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!

[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.

♥ ♥ ♥

[kayim]

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

[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!

[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)

[sovay]

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

Please!

[selenay]

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

[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. :)