So, it is party time again, folks!

[wiseheart]

Each year this time, we launch my virtual birthday party, which starts on October 1 and ends on October 9 at midnight, sharp. The goals of the party are to post as many comments and collapse as many threads as possible, on as many new pages as we can. It is always great fun, as you can see if you check out the similar entries of the last few years.

This year, I'll also throw the real party at mid-time - and post the recipes of all the food that will be there for you, so that you can all participate if you want to. Virtual food has no calories.

Fandom-related discussions are as welcome as the ones about coffee or chocolate (just to name a few favourites from previous years), and, of course, pictures and recipes of birthday cakes. ;)

So, drop by, tell your story, post your pics or silly poems, ask questions you always wanted to ask and have a good time!

Soledad, in excited expectation




Oh, and by the way, to provide birthday gifts hobbit-style, I've got a revived story and a Kansas 2 update for you.

Enjoy!

Comments

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Here are mine

Top 10 TV fandoms:
1) Battlestar Galactica (the original)
2) Star Trek (classic, the original)
3) Babylon 5
4) Kindred: The Embraced
5) Tour of Duty
6) Merlin
7) Sherlock BBC ( the first 2 seasons - I despise S3)
8) Stargate: Atlantis
9) Star Trek: DS9
10) Torchwood

Top 6 book fandoms:
1) Tolkien's universe
2) The Cadfael Chronicles by Ellis Peters
3) Taran books by Larry Alexander
4) Miss Marple novels by Agatha Christie
5) Poirot novels by Agatha Christie
6) Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin

There are lots of other books I love, but they can't be considered fandoms, so this is what I could think of off the top of my head.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Hmm, this was surprisingly difficult, both to find anywhere near 10 television fandoms and to limit myself to anything like 10 book fandoms! I ended up cheating with the books and listing some authors.

Television
1. Twin Peaks
2. ST:DS9
3. Angel
4. Yes, Minister
5. Blackadder
6. Blake's 7 -- this was my entry fandom at least in terms of online interactions but I'm pretty much out of it now
and way below...
7. Forbrydelsen S1
8. The Hour

Books
1. Jane Austen
2. Earthsea
3. JRR Tolkien
4. Diana Wynne Jones
5. Jane Eyre
6. Eagle of the Ninth series & other Sutcliff
7. Norse mythology
8. Sherlock Holmes
9. Good Omens & other Gaiman
10. LM Bujold Vorkosigan/Chalion series
and many, many more...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know, I condensed Tolkien, Larry Alexander and Agatha Christie, too.
Is there a meaning behind which ones are in italics on your list?

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Supposedly titles should be italicised, while universes/characters are usually not; so Earthsea series vs Earthsea the universe. But mostly I was being lazy/inconsistent with everything except the obvious titles!

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

I don't really have fandoms in TV, but 10 favorite shows in my past (haven't had a TV for years now)
1) Anything Jacques Cousteau
2) Sealab 2020, a cartoon about an underwater colony of scientists -- that's what I wanted to be as a little geek girl
3) Star Trek -- most of the iterations, except Janeway never did it for me
4) Tour of Duty -- Thanks for the reminder, wiseheart. That was a special show, and for America, I think it was culturally an important marker: we could actually have a show on commercial TV about Vietnam that showed a lot of the ambiguities
5) Stargate - original -- don't think I've seen more than an episode or two of the later ones
6) Cadfael series (seen on public television in the US)
7) Arthur of the Britons -- saw it as a kid in NZ. As I've described it elsewhere, a young, grubby Arthur and his grubby companions -- Saxon Kai and his adoptive Welsh father, Llud -- all riding around a grubby, not-at-all-great Britain
8) Early St. Elsewhere which, I discovered when I moved here, was modeled on the medical facility that houses my current academic employer

Haven't read for fun enough to have favorites in books, but I have enjoyed the odd Cadfael novel and remember being enchanted by the ecology of the magic system in the Earthsea trilogy. I also must have bought and read just about every paperback spinoff from the Space: 1999 series in my teens. No accounting for my "tastes"!

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

A fellow Earthsea fan! The magical system is so much more intuitive than many more popular series. Have you read the later books? If so, what do you think?

I love Cadfael too, though I felt the television adaptations did a relatively poor job, despite Jacobi. It didn't help that they kept recasting Beringar; I preferred the first one, despite his acanonical blond hair.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

The episode I found most horrible was "The Pilgrim of Hate". That is my all-time favourite among the novels, and the character rape they did in that one was outrageous.

In general, it was very cheaply made (filmed in Hungary, no less), practically everything took place in the same cottage with slightly different decoration. And I didn't find Jacobi a good choice. I used to know an old Benedictine brother who was just like Cadfael, but Jacobi was too aristocratic-looking for the part.

I preferred the first Beringar (Sean Pertwee), too. That was another character turned inside out; and I missed the Cadfael-Beringar friendship. It is such an important element of the books, and it was completely omitted from the series.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

At least Jacobi can act, which is more than could be said for most of the others.

Beringar I was occasionally ok, though they did play down the central friendship. Beringar II might as well have been an OC.

I don't remember the television version of The Pilgrim of Hate; possibly I've mercifully blanked it; possibly I've just never watched it.

[sammydragoncat]

I have never read the books, and only saw the series after I read your Torchwood/Cadfael cross-over. I have been meaning to get a one of the books - just haven't gotten around to it.