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Merry Christmas!
Dec. 25th, 2010 01:28 pmI have received some wonderful virtual gifts: Autor fanart from Rhapsody, a YGO fic from Crystal focusing on Duke and Serenity (with a bit of David), a combination belated birthday/early Christmas Autor/Ahiru AMV, as well as fics for a meme from Nuit, and Princess Tutu icons from Lisa! I've uploaded several icons to my Autor roleplay and my writing announcements journals. They're gorgeous! Now I just need to figure out which icons I want on this journal and what I have to remove to get them here.
I continue to tinker with the psychological fic. I decided I probably should not post it right before Christmas. I may post it next week, if I feel it's done. However, I also need to get up chapter 7 of the mystery fic before people forget it exists. And I wrote some of chapter 9! I'm thrilled. I'm hoping to keep the plot moving along and to always have at least a couple of chapters waiting in the wings.
I have season 2 of The Patty Duke Show and have rewatched the episode with George. His parents are in the stationery business, though he doesn't specify whether they make it or just distribute it (or both). He writes poetry and is in the Literature club. And he likes Shakespeare. And my deduction of him being gentlemanly was either me remembering the episode or making a good guess based on what I recalled of his personality: he stands up when Patty and Betsy appear and pulls out the chair for the girl who sits next to him (Betsy, I think).
In another episode, Maggie (a recurring character) is dating someone named Alfred, who gets upset when they have problems after listening to some screwy advice from a mysterious love advice columnist. Alfred threatens to join the Merchant Marines, and Maggie claims he does. Patty says, "Well, that's Alfred, always running off getting into things...." Later on, she talks to him on the phone when he calls her and she says she'll see him at school tomorrow. Either his parents put a stop to him joining, he was kicked out when his real age was discovered, or he never really joined in the first place but wanted to make Maggie think he had. There's no proof he's the Alfred played by Jeff Siggins; however, I think it's likely. Alfred isn't *that* common of a name, and the writers surely remembered Jeff's character, particularly since he was in more than one episode. Jeff is also in the episode, in an uncredited, non-speaking role. And when he's in an episode that features a character named Alfred ... well, the evidence seems stacked quite high.
If I decide to incorporate this into my verse, I will probably say that Alfred didn't really join but wanted Maggie to think it. The way I've been developing his character, that seems the most likely option. Or he could have just had a moment of impulse and actually did run into things and try to join. I played with that idea, too.
Maybe soon I'll post some various musings about the characters and how I've been trying to take the canon information and expand on their personalities.
... And I was practically ready to levitate when I caught Jeff in a five second cameo in the episode with Sal Mineo. He was on stage at a high school revue with three other guys. They were dressed in vaudeville (?) type outfits, with striped blazers and white pants and straw hats and canes. He had that adorable grin and I squeed. I wish we could have seen what their number was.
Also, they were seen from quite far away, but I still recognized him immediately. I love that.
I find it rather amusing that while many girls would be swooning over Sal Mineo (and admittedly, I did like him), I was far more captivated by the cutie with the boyish grin and a somewhat standard "nerd/geek" look.
I continue to tinker with the psychological fic. I decided I probably should not post it right before Christmas. I may post it next week, if I feel it's done. However, I also need to get up chapter 7 of the mystery fic before people forget it exists. And I wrote some of chapter 9! I'm thrilled. I'm hoping to keep the plot moving along and to always have at least a couple of chapters waiting in the wings.
I have season 2 of The Patty Duke Show and have rewatched the episode with George. His parents are in the stationery business, though he doesn't specify whether they make it or just distribute it (or both). He writes poetry and is in the Literature club. And he likes Shakespeare. And my deduction of him being gentlemanly was either me remembering the episode or making a good guess based on what I recalled of his personality: he stands up when Patty and Betsy appear and pulls out the chair for the girl who sits next to him (Betsy, I think).
In another episode, Maggie (a recurring character) is dating someone named Alfred, who gets upset when they have problems after listening to some screwy advice from a mysterious love advice columnist. Alfred threatens to join the Merchant Marines, and Maggie claims he does. Patty says, "Well, that's Alfred, always running off getting into things...." Later on, she talks to him on the phone when he calls her and she says she'll see him at school tomorrow. Either his parents put a stop to him joining, he was kicked out when his real age was discovered, or he never really joined in the first place but wanted to make Maggie think he had. There's no proof he's the Alfred played by Jeff Siggins; however, I think it's likely. Alfred isn't *that* common of a name, and the writers surely remembered Jeff's character, particularly since he was in more than one episode. Jeff is also in the episode, in an uncredited, non-speaking role. And when he's in an episode that features a character named Alfred ... well, the evidence seems stacked quite high.
If I decide to incorporate this into my verse, I will probably say that Alfred didn't really join but wanted Maggie to think it. The way I've been developing his character, that seems the most likely option. Or he could have just had a moment of impulse and actually did run into things and try to join. I played with that idea, too.
Maybe soon I'll post some various musings about the characters and how I've been trying to take the canon information and expand on their personalities.
... And I was practically ready to levitate when I caught Jeff in a five second cameo in the episode with Sal Mineo. He was on stage at a high school revue with three other guys. They were dressed in vaudeville (?) type outfits, with striped blazers and white pants and straw hats and canes. He had that adorable grin and I squeed. I wish we could have seen what their number was.
Also, they were seen from quite far away, but I still recognized him immediately. I love that.
I find it rather amusing that while many girls would be swooning over Sal Mineo (and admittedly, I did like him), I was far more captivated by the cutie with the boyish grin and a somewhat standard "nerd/geek" look.
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