#lester freamon

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Cool Lester Smooth

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The Wire S3E05 - Straight and True

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CLARKE PETERS & AMY RYAN as LESTER FREAMON & BEADIE RUSSELL The Wire (2002-2008) · S02E06 · "All Prologue"

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the wire as onion headlines

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THE WIRE FOREVER

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statistical "which character" personality quiz

tagged by: @shinsabine (thank you nat ily !! 🤍)

tagging: @benoitblanc @userpumpkin @anxieteandbiscuits @danielsousa @hyacinth--girl @tbosas @nancywheeeler @leviiackrman + anyone else who wants to !!

rules: take this test and present who you got as the characters most similar to you !

ben hargreeves (the umbrella academy)

marianne (portrait of a lady on fire)

lester freamon (the wire)

chris washington (get out)

amy antsler (booksmart)

sam baldwin (sleepless in seattle)

arthur (inception)

mike chang (glee)

glenn rhee (the walking dead)

lucius fox (the dark knight)

ariadne (inception)

geordi la forge (star trek: the next generation)

q (tommorrow never dies)

hazel grace lancaster (the fault in our stars)

kakashi hatake (naruto)

jean-luc picard (star trek: the next generation)

michael scofield (prison break)

margo dunne (gone girl)

hernando fuentes (sense8)

coach beard (ted lasso)

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god, Lester Freamon is just so relentlessly competent. immensely satisfying to watch. there's so much midlist genre fiction out there tryharding at writing competence porn but The Wire just effortlessly tosses this dude's character beats every other episode like it's nothing

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{michiel huisman; cis man; he/his} hey isn’t that IRA EVANS? the 37 / 50 year old DHAMPIR with the ability of CLAIRVOYANCE and a song that plays when you see them is BODY / PRISON by HEALTH & PERTURBATOR. They are known to be PLEASANT and ALOOF. They have been in VALDEZ for 25 YEARS and always remind me of the faint scent of formaldehyde even after a long hot shower, the "lumberjack" aesthetic in real life; plaid shirts and work boots when in leisure time, the desperate want for privacy and to be left alone despite how echoing and painful loneliness really is, & that feeling after a fresh rain where fog hangs low and the earth smells like petrichor. what secrets will they discover?

triggers for implied abuse

stats.

name: ira evans. age/dob: 37 (50) / october 2. occupation: mortician. sexuality: demiromantic heterosexual. nationality: dutch-american. languages spoken: english, dutch, conversational spanish. hair color: dark brown. eye color: hazel, favoring greys and greens. height: 6′0″. build: athletic - lean muscle. character comparisons: kakashi hatake (naruto), marty byrde (ozark), dexter morgan (dexter), ben hargreeves (the umbrella academy), will graham (hannibal), margo dunne (gone girl), viktor (arcane), lucius fox (gotham), lester freamon (the wire), amy antsler (booksmart).

bio.

a chicago native. ira is the son of a detective (vampire) and a veterinarian (human, unaware), and the eldest child out of two. he took the first opportunity he could to hightail it out of the city when it presented itself —that came in the form of his parents divorcing when he was 13.

his younger brother stayed with their father in chicago while ira went and lived with his mother and step-father in maine. it was a sleepy change, and a nice pace away from consistently turning on the tv and hearing about the crime rate … or hearing it at the dinner table with his father talking about his case load.

perhaps ira began to flourish more without the consistent presence of his father: less time keeping his hobbies and interests to himself in lieu of feeling pressured to conform to his father’s wants and desires, more time to discover his own avenues of self … he was always a bit of an odd boy but kept it so tightly under his thumb that he didn’t quite feel as if he had his own personality until he was away from home.

attending mortuary school was not a thought during his childhood, at all. initially his interests lay with forensic science but he was turned off from the idea of involving himself with crime with his father around. the first 13 years of his life seemed to tip the scales drastically in favor of what he’d do with his future more than the time away - the damage had been done.

always an observant individual (unaware that it had anything to do with his innate clairvoyance), ira learned how to apply that into some form of charm or charisma as he got older. people were easier to talk to, to get to leave him alone if he added a nice smile … if he said a few nice things to butter them up along the way out the door.

his preference for the mortuary sciences (or rather, working with the recently deceased) comes from the same place his initial interest in forensic science came from — he prefers the company of the dead. they’re quiet and non-judgmental. he can work at his own pace (within reason) and essentially be left alone to do so. while there’s less discovery with this avenue, and while part of the appeal of forensic science was helping with cases, ira at least takes solace in knowing that he provides a measure of peace to the grieving families. he’s alright with that.

moved to valdez to get away from literally everything ---and to get away from himself. he realized in his late teens that something was off with him, but he never figured out what. now that he’s 50, he’s still wholly unaware of what he is, and he’s too stubborn to ask (who would he ask?) at this rate. he just lies about his age when people inquire, not that it’s too hard to believe that he’s 37. he’s wondering when the residents of valdez will start to notice that he’s looked the same for the past 25 years ... though he’s mostly gotten away with just growing or cutting his hair and facial hair to give the appearances of ageing.

you can find him at work pretty much always. he’s taken to throwing himself into his business to settle out with having to deal with the emotions of self-loathing. it’s an added bonus that he’s actually quite talented at the mortuary sciences.

fun small facts.

very good with his hands, be it fixing things or making them or tinkering in general. he prefers to do most housework himself. sink broken? he can fix it in an afternoon. wall need sheetrocking? he can do it. car need fixing? he’ll do that, too. it comes with being a self-appointed loner, honestly.

lived in vermont before running off to valdez. he plans on going back home as soon, but he’s said that for 25 years.

was in a relatively serious relationship with a woman he’d met through work for about five years. they lived together, and he’d planned on proposing to her, but it didn’t quite work out. they barely spoke thereafter, but were mostly amicable when they did. since then he’s been more of a one night stand kind of man, with little interest in opening himself up again. (he realized that he couldn’t explain what he was to her, considering he didn’t know. so he ended the relationship).

cat person. he’s adopted many since living in valdez. currently he has a little black cat named nyx.

wears glasses when he’s home, otherwise always has contacts in. you won’t ever see him with his glasses on unless you drop in unexpectedly on him.

he plays piano, and favors jazz. he picked it up in middle school and has stuck with it ever since. it’s one of his favorite hobbies.

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Peter Clarke (born April 7, 1952), known professionally as Clarke Peters, is an American-British actor, writer, and director. He is known for his roles as Lester Freamon in The Wire (2002–08) and Albert Lambreaux in Treme (2010–13).

He starred in The Corner, portraying a drug addict named Fat Curt, as well as in Damages, as Dave Pell. He appeared in two episodes of Life On Mars (2008) as NYPD Captain Fletcher Bellow.

He appeared in the UK show Holby City, as Derek Newman, the father of nurse Donna Jackson. He voiced a part in Doctor Who and In Plain Sight. In 2010, he read Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption for BBC 7. He had a guest appearance as Professor Mark Ramsay in Covert Affairs. He had a recurring role as Alonzo D. Quinn in Person of Interest.

His movie credits include Mona Lisa (1986), Notting Hill (1999), K-PAX (2001), Freedomland (2006), Marley & Me (2008), Endgame (2009), Nativity! (2009), Red Hook Summer (2012), and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).

He narrated the audiobook version of Telegraph Avenue. He narrated the BBC radio series Black Music in Europe: A Hidden History.

He was born the second of four sons, in New York City, and grew up in Englewood, New Jersey. At the age of 12, he had his first theater experience, in a school production of My Fair Lady. He began to have serious ambitions to work in the theater at the age of 14. He graduated from Dwight Morrow High School.

He has five children. He and his first wife, Janine Martyne, had two children: a daughter. A subsequent relationship with Joanna Jacobs produced two sons. He has a son with his second wife, Penny; Max played the young Michael Jackson in the West End production of the musical Thriller – Live. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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List of my The Wire faves so far, categorically speaking:

Hella neat!: Omar Little, Shakima Greggs, Cedric Daniels, Lester Freamon, Shardene Innes, D’Angelo Barksdale

Bastard (affectionate): Russell “Stinger” Bell, Avon Barksdale

If a character’s not in this list, it means I either don’t like, don’t care for or don’t remember them.

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Lester Freamon is sexy

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The Wire: 1.06

“We're building something here, detective. We're building it from scratch. All the pieces matter.”

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More tumblr as a journal

So I did this personality quiz a while ago at https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/characters, where it uses psychometric testing to work out which popular fictional characters you're most like.

I got Lester Freamon from the Wire as my number one. At the time I couldn't really remember him, but I didn't really think it was right. But I'm now re-watching season one of The Wire, and I 100% see it. Especially at work, I basically have been Lester Freamon in all of the conpanies/teams I've worked in ever.

On a side note, the Wire's aged pretty well, it's still good.