#c: gethin

[realmbred]

there was always the odd chance that someone was protected from other people meddling into their lives. elenorius wasn't going to be that pompous to believe that he could cross through those boundaries. even if he was confident in his own skillset. “kingdom aside, it's very possible that anyone could be guarded from this form of magic. depends on how much they want to stay hidden. how determined they are to be one with the shadows.” although that was more of a chasque thing, it could be relevant for any kingdom. far be it from the high priest to question someone's motives. still, as he sat down he pondered different routes that they could have taken. “if that is the case, i can still try. then it would come down to who is more powerful between her and me.” a sly smirk formed on his face. oh how he loved a challenge. “if you'd rather respect the hypothetical, we don't have to try though.” 

Gethin had a deep respect for priests. His mother was one and taught him some histories of them, and through watching her, he gained an appreciation for them. Gethin even followed the religion of the sorcerers, diverging from the god of his family. When the man crafted chairs from trees, Gethin did not flinch. His mother had produced such magics before. He moved over and sat politely, at attention as a prince would. "I suppose yes. I am aware of the reputation my kingdom carries." Gethin couldn't help but smile a bit. He sort of enjoyed it. When Elenorius offered, a shadow crossed Gethin's face, his brow furrowing a little. Part of it felt a little invasive. If his mother was out there somewhere and she hadn't contacted him, it must be for a reason. Would this be violating some boundary? "Could she be guarded from those sorts of magics? I am told she was quite powerful." Gethin looked at Elenorius, concern on his face.

[denimbex1986]

'In a world of locked rooms, the man with the key is King and honey, you should see me in a crown.'

"...I loved, loved, loved working with Benedict on that, and you know, the, the first series of that show went down so well - I only had a little bit to do in the first, first series, so I was excited to be focused on Moriarty in one of the episodes particularly because people loved the show almost immediately, and that line is an amazing line that - for an actor to say..."

'I'm in Wales, and I don't have to pretend to be something that I'm not.'

"...I always recommend Pride because I think it's just a beautiful film about how we're just so much more similar to each other than we think we are. And what was brilliant about that character, the character, was that he was one of I think 15 gay characters who are the lead characters, and it so it means you weren't just playing like a token gay because everybody was completely distinct from each other, even though they were all sort of relatively similar sexualities. He just shows that, you know, there's as much diversity within, within a sex - sexuality as there is for straight people too."

'I can't get used to calling myself queer, it was always such an insult.'

"...So much of it was, was personal, even though it was very different to me. I suppose it explored the idea of losing your parents, which at the time I hadn't - I lost my mother since - but I think that's the, the power of the sort of empathetic nature of art; that it allows us to explore things that otherwise we might be too frightened to explore. That film has helped me in a way because, since the film ended, I, I feel like there's stuff in it that I feel like I was able to exorcise in some ways..."

'Yeah, that's right, Dickie Greenleaf. It's nice to meet you too.'

"...He's a really solitary figure, and to be able to just work out what's going on inside his head, and whether he's sort of capable of love or whether, whether he isn't - I kind of believe that all human beings are in need of love in some way, but it was quite difficult in that sense to sort of access within, within him, because he was so solitary. So yeah, that's why I think he continues to fascinate people, Tom Ripley."

'You've always been against going to America.'

"Korea? Is it? That's my first film...I was 17 - first ever job; first ever film. It was lovely and there was a - an actor in it who played my father called Donald Donnelly, and he was an enormous influence on me. He was very well-known, but he was incredibly kind to everybody on the set, and I've always just - you know, you learn how to be by looking at your, you know, elders, and he was just lovely to everybody.

I remember very clearly on a Saturday afternoon watching like old MGM movies. You know, like those big things where there's, you know, lots of people doing synchronised swimming in a big pool from like, I mean like, old school, like, you know, choreography of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. And there's something about that that I just absolutely adored, and I knew immediately - I knew, I really; I remember when I was about seven saying that I want - that's something that I wanted to do, which is weird when I think about it. I was very shy, and so that helped me kind of come out of my shell so - I was very nurtured by, by, uh, my mum in that sense; she, she pushed me in the right direction. That's what I remember um, uh, inspiring me, yeah."

[ladykailitha]

Of Butterflies and Backstrokes Part 9

Hello! This story is moving right along. I'm not sure how much longer it will be but I've finally gotten to the competition part of the story and then we slowly ramp up to the Olympics where the real fun begins.

Some really juicy plot twists at the Olympics I can't wait for you to read. And the ending which I am vibrating to write for you.

In this we have a good therapy session, Max joins the team, and Eddie is a sweetheart. (Which we all knew).

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8

~

Steve knew he should have gone to therapy after the first time he tried to get into the water and had a fucking panic attack. But he was newly off his dad’s money and having to work for the first time in his life, he just didn’t have the time or the money to do it.

But now that he was getting paid a lot more as a coach and Dr. Hughes being willing to do the sessions after hours and therefor off the clock made it easier to try.

He wasn’t sure what to expect when he walked into that neat office that Tuesday afternoon, but it certainly wasn’t a forty-something man with neat wire rimmed glasses and curly hair. He had a round face and pleasant smile. He was wearing a nice vest over a blue button up shirt.

Steve smiled and slid into one of the chairs in front of the desk Dr. Hughes was sitting behind. “I thought tweed jackets were standard issue for therapists.”

Dr. Hughes snapped his fingers. “Shucks, I knew there was something I forgot to do!”

Steve laughed and was immediately put at ease. “Eddie said you're the dad of one of his friends...”

Dr. Hughes’s eyes twinkled with mirth. “And you want to know how the son of a psychiatrist and licensed therapist is friends with the local drug dealer?” Steve blushed but nodded anyway. “I have two sons. Twins. My Gethin is everything a white, upper middle class parent could want. He’s quiet, smart, does particularly well in school, straight, dresses neatly. Popular at school, well liked by his teachers. His mother and I are very proud.”

“I’m guess your other son isn’t all that?” Steve huffed, flopping against the back of the chair. He could just picture this kid. Loud and angry and messy. A little bit like Eddie. God, he hoped the kid had some really good friends, because if he knew anything, he knew what it felt like to never be good enough in your parents eyes.

Dr. Hughes chuckled. “My son, Gareth is more like my wife. Loud, fierce, and vibrant. We got him his first drum set when was eight to help him work out his energy and it worked. He’s very good at it. He doesn’t get the grades Geth does, but we go to all his band’s shows, we celebrate his passing his classes. While doesn’t have as many friends as his brother, Gareth has a tight knit group that he can rely on for anything.”

Steve blinked at him with his mouth open.

“I do specialize in behavior analysis after all,” Dr. Hughes said with a tender smile, “I’d be a shit therapist and worse father if I didn’t at least follow what my profession says on the matter.”

“Yeah, sorry,” Steve said after snapping his jaw shut. “I guess I’ve just never seen a parent treat their kids equally before. One parent always has preference especially if one doesn’t fit inside their perfect box.”

“Ah ha!” Dr. Hughes said, leaning back in his chair and gripping the arms of his chair. “The perks about a patient one can look up on the internet is knowing a bit about them before hand. Did you not fit into the box your parents made for you?”

Steve snorted. “Tell you the truth, Dr. Hughes,” he said picking at the skin around his nails, “I don’t think they cared enough to build the fucking box in the first place. My mom was always off with her charities and her clubs and my dad was only there to make sure I made them look good. But nothing was ever enough for them.”

“Do you think that your feelings of abandonment contributed to your trauma in the pool?”

Steve stare at him for a moment, head cocked to the side. He scratched his cheek nervously. “I guess I never really thought about it. I always assumed it was just getting hurt.”

“Trauma is rarely so black and white,” Dr. Hughes said gently. “We’re not going to dive straight into what happened at the Olympics. This first session is really about getting to know each other and deciding we’re the right fit for each other.”

Steve nodded and they got to talking about sports and somehow ended up on Eddie.

“He’s a good kid,” Dr. Hughes said. “A bit rough around the edges, but that is more to due to his circumstances and less to do to his actual personality.”

“I really don’t know him that well,” Steve admitted.

“And yet you offered to train him for the Olympics,” Dr. Hughes pointed out.

Steve snorted. “What’s something you’re good at that isn’t this job?”

“I’m really good at math. Particularly complex equations. My calculus teacher thought I should have been a mathematician.”

Steve nodded again. “So imagine you’re picking one of your sons from school and you pass by the classroom being used for dentition, and the teacher isn’t there. But instead of drawing dick pics on the white board, he’s correcting the teacher’s math. Correctly, I might add. Would you not want to jump in and help him achieve greatness if you could?”

Dr. Hughes pressed his lips together tightly. “And you saw that greatness in Eddie?”

“Oh yeah,” Steve said seriously. “If he had been swimming in ‘08, he would have been on the US team; no doubt.”

Dr. Hughes blinked at him for a moment. “You told me you didn’t know him very well, but I think you know him better than you think you do.”

Steve blushed.

~

He arrived at the pool to find Eddie and Robin waiting for him in front of the rec center. As soon as he stepped onto the curb, Robin threw her arms around him.

“How did your first session go?” she asked anxiously. “Was it hard, are you okay? Tell me everything. Don’t leave anything out.”

Steve laughed and spun them both around. “It was fine. It was more about getting to know each other. Testing the water as it were. It was good. He was nice.”

Eddie grinned. “I’m glad you guys got along. Dr. Hughes was telling me and Gare that not every therapist is a fit for every person and we weren’t sure what we were going to do if it didn’t work out between you.”

“Suffer.”

Robin and Eddie laughed as Steve grinned at them.

“It’s my lot in life,” Steve huffed as he let go of Robin and started walking to the door.

“It’s not a lot,” Robin said.

“But it’s my life!” Eddie finished.

Steve’s grin turned into a fond smile. Yeah, he couldn’t get in the water now and maybe not ever, but he had Robin. And if everything turned out well, maybe Eddie, too.

When they got in to the dressing rooms to change, the other coaches and athletes were conspicuously absent. When Steve asked a passing Joyce about it when they got out, she said with a smile.

“I convinced them to use the other dressing rooms on the other side,” she said brightly. “After all they are closer to the pool they were supposed to be using.”

She patted him on the shoulder and went back to where every it was she was going.

Steve rubbed his chin thoughtfully. He cocked his head back and forth. If that was the case...

He walked up to Robin and Eddie and clapped his hands, rubbing them together. “All right guys, a slight change of plans. As soon as Max gets here, we’ll be using the second main pool today.”

“Where is the goon squad today?” Robin asked.

Steve just grinned. “Not here.”

Max came running up to him in a panic. “I can’t fit my hair under the cap! I don’t want to get chlorine in it. Trust me when I say that red hair and chlorine don’t mix.”

Eddie’s eyes went wide and his hand went shakily to the top of his head. He ran his fingers through his curls nervously. “You don– they wouldn’t make me shave my head, would they?”

Steve’s jaw hardened. “If they try and make you, I will drown them personally. Shaving a man’s hair is fucking pointless because it’s going to be under the cap. If you weren’t swimming with one, then I could see it. But as you won’t, there is no need to do it. Robin will help Max do her hair, and I’ll help you do yours, okay?”

Eddie sat down on the edge of the pool and Steve began braiding Eddie’s hair and gently weaving it. He put the cap on Eddie’s head, starting from the back. Eddie adjusted it so that it sat perfectly over the tips of his ears.

Eddie turned back to thank him, but gulped when he realized how close Steve was. “Right. Um... thanks.”

Steve blushed, stepping away to let Eddie slide into the pool. Robin and Max followed close behind. Steve got up on the lifeguard chair and pulled out his clipboard.

“Since Max is going to be learning the different types of strokes,” he said brightly, “we’ll have Eddie demonstrate each one and then I’ll rate them. And while I’m talking to Eddie, Robin can help Max learn the first one.”

“Sure thing!” Eddie chirped happily. He tussled Max’s cap and she pushed him off of her. “Just you watch me, Red. I’ve got this in the bag.” He looked up at Steve. “Which one do you wanna try out first, Coach?”

“Backstroke is what you’re best at,” Steve said with a smile. “Go on, showoff. I know you want to.”

Eddie grinned and then wadded over to the second line, ducking under the floaties. He pulled his goggles over his eyes, then looked up at Steve, giving him a thumbs up. Steve blew the whistle and off Eddie went. Robin talked Max through everything Eddie was doing and the mechanics of it all. When Eddie touched the return plate he looked up at Steve.

Steve pressed the button on his stopwatch. “Not a bad time and your form was really good.” He then gave Eddie scores on his technique and style, Eddie nodding along.

“Translate!” Max snapped at Robin, causing the two men to snap their heads up to look at her.

Steve blushed in embarrassment as Eddie grinned at her.

“Sorry, Max,” Steve murmured. “It’s been so long since I’ve had a person to talk swim with since– well, since before Tommy decided to shove a stick up his ass.”

Max’s eyes went wide with gleeful surprise at Steve swearing. He wasn’t allowed swear at children so the kids had never heard his more colorful language.

“Steve!” she said in awe. “There are children present.”

Steve laughed. “Like you don’t swear the worst of them. Well, all except Dustin. That kid has the worst potty mouth.”

“Oof,” Robin said with a wince. “I’d say he swears like a sailor, but I think even sailors would blush at his language.”

Max cocked her head to side and then nodded. “Yeah okay. He’s worse than I am. But barely. Like I’m better at coming up with insults then he is. He usually just resorts to ‘your mom!’ when he can’t think of anything.”

“That’s a preeetty piss poor insult,” Eddie cackled. “Like does he even know your mom?”

“I think he does it because his mom is a literal saint,” Robin said solemnly. “Like she always brings us donuts or homemade muffins. No one would dare say it back to him lest the lose access to the most delicious baked goods in existence.”

Eddie eyes went wide. “Those triple chocolate muffins were hers?”

“Oh yeah,” Steve said, nodding. “She can’t decorate for shit, so her cakes aren’t pretty to look at but they are so good you forget the icing was starting to slip off one side a bit.”

“That’s because she gets too excited to share it,” Max said with a fond eye roll, “so she doesn’t wait for it to cool down enough before she starts frosting anything.”

“Right, right,” Eddie said, rubbing his chin thoughtfully, “note to self never insult Dustin’s mom. Got it.”

Steve nodded seriously. They got back to swimming and were wrapping up when the goon squad arrived.

They were on their way out, laughing and talking. About what Steve couldn’t make out. Then someone bumped Steve’s hip sending him toward the pool. He let out a shriek of unequivocal terror and squeezed his eyes shut, fearing the absolute worst.

But the splash never came. There was no rushing of water, no feeling of enveloped and choked by the waves. All he felt was cold arms holding him tightly to a broad, flat chest. One that as very wet and very, very naked. His arms were trapped between his chest and the person holding him, but he didn’t struggle.

He leaned into the touch, his eyes still squeezed shut, his heart racing behind his ribs. The arms began moving gently to stroke his back as muttered phrases slowly brought him round again.

He opened his eyes to stare directly into the warmest brown eyes he had ever seen. It was like when he woke up from his panic attack.

“There you are, big boy,” Eddie murmured. “I’ve got you.” He brushed Steve’s hair gently out of his face.

That’s when he realized that there was screaming going on around them.

“I don’t care who your father is, Hannah,” Joyce was shouting, “until he signs my paychecks, I’m in charge here and had Steve fallen in, he could have you charged with assault.” The girl turned pale and immediately everyone shut up. “That’s right, pushing someone in a pool is so dangerous Steve would have every right to have you arrested. Now get out of here.”

After everyone made sure Steve was okay, Robin walked him to the car and shoved him into the passenger side. As she slid behind the wheel she said, “It’s a good thing Eddie had such fast reflexes.”

“Yeah.” And all the way home, Steve thought about those arms wrapped around him, keeping him safe.

~

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[whitegoldtower]

“Oh butt. I’m not fucking happy with you. I’m stranded up the fucking Gurnos and Elgar’nan’s raided the costcutter for monster energy and gone up ebbw vale to catch the cardiff train after egging my nan’s house. He’s just texted me a picture of him terrorising the st davids centre on his way to the senedd with the tagline “c u later twphead I’m off to techniquest”. And that’s not the worst part. Ghilan’an’s fucked off up Brynmawr comp to scare the set six biology class. She’s shown little Gethin how to make mustard gas. So thanks for that, mush. You’d better hide between the stalls at Abergavenny market and pray that jono covers for you, because when I find you, I’m gonna punch your head in.”

- Solas, if Veilguard was ‘Valleyguard’.

[beardofkamenev]

The chronicler Gregory, referring to Owain [Tudor]’s end, tells a macabre story of how a mad woman combed Owain’s hair and washed the blood off his face. ‘And she got candles and set them about him burning more than a hundred.’ Owain himself, when he finally realised that his end was nigh and could not be avoided, murmured sadly, “That head shall lie on the stock was that was wont to lie on Queen Catherine’s lap”; and put his heart and mind wholly unto God and full meekly took his death.’ He was buried at the Friars Minor’s chapel at Hereford.

Glanmor Williams, Renewal and Reformation: Wales C. 1415-1642 (1993)

His son Jasper [Tudor] was deeply stung by this defeat and especially his father’s death. Some of the Welsh poets also took Owain’s death far less meekly than he himself was reported to have done. Robin Ddu sadly lamented the ‘severing of the sea-swallow’s head’ but rejoiced that ‘the great eagle, the earl [Jasper] had been left’ […], while Ieuan Gethin would have preferred to see him die, if he had to, on the field of battle, and could not forgive the English […] for shortening his hero’s life. He could console himself and his hearers only by remembering that in spite of Owain’s death, he could still look to his grandson, Henry, and his son, Jasper, to fulfil the old dreams of freedom and a better day for the Welsh.

[theasteriae-arc]

GETHIN THOMAS.

FULL NAME: Dr. Gethin Cecil Thomas

FACE CLAIM: James Norton

BIRTHDAY: May 13, 1981

GENDER & PRONOUNS: Cis male & he / him

ORIENTATION: Heterosexual 

STATUS: Secondary; Available; Open for Shipping

BIO: 

Gethin was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales, the middle child of Hugh and Ceri Thomas, who were both school teachers in Haverford West. He and his siblings, Lloyd (b. 1978) and Faith (b. 1983) speak fluent Welsh. They went to Welsh-speaking primary and secondary schools, and, between 1997-2007, they all studied Medicine at Cardiff University. Lloyd works in Emergency Medicine, and Faith is a psychiatrist specialising in Forensic Psychiatry. 

After completing his foundation training at Bristol Royal Infirmary and the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Gethin spent two years as a locum, working in paediatric care, before he commenced his surgical training in 2009 with a view to becoming a paediatric surgeon. He finally received his accreditation from the Royal College of Surgeons in 2015. He is now employed ( and back at work ) as a specialist registrar at Guys Hospital in London. Last year, he took a prolonged break after suffering professional burnout. The long hours, lack of funding and staff, and losing a patient after a thirty-hour shift when he shouldn’t even have been working all contributed to the breakdown, for which he is still receiving hospital-mandated counselling. 

Gethin met his girlfriend, human rights lawyer, Rosie Carmichael, in 2011, when she was prosecuting a case that involved one of his patients and he was called to the stand as an expert witness. The couple now share a daughter of their own, Darcy, who was born in 2014. 

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Niall C 4”//5” T10

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[denimbex1986]

'“This is a love story”, says Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s protagonist in the opening lines of Fleabag’s (2016-2019) second season, before all-but-breaking the Internet with the introduction of Andrew Scott’s Hot Priest in the episodes that follow. She utters these words to us, her eager audience, the blood that she’d been wordlessly cleaning up from her nose still drying, no context given. Scott’s Hot Priest, as the Internet has since baptised him, is heard as a disembodied voice from afar. His character’s place in our hearts comes as unexpectedly as the place he subsequently gains in Fleabag’s. This, too, is a love story. A love story between Scott and his many faces, between Scott as one of the most celebrated actors today, and us, his loyal following.

The Meet Cute

Andrew Scott has been set to mend hearts since day one. Born in 1976 in Dublin, he was brought up by an art teacher mother and a father who worked at a youth employment agency. He describes his Irishness in the form of a good measure of Catholic guilt as well as a strong and specific Irish sense of humour and eagerness to talk to people. With the support of his mother, he began attending acting classes in an effort to get rid of his childhood lisp. Despite being a shy kid, he took to the medium almost immediately, acting in TV commercials, portraying the most tragic of Shakespearian heroes in youth theatre productions, and even playing the Tin Man, who he aptly describes as ‘the guy with the heart’, in The Wizard of Oz at age 10.

Fast forward a few years, he is 17, forced to make a decision which will come to define his life and career. On the same day, he receives both a scholarship to study painting at art school and an offer to star in the independent Irish war film Korea (1995). After wrapping up on the film, he attempts studying once more, this time beginning an academic Drama course at Trinity College Dublin, the alma mater of his future co-star Paul Mescal. He shortly drops out, drawn to dreams of taking on the stage over learning about its theory in lecture halls.

So, our meet cute with Scott happens in the theatre, the affinity with which he has maintained to present-day. He describes stage acting using wonderfully-fitting cardiac imagery: ‘It goes directly into your veins. It’s pure. You start at the beginning of the story and you go through to the end.’ Most of Scott’s early career pans out on the stage. After dropping out of university, he joins Dublin’s Abbey Theatre for six months before moving to London at 22, where he graces the UK’s theatrical nucleus with roles in Conor McPherson’s Dublin Carol and Joe Hill-Gibbins’ A Girl in a Car with a Man at the Royal Court Theatre.

He gathers momentum as a theatre actor, working with acclaimed director Sam Mendes on The Vertical Hour and, most recently, taking on lead roles on the West End’s most famous stages in Hamlet, Present Laughter, and a one-man adaptation of the Chekhov tragedy Vanya. Scott has spoken about the exhilaration of creating a microcosm in which anything is possible for a few hours, explaining the theatre as ‘an art form that is ephemeral’. He feels this excitement through his actor’s eyes as well as his viewers who become enraptured with his every move.

His screen debut as the lead of Cathal Black’s Korea (which Scott maintains no one has ever seen so it doesn’t really count) marks the beginning of his relationship to the world of the screen. His first few screen roles are all in war films, from his one-line-long moment of fame in Spielberg’s 1998 Saving Private Ryan (he is credited as ��Soldier on the Beach’ no less) to Band of Brothers (2001) and 1917 (2019). But surrounding himself with weapons and violence did not come naturally to the actor; ‘I’m a lover, not a fighter’, he jokes. So, he remains a heart-mender at his core.

Did you Miss Me?

It was the hearts of the masses that Scott won on the 8th of August 2010, following the release of Steven Moffat’s and Mark Gatiss’ TV phenomenon Sherlock’s first season finale. Whilst this was well over a decade ago, the world has still not recovered from Scott’s debut as sexy, playful, devilish baddie Jim Moriarty. Sherlock became, for its loyal fanbase of ‘Cumberbitches’ including my own teenage self, a religion in its own right. I endlessly rewatched the sparse selection of movie-long episodes, committing all iconic lines to memory for future quoting to my middle-school friendship group. The show’s force was undoubtedly fed by Scott’s unforgettable performance as Moriarty, who would become one of the most recognisable TV villains of the century. Scott’s face became synonymous with catchphrases like ‘IOU’ and ‘did you miss me?’. He describes the almost overnight change where he went from peacefully riding the tube and walking around London to having his photo secretly taken by fans in public and being given CDs of fan-made videos shipping Moriarty and Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch) as initially freaky, even odd, but also says that it doesn’t bother him now.

I Love You. It’ll Pass.

Perhaps the Sherlock fanbase was good practice for the still larger, more explosive Internet phenomenon that Scott was about to become the centre of. Hot Priest could never have existed without Scott. Literally, because Phoebe Waller-Bridge, whom Scott calls ‘one of my main homies’, wrote the character specially for him. The pair’s bond spans a good 15 years of friendship. Waller-Bridge has nothing but praise for her old friend, describing him at once as ‘an absolute pixie of mischief’ and someone who ‘can stop time with his honesty’.

What made us fall in love with Hot Priest was less the Catholic guilt that haunts so many of us (though apparently Scott’s performance led directly to an increase in searches of religious porn by a whopping 162 percent) and more the sheer honesty that emanated from his performance. At its core, the love story between Fleabag and Hot Priest is one that ends with no ‘happily ever after’ in spite of all the love that is left lingering. Beneath the endlessly-memefied closing sequence at the bus stop by night (you remember the one) lies such a raw yet universal experience of love which we can all connect to. We can’t always be with the person we love, whether that is because the world doesn’t accept our love, or because the practical rhythms of adult life get in the way. ‘Not all love stories end the same way’, Scott reminds us.

Scott has stated countless times that his most recent roles have all been punctuated by a certain humanity. Though the name Andrew Scott has become synonymous with the image of the screen villain – think Jim Moriarty, the Bond franchise’s C, Tom Ripley in Steven Zaillian’s adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel, and O’Brien in the 75th-anniversary audiobook of Orwell’s 1984 – Scott vehemently opposes labels such as ‘troubled’, ‘psychopath’ and ‘villain’ when describing his darker roles. His true mastery of the roles comes from the humanity he extends to such outsider characters. For what emerges from his darkest performances is a fervent empathy, an extended arm, an understanding that life beyond the margins is lonely, difficult to survive, and that we all deserve to be loved. Scott seeks to understand his characters’ natures before their actions, to see the three-dimensional life in them. As he so wonderfully puts it in relation to his latest venture into darkness, ‘there’s Tom Ripley in all of us’.

You Are Always on My Mind

Such an understanding of the outsider shines through Scott’s latest cinematic masterpiece as the lead of Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers (2023). Scott plays so subtly with the transcendental loneliness that emanates from the film. He describes feeling the importance of the film as both his first substantial lead role and simultaneously a queer role, revealing that he wore some of his own clothes in the film and often phoned his parents and siblings to ask about details of his own childhood in the 80s. Whilst he tapped into his own experiences growing up as a queer person – homosexuality wasn’t decriminalised in Ireland until 1993 – in a profoundly-personal way, Scott nonetheless maintains that his process as an actor in the film was founded on an exploration which transcends his queer identity.

Scott has expressed his ambivalence at being pigeonholed into the ‘gay actor’ category in the past. Sure, he has provided our community with some of the most sensitive performances in queer cinema this century, from Welshman and owner of the Gay’s The Word bookshop Gethin Roberts in Matthew Warchus’s Pride (2014) to All of Us Strangers and now Ripley. But there is another not-so-positive side to this labelling. The BBC recently faced backlash following a BAFTA red carpet interview with Scott in which the reporter implied that Scott had seen Barry Keoghan’s genitalia and knew how big it was. Speaking about the slew of questions he incessantly faces about his sexuality in the press, Scott argues that ‘the problem is it becomes your schtick. Frankly, I feel like I’ve got just a bit more to offer than that.’

In fact, a running theme of many of Scott’s forays with the press is this sense of profound sincerity. Rather than sprinting through the Q&A format, Scott often asks back as many questions as he answers, and we can imagine the glint in his eye and half-smirk forming on his lips as he does so, feeling like he is breaking the rules of conventional stardom. He has maintained a certain boy-next-door energy; he even describes his dress sense as that of an ‘11-year-old’: scuffed trainers, colourful T-shirt, hoodie, and all. He has often expressed a desire to talk to his fans rather than be the object to their secret photos of him on the tube and in Tesco’s. Even though we must steer clear of the parasocial relationships that often plague such iconic figures as Scott, there is nonetheless an undeniable feeling that he lets us know him, just a little, and that little has become all-too-rare in the age of untouchable stardom and TikTok fame. Yes, he was GQ’s Man of the Year in 2023, and yes, he is an absolute fanboy of Taylor Swift. The two can coexist, he shows.

Scott is a lover of art in whatever form. Despite turning down the art school offer, he frequently draws strangers in the tube and attends life-drawing classes. He is also interested in philosophy, gushing about his experience attending an Alain de Botton talk on loneliness and the importance of Esther Perel’s writing about relationships in his approach to acting and life itself. Discussing in an interview the eerie atmosphere of his Ripley shoot, which occurred between Italy and America during the pandemic, he veers into a conversation on the importance of art in the midst of loneliness, grief, and love. His words dig to the core of our own love affair with him and his plethora of relatable, human performances. ‘As human beings, we tell stories’, he says. ‘Expert storytellers are really vital. No, it’s not brain surgery. But, “Hearts starve as well as bodies. Give us bread, but give us roses.” I love that quote.’ It is through his storytelling that Andrew Scott has won our hearts. Our love story with him may have been a slow burn, but it’s only just beginning.'

[beardofkamenev]

The Romance of Catherine and Owen

From Elis Gruffydd’s Chronicle of the Six Ages (1552)

Image: ‘The Seduction of Lancelot’, Le livre de Lancelot du Lac (c. 1401-1425)

This extract from Elis Gruffydd’s 16th century chronicle, Cronicl o Wech Oesoedd (Chronicle of the Six Ages), relays one of the popular theories of how Catherine de Valois, the Dowager Queen of England, met Owen Tudor, the Welsh squire who would become her second husband. In this version, Owen first comes to Catherine’s attention when she spies him bathing naked in a stream, and she later contrives to meet him in secret.

Catherine had been a widow for some years. The council forbade her to marry again, a prohibition which she openly resented. [1] At that time, a squire of Gwynedd, who was chief butler at court, [2] conceived an attachment for the queen's maid of honour.

One day in summer, he and his friends were bathing in the stream which skirts the castle walls. The Queen, observing them, saw that Owen — for that was the squire's name — surpassed the others in skill, and was more handsome of figure. Whereupon she turned to her maid and said, “Yonder then is thy lover?” “In truth,” replied the maid, “no sooner am I alone than he plagues me with his attentions.” “Let me,” replied Catherine, “take your place in disguise to-night, and he shall harass you no more.” 

Owen and the maid used to meet on the gallery not far from the queen's chamber. Thither the Queen made her way stealthily at nightfall. Owen had already arrived. Only a few words had passed between them when they saw a light approaching as though the Queen, as Owen thought, was on her way to her chamber. The maid's demeanour was strange, he thought, and he began to suspect that he was being deceived. He would have kissed her lips; but Catherine, who wished to conceal her face, struggled, and received a slight wound on her cheek. Meanwhile the light was coming nearer, and they parted. 

Next day Catherine instructed her chamberlain to command Owen to serve her in person at dinner. Then it was that Owen discovered that the Queen herself was the fair intruder, and he bent his head at the thought that he had wounded her. According to some, he would immediately have returned to his native land; according to others, the Queen herself detained him at court, and having ascertained his descent from the old British kings, married him secretly.

[Notes under the cut]

This translation from the original Welsh by J. Alban Morris can be found in Howell T. Evans’ seminal work, Wales and the Wars of the Roses (1905). Though a monumental literary achievement and wonderful example of Elizabethan Welsh language text, Elis Gruffydd’s Chronicle is “unreliable in many details.” For example, it claims that Owen Tudor was executed for marrying Catherine (he was executed in 1461 after the Battle of Mortimer’s Cross, twenty-four years after Catherine’s death), and that his marriage to Catherine took place in 1425 (it most likely took place in 1429).

There are no reliable accounts of how Owen and Catherine's romance began; there are, however, many poetical traditions. One of Owen’s contemporaries, the Welsh poet Ieuan Gethin (c.1390-1470), wrote that “on a feast day, [Owen] fell in love ... with the daughter of the king of the land of wine,” and that their meeting had been “energetic” and “passionate.” This accords with later English accounts that Owen first came to Catherine’s attention when he accidentally fell into her lap while dancing at a feast. The Elizabethan poet Michael Drayton (1563-1631) memorialised this event in his 1597 poem, Owen Tudor to Queen Katherine:

When in your presence I was call'd to dance, In loftie Tricks whilst I my selfe advance, And in a Turne, my footing fay I'd by hap, Was't not my chance to light into your lap? Who would not judge it fortunes greatest grace, Sith he must fall, to fall in such a place?

Another Elizabethan poet, Hugh Holland (1569-1633), wrote similarly:

His knee did hit against her softer thigh. I hope he felt no great hurt by the fall. That happy fall which mounted him so high.

However, as the historian R.A. Griffiths noted, “the pot-pourri of myth, romanticism, tradition and later anti-Tudor propaganda surrounding this match can rarely be substantiated with historical fact.” It would be unwise to take any of these accounts as a reliable record of the events precipitating Owen and Catherine’s romance, however appealing they may be.

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[1] This refers to a parliamentary statute passed sometime between 13 October 1427 and 25 March 1428, prohibiting Dowager Queens of England from remarrying without the full consent of the king, which could only be granted once the king came of age. Any man who married a Dowager Queen without the king’s permission would forfeit his lands and possessions for the rest of his life. As Henry VI, Catherine’s son, was only six or seven years old at the time, she potentially faced another decade of widowhood. The statute was probably a response to a 1426 petition from the Commons— likely instigated by Catherine herself— requesting that hindrances to her remarriage be abolished; the petition was rejected and gave rise to the statute. It appears to have been passed with the agreement of both Henry VI’s Protector, his uncle Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, and the de facto leader of the Regency Council, Humphrey’s adversary and half-uncle, Cardinal Henry Beaufort.

[2] The words “chief butler at court” appear to be an oversimplified and somewhat inaccurate translation from the original Welsh. Most scholars agree that Elis Gruffudd claimed that Owen had been Catherine’s “servant and sewer” (“yn wasanaethwr ac yn sewer”)— someone who serves dishes and tastes them. Although Elis Gruffydd’s source is unknown, his claim is not at odds with Henry VI's description of Owen as his “very dear friend and esquire” (“nostre tres cher ame et escuyer”). Owen was perhaps one of Catherine’s Esquires of the Household: a role which would have afforded him intimate access to the Queen. This also comports with the 15th century ‘Lincoln Roll’, which disparagingly refers to Owen as “a chamber servant.” The popular theory put forward by the Victorian writer Agnes Strickland (1796-1874)— that Owen specifically served as Catherine’s Master of the Wardrobe— does not appear to be substantiated. Nevertheless, it is almost certain that Owen served Catherine’s household and came to her attention that way.

Sources: Howell T. Evans, Wales and the Wars of the Roses (1905); Claire Sponsler, The Queen's Dumbshows: John Lydgate and the Making of Early Theater (2014); Ann Parry Owen, ‘“An audacious man of beautiful words”: Ieuan Gethin (c.1390-1470)’, Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, Vol. 34 (2014)

[captainblackwolfblog]

CAÇADA BRUTAL

Sinopse e elenco:

Durante uma viagem de caça, um homem comum presencia o assassinato de um homem, ao tentar socorrer o homem ele acaba com seu filho sequestrado, fazendo com que ele inicie uma jornada para salvar a vida da criança.

Direção - Steven C. Miller Bruce Willis é Police Chief Hayden Christensen é Will Gethin Anthony é Levi William DeMeo é Richie Magi Avila é Adele

Caçada Brutal é o típico filme que tem que ser produzido rápido e simplesmente acaba sem sincronia nenhuma, um roteiro péssimo e atuações péssimas, no papel principal está Hayden Christensen que não adiciona nada ao filme e também Bruce Willis que fica como coadjuvante de "luxo".

O filme apresenta um roteiro muito problemático, o roubo a banco mencionado no filme não faz menor sentido, como alguém entra em um cofre, vira todas as camêras e faz um buraco no chão sem ninguém perceber? O rumo dos acontecimentos não convence ninguém.

Filme totalmente feito nas coxas, tanto que as gravações duraram 14 dias, pelo menos temos cenas bonitas da floresta, da aquela vontade de pegar um rifle e treinar tiro em latinhas mas esses sentimento e cenas não são nem 2 minutos de filme, é muito triste ver Bruce Willis sem total inspiração e vontade de gravar esse filme.

Caçada Brutal tem intenções boas, mas morre sem mesmo nadar até a praia, o filme é só para quem quiser ver sem compromisso mesmo, não indicaria nem para os fãns de Bruce Willis. Mas como passa tempo serve, só não espere muito dele.

"Você já viu uma ovelha com um lobo na boca?"

[shinysnotra]

[aa-bgen]

Adam Levine 5.5”//7”

Alex M 5”//7.5”

Alex Russell 6”//8.5”

Alexander Ludwig 6”//8”

Andy Cohen 7”//9”

Aneurin Barnard 4.5”//7”

Angus F 6.5”//10”

Asa Butterfield 5”//7.5”

Asher Angel 5”//7”

Avan Jogia 5”//7.5”

Barnaby Wakeford 6”//7”

Beau Mirchoff 6”//8”

Ben Affleck 7”//9”

Ben G 6”//7.5”

Ben L 7”//10”

Ben Shepherd 6”//7.5”

Ben Stiller 6”//8.5”

Bradley Cooper 6”//8.5”

Brendon Urie 5”//9”

Chaning Tatum 5”//6.5”

Chord Overstreet 6”//8.5”

Chris Evans 6”//8.5”

Chris Hemsworth 7.5”//10”

Chris Pratt 7”//9.5”

Chris Ramsey 6”//8”

Claudiu N 5”//7”

Colin Farrell 7”//9.5”

Cory Monteith 5”/7”

Cristiano Ronaldo 4”//7”

Dan P 4”//5.5”

Dan Tai 5”//8.5”

Daniel Craig 6”//8”

Daniel Ricciardo 6”//8”

Darren Criss 6”//7.5”

David Boreanaz 6.5”//8.5”

David Caves 5”//7.5”

David Duchovny 6”//8”

Devon Sawa 6”//8”

Dylan Matthews 7”//9”

Eddie McClintock 7”//9.5”

Elliot A 6”//8.5”

Eric Szmanda 5”//7.5”

Ethan M 5”//7”

Ethan S 6.5”//8”

Evan M 5”//7”

Finn Cole 7”//8.5”

Frank Grillo 6”//8.5”

Fred Siriex 6.5”//7”

Freddie Flintoff 7”//9”

George Eads 6”//8.5”

Gethin Jones 5”//7”

Gino D’Acampo 6”//7.5”

Greg Rutherford 5”//8”

Harry D 6”//9”

Harry E 5”//6”

Harry K 6”//8”

Henry Cavill 7”//8”

Hugh Jackman 7”//9”

Huw Rees 5”//7.5”

Jace Norman 5”//7.5”

Jack A 6”//9.5”

Jack G 5”//7”

Jack Griffo 6”//8”

Jacob L 6”//8.5”

Jacob Sartorius 5”//7”

Jake Gyllenhaal 5”//7”

Jake Johnson 5.5”//8”

James Wolk 6”//8”

Jamie Redknapp 6”//7”

Jamie T 6”//7”

Jason Statham 7”//9”

Jay Harrington 7”//8.5”

Jean Dujardin 7”//9”

Jeremy Renner 5”//6.5”

Jimmy Carr 4”//6”

Jimmy Fallon 5”//7.5”

Joe Jonas 5”//7”

Joe Manganiello 7”//9”

Joel Dommett 5”//6.5”

John Boyd 5”//7”

John Francis Daley 5”//7.5”

John Krasinski 5.5”//8”

John Legend 6”//8���

Jon Richardson 5”//7”

Jonathan Brown 5”//7.5”

Josh Dun 6”//8”

Josh Hutcherson 5”//7”

Justin Bieber 4”//6”

Kevin Jonas 6”//8.5”

Kevin Pietersen 5”//6”

Kit Harrington 6”//8”

KJ Apa 6”//9”

Liam Hemsworth 6.5”//9”

Liam Payne 6”//8”

Leander B 7”//10”

Lee Mack 5”//8”

Lewis T 4”//5.5”

Logan Miller 6”//8”

Luke Evans 6.5”//9”

Luke C 5.5”//8.5”

Mark Salling 5.5”/8”

Mark Shadrick 6”/7.5”

Mark Wahlberg 6”//8”

Matt Johnson 6”//8.5”

Matt LeBlanc 5”//7.5”

Matthew Broderick 6”//9.5”

Matthew Morrison 5.5”//8”

Max Emerson 4”//6.5”

Max Irons 6”//8”

Max Whitlock 5”//7”

Max Wyatt 7”//9”

Michael Grant Terry 6”//8”

Michael Landes 6”//9”

Mikhail Varshavski 6”//10”

Miles Fisher 6”//8”

Niall C 4”//5”

Nick Jonas 4.5”//7.5”

Ollie C 5.5”//7”

Owen Farrell 6”//7.5”

Paddy McGuinness 6”//7.5”

Pete Wentz 5”//6.5”

Ramin Karimloo 5.5”//8”

Rhys M 6”//7”

Ricardo Hurtado 7”//9”

Richard Wells 4”//6”

Rob Beckett 4.5”//6”

Robert Irwin 4.5”//7”

Roman Kemp 6.5”/8.5”

Romesh Ranganathan 4”//6”

Russell Howard 5.5”//7”

Ryan Bergara 4”//6.5”

Ryan Reynolds 7”//9”

Sam S 6”//9”

Scooter Braun 7”//9”

Scott Mitchell 4”//6.5”

Sebastian Stan 6”//9”

Shawn Ashmore 5”//7”

Shawn Mendes 6”//7.5”

Stephen Long 6”//10”

Steve Backshall 6”//8.5”

Ted Pullin 6”//8”

Thomas Kuc 5”//7”

Tim M 6”//9.5”

TJ Thyne 6.5”//8”

Tom Cruise 5”//7”

Tom Ellis 5”//7”

Tom Hardy 6”//8”

Tom Holland 6”//7.5”

Tom Summerbee 5.5”//8”

Tyler Posey 5”//8.5”

Vin Diesel 6//9.5”

Will Mellor 5”//6”

Will Smith 6”//8”

William McSherry 5”//8”

Woody S 5”//6.5”

Zachary Levi 6”//10”

[dear-indies]

Who are some faceclaims that could pull of the brooding/scruffy Michiel Huisman & Ben Whishaw vibe, please?

Naveen Andrews (1969) Indian.

Noah Wyle (1971) 

Anson Mount (1973) 

Wes Bentley (1978) 

Kristofer Hivju (1978) 

Santiago Cabrera (1978) Chilean. 

Oscar Isaac (1979) Guatemalan / Cuban.

Javier Rey (1980) 

Clive Standen (1981) 

Colin O'Donoghue (1981) 

Tom Payne (1982) 

Daveed Diggs (1982) Jewish / African-American.

Gethin Anthony (1983)

Aidan Turner (1983) 

Penn Badgley (1986) 

Kit Harington (1986) 

Rob Pattinson (1986) 

Takahiro Moriuchi (1988) Japanese. 

Marlon Teixeira (1991) Brazilian (Portuguese, ¼ Japanese, ¼ Indigenous)

Landon Liboiron (1991) 

Douglas Booth (1992) 

Chay Suede (1992) Brazilian.

-C

[lazaroschamberger20]

In Cold Blood Audiobook Online

[Audio Books] In Cold Blood Audiobook Online by Truman Capote

The most famous true crime novel of all time and one of the first non-fiction novels ever written; In Cold Blood is the bestseller that haunted its author long after he finished writing it.

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. 

As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.

Free Download In Cold Blood Audiobook Online by (Truman Capote)

Duration: 14 hours, 27 minutes

Writer: Truman Capote

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Narrators: Scott Brick

Genres: Scott Brick

Rating: 4.1

Narrator Rating: 4.11

Publication: Sunday, 01 January 2006

In Cold Blood Audiobook Online Reviews

Ayanna M

He reads to slow and the book is boring . I would not recommend this book to anyone

Rating: 1

Leon Skrivanek

Story was well done but the reader made it to where I wanted to quit listening. Arlo Guthrie meets Forrest Gump.

Rating: 4

Toxic

Absolute must read classic-THE blueprint for true crime stories

Rating: 5

Michael H.

The depravity of human behavior lies just below the surface of social interaction.

Rating: 5

Anonymous

Great story telling and great story in general

Rating: 5

Anonymous

Great book. All you expect and a little more. I was surprised by the exquisite writing style and descriptive qualities. Capote paints a picture so well. You know this town, you know this family, and you know these villains. This book lets go of you slowly and lingers.

Rating: 4

Nick Hardy

Excellent story captivating , kept me intrigued from the first words read . Really enjoyed the narrator's tone

Rating: 4

Deanna Ball

Loved Truman Capote's writing style and language. I decided it was time to "read" this book after watching "Capote". I avoided it in the past, fearing it was too gruesome and awful. I think the writing was exceptional.

Rating: 4

Martha Stephens

There is a reason this book remains captivating 50 years later. In an age where we are desensitized to violence, this book managed to rattle me and seep into my dreams. Capote's lyrical descriptions and the way he weaves the stories of the family, the convicts, and the law is intoxicating. A must read!

Rating: 5

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Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

Original Author: Mark Olshaker,John E. Douglas

Dark Psychology: Manipulation, Abuse, Body Language, Influence People, Analyze People, Persuasion, Mentalism, Hypnosis, Alpha Male, and Sociopath Details

Original Author: Vance Munson,Christian Olsen,Gordon Bowles,Jayden Haywards,Norton Ravin,Mandy Whomack

Nights of the Living Dead: An Anthology

Original Author: George A. Romero,Jonathan Maberry,Various Authors ,Joe R. Lansdale

Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of BTK, the Serial Killer Next Door

Original Author: Hurst Laviana,L. Kelly,Tim Potter,Roy Wenzl

Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

Original Author: Mick Mars,Vince Neil,Tommy Lee,Nikki Sixx

Girl on the Train: A Novel

Original Author: Paula Hawkins

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Original Author: Jared Diamond

Dark Places: A Novel

Original Author: Gillian Flynn

Power of Myth

Original Author: Bill Moyers,Joseph Campbell

Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit

Original Author: Mark Olshaker,John E. Douglas

Gone Girl: A Novel

Original Author: Gillian Flynn

Shadowed Souls

Original Author: Kerrie L. Hughes,Jim Butcher

Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Volume I

Original Author: Stephen King

Stranger Beside Me

Original Author: Ann Rule

All Quiet on the Western Front: A BBC Radio Drama

Original Author: Erich Maria Remarque

Stand

Original Author: Stephen King

Shining

Original Author: Stephen King