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survivor [Levi Ackerman S3 amv]

source : https://www.tumblr.com/blog/noitomwols

This is too good not to share. Just want other to experience this amazing work too. It’s so good i become addicted^^ Lure me back to watch everyday!

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OMG!!! almost can't believe this! how much one art work can do for charity!! god bless Isayama & auction winner^0^

Original Isayama Hajime Sketch of Levi Being Auctioned to Benefit AIDS Orphans

The Japan AIDS Orphan NGO PLAS (Positive Living Through Aids Support, aka Plus) has shared an original B4-size sketch of Levi that Isayama Hajime has donated for its charity auction on Yahoo! Auctions! Proceeds from the auction will be put towards further support of AIDS orphans.

At the time of this post, the auction price for this sketch is around $4,000, with more than five days still remaining for bids.

The rest of the auctions can be seen here - all will conclude on August 6th Japan time.

Related News: Isayama Hajime || Photos: Isayama Sketches Archival News: Isayama Hajime

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“Kill Zeke”, the movie, 2017.

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Yolanda Ramke - writer/co-director of Cargo about Martin Freeman

https://www.instagram.com/p/BhLRVlKgS-X/

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OMG hahahahaha Martin freeman, everyone!!

This is the best thing ever I love Martin Freeman facials while he reads as a cat snippet from Alice in Wonderland 

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OMG!!! Two of my favorites together. Never thought this could happen. Really wonder how martin got to be in this j-cm^^.

Suntory Hibiki CM - Martin Freeman x Hasegawa Hiroki

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Really love this movie and this review. It felt genuine but not over the top. Agree with everything.

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Miss this universe so much.

How the hell does Bag-End work, anyway? Pt. 2

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Rosy as John's substitude

I just tried to find a reason why they had to put a non-ACDcanon daughter for John in the show, since she seem to have no significant plot in s4. Maybe they really plan a long game, in case there'll be future's season and they can't have John (due to whatever reason). Maybe that why they tried to reduce John's role in this season, so that in the future we the audience will be ok with a new companion for Sherlock.

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Amazing!! I miss him.

John Watson, drawn in PS.

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Never thought to have a privilage to look deep into his personal life and view of the world like this. There're tear in my eyes.

Martin Freeman interview from Saturday Times

Martin Freeman: fame, family and Fargo

Helena de Bertodano

Irascible, eccentric, outspoken? Nothing like his affable on-screen persona? It’s strange what five months in the snowy wastes of Canada can do to a man – or perhaps this the real Martin Freeman?

You can tell quite a lot about Martin Freeman from his excuse for arriving late for this interview. “I was in a really hot bath watching a documentary about Harold Wilson and I suddenly looked at the f***ing time…”

Quirky, yes; a self-styled intellectual, yes (later, he tells me he is reading a book about the Russian Revolution); prone to giving strangely intimate details about himself (yet very guarded on seemingly innocuous subjects); a bit grumpy, hence the constant swearing; head somewhat in the clouds, so doesn’t notice trivial details such as time – which is probably why he is still talking the hind legs off a donkey three and a half hours later, fuelled by frequent infusions of peppermint tea, beer and coffee.

Freeman, 42, is on a career high – has been for a while now. In the hugely successful modern-day reworking of Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories, he plays Dr Watson to Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock; he is Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit, Peter Jackson’s trio of epic fantasy adventure films – the first two grossed nearly $2 billion and the third will be released later this year. And now he is shooting a much-anticipated television series, Fargo, based on the Academy Award-winning 1996 film of the same name. Freeman plays Lester Nygaard, an interpretation of the William H. Macy role in the movie. “I’m f***ing lucky,” says Freeman. “I’ve done four or five things in my career that most actors would give their right arm to have done just one of.”

And yet, despite everything he does, the role people still associate him with – at least in the UK – is Tim Canterbury from the TV sitcom The Office (2001-2003), playing opposite Ricky Gervais’s David Brent. He is the loveable sales rep who fancies Dawn, sticks Gareth’s stapler in jelly and whose job is going nowhere. And I have to say it is Tim who springs to mind as I catch sight of a solitary figure trudging through the swirling snow towards the restaurant in Calgary, Canada, where he has been holed up for the past five months shooting Fargo.

The restaurant is marooned on an island and accessible only by foot. Freeman pushes open the door, brushing the snow out of his cropped, greying hair and stomping his long moccasins. He removes two thick jackets and rubs his hands together. I ask him if he is sick of the weather. “It depends if you’re going to put it in [the article],” he replies. What? Surely the weather is not off limits? “They get easily offended,” he explains. Off the record, he tells me his view – with lots of swearwords – on living through nearly half a year of sub-zero temperatures. But he also confesses that one of the reasons he took on Fargo (which purports to be a story from northern Minnesota) is: “I was interested in the idea of being that cold. I’ve got a bit of a Scott of the Antarctic fixation. On a couple of days they’ve had to stop filming because it’s been -40C.”

His Fargo character is stuck in a dead-end job, selling insurance, prompting comparisons with Tim from The Office, something I am stupid enough to mention, setting off a firestorm. “I don’t think other actors are asked all the time about the similarities between their roles. I don’t think Ben [Cumberbatch] or Daniel Craig are asked that. I think it stems from my so-called perceived approachability. And it is totally f***ing perceived. I come across as a half-decent person and not very pretentious. I’m a good actor; I can pretend. Look,” he says, calming down a bit, “I’m angry and defensive about everything. It just drives me slightly bananas because I know how hard I work. Tim is nothing like Bilbo Baggins either. People tend to think, ‘Oh, you’re just doing what you do.’ It’s a) insulting, b) f***ing bulls***, and c) I’d invite any other f***er to try to do it.”

Right. In fact, he has played a wide range of roles – from a lusty Rembrandt in Nightwatching (2007) to a shrewd Lord Shaftesbury in the BBC One drama Charles II: the Power and the Passion (2003). “People say, ‘I’ve seen all your work,’ and I think, ‘No, you f***ing haven’t. No one has – even I haven’t.’ ” He even found himself starring opposite Penélope Cruz (“a f***ing delight”) in The Good Night, a 2007 romantic comedy. And from July 1 he will be taking on Richard III for three months at the Trafalgar Studios in London. “It will be my first professional Shakespeare. At least I’ll be at home, too.”

He studies the menu, then puts it down with a sigh. “I don’t only want egg and chips all my life, but the title of every dish here is like the first chapter of a book. I’ve never heard of bresaola. And what’s bottarga – is that a cheese?” He does not eat meat (gave it up aged 14) so, after quizzing the waiter, he settles on a green salad (Heritage Greens, Venturi Balsamic Epsom, Parsnip Chips, Fairwinds Farm Caerphilly – he has a point), followed by a pickerel, which we establish is a white fish.

He’s a family man, and the long stint in Canada is beginning to wear on him. He lives in Hertfordshire with the actress Amanda Abbington, who plays his screen wife in Sherlock, and their two young children, Joe, 8, and Grace, 5, but has only been home twice since filming started in October: “It’s a very heavy price. My main priority in any job is when is the soonest I can get back to the three people I love most in the world. I even ummed and ahhed over The Hobbit.”

Freeman met Amanda on the set of Channel 4’s Men Only in 2000, but doesn’t want to say if they are married: “Let’s leave that a mystery. What I like about our relationship is that we choose it. I’m not saying we’re not married, though.”

His phone rings and he sticks a finger in his ear to listen to one of his children. “Are you going to bed now?” He looks at me and mouths “Sorry,” then wanders off to chat in private. When he returns, he tells me his kids sometimes find his fame tricky to handle: “Joe’s just started a gymnastics class and he said to me: ‘Daddy, people don’t believe that you’re my dad there, can you come in with me?’ And I said, ‘Of course I’ll come in,’ but I always try to say, ‘It’s much more important for people to like you for you than for me.’ But when you’re 8, and especially if people don’t believe you, you want to show them. He is very proud of me, as I am very proud of him.”

Despite his huge success and settled family life, he says he is “not brilliant at being happy”. “If you ask my children and Amanda, they will definitely say I am pretty grumpy and hard to live with sometimes. I also know that I can be playful and full of joy…” Freeman describes himself as a hands-on father, happy to get up in the night when his children were babies.

“I wasn’t like a Fifties dad. Now, I enjoy reading and telling them spooky stories. I’m quite a disciplinarian: I can be a shouter. But I can be a very demonstrative kisser and hugger.“

Some aspects of fatherhood surprised him: “It goes without saying that you’re going to love your kids, but what you’re not expecting is wanting to kill everybody in your house. I’m fortunate in that Amanda is generally a slightly nicer person than I am. If it were purely up to me, my kids would probably be vegetarian Catholic Marxists.”

His children love watching their dad in The Hobbit. “I thought the spiders would really do Grace in, but she wasn’t scared by the peril and the violence. The thing that most upset her was the bit where the dwarves come round and basically eat Bilbo out of house and home. Grace is inconsolable at the idea that they have stolen all Daddy’s food – she thinks I’m being bullied.”

Although he makes a very comfortable living, he says he is not as fabulously wealthy as people seem to think. “I understand why people think I am; it just happens not to be true. I’m certainly wealthier than anyone else in the history of my family.”

Nor has he embraced many of the trappings of wealth. “I don’t live large in that way, because that’s not my taste. I drive a Mini. But I love going to Italy on holiday, being happy in the sunshine, eating the best food and looking after my family in that way.”

He describes his house as “a gamekeeper’s cottage” just outside a village – where they moved from London after Freeman grew sick of people ringing his doorbell at all hours to speak to “Tim”. “I fell in love with the house and it was near where Amanda grew up. I had an idea that I would go with John, my father-in-law, to a local village pub, but the dual effect of Sherlock and The Hobbit means that now I just become the cabaret.”

The most common misperception about him, he says, is that, “I’m everyone’s best mate. When people say, ‘I’d love to go for a pint with him,’ I think, ‘No, you f***ing wouldn’t.’ It goes back to Tim from The Office – he was a very approachable, funny schlub. I don’t think people go up to Ray Winstone and go, ‘All right, you c***?’ ”

Of course, there are many worse things than being seen as nice. “Definitely,” he agrees. “But if you grow up small as a kid, it’s like being mummied by the girls: ‘You’re so sweet.’ That casts a long shadow.”

Freeman grew up in Aldershot, Hampshire, the youngest of five children. “You never feel you’re not the youngest. I’m a grown man, doing all right, and I still feel subconsciously as if I’ve got to earn my place in a room.”

His parents divorced when he was 1 and he lived mostly with his father, a naval officer, until his sudden death from a heart attack when Freeman was 10. “At the time, I probably tried to brush my dad’s death under the carpet. I didn’t want people to feel sorry for me. I was small, I was pretty sickly and asthmatic; people already went ‘little Martin’. But when I was 17 or 18, I realised that losing a parent is a big deal. It was devastating in a way that I was unable to acknowledge at the time.” His eyes tear up. “Sometimes I wonder if I heard his voice now, would it be the same as it is my memory?”

He remains very close to his mother, who he describes as “a very egalitarian, principled, left-leaning snob. I never felt hard done by, because I always knew I was loved.”

Raised a Catholic, Freeman went to a Salesian school in Chertsey, Surrey, where the only thing that really rubbed off on him was the religion. “Catholicism goes in somewhere and it colours you for good and bad for ever. So does being the product of divorce. It’s all in there in little layers.”

He has stuck to his faith, although he does not go to church regularly. “I’m about as much of a practising Catholic as I am an astronaut, [but] I will occasionally pop into a church and light a candle and pray”.

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Together

SETLOCK 2010~2016

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All of this is so heart-wrenching to read, because it’s all true. Especially with the Victor mirror, this is the point where I decide to turn my back from the whole episode, and refuse to accept it as part of the show. Up until this point, my expectation is so low that I can accept pretty much every thing the writer throw at me. I didn’t have any end game. I just someone that fall in love with the complex John Watson right from the start of the show, cause noone’ve ever done that before. That’s really smart move that gain Martin his bafta. Why they try to reduce his importance to none, like literally every aspects that make him somewhat special, they erase them all. Like his good trait, his moral compass, his function as a blogger, his Sherlock’s conductor of light, even the role of a best friend (that they emphasize with the whole ep of TSoT), they take it all back, or throw it to someone’s else. If you’re not gonna treat him with respect, if he’s not that important, why built him as such. It made me wonder maybe they try to balance the scale, between John’s lover VS Mary’s haters. Or maybe they really just want to take back their show from all the Johnlockish read and meta that seem to get out of control. I just feel so bad for Martin, who seems to be the only one (apart from the fan and maybe Sherlock) that really love John Watson of the BBC Sherlock, but also seem ready to let go of the role already. May I tag @welovethebeekeeper . Really want to know your view of this topic, compare to the John in ACD. Hope you don’t mind me tagging you.

The Problem with John

So I’ve had some more time to think about S4, and while I am more sanguine about S4 than some fans, and I can see some of the good stuff, I do have some reservations. The biggest relates to our dearest John Watson.

I know many people have been saying this, or something like it, for a couple of weeks now, but if S4 really is this—just this and nothing more—here is my question for Mofftiss: What was John for?

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Thank you @welovethebeekeeper so much. Always love seeing Sherlock world through your lense. (Not just insightful to the ACD world, but also with much passion though easy to understand and related to) This post make me see the problem with the show much more clearly. For the past week I can't quite understand what it is that made me feel down this much, which made my mourning even worst. Just one episode and the whole show seem not...as clever as I use to believe, in term of writing. Many thing seem hollow, serve no purpose. Never thought I could feel like this about the show that I've been in love for six years. The final ep kinda open my eyes, to say the least. Absolutely agree with what you say of what the writers do with John and Sherlock. They seem to lose their way when they forgot the very essence/core of their main characters. Although they use the word 'love' so often, but the problem is since s3 their John said it with word but no action, meanwhile Sherlock said it with action but no word. This could make a successful vibe if only the writers treat it with care, not deliberately ignore it. Your post help me come to term with the nature of the show and the writers. Now I feel less pain, less struggle and ready to move on. Still love the show, just not as a whole any more. Agree with @artemisastarte. Really think Martin play it as romance in s1-s2(or just have some fun exploring the romance vibe), then kinda backtrack afterward, both in his acting choice and his interview. Maybe he became clear about the direction of the show, maybe he didn't want to bait us, maybe he try to warn us, we will never know. (Still Ben went in with the besotted unrequited love role full force in s3, can't blame him, he's so pure in a sense. Nevertheless it made s4 disaster even more tragic)

Post Mortem

I didn’t sleep much last night, in fact not slept much since the BFI screening to be honest, and at 4am I decided to play Devil’s Advocate and look at how we all ended up here. Not my interpretation of the show, but as an observer, tried to be as removed as a life long Holmesian I can be. Granted I cannot separate my own bias, so a clinical analyse cannot be really done. My aim is not to defend anyone nor to attack. So let’s have a go at it anyway. Under the cut as it’s long:

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So beautiful. Such a wonder what Fanart can do to you. So valuable.

It’s my best ever. 

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I’m John, got flirted and had therapy session with a psychotic villain who has X-men mind control power and didn’t get affected at all. While everyone on that shutter island end up being her slaves.

tag yourself i’m the portrait of john locke weeping blood

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Just one little thought I got before johnlock feel take over while watching this for the first time. What if they try to tell us, in a way, that this whole scene is "it is what it is" And whatever people think it is, it is something beautiful. Something that doesn't has to be finite. I didn't say that representation in media is not important. Just thought that... Who we really are is more important than what represent who we are. Fuck the perception of what other people think we are. From some random johnlock(togeth)er.