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Jan. 29th, 2019 07:17 pm
toujours_nigel: Greek, red-figure Rhea (Default)
[personal profile] toujours_nigel
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How it works: reply with "Oh! Shiny" and I'll choose three of your icons. Tell me about them: where they came from, what they mean to you, and/or when you deploy them. Drop a link here to your post in your own journal. Spread it around.

She gave me three that I actually made recently, in the wake of the tumblr debacles.



I cropped this from a photoshoot about Varanasi, it's the dangling feet of someone painted blue to play Krishna; probably a bahurupi. It's my krishna icon, used mostly for posts about the god, epics, Hindu mythology, etc. My favourite god, master manipulator in my favourite epic, so I... well I don't actually talk about my religion a whole bunch on dw, but I do write Mahabharata fic, so it seemed apt in my last round of icon-making.




This is Peter O'Toole from--i think--Lord Jim. He's my face-claim for Ralph Lanyon, one of the romantic leads of The Charioteer, a merchant-navy sailor and RNVR officer who canonically has the nervous tic of touching his collar for reassurance. He's neurotic and disabled and queer and fucked-up; I love him more than I can easily explain.




So a few years ago there was a Buzzfeed article about men with mehndi looking stunning, by the always awesome Imaan Sheikh. I immediately incorporated the look into my personal headcanon of traditional West and South Asian masculinity, which was and is very different from Western, especially Anglo constructs of the same, and absolutely incorporates cosmetics and jewellery, not as a rebellious or punk or genderfluid thing, but as part of normative masc. presentation.

Date: 2019-01-29 03:14 pm (UTC)
terresdebrume: Aziraphale from Good Omens, smiling. The background is a trans pride flag. (Default)
From: [personal profile] terresdebrume
Oooh, I like this game! It's shiny! :D

Also I like your Krishna icon, the color is really nice! :)
Edited Date: 2019-01-29 03:15 pm (UTC)

Date: 2019-01-29 04:06 pm (UTC)
terresdebrume: Crowley from Good Omens smiles at the something to his left. (happy)
From: [personal profile] terresdebrume
Haha, well sometimes coincidence makes great things happen :D

Also, my answer is here! :)

Date: 2019-01-29 04:46 pm (UTC)
moetushie: Beaton cartoon - a sexy revolution. (Default)
From: [personal profile] moetushie
Shiny!

I always imagined the Krishna icon as a pair of lovely rain boots. I mean, I know you regularly used for your myth posts so I knew what they were -- but now I really want beautiful blue rain boots?

Also, Peter O'Toole would make a fine Ralph Lanyon. I mean, the charisma alone would explain why everyone puts up with him. I don't know if I have a fancast of old Ralph. Maybe a younger Rupert Penry Jones?

*quietly bookmarks the mehndi post*

Date: 2019-01-29 06:59 pm (UTC)
moetushie: Beaton cartoon - a sexy revolution. (Default)
From: [personal profile] moetushie
My "real" fancast for Ralph is Kate Hepburn.

OOoooh. I think my classic Hollywood Ralph would be young Richard Burton + a bottle of hair dye, lol.

So my other fancast for Laurie is Shaun Evans, who plays ITV's Endeavour, in that he's a redhead who was very cute when he was younger but now his face has settled in more cynical and interesting lines. They were even in show together where they had some weird, shippy vibes and went on a very dangerous ride together in a classic car (the show itself was terrible tho.)

Date: 2019-01-29 07:53 pm (UTC)
moetushie: Beaton cartoon - a sexy revolution. (Default)
From: [personal profile] moetushie
OK, listen, can you IMAGINE my disappointment when these two played the only token straight characters in Cambridge Spies?? (Actually I don't remember if RPJ's character was straight or not. Everyone else pretty much stole the show from his character though.)

ANYWAY I'm glad that Black Sails rectified that, even though I will probably never watch it (I know a lot of fannish people love it, but I've tried and I just don't like the first couple of episodes of the first season at all. Also, pirate stories are like Westerns to me -- I just don't care.)

But as much as I love Toby Stephens, he seems a little too buff to be Laurie for me?? But that's all how I perceive the character for sure.

Date: 2019-01-29 05:22 pm (UTC)
lilliburlero: (local)
From: [personal profile] lilliburlero
ooh, shiny!

Date: 2019-01-29 10:02 pm (UTC)
sporky_rat: red maple leaves on a blue background (IT WAS RED)
From: [personal profile] sporky_rat
Peter O'Toole's blue eyes, yo. His and Paul Newman's are so beautiful. My goodness.

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