctor Who
3. MLP G1 (toy line not the cartoons)
4. Find It, Fix It, Flog It
5. First Tetralogy

What were your top 5 fandom spaces (Discord, Twitter, etc.) you experienced fandom in terms of time spent?
1. Dreamwidth
2. Instagram
3. AO3
That's about it, being in tiny fandoms means very few spaces outside of my head.

What are the top 5 things you did to contribute to fandom in terms of time? Did you write? Comment? Send positive energy into the universe? Create art?
1. Knitting.
2. Liking posts on insta.
3. Being the Lord High Evil Enabler with pom-poms.
4. Sewing.
5. Commenting.

What were your top 5 most appreciated fandom contributions? (i.e. in terms of likes, kudos, reblogs, comments, etc.)
Lol, whatever a big name fan is I'm the opposite; no-name fan;p

Have a Top 5 List you'd like to share??
Songs which I think would be good for fan vids, but prove I'm wise not to make vids because they wouldn't:
1. Sunspots - Julian Cope (I'm sure it had more lyrics. I can't resist a pop song with a recorder solo)
2. Like a Prayer - Madonna (ha, ha)
3. Forever - Haim (Nice intro. Action film edition)
4. Not the only Person - The Rumble Strips (Noir or 1970's grotty, miserabilist Brit TV?)
5. Rescue -Echo and the Bunnymen (What more eighties indie disco? Nice bass).