stonepicnicking_okapi | Snowflake #8: Fannish Project

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Challenge #8

Talk about a current fannish project (fic, art, vid, crochet, funko pop village) (that you are creating or enjoying).

Unfortunately, I don't really have a fannish project at the moment.

Last year, in 2023, I did Fannish 50 (more info here: https://swannee.dreamwidth.org/139283.html) and posted about 50 things I enjoy, and I found that to be a nice round-up of really everything I like. They are here: https://stonepicnicking-okapi.dreamwidth.org/tag/fannish+50

But I suppose you can count my All of Agatha campaign as a fannish project and so I'll post an update on that.

I am trying to read all of Agatha Christie's oeuvre before I die in order of UK publication date (including the Mary Westmacott works). I began in January 2021, beginning where we always begin, at Styles and now I am up to 1953 and After the Funeral.

A wealthy man dies at home. His relatives gather after his funeral for the reading of his will, during which his sister states that he was murdered. The next day, she herself is found murdered. Poirot is called in to solve the mystery.

Lots of red herrings. Lots of unlikeable characters. My favourite character is Mister Goby, who is an inquiry agent acting for Poirot and collecting information on the suspects. The interesting thing is Mister Goby never looks at the person he's talking to and this quirk is presented in an amusing way. A very diabolical crime, and an unhinged murderer. I watched the film Cape Fear with Robert deNiro the other day and I was unsettled by all the violence, but in terms of cold blooded murderers, ol' Aggie can hold her own when you think about it. I mean the murder weapon is a hatchet!

This campagin was inspired by the Shedunnit podcast, which did an episode on another podcast which is focused on reading all of Christie in order, and because I am a very big Christie fan, I decided to take it on.

So I supppose it is fannish. I will certainly be sad when I'm done.

https://stonepicnicking-okapi.dreamwidth.org/tag/all+of+agatha