If you're looking for a fire, darling, let me be the spark

[sovay]

Well, I dreamed of chaos theorist Loki.

She was female and in a manga my cousins lent me.

(Lab coat, check. Glasses ditto, the little round wire-rimmed kind. Long lionfish ribbons of shakudo-bright hair, curling out as if on an updraft. She chain-smoked continually in front of her computer, but no one ever saw her light her cigarettes.)

Why can I not get this title in this universe?

(I also dreamed of Edward Petherbridge, but that sort of thing is much less unusual around here.)

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[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

I feel slightly spammy given the conversation I've taken the liberty of having upstream (at least I'm not posting boys everywhere?), but what's an Edward Petherbridge when it's at home?

Also, you totally need to write this. I know your slate is brimming, but knock her into the queue maybe.

[sovay]

but what's an Edward Petherbridge when it's at home?

Edward Petherbridge played Lord Peter Wimsey across from Harriet Walter's Harriet Vane in the BBC adaptations of Strong Poison, Have His Carcase, and Gaudy Night in 1987. The scripts are flawed, but the two of them are very good; I wish they'd had the budget to go on with Busman's Honeymoon. He also played Newman Noggs in the RSC's astonishing The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1980), which I cannot recommend highly enough—I have written about the character here. Otherwise I mostly read his blog and regret that I never saw him in the same production of The Duchess of Malfi as Ian McKellen and Eleanor Bron. He can paint, too.

Also, you totally need to write this. I know your slate is brimming, but knock her into the queue maybe.

I'll try. I'm really feeling brain-dead.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Understandably, *hugs*

Thank you for explicating him far more richly than I could glean from IMDB. I'm continually fascinated how you can interest me in nondeadtree media.