Remix Reveals!

[thisbluespirit]

Well, I am still not back on LJ, so forgive me if I'm ignoring you. (I can see people's comments on my posts via my email, but I have absolutely no way to reply or read anything on LJ until it deigns to let me back in.) If it's not back by this evening, I may need someone to put in a report for me, if anybody's willing, because it's getting silly now. In the meantime:


1. I have started watching Man at the Top (Thames, 1972), and the next two episodes should have James Maxwell in. I knew he was playing somebody called Bernard MacLaine, and throughout this ep, he hasn't appeared but everyone keeps talking about him. Apparently, he's a really mean millionnaire who goes round firing people and closing factories and also is very puritannical. The anti-hero may be going to steal his wife. I await his actual arrival with interest... (I am amused that the other week I watched him being someone called Peter Kane and this week it's Bernard MacLaine. If he plays any more rhyming people, I could write a poem. Simms could probably do an awful limerick.)

(I might have got the day muddled for my blood test, so now I am going on Thursday instead. This bit was entirely my ME muddled-ness, whoops. I usually double-check everything because I know I do things like that. /o\)


2. Also Remix has been revealed in the night! I wrote two fics, one for scripsi in the main collection, and one for Madness, for Redrikki. And I need to thank paranoidangel for her remix of my Ruth/Harry AU, All Russians Are Spies (The Retirement Remix), which I had strongly suspected. (We do have this tendency to get assigned to each other!) It's still awesome if you haven't read it yet.


First up, I remixed parts of Scripsi's A Little Less Than Kin series, which was huge fun to do:

Unrelated (The Loop the Loop to Affinity Remix) (2971 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: The Master (Delgado)/River Song, The Doctor/River Song, The Doctor/The Master (Doctor Who)
Characters: The Master (Delgado), River Song, Missy (Doctor Who)
Additional Tags: Remix, Death, Timey-Wimey
Summary:

It takes time to achieve perfection. Several times, in fact. Both the Master and River Song know this a little too well.

Then, when reading through the sign-ups for Madness, I found a wonderful Ats/Pushing Daisies ficlet that accidentally happy-ending-ed everything. I couldn't resist remixing it (and accidentally ruining things again, because once you start writing AtS-side, as opposed to the pie-and-dead-people side, something has to go wrong.)

Criss-Cross My Heart and Hope To Die (The Lattice-Top Rebake) (1327 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Angel: the Series, Pushing Daisies
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Angel (BtVS), Olive Snook, Ned (Pushing Daisies), Emerson Cod
Additional Tags: Remix, Crossover, Humor, Pie
Summary:

Angel has a seriously weird experience in a pie shop.

So, that was Remix, and I mustn't forget to post the DW to Teaspoon now that I'm free to own it. Otherwise, I am probably mostly proud of my terrible titles, really.

Comments

[persiflage_1]

I can put in a report to LJ for you - just email/PM me the details and I'll do it for you.

I'm sorry it's still being a PITA!

And oops about the mix up over the blood test.

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks! I'll pm you if it's not back in the morning. ♥

I know, it's all a bit annoying, really, but at least nothing earth-shattering all round! :-/

[persiflage_1]

Okay.

Still annoying, though.

[thisbluespirit]

*nods*

[thisbluespirit]

I don't want to jinx anything, but at the moment, LJ is back!!! \o/ So hopefully I won't need you to do anything, but believe me I appreciate the offer very much. ♥

*crosses fingers that LJ stays up and running*

[persiflage_1]

WooHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

[thisbluespirit]

It's still up and running! I am v relieved! \o/

*twirls you (gently)*

[persiflage_1]

P-A-R-T--Why? 'cos you gotta! :D

*squishes you gently*

[scripsi]

It's a very funny title. :) I completely missed that you seem to be supposed to have Remix in the title, so mine doesn't, but I will bear it in mind.

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks! I don't think you have to put Remix in the title; it's just a thing people do. It can be fun, and it's helpful for future remixes, so people can see which stories are already remixes and off-limits. But there's no obligation to do it. (The first time I did it, I was really worried about if there was a specific format for titles because everyone had stuff like that and read all the remixing meta I could, and basically, there isn't. But the idea of a remix comes from music remixes, so it's like remixed song titles, I think.)

[scripsi]

I see! I shall bear it in mind. :)

[liadt]

I'm glad you're back on lj and remain so. Life without lj sucks!!! No matter how many free romances I've got on my e-reader, hmmmm, no wonder I was fed up;p

Anyway, during my internet soljourn I made use of my time by over dosing TVTimes and I saw 'Man's at the Top' had James Maxwell in (no pix though)and I'm glad it survived for you! I think James Maxwell's wife is going to be pinched because the main article for it in TVT had pictures of the 'Man's conquests. And lots of letters complaining about the bad language.

I hope the blood test goes as well as it can and your new dvd player is merrily spinning discs for you:)

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, poor you! Worse to be internet-less! At least I could do some things and come on Dreamwidth and complain a lot. *pets*

Hee, I have just finished watching James Maxwell's two eps of Man at the Top today! The back of the box also implied the lead was going to swipe his wife and I was muchly looking forward to at least a tiny bit of distressed-JM, but no such thing occurred! So, if it does happen, it happens in an episode where he's only being mentioned, which is silly. I was miffed. However, I was slightly consoled, because his second ep was directed by Jonathan Alwyn and he helpfully included a random scene in which James Maxwell finished getting dressed for dinner in full white tie regalia while being helped by Paul Eddington. Finishing with a nice close up of him putting his gloves on.

*cough* Not that my JM obsession is getting to worrying proportions here or anything. 0_o But it's nice to know I can always count on Jonathan Alwyn when it comes to these things! (His love for JM is true and eternal!! :lol:)

At this point, I am beginning to fear I may never have this blood test! My DVD player is fine, if a tiny bit noisier than I would like.

[liadt]

But now I'm back and going cross eyes over PAYG plans!

Tsk, TVT made it sounds like wives were to be swiped right, left and centre! Good on Mrs Wife for resisting the leads charms.

Heh, who needs wives when you've Paul Eddington to dress you? Jonathan Alwyn knows what's what;p Shame I don't have Bulman's gloves over here for this comment!

Oh dear! I hope the Dr makes their mind up soon.

Wrap it in a cushion?

[thisbluespirit]

Oh dear!

And wives are being swiped right, left, and centre. Girlfriends, too! Any woman hanging about in the 'hero's vicinity. It's just that if there was a Mrs MacLaine in it, we haven't met her and the hero has contented himself with beating Paul Eddington to impressing James Maxwell each week (mostly by dint of sleeping with a lot of other women). It could still happen, but if it does, James Maxwell won't be in the ep himself. I shall keep you informed of these important developments!

Jonathan Alwyn is obviously the best. :-)

[liadt]

Yes, these are very important developments *nods* I fear for Mr MacLaine's business if he's impressed with men who get off with lots of women. It's not leaving him much time for sales/whatever is it?

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, MacLaine doesn't know about the sleeping around (he wonders why other businessmen haven't worked out that it's far cheaper to have one woman than two). However, I watched another ep and it turns out that what I was rather suspecting was true - James Maxwell evidently did the same thing as he did in The Power Game and left them for something bigger in between episodes. So, rather amusingly, after four eps of building him up as this distant, cold, ruthless businessman, they had to hastily dispose of him in a line and George Sewell turned up in order to get the come-uppance that should have been James Maxwell's.

Clearly, Mr Maxwell does not realise the importance of staying in series that are going to survive and be released on DVD instead of dashing off to take a leading role in something that won't survive for me to watch. Or possibly in this case, going off up to Manchester to prevent the other Royal Exchange people from imploding without him. (I suppose they could have not wanted him back because of the dodgy Scottish accent, but that seems pretty unlikely from the available evidence.)

I dunno. You stalk old character actors about with the greatest of devotion and then they do ungrateful things like this! It's as if they're thinking about their careers or themselves or something, instead of future viewers starved of their TV appearances!

[swordznsorcery.livejournal.com]

LJ has been very weird for me too. Sometimes I can reply, sometimes I can't. Sometimes a reply just gets stuck in purgatory indefinitely. I couldn't reply to your last post, which was a shame, as I wanted to say what a fun video that was!

Anyway, hopefully this will work. I'm glad that you've been having some fun with your remixing. And I very much hope that LJ is behaving itself for you again soon!

[thisbluespirit]

But happily, today, I am suddenly back, and you're able to comment here & I know that you liked that awesome vid, and so it's not all too bad now.

Let's just hope LJ behaves again for the forseeable future!

♥

[swordznsorcery.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! That's good to know.

And yes. There's few enough people left here as it is, LJ. Behave yourself. You're not helping.

[thisbluespirit]

Up until now, it really had been quite good for me for ages, but I'd rather avoid too many more days in exile, so let's hope it does!!

[paranoidangel]

I didn't think I'd be terribly anonymous, especially for remixing a Spooks fic :)

[thisbluespirit]

I know! I was surprised to get a spooks fic, and then my next thought was... so it must be paranoidangel42!

We really have got to stop meeting like this... ;-)

(Well, except that I've certainly got some great fic out of it.)

[paranoidangel]

I did sort of do it on purpose (as much as you can 'fix' who you're going to get). I already had a one in six chance of getting you for Classic Who, and since I'd been watching a load of Spooks I quite fancied remixing some. So it was quite likely that I'd get you. Which was fine because there are lots of characters and pairings and situations you write that I like.

[thisbluespirit]

Ha, I think just by existing in our current fandoms, we stand a pretty good chance of getting each other a lot of the time!

I was feeling in a Spooks sort of mood, too, so I appreciated getting an unexpected remix like that, anyway.

[paranoidangel]

And I have also got some great fic out of it, so I'm not complaining about us getting matched :)

[thisbluespirit]

♥

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Arrrrghhh!! Sorry ElJay has been so terrible for you of late!!

YAY Reveals!! *DANCES*

*SQUISHES*

[thisbluespirit]

♥

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

Your Master fic is SO GOOD! *draws hearts everywhere*

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, thank you! :-D