Fannishness

[mymetalphantom]

Some kinda fannish things under the cut



I long ago accepted the fact that icons of The History Boys were never going include Clive Merrison. I accept this and still love the fandom. Then, some lovely person posted this...




Speaking of Clive, I yoinked this from Bert Coules's website

Clive


Original Sidney Paget drawing


How weird is that?


Also, a lovely friend sent me a linky www.guardian.co.uk/culture/tvandradioblog/2008/jun/05/tvblogbypeterbradshaw

Which is about The Blue Remembered Hills, a programme that is just....weird and sad and disturbing.

Anywho, the reason this was sent to me?

"The greatest performance is from Colin Jeavons as the horribly put-upon Donald, brutally called "Donald Duck"; his dad is missing in action and there's some nasty local gossip - which we hear filtered through the children's uncomprehending chat - about the way his mum is making a living in her husband's absence. They've heard talk that her bedsheets could "tell a pretty tale". "Maybe she do wet the bed!" giggles Willie knowingly. Watching the play again, I wondered if there was some way BAFTA could give Colin Jeavons some sort of retrospective prize for his performance. I don't think I have ever seen in any television drama something as shockingly, explicitly real as Donald's distress after being bullied.

He is all alone, hiding in a barn, rocking back and forth, desperately lonely and sobbing to himself "Come back dad... come back dad... ". It is deeply upsetting to watch because we know that in some angry, masochistic way he is saying this to upset himself still further. This scene - one of the most purely violent I've ever seen in any television programme - shows how important it was to cast adults. Seeing an adult cry like a child is shocking, and adult actors can make children's pain brutally and tactlessly real to an audience which wants to forget what being a child was actually like."

Aww, see my love is totally justified. Dear Guardian, I'm sorry I ever mocked you.

In other news, I wrote Ladykillers fic. I did say I was gonna write fluff, but my shocking emotional problems seem to have rendered me incapable of writing fluff. I will persist!



Note to self: Don't play your guitar for nearly an hour then straight afterwards put your hands in hot water. Because that stings like a fucker.

Comments

[ex-pollute654.livejournal.com]

I WILL WRITE MORE WHEN I DON'T FEEL SO TERRIBLE, but you wrote a ladykillers fic?! and why haven't i read it?!

soothe my 103 degree fever at once!

figures that i have a very important test today, but i think i'm going to have to bypass it because i'm sick. cry.

edit: actually, it might make my fever worse (angst?! *shiver* ♥) but it's not like i'm going to complain any! you know, i reinvited you to the community, just in case you want to post it there). and now for me to sleep!

[the-arethusa.livejournal.com]

Wow, sorry you feel so shit!

My fic at the moment is very short and needs some major editing work...but just for you I will hurry it up. Kind of a 'get well' present.

[the-arethusa.livejournal.com]

Okay, I did actually manage to finish it and add some other little fics and they're all up on my writing journal.

[ex-pollute654.livejournal.com]

AHH, I LOVE YOU. *reads it over and over and over again*

and of course no one would readily make icons of clive merrison! he's older, and we all know older men aren't good icon-making material (pfft).

i used to have that problem when i'd play my guitar, but now i've moved on to the smaller, more unassuming ukulele and my fingers love me for it.

i still can barely play a song, though. instruments are not my strong point!

[the-arethusa.livejournal.com]

AHH, I LOVE YOU TOO. You totally encourage my darker side when it comes to fanfic.

and of course no one would readily make icons of clive merrison! he's older, and we all know older men aren't good icon-making material (pfft).

I know right? Me and my wacky love for older men. It's just sick isn't it? *rolls eyes*

I really don't know where I would be without my guitar (Henry). Even though he hurts my poor fingers.

Aww, the ukulele, that's awesome.

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Okay, I need to watch everything Colin Jeavons was ever in. *nods* I'm so lucky you post about this stuff! I'd never know about it otherwise!

[the-arethusa.livejournal.com]

Hooray for my general nerdiness!

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I just saw The Blue Remembered Hills, and... o_o *trauma* That reviewer hit the nail right on the head, though. And some other review I read said Colin Jeavons was the only unconvincing one... pssh. Only if unconvincing = disturbingly honest. Guh.

[the-arethusa.livejournal.com]

I remember seeing it years ago and feeling quite...abused. Really traumatising. Sorry...but I kinda said it was disturbing.

That review is wrong in so many ways. I've only read reviews that say "OMG seriously, disturbingly good!" (only they put it a bit a better than that).

[elaby.livejournal.com]

You definitely said it was, and I was expecting it to be, so it wasn't as bad as if it surprised me. But it did end up surprising me in a lot of (good) ways.