NaArMaMo 2011 - Icon collection

[thisbluespirit]

The full set of icons made for naarmamo (minus only the icons that were made as specific requests, and the Big Finish ones, which will follow shortly). It does include some extras and alternates not posted elsewhere. (Gosh. I know. Heh.) A fairly random mix of sources, as follows:

1-5 The Way We Live Now
6-9 Northanger Abbey (BBC 1986)
10-12 Seaside penguins
13-16 North & South) (BBC)
17-26 Text icons from Framed by Frank Cottrell Boyce
28-30 Dungeons & Dragons (Cartoon)
31-33 Elizabeth R
34-37 Life
38 Inkheart
39-40 I Capture the Castle
41-46 Doctor Who (Classic)
47-48 Buffy the Vampire Slayer
49-53 Spooks/MI-5
54-57 Sapphire & Steel
58-59 Red Dwarf
60-66 Blake's 7
67-72 The West Wing
73-74 Press Gang
75-76 Jenna Russell
77-86 The House of Eliott
87-88 The Four Musketeers
89-91 Midnight Is A Place (1977/78 ITV)

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NaArMaMo Icons 2011
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Generated by Malionette's Icon Table Generator

The usual rules apply: want, take, have, credit. Comments are ♥ and naarmamo is an excellent thing.

Credits: various textures by tiger_tyger, onlyalive8, bttrfly_kiss, silk_roads, how_we_fade & age_by_jocosity.

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Very pretty! Where's the quote from in the final icon?

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you! :-) They do look quite nice all together, don't they? *pats icons happily*

The quotes in the last three are all from Joan Aiken's Midnight Is A Place (the image being from the 1970s TV version).

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

They do indeed! Good work!

Ah. I think I found that on Amazon the other day and stuck it on my wishlist...

[thisbluespirit]

:-)

I hadn't read it as much as some of Joan Aiken's others, because the library didn't have it in stock for long & I never really got my own copy (till now). Reading it as an adult was a bit of a revelation. (I was such a dense reader when I was younger!!) Love it, though. And Joan Aiken generally, but MiaP is probably my favourite now - I'd reread some of the others while I was working & admired her all over again. She has clarity and pace and quite often they're a bit of a romp, but she has this way with words, also with fairy tale/folk tale elements and a streak of inventive wildness that isn't quite like anyone else.

(Or did you mean the TV serial? Well... It's quite fun, too. But cheap. Very, very cheap. To a level that is quite ridiculous. :lol: But with David Collings as the most interesting character in the book and unexpected Ron Moody, so not too bad.)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I've read quite a few of her books - quite recently too. But yes, I was actually talking about the TV series, since you were waxing lyrical about it not too long ago while talking about DC.

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, dear, was I really? *guilty* I loved re-reading it, and I did enjoy the serial, but it was such an odd thing, the only thing I'd say about it was that it was worth a look if you liked the book. But I was pretty incoherent a lot of the year and my waxing lyrical about the book may well have not been v separate from my ramblings on the TV serial! *cough* Of course, David Collings sings the theme tune, & there was Ron Moody... I think the book was about the first really interesting thing I had the concentration to read this year, so no doubt my liking for it is disproportionate. And also, I re-read DWJ's Hexwood after that - and I definitely was a totally thick reader as a teen, I have to say, because I couldn't get my head around the shift in that story.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Heh - Hexwood's definitely an odd one, even given DWJ's odd books!

I would definitely be interested in seeing the TV series.

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, it is - but when I read it as a teen, I just did not see that Ann was Vierran and couldn't get my head round it, or even like it & yet reading it now, that's pretty well signposted and the weirdness isn't much more so than the war-gaming type idea in The Homeward Bounders.

Well, it's quite a decent effort, really. Just, cheap! :-D I watched it in a bit of a daze, really. It did at least have David Collings getting to tell only a slightly edited version of the Clutterby Pie story in Aiken's original dialogue, which made me happy enough to warrant buying it. (If they did it these days, they'd have to have a flipping flashback, so lack of budget goes both ways. Because all you need is someone who can do storytelling well. :-D)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Ah!! I shall have to give it a re-read if the library still has it...

Having David Collings in it is a good enough reason to watch it, as far as I'm concerned.

He was in a radio play at the weekend - Sunday on BBC R4extra - a play called 'Theo' which Martin Jarvis was narrating. Good stuff if it's still up on iPlayer.

[thisbluespirit]

:-D I'm not going to argue with that, but I'm trying not to sound too crazy! (Hmm. Probably a bit late for that now.)

Really? I thought he must have stopped working altogether. Martin Jarvis and David Collings - two of my fave voices? ooh...

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

LOL Yeah, just a tad late! :D :D

Nope, not at all. It's here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jt2n

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks. :-)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Enjoy! (I did!)

I've got Sapphire and Steel: Zero to listen to - moar David Collings AND David 'Voice of a god' Warner!

Oh and I forgot to say, I watched New Tricks with Paul McGann yesterday...

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks - I'm probably being too ambitious, thinking I can listen to stuff on the pc, but we'll see.

Hee. I listened to Dead Man Walking a while back, and that was good fun (but half the length of All Fall Down!). I was torn between Zero and some more Eight and Lucie - but I thought, since it was the last bit of Silver I had, I'd like to save it! And anyway, Eight and Lucie, Eight and Lucie...

I've been able to watch some New Tricks - annoyingly I missed the one with Peter Davison AND the one with Paul McGann. I am trying to watch them on iplayer, but I don't know if I'll manage it before it goes off.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Well if you can't manage it, let me know - I'll see if I can find a copy of it for you.

I haven't got DMW yet...

Eight and Lucie FTW!

They tend to keep New Tricks up for quite a while - series catch-up thing.

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks. :-)

Ha! That's the other S1 ep - you're skipping ahead, and I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked! ;-D (Well, it is HALF THE LENGTH of AFD, just so you know. Did I mention that? I was a little miffed!) It was v good, though.

Yes, but it finishes on Monday, so that's only another week after that, and so far I've watched 35 minutes in about 5 weeks... Ah, well. At least they usually repeat them!

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Yes I know I skipped ahead with getting 'Zero' - but DC's only in a handful of stories, and I wanted them most. (I do actually want ALL the S&S audios, now I've heard a couple... *sighs and adds them to the insanely long Big Finish wishlist on her h/d...*)

Oh, okay. Well, good luck!

[thisbluespirit]

Dead Man Walking is the other one with Silver. :-) But, yeah, they've been v good so far, which does make all the others look tempting. I know what you mean - I am so, so far behind with every BF range I'm trying to follow!

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Although I don't want the insane work hours, much, I'm kinda hoping my boss'll go off to Pakistan again this winter, so I can basically buy everything else on my wishlist! :D

[natoo81.livejournal.com]

I like very much icons, particularly 17-19-33 and 53. There is of the color and notes are excellent!

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you! :-)

[msantimacassar.livejournal.com]

Love the hairstyle icons of The Way We Live Now! And #15 is delicious!

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks. The hairstyles in that serial really are quite something!

[aralias.livejournal.com]

well done. they all look really good :D

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, thank you. :-) I'm so glad I decided to give it a try - it's been such a boost.

[st-aurafina.livejournal.com]

Amazing work! Congratulations on a great month of creativity!

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, thank you! It's been fun & I've learned quite a bit. :-)

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

Who's the girl in 73-74? I'm sure I know her from a BBC thing, but I can't think who she is. (Or what BBC thing. o_O Except it was a historical whatsit and not Who.)

[thisbluespirit]

That's Julia Sawalha (being marvellous as Lynda Day in Press Gang). The most likely BBC historical you'll recognise her from is the 1995 Pride & Prejudice (she was Lydia), but she was also in Martin Chuzzlewit and more recently Cranford and the main role in Lark Rise to Candleford. Also Saffy in Ab Fab & the Doctor's companion Emma in the Comic Relief spoof The Curse of Fatal Death. But she is still best as Lynda. (I'm not biased... :lol:)

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

Lydia! Of course! ...I would say "headslap", but frankly I'm amazed I recognized her at all. She looks very different, at least to my terrible facial-recognition skillz.

I don't think I've seen any of those other things. Except Curse of Fatal Death, but it was a bad YT copy and I certainly couldn't have recognized the Doctor's companion from it. (Besides, she barely did anything there, am I right? I may have kind of blanked out most of that show - not my type of humour. ;P)

[thisbluespirit]

Well spotted! :-) She's been in Jonathan Creek as well, I forgot that, but I don't imagine you'll have caught that either. I think she's amazing in Press Gang, but then I'm a bit mad on the subject.

Yeah, a fuzzy YT vid isn't the best for recognising people! (Aw, I thought Curse was great - but then I saw it on the night, when it was the best new DW we'd seen since 1989, even if it wasn't official. And I suppose it is rather in-jokey on how people think DW is (over here), or used to, as well as riffing loads of stuff from the series itself. Anyway, it was definitely a lot better than Dimensions in Time, which was the previous thing we got on a charity telethon! Eek. :lol:)

[belantana.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! *throws confetti and balloons* Congratulations for making it through the month! I hope it was as beneficial in combating frustration & boredom as it was to adding to your collection of pretty things. :D

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you! I had fun - and taking part both in making things, getting nice feedback each day, and admiring other people's amazing art helped make me at least feel much more like a human being again. No magical cure, but definitely it really did help. :-)

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

Taking 20, 22, 24, and 26 because they randomly appeal to me, and 54 because I hadn't realized you used that caption! :D Also, can you please explain #21? :-) And who is the ginger in #36?

(Also, if you ever do get round to putting captions on some more of your Julius Caesar icons, I think "amest I bovvered?" would go well on one of them. But I don't know which one. SO MANY ICON POSTS. XD)

[thisbluespirit]

:-D

And, yes, I did all the requests I got during naarmamo last year. Glad you liked it in the end, then! (It is a shame I still don't have a screencap of him with the tamborine for it, though.)

Also, can you please explain #21? :-) And who is the ginger in #36?

#21 is from Frank Cottrell Boyce's book Framed (which I love) and is set in Wales and involves a slight mix-up between the Ninja Turtles and Old Masters. Therefore that is (so the book claims, anyway) Welsh for "Let's party!"). And I'm so glad somebody asked me that.

#36 is Damian Lewis (in Life).

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

Frankly I hadn't remembered I asked for it. ^_^

*googles book* Ooh, that sounds interesting! I shall have to put it on my reading list. :D

[thisbluespirit]

It was something to do with Q. You certainly suggested it. (I don't know random quotes about Q.)

:-)

[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

No, yes, I know that part - it's from a comedy benefit performance (very Red Nose Day in tone, really, but American and one-off) that he did with Spock some years back. I just hadn't remembered I actually put it up to you as a caption for Silver. :D

(August 2011... I'd just finished moving back into my parents' house, so I wouldn't be remembering anything very well. *shrugs*)