PB Memeage!

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This meme is brought to you the thread on a Star Wars message board from 2005 and made me late for work this morning! But dammit, it was interesting.

So for those of you who have never had to choose a PB, I envy you because it can be very very hard. For those who have, who do you use? Why did you choose them? Or do you have any future journals you want to talk about how you searched high and lo to find that one perfect face for your character, or complain how you haven't?

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I've been playing on games that were original characters only (no canon characters as PCs) for about 14 years, so that led to a lot of searching for suitable PBs there as there were never any PBs at the ready. Add to that wanting pictures for NPCs to flesh out some of the games with background fodder and a tendency to be OCD and hoard things and, well, I have several gig worth of photos organised on my hard drive into alphabetical order by the person's surname. Then there's the folders of unknown actors (etc.) I've collected over the years that are sorted by gender and a special section for weetiny which I normally upload to photobucket for everyone to use. So if you're ever in need of a PB, email me with the physical features and I can probably set you in the right direction. A big portion of my collection is little-known actors and actresses as I prefer to use those over big stars.

I'm quite lucky in that a lot of my Fandom High characters have had ready-made PBs (although since Kawalsky isn't in a lot of Stargate episodes, I'm in the process of hunting down screencaps of Jay Acovone's earlier guest star spots. Do you know how hard it is to find good screencaps of shows like The Sentinel, Viper and Strong Medicine?).

When I played Thursday Next, someone (sorry, I forget who!) suggested Laura Kightlinger and based on the expressions in the pictures I saw, she fit the attitude I associate with Thursday. But then I went looking for Landen (Thursday's husband) and found Carmine Giovinazzo from CSI: NY (which I'd never seen) and then saw a young but appropriately looking woman in photos with him (Anna Belknap) who caught my attention. Kightlinger was more suited to Thursday's age, but Belknap had more icons and I'm nothing if not an icon whore.

Friday's easy to explain. I wanted to fit the physical description from the book First Among Sequels. It also had to be someone who fit the voice I had in my head for him and be a little known (or unknown) actor. Voila, thanks to a PB comm on Greatestjournal, I got Tom Schilling who's a decently well known actor in Germany, but not so much outside.

Wow that got talky.

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Tom so totally fits Friday. Also, mmmmm Carmine.

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*seconds the mmmm Carmine*