Randym

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Name: Randym
Alias(es): Leigh M., Leigh Moto'oka (note spelling; the apostrophe is optional, it's just to show that the name has four syllables: moe-toe-oh-kah)
Type: vidder and fan artist, zine publisher
Fandoms: Blake's 7, Star Trek Voyager, X-Files, Darkover, Sime~Gen
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Randym is a vidder and fan artist who began vidding and drawing in the late 1980s and continued through the late 1990s.

Her artwork and zine work won her one FanQ award and three Stiffie Awards.

She is one of the few vidders from the 1980s to have made the transition to digital vidding.

Randym, along with Carol McCoy, was very much a fan of the oft-maligned Blake's 7 character, Del Tarrant.

Comments by Randym

... the pitfalls of writing a romance involving a character you don’t understand or don’t like. It didn’t readily occur to me because I put just as much thought and effort into my videos as I do into my stories, if not more. But now that you mention it, other fannish videomakers have said that they find videomaking easy — something they do when they’re too tired to write. What I find hardest to do with characters I’m not wild about is illustrate them. Several people have commented that in my art Blake is not as attractive as the other characters, and they’re right. I don’t find him particularly attractive, physically or psychologically, and I’m afraid it shows in my illos. (Also, I rarely watch the 1st & 2nd series, so I’m not as familiar with the pre-'Star One' characters as I am with the later ones.) [1]

Fan Comments

1989

I must admit that at first I didn't care much for RANDYM's art style, however it's grown on me and now I find it quite striking. [2]

I don't believe I had seen any artwork by RANDYM before and I've been missing a lot. Very impressive. I like the style. [3]

1995

I enjoyed your review of Leigh's videos very much. It was interesting to see how different your taste is from mine. I really liked the "Mr. Tambourine Man" vid and it's not just a generation-gap thing, since previously I had always hated that particular song. (Though I admit, I listened to a lot of Dylan in college, like everyone else I knew. We all thought the lyrics were about us personally. Him and the Beatles, in depressed moods. I still sometimes think of myself as Sexy Sadie: "You broke the rules... You laid it down for all to see... Sexy Sadie, oh-oh, what have you done?") I love "I Was Only Kidding." So shamelessly wicked. And I always crack up laughing at "Yakkety Yak." The point where Vila slams his glass down is where I usually start laughing out loud. You didn't mention my two favorites of the serious ones: the Tarrant weepie, "Show Me the Way," and my very top favorite, "Sailing," which eluki bes shahar described as being about the entire crew's romance with Death. I used to be able to cry over these when I was in the mood, though now I've watched them so much that the effect has somewhat worn off. [4]

Sample Fiction

Websites and Mailing Lists

  • An Avon/Tarrant Online Fiction Archive (aka TarrantNostra.com)
  • moderator and creator of Mulder/Krycek Mailing List
  • A Blake's 7 Library ("Photos, episode reviews, photos and other graphics, zine info, and links to other B7 sites.")
  • A Steven Pacey Bio ("A comprehensive listing of all the television shows, plays, and films Steven Pacey has appeared in, with many rare photos.")
  • A Nick Lea Bio ("A large, detailed site devoted to Nicholas Lea, in all his roles.") (offline)
  • Nick Lea in Once a Thief ("A page devoted to John Woo's Once A Thief the TV series. Episode guide, photo gallery, cast information, and more.")
  • The Krycek File ("Everything worth knowing about Alex Krycek. A Krycek concordance, episode transcripts, an analysis of the Consortium, and other information useful to the fan writer (slash or gen). Also has some fun stuff, like movie files, scenes that ended up on the cutting room floor, and a handwriting analysis.")

APA OE

Awards

Zines

Ambrov Zeor! | Angelfood | Aquitar | Avon Calling | Blake, Rabble and Roll | Careless Whispers |A Companion in Zeor | Contes di Cottman IV | Dark Between the Stars | Dark Fantasies | Deadlier Than the Male | Delta Blues | Destiny | Different Destinies | Forgotten Seven | Gambit | Input | Integrity | The Laughing Mutoid | Liaisons | Liberator Fantasies | Magnificent Seven | M/K Ultra | Moon Phases | The Neutral Arbiter | On the Wing | The Plain Man's Guide to Alien Invasions | Rebel Desires | The Seven Live On | Shadow | Shadow at the Edge | Songs of Experience | Songs of Innocence | Southern Comfort | Southern Seven | Straight Blake's | Strange Bedfellows (APA) | Threads Through Infinity | Whomsoever Holds This Sword | X-Plicit Fantasies | Zen and the Art of Rebellion | Zeor Forum

Art Gallery

1987

1989

  • from Blake, Rabble and Roll #1 (Blake's 7)

    from Blake, Rabble and Roll #1 (Blake's 7)

  • from Blake, Rabble and Roll #1 (Blake's 7)

    from Blake, Rabble and Roll #1 (Blake's 7)

  • from Blake, Rabble and Roll #1 - " Leigh's art [in Blake Rabble and Roll] throughout is outstanding, and the Avon-Blake that accompanied this story was uncannily visually attuned to the prose; couldn't have been better. [...] All of Leigh's pieces were fantastic, each enhancing the story it/they accompanied. Her attention to body position and gestures really impresses me. It isn't just the face that is in character and recognizable. I could study the two "Stand-In” illos for a long time and still find much interesting in them, the expressions, the poses, the gestures. She even paid attention to garments. Avon and Vila had their same outfits , but Tarrant, after his ordeal, was allowed to change (very clever!)." [6] (Blake's 7)

    from Blake, Rabble and Roll #1 - " Leigh's art [in Blake Rabble and Roll] throughout is outstanding, and the Avon-Blake that accompanied this story was uncannily visually attuned to the prose; couldn't have been better. [...] All of Leigh's pieces were fantastic, each enhancing the story it/they accompanied. Her attention to body position and gestures really impresses me. It isn't just the face that is in character and recognizable. I could study the two "Stand-In” illos for a long time and still find much interesting in them, the expressions, the poses, the gestures. She even paid attention to garments. Avon and Vila had their same outfits , but Tarrant, after his ordeal, was allowed to change (very clever!)." [6] (Blake's 7)

  • from Magnificent Seven #8 (Blake's 7)

    from Magnificent Seven #8 (Blake's 7)

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Explicit Art

  • "Instruments of Darkness", Dark Fantasies #3. Note: This image has been marked as sexually explicit and has been minimised. From a fan in 1995: "I've had the zine all of two days, and already it is falling open to page 91, where there is a lovely line drawing by Randym of a very naked Avon being flogged (with Tarrant forced to watch and looking horrified, but if you don't like Tarrant you can ignore that half of the picture)." -- [10] (Blake's 7)

    "Instruments of Darkness", Dark Fantasies #3. Note: This image has been marked as sexually explicit and has been minimised.
    From a fan in 1995: "I've had the zine all of two days, and already it is falling open to page 91, where there is a lovely line drawing by Randym of a very naked Avon being flogged (with Tarrant forced to watch and looking horrified, but if you don't like Tarrant you can ignore that half of the picture)." -- [10] (Blake's 7)

  • from M/K Ultra (The X-Files)

    from M/K Ultra (The X-Files)

Notable Works

Additional Fanvids

Blake' 7 (note: some of the titles were drawn from fan memories and may not match the title given by the vidder)

  • Automatic (Blake's 7) (1995 or earlier)
  • Brothers In Arms
  • Facts About Cats ("Cats will be Cats and Cats eat birds")
  • Girls Wanna Have Fun
  • Gotta Wear Shades (The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades)
  • Hairstyles and Attitudes
  • Here I Am
  • He’s So Unusual
  • I Was Only Kidding (Blake's 7) (1995 or earlier)
  • Lean On Me
  • Mr Tambourine Man (Blake's 7) ("'Mr Tambourine Man', is so bizarre in a B7 context, too dated, even though the words can be made to fit, couldn't flow with it. (1995 or earlier)
  • No Holding Back
  • Rhythm of My Heart
  • Round and Round
  • Runaway Train (Blake's 7) (1995 or earlier)
  • Sailing (often described as "the Blake's 7 crew romance with death") (Blake's 7) (1995 or earlier)
  • She’s A Woman
  • Show Me The Way" (a Tarrant focused vid) (Blake's 7) (1995 or earlier)
  • Stand By Me
  • Still Having Sex
  • The One on the Right
  • The Search Is Over
  • Time For Me To Fly
  • Two Out Of Three
  • Wallow
  • Yakkity Yak" (Blake's 7) (1995 or earlier)
  • You’re A Mean One

Vid List

Randym's Tape #1 (Blake's 7)

  • The Search is Over
  • Time for Me to Fly
  • You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch
  • Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
  • Brothers in Arms
  • Here I Am
  • He's So Unusual
  • Show Me the Way
  • She's Always a Woman
  • Rhythm of My Heart
  • Wallow (filk)
  • Yakety Yak
  • Stand By Me
  • Lean On Me
  • Hairstyles & Attitudes
  • Facts About Cats
  • The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades
  • Round and Round
  • People Are Still Having Sex
  • Two Out of Three Ain't Bad
  • The One On the Right Is On the Left
  • No Holding Back
  • Some Guys Have All the Luck
  • Mr. Tambourine Man
  • Stuck With You
  • Greek Sailor (filk)
  • Innocence Lost
  • Sailing
  • Hot Legs
  • Manic Monday
  • Linus & Lucy
  • I Can't Make You Love Me
  • I Love Your Smile
  • There Will Never Be Another Tonight

Randym's Tape #2 (mostly Blake's 7)

  • I'm Too Sexy
  • The Voice
  • Where Were You When I Wanted You?
  • Can't Cry Hard Enough
  • Everything About You
  • Church of Your Heart
  • You Don't Love Me Anymore
  • Trigger Happy
  • White Boys (from Hair)
  • I Was Only Kidding
  • November Rain
  • Hero
  • Hey Honey -- I'm Packin' You In!
  • Friday I'm In Love
  • Automatic
  • Runaway Train
  • I'd Do Anything For Love
  • Common Ground
  • The Penis Song (Monty Python)
  • Celebration -- MediaWest video
  • Finland (Monty Python) -- generic slash video
  • 7
  • Can You Feel The Love Tonight?
  • Janie's Got A Gun
  • Hole In the Wall
  • Valentine
  • Opposites
  • We're Not Gonna Take It
  • She's Playing Hard To Get
  • The Man Song
  • Ragtop

Tape #3 (X-Files, mostly M/K)

  • Tainted Love
  • Beat It
  • Always
  • It's All Coming Back To Me Now
  • Hurts So Good
  • A Long December
  • Push
  • He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)
  • Dancing In the Dark - ONCE A THIEF
  • How's It Going To Be?

"70,000 LIGHT YEARS FROM HOME" - A COLLECTION OF P/K MUSIC VIDEOS (Star Trek Voyager) - one of several vidders contributing

  • "Closing Time,"
  • "You Had Me From Hello,"
  • I Can't Imagine,"
  • Someday,"
  • Mickey,"
  • Hey Jealousy,"
  • Looking For Love"

References

  1. ^ comments in Strange Bedfellows (APA) #7 (November 1994)
  2. ^ from a letter of comment in Blake, Rabble and Roll #2
  3. ^ from a letter of comment in Blake, Rabble and Roll #2
  4. ^ from Strange Bedfellows (APA) #9 (1995)
  5. ^ from an LoC in "Moon Phases" #10
  6. ^ from a letter of comment in Blake, Rabble and Roll #2
  7. ^ from a review by aralias at zines: the other side 8 and 9, avon calling 2; archive link, January 27, 2016
  8. ^ from Julia Jones, commenting on Careless Whispers at Judith Proctor's Blake's 7 site/WayBack Machine
  9. ^ by Sally Manton at Judith Proctor's Blake's 7 site, Archived version
  10. ^ a comment on Virgule-L, quoted anonymously, July 31, 1995
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