Laura Walker ([info]googlebrat) wrote,
@ 2009-06-11 14:42:00
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I Miss Being 12
Somehow, my paypal account has, with no assistance, ordered several Chalet School books we didn't have off ebay. I cannot think how this came to pass, but if I start telling you that things are simply beastly, or that they're absolutely topper then it's not my fault.

Research has shown me several things. Firstly, that there are several authors who have written "authorised fanfic" - something I suspect Brent-Dyer would wholly approve of, as even JOEY started out by writing school story fanfic. Girls Gone By has apparently purchased the copyright and is working on reprinting stuff in small runs - which makes the books costly, but, I guess, better than not having them at all. Also, there appears to be a paper fanzine which I'm currently resisting joining.

Precious little fanfic online that I could find though. One archive last updated in 2006. I did venture into ff.net and uh... then ventured back OUT again.

...how many of us exChaleteers are there? Am I the only one with a hankering for outdated girls' boarding school stories? I would be totally on board with a fandom revival. Especially if someone wrote me Juliet fic.

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[info]incandescens
2009-06-11 02:24 pm UTC (link)
Well, I know that I've seen a Chalet School/Torchwood crossover . . .

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[info]googlebrat
2009-06-11 03:07 pm UTC (link)
...

*eyes cross*

I... whut... HOW? I mean the series JUST BARELY acknowledges the existence of males (I think they only exist in order that Joey can keep having babies).

I might have to see this.

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[info]incandescens
2009-06-11 10:38 pm UTC (link)
http://chaletian.livejournal.com/tag/torchwood - alas, I don't think it was ever really finished.

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[info]shark_hat
2009-06-11 04:30 pm UTC (link)
I think there are Chalet School fans on my flist, I could ask?

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[info]googlebrat
2009-06-11 05:20 pm UTC (link)
Ooo! Please do!

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[info]eruth
2009-06-12 06:40 am UTC (link)
I haven't read them in years - my cousin had them and I used her bookshelf as my library,. Now I'm going to have to hunt them down again.

PS I think I might still have my Mallory Towers books....

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[info]speakingofart
2009-06-12 11:52 am UTC (link)
http://www.the-cbb.co.uk/

or http://www.sallydennylibrary.co.uk/viewuser.php?uid=82

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[info]googlebrat
2009-06-12 05:57 pm UTC (link)
Were those last by you? Because you have just helped me while away what I swear was one of the longest Fridays in the known universe with those three, and I thank you so, so much.

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[info]speakingofart
2009-06-12 06:01 pm UTC (link)
No, they aren't- I wish I could write like that! But there is a lot of decent chalet school fan fiction/communities out there!

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[info]googlebrat
2009-06-12 06:06 pm UTC (link)
Do you have any more recs by chance? *greedy* You appear to have good taste.

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[info]googlebrat
2009-06-12 05:58 pm UTC (link)
Waaaaiit, you're in Newcastle?

I AM NOT USED TO HAVING FOLK POP UP SO CLOSE!

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[info]speakingofart
2009-06-12 06:01 pm UTC (link)
LOL!

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[info]googlebrat
2009-06-12 06:05 pm UTC (link)
Seriously, I have a running joke about how EVERYONE in the UK on LJ is in the South (of course, in true Northerner fashion, I count "South" as anything below York.) I think I've found maaaybe four people in the North East total (and one of them returned to London, and thus no longer counts).

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[info]speakingofart
2009-06-12 06:24 pm UTC (link)
If you go onto the CBB, and into the sub-forum Ste Therese, there's a series called "Letters" which is very good (though not if you like Len/Reg) as well. I'm actually living in Edinburgh now- so even newcastle seems south! :)

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