You had plenty money 1922

http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_startrek/980383.html - posted on there because of the Zoe Saldana, but lookit who's next to her in that walking shot....

Idris Elba and your very favourite person. Right, I'll take Idris, you take JDM, and we can share Zoe, deal?

To do : wade through allll the tabs I opened of interesting entries and fic from my skip=800 post-con. (seriously, what is it with my flist? normal weekends, the groups slow right down. Con weekends, ramps up to posting frenzy. I think a lot of these were fic codas to the Shrine ep on SGA, though. It would probably help if I got round to dl'ing this season. But I promised myself I'd dl Dr Who first and I still haven't done that.)

Write up the Edmund/Bacchus fic set post-battle. And then work out if the Caspian gibbering after he sees them is repetition or not.

Still waiting on Lucy for the Edmund post-war fic to come back. The problem with being used to getting all your beta-ing done through AIM : you forget that beta via email takes *time*. Of course, I discovered about seven spelling mistakes the minute I sent the file off...

Dear self, do I want to know why, even though in the books, the easiest people to slash Edmund with are Caspian and Eustace (which has most of the fandom screaming 'nooooo! If you must write Edmund/Eustace it bloody well better be one-sided crushing from Eustace or we will damn well hunt you down and get Reepicheep to do horrible things to your intestines!'), or Peter (the only Pevensie-cest pairing I'm remotely convinced by is Susan/Peter), my brain fixates on Edmund/Bacchus? They don't interact once in the books! Bacchus isn't in the films! ...Excuse me whilst I glare at Ivy from across the years for writing that single fic with the pairing in it. However, I'm clearly not alone in my insanity. All the feedback was very much in favour of Edmund/vicious lithe wine-stained young god. Far be it from me to suggest fandom in general is shallower than a shallow thing.

Oh, and something I'd forgotten to mention about Discworld con. This was a) interesting meta and b) broke Terry's brain. Stephen Briggs, in his role of Patrician, normally has someone wandering around as Drumknott, who acts as his assistant and marshalls the Dark Clerks. There have apparently been four of these over the years. The current one is a very pretty young woman named Esther (until you put her into the Drumknott outfit). At the gala, Esther turned up in a rather fab corset (for pics, go search Flickr for discworld2008 - she's in the white corset) but was still acting as Drumknott. Terry's brain set to gibber since someone pointed out that this would put an entirely new spin on all that Patrician/Drumknott fic out there... Esther and Stephen had very, very evil grins when they related this. And then came the meta discussion that 'well, there's no reason Drumknott can't be female. Even though Drumknott's referred to all the way through as 'he'. It could be tradition that the post of secretary is referred to as male no matter what the sex of the incumbent is. Like Dwarves.' And on the far side of the group, you could see Terry's brain leaking out of his ears...

Further on the subject of costumes : certain characters are very popular (you'll often have about five or six Tiffany Achings or Magrats or Otto Chrieks similar running around.). However, oddly, some characters are only done by one person, said person becoming *known* as that character. Normally because they've done it so well that no-one else feels able to measure up. What's really odd, though? This is often a character no-one's done before, or the last time was so long ago that it's faded. And somehow the knowledge filters through to newbies. Who have never been. Who never attempt said character. How? How does this filter down? Is it just because no-one ever normally thinks of doing that character so if you do there's a fair chance you'll be the only one?

List off the top of my head :

Simon as Carrot (this con, he was wandering around as Greebo instead since he felt it was more *him* - and he's a very good Greebo) - this could be a height and physique thing, admittedly.
Pam as Granny Weatherwax - it's not like you don't get a fair few Nanny Oggs.
Kev as Cohen - physique again?
All of the Silver Horde - physique? Not to mention Mad Hamish has it sewn up due to the wheelchair.
Heidi as Adora Belle Dearheart - ABD is clearly based off Heidi. Not that anyone outside would know this...
Constable Haddock - well, er, this was an original that Terry nicked. On the other hand, when it comes to the AMCW, most people I've seen tend to be 'random guard' since it's all-encompassing and they can be *them*.
Conina, I think it comes under the 'such a minor character it doesn't normally cross people's minds'

....BBC have just released the Merlin trailer on youtube, here. I'd heard that this was supremely pretty. I'd heard that this was slashy. Dear GOD. And wow, BBC, how much money did you spend on this?

http://steammmpunk.livejournal.com/17975.html - go and worship steammpunk because heather's kinks have been hit so thoroughly by the pretty that her brain is making 'bibble' noises.

Because YOU need songs in the style of an emo teenager... who happens to be a zombie.

The song's the 'just mizunderstood MP3' link on the latest edition
http://web.mac.com/normsherman/iWeb/Site/Podcast/Podcast.html

Another one: an endangered woodpecker with a still for illegal moonshine, bluegrass-stylie.

http://homepage.mac.com/normsherman/.Music/Playing%20Dead%202.mp3

Still need to kill Morag for earworming me with them.

Oh, and the torchwood fandom's quest to vid the Spamalot songs has been added to : Captain Jack : he likes to dance a lot. Try not to die laughing.

One day, I will figure out why it is certain actors/singers/weevils induce the 'gibber' reaction. No, really. I'm not talking aesthetic appreciation here, I'm talking 'gibber' for no obvious reason.

Sean Bean? Needs no explanation to the entire fricking British population.
James Purefoy? I'm sorry, have you seen the man? There is a *reason* his nickname (as bestowed by Paul Bettany) is James Puresex.
Paul Bettany? You. Blonde boy. Stop posing so louchely. And the eyelashes. STOP THAT.
Rupert Everett? Keeps *consciously* doing the drawl thing and having chemistry with inanimate objects. Bastard.
Peter Wingfield? Does it on purpose the entire time because he can.
Keira Knightley? Louche and lazy drawl.

There's a long list of *obvious* people. (oddly, there's not as many girls on the list of brain set to gibber no matter the situation - I think they have to turn that on in my case) I'm just really, really trying to figure out one actor who...um.... some of you may have heard of my thing for this one. Especially anyone who's been in the vicinity of my Gosford Park fic gibbering.

Jeremy Northam.

Explain. Please. On the surface, he may appear to share many of the same qualities as, say Everett and Wingfield and Bettany - appearance of posh, occasional supercilious bastard, cheekbones, etc. (Type? I know no type... :looks shifty:) Except. Er. The others regularly turn it on, so to speak. I've only ever seen Northam do it a couple of times, and brain was set to gibber long, long before that. Did something break in my brain?

Huh. On poking through wikipedia, just found out Puresex was in Simon Callow's Les Enfant du Paradis at the Barbican. I saw that. Had a ridiculously over-complicated set that spun round the whole time and was ridiculously long. I remember the main character being very broken and very pretty (about the actor who originated the 'Pierrot' clown), but not really much else. Further perusal also brings up Joseph Fiennes and several others, but doesn't list who played who.

In other news, poking the fucking Ianto and Jack slip through the rift into 1932 fic. Which is being written in snippets since I can't get a coherent plot to work at this stage. I want to get it finished before nano, but... argh. I can't even tell if it's vaguely any good. I keep having to rein myself back from making period-innappropriate statements. (Rose would go off on one. Martha might. Jack makes a living by blending. Ianto you get the feeling wouldn't. Especially since they're trying to blend.) Shite. Maybe I need to pull it back completely, deconstruct and just go for gloriously silly sprawling with plot Jeeves and Wooster homage au which the idea started out as, research the fuck out of that period of the 30s and do it as nano or into the longer stories section. Fuck. If I want a story done and dusted, maybe I should do the Takeaways of Torchwood...