That two girls are too many, three's a crowd, and four you're dead
My sleep schedule has gone so far off the rails, I'm not even sure what time zone I'm in anymore, but I don't think it's the one I live in.
Yesterday I tried to take a sort of mental health break, finishing my work in the afternoon and then spending the rest of the day reading Henry Green's Back (1946) and watching John Cromwell's Caged (1950) and a serial and a half of Sapphire & Steel (1979–82) with an interlude of returning books to the library and making rice pudding. I would like to write about all of these things; they were differently great. I may just stare at more Sapphire & Steel instead.
I have decided that my personal best mode of dealing with white supremacists going around invoking Odin as a hate symbol and generally misunderstanding the Vikings is to go around invoking Loki as a queer symbol and talking a lot more about seiðr.
Courtesy of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
moon_custafer: I may be in the wrong country to catch a theatrical screening of Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (2016) tomorrow night (watching movies for people's yahrzeits is just as valid as for their birthdays), but it looks like it will be coming to TCM. Hurrah.
P.S. Has anybody on this friendlist seen the 1977–78 ITV adaptation of Joan Aiken's Midnight Is a Place (1976)? I just discovered it exists; I like its setting of "Denzil's Song" and it's got David Collings, but I can't tell anything else about it except that it seems to have aged up Anna-Marie.
Yesterday I tried to take a sort of mental health break, finishing my work in the afternoon and then spending the rest of the day reading Henry Green's Back (1946) and watching John Cromwell's Caged (1950) and a serial and a half of Sapphire & Steel (1979–82) with an interlude of returning books to the library and making rice pudding. I would like to write about all of these things; they were differently great. I may just stare at more Sapphire & Steel instead.
I have decided that my personal best mode of dealing with white supremacists going around invoking Odin as a hate symbol and generally misunderstanding the Vikings is to go around invoking Loki as a queer symbol and talking a lot more about seiðr.
Courtesy of
moon_custafer: I may be in the wrong country to catch a theatrical screening of Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (2016) tomorrow night (watching movies for people's yahrzeits is just as valid as for their birthdays), but it looks like it will be coming to TCM. Hurrah.P.S. Has anybody on this friendlist seen the 1977–78 ITV adaptation of Joan Aiken's Midnight Is a Place (1976)? I just discovered it exists; I like its setting of "Denzil's Song" and it's got David Collings, but I can't tell anything else about it except that it seems to have aged up Anna-Marie.
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
I recognize I may be biased in that Silver might as well have been designed by committee to appeal to me personally, but who on earth hates him? (I mean, it is visibly one of his life's missions to annoy Steel, but I also insta-shipped all three of them, so there you go.)
and who watch old things despite their flaws.
Absolutely and always.
no subject
(I mean, it is visibly one of his life's missions to annoy Steel, but I also insta-shipped all three of them, so there you go.
Some people don't OT3 them. I find this very hard to comprehend, but life is full of strange people, and some of the Steel fans really don't care for him because he flirts with Sapphire and annoys Steel, and also because of a certain interpretation that some people put on Assignment 6 (even thought it is OBVIOUSLY WRONG). (I'll say no more, as you sound as if you're not at the end yet.)
no subject
I don't tend to ship characters and I OT3'd them—I figured the evidence was pretty strong!
and also because of a certain interpretation that some people put on Assignment 6 (even thought it is OBVIOUSLY WRONG). (I'll say no more, as you sound as if you're not at the end yet.)
I shall certainly let you know my impressions when I get there! I've seen Assignments 1 and 3 and am hoping to watch 2 in the immediate future: I have access to the complete show by the good graces of YouTube, so I don't feel I can depend on it to hang around forever.
no subject
(I think there is a new pay-per-view streaming service for the US called Brit box or something? I don't know if it has ITV stuff (like S&S), but it has lots of old BBC things. I heard someone talking about it. It might be worth checking out.)