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Rules - Codes - Join - Change Info - List - More Opening Day: 25 April 2005. Last Update: 21 January 2008 About Fanlistings - A fanlisting is, as the name suggests, a list of fans of a certain person or thing. Fanlistings originated online with a person called Janine and are registered at thefanlistings.org, which maintains a mighty database. There can only be one official fanlisting per topic. Some are wildly popular, even oversubscribed, and some are, well, obscure or esoteric. It remains to be seen which kind this will be. It's dedicated to the excellent fantasy novel Mort by Terry Pratchett. About Mort - As my thoroughly battered paperback copy's back cover blurb has it, 'Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job.' From this simple, quirky concept - the anthropomorphic personification of Death, the Grim Reaper, takes on an apprentice - grows a richly imaginative comic fantasy with a streak of romance. Among other things, Mort won the Dracula Society's Children of the Night Award for excellent Gothic literature in 1987. It came in at #65 in the BBC Big Read poll of the United Kingdom's 100 favourite novels. To put that in perspective, it rated higher than Lord of the Flies, Bridget Jones's Diary and Bleak House. This is a much-loved book and I'm one of the people who love it much. The fanlisting is for any more of those people who care to join. Rules 1. Be sure to provide a valid email address and country when joining. All official fanlistings are required to show what countries their members are based in, in the name of jolly international camaraderie. I can't/won't list you if you don't provide these two essentials. I would prefer a specific country in the United Kingdom to 'UK.' 2. You need not have your own webpage to join up, but if you do, please display one of the codes somewhere I can find it. Please put it up when you submit the 'join' form, so I can check it's there. I will not link to your page if I can't find the link/code graphic on it (it's a 'tit for tat' thing) - in that case I will just list your name. If you add the code later on, you can let me know by using the 'change info' form, whereupon I will add your url with a good will. 3. Listing of urls is at my discretion. If I find the content of your site objectionable, I will list your name but not link to your site. As a general guide, I am not a fan of racism, sexism, homophobia or any sort of cruelty, and for the sake of my good name will steer clear of sites that may be considered pornographic. Codes I made these codes. Cool-looking donations would also be welcome. 50x50 100x50 text only Join If you're already a member and wish to update your information, please use this form. List Creativity
Links Terry Pratchett book fanlistings at TheFanlistings.org. Scroll down, scroll down, he's there... right after Edgar Allan Poe and Beatrix Potter *^.^* The L-Space Web - the online encyclopaedia/library/compendium of Terry Pratchett and his work. Discworld Monthly - the best online newsletter about Pratchett and the Discworld books. As the name suggests, it comes out once per lunar cycle. Mort © Terry Pratchett 1987. Mort and Death paintings © Paul Kidby. Just Us design and text © La Déesse 2005. This site is part of the Air & Angels network. Incidentally, I am not the kind of mouth-breather who embeds an mp3 in a webpage so that you have to download it whether you want to or not and it suddenly starts playing, creating cacophony when you were already listening to your own choice of music - but if I were, this page would play the Mutton Birds' cover of 'Don't Fear the Reaper.' Just so you know. |
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- 100x100 LJ icon of Mort morphing into Death. Please credit LJ user air_and_angels.