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

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[kindkit]

Ooh, yes. I could fix the show's little "Kill Your Gays" problem while I'm at it, maybe.

[executrix]

Also: Stalag 17, with its wonderfully romantic dance scene.

Worst Resistance Movements Ever: Enemy at the Door, Wish Me Luck

If you can move to another war, Privates on Parade for very positively presented same-sex relationship and what seems like a stereotyped gay character who turns out to be much more compassionate and decent than the straight "hero."

If novels are in play, John Horne Burns' The Gallery.

I'm going blank on the correct title, but the play with Judi Dench called something like "Absolute Hell" which, like The Gallery, is about a WWII gay bar.

[kindkit]

Privates on Parade breaks my heart too much--I'd want to fix the entire ending. Plus it's harder for me to write about an ugly little colonialist war like that. I can write about the First World War because it was just tragic and awful for everybody, and about the Second World War because although every side committed atrocities, the Axis side were unequivocally the aggressors and behaved worse in every conceivable fashion than the Allies. But when it gets to wars where the characters I'd be writing about were the aggressors or fighting in an indefensible cause, it's harder for me. I get angry.

I shall see if I can find out more about the Dench play, which sounds fascinating!

[executrix]

I can't find it in her IMDB entry, but I'm sure I saw it on television, probably Masterpiece Theatre.
BTW I thought I could find it in Stephen Bourne's Brief Encounters: Lesbians and Gays in British Cinema 1930-1971. Didn't, but Bourne says Dangerous Moonlight (1941) was a big box office hit during WWII, with Anton Walbrook playing a Polish airman "a beautiful, sexy, kind, comforting hero" who wants to go back on active service instead of touring as a concert pianist.

Inter much alia, he also mentions 49th Parallel (1941) with Laurence Olivier, In Which We Serve (1942), We Dive at Dawn (1943--a submarine flick, you know what they're like)