Snowflake Challenge #12

I believe #11 was 'interact with someone', and I'm reasonably confident that I have done that.

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Snowflake Challenge #12

In your own space, tell us who you would recast in a film, tv series or webseries, or maybe someone voicing a cartoon or videogame. Or who would you cast to play a character in a book, comic or maybe even your own fiction!

Hmmmm. Well, I have a few random thoughts.

John Hurt was very good as the "War Doctor" in Doctor Who, but how much more awesome would Helen Mirren have been in the role? 100%, at least. Damn, what a wasted opportunity.

I always thought Hugo Weaving was utterly miscast as Elrond in the LotR trilogy. Edward Petherbridge, who played Lord Peter Wimsey in 1987, would have been much more to my taste. Though to be fair, his Elrond would also have been more of a lore master and less of an aggressive douche and overprotective father. Also more to my taste.

I would *love* to see Serena Williams as a superhero! Wouldn't she make a great Black Panther? At least, I have no idea if she can act, probably not, as most people can't, but yeah. She practically *is* a superhero anyway.

Aral Vorkosigan should absolutely have been played by Andreas Katsulas. Alas that it can never happen.

In my story Wanna Tell Me About It? the character of Paul is played by Paul Sorvino.

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I often have difficulty getting to sleep at night because a song is circulating in my head and won't stop. Usually it's something we have been rehearsing in chorus, or perhaps something we are considering singing in the future.

Last night, it was "Nice one, Cyril."

Just. Shoot. Me.

telling yesterday's news

I saw these questions on author_by_night's journal and thought, why not?


What is the first TV show you remember watching?

Huh. I think the earliest one I can *remember* watching was Top Of The Pops.

What is the first “grown up” TV show you watched?

I, Claudius I was at boarding school, but senior enough to be allowed to watch this one.

Have you ever been in a wedding bridal party? What was your role? What did your outfit look like that you wore for the day?

I've been a bridesmaid twice, and a bride once.

First bridesmaid, as a young teenager, for my uncle's bride: I wore a long cream dress with light brown patterned stripes, big sleeves with long cuffs, a flounce round the bottom. It was the '70s, and not my fault!

Second bridesmaid, while college age, for my grandma: found a paisley dress in beiges and pinks which I really liked, and my parents managed to find the same dress with a darker pink trim for my sister to wear.

Bride? Does that count? I don't really know the definition of 'wedding party'. Anyway. Full length, white, lace from high collar to hem, fairly close fitting to body, then A-line. Long sleeves. Cathedral veil, attached to a little pearled cap.

What is your ethnic background that you’re aware of?

English, through and through. I have a family tree of my mother's mother's family, which lived in Buckinghamshire in the 16th century and hasn't moved far since. Intermarried with Bucks and Beds families. My mother's father bore a Bedfordshire name, though I don't know anything else about him or his family.

My father's father's family seem to be mostly from the Coventry area, and my father's mother was from the East End of London. She was illegitimate, and her mother seems to have been a tart, but my grandma thought that her real father was the son of the woman who ran the flower shop where her mother had worked. And a 'gentleman', though what that might mean in this context I cannot say.

What was the last hotel you stayed in and where? Did you like it?

I... actually can't remember when I last stayed in a hotel.