Friending Meme & Icons Meme

[thisbluespirit]

1. 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.

Comments

[liadt]

:D to David Collings being the international sign for silly/strange goings on!

[thisbluespirit]

But of course he is. ;-p

[elisi]

All the love for Lynda Day. One of my friends has one of her with the caption 'Bitch Editor from Hell' (which is also straight from the show <3).

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.

♥ ♥ ♥

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, indeed. She also likes Vampira and she's thinking of getting Kenny's insults as a tattoo. ;-D

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...

[elisi]

Yes, indeed. She also likes Vampira and she's thinking of getting Kenny's insults as a tattoo. ;-D
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... ♥

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, btw, not about PG, but I keep meaning to ask - have you still got my DW DVDs or have they been lost in the post? (It just occurred to me the other day that you finished watching them in the spring of last year and maybe I should check!)

[elisi]

I have been meaning to apologise profusely for not sending them back!

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?

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, no, that is fine! I was very happy to lend them to you, and I have not needed them in the meantime. Do you still have my address?

(And lol, at 90% ready to post! I know what you mean...)

[elisi]

You put your address on the back of the envelope, so unless you've moved I have it! :)

(And lol, at 90% ready to post! I know what you mean...)
IT IS ON MY DESK!

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, I'm still in the same place! :-)

[elisi]

Fab, I shall get it in the post tomorrow or Monday. :)

[kayim]

Press Gang was one of my favourite shows when I was younger!

[thisbluespirit]

Hee, it is fab! I was v scared about rewatching it, but saw some clips on YT and it was still clearly brilliant, so I dived back in. S1 takes a little while to get there, but the rest is still unlike anything else.

(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!)

[earthspirits]

I like Margaret Lockwood! Lovely icon. I think my favorite of her films is The Wicked Lady - which also features 2 of my other longtime favorites, James Mason and Michael Rennie. All 3 in the same lovely film!

[thisbluespirit]

She's great! I ran into her during my old TV voyages because she had her own drama show in the 70s, Justice and she was just wonderful - and when I looked her up, I realised she'd been a film star and hunted around trying to get some.

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.)

[earthspirits]

I hear you about The Man in Grey - but since James Mason is also in that one, I have it on DVD, along with TWL. I consider myself very fortunate to have found them. Now I need to find a Region I DVD of The Seventh Veil.

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, yes. I mean, I enjoyed it a lot despite everything, but it does have a few things to make the modern viewer's hair stand on end!

Region coding is the devil! I'm in R2, and even some British stuff is only out in R1; it's v frustrating.

[dimity_blue]

"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.)"

Talk about a multi-purpose icon! :o)

[thisbluespirit]

15 icons, Dimity! They are all multi-purpose these days, or they're out! :lol:

And Silver is very useful, he's always said so. ;-)

[sovay]

(Photobucket has eaten all the links, but I still have them saved. I should put them all back up, I suppose!)

Please!

[thisbluespirit]

I keep meaning to! I had to delete so many, and then Photobucket ate the rest, so there are masses of others, as well as the S&S ones. (I hesitate over those, because I'm not sure I want to re-upload them all, so they need sorting - but I'll try to make it happen soon!)

[selenay]

I have nothing useful to contribute apart from a loud squee-ing around at Press Gang and Lynda in particular :-)

[thisbluespirit]

Always a perfectly valid contribution! :-D

[jhall1]

Someone should write a cross-over between "Sapphire and Steel" and "The Lone Ranger", purely so that the Ranger can say "Hi-Yo, Silver" to Silver. After that, I can only apologise. :)

[thisbluespirit]

Heh, maybe you should get on it? ;-)

[jhall1]

Sadly - or perhaps I should say luckily - I never watched Sapphire and Steel. :) I used to watch The Lone Ranger back in the late 1950s, but I don't remember an awful lot about it now. I didn't see the recent film.

[thisbluespirit]

No, that's definitely sadly!

[jhall1]

I only said "luckily" because it's spared you my cross-over story. :)