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[flemmings]

There's an lj community for Antonia Forest.

Only I'm a little scared to start reading it. Until the 21st century the only person I knew who'd read her books was me- not counting family and friends I pushed them on to, and none of them were avid the way I was. So, y'know- my own series à moi aka Papuwa Syndrome aka 'master am I of all I survey'. Do I wish to discover the mark of those other feet (in Papuwa, English-speaking- the Japanese footprints of course were everywhere) on my solitary island? Will I now be subject to regular attacks of NONONO you've got it all WRONG you're murdering my CHILDHOOD you blind blithering idiot? Am I at all put off by the fact that the second AF fan I found online is a flaming twit? Aarghhh... wibble wibble... somehow it's not so personal when it's molesworth but then all molesworth fans do is quote him at each other which is really the only way to be a molesworth fan.

(happily)
Grabber: Do you kno who you are talking to?
new bug: Can it be Stalin?

Comments

[incandescens]

And you were the first person I'd ever run into (beside my mother) who'd read her. It was a marvellous stroke of lightning. :)

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Truly? I'd assumed over there in the fons et origo that more people would know her. Certainly there seems a fair number of solidly 30's and 40's fen in the community who also read the Chalet School and even Angela Brazil.

[incandescens]

Maybe it was just that you were the first person who she came up in conversation with, then.

Gorgeous icon, btw.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Thank you. In amid the current all-round Minekura disaster I'm consoled by a panel of the Marshmallow King looking so dauntless and by promises of his future appearance in the action should Minekura be up to drawing it etc etc. And no, I have *not* forgotten the three years or so that elapsed between sword at throat chapter and 'by none but me can the tale be told' chapter. Intrepid Goujun may have to last me a while.