NoNotTheMemes/Wild Thymes on the 22 (anthology)
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Wild Thymes on the 22 was an Iris Wildthyme short story anthology edited by Stewart Sheargold and published by Obverse Books in 2018.
Publisher's summary
Iris has always been a bit of a name-dropper. She was there when it all began, when it peaked, when it started going pear-shaped. Iris was there: tinkering with the spaceship design on the Star Wars set, upsetting Warhol's films in the Factory, sexing it up with Chaucer, conjuring ghosts with Kate Bush, cross-dressing and undressing with Fanny and Stella, and arguing for her very existence with a nefarious biographer known as Magrs…
Pop star, fashion diva, writer, artiste, botherer, ratbag and liar. She's done it all. Or undone it all.
Now, in this exclusive tell-all collection, taken from her journals, we hear Iris in her own words and get the inside gossip on her wild times…
Individual stories
| # | Title | Author | Featuring |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Heart Pendulums | Steve Cole | Panda, Spike Milligan |
| 2 | Rain and Regency | Nick Chester | Panda, Prince Regent George |
| 3 | Iris Wildthyme & the Bush Offensive | Stewart Sheargold | Tom, Kate Bush |
| 4 | Drowned in Moonlight | Kenneth James McGowan | Carrie Fisher |
| 5 | The Most Faithful Panda in the World | Richard Wright | Panda, Greyfriars Bobby |
| 6 | Hillbilly Heavens | Brad Wolfe | Tom, Dolly Parton |
| 7 | The Haberdasher's Tale | Brendan Jones | Tom, Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 8 | The Exploding Somewhat Inevitable | Philip Marsh | Panda, Andy Warhol |
| 9 | The Brightest Stars in the Demimonde | Matthew Bright | Stella Boulton, Fanny Graham |
| 10 | Starstation to Starstation | Jon Wesley Huff | David Bowie |
| 11 | The Magrs Conundrum! | Vivienne Fox | Panda, Paul Magrs |
| 12 | Untitled No. 22 | Cody Schell | Mark Rothko, Liza, Tomato, Brian, Kate, Fred, Q |
References
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Notes
- The character of Janice, who appears in between Paul Magrs and Napoléon Bonaparte on the front cover, was later revealed to be the main character of artist Paul Hanley's comic series Warp Hustler in 2023.
- Wild Thymes on the 22 collects short stories concerning Iris Wildthyme and famous individuals she has met. Star Tales, a similar anthology centered on the Thirteenth Doctor and her own penchant for name-dropping famous acquaintances was published a year later in 2019.
- The cover artwork contains a variety of references to other art, including theprevious works of the artist Paul Hanley.
- Iris’s pose, facial expression, and placement before a panelled window on the cover artwork evoke the Portrait of Charlotte du Val d'Ognes.
- With the Moulin Rouge a street away in the background, the illustration’s cafe is situated in Montmartre, Paris.
- Iris's hat, earrings, and jacket originate from an outfit designed for the cover of Whatever Happened to Iris Wildthyme? which was cut off from the front of the final CD release.[1]
- The woman inside the cafe facing away from the reader wears an outfit developed by Hanley for a fan-cast incarnation of the Doctor. The green coat and scarf hanging nearby was also developed for this Doctor.[2] However, when asked if the woman was this Doctor, Hanley responded that he was reusing the look for an original character who hadn’t yet appeared in anything else,[3] later apparent to be the Warp Hustler character Otherfred.
- Like Iris, Otherfred is also a crude female pastiche of 20th century depictions of the Doctor. That they have interacted and are friendly with each other, as suggested by this piece, thus has rich implications.
- The character Bloody Mary from Paul Hanley's The Unthinkables comic series cameos in the crowd.[4]
- In the context of the Iris Wildthyme universe, the appearance of Patrick Troughton or Jodie Whitaker could represent El Jefe.
Continuity
- The crowd includes Spike Milligan (PROSE: The Heart Pendulums) Carrie Fisher, (PROSE: Drowned in Moonlight) Greyfriars Bobby, (PROSE: The Most Faithful Panda in the World) Geoffrey Chaucer, (PROSE: The Haberdasher's Tale) Stella Boulton and Fanny Graham, (PROSE: The Brightest Stars in the Demimonde) a grey alien, (PROSE: Starstation to Starstation) and Paul Magrs. (PROSE: The Magrs Conundrum!)
- Señor 105 is holding Sheila. (PROSE: Elementary, My Dear Sheila, et al.)
- Iris is writing in her journals. In Wild Thymes on the 22, the stories Rain and Regency, Iris Wildthyme & the Bush Offensive, Drowned in Moonlight, Hillbilly Heavens, and Starstation to Starstation are partially told as text from Iris's journals and The Heart Pendulums, The Most Faithful Panda in the World, The Exploding Somewhat Inevitable, The Brightest Stars in the Demimonde, and The Magrs Conundrum! are entirely presented as journal text. Iris' journals first appeared in The Scarlet Empress [+]Loading...["The Scarlet Empress (novel)"].
- Noel Edmonds's haircut, shirt, and 3D glasses are those from his introduction to Dimensions in Time.
External links
- Official NoNotTheMemes/Wild Thymes on the 22 page at Obverse Books
