Beyond the Roundels

Some nice things:

1. Trailer for the new Librarians series! It looks just as fun as before! I have NO idea how I will see it, but I've been missing having a fun magic TV series so much, and especially The Libs. (My usual method was to wait for the UK DVD release and then rewatch it all to death, cheering myself up muchly. ha bloody ha, as they say.)




2. I don't know what was in the water re. my fandoms for last Yuletide, but not only have I continued to have much fun with edwardianspinsteraunt and The Winslow Boy, but someone showed up this week on tumblr to first shower love on my for writing the only Jack/Angela The Net fic on the internet, but then wrote their own start of an AU, which promises to be fun, and turned up on AO3. (The Net is v hoky, but also deeply nineties, and Sandra Bullock and Jeremy Northam play a fun game of cat and mouse, plus JN, a cyber terrorist, fails to win because he doesn't know when to use an escape key, which should get some sort of prize for popcorn-worthy silliness.)

Alive on Paper (2842 words) by theelectriccat
Chapters: 2/?
Fandom: The Net (1995)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Angela Bennett (The Net 1995), Jack Devlin (The Net 1995), Ruth Marks (The Net 1995)
Additional Tags: Suspense, Killer For Hire, Crisis of conscience
Summary: Angela Bennett sees her perception of the handsome Jack Devlin crumble before her, but before he can fulfill his employer's expectations, he has a crisis of conscience, which only intensifies when his coworker notices his obvious attraction to his target.


3. Talking of The Winslow Boy, I am now watching the 1970s BBC version from The Rattigan Collection - I didn't entirely mean to, but I finally treated myself to rewatching the 1980s Browning Version with Ian Holm & Judi Dench & Michael Kitchen (&, as it turns out, a wee Stephen Mcintosh as Taplow and, briefly, Imogen Stubbs as Mrs Gilbert) for the first time in 30+ years, and it was on the same disc. I wasn't sure if I was ready to be fair to an alternate version, but it's got such different emphases etc, plus I can see more of where the 1999 does differ from the play, and it's not only really good in itself, but it's fascinating. Sir Robert has just turned up, and I was intrigued to see what Alan Badel would be like, because I mainly know him from being the perfectly OTT saving grace of duff 1960s films, and it's a very different performance to anything I had expected he might do (but good obv.) Eric Porter has rocked up for duty, aged up as per usual. I am happy to see him, but I am beginning to worry that he spent the entirety of the 60s and 70s as an aged up Edwardian gent. XD


4. My main way of calming myself lately re. the whole world being what it is has somehow turned out to be watching the better end of the Thomas More vids for The Tudors (with occasional relapses into Obidala vids, as per 2020). (It was because I knew I had found a good one, but I'd lost it, but I rediscovered it last week. It turned out I had saved it, but it was to Hallelujah and I'd assumed no good could come of fandom's eternal use and abuse of every version of that, and then another one, if with some dialogue going on there, and apparently angst and dodgy hat-wearing angles help? Plus, I'll give the person who couldn't resist making one to I'm Just More points for the lols.)

... oh drat, late for dinner now!

Happy 61st Doctor Who anniversary! <3

If you like audios, Big Finish are giving away a free download of one of their audios, The Five Companions to celebrate!


Also, a really sweet First Doctor Era fanvid that someone just posted:

I had to go out yesterday (last official appointment for a while, hopefully!), so am all tired/ill again for a bit, but in the meantime, have some things:

1. no_true_pair's spring mini round is open for sign-ups! (It's like the 15 characters meme, except you actually write the random prompts. The mini round is for only 4 characters, but you can have multiple sets of four if you want. I don't know if I'll manage anything, but I shall try and think of some characters sets - there's no penalty and who knows? Better to sign up and see what fun prompts I get than not!)


2. The vidder who made a lovely whole-era First Doctor vid has done one for the Second Doctor's era and it's pretty great and adorable and cheering:




3. Courtesy of persiflage_1 who alerted me to this on tumblr: 1000 radio plays have been returned to the BBC! (They're going to actually broadcast some of them as well over the upcoming months. And, as ever, BBC Sounds is not region-locked, unlike the rest of the Beeb.)


4. ( Gifs of Jacqueline Pearce in Ep3 of the 1974 BBC David Copperfield what I made )


5. As usual, I'm sure there was something else! Ah well... (Tell me what it was in the comments, lol.)

It's that time of year again: festivids is live!

(Looking at it, I know so little this year, though, but I shall be off to check those out.)

1. no_true_pair is gearing up for its Spring mini-round with sign-ups opening on March 12th! Given that I had such a lovely time with it in September, I'll definitely be giving it another go. I have to decide on my character list - only four characters this time! 8-o (If it's the same as the main round, you can have up to 3 lists, so I'm thinking I might do at least two and then see what I fancy writing the most. XD)


2. hurtcomfortex is still in sign-ups. I don't think I should do it, really, all considered, but I always PINE for it (I could be my own OW tag for it: "Exchange Participant/Unsuitable Exchange They Are Nevertheless Pining Hopelessly For") so I'm keeping an eye on the sign-ups and, yep, as ever with this one, I have like 1 match again. Two, depending what I offer. BUt you never know, what if something jumped out and begged me to write a SHORT thing for it and then I could sign up (but oh no all those tags)...


3. Marginal March, a comment fest for Minor Characters


4. I no sooner said that Craddock and Co had gone from BBC Sounds when I looked, than the BBC decided to repeat it and now it's there again! So if anyone prefers that method, here it is, and they've reached all three eps now (it was still only 2 yesterday): https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/b00d2t72


5. I reached s3 of Death in Paradise (people who know will know what that means XD) but the BBC did compensate immediately because the following three eps have had Peter Davison (grumpy writer suspect), Josette Simon (fearsome judge suspect), and Raza Jaffrey (airline pilot suspect). Raza was a wonderful surprise, because he went off to the US to be in things I don't watch, so I was just: RAZA!!!! (Spooks fans will understand, because Zaf= <3<3<3 Also he is very illegally pretty, it's true. ETA: the motive for murder was basically jealousy over Raza, which, I mean. legit.)

My resolution to stop at this point was therefore broken. I'll see how long this stint of Actors From My All Time Fave Shows continues, lol, and in the meantime, here's a very lovely, fun/cute Richard and Camille fanvid by Odessie I found on AO3.

... first off to graycardinal and selenay - I hope you both have great days!




But, of course, also to one of the longest-running and probably the very best television show of them all - Doctor Who!

Have a little sort of all-eras credits/tribute to everybody:



And a more straightforward fun little all-eras vid (not quite up to date):



Happy 59th anniversary! ♥

I am sorry, I am still being all intermittent, but life, stuff, you know. But I have watched some festivids offerings already and must share, even though I haven't nearly finished.

So, far, I have loved:

You Might Think - completely adorable Pushing Daisies Ned/Chuck vid of not touching (because death, you know how it is), which instantly just made me want to rewatch PD all over again.


That Don't Impress Me Much - C.J. being very unimpressed at all her male colleagues, really great fun.


Our House - a Ghosts vid! I really enjoyed the series last year, and this definitely captures the madness.


Victorious, for Moulin Rouge. I was so curious when I saw it about what someone would do with MR, given the nature of it, and this was just great, shifting the tone with the choice of music, but simultaneously staying really true, and v dramatically edited.


Body Talks, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, just delightful.


Plus, I have now accidentally done snowflake_challenge Day 8 (rec at least three fanworks you didn't create). \o/

And I haven't by any means finished yet with festivids yet, but I can't watch too many things in a row.

... first to graycardinal and to selenay! May you both have an excellent day! ♥


And of course, to the very best TV show ever - 56 years and counting!

Have a celebratory vid:

( A thing that looks like a police box standing in a junkyard - it can go anywhere in time and space? But that's ridiculous! )

Just a head's up that festivids is live! Basically, if you want to find an amazing vid for something you never thought anyone would vid, go over there and have fun!

(I haven't explored very much yet; I watched a Victoria Wood tribute that was lovely and joyful but then made me cry because apparently I'm still not over that.)

equinox_exchange went live over the weekend, and I have had a chance to watch a few vids. (It's a small collection, but there are still 34 vids in 32 fandoms and I need to poke around a bit more). Anyway, in the meantime, here are some excellent vids I have watched so far, all on this time's theme of Alternate Realities & Time Travel:


From the Other Side (OUaT) (I am just so thrilled to find an OUaT meta vid like this! It didn't even get vidded in the Spring when Fairy Tales was the theme. This one explores reality/fairy tales/other version of fairy tales/other realms as alternate realities, and I do love that though I don't think it has the shot of Charming with sword in one hand and mobile phone in the other, it does capture similar OUaT juxtapositions like Cinderella on a motorcycle and the silver slippers from Oz on the table with a bottle of whisky.)


Into Dust Multi-Trek melancholic vid of alternate realities that never were.


All Night (Monsters Inc, very cute!)


What We Live For (Lovely multi-Doctor vid, although New Who only, sadly, and shot before there was much 13 to work with. It's wonderful, though; possibly my favourite so far.)


start over (reset) (Star Trek: Voyager) This cleverly manages to be a Five + 1 times vid (Five things that never happened and one that did).


Unrelated, but for those who may be interested, I lurked in the alleyway successfully and got my bin back.

I will post again sometime soon, when it feels safe to believe it might stop being summer enough, or when I need to babble because summer or whatever, but in the meantime, an excellent thing I saw around and about:



Beautiful, beautiful multifandom vid (of fandom and dreaming) by Gwyn - and the vidpost is here if you want to tell the vidder how great it is, because it is.

festivids 2018 has gone live!

(festivids is pretty much like Yuletide for vidders, being a vidding exchange for small fandoms that takes place at a similar time of the year. I have never taken part, but I appreciate the resulting vids hugely! It's always a complete delight to dip in and discover vids for things you'd never even dreamed of vids for.)

You can find all the vids here, and if you enjoy vids at all, I recommend taking a look!

Here are some excellent vids that I have very much enjoyed so far, but there are many more, for many more fandoms over there:

Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Not Gonna Take It
Whole film: oh, we're not gonna take it anymore

Dead Like Me
So Sad, So Lonely
Mason: "I don't want nobody/ Nobody don't want me/ I'm so sad, so lonely/ And I'm always landing on my feet"

Meet Mason: a degenerate, pathetic, and overall, hot mess, of a grim reaper. (And we can't help but love him for it!)

Eureka
I Am A Scientist
Whole show (like, more whole show than any other vid I have ever seen): The madcap scientists of the town called Eureka...this is their story.

The Librarians
Team
Ensemble: They're on each other's team

Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Much Ado About Nothing
Whole film: A fun look at the characters of Much Ado About Nothing (1993 version)

Pollyanna (2003)
This Stray Italian Greyhound
Pollyanna & Aunt Polly: "What do I do with a love that won't sit still?"

Sense & Sensibility (1995)
All This and Heaven Too
Marianne & Elinor: "The heart is hard to translate."

Three Men & a Baby/Three Men and a Little Lady
Don't Stop Me Now
Mary & her three daddies: Accidental baby (child) acquisition: it's nothing but fun, fun, fun!



(But, people, there is a FRAGGLE VID, why is there a FRAGGLE VID?? 0_o*)


* Look, Fraggle Rock was TERRIFYING, okay, why don't people understand that?

I am too tired to be posting today, but I just realised that not only was I away for Gauda Prime Day, but I missed Blake's 7's 40th anniversary yesterday: on 2nd Jan 1978, the BBC screened "The Way Back" and gave us one of the most influential and important SF shows ever made.

It was bleak, but almost never joyless. It was 1984 and Robin Hood in space at the same time; Chris Boucher snark and Terry Nation cliches; and full of the most terrible and inappropriately hilarious SFX you've ever seen (I have not ever recovered from the arrival of the Michelin Men in the middle of one of Robert Holmes's darkest scripts) and the most amazing (in all possible senses of the word) costumes for all, but especially Servalan. And, of course, it has unforgettable characters - every one of our heroes (if you can call them that) and villains as well as so many of the guest characters, even to passing ordinary Federation troopers with an opinion.

Happy fortieth anniversary, ruby-red in blood, B7! Sadly, you've never ceased to be relevant.

I have nothing new to bring, but even if you have no time or patience for such elderly TV, here is this piece of meta I have linked to before. It is short and non-spoilery and talks about why Blake's 7 is important, from someone who did grow up in an oppressive society, and I hope you can find a moment to look at it, if nothing else.

If you want to know what B7 is, I wrote a Non-Spoilery Guide a long time ago and aralias also wrote one, with different emphasis, more meta, and some excellent quotes here.

Plus, also non-spoilery (although I should note that I would have killed anyone who spoiled me for future costumes on my first watch, so YMMV), a vid tribute to its fashion sense (or lack of it): Fashion is Danger.


Also some favourite vids that I have linked to before - most of which are spoilery, however! (Spoilers are hard to avoid when it comes to B7):

The Cave
My Life Would Suck Without You
Right Said Fred (non-spoilery crack vid)
(We Will Be) Invincible (Tribute to the female characters)
Blood Money (Blake & Avon)
Servalan Music Video
Intergalactic Space Crusaders