Malory Towers massacre fic

[slemslempike]

I do not like change, and I especially do not like change to my email. Oh yahoo, why must you unnerve me by being quite similar but not quite? I am almost getting used to it, but mostly it just looks like it hasn't loaded properly. And if I wanted conversations to be grouped together, I'd use bloody gmail, as I haven't made the switch (except for professional stuff) then you should assume that I LIKE having to use an unreliable search box and trying to remember what precise words used were.

sabethea linked to this a while ago, and it's stuck with me:

Malory Towers/Battle Royale
Summary: It's the end of Darrell Rivers' fifth year, but now she and her friends are being forced to fight to the death, and only one can survive. How long before old friendships give way for good?

http://archive.skyehawke.com/story.php?no=17564

I haven't read Battle Royale, but it works as a standalone Malory Towers dystopian fic. It is multi-chaptered, and I felt quite bleak for a while after reading it. Recommended! (Sort of.) It gets around the "but surely a Malory Towers girl would never kill another?" aspect pretty well.

I went to a talk on tax and avoidance, that was very interesting, and I got to seem knowledgeable after remembering hfnuala mentioning a while ago that income tax was brought in as a temporary measure in the UK to fund the Napoleonic Wars. Tonight I am off to another talk, this time on the Royal Blind School in Edinburgh, which is having a presentation and display of some photos, apparently also with some sort of refreshment. I was supposed to go to an NLS talk on Slavery yesterday, but work overran and I didn't make it. The talks are because I was messing around on eventbrite, and decided to see what was on that I hadn't heard about. Lots!

Comments

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

Oh, yahoo really HAS changed? I kind of assumed that I had accidentally clicked on something. I also DO NOT LIKE IT. Change back, yahoo!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I have got it back to sort of how it was for me by putting the preview pane at the bottom. Or you can switch to basic for just a list, but you don't get the tabs.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

UGH I HATE IT. This may be the push I need to switch permanently to gmail.

[sabethea.livejournal.com]

I totally need to re-read that fic. :)

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Thank you for linking to it! I would never have thought it could work.

[sabethea.livejournal.com]

I would never have thought I'd READ it, let alone considering reading it again. Though I admit I keep waiting until I feel emotionally strong...

[everthere.livejournal.com]

I am going to read that story

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Let me know what you think! I think it is very good and also v creepy.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

I've only eveer heard of Battle Royale in context of reading about the Hunger Games, usually to compare the latter unfavourably with the former. That is a massively bleak story - very Lord of the Flies. I can't say I exactly liked it, but for the reasons that I don't generally like that sort of story, but not because it's written badly.

Hope the Royal Blind School talk was good.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

It turned out to be a rather small exhibition, not a talk. It was still interesting, and someone showed me how the portable braille machines worked, but overall it was not quite what I was expecting. How are you feeling?

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Up and down today. Some points I think I'm fine, and others I just want to crawl under the duvet. I'm coughing a little bit but don't have a streaming nose, so no idea if I have an actual lurgy or not. I have been sleeping badly since Sunday night and I'm trying to sort out Xmas plans (oh god!) so maybe I'm just stressed or something.

[tallulahgs]

Hi - sabethea mentioned you'd recced my fic, thank you so much! I'm really pleased it, um, emotionally moved you? (I reread it myself recently and felt pretty bleak. And kind of guilty. So, yes...)

Thank you though, it is really flattering you thought it worth mentioning!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Oh, definitely worth reccing! I thought it was incredibly well done, and really good the way you made these utterly inconceivable actions for MT girls seem in character and believeable.

[tallulahgs]

That's so kind of you to say, thank you! I really enjoyed trying to work out how it might go based on the interactions in the books, at any rate, so it's great to hear you felt overall it seemed convincing.

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

Goodness, that Malory Towers fic is just...crumbs. I loved Malory Towers when I was younger, but went off them in my early teens. This is so well written, and utterly, utterly bleak. The characterisation is excellent too. Thanks for the rec - I need to find something to pick myself up now.

[zoje-george.livejournal.com]

The change in yahoo mail has made it UNUSABLE. WTF??