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I'm a little better, but overtired again tonight, and wanting to make a positive post, so:

1. Whumptober 2024's prompts are out! (For anyone, like me, also signed up to

lyricaltitles, some of them come with song lyrics attached... could be handy for combining both challenges, heh.)

2. Also courtesy of tumblr, a pic of Jeremy Northam as Berowne in the 1993 RSC "Brideshead" version of Love's Labours Lost:

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Apparently he sang in it, too.

2a. Talking of him singing, I don't actually have another British Newspaper Archive sub currently, but a little while ago, I idly put a Jeremy Northam search in to see if the results would help sort out exactly what he was doing in the theatre early in his career. I did not expect to get a bunch of little preview paragraphs c.1987 where he was apparently in a thing playing the piano while all the local reviewers went, "He looks just like Ivor Novello!" You don't say. XD (The Novello resemblance was probably deliberate, as the garbled previews suggest that the other characters were also made up to look like 30s stars for that particular production of Rough Crossing by Tom Stoppard, but still. It was apparently inevitable at some point. Clearly I need to repeat this search whenever I do actually have access, but that was so unexpected, it made me laugh.)

Anyway, am off to hopefully do fictional typing for a few minutes or so before bed. ♥

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Yay for fictional writing!!

It amazes me how people can do those September- November writing things every day. I mean, I signed up for No True Pair & am currently not sure how many to do

Heh, yes, I once did about 6 for

no_true_pair when I got inspired, and that was a lot! But I suppose if you start writing soon, or do a lot of flash fic, it could be do-able. <3

Anyway, am off to hopefully do fictional typing for a few minutes or so before bed.

I support this plan!

I'm still really amused by the recurrence of Ivor Novello.

My eyes are bleary, but did I miss someone linking to JN being IN in "Gosford Park?"
https://youtu.be/ykcaS7BDKkI?si=oPDSV9hPNYbSc0kj

My eyes are bleary, but did I miss someone linking to JN being IN in "Gosford Park?"

No. That was what was funny; I don't have anything suitable to link to as yet, because it's just preview extracts I can see, but I found definite multiple references to him being in a 1930s-set play in rep in the late 80s where he played the piano and all the local papers were saying that he looked remarkably like Ivor Novello! I was understandably amused - I had not expected to find he'd had a trial run for GP c.15 years before. XD

I will snag the articles when I next have access.

Thank you!

I'm still really amused by the recurrence of Ivor Novello.

I know; I do wish I'd looked when I had access earlier in the year!

Hooray for the Whumptober prompts list being out - I'll definitely put that to good use :)

Anyway, am off to hopefully do fictional typing for a few minutes or so before bed.

You and me both :)

Heh, good! <3

Anyway, am off to hopefully do fictional typing for a few minutes or so before bed. ♥

Noice!

For the Jeremy Northam bit, I may have some free pages available on BNA, if you really really need to check it now :D

Aw, thanks, that's so kind! But I'm sure I'll have another sub sometime, and it'll be something to look forward to. <3

Pretty picture!

I hope you got some typing in and the humidity hasn't reached you (pass the headache tablets!).

Pretty picture!

I think there may be laws against looking like that while performing Shakespeare and singing, just for the wellbeing of the rest of us. XD

I hope you got some typing in and the humidity hasn't reached you (pass the headache tablets!).

A bit, and a bit!

JN = Law breaker. Hasn't undone all his shirt buttons though, so probably got off with a suspended sentence;p

Yay and slightly boo.

JN = Law breaker. Hasn't undone all his shirt buttons though, so probably got off with a suspended sentence;p

LOL, wouldn't that then shift to just plain tacky, and the charges'd have to be different? XD

I'm fed up with demure and mindful already, so I'm declaring a tackiness amnesty.