#inside the dressing room

[aashiqui-aashiqui]

yeah its like i deduced from the changes in the squad but Seddon Park is more conducive to pace bowling (source can be found here) so it wasn't based on his performance which reassures me but that also means i will not see much of him at all then throughout this week. shame :/

[not-xpr-art]

i can feel you, slipping through my hands...

(yes, another bernie clifton's dressing room fanart lol)

(09/2024)

this piece went through like 5000 concept changes before i settled on 'sword of damocles meets red string of fate' lol...

[snapdragoned]

Windflower Bay keeps growing! This is Button & Brass, an upscale clothing boutique.

[moomin279]

Finding out “You know i’ve always loved u, i’d do anything for you, you know” was a Len line cut from Bernie Clifton’s Dressing room always ends me when I watch it

[in9-character-tournament]

[sluckythewizard]

'I wont cry for you, I wont crucify the things you do. I wont cry for you, see, when you're gone, I'll still be BLOODY MARY'

[bluvlet]

laughter is my memory of you

[canarycurses]

umm hi i don't post on tumblr but here's a dump of tommy and len drawings because i love them very dearly!!! :-) (if you like my stuff check my twitter under the same username i post way more often there!!)

[local-blog-for-local-people]

👨‍💼👔🏳️‍🌈🎭

I ofc am thinking of Thomas Drake!

Send me an emoji (or a set of emojis) and I'll make a gifset of the character that reminds me the most of that emoji 

[kyewww]

cried actually

[fulltimeloserstuff]

You weren't always like this.

Remember when we first started out, back in the day?

We used to cry with laughter at every little thing.

[super-glued-socks]

every tragically romantic song is about bernie clifton’s dressing room. you see this is because bernie clifton’s dressing room is a tragically romantic story. in this essay i wi-

[not-xpr-art]

Len and Tommy's life told through nine photos ~

A fanart based on the Inside no 9 episode 'Bernie Clifton's Dressing Room' because I loved it so much!

(09/2024)

See below for close ups and unnecessarily detailed explanations of each individual artwork lol

First wanna say that I spent wayy too long on these (like 25+ hours), especially trying to make them look like actual old photos lol... also trying to get their likeness right for the various ages was really bloody hard lol, but hopefully each photo has the essence of each character even if it might not look 100% right pfft...

Second thing is that the dates & locations are very much my own subjective thoughts on their life and not particularly rooted in the canon of the show lol

Also I did go really heavy with the colour symbolism lol...

Ravenhill School, 1965.

The year they met, both are around the age of 10 (give or take). Len is 3 from the left in the top row, Tommy 2 in from the left on the bottom row (also I tried to include references to the other 2 League Of Gentlemen guys... Though I think the only vaguely recognisable one is Jeremy pfft)

Also shout out to @lapis-lazuliie for the idea that they met at school!

(side note, this is the least detailed of all the paintings not just because I was too lazy to render all those children's faces pfft but ALSO because of the significance of them being less recognisable or prominent in each other's lives in this point...)

I was planning on making another childhood/early teen photo but couldn't really think of any good subject matter that could also fit thematically with the episode (also the fact both are coming from poor families who would have had limited access to cameras in this era means we can just pretend that there are just no photos that really exist of them at these ages pfft...)

Photo booth in Leeds, 1974.

Both in their late teens, they'd (well, mainly Tommy) gone to a photo booth in Leeds with the intention of getting some professional looking photos only for Len to immediately make Tommy laugh once they got in there lol

The middle photo is covered in lines as Tommy had planned on throwing it away, only to find he couldn't bring himself to do it in the end... Is it platonic? Romantic? Both? Who knows, you decide lol! I mainly wanted it to be a candid moment between two people that love each other lol

(final one is them play fighting because that's kinda just what 19 year olds are like pfft... also I think photo booths technically gave you 4 photos? so let's pretend there was another photo that they did throw away for whatever reason lol...)

Rehearsals, 1979.

Deep in the midst of practising their routine for some of their first performances!

I'll admit this photo was mainly me wanting to include something more episode specific lol and also to get in some much needed heavy handed symbolism (the crease in the photo separating them, the bottle in front of Len's face, etc)

Polaroids taken at Tommy's flat, 1985.

In-between shows the two often spent a lot of time at Tommy's place (featuring that god awful sofa the previous home owner had left). I did originally plan to have them in the sofa shot together, but was finding it hard to figure out who would have been taking that kind of photo so figured it made more sense to make it shots they took of each other.

Also marks the beginnings of Tommy's weariness (& Len's over drinking...)

Outside the Glasgow Pavilion, 1988.

The morning of that fateful performance...

Ok not much else I wanna say about this other than the reference I used for the pose had Reece sorta awkwardly clasping his hands in front of him which I really liked but unfortunately in my art it just looked like he was trying to cover his crotch so I had to change it pfft...

Tommy standing at Len's grave, 2024.

The sixth anniversary of Len's death, and the sixth time Tommy has travelled across from France to lay flowers at his grave. Photo taken by Leanne from the inside of a taxi (I'd like to have had more references to her in these photos but was unsure of dates/ages where it would have fitted...)

She couldn't get her phone to not focus on the raindrops on the window as she tried to take a picture of Tommy at her father's grave but then realised that she actually liked the pathetic fallacy and had it made into a print anyway lol (look I'll be the first to admit that this is the least 'realistic' in terms of a photo that people would take, but I couldn't resist the symbolism of it lol...)

There were a lot more ideas for photos I wanted to do but for obvious reasons had to keep it to just 9 lol

Also will be posting these on my ao3 with snippets of stories to go with each photo so keep an eye out for when I share that link!

[what-the-bally-hell]

everytime I watch this ep I sob the whole time I'm watching it so I thought I'd edit it

[moomin279]

The thing about bcdr is that the envelope is addressed to Tommy's address in France. I know it's about Tommy's perception of it and that's why the "You know I always loved you Tommy, I'd do anything for you you know," was cut. But it shows that Len was thinking about Bernie Clifton's dressing room as much as Tommy, he tracked down his new address to make amends before he died, Len missed Tommy as much as Tommy missed Len.

[in9-character-tournament]