Beyond the Roundels

1. no_true_pair is gearing up for its Spring mini-round with sign-ups opening on March 12th! Given that I had such a lovely time with it in September, I'll definitely be giving it another go. I have to decide on my character list - only four characters this time! 8-o (If it's the same as the main round, you can have up to 3 lists, so I'm thinking I might do at least two and then see what I fancy writing the most. XD)


2. hurtcomfortex is still in sign-ups. I don't think I should do it, really, all considered, but I always PINE for it (I could be my own OW tag for it: "Exchange Participant/Unsuitable Exchange They Are Nevertheless Pining Hopelessly For") so I'm keeping an eye on the sign-ups and, yep, as ever with this one, I have like 1 match again. Two, depending what I offer. BUt you never know, what if something jumped out and begged me to write a SHORT thing for it and then I could sign up (but oh no all those tags)...


3. Marginal March, a comment fest for Minor Characters


4. I no sooner said that Craddock and Co had gone from BBC Sounds when I looked, than the BBC decided to repeat it and now it's there again! So if anyone prefers that method, here it is, and they've reached all three eps now (it was still only 2 yesterday): https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/b00d2t72


5. I reached s3 of Death in Paradise (people who know will know what that means XD) but the BBC did compensate immediately because the following three eps have had Peter Davison (grumpy writer suspect), Josette Simon (fearsome judge suspect), and Raza Jaffrey (airline pilot suspect). Raza was a wonderful surprise, because he went off to the US to be in things I don't watch, so I was just: RAZA!!!! (Spooks fans will understand, because Zaf= <3<3<3 Also he is very illegally pretty, it's true. ETA: the motive for murder was basically jealousy over Raza, which, I mean. legit.)

My resolution to stop at this point was therefore broken. I'll see how long this stint of Actors From My All Time Fave Shows continues, lol, and in the meantime, here's a very lovely, fun/cute Richard and Camille fanvid by Odessie I found on AO3.

I've had a few answers for this meme done or semi-done for a while, so it's about time I posted one, and here goes - From femme_slash_fan: Favourite TV shows almost nobody knows about and should watch? (Seriously... I need more stuff)

Shows that nobody else knows about seems to sum up my entire fannish life of late (and always, really), but since femme_slash_fan specified "and should watch", that's a whole other thing. I have plenty of strange things I love - I don't necessarily think anyone else should have to watch them!

I avoided anything with its own (reasonably active) fandom, like Blake's 7, Sapphire & Steel and The Avengers (obviously, people have heard of them, if they're being fannish about them), and anything I thought was too inaccessible to count as something people should watch. What counts as something 'nobody's heard of' is so relative anyway. (Some of these things really don't count if you're British but do count if you live anywhere else. What can I do?). Of course, much of it assumes some willingness to watch studio-bound, video-taped old British TV of some kind, which I know not everyone is up for. If you are, or you're willing to try, these aren't bad places to start.

Anyway, here's a list! Not in any particular order, really. (I numbered them so I would know to stop if I went over ten, because that would be silly.)


( Under here for the list!! )

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)

Teasers:



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I watched one of the extras on the new Caves. It was one of those clips from a chat show, with Colin and Peter, and I was expecting it to be mildly interesting. What I wasn't expecting was...

( Gratuitous picspam of Colin and Peter on Russell Harty in 1984. Not dial-up friendly )

Hey, I spent some of my birthday money on this... and have made some icons. I couldn't help it (plus, yet again, Friday insomnia strikes, so I have little brain for writing). You will be relieved to hear there are none of Turlough in speedos.

There are also some extra I did last week for Vengeance on Varos. (Now that my skills have improved a bit.)

Teasers:

Total Icon Count: 68

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As ever: want, take, have, credit. No hotlinking.