Rugby (Union) and fannish thoughts

[nineveh_uk]

In the previously-mentioned universe in which Harriet Vane’s detective novels are made into a TV series (hopefully more faithfully than your average Christie adaptation), someone will have to be found to play her detective, Robert Templeton.

[Robert Templeton] was a gentleman of extraordinary scientific skill, combined with almost fabulous muscular development. He had arms like an orang-utan and an ugly but attractive face. She took conjured up his phantom before her in the suit of rather loud plus-fours with which she was accustomed to invest him, and took counsel with him in spirit.

I can now announce that that man is French rugby union player Sebastian Chabal. If this was Harriet’s vision of the archetypal great detective, no wonder it took her a while to reconcile herself to fancying Lord Peter Wimsey, who undoubtedly spent his first two terms at Eton having his head stamped into the mud every time he was forced, white knees trembling, out on to the field.

Still perfecting my Yuletide sign-up plans. Question, if twenty-one people have already volunteered to write Wimsey fanfic, why the hell aren’t they doing it the rest of the time?

Comments

[aella_irene]

I would if I could, but I'm (a) too young, (and is it me, or have they changed the age restriction from 17 to 18 recently? I could have sworn I'd be able to participate next year, but apparently I won't be able to until next year) and (b) too prone to being distracted by the pretty, pretty family trees. (I am unable to write anything without mapping out the generations three generations each way)

By the by, have you ever read Catriona McPherson's Dandy Gilver series? Its a series of mysteries set in 1920s Scotland, and starring an unromantic, married, detective who is in her late thirties. There are lots of lovely clothes, a handsome co-solver with whom she has a mild flirtation, and some thoroughly intriguing mysteries.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

I am unable to write anything without mapping out the generations three generations each way

Are you me?

You should see the family trees for From The Ashes. I've got a database. ;)

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I don't know about the age restriction - I haven't done it before, so not read the requirements - but I suppose that with recent kerfuffles they might have felt a bit paranoid and gone for safety in being patronising?

I haven't read Dandy Gilver, though I have seen their rather attractive jackets. I'd been cautious fearing another Maisie Dobbs (http://nineveh-uk.livejournal.com/17372.html), but it sounds worth a go (lovely 1920 clothes will hook me every time).

[aella_irene]

Dandy is pretty much the Anti-Dobbs. If they ever met, Dandy would probably start running, and not stop until Maisie was just a dim speck in the distance.