Friending Meme & Icons Meme
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thisbluespirit1. There is a post-Yuletide friending meme going on here. (For all those interested in small fandoms and having new friends and not solely for those who took part in the exchange.)
2.sallymn picked three of my icons to talk about for a meme. All three of her selected icons were made by me:
This is Lynda Day from Press Gang, as played by Julia Sawalha, one of my formative influences (as anybody who's been subjected to long babbly comments on the subject over the years will know). She is editor of the Junior Gazette and dictator in the making, and "Fearless Editor" is what (I think) Spike calls her sometimes in the series, so it made both a good PG/Lynda icon and a generic writing one. (The icons I have now have to mostly have combined functions.)
(Press Gang was the first thing Steven Moffat did and I still think, in many ways, that it remains the best, and it is amazing and well worth checking out and not being put off by it being a teen show. It may be, but it was also one of the most remarkable UK TV shows of the 90s. /climbs down off sales pitch box*)
I got into Margaret Lockwood a while back and this is one of a bunch of icons I made from publicity shots. This one is still probably my favourite, but I might possibly swap it round. I use it for when I'm talking about films, even if they don't have Margaret Lockwood in, though that is naturally a sad lack. It also works as a sort of generic/neutral 'pretty' icon.
And this is Silver from Sapphire and Steel, as played by David Collings. He is the shiniest Element and I love him and made a lot of icons. (Photobucket has eaten all the links, but I still have them saved. I should put them all back up, I suppose!) I really like the scene where he steals the door handle and made a few icons out of it. My favourite one I had as a default for a while, but this was more neutral and multipurpose. I should probably try and get a Sapphire-Steel-Silver icon now that I can only have space for one S&S one, but I love Silver and also it doubles up for stuff to do with weird things, technical things, and other stuff with David Collings in, and any time I need to say "oops" or "sorry". (David Collings is always highly entertaining.)
* Like Lynda, I'm short, I need a box.
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sallymn picked three of my icons to talk about for a meme. All three of her selected icons were made by me:This is Lynda Day from Press Gang, as played by Julia Sawalha, one of my formative influences (as anybody who's been subjected to long babbly comments on the subject over the years will know). She is editor of the Junior Gazette and dictator in the making, and "Fearless Editor" is what (I think) Spike calls her sometimes in the series, so it made both a good PG/Lynda icon and a generic writing one. (The icons I have now have to mostly have combined functions.)
(Press Gang was the first thing Steven Moffat did and I still think, in many ways, that it remains the best, and it is amazing and well worth checking out and not being put off by it being a teen show. It may be, but it was also one of the most remarkable UK TV shows of the 90s. /climbs down off sales pitch box*)
I got into Margaret Lockwood a while back and this is one of a bunch of icons I made from publicity shots. This one is still probably my favourite, but I might possibly swap it round. I use it for when I'm talking about films, even if they don't have Margaret Lockwood in, though that is naturally a sad lack. It also works as a sort of generic/neutral 'pretty' icon.
And this is Silver from Sapphire and Steel, as played by David Collings. He is the shiniest Element and I love him and made a lot of icons. (Photobucket has eaten all the links, but I still have them saved. I should put them all back up, I suppose!) I really like the scene where he steals the door handle and made a few icons out of it. My favourite one I had as a default for a while, but this was more neutral and multipurpose. I should probably try and get a Sapphire-Steel-Silver icon now that I can only have space for one S&S one, but I love Silver and also it doubles up for stuff to do with weird things, technical things, and other stuff with David Collings in, and any time I need to say "oops" or "sorry". (David Collings is always highly entertaining.)
* Like Lynda, I'm short, I need a box.
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Date: 2 Jan 2018 03:54 pm (UTC)It's a brilliant show, but what I found fascinating is watching Moffat develop. It starts as a more or less straight-forward TV show, and by the end we're completely through the looking glass - dream sequences, dead people acting as conscience, time skipping back and forth (with minimal guidance, the viewers are supposed to be able to follow), EVERYTHING GOING UP IN FLAMES and choose-your-own-ending, and everything is ambiguous.
♥ ♥ ♥
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Date: 2 Jan 2018 05:26 pm (UTC)It's a brilliant show, but what I found fascinating is watching Moffat develop. It starts as a more or less straight-forward TV show, and by the end we're completely through the looking glass - dream sequences, dead people acting as conscience, time skipping back and forth
Yes, true, although looking at it like that, it's surprising how quickly that starts to happen - we get Deadline and A Night In (with perfectly explicable pink rabbits!) fairly quickly in and S1 finishes with the Monday-Tuesday and Shouldn't I Be Taller? two-parter, which is an abrupt leap up into something else; all in between the odd few obvious children's show eps. By S2, it's all already there, really, even if some of the most surreal/comedic stuff comes later.
But it makes it such a great show to write fic for, because there's nothing you can't bring in if you want! Canon is both mundane and linear and completely flexible and surreal. Plus, you can always blame Colin for anything extra specially out of the ordinary...
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Date: 2 Jan 2018 06:21 pm (UTC)Niiice.
we get Deadline and A Night In (with perfectly explicable pink rabbits!) fairly quickly in and S1 finishes with the Monday-Tuesday and Shouldn't I Be Taller? two-parter, which is an abrupt leap up into something else
Very much so. The basic premise is just a framework to hang all the interesting stuff off of.
Plus, you can always blame Colin for anything extra specially out of the ordinary...
Very true! I think A Night In is my favourite episode out of all of them... ♥
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Date: 4 Jan 2018 08:37 pm (UTC)They are on my desk, 90% ready to post, so I can get them back to you next week. Is there anything I can send you in return?
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Date: 4 Jan 2018 09:26 pm (UTC)(And lol, at 90% ready to post! I know what you mean...)
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Date: 5 Jan 2018 07:24 pm (UTC)(And lol, at 90% ready to post! I know what you mean...)
IT IS ON MY DESK!
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Date: 2 Jan 2018 05:30 pm (UTC)(I nearly put on this that you can date UK people quite accurately depending on whether or not they flail widely at the mention of Lynda and Press Gang or look at you blankly, because it had this narrow window of unusually high popularity among teens!)
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Date: 2 Jan 2018 05:32 pm (UTC)My favourite still has to be The Lady Vanishes, but The Wicked Lady is also marvellous - and three faves in one film is always a bargain! (I also enjoyed The Man in Grey, although *cougH* it has certainly aged less well than TWL!! But ML is great when she's being snarky and evil.)
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Date: 2 Jan 2018 05:49 pm (UTC)Region coding is the devil! I'm in R2, and even some British stuff is only out in R1; it's v frustrating.
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Date: 2 Jan 2018 05:30 pm (UTC)Talk about a multi-purpose icon! :o)
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Date: 2 Jan 2018 05:32 pm (UTC)And Silver is very useful, he's always said so. ;-)
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Date: 2 Jan 2018 05:46 pm (UTC)Please!
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