reach exceeding one's grasp, indeed

[kindkit]

My goal for the last round of Kink Bingo was a blackout (filling all 25 prompts on my square) in the Colditz fandom. This year, some evil part of my brain gave me the idea that perhaps I could try for a blackout in 25 different fandoms, all of them related in some way to the First or Second World War.

Some brainstorming has given me a preliminary list of 24 fandoms I could possibly write in (22 I'm reasonably happy about, 2 marginal), and I could easily think up some RPF for the remaining prompt if necessary. ETA: I'm up to 25 fandoms now, but suggestions are still welcome!



Biggles
The Cage
A Canterbury Tale
The Charioteer
Colditz
Danger: UXB
Endeavour (Inspector Thursday fought in the war)
Foyle's War
King Rat
Lawrence of Arabia
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Life Class
Lord Peter Wimsey
Manhunt
A Matter of Life and Death
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Piece of Cake
Regeneration
Rivers of London
Secret Army
Sherlock Holmes ("His Last Bow" gives it a First World War connection and I would write something about that era)
Strange Meeting
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Wings
Wooden Horse

Bloody Red Baron (the Kim Newman novel) (?)
'Allo 'Allo (?)


Am I omitting anything wonderful? Some omissions (e.g. The Great Escape and Bridge on the River Kwai) are deliberate because I have a lot of issues with the source text and KB isn't necessarily a great place for fix-it fic.



Since writing fast has never been one of my skills, and lately I haven't been writing at all, I wouldn't bet money on my chances of actually producing 25 stories. But since I badly want to start writing again, and this is a convenient challenge with prompts and everything, I guess I might as well try.

ETA: Still taking fandom suggestions (for one thing, I'm always happy to hear about fandoms I might enjoy) but I've tentatively worked out a plan of which fandom I want to write for each kink. Some of the matches are obvious (Lawrence of Arabia and caning), but if you want to know why I've assigned "foot fetish" to the Wimsey-verse or "dirty talk" to Sherlock Holmes . . . well, I hope all will be revealed in the stories to come. /tease

Comments

[brewsternorth]

Would you have similar issues with the Playtone/HBO World War II megafandom of "Band of Brothers/The Pacific"?

Alternatively, given that you have a query against Allo! Allo!, would Dad's Army be just too wrong?

Have you seen "The Bletchley Circle"? It has a WWII backstory.

[kindkit]

I've never watched any of those, actually. Dad's Army is on my "to watch eventually" list--I like comedy very much but I can't write it, which I why 'Allo 'Allo is only a maybe. I've heard good things about Band of Brothers, but USian stories about the world wars, WWII in particular, tend not to work for me. Then again, BoB is modern and hopefully more critical of the smug "Greatest Generation" USian mythos of the war.

[hannah]

It is. The Pacific even more so.

(I still want them to someday make this, sort of the same way I hope Brimstone is eventually released on DVD.)

[kindkit]

That would be interesting--but I think the U.S. will acknowledge its own war crimes approximately when hell freezes over.

[tree_and_leaf]

Dad's Army is very funny, though not obviously slashy (ymmv, of course). But it's highly amusing and I suspect most of the really ridiculous incidents are based on things that actually happened to someone!

[kindkit]

Well, I have been in the mood for some comedy lately . . .

*acquires series 1*

[kindkit]

I've heard mixed things about the Bletchley Circle, though the premise is interesting. It won't really work for me as a KB fandom, though, because for stories with an erotic or sexual component I only write male/male.

Oh, but thinking about war-era but not combatant-focused fandoms has made me remember one of my favorites, Danger: UXB! Yay! And I've also remembered that my beloved Inspector Thursday from Endeavour fought at Monte Cassino and talks about the war a bit on the show.

Sorry none of your suggestions was quite workable for me, but talking with you got my brain moving. Thanks!