By Slanted Light

Ah - today is one of my favourite icons, and in fact right now it's my default icon: When Love, with our lads looking out a window through soft light and up to the skies... It's another one by enednoviel. *happy sigh*
One of the things I really like about this one, is that it transforms with the click of a choice to my Christmas/snowy/wintry icon... but that will have to wait for now... *g*

This icon was made by hisluvpet, and I adore it for how clever it is and how apt it is. She's captured that moment perfectly, if you ask me! *g* And it's entirely apt for me, because every single thing I try to do these days... well.


hisluvpet was another of those very talented multi-tasking people in Pros - she also made vids as Bistokidsfan, and wrote Pros fic too (including a couple of my favourites - Daring the Sea and Careful Cultivation. In fact she wrote a story for one of the discoveredinalj challenges, and then made a vid to go with it - how clever is that!

Today is another happy icon from probodie - the Capri! I tend to use it when there's something to pleased (or smug *g*) about, because of course the caption comes from the 1991 song by Right Said Fred. Or I use it when there's a car involved. *g*

I always think its funny that it's the silver Capri that's become iconic of Pros, because of course Doyle drove a gold Capri (and I think the first one we see in an ep is a black Capri driven by Tommy), and Doyle drove the Escort as well (okay, that's kind of iconic too). I guess the silver is just a bit classier than the gold (or "boring" as my cousin once said of silver cars - but I drive a "boring" car myself, so...), and perhaps we see it more often than the other vehicles... I could see if Professional Insight says anything about that... Ha - of course it does!

Right:
Bodie drove the silver Capri in 31 eps (actually there were 3 of them)
Doyle drove the gold Capri in 13 eps
Doyle also drove a silver Capri in 1 ep, bringing its appearance to 32
Doyle drove the white Escort in 21 eps
Doyle also drove many more other cars than Bodie did, so we associate one car more strongly with Bodie

So there - the silver Capri is the car we see most in Pros!

And actually, because I just watched the vid and it made me smile even before I've my coffee - please do watch it with me!

Here is another icon by snarkyllama. I use this one fairly often - which is actually not a good thing, because it's my sad icon, and it usually means that someone's just said they're going through a hard time.


You can so see why Doyle's often described as being quite serious and affected by things, there's something about him here - he's not just beautiful, but you can practically feel that he's turned inward and that he's feeling something very deeply here. Of course it's from When the Heat Cools Off, and Bodie's standing just behind him, focusing hard on him, and what's happened, and Doyle's reaction to it... well of course he is. *g* It's one of those images, I think, that fits in just perfectly with our Pros slash stories - it's a hundred of them, or a thousand of them, or even more, exactly this scene... *g*

I usually use this icon when I'm having a bad day, as the caption says, because - and isn't this awful - it's at least cheering to see how absolutely beautiful Doyle is when he's suffering...

The icon is by Snarkyllama (who is llamabitchyo now), and it's one of my favourites.

I mean, what is this awful thing in us that likes to see the lads suffer? Because we do... and I know its because actually we like to see them looked after afterwards, and they can't get to being looked after without suffering first - the whole hurt/comfort thing - but... But Doyle does look beautiful when he's suffering, doesn't he... *is awful person but I know I'm not alone in that...*

Which makes me try to think of my favourite hurt/comfort fic to... I've been reading Pros again recently, and almost frozen about what to read next because there's so much I want to read. I keep saying I'll do a post, and I must, cos it's been my current "books". *g* But... hurt/comfort... I've just read Sebastian's Flu, which I adore - both of them sick together, very much hurting and comforting, and so bittersweet... And in a similar but very differet vein (I won't say why for spoilering, in case anyone's not read it yet - but I recommend it!) I adore HG's Knife Edge, and Pamela Rose's Fevers - although now I've veered from hurt/comfort to sickness/comfort, haven't I... *g*

So go on - do you have a favourite Pros hurt/comfort story to rec? *vbg*

I missed a day again - something to do with not being able to focus on work and so not finishing it until nearly four in the morning... *headdesk* But today is the last of my Eddie icons:

"What have you been reading? The Gospel according to St Bastard?"

Now that could apply to many things these days. The newspapers. Full of St Bastard news.

... oh, except yes! I just went to check the latest horrors, and the Scottish court has actually ruled Johnson's prorogation of Parliament unlawful! Finally - some sense! It's clearly unethical, so how on Earth it could have been legal was beyond me - and it wasn't! It is officially "illegal and in breach of the constitution, as it was designed to stifle parliamentary debate and action on Brexit"! Of course they're appealing the ruling in their turn, but surely it's time for common sense to prevail... we've had the silly season (on top of the whole ridiculous Brexit season, where politicians should have been focused on actually making sure the people in their country are safe and progressing, which is what their job is)...

Judges rule prorogation is illegal

Which interestingly calls into question the role of the queen in granting permission for Parliament to be prorogued - was she misled? Did she agree with Johnson to start with (and therefore wasn't impartial)? Or did she simply rubber-stamp the request so as not to get too caught up in the politics of it...?

It has been quite the unexpected and exhausting day today (in a good way - I ended up on an eight plus mile walk up our local hill rather than staying home and being domestic, though I did start out by making elderberry cordial... *g*), but I'm determined to make my icon post!

Today's icon is finally our two lads together again! It's another one that I made myself, and it's very simple, but its from a scene I love, in Mixed Doubles of course.

I love that its' so automatic for the lads to sit so close together. Doyle just goes over and sits down that close to Bodie to talk to him, even though they have that huge room and he could presumably just sit on his own bed and so on. But no - he sits soooo close to Bodie... *sighs happily*

And of course they're so serious about the job they're on too, and we find out more about them as people. Bodie would consider using dum-dums, and Doyle would absolutely not...

Today has been one of those days where every little thing has been just a tiny bit off. Like - I had half-a-day's proofreading, but also more of the fun kid's book proofreading to do, so what happened? I only got the half-a-day's job done, because it just stre-e-e-e-tched out to dullness... (karst. I ask you - karst!) I got my laundry in the washing machine, set it off - and it took three times as long as it was supposed to, and then came out of the machine sopping wet because the spin hadn't worked properly, so I had to faff around with that. The washing line was tipping over again, so I had to hammer the wedges in again before I could trust it. Went to the supermarket and spent twice as much as I meant to, even though I'd planned to spend a fair old amount in the name of stocking up. Driving up the country roads to get there, I had to keep stopping for big fat giant-cars that barely slowed down in the narrow bits, and none of whom waved even a finger thank you. It was supposed to be Writing Group, but Chap 1 had already cancelled, so there'd be just two of us getting ready for the village show on Saturday - exept that Chap 2 cancelled as well. What's the betting I end up doing it on my own again? And... it was just like that, today.

Wow, that was a whinge. On the other hand... Squeeee! I love this icon - I love the joy of it, and the joy of Bodie in the ep, and as always the feel of his hands on Doyle's arms, and just the closeness of them in this scene, because what makes Doyle happy makes Bodie happy, and Bodie's happiness is pretty contagious. *g*


Squee for Pros, and squee for cheering-up messages about Pros fic, and a sudden spark of love for our lads again! So today's icon works perfectly. *g* It was made by probodie, who was one of the very first people I knew in Pros fandom (on lj and in real life, because I met her at the first Nattercon I went to, and then at most gatherings after that), and I still have that sense of disbelief that she died so young. She threw herself into Pros for years, and I have more of her icons to come. I like the idea that maybe we can all live on through Pros a bit, through our stories and icons and art and posts and comments - a bit like GNU Terry Pratchett, flying under the radar, all but invisible, but - A [person] is not dead while [their] name is still spoken.

Here's to all the names being spoken, always.

A whole week - I've been posting for a week. Hurrah! Perhaps I've finally broken my desert-like dry spell for posting to lj! *g*

Today's icon is not Pros - sorry! It's from another of my favourite chaps though, Eddie Izzard. And hmmn - I'm trying desperately to find a video for it, and there's none online. Waah! It's from Dress to Kill, and it says:
Father, bless me for I have sinned. I did an original sin, I poked a badger with a spoon
Cos priests must get tired of all the ordinary sins at confession, they want original sins. *g*


So - Pros connection! There's got to be one... Okay, apparently Eddie Izzard started performing on stage at the Comedy Store in London in 1987 - that's no more than half a dozen years since we last saw the lads in the eps (if you count it from 1981 - only four years if you count it from 1983 when the last ep was finally shown on tv!) So... would the lads have gone to see him on stage (makes me think of helenraven's Freezing, where they went to see Rowan Atkinson...)? Would they think he was funny, or is he too surreal for them (bearing in mind they came of age more in the time of Benny Hill and Dick Emery and The Two Ronnies and so on... Round the Horne! Although also The Goons and Spike Milligan and all, so maybe... Anyway, here's Eddie's big break - his Raised by Wolves sketch from Hysteria 3 in 1991. Start around 1.30. I remember lying on the floor in tears watching this - and it made me giggle re-watching tonight, too... But would the lads have liked it?! *g*

This time it's my own fault I've stayed up until 2.30am - but oh well, it's better than 3.30am, right?

Today's icon is making me re-think my assumption that lj has ordered my User Pics chronologically, because I'm pretty sure I had other icons long before I had this one... Oh well, so maybe they're not in order, hey-ho!

My Young Love icon is another of my favourites, and one I use quite a lot. I've even had it as my default icon now and then. It's by imbeiaiel (... okay, I just spent far too long checking her lj again, and actually she did make some of my icons way back in 2005, so maybe lj is right to order them that way!...), and I just adore the colour and the texture of it, and of course it's done from my favourite pic, and... they just are young love, aren't they - no matter how old they get to be... *g*


This pic makes me think of Pros fic too - of my favourite stories, because in my favourite stories they always end up looking like this at some point, completely blissed up (even if it's only in their heads and the rest of the story is on the grim and gritty side *g*). Mmmn, Prosfic... maybe tomorrow! *g*