#46 years of Garfield

[papimoore]

Today is the 46th birthday of the most famous comic strip about a fat, orange, lazy, lasagna eating cat named Garfield.

[bmpmp3]

HAPPY birthday to Garfield, and meeeeee!!! he is 46 this year, and i am 26!

[deadpresidents]

what do you think the chances are of a 35 year old president some day?

It's not impossible, but probably unlikely. Unfortunately, it's always going to be difficult for a 35-year-old candidate to have built up the political organization and harvest enough political and financial connections to be ready for seeking a party's nomination at that age. I don't think a 35-year-old would necessarily be less ready than an older candidate as long as the quality of their experiences was strong enough to complete with the length of experience that their opponent might have.

I think the average age of Presidents at the time of their first inauguration is around 55 years old, but we've had nine Presidents who took office before they turned 50 years old: •Theodore Roosevelt: 42 years, 322 days •John F. Kennedy: 43 years, 236 days •Bill Clinton: 46 years, 154 days •Ulysses S. Grant: 46 years, 311 days •Barack Obama: 47 years, 169 days •Grover Cleveland: 47 years, 351 days •Franklin Pierce: 48 years, 101 days •James A. Garfield: 49 years, 105 days •James K. Polk: 49 years, 122 days And of those nine Presidents under 50 years old, eight of them were elected directly to the Presidency. Only Theodore Roosevelt succeeded to the office from the Vice Presidency, and when he was elected President in his own right in 1904 and inaugurated for his elected term, he was still younger (46 years, 128 days) than every other President in history other the JFK. So despite the age of the major party nominees in the last couple of elections, this country has elected quite a few relatively young Presidents.

We've also elected a lot of young Vice Presidents and the Vice Presidency, of course, is always just a heartbeat away from the main gig. There have been twelve (12) Vice Presidents inaugurated before they turned 50 years old, and three others took office before turning 51. The average age (on Inauguration Day) of the Vice Presidents is roughly the same as the average age of Presidents, but two Vice Presidents were elected in their 30s. John C. Breckinridge, who was Vice President under James Buchanan (1857-1861), was only 36 years, 42 days old when he was inaugurated, so he was barely old enough to meet the Constitutional age qualifications for the Presidency and Vice Presidency. And Richard Nixon was only 39 years old when he was first elected as Dwight D. Eisenhower's Vice President in 1952. Nixon celebrated his 40th birthday right before he was inaugurated as Vice President and was 40 years, 11 days old on Inauguration Day.

Part of the reason that both Breckinridge and Nixon were chosen as VP was to balance out the ticket due to the "advanced" age of their running mates. When Nixon was nominated alongside General Eisenhower in 1952, there were questions about whether or not Eisenhower might be too old for the Presidency. Eisenhower was 62 years, 98 days old when he was inaugurated -- nearly 20 years younger than President Biden and 17 years younger than Donald Trump. In fact, when he was first inaugurated, Dwight Eisenhower was younger than George Clooney currently is:

So that's a long way and a lot of information shared for me to come back to the point that it's not impossible, but pretty unlikely for a 35-year-old to be elected President. I think there's a better chance that someone that age would be elected Vice President.

[rosemaryfuckingwalten]

happy 46 years of garfield

[n2ndo]

Happy birthday garfield!!! (I'm late asf)

This little boy is 46 years old now...how the frick is that possible!!

I felt like I had to do this drawing or I would have not slept at night...so here it is!

I dont really like this drawing...if someone could give me tips I'll be pretty grateful!!

[mothmyk]

in honor of the suicide sqaud releasing two years ago today, thus abner krill ( depicted by david dastmalchian ) being given and subsequently from us two years ago. heres 50 "RIP to abner krill , you would have loved-s." (side note- these aren't all things that dropped after abner died, he very well could have loved these things. it is just silly)

RIP to Abner Krill, you would have loved:

1- Grimace Shake

2 - Skittlespox Ads

3 - Pasta Salad

4 - Nintendo Wii

5 - Nintendogs

6 - Black Cats

7 -  Halloween

8 - Halloween Shortbread Cookies

9 - Thrift Stores

10 - Cool Lamps

11 - Maximalism

12 - Bowling Alleys

13 - Hole In The Wall Restaurants

14 - Play Doh

15 - Radiohead

16 - They Might Be Giants

17 - The Muppets

18 - Feeling Strangely Seen By Gonzo From The Muppets

19 - DVD Select Screens

20 - Mismatching Socks

21 - Epic Rap Battles of History

22 - Murals

23 - Making Breakfast

24 - Drinking Coffee, Not Because You Like It But Because That's What Everyone Else Does

25 - Weird Mugs

26 - Colorfull Pill Organizers

27 - Themed Calendars

28 - Reading a Book and Then Watching the Movie and Nitpicking Everything They Got Wrong

29 - Those Little Solar Dancing Flowers

30 - Wacky Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Men

31 - The Way they Dance in Goth Clubs

32 - Soda in Glass Bottles

33 - Ruining a Prefectly Good Outfit With a Weirdly Big Jacket

34 - The Garfield Phones

35 - Keychains

36 - Helping an Old Person Across The Street Across The Street and Getting Way More Out of It Than They Did Because At Least You Can Do That

37 - Disco

38 - Cool Umbrellas

39 - A Moderate Amount of Rain

40 - Being Held

41 - Matching Pajamas

42 - Christmas Lights (he IS human Christmas lights if you really think about it)

43 - Being Laughed With Instead of At

44 - Gumball Machines With the Random Things In Them

45 - Buying The Birthday Cake Flavor of Everything, Simply Because It Feels like it Makes Sense

46 - Post-it Notes

47 - Adult Coloring Books

48 - Game Shows

49 - Lava Lamps

50 - Having Enough Time To Enjoy All of These Things :(

[freddyloyd]

its kinda funny how little the fab five is actually in the og teen titans compared to how much they're talked about, i get that they're meant to be the founding 5 members as shown in issue 53 but for most of teen titans volume 1 it either wasn't all of them (either Aqualad or Speedy were excluded) or there were more members with them (like Mal)

There are only like 4 issues out of 53 where dick, donna, garth, roy, and wally are the only ones on the team. 1 of those is the flashback in 53 and 2 of them are before speedy actually permanently joined, the same issue the speedy joins is the issue that aqualad leaves, and by the time aqualad rejoins mal had already permanently joined. heres a breakdown:

1-18: Garth, Wally, Dick, Donna (2 guest appearance from Roy)

19: Garth, Wally, Dick, Donna, Roy

-Garth leaves (to babysit it think?)

20-24: Wally, Dick, Donna, Roy (1 guest appearance from Don and Hank)

25: Wally, Dick, Donna, Roy, Don, Hank, Lilith

-they kill a man, Dick leaves to go to Hudson U

26-29: Wally, Donna, Roy, Don, Hank, Lilith, Mal, Mr Jupiter (1 guest appearance from Dick, 2 guest appearances from Garth

-Don and Hank stop showing up i cant recall if a reason was given

30-32: Wally, Donna, Roy, Lilith, Mal, Mr Jupiter

33-43: Wally, Dick, Donna, Roy, Lilith, Mal, Mr Jupiter (1 guest appearance from Garth)

-the series gets cancelled for 2 years after issue 43, by the time they get back together Mr Jupiter has shut down and Lilith is MIA

44: Wally, Dick, Donna, Roy, Mal

45-46: Garth, Wally, Dick, Donna, Roy, Mal

47-48: Garth, Wally, Dick, Donna, Roy, Mal, Duela

49-53: Garth, Wally, Dick, Donna, Roy, Mal, Duela, Karen

-series get cancelled, they all break up

also in 50-52 we see the formation of Teen Titans West (cuz theyre in California): Lilith, Betty (og batgirl), Garfield (Beast boy), Hank & Don, Charley (never heard of him before but he's Golden Eagle), and Gnarkk (Time travelling caveman that makes no sense if you think about it too much but whatever)

(JSYK some of this info may be slightly inaccurate because i was using wiki + my own faulty memory but its at least mostly accurate, also if a character isn't in an issue but hadn't officially left yet i still counted them as part of the team)

IDK why i wrote this all down, i just find it kinda strange how the fab 5 has been sorta revisionist historied into being more of thing than it was

[nomi--sunrider]

Then, Now, and Always

Chapter 46: Then, Now, and Always

Summary: The end of the war and everything that comes after.

Image Credit: Screencapping-BadWolfKaily, Editing-Sel Queen's Courtesan

Author's Note below the cut. Contains spoilers for the chapter so read the chapter first.

Thanks everyone for reading Then, Now, and Always. My biggest creative project of the past year and as of now, my best work. This fandom has given me so much, from badly needed dopamine during my first year of grad school to a lovely excuse to go to London for my first ever con! I've discovered so much new music and so many new artists, developed crushes on a ton of great actors, and expanded my creative world so much. I can't believe the fic is finished. I'll sure miss it, but I'm excited to do other awesome things.

If anyone is interested, here is a link to an app/website called Lingvano. It comes highly recommended by deaf folks as a way for (hearing) people to learn ASL from deaf people. If I could write this fic again, I'd put actual deaf characters in it and maybe give Tally a deaf teacher. From research, I've learned it's better to study ASL from deaf folks, as they speak it as it's meant to be spoken and it's also their language in general. Unfortunately, Lingvano costs $9.99 per month after the free trial. Worth it in my opinion, as it's a very well-done site.

At the end of this post, there's a link to a playlist of music I listened to while writing the fic. I put liner notes of sorts below because I always get excited when other authors do that. However, you're welcome to listen however you like.

The Playlist

Chasing Twisters - Delta Rae : If Then, Now, and Always had a theme song, it would be this.

Salvation - LP : Honorable Mention

The Night We Met - Lord Huron : A guest commenter called Song Fairy recced this song to me in the Chapter 28 comments. You could listen to it anywhere in the fic, but Chapter 2 is reasonable enough to get a taste of what's coming.

X-Training - Henry Jackman : To be listened to during Chapter 11 during Tally's retraining montage.

Come to Your Senses - Alexandra Shipp, Vanessa Hudgens : It amuses me that this song is two women singing to Andrew Garfield because in my opinion, it's the best lesbian love ballad ever written for musical theater. Accompanies Chapter 12: The Twilight of Witchkind.

Say Something - A Great Big World, Christina Aguilera : I'm guessing it's obvious, but if it's not, this goes with Chapter 13: Say Something.

This is Me - Keala Settle, The Greatest Showman Ensemble : To be listened to with Chapter 15: Silent Witch, when Tally grabs the world by the nostrils and forces it to acknowledge her.

Ugly Heart - G.R.L : Could be listened to anywhere in the Chapter 16-19 realm where Sarah and Tally are both raging, both mad, sort of at each other, but mostly in general.

Evermore - Josh Groban : SpookyWitchling mentioned this song in the comments of Chapter 16: By Hand, specifically. I like it more as an Alder song, maybe at the end of Chapter 17: The Downside of Miracles, but you may do as you wish.

Laid Low - The Naked and Famous : This song has made Top 5 in my Spotify end of year playlist since 2016. It's a banger, it has anime AMV energy, I love it, and I think it's goes well with the Arc II finale, Chapter 25: Battle of the Goddesses.

If I'd Known I Loved Her - Delta Rae : I love this song so much. I first heard it in September 2022, back when TNAA was a mere twinkle in my eye, and I was like "Holy shit, this is Alder's half of the love story." Goes with Chapter 26: If I'd Known.

History Has Its Eyes on You: Christopher Jackson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton : The main difficulty of writing the third act was Tally's character arc. At first, it was her overcoming her squeamishness and fear of getting hands dirty by killing Hearst in the finale. This felt supremely unsatisfying to me, and I realized this was because it was Tally's Arc II character journey, which was tied off in Chapter 25: Battle of the Goddesses. Readers might have missed it because it was an Alder POV chapter, but Chapter 25 is Tally's Arc II character climax. She takes control of Alder's mind during their duel, showing she's willing to fight dirty, punch below the belt, and do whatever it takes to survive, and she betrays Nicte to save the Spree, showing she can put her personal feelings aside to protect her people. Everything I'd planned for Arc III Tally, I actually gave to Arc II Tally. So I had to think of something else.

This song got me to where I needed to be to write Arc III Tally. At this point, it's not really about her personal internals, but about her journey as a leader and what she's going to do to change the world and lead witches into a future of peace. Yeah I know. It got really plotty and philosophical. But everything worked out! And I think it's way better than my original plan.

Stand by You - Rachel Platten

Human - Cher Lloyd

I like either or both of these for Chapters 28 and 29, Alder's Folly and The Seed of Revelation, Tally's POV which then slides into Alder's POV. They're ballads, bangers, and they work on numerous levels, which is cool.

All I Ask of You - Josh Groban, Kelly Clarkson : The song that led to me becoming a Kelly Clarkson stan. Her new album, Chemistry, is amazing. Listen to this song with Chapter 32: Past, Present, Future, when Tally is soothing Alder's fears and musing about their future.

Tally Two / What's the Plan / F-14 - Harold Faltermeyer : The main reason this fic is so aircraft-heavy is because I started writing it in October 2022, when Top Gun: Maverick came out on streaming. Listen to this song during Chapter 33: Into Darkness.

Zen Ball Master - John Powell, Hans Zimmer : It's not perfect, but I think the first half of the song suits the firefight scene in Chapter 35: Tally's Gift, when Tally, Sarah, and the Biddies are fighting their way out of the death factory.

I Am Moana (Song of the Ancestors) : I listened to this on repeat when I wrote Chapter 39: Nafssia. I knew what the chapter would be, I knew what Tally would do, and I knew I had to bring the fucking house down, which is why it took going to England, experiencing Witchbomb, and getting smiled at by Lyne Renee to pull it off.

One Less Witch in the World - Brandon Roberts : I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks this, but the Motherland soundtrack is disproportionately amazing. Like...why didn't they spend that money on better writers? Or idk, a few more episodes in each season? Doesn't matter. This song is awesome, but I think it works well with Chapter 44: One Less Witch in the World, during the third section where they're diverting the Accords.

Dance with Everybody - Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors

Who Do You Love - Marianas Trench

Better Place - Rachel Platten

Three end credits songs. I like imagining Sarah and Tally enjoying a wonderful Beltane together with Dance with Everybody and/or Who Do You Love as the backing track. In my mind, if it's Who Do You Love, Tally runs over to the drums for heavy drums section during the bridge and uses her touch-empathy to play alongside the rest of the drummers. She doesn't have a voice, so I like imagining her learning to play instruments so she and Sarah can still make music together. Better Place works well as a fade-to-black song during the domestic bliss at the end of the fic.

[buenasxncches]

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ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁๋࣭ oscar isaac, gay, cismale + he/him, mage «—◦—→ well meet, josé maría morales! the godling born child of hypnos. it’s been forty-six years and now they have answered the song in their veins. can he change the course of history with their sharpness, determination, and intuitiveness? or will their stubbornness, pride, and obsessiveness hinder them? only time will tell before this godling’s name is sung into myth and legend!

i dreamt it up, this kind of love

name: josé maría morales nicknames: joey, jo, josie, marí, morales date of birth: june 20th, 1977 age: 46, soon to be 47 face claim: oscar isaac godly parent: hypnos height: 5’8” dominant hand: right education level: bachelor’s in criminology. occupation: homicide detective

parents: maría elena garcía de morales, martín josé luís morales (deceased) siblings: amanda miguel clark, elena bendecida morales pets: a tabby cat who responds to bastard (is actually named garfield) 

astrological sign: gemini sun, leo moon, scorpio rising positive traits: sharp, determined, intuitive, perceptive, witty, resilient, ambitious, curious, caring negative traits: stubborn, proud, obsessive, defensive, restless, resentful, judgmental habits: reads with a glass of wine every night before bed, runs in the night to decompress, perpetual consumer of takeout, needs white noise to fall asleep because he hates total silence. most of his sleep comes from naps. quirks: has a penchant for eye rolling, and wistful sighs. mutters to himself. talks with his hands, especially when agitated. paces. secretly excitable. dry humor and sarcasm galore. pet peeves: people who chew loudly. having to repeat himself. people who are too happy and energetic in the morning. people refusing to admit when he’s right. alarm clocks. children. airports. uber drivers or people on the train trying to make small talk with him. people who are too obsessed with true crime. hipster baristas. annoying ass reporters. morning talk show hosts. when people insist on showing him their kids or vacation photos. hobbies: amateur photography, tennis, reading, raves/clubbing (sometimes)

sexual orientation. gay sexual position. versatile 

clothing style: well fitted/tailored suits, pants that show off his assets, a lot of nice shirts, cardigans, comfortable, stylish sweaters. slightly sluttier version of preppy, like a hot finance bro. prominent features: curly salt and pepper hair. usually has some facial hair going (currently a full beard with gray interspersed in it). thick, expressive eyebrows. 

what were they doing when they heard the song of their godling blood? jose was going over some of his case files at home, restless as always, deep in the night.

class: mage inspirations: inception, vaporwave, old cassettes and vhs tapes, dark circles from lack of sleep, film noir, prophetic visions, gay characters from the 90s/2000s. 

[optikes]

1 Cyril Power (1872-1951) UK The Eight  reduction lino cut print (1930) 32.3×23.4cm

2 photographer unknown

economist.com  

IT HAS become the custom nowadays,” wrote Claude Flight, a British artist, in 1926, “to go to a shop for the tools of one's trade.” Flight was scornful of shoppers and liked to make things for himself. He kept his own bees and championed the art of the linocut, believing that the use of cheap materials would help democratise art and bring it to the attention of the masses. For his own linocuts he insisted on “a sharp penknife—such a very rare thing among art students” and a gouge he fashioned by fitting a small wooden handle onto a rib he cut from an umbrella.

Hard to imagine health and safety regulations allowing children today to have such fun. But Flight, who was a friend to Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, inspired many pupils at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art, where he taught, wrote and organised exhibitions on linocuts.

Among the most famous was Cyril Power, an extraordinarily creative printmaker, born in 1872, who soaked up Flight's enthusiasms and gave them new force. Power drew on many influences—of the German Expressionists (who invented linocutting before the first world war), the Italian Futurists, the Vorticist prints and paintings of Wyndham Lewis—and the enthusiasm for speed and movement that marked the work of so many artists of the period, from Natalya Goncharova to Marcel Duchamp.

While the work of the Germans, Italians, French and Russians has become very well known, the prints and linocuts made by Power and his fellow British artists have lingered in the shadows. An inspired little exhibition—the first major show of Modernist British prints in America, which began earlier this year at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and is now at the Metropolitan Museum in New York—will help change that. So too will a newly opened show at a private gallery in London that gathers together for the first time prints of all 46 of Power's linocuts. Some are for sale; others have been lent by museums and private collectors, of which the most important are two New Yorkers, Leslie and Johanna Garfield.

The first impression of the Power show is that he lived his life in reverse. Until he was almost 50 he followed in the professional footsteps of both his father and his grandfather and practised as an architect, making a name for himself also as the author of an erudite study entitled “English Medieval Architecture”. Then, as Philip Vann explains in an elegant essay that accompanies the show, he “embarked on a kind of Gauguin-esque adventure”, leaving his wife and four children to enrol in art school in the company of a 24-year-old artist, Sybil Andrews.

The early prints in the show were made by a middle-aged man and it shows. In black-and-white there is a bridge at Rickmansworth, a street corner in the sleepy Suffolk town of Lavenham. Then suddenly the movement of the windmill in “Elmers Mill, Woolpit” gives an indication of what is to come. Starting in 1930, when he was already 58, Power takes to speed as if he had taken personal charge of the Futurist manifesto, which C.R.W. Nevinson co-signed with an incendiary Italian, Filippo Marinetti, in 1914, with the words “Forward! HURRAH for motors! HURRAH for speed!…HURRAH for lightning!”

Power allows light, noise and speed into everything he sees. Using a series of easily recognised colours, particularly “Chinese orange”, “chrome orange”, “viridian” and “Chinese blue”, he created images of merry-go-rounds, rowers, acrobats, dancers, runners, hockey players and, of course—given that some of his influences were Italian—beautiful cars.

The most successful are those, like “The Eight”, in which the element of formal design is most visible. But Power's vision as an artist really comes to the fore in works containing a hint of menace. The bourgeois-assaulting spirit of Italian Futurism, Mr Vann explains, had fallen into the malign hands of Mussolini and was about to give way to Fascism, while Freud's and Jung's obsessions with the unconscious were increasingly helping to throw up visions of fears, hopes and dreams.

“Monsignor St Thomas” (1931, pictured at left) is a brilliant working of the murder in the cathedral of Thomas à Beckett, but it is technically skilful rather than edgy. The really potent, and most modern-looking, of Power's linocuts are those that lead the viewer right to the edge. These start with “Tennis” (1933, below), a magnificent rendering not just of the energy of the centre court, but of the physical and psychological effects of slicing and spinning—sport at its most gladiatorial.

As the 1930s move towards totalitarianism and then war, Power's work takes on a darker hue. The tube trains and the escalators of the London subway system provide ample opportunity for exploring man's addiction to the rat race. Two further works seem remarkably prescient. In 1934 Power made a linocut which he called “Exam Room”, full of hunched-up concentration and a complex set of figures that show, in turn, fear, nerves, gloating, dreaming—and one who is slyly distracting a neighbour. Watching over them is the overbearing timekeeper and the all-seeing eyes in the ceiling.

Similarly, “Air Raid”, which Power made in 1935 and which has been lent to this show by the RAF Museum in Hendon, is an extraordinarily filmic response to a period of history the artist had not yet even seen. It would be another five years before the start of the Battle of Britain would make such imagery routine. Cyril Power was not just an artist, he was a visionary

[papimoore]

Happy 46th Anniversary the lovely, dog-drooling sidekick of the fat cat: Odie.

[64-jungle-planks]

Happy 124th birthday to Al Capone!

(Sorry I am a bit late today, and I'm sorry the drawing is in pencil again! I got really sick. I have a lot of photos that I took, though! I'm super excited to show you guys)

124 years ago on January 17, 1899, Alphonse Gabriel Capone was born in Brooklyn, New York. In his yearly years, he lived with his mom, dad, and siblings at 95 Navy Walk.

I'm pretty sure Al went to school at either Public School 133 or Public School 7. It would make more sense for him to attend 133 because it's a 20-minute walk (nowadays) compared to 7 which is an over 2-hour walk. It would also make sense because, five minutes away, is Brownstone Bagels and Co., the rumored start-up hideout of Johnny Torrio.

I believe the story of Al hitting a teacher is true, with the context that he was fighting a kid over his stolen lunch ((a fight which the teacher was trying to break up) this version of the story is from Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend by Deirdre Bair, it's the one I find the most believable). I don't believe he left school, though, in Uncle Al Capone by Deirdre M. Capone, she states that Al "did earn a high school diploma. Contrary to what many biographers have written, Al Capone was a high school graduate. I have a photo of Al—the earliest photo of him that I am aware of—on the day he graduated from high school, and his father is sitting proudly beside him.”

The family then soon moved to three places on Garfield place: first 38 Garfield Place and then 21 and 46 on the same street. Al then moved to Chicago in 1919 and the rest of the family soon followed after him in I think August 1923.

I also want to include a horse shoe I found while walking about Garfield Place that was stuck in super old concrete (according to my dad). When looking at it, it made me think that one of the Capone boys put it there while fooling around as a kid. I don't have too many funny stories on Al like I do Ralph, so I hope you folks like this!

[thisdancingheart]

I have clicked on the horrid website so you don’t have to. 

First article, last year:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/18077960/benedict-cumberbatch-4million-castle-fronted-mansion/

Exclusive Benedict Cumberbatch eyes up £4million, castle-fronted mansion with 300-acre farm in south-west Laura Armstrong, Hannah Hope Published: 21:46, 26 Mar 2022 Updated: 9:49, 28 Mar 2022

NOMINEE Benedict Cumberbatch has been eyeing up a real-life role as a rancher – like his character in The Power Of The Dog.

The British actor is up for the Best Actor Oscar award on Sunday for his portrayal of troubled cowboy Phil Burbank in the blockbuster.

And we can reveal he’s showing an interest in a £4million, castle-fronted mansion.

The historic property has more than 300 acres of land attached to it and even boasts its own organic farm.

Benedict, who owns a home in London, where he lives with theatre director wife Sophie Hunter and their three children, is said to have been thinking of buying a bolthole in the South West for some time.

And a source in the village said: “Everyone around here is talking about it.

“Benedict has been seen here a few times in the last few months, either in the village or the market town nearby.

“He’s been wanting to buy a place down here for a while.

“If he buys the house it will be fantastic for the area and give everyone a real boost.

“The manor house and land have certainly seen better days so it would be brilliant if he injects some love into the property.”

If The Imitation Game actor buys the mansion, he will be able to relax in its extensive library and store vintage wines in the sprawling cellar.

There is also a swimming pool, cider orchard and land for grazing cattle — just like his film character Phil did.

He will also be able to bring his own features to the manor as it comes with extensive planning permission.

Benedict will be battling it out for the Best Actor award at the ceremony with Will Smith, Javier Bardem, Andrew Garfield and Denzel Washington.

And he is certainly a formidable contender after the movie won 12 nominations from the Academy.

Perhaps his recent house hunting is an optimistic bid to secure a grander location for his gong.

This weekend’s follow up and confirmation:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/21046724/benedict-cumberbatch-buys-8-million-mansion/

EXCLUSIVE

BEN'S NEW HOLME Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch buys £8.1m mansion with 355 acres of land Michael Hamilton Published: 21:50, 14 Jan 2023 Updated: 21:50, 14 Jan 2023

SHERLOCK star Benedict Cumberbatch has bought an £8.1million mansion with 355 acres of land.

The actor and wife Sophie Hunter agreed a deal on the country spread last May after eyeing it for two years.

Sources say the Somerset estate, which has an organic farm and cider orchard, is “totally private”.

The historic house has a Grade-II listed lodge built to impress King George III, who was a regular visitor in the late 1700s.

Cumberbatch, 46, distantly related to Richard III, also has a Gothic–style entrance arch, library and wine cellar to show off.

A source said: “It’s really lovely, secluded and peaceful, perfect for getting away from it all.

“Although the house is historic, it has all mod-cons.

“Locals in the nearby village know about the purchase.

“Everyone is excited about their new neighbours.”

Cumberbatch, who played Holmes in Sherlock, also has a home in London with theatre director, playwright and actress Sophie, 44.

The property was sold by estate agents Savills.

The Land Registry has only recently released the documents.

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Conclusion, Benedict saw a property he liked in Somerset while he was there filming some scenes for DSITMOM. Just a guess. 

[deadpresidents]

2 and a half weeks until JC passes Cactus Jack!

It took me a little bit to figure out what you were referencing, but yes, Jimmy Carter will pass John Nance Garner as the longest-living President or Vice President in American history on September 18th. And if he is still with us on October 1st, Carter will be the first President or Vice President in American history to celebrate their 99th birthday.

And since I'm a huge dork who finds this stuff interesting, here's the big, complete list of longest-living to shortest-living Presidents and Vice Presidents in American history: (Presidents are in bold text, Vice Presidents are in italics, and those who served as both POTUS and VP are in bold italics.) John Nance Garner: 98 years, 351 days Jimmy Carter: 98 years, 337 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Levi P. Morton: 96 years, 0 days George H.W. Bush: 94 years, 171 days Gerald R. Ford: 93 years, 165 days Ronald Reagan: 93 years, 120 days Walter Mondale: 93 years, 81 days John Adams: 90 years, 247 days Herbert Hoover: 90 years, 71 days Harry S. Truman: 88 years, 232 days Charles G. Dawes: 85 years, 239 days James Madison: 85 years, 104 days Thomas Jefferson: 83 years, 82 days Dick Cheney: 82 years, 216 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Hannibal Hamlin: 81 years, 311 days Richard Nixon: 81 years, 104 days Joe Biden: 80 years, 287 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) John Quincy Adams: 80 years, 227 days Aaron Burr: 80 years, 220 days Martin Van Buren: 79 years, 231 days Adlai E. Stevenson: 78 years, 234 days Dwight D. Eisenhower: 78 years, 165 days Alben W. Barkley: 78 years, 157 days Andrew Jackson: 78 years, 85 days Spiro Agnew: 77 years, 261 days Donald Trump: 77 years, 81 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) George W. Bush: 77 years, 59 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Henry A. Wallace: 77 years, 42 days James Buchanan: 77 years, 39 days Bill Clinton: 77 years, 15 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Dan Quayle: 76 years, 211 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Charles Curtis: 76 years, 14 days Al Gore: 75 years, 156 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Millard Fillmore: 74 years, 60 days James Monroe: 73 years, 67 days George Clinton: 72 years, 268 days George M. Dallas: 72 years, 174 days William Howard Taft: 72 years, 174 days John Tyler: 71 years, 295 days Grover Cleveland: 71 years, 98 days Thomas R. Marshall: 71 years, 79 days Nelson Rockefeller: 70 years, 202 days Elbridge Gerry: 70 years, 129 days Rutherford B. Hayes: 70 years, 105 days Richard M. Johnson: 70 years, 33 days William Henry Harrison: 68 years, 54 days John C. Calhoun: 68 years, 13 days William A. Wheeler: 67 years, 339 days George Washington: 67 years, 295 days Benjamin Harrison: 67 years, 205 days Woodrow Wilson: 67 years, 36 days William R. King: 67 years, 11 days Hubert H. Humphrey: 66 years, 231 days Andrew Johnson: 66 years, 214 days Thomas A. Hendricks: 66 years, 79 days Charles W. Fairbanks: 66 years, 24 days Zachary Taylor: 65 years, 227 days Franklin Pierce: 64 years, 319 days Lyndon B. Johnson: 64 years, 148 days Mike Pence: 64 years, 88 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Henry Wilson: 63 years, 279 days Ulysses S. Grant: 63 years, 87 days Franklin D. Roosevelt: 63 years, 72 days Barack Obama: 62 years, 30 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) Schuyler Colfax: 61 years, 296 days Calvin Coolidge: 60 years, 185 days Theodore Roosevelt: 60 years, 71 days Kamala Harris: 58 years, 318 days (As of Sept. 3, 2023) William McKinley: 58 years, 228 days Warren G. Harding: 57 years, 273 days Chester A. Arthur: 57 years, 44 days James S. Sherman: 57 years, 6 days Abraham Lincoln: 56 years, 62 days Garret A. Hobart: 55 years, 171 days John C. Breckinridge: 54 years, 116 days James K. Polk: 53 years, 225 days Daniel D. Tompkins: 50 years, 355 days James Garfield: 49 years, 304 days John F. Kennedy: 46 years, 177 days

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#pine throws thoughts into the void of tumblr - 199 posts

#dimension 20 - 84 posts

#acofaf - 73 posts

#tales from the fringes of reality - 49 posts

#jonmartin - 47 posts

#pines podcast updates - 46 posts

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#acofaf spoilers - 40 posts

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#i have dreams where i am late for high school while also being fully aware i have graduated and have a full time job

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

I think my thoughts on tma2 can best be summed up like this:

I trust Jonny more than I trust RQ

And I don't mean that in a parasocial way, I mean it in a "I've read and supported Jonny's other works and have enjoyed his storytelling repeatedly" way. I trust that he can and will deliver a good and satisfying story because I've liked all of the other stuff he's put out. If he wasn't involved with the project, I probably wouldn't listen but because I know he's taking part and that I like his storytelling, I'm actually excited for tma2

278 notes - Posted October 24, 2022

#4

Absolutely normal friends on a normal show

[Image Description: a picture of Ryan Bergara, Brian David Gilbert, and the Professor on the set of Puppet History. The Professor is a fuzzy blue puppet with glasses and a tan hat and coat. The text above the photo says "just three normal pals doing a normal show that doesn't have anything dark and mysterious in it" /end ID]

324 notes - Posted November 18, 2022

#3

Rewatching the conjuring house episode of buzzfeed unsolved and I *fully* forgot that these two idiots (affectionate) pretended to be cats to try and find a ghost dog

341 notes - Posted May 4, 2022

#2

Idk why but this part of the Garfield themed tunnel of love ride Defunctland absolutely slayed me

[ID: A video showcasing a yellow arrow mascot costume with big eyes and a large smile. The audio over the video says "Does he look familiar? No? It's the sign. It's the Kennywood sign. You can meet. The sign." /end ID]

2,457 notes - Posted May 19, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

There are only 3 acceptable ways to play golf:

1) Not at all.

2) Mini golf

3) Wii golf

34,722 notes - Posted July 11, 2022

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26 31 46 :3333

26: a scenario that you’ve replayed multiple times?

like in my head? probably my first "date" with my girlfriend where we literally did the cheesiest thing ever where we crept our hands closer together, finger by finger, until we were holding hands, and then i gave her the worst lie of my life when she asked me why i was shaking so much where i went like "oh- um- it's just because of the drink, the drink was cold, yeah that's why, also its a little cold out so yknow"

(took me 5 days after that to ask her out. good times)

that, or the exact moment i realized i was trans, where i was juggling names around in my head because i was like well what would i even NAME myself, and i landed on lillie and immediately went "oh fuck am i really stealing my name from a pokemon character? oh fuck, am i really a GIRL?"

31: what type of music keeps you grounded?

probably jazz, any type of jazz. whenever i need to ground myself a bit i just put on a jazz playlist and vibe out for a bit. always very soothing

46: favorite holiday film?

A GARFIELD CHRISTMAS SPECIAL BABY FUCK YEAH EVERY YEAR LIKE CLOCKWORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

that or miracle on 34th street, which is my mom's favorite holiday movie, and she watches it every year she sets up the tree. it's a fun tradition, and i'm excited i'll be able to see it again this year cause ill be home :]