Loyalty binds...
Feb. 6th, 2013 06:38 pmThese last few days I was in Bamberg, pacifying Darth Real Life, and therefore rarely online. I did see both the bad news - Robin Sachs dead (though I first saw him in various minor roles in Babylon 5, it was of course as Ethan Rayne in BTVS that I think of him most; followed by the gloriously over the top evil Warlord Sarris in Galaxy Quest) - and the good (well, for geeky history interested people like yours truly) - the confirmation that those bones in Leicester were indeed those of Richard III. (Though like ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
kalypso, I think he should be buried in York.)
Since therarewomen ficathon is in its nomination phase, I went and nominated the various ladies from the House of York, hoping for revived interest by the findings. (I really hope someone will do something with Richard's sister Margaret, who had a far better ending than her brothers (whom she loved dearly) - she successfully governed her duchy of Burgundy for her stepdaughter after her husband, the not for nothing thus nicknamed Charles the Rash kicked it, offered a haven for surviving Yorkist loyalists and occasionally made Henry Tudor's life miserable by financing revolts against him. Also she died peacefully in bed.) If you want to do some nominations of your own (which isn't a sign-up for the ficathon itself, so don't worry about that), you can do so here and check the already approved characters here. Incidentally, I also nominated my beloved Agent Abigail Brand from the Marvelverse, comics edition, only to be told someone had already nominated her for Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the tv show. Abigail Brand is in Earth's Mightiest Heroes and nobody told me?
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In other news: I've started to read a highly interesting Doctor Who blog, currently covering the "Wilderness" years, i.e. the time between the show's cancellation in the 80s and its 2005 revival. Among other things, there is a fascinating entry on the feud between Lawrence Miles and Paul Cornell (New Whovians, the later would be the writer of "Father's Day" and "Human Nature/The Family of Blood"), which might be useful to get back to next time someone reminisces of the good old days when fans were more civil to each other. (Well, Cornell was civil. Miles... isn't nicknamed Mad Larry for nothing.) On the brighter side, there is also a fascinating analysis of Queer As Folk (Russel T. Davies' original series from 1999, that is, not the American version), which reminded me of something, because it sums up Our Former Welsh Overlord in totem: Perhaps the funniest and best scene in the entire series is the cut between some strikingly explicit gay sex and Vince watching the end of Episode One of The Pyramids of Mars and rewinding it to quote along with “I bring Sutekh’s gift of death to all humanity.” As if they’re comparable actions. Because, of course, they are. Oh, RTD.
kalypso, I think he should be buried in York.) Since the
rarewomen ficathon is in its nomination phase, I went and nominated the various ladies from the House of York, hoping for revived interest by the findings. (I really hope someone will do something with Richard's sister Margaret, who had a far better ending than her brothers (whom she loved dearly) - she successfully governed her duchy of Burgundy for her stepdaughter after her husband, the not for nothing thus nicknamed Charles the Rash kicked it, offered a haven for surviving Yorkist loyalists and occasionally made Henry Tudor's life miserable by financing revolts against him. Also she died peacefully in bed.) If you want to do some nominations of your own (which isn't a sign-up for the ficathon itself, so don't worry about that), you can do so here and check the already approved characters here. Incidentally, I also nominated my beloved Agent Abigail Brand from the Marvelverse, comics edition, only to be told someone had already nominated her for Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the tv show. Abigail Brand is in Earth's Mightiest Heroes and nobody told me? ***
In other news: I've started to read a highly interesting Doctor Who blog, currently covering the "Wilderness" years, i.e. the time between the show's cancellation in the 80s and its 2005 revival. Among other things, there is a fascinating entry on the feud between Lawrence Miles and Paul Cornell (New Whovians, the later would be the writer of "Father's Day" and "Human Nature/The Family of Blood"), which might be useful to get back to next time someone reminisces of the good old days when fans were more civil to each other. (Well, Cornell was civil. Miles... isn't nicknamed Mad Larry for nothing.) On the brighter side, there is also a fascinating analysis of Queer As Folk (Russel T. Davies' original series from 1999, that is, not the American version), which reminded me of something, because it sums up Our Former Welsh Overlord in totem: Perhaps the funniest and best scene in the entire series is the cut between some strikingly explicit gay sex and Vince watching the end of Episode One of The Pyramids of Mars and rewinding it to quote along with “I bring Sutekh’s gift of death to all humanity.” As if they’re comparable actions. Because, of course, they are. Oh, RTD.
