Hallowe'en Trick or Treat Meme

[lost_spook]

Memed from justice_turtle and dbskyler:

In honor of All Hallow's Eve, I'm inviting trick-or-treaters to my 'door.' Comment "trick-or-treat" to this post and...well, you know the drill. Treats can be anything that strikes my fancy (pics of fave actors or pairings, one sentence fics, graphics, a few words why I'm glad to have you on my flist, etc. etc.). The more "houses

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[lost_spook]

Since you have read just about everything, ever, and seen every pic and catalogued the entire internet, I don't know if I can come up with anything new. Well, here goes:

Two comms:
dianawynnejones (It may not be madly active but it has a LOT of members and anything question, mad theories, what book do I read next posts will get instant responses. There is some fic on there not elsewhere.)

isurrendered You've probably come across it, but I seem to think you weren't quite around when the I Surrendered meme went viral? Anyway, it's a great example of the net and LJ being ridiculous & creative at the same time. And you should check out Mammoth Season. :-) (I'm not explaining; the comm info should. If not, then I will.)

You like an outrageous costume picspam. I don't have a non-spoilery B7 one for you, but here are 3 of my faves of Servalan's amazing outfits (all right, I couldn't decide which to take and upload properly):
The chicken wire one: http://www.framecaplib.com/b7lib/html/chars/images/weapon/alone/weapn114.htm?subj=128
The hat: http://www.framecaplib.com/b7lib/html/chars/images/pressure/alone/press144.htm?subj=128
The lizard: http://www.framecaplib.com/b7lib/html/chars/images/pressure/alone/press154.htm?subj=128

A Poem I Like by a poet I haven't heard you mention yet:
When I set out for Lyonnesse,
A hundred miles away,
The rime was on the spray,
And starlight lit my lonesomeness
When I set out for Lyonnesse
A hundred miles away.

What would bechance at Lyonnesse
While I should sojourn there
No prophet durst declare,
Nor did the wisest wizard guess
What would bechance at Lyonnesse
While I should sojourn there.

When I came back from Lyonnesse
With magic in my eyes,
All marked with mute surmise
My radiance rare and fathomless,
When I came back from Lyonnesse
With magic in my eyes! (Thomas Hardy)

And you will have seen this, but, hey (all right, for you it should be THree, but Three needs his Moriarty, and the Master must be set to Johnny Cash):

[justice_turtle]

'Since you have read just about everything, ever, and seen every pic and catalogued the entire internet, I don't know if I can come up with anything new.'

*giggles* I really haven't. Only most of everything. XD

F'rinstance: I hadn't seen isurrendered at all! I think I came in at the very tail end of the phenomenon, and completely missed figuring out where to investigate it. *wasted a whole pile of time, yes, and is not done* (And yes, Mammoth Season was indeed hilarious. XD)

I had stumbled across dianawynnejones, but am waiting to explore it till I've read more of her books, so as not to spoil myself. (Some fandoms, like Who, I don't mind being spoiled on; some, like S&S, I mind dreadfully. I think DWJ is one of the latter.)

I don't think I ever heard of Thomas Hardy before, but that is a lovely poem. I do love clever rhyme-schemes, if the rhythm stays regular enough to not confuse me completely. (Gerard Manley Hopkins gives me rather a headache, because he does not generally keep anything consistent. He's like Sixie's coat in verse form. O_O)

And Servalan's dresses! Wow. Especially the lizard one. WOW.

Hee, and Delgado!Master! He is so awesome. (I've never quite cared to watch anything with any other Master, because how can they measure up? *sadface*)

*wants to watch all the Three-era Who now*

[lost_spook]

Oh, cool. I didn't do too badly there, then! :-) I couldn't remember you being around when we were all getting our brains eaten by the I surrendered meme. (It's quite a good way to get ideas for original fic, but a terribly dangerous meme to try if you don't want your brain eaten.)

And... never heard of Thomas Hardy? 0_o Maybe he is not as much a permanent feature of the English lit curriculum on the other side of the Atlantic then, but he is an amazing poet (even when he's writing novels). I had to do Far From the Madding Crowd for GCSE and then Tess of the D'Urbervilles (which is one long prose poem or metaphor in a way. Annoying character-wise, because they are all Doomed a Cruel Fate & I want to go round being commonsensical at them, but the writing is amazing) & his love poetry. (Castle Boterel, The Ghost and At The Waterfall are some others I remember). Also never read Jude the Obscure without finding out the plot first.

Yay; those are three particularly good ones, but it was hard to choose. The lizard and the chicken wire ones probably have to win, though. (Servalan has the best TV wardrobe ever. Because, of course, when you are Supreme Commander of the Federation you can have a great dressmaker. And, even the stranger ones, Jacqueline Pearce can wear them, and then some.)

Aw, I know what you mean, because I love Roger Delgado's Master so much that even Three can't compete. :-) However, as long as you do not expect any following Master to be the same, it is just regeneration, same as the Doctor. And the first one/two are all cloaked and decayed. But Anthony Ainley is quite fun, so it is worth seeing him eventually.

(If you don't, you can't watch the party that is The Five Doctors, or The Mark of the Rani, where the Rani is very eyerolly at the Doctor and the Master and their rivalry. She says the Master would get dizzy if he tried to walk in a straight line. You could try The Keeper of Traken first, which starts with AA playing a different character, to break yourself in gently. Also, Survival is a great performance from him. And he loved being the Master so much that he apparently used to ring up the DW production office in character to ask when he would be coming back. :lol:)

:-)