On board the SS Karimloo

[doctor_jehane]

So, I have the vague idea that it's the done thing to assemble a ship manifesto, before one embarks upon the vessel in question? And I am nothing if not a keen adherent of The Done Thing.

As such, I present you the following evidence of that tantalising luxury cruiser that is Ramin Karimloo and Will Swenson:

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[sandrine]

Dear God, where is that second-to-last photo from? That looks intense!

I knew the 54 Below bits because I'd seen them on Tumblr before, but I hadn't seen anything from their Les Mis run so far, so the Valjean/Javert video made me happy. It also made me remember just how amazing - and inappropriately hot - Ramin's Valjean was. (Get your ass back to the West End, man!)

It's funny because I remember that very same scene with Hadley's Javert and how terribly amused I was when Ramin's Valjean got very up-close-and-personal with him and a lot more handsy than I remember from previous Les Mis casts.

[doctor_jehane]

I love your icon and I hope you don't mind me stealing it! I will credit ;)

It's from Ramin and Will's Confrontation fight call (in suits, as you do). There is a gif of it somewhere, but for the love of God I cannot find it now :( I am going to go stalk the pit of hell that is tumblr until I do...

However, while I was stalking tumblr I found this pic of Hadley and Tom Hiddleston kissing! From last year's Coriolanus.

[sandrine]

Looking at that photo, I think all stage rehearsals should be done in suits. Especially with characters pushing each other against walls. I'm definitely in favour of that. Yumm.

Coriolanus was a slashy thing of beauty. ♥ The kiss was only the tip of the ice berg. I didn't see it on stage, but I caught the live screening in a movie theatre and it was just glorious.

Hadley's beard made my mind drop deep, deep down into the gutter. I'm pretty sure there's a download for it somewhere, so if you see it, have a look!

Um. About the icon - I know this is silly, but I'm terribly OCD about icons and never use sharable ones. (That's why I basically make them all myself, or ones made specially for me by friends.) I'd offer to make you one but I won't be back on a proper computer with photoshop for a few weeks, so if you could wait that long... :)

[doctor_jehane]

bb, I am SO SORRY. I totes snagged it without thinking. Let me delete it instantly, okay? Please accept my apologies again :(((

[sandrine]

No need to apologise at all. In fact, I feel kind of bad for being all weird about it and acting like icons are, like, precious unique works for art. I contemplated not saying anything but then I'd just wind up deleting my icon because someone else is using it.

Um. *facepalm*

We're all being a little crazy occasionally, right? *shifty look* (I make excellent first impressions, don't i? I swear, I'm generally less of a weirdo.)

[doctor_jehane]

Okay, I'm back, and if I were less of a moron I would have seen that you had said explicitly on your journal that your icons were proprietary :(( WTAF, self. And, it's not OCD or weird at all; you're perfectly entitled to feel sensitive about your work and that of your friends, and I am kicking myself for making such a newbie error. I hope you will forgive my stupid overzealousness!

It was really sweet of you to offer to make me an icon! There, that was a lovely first impression :)

You watched Coriolanus? Now that is something I want to see, just to watch Hads and Hiddles do their thing. The beard is seriously messing with me, and ... and I might actually need to go make Part 2 of this damn porn battle fic so I can have Ramin all amused and sort of jealous. RPF, you are an unending circle of hell.

I will find you that stupid vid of the besuited fight call if it is the last thing I do +glares at tumblr+

[sandrine]

Coriolanus was really stunning. I wasn't a massive fan of Hiddleston before - in fact, I think I was the only person in the entire cinema who wasn't a Hiddles fangirl but was there for Hadley and his beard instead - but the show really convinced me both of his acting chops and his stage presence. I still don't know what's so attractive about Loki, but I can appreciate semi-nude, bloodied Shakespeare anti-heroes. *g*

and I might actually need to go make Part 2 of this damn porn battle fic so I can have Ramin all amused and sort of jealous. RPF, you are an unending circle of hell.

Now, that does sound like a brilliant idea. Hell, heaven, same thing. :p

[doctor_jehane]

I am actually not so much of a Loki fangirl, either (my favourite Marvel property is X-men, not Avengers, and true to my old-man-fandom inclinations, was ogling Stewart's Prof X/Mckellen's Magneto rather than MacFassy). We're much of a mind - the bloodied Shakespearean anti-heroes get me every time, also; I would have loved to watch Hads and his beard tread the floorboards at the Donmar, and Hiddles has that classical Oxbridge/RADA training, so despite the crash-bang-whiz movie stuff I am sure he was wonderful in the way trained stage actors are

[sandrine]

Argh, LJ just ate my long response to this. :(((

Don't get me started on X-Men. I used to love the comics and the animated series, and I was so excited when they started the movie adaptations. But then somewhere between X2 and Last Stand, the quality took a dive and they didn't even bother to keep the continuity going anymore, and by now I'm so disgusted with the franchise that I can't even look at it anymore. Weirdly enough, I think I'm the only person who likes the first Wolverine movie (though mostly for Liev Schreiber's Sabretooth). I'm just waiting for someone to do a proper reboot and fix things

[doctor_jehane]

I am an old school X-men fan (I got in at the John Romita Jr era, in the late 90s, but am the hugest fan of the Byrne and Paul Smith era!), and I was SO ANGRY about the Last Stand. BUT, Stewart and McKellen are the best, and, and I am a huge sucker for Old Men Romance (and for PStew!). I have some hopes for the new movie. I have loved Logan since the Frank Miller miniseries, and really enjoyed Live Schreiber's Sabretooth - you mean people did not like that movie? Well. People have no taste :(

Hadley is a sweetheart: the more I learn about him, the more I fall in love. And he was the aggressor in Coriolanus, so it might stand to reason that he'd be the pursuer, in the him/Tom dynamic! Tom seems really sweet and shy and intellectual, somehow, though nobody could resist Hadley's charms, imo.

And of course Ramin would read the reviews and CALL HIS MAN. To find out what was up with him, of course.

... if you are going to enable this, you might as well help me ;)

[doctor_jehane]

OK I FOUND IT. After hours of hard work, ploughing womanfully through pictures and gifs and vids of Will and Ramin being in turn adorable and muscled and nude (many of which I appear to have reblogged entirely without volition). I don't know if the code will work for you, and I know you hate to tumblr because it eats your batt, but if it does not come find me (iberiandoctor) on tumblr and basically stalk through my will swenson tag. You will also need to make your way through aforesaid proliferation of nude pics, such hardship.

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Yeah, no, dw hates that tumblr code. Nvmind, am leaving it there in case it helps you?

[sandrine]

Sadly, the link doesn't work because it's just the file name, but I should have WiFi tomorrow night / Monday morning, so it's probably safe to check your Tumblr without risking to blow up my internet. \o/ You're right - making my way through nude pics and slashy GIFs of Broadway hunks sounds like a terrible hardship, but I'm convinced that somehow I will make it through this terrible ordeal. :D

[doctor_jehane]

ok, I did tag that thing "confrontation", so you should be able to find it fairly easily. Then again, the gif is posted in between pics of Ramin pumping iron in various states of undress and that concert Will did in a thong and strategically placed guitar, so coming over to search may be a very arduous ordeal.

hope you have good travels, and get home safe!