Oh how I do like to be fannish about the periodic table...
It's a side-effect of obsessing about Sapphire & Steel.
I made this post a while two months ago, partly for me, partly to share, but then again, it does feel weird going on about "my" Elements and mental casting sometimes seems a bit odd too. However, I have this post, I did cast actors (it's such a visual show; it seemed a logical step if I was going to make up Elements, and there was no chance I wasn't) and
swordznsorcery asked me about it the other day. So here it is. If people are going to be patient enough to read the resulting 100 Element Prompt fics, I might as well share the pictures, after all. (Also with links to the relevant Wiki pages, mainly for my own convenience.)
List of Elements (Wikipedia, as are all links unless stated otherwise).
Starting with the actual Elements, because any excuse for pics of them in my LJ.
Steel (David McCallum)
Steel
Sapphire (Joanna Lumley)
Sapphire
Silver (David Collings)
Silver
(Silver, Copper and Gold belong to a group on the periodic table - and copper and silver have very similar uses, but silver is usually better/faster, it's just too valuable, so copper is used instead. I think this would be reason enough for Copper to get annoyed at Silver, really.)
Lead (Val Pringle)
Lead
Gold (Mark Gatiss)
From Big Finish. I don't have a pic, but I expect most people round here know what Mark Gatiss looks like. Please use your imaginations at this point. ;-)
Gold
Jet (Josette Simon)
I forget this is just my made-up casting sometimes. I have to remind myself.
Jet
There were two obvious ways to go with Jet and since everyone else seemed to have taken the other, I went for this one - and Josette was in my mind from the beginning.
Copper (James Maxwell)
I've seen quite a few things with James Maxwell in and I can't quite find a good Copper pic yet. So here also is my early attempt at drawing Copper, except he lost the glasses before I ever wrote him in something, so that looks wrong now.
Copper
(Also, I drew this for naarmamo, and posted it, which went like this:
everyone: we can see you've been watching lots of David Collings, you can tell it's him.
me: but it isn't David Collings! It was supposed to be JAMES MAXWELL.
This is one of the many reasons why I don't try drawing real people instead of made up ones.)
Antimony (Nicola Walker)
belantana asked me for the prompt-me post last year to write Ruth/Nicola Walker as an Element and then helped me narrow down which one. Antimony is particularly useful with computers etc., which is fun.
Ruby
(This is misleading, Ruby is an amalgamation of a few people, none of whom look quite like this, but
wytchcroft prompted me to write a fic about Ruby in the 1920s ages ago and I never have, so I thought I'd try drawing 1920s Ruby instead. She didn't come out right, but my effort is here, anyway.)
Plutonium (Nicholas Chagrin)
(I only just looked the actor's name up. :lol: That's perfect! S&S scary apt casting strikes again.) Plutonium was created for my Yuletide fic, as
sophiap was interested in the Transuranics. Tempted as I was by having a Rutherfordium or something, Plutonium worked best in lots of ways - and I immediately remembered this actor from a Campion episode I watched a year or so ago. (He was also Quillam in Vengeance on Varos, if anyone thinks he looks familiar). This isn't the best pic, really - if only I'd known I was going to be making use of him when I was capping Campion ages ago!
Iron (Martin Jarvis)
He turned up in Enemy at the Door (1980) looking like this. Clearly an Element, although you can't see his grey suit here, really. (I don't cast everyone who wears a grey suit, but when it's Martin Jarvis in 1980, it's perfect. And I needed someone for Iron.)
Cerium
Cerium
Cerium was my first Element I made up for a specific story that I've never written. She's completely out of my head, so the drawing was okay, if too cute as ever with my drawings.
Mercury (Saeed Jaffrey)
(From The Strange Report. I really can't get quite the right screencaps of him at all.) Mercury's new, but I think he'd work pretty well as another technician.
(I also have Diamond to add, but I'm not completely sure about her yet. Probably Laila Rouass? Not very 1970s, either, but anyway):
Crossposted from Dreamwidth -- Comments there:
I made this post a while two months ago, partly for me, partly to share, but then again, it does feel weird going on about "my" Elements and mental casting sometimes seems a bit odd too. However, I have this post, I did cast actors (it's such a visual show; it seemed a logical step if I was going to make up Elements, and there was no chance I wasn't) and
swordznsorcery asked me about it the other day. So here it is. If people are going to be patient enough to read the resulting 100 Element Prompt fics, I might as well share the pictures, after all. (Also with links to the relevant Wiki pages, mainly for my own convenience.)
List of Elements (Wikipedia, as are all links unless stated otherwise).
Starting with the actual Elements, because any excuse for pics of them in my LJ.
Steel (David McCallum)
Steel
Sapphire (Joanna Lumley)
Sapphire
Silver (David Collings)
Silver
(Silver, Copper and Gold belong to a group on the periodic table - and copper and silver have very similar uses, but silver is usually better/faster, it's just too valuable, so copper is used instead. I think this would be reason enough for Copper to get annoyed at Silver, really.)
Lead (Val Pringle)
Lead
Gold (Mark Gatiss)
From Big Finish. I don't have a pic, but I expect most people round here know what Mark Gatiss looks like. Please use your imaginations at this point. ;-)
Gold
Jet (Josette Simon)
I forget this is just my made-up casting sometimes. I have to remind myself.
Jet
There were two obvious ways to go with Jet and since everyone else seemed to have taken the other, I went for this one - and Josette was in my mind from the beginning.
Copper (James Maxwell)
I've seen quite a few things with James Maxwell in and I can't quite find a good Copper pic yet. So here also is my early attempt at drawing Copper, except he lost the glasses before I ever wrote him in something, so that looks wrong now.
Copper
(Also, I drew this for naarmamo, and posted it, which went like this:
everyone: we can see you've been watching lots of David Collings, you can tell it's him.
me: but it isn't David Collings! It was supposed to be JAMES MAXWELL.
This is one of the many reasons why I don't try drawing real people instead of made up ones.)
Antimony (Nicola Walker)
belantana asked me for the prompt-me post last year to write Ruth/Nicola Walker as an Element and then helped me narrow down which one. Antimony is particularly useful with computers etc., which is fun.
Ruby
(This is misleading, Ruby is an amalgamation of a few people, none of whom look quite like this, but
wytchcroft prompted me to write a fic about Ruby in the 1920s ages ago and I never have, so I thought I'd try drawing 1920s Ruby instead. She didn't come out right, but my effort is here, anyway.)
Plutonium (Nicholas Chagrin)
(I only just looked the actor's name up. :lol: That's perfect! S&S scary apt casting strikes again.) Plutonium was created for my Yuletide fic, as
sophiap was interested in the Transuranics. Tempted as I was by having a Rutherfordium or something, Plutonium worked best in lots of ways - and I immediately remembered this actor from a Campion episode I watched a year or so ago. (He was also Quillam in Vengeance on Varos, if anyone thinks he looks familiar). This isn't the best pic, really - if only I'd known I was going to be making use of him when I was capping Campion ages ago!
Iron (Martin Jarvis)
He turned up in Enemy at the Door (1980) looking like this. Clearly an Element, although you can't see his grey suit here, really. (I don't cast everyone who wears a grey suit, but when it's Martin Jarvis in 1980, it's perfect. And I needed someone for Iron.)
Cerium
Cerium
Cerium was my first Element I made up for a specific story that I've never written. She's completely out of my head, so the drawing was okay, if too cute as ever with my drawings.
Mercury (Saeed Jaffrey)
(From The Strange Report. I really can't get quite the right screencaps of him at all.) Mercury's new, but I think he'd work pretty well as another technician.
(I also have Diamond to add, but I'm not completely sure about her yet. Probably Laila Rouass? Not very 1970s, either, but anyway):
Crossposted from Dreamwidth -- Comments there: