#Robert Sheehan is a work of art

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I can’t stop seeing:

Salome with the Head of John the Baptist

Matthias Stom; Onorio Mariani

Luther with the Head of Klaus the Baptist

Netflix

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This is epic. Where have you been all my blog?

[ID: A drawing of all the Hargreeves plus Lila riding in Diego's van from season 4, wearing the outfits they usually wear in the promo posters. Diego is driving and using a fist to mime singing into a mic. Five is reading a newspaper in the passenger seat. In the row behind them, Klaus is dangling his arms out the window, Lila is throwing snacks at Five's head, and Allison is sharing headphones with Viktor who is sitting behind her. Ben is in the same row as Viktor and is staring straight ahead looking shaken. Luther is taking a nap in the trunk. End ID.]

Family Road Trip!!

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Robert Sheehan is set to play Withnail in the theatre production (X)

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robert sheehan / they/he  ———  no way is that SEAMUS KEOGHAN.. they’re a 33-year-old HUMAN notoriously known for being FORGETFUL &  WEAK-WILLED but there are some people who have seen them being FREE SPIRITED &  STYLISH  if you ask me, they remind me a lot of bare bodies covered in paint moving atop a canvas, falling in love with strangers, laughter lines on tired eyes, a ginger cat that comes and goes as it pleases, and laying on the floor of a club while everyone dances around you, but that could just be because they’re considered the STARVING ARTIST around town. just keep an eye on them  &  see if their true colors shine through..

GENERAL.

full name: seamus michael keoghan nicknames: sea classification: human gender / pronouns: genderqueer, they/he age / birthday: 33, january 7th orientations: pansexual, panromantic occupation: bartender at the kit-kat club, artist location: lower district status: single, closed family: fionn keoghan (brother), finn o'connor (cousin), kirby (cousin) strengths: free spirited, stylish, creative, idealistic, quirky weaknesses: forgetful, weak-willed, addictive, impulsive, gossipy character inspo: tbd

BIOGRAPHY.

the youngest of two, seamus was born in ireland and spent the first nineteen years of his life there. they like to say they followed their older brother to america but it was their parents who strongly suggested it because of all the trouble they were getting into.

the trouble was their affinity for partying and inability to hold down a job or have any real ambition for what to do with their future. though the family was rumored to have criminal ties to the mafia, it was clear seamus wasn't cut out for a life of crime either.

ever since he was young, art was the thing that interested them the most - drawing and painting were their favorite but certainly not all they did. sculpting, music, mosaics, etc. they dabbled in all of it.

once in america they saw an opportunity to pursue this passion further and went to school for both art and art history. however, it didn't hold their attention until the end and they never finished the degree.

instead, they went off on their own and started doing a number of different pieces of their own, including the phenomenon of erotic art ( which they are positive they started ) and showing in it galleries that would accept it

to survive, they took up a job at the kit-kat club as a bartender, enjoying the environment and if he hears anything worth noting while he works he let's fionn know.

seamus tries to spend time with their brother and cousins but they are busy people and sea's mind is scattered at the best of time, however it doesn't make them love them any less.

they sell their art at the bazaar and are always looking for their next muse, and to get a real showing at a gallery so they can stop working at the club.

HEADCANONS.

seamus still loves to party and be social, so you can often find them out and about having a good time throughout the city

coming soon...

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The Klaunes are everything!!! We want more of the 3 Klauses, please 🧡🧡🧡🧡

“So, if you ever see your other self-”

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More positive reviews come rolling in: The Arts Desk (X)

Withnail and I, Birmingham Rep review - Bruce Robinson’s 1987 film makes for a theatrical hit

“Robert Sheehan’s portrayal of Withnail was an absolute scream – and certainly no shallow imitation of Richard E Grant’s performance.”

Rehearsal image: @therepbirmingham IG

“All-in-all, this production of Withnail and I was a triumph and the standing ovation that the cast received was certainly well deserved. Indeed, the show proved to be far from the mistake that it could have been but a real celebration of British theatre in front of a packed audience.”

Full review (X)

Let’s put our cards firmly on the table here. I am a big fan of Bruce Robinson’s cinematic masterpiece about two out-of-work actors who live in Camden Town in 1969 and escape to the countryside for some rejuvenation, and must have seen it multiple times since it was released onto the big screen 37 years or so ago. Clearly, I’m not the only one, for Withnail and I has since achieved serious cult status – to the extent that it’s something of a surprise that it’s never been the focus of a dodgy Hollywood make-over or even been turned into a rock opera by the likes of Ben Elton.

Therefore, it was with some trepidation that I approached the initial run of a live theatre version of this classic comedy at Birmingham’s Rep. However, the fact that it had been adapted for the stage by Robinson himself and was to be directed by the great Sean Foley did offer significant hope. That said, there were still two major aspects about the production that gave a degree of concern: who was going to be cast as the self-absorbed and over-confident, yet cowardly Withnail and how was the predatory Uncle Monty and his unwanted sexual fixation on Adonis Siddique’s Marwood going to be portrayed? After all, mainstream attitudes towards the LGBT+ community have shifted considerably since the film first appeared in the late 1980s, when the Thatcher Government was still doing its damnedest to demonise gay men and lesbians with their Section 28 legislation.

I need not have worried. As Robert Sheehan’s portrayal of Withnail was an absolute scream – and certainly no shallow imitation of Richard E Grant’s performance that launched his film career and created an enduring source of comedy banter, if not a minor character-focused cult. Malcolm Sinclair’s Uncle Monty was similarly a fresh creation and considerably less flamboyant than Richard Griffith’s cinematic portrayal of the part. If anything, Sheehan was significantly more camp than Sinclair in this version.

Of course, the eminently quotable lines from the film’s script were all in order, with many fan boys and girls in the audience mouthing them as they were spoken by the actors. The infamous “We want the finest wines available to humanity. We want them here and we want them now!” even got its own cheer from a good proportion of those in the house.

While the original film has quite a small cast and all the characters, including Danny the Dealer and the imposing Presuming Ed, were represented without having to amalgamate any roles, reproducing various scenes – such as strolling or staggering over the bleak Northern countryside to and from the Crow pub – just wasn’t possible on the Rep’s stage. However, Alice Power’s excellent set – which often consisted of translucent screens and projections – more than made up for the limitations posed by an indoor theatre. Similarly, punctuating the show with a live band covering “A Whiter Shade of Pale”, “Sunshine of your Love” and other tunes of the time, resplendent in hippy garb and fronted by the energetic Sooz Kempner, was a genius move.

All-in-all, this production of Withnail and I was a triumph and the standing ovation that the cast received was certainly well deserved. Indeed, the show proved to be far from the mistake that it could have been but a real celebration of British theatre in front of a packed audience.

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Robert Sheehan | he/him | cismale | Have you met [Finley “Fin” Casey] yet? They’re the [33] year old [photographer] that lives around [Finch Park]. I think they’ve lived in Seattle for [6 years]. From what I’ve heard, they’re [confident] but they can also be [unserious] if you get on their bad side. When I think of them, I usually think of [Change by DJO].

Stats

Name: Finley Declan Casey

Age/D.O.B: 33, May 9th, 1989

Hometown: Cobh, Ireland

Gender/pronouns: cismale, he/him

Sexuality: bisexual, biromantic

Occupation: photographer

General appearance: gif for reference

Positive traits: confident, friendly, patient

Negative traits: unserious, conceited, disruptive

Family: Aoife O’Connor (mother, 58), Sean Casey (father, 62), Cillian O’Connor (stepfather, deceased), Nora Casey (stepmother, 50) Bridget Casey (half sister, 20), Saoirse Casey (half sister, 18)

Bio (death tw, car accident tw, pregnancy tw)

Fin was planned, but at what cost? His parents’ relationship was certainly not solid enough to raise a baby together. But still, Aoife tried her best to give her little son a good life. He was a little spoiled, a little doted on - if he came home with a complaint about another student, you better believe that mother was getting a phone call as soon as Aoife could find the right phone number. But he was happy that was.

Sean Casey was a different story, on the other hand. He was your classic Irishman; stoic, emotionless, and detached. Fin never felt close with his father. Whenever they’d talk, it was either because he’d gotten in trouble at school, over the dinner table, or if they were for whatever reason stuck in the car together. Never out of want for a conversation. By the time Fin was seven, his parents were split up, and his already distant relationship with his dad lessened significantly.  His dad was remarried by the time Fin was ten, and he had two younger half-sisters in the years that followed.

Aoife also remarried, but when Fin was thirteen, to a man named Cillian O’Connor. Cillian had never had children, never felt it was in the cards, so he immediately tried to form a relationship with Fin. He wasn’t really about it at first - at thirteen, it wasn’t like he was going to suddenly form a father-son relationship with this dude. Besides, Fin was kind of a rebel in most regards by then. He didn’t do his schoolwork, he skipped class whenever he could, he started fights with other kids. Not really a bad kid by any means, but with so much going on in his still young life, any attention felt like good attention to him.

His new stepdad was patient, though. He tried to connect with him for a while, until Fin was fifteen and something finally clicked. Cillian was a professional photographer, and one day his assistant called in sick so he asked Fin to come help him on a whim. And Fin fell in love. He loved the art behind getting a good picture; the way Cillian explained everything and taught him everything sparked a joy in him that he just hadn’t had before. He fell in love with it. So from then on, he worked with his stepfather. Once he’d graduated, he started working with him full time, eventually becoming a partner in his practice.

And that was how it went for years. Fin and Cillian worked together, both loving their craft and the bond it gave them, until Fin was 26 years old. Cillian died, very suddenly, in a car crash. It devastated both Fin and his mother greatly. After a brief hiatus, he tried to go back to work, but it wasn’t the same. He couldn’t bare to look at the same studio he’d shared with his stepdad for ten years. So, after closing up shop and getting his life together, Fin impulsively moved himself from Cobh to Seattle, Washington, where he’s been working as a freelance photographer ever since.

Not long after settling in, a couple moved in across the hall from Fin. One of whom shared an immediate liking with him, while the other... noticed. And didn’t appreciate it. For Fin and Stevie Dupree, it wasn’t really an issue, until her girlfriend up and left her. Fin didn’t blame himself or his flirty friendship with Stevie for it, because there was nothing between the pair of friends anyway, right? Wrong - for the first time in his life, he gladly accepted the ‘boyfriend’ title just shy of two years ago, and he’s been lovesick for Stevie ever since. They recently bought a cozy, two-bedroom house in Finch Park together, for them and for Baby Casey-Dupree, who will be arriving in the next few months. 

Fun facts / wanted connections

Before settling down, Fin was .... a lil casanova. He was a flirt, he had Tinder Gold, and he was not ashamed of either of those things. He’s definitely still flirty in a more innocent, platonic way, but I imagine he’d have a few past flames around town

Goes without saying but thick Irish accent on this motherfucker. Can barely pronounce “th”

He does a lot of event photography (with Delilah Carreño sometimes!) and he’s a talkative fella. I’m sure he knows a lot of people from old gigs

He talks to his dad a little, but mostly just because he likes his half sisters and always wanted a relationship with them

Allergic to cats, afraid of cats, but will never pass up an opportunity to pet one. He’s a typical cat hater until one is in front of him, and then that’s A Baby that he must pet

Baby Casey-Dupree is UNPLANNED and A SHOCK that he never thought he’d want, but oh boy is he thrilled. Nervous, but thrilled!! If you play a parent and Fin knows them, he will be texting them at 2am like “what do I do if the baby doesnt like me, what then”

Has his best friend Edgar’s face tattooed on his buttcheek (NOT very well) and he will show you if you ask

He and Stevie used to live across from each other at West Point Homes and I would love if he had a former roommate that he lived with!

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I posted 5,023 times in 2022

That's 4,327 more posts than 2021!

606 posts created (12%)

4,417 posts reblogged (88%)

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I tagged 4,878 of my posts in 2022

Only 3% of my posts had no tags

#the umbrella academy - 763 posts

#personal - 443 posts

#klaus hargreeves - 374 posts

#not my art - 267 posts

#not fandom - 262 posts

#save for a rainy day - 225 posts

#misfits - 192 posts

#robert sheehan - 185 posts

#doctor who - 175 posts

#nathan young - 172 posts

Longest Tag: 136 characters

#☝️☝️☝️ end point? enjoy what you like and don't rag on people for things they like—esp. if that ragging leads to demanding personal info

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

I love that the Sonic movies are just big old found family stories. It gives me such happy butterflies seeing it grow, and Sonic getting to be a hero and yet not having to totally sacrifice being a kid. They've given us such a soft Sonic. A soft Sonic who says I love you, gives hugs, and treats his friends as more than just friends or teammates, he treats them like family.

Sonic has never been cruel, exactly, or even very cold, but these movies have given him a special familial kind of warmth that I think is often neglected in the games. And it's so, so nice to see it.

111 notes - Posted April 9, 2022

#4

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#3

Holy cow, guys. I took a bunch of screenshots with the intention of trying to see what items Sparrow Ben has in his room but instead I think I just accidentally discovered that Klaus and Sparrow Ben have the same room.

So two incredibly clever fans @writing-by-candlelight​ and @nikkiwriteswords​ have already done some amazing work trying to figure out the layout of the Umbrella Academy in these two posts [1, 2] respectively.

Thanks to them, we can assume that Klaus’ bedroom was eventually expanded and merged into Viktor’s bedroom as evidenced by Viktor’s brick wall also being present in Klaus’ room:

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144 notes - Posted June 30, 2022

#2

The growing in popularity theory that Allison's actions in S3 are because she rumored herself to be happy just doesn't sit right with me. I loved her anti-hero arc, adored it actually, but that doesn't mean I also don't find those actions abhorrent. She's made horrible decisions as a person, but as a character, she's as fantastic as she is fascinating.

The idea that Allison went off the rails because she rumored herself is an understandable attempt to reconcile with some of the bad things she's done, and I get that. It sucks when characters you love disappoint you and do something shocking and horrible. But it's a solution that's far too simple and does a complete disservice to her character by cancelling all accountability for her actions and ignoring her depth as a damaged, struggling human being.

Allison has always, always been accustomed to using her power for personal gain. It's how she got what she wanted as a child and later as an adult. Besides rumoring Claire which resulted in her losing custody, she rumored her first husband, Patrick, into loving her, which is no different than what she did to Luther, we just don't see it first hand. To say that her behavior in S3 is only in-character through taking away her own agency by rumoring herself is canonically untrue, and flattens her into something boring and perfect which Allison is anything but.

She's compassionate, she's spiteful. She's gentle, she's cruel. She's understanding, she's selfish. She's put-together, she's a trainwreck. She's a great mom friend, she's the worst enemy you could ever have.

Allison Hargreeves isn't all good or all bad, she's both in varying, shifting shades just like all of the other Hargreeves or any well-written character. She's faceted, incredible, and in a lot of pain. And pain isn't always pretty; often times it's ugly, and occasionally it brings out our very worst.

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My #1 post of 2022

If TUA S4 actually does put Five in school to help him “blend in” or whatever, all I beg is that at some point “Teenagers” by MCR plays over a montage of Five really going through it in school and barely containing his homicidal rage while some snotty teen shoves him into a locker.

Finally Five has enough and verbally eviscerates Head Bully until they run, tail-tucked between their legs. Some other kids see and Five accidentally becomes the champion of school losers. All the nerds and outcasts flock to him for protection and absolutely no one gets pushed around on his watch. Oh were you thinking of stealing Jimmy’s lunch money? Too bad, Five Hargreeves is smiling at you from across the cafeteria, which means you have about three seconds to run.

Eventually Five begrudgingly discovers that he’s fond of the awkward gaggle of teens that look up to him. This is the only reason he goes from “I’m almost 60 years old with an IQ of 190, goddammit, I’m not going to school!” to “Yes, I am getting up at 6am to catch the bus; school starts at 8 o’clock sharp and I refuse to be late”. Those idiot kids NEED him, okay, and he won’t disappoint.

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Five’s smirk is everything.

Season 3 baby!!!

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oct 18

Since the art work now has nice pictures of it I suppose the next step is to take nice pictures of the dolls. Wouldn't say some of my doll pics are old but they might be older than people reading this and I know few to none were done on the green phone with the really good camera.

Just one article of clothing left to sew on the Halloween rag doll and she'll be done.

Thought I was going to take a Smallville break but I need to write out what I have so far for a Veritas based AU so I can make room for other things.

Didn't get ot watching anything yesterday as aside from the sewing I got to writing so there wasn't going to be the attention needed.

Discovered that frontal lobe injury aside part of my lack of motivation comes from how I was raised, I spent too much time just trying to get thru a day, experience, or moment, and the fucked up summer of 2021 followed by the don't get settled because we're moving asap game with some times that caused autistic melt downs didn't help.

Don't know how many people I told that I can't picture where I'll be in five years because I can't picture where my next meal or paycheck is coming from.

Little Walken in middle school couldn't picture being in the middle of getting a college degree and surviving a brain injury. Little Walken in college didn't know where they'd be living during the millennium or having that job or the sharp turn everything would take, millennium Little Walken had no idea they'd be back out near their college doing what they did then, and the last time Little Walken did anything that asked that question living on an acre of land with critters but no car and having that spiraling mess wasn't even on the radar.

Five fucking years ago I was trapped in a household with an abusive mentally ill person who didn't believe they were in need of serious mental health and all I could do was wait out the results of something the progress of which was stopped because of the coof. You couldn't tell me I'd ever be free of the bitch, live somewhere nice, and have the other blessings I have.

Hell, there were times when I might have only stayed alive because of the Good Omens fandom or wanting to see what Robert Sheehan was doing or that I didn't want my blessing to be used on certain people.

But I did, and that situation changed, and in the next five years... It'll be five years from now.

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Robert Sheehan art via the @redsonjaofficial Insta

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*gasp*

In celebration of the beautiful non-binary train wreck that’s Klaus Hargreeves. 💛🤍💜🖤

(I was drawing this on my TUA rewatch this summer, in preparation for season 4… Well. In any case, we cope with art. 🥲)

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aug 16

It's weird switching desk top computers. I was expecting a bigger display but not quite how it is. And being a Mac I knew I'd know how to use it but there's little extra things that I didn't even know existed because my last one is like Obama era old and while it updated it could only handle so much.

There is this built in thing called Freeform, which will meet my putting text on images meme needs and looks like I can use it for when I need to cluster several art reference photos on one sheet of paper to print out. What I haven't had time to figure out yet is if it'll allow me to do transparent layering.

And what I personally mean by transparent layering is when I want to print out paper dolls I sometimes have to enlarge the image and need to make sure the clothes will fit so I make that layer transparent when I enlarge it. Occasionally I need it for some shopping for art reasons.

Long story short this will be the first computer I've owned that won't have Adobe photoshop elements on it. We got a free version with a printer once so I learned myself on it and just kept buying it because I knew how to use it.

Now I'm just going to try the free Mac stuff from the app store and find something that will suit my needs on that end. For electric drawing, which I really do need to make myself do more, I have like iSketch on my tablet.

The old desktop is already erased, how many times do I have to tell you kids to back up your everything on to a physical external drive, and the next task will be waiting the 2+ hours for it to download it's operating system so I can set it up for mom. So she can complain about how her desk, which used to be my desk, isn't right and so on now that she won't be able to complain that she doesn't have a working computer and that she wants a Mac after the Life Ruiner fucked up their last Windows. Or that she let the dogs stomp on the last Windows laptop I gave her. It used to be a pretty pink and white netbook.

My longest task is going to be setting up my iTunes. I needed to seriously reorganize that and the audio books and saved podcasts anyway.

I know we all hate Lord Farquard Bezos but all DS9ers should buy Andy reading a Stitch in Time, we waited 25 years for it and we want to show them we want more, all Jeffrey Combs fans should buy Nevermore, to encourage more proper recordings of theatrical events, and you Robert Sheehan kids should buy his reading of his book(s) to encourage more of that.

And any other times authors you like have narrated their own books.

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Work of art 🔥 🤩

Cosplay comparison! ♥ Klaus Hargreeves - Umbrella Academy!