You know you're addicted to Captain Scarlet when ...

by **Marion** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 12:26 am

When you stay up writing a scene that won't leave you alone, until there's only 6 hours before you have to get up again...

by **DartBrat701** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:19 am

After a horror movie has creeped yo out, you find yourself wishing that one of the captains was there to calm you down and make you feel safe.

Absotively! (Two of them are even better!) 0---0

Your family and friends notice you like driving backwards a lot.

It would take a lot of doing.....and a lot of explaining to traffic cops!

You insist on wearing one colour on black.

I've done that, more times than not. :wink:

Website · by **Sage** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 11:32 am

I've never driven backwards, but public transport certainly lends itself to riding that way.

The layered look is in right now, so you could easily do it. Have myself out of necessity of not freezing. Though didn't actually manage to wear my heart on my sleeve; ochre isn't the easier colour to find.

Marion wrote:When you stay up writing a scene that won't leave you alone, until there's only 6 hours before you have to get up again...

You mean, there are people who don't do that?

You consider writing 50,000 words of CS fanfic in 30 days to be a totally reasonable and achievable goal.
Incidentally I'm currently at 31k. :wink:

by **Marion** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:03 pm

Only 50,000? :wink:

Website · by **Sage** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:47 pm

Well I'm shooting for 60,000 ideally, but 50,000 is the minimum to qualify for the glory.

by **Marion** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:24 pm

I finished 'Rewind' at the end of September, and since then I have written approximately 56,300 words in 2 on-going stories, neither of which is finished. But I don't keep a strict count, and I haven't included the parts I've since edited out.

Note to self: sorting out a plot before writing a story might help - possibly... :roll:

Website · by **Sage** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:16 pm

Wow good for you

I have got a plot mapped out. It's not really helping though. The first chapter is already done, so I started the next one recently. But no Pat doesn't want to have any part in the happy christmas fluffy goo of it. He'd apparently much rather wallow in the uber angst of the 'big dramatic chapter' which comes much later.
And I'm not writing the BDC yet, tried that with the first draft and stalled because everything else is a flat dead end after that. He'll have to be patient.

This story is my one for the christmas challenge. It's not going to be that long. The 50k is a grand total of that, some additional scenes to my other epic in progress, and a bunch of drabbles.

by **Intensity Angel** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 5:09 pm

You think there should be a Captain Scarlet movie and that stars from series like UFO and Thunderbirds should be in it.

by **Marion** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 6:03 pm

That could be a bit difficult - the puppets in those shows were different sizes - and proportions - and the cast of UFO were human (despite some people's comments on their wooden acting :wink:

)

by **MMK** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:24 pm

You realise your 'other half' has the same (first) name as one of the Spectrum Captains (their real names) and you wonder if that's what your 'other half' is up to in their spare time/when they aren't with you.
:wink:

It could be any of the characters though.... it doesn't have to be just the Captains.

by **Scarlet Lady** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:26 pm

Every red car looks like an SPC/cheetah when you see it from the corner of your eye... or worse still, every silver/pale blue car looks like an SPV.

I have bad eyes and a vivid imagination. What can I say? There was a point when I really did keep seeing SPCs and SPVs!

by **RhapsodyAngel8** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:43 pm

When choosing between the two new mobiles you bought – one for you, one for your husband – you decide to take the more boring, brick-like one simply because it will let you download the ‘Century 21 sting’ and ‘staccato beat (timpani)’ from the CS OST as choices for your message alert, whereas the other, super-cool one, won’t. :lol:

by **Intensity Angel** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 10:08 pm

You think there is a mysteron in your area and you look for clues for who it is.

by **MMK** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 9:55 pm

MMK wrote:
Intensity Angel wrote:No I literally mean wearing black, then wearing another colour on top of it with the black showing underneath.

I've not done that yet ... but I dont have the right colour clothes I want to wear over black

Correction, I've got a pic of me in clothes that are nearly right :grin:

... just need to switch the jeans i wore for black trousers, add a black belt and sort the colours out on the top :wink:

.... I might sort that out using photoshop :angel)

by **Intensity Angel** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 5:39 pm

I've got a green shirt that is quite similar to the one Rhapsody's worn on a couple of ocassions. I've pratically done a blonde version of her!