trying to get two monks to kiss

[kindkit]

Today I passed 10,000 words on my WIP, so I feel safe(ish) in mentioning that it exists. Cadfael TV fandom, all about Brother Jerome and Prior Robert and how they got that way. I keep needing to research 12th century theology, monastic practice, etc. etc., although I could write any damn half-recalled or entirely made up thing and still not be less historically accurate than the show.

I'll need a beta reader for this beast eventually, if anyone feels like it. Warning for lots and lots and LOTS of Christianity: the search function tells me I've used the word "sin" 14 times already in this draft.

I am so glad to be writing something again. I'm even enjoying, more or less, the actual process of getting the words onto the page. I have no idea why this fandom or this character was the one to break through years of stuck-ness. Why an officious, sanctimonious, puritanical little monk instead of, say, a dashing serial killer and his ethically-challenged boyfriend, the protagonists of a show of vastly higher quality than Cadfael? (The answer probably has a lot to do with their being no fic about Jerome and Robert vs. reams of it about Hannibal and Will, but still. I do sometimes find myself puzzled by the things and characters that appeal to me.)

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[kindkit]

Yeah, I am pleased, and also somewhat baffled, to be writing again. I'm trying very hard to keep the part of my brain that says "This is no good, why are you bothering?" under control.

Did you manage to find Cadfael? I watched it on Amazon Prime.

[halotolerant]

It's not on Prime in the UK it seems! I'm going to check ITV Player and Netflix but might get the DVD collection secondhand for some watching over Christmas. You've fired my imagination for it! I've always loved monk/nun stories (I mean either, not shipped, heh!)

Did you watch the Jeremy Irons 'Name of the Rose'? I haven't had a chance yet but hoping to catch it before it leaves iPlayer

[kindkit]

Ooh, I hope you do get to watch it somehow (without paying too much for it, because it's not really that good). You will like Brother Jerome and Prior Robert, though, I think. Did you watch Secret Army? Michael Culver, who played my favorite character in that, plays Prior Robert.

I haven't seen The Name of the Rose. (Jeremy Irons has said some really homophobic things, and I've never been able to like him since I learned that, though he's still a good actor. I don't seek out his work anymore, though I'm not unwilling to watch him in something good.) If you get a chance to see it and like it, I might give it a try.