/o\

[dira]

Someone please, please, please make me stop scrolling through endless Google Image Search results for Oliver Reed.[1][2] It's not so much that the OH GOD THE SEVENTIES WHY pictures outweigh the periodic startling OH YES YES PLEASE pictures as that I am really supposed to be working on my Yuletide fic and not plotting how I could crop the Getty Images watermark out of the image to make the single hottest Aral Vorkosigan icon ever.

(To say nothing of leaping from Jeffrey Dean Morgan's occasional appearance in the results to the realization that a) there is a striking resemblance, actually, and b) JDM is just prettier enough that he is totally how Hollywood would cast Aral, and thus, c) GUH. JDM!ARAL. Although, I mean, also GUH OLIVER REED!ARAL and GUH ARAL in general.)


1 Lois said one time that pre-serious-alcoholism Oliver Reed was her mental image of Aral Vorkosigan. Or at least a good approximation. Something. This is basically my only meaningful association with Oliver Reed, so when someone randomly capslocks about him on Facebook, this is what happens.

2 This is how we make footnotes at Distributed Proofreading. I have been doing a lot of proofreading lately. It helps me decompress at work when I, for instance, break out in actual hives while dealing with a difficult patron.

Comments

[celli]

JDM!Aral!!!!!!

that is all.

[dira]

RIGHT? !!!

[philomytha]

So, in the spirit of Yuletide procrastination, and also GUH ARAL I had to go and look at images of Oliver Reed too, and if the Getty Images watermarked one is the one I think it is - yes, definitely the hottest Aral Vorkosigan icon in the universe.

[neery]

Obviously, either of you two should link to that image so the rest of us can stare, too! ;)

[philomytha]

Well, this is the one I thought made for a particularly stunning Aral: http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/89039467, and there's this along similar lines: http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/89039484/Hulton-Archive

[neery]

Oh, nice! The only Getty one I found was one with an awful seventies mustache, and while it was a nice pic apart from that, I just couldn't get over that mustache. But those really are very close to the Aral in my head.

[dira]

This, actually, was the one I was thinking of when I posted: http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/89039463/Hulton-Archive

I didn't run across the shirtless ones until after posting, and there went another ... several minutes. :)

[dira]

This is the one that I found really, really arresting: http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/89039463/Hulton-Archive

But that whole series just ... yes. YES. PLEASE.

[princessofgeeks]

i fell in love with oliver reed solely because of his appearance in that Three Musketeers remake that starred Michael York and Raquel Welch. I adored that movie. I was like twelve at the time and I went to see it a zillion times one summer.

[dira]

Yeah, I've only ever seen Oliver Reed in, uh... Gladiator. /o\

[purplevks]

You have successfully inspired me to read the Vorkosigan saga!

...

*stares at stack of 15+ books and wonders where to start*

(yes, I did read the whole Aral/Jole series without reading a single word of canon. XD)

[dira]

Well, literally speaking, start with Shards of Honor or Cordelia's Honor, whichever you've got. They have the most Aral-content. :)

And yay! Enjoy! Picture Oliver Reed being hot a lot!