Beyond the Roundels

Another little batch of icons, with more Bleak Expectations text icons, a handful for retro_icontest (including one I forgot to post), and a few for 100fandomicons, plus some more Doctor Who.

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( I shall give up evil science and take up evil gardening instead )

I'll probably repost these again in a larger set when I (hopefully!) have more - BUT over the last few days, post-doing some larger graphics, I tackled my new graphics editing software again, and managed to finally make some icons! I'm back at the 'child with crayons' stage, but that's usual for me when I've had one of my stupidly long breaks from it, and I'm actually getting an end result that is more or less what I intended now, and I'm SO relieved I could cry. I do like making 100x100 pixel shiny things, even if I'm not the best iconmaker in the world or anything.

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( To go into battle the British soldier has to be incredibly drunk. Aiming is out of the question. )

In the summer, when things were terrible, I wound up, mostly by way of wrangling, listening slowly to all five series of the BBC Radio comedy Bleak Expectations, which was one of the few things that cheered me up. Somewhere in the middle, my over-heated brain produced this, which I finally decided to type up for trope_bingo. It isn't spoilery, but probably defies explanation, so just ignore me... (And, no, it didn't have David Collings in it. It had Anthony Head and Celia Imrie, though, and it was very funny.)

Title: An Absolutely True And In No Way Fabricated Account of the Difficult, Dangerous and Entirely Improbable Invention of the Biscuit
Author: lost_spook
Rating: All ages
Word Count: 910 words
Characters/Pairings: Sir Philip Bin
Notes/Warnings: Pre-Series. If you haven’t ever heard BBC Radio’s Bleak Expectations, this is fandom appropriate ridiculousness, not merely out of my head. If you haven’t, no spoilers follow, merely a lot of nonsense.
Summary: A true and faithful tale of the invention of the biscuit by the father of Harry Biscuit, with some partial account of the effects of the controversial 1784 Landscaping Act, as set down by the famous novelist and inventor, Sir Philip Bin, in his own hand.

For trope_bingo square “against all odds”, though somehow, I don’t think this was quite how the trope was meant to go, but I claim fair use. ;-p (Sir Philip's opinions, as I hope you already know, are parodic and very much not my own.)

( A true and faithful tale... )