meantime caps!

1982 british tv film about the horrid thatcher economy, life on the dole, etc, all moodified by the tinkly harpsichord of squalor (tm).  tim roth and gary oldman's first time starring together--and the breakout for both (or, well, a pre-breakout, if you will!)

zip and mirror

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probability is a law which

:warms up wax's computer specifically for the purpose of nosing around after new bits of fic she didn't read last night:

so, wax tells me that while it mostly involves shepherding as opposed to glam rock, there is good to decent dark is rising will/bran out there. what's the downlow?

last night, about when i should have crashed, i opened and poked at my directory of rosencrantz and guildenstern caps. and ended up opening, um, like, a couple hundred of them that i hadn't iconed yet. :facepalm: compulsion is a scary thing! although finally i did go to bed with, gasp, some of them still uncropped.

wax's old version of semagic doesn't show a preview of your userpic. and i want to stare at it. dammit.

rentboy!tim

i thought it was time to re-upload the rentboy!timpic icon in honor of the forthcoming "high rent", aka the rentboy!timfic.

as mace_m has said, the best icon text always comes from punchy aim conversations.  or was it actually in public in the comments at rosnguil somewhere?

( rentboy!tim pic, gratuitously )

on the dark is rising

reading kestrelsan's dir fic summer's men, and bunnies having to do with the arthur legend and the magic of cooper's universe keep trying to push their way through some kind of vague covering. i can feel my ordinary trains of thought about the story (which is so far good, and comes recommended by two people) bumping up under their pressure, like that latex womb the uruk-hai bursts out of in lotr.

it seems to happen so often that writers, particularly children's writers, will create these universes based on our reality with their own intrinsic magics that could be quite fascinating, and then ... turn out to be not nearly so exciting in the execution as in the thought. i'd like to see cooper's Dark and Light explored--the nature of her multiple varieties of immortality, the power of arthur and what exactly he is. but what i really, really don't want to do is read the rest of her canon, because sometimes the bad was actually painful.

so it will probably never happen.