The walls grew fatter here than any in the land

[sovay]

It is not my norm that all of my completed fiction so far this year has been fanfiction, but on the other hand I could be not writing fiction at all. Most lately, for thisbluespirit: "The Debt of Centuries."

I wanted to write them reciprocal casefic for Sapphire & Steel (1979–82), so I threw their catalogue of original and other elements into the Ersatz Genremixer to see if I got any useful prompts. Among others, I received "Arsenic / Zinc - Awkward moment & tradition & Lending a coat in the cold," which was technically no crackier than the rest except that Arsenic and Zinc are fancast with Caroline Blakiston and Alec McCowen, last seen by me in Mr. Palfrey of Westminster (1984–85). I could not resist.

The title is a mondegreen left over from hearing Dave Goulder's "These Dry Stone Walls" (since I can't find a link to his own recording, here performed by Gordon Bok) decades before I saw the official lyrics. It seemed to suit. I do not think I am one of nature's tag-users.

Comments

[sovay]

Your fears are unfounded. I don’t even go here and I followed it perfectly well and it was beautiful.

*hugs*

Thank you!

Are there books of this thing, or do I have to assimilate moving pictures?

I am afraid it comes with actors in. All six serials are on YouTube, though. My favorites are Assignments 2, 3, and 6, although 4 is very highly regarded. 5 was the only one not written by P.J. Hammond who created the show and it's actually perceptible. I wrote about the first three serials when I saw them sometime before the last glaciation; the world of the show does become more complicated, but the essential model of time and hauntings remains the one which usually causes you to say NOPE and WHY DOES NO ONE KNOW HOW TO USE SALT ANYMORE.

[selkie]

I am up wrestling my body, and I started the series and a thing I feel you captured well all those years ago was “shoestring batshit we stole this prop from our key grip’s toddler and we owe you NO exposition.” I am not yet equipped to analyze further but persevere.

[sovay]

and I started the series and a thing I feel you captured well all those years ago was “shoestring batshit we stole this prop from our key grip’s toddler and we owe you NO exposition.”

Thank you. I really try to work with the movies and TV I watch, not the movies and TV that would be so much cooler if they existed the way I wrote them. (I dream those and complain about it.)

I am not yet equipped to analyze further but persevere.

Excelsior! I would prefer it if your body did not require so much Jacob with the angel, but in the meantime I am glad to have enabled something you can stare at while trying to dislocate, I guess your own hip in this metaphor, perhaps never mind. I note this show is now the fandom I have written the greatest number of fic for in my subatomic AO3 footprint, i.e. three.