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thisbluespirit · 3 years

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Hi! Fanfiction Trope Mash Up - Silver/Liz - 95 Sleep Intimacy and 97 Time Travel please and thank you!

@pers-books woo, thank you!

"Ah, you're awake. Good morning," said a voice from far too near Liz's pillow. "If it is morning, that is."

She managed by dint of sheer will not to shriek and then opened her eyes one at a time. There was indeed an unwanted elemental technician sitting beside her on the bed, watching her.

"Not again!" she said. She pulled herself up into a better position to glare properly. "Am I an experiment? Human observed closely during the sleeping state, exhibit A?"

Silver cocked his head to one side. "I wasn't observing, I was removing the bedknobs." His glance flickered from her to the item in question, now in his hand. "And... again?"

"It happened last week! And I suspect the week before last, since I unaccountably woke up with three out of four bedknobs missing one morning and I don't suppose there are two lots of bedknob thieves around."

Silver drew back. There were grey-green lights in his eyes and his expression was suddenly inscrutable. Liz was reminded that he was not in the least bit human.

"Oh, how fascinating," he said, and gave her a bright smile, the momentary darkness gone. "This is my first time..."

Meme here if anyone wants to send more (these are fun!)

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younglarva · 6 years

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A look at the spy genre. Specifically that action packed international flavor that flourished during the hight of the Cold War. Spy stories have been with us since the battle of Troy but internationalskullduggery and intrigue really took off in the 20th century with the two world wars. The spy film genre began with a merger between the paranoid invasion literature popular during WW1 and the invention of motion pictures during and after and produced such features as False Faces, The Mysterious X and the Fritz Lang Spies and Dr. Mabuse series. The lead up to WW2 offered new adversaries and Hollywood obliged with the work of Alfred Hitcock and the writer John Maquand (author of the Mr. Moto series). After the war we of course traded nazi villains for soviet villains and the Cold War was on. Due to the clandestine and proxy-war aspects of the Cold War, espionage and skullduggery was at the forefront - in life and in art. Again, Hollywood and literature obliged with a plethora of new work from Len Deighton, John Le Career and of course Ian Fleming. Fleming in particular pushed a somewhat more fantastical version of clandestine work and added action elements that - while maybe a little unrealistic - resonated with audiences in the 50s and 60s. A sub-genre was born and Bond films and imitators were churned out throughout the world. Of course these films needed soundtracks and some great work was put into service providing sonic action for the physical action on screen. You’ll also notice that composers of this era were particularly adept at melding older big band arrangements with the emerging tropes of rock and psychedelia. Think of that iconic guitar twang intro on the Bond films.

As the Cold War raged around the globe and jet setting spies fought each other on the silver screen, a major focus of that war - at least here in the US was Southeast Asia. The influx of GIs and western media had a profound effect on the local culture and - as kids will do everywhere - kids wanted to be a part of it. In the 60s, this meant western music and fashion and local rock bands grew up by the hundreds. Cheap Korean and Japanese instruments were available there (as they were here) and southeast asian garage bands proliferated. Due to the situation on the ground however, the music tended to concentrate in slightly more stable areas such as Thailand, Malaysia and (at least for a while) Cambodia rather than Vietnam proper. The Cambodian scene produced some of the liveliest music with bands melding pop, surf, psych and traditional Khmer melodies working out this transcultural melange at teen dances and hotel bars for locals and GIs alike. Sadly, many of these Cambodian musicians met a terrible fate as the Khmer Rouge swept through in 1975 and those who could not escape or conceal their pre-war musical endeavors (everything from playing a musical instrument to having an education to wearing eyeglasses was considered a crime against the state) were killed or imprisoned. Fortunately, there are today some 2nd and third generation Cambodians - and allies - working to revive the memory and music of these fantastic players. Check out some of the music and research work done by Chom Nimol and Ethan Holtzman from the west coast band Dengue Fever.

#spy #spy jazz #radioshow #wvew #james bond 007 #cold war #espionage #orchestral

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