Also, Unexpected Leprosy

[lizbee]

I'm currently re-reading Barbara Hambly's Benjamin January mysteries (in between other books) and mostly being amazed at how good they are and appalled at how little fandom there seems to be.  (And seriously, guys, I know Hannibal Sefton is a great character, but when you have a series with a large cast of characters, only two of whom are white, but two out of the three fics on AO3 are about the Tragic And Mysterious White Dude ... yeah.)

I've never done Yuletide in my life, but I feel like it would totally be worth the stress of signing up and having to write something if I got out of it a pre-series fic where Benjamin and Ayasha FIGHT CRIME in Paris.  Or maybe a fic about Livia Levesque doing something fabulous, like ... I dunno, her laundry.  Not that she would do her own laundry, but if she did, she would do it fabulously. 

I keep picturing the series as a massive HBO drama with someone like Idris Elba in the lead.  Only that would never work, because aside from the epic budget it would require to recreate 1830s Louisiana, much of it would have to be in French for the various relationships and rivalries to make sense.  NOT THAT I, PERSONALLY, WOULD BE AGAINST A SERIES THAT REQUIRES IDRIS ELBA TO SPEAK FRENCH A LOT, AND ALSO PLAY THE PIANO, AND ALSO ENGAGE IN SWASHBUCKLING SHENANIGANS.  But I can see how it would be an audience turn-off. 

Comments

[marymac]

That is a gorgeous mental image, thank you. Of course, I wouldn't be against a series that required required Idris Elba to read the phone book, but yes.

There's French Canadian channels, right? *contemplates*

[lizbee]

Of course, I wouldn't be against a series that required required Idris Elba to read the phone book, but yes.

Me neither. (Actually, I'd probably take Idris Elba Reads the L-M Volume over Luther, because I was REALLY ENJOYING THAT right up until it hit the upsetting domestic violence stuff and then I had to stop.)

[marymac]

Yeah, I kind of fell off Luther for the same reason, even with the Elba and McGann show going on there at the end.

Idris Elba is one of those people who if they didn't come over as a really civil soul, you'd just have to hate. It's just not fair for one person to be that ...everything.