Happy Gauda Prime Day! I got my tree up this evening while watching Blake in sync with other fans on Twitter. I thought I should post something here, and I suddenly thought of my Gauda Prime filks. I wrote several of these for the Freedom City list around the start of the century, usually around Christmas/New Year, and usually drawing on a song ( Read more... )

I've checked the Freedom City mailing list, and it still isn't working. So as I did last year I'm planning to post my Blake's Seven piece for FC's birthday here, on the traditional date of the US holiday Labor Day. And I think I will abandon my previous habit of waiting a year before posting the story elsewhere (by which I mean AO3) - I used to ( Read more... )

Further to my last post, BBC Radio Four's obituary programme Last Word featured Gareth this week, and should be available here. It's in the last five minutes of the half-hour. Mostly concentrates on his role as Blake; does mention some of his theatre work but not Morgan. Includes nice comments from a friend (Roy Gould) about his extensive ( Read more... )

"I can't bring myself to say 'RIP Gareth Thomas'," a friend said. So I suggested, as an alternative, "Rebel in Perpetuity".


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Very belatedly, Happy Gauda Prime Day! I'm late because, rather appropriately, I have been to a funeral, but either side of that flying trip to London I have carried out my usual GP activities.

One of those is to take some form of vegetation to the gravestone of my former primary school teacher and her family, in whose house I first watched Blake ( Read more... )

Well, this is awkward. The Freedom City mailing list has been pretty much defunct for the last few years, but I've still managed to write something in the way of Blake's Seven fic on its traditional birthday, the US holiday of Labor Day, which I understand to be today ( Read more... )

Happy Gauda Prime Day! For when staying alive begins to look too complicated ( Read more... )

Happy Gauda Prime Day! May all your idealists be useable ( Read more... )

Servalan got a prominent role in a discussion of the changing role of women in science fiction on Woman's Hour today. Featured Christine Cornea and Dean Conrad. General feeling seemed to be that women in televised science fiction not bad, women in films going backwards (it seemed to be sparked off by disappointment with latest Star Trek film, ( Read more... )

Happy Gauda Prime Day! May you have the very best of companions for your deaths!

The interesting news today is that I am no longer dead. On my last two visits to my old primary school teacher, she was very insistent that I had died in dramatic circumstances. The first time I had apparently drowned, the second time I had perished in flames, and ( Read more... )