#my man jeremy cooked in a way no one else managed in the 40 years since??

[cassandrva]

granada holmes is a MUST. its SO cunty lmao

yeah no that gifset was the encouragement i needed to actually start watching the series and YOU WEREN’T KIDDING HE'S SO CUNTY. what a queen jeremy brett you're the only motherfucker in this house (sherlock holmes adaptations) i ever respected

[dailytomlinson]

Louis Tomlinson may be one-fifth of one of the biggest boybands in the world, but there's so much more to know about the singer than the fact he was in One Direction. Now that he's getting on with his solo music career - AND just dropped his amazing new single 'Two Of Us', Louis is a major household name across the world.

Here's everything you need to know about Louis Tomlinson:

1) Louis’s middle name is William.

2) Louis Tomlinson was born on Christmas Eve in 1991.

3) Louis is the oldest member of One Direction. He’s 13 months older than second eldest Zayn Malik.

Check out One Direction through the years: View Gallery 11 photos 1 / 11 One Direction © Shutterstock One Direction auditioning on The X Factor One Direction formed on The X Factor in 2010. All five members auditioned as individual contestants and were put together as a group by Simon Cowell.

4) Louis Tomlinson's star sign is Capricorn. Apparently, typical Capricorns live by the motto, ‘Slow, steady and win the race.’

5) Louis was brought up in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Other famous people who hail from the town include Jeremy Clarkson, Kevin Keegan and Brian Blessed!

Jeremy Clarkson JEREMY CLARKSON AND BRIAN BLESSED © SHUTTERSTOCK 6) Louis once said that he is a big fan of girls who eat carrots!

7) If Louis had a superpower, he would be able to fly.

8) Louis’s favourite band is The Fray.

9) Louis’s favourite song of all time is ‘Look After You’ by The Fray.

10) Louis’s celebrity crush is Natalie Portman and his man crush is Robbie Williams - who he recently sat next to on The X Factor judging panel.

11) He also once said that Robbie is his biggest role model, telling Metro Radio "I’ve got a massive musical icon and that’s Robbie Williams. We actually got to sing with him on The X Factor and it was absolutely amazing."

X Factor ROBBIE WILLIAMS, AYDA FIELD, LOUIS TOMLINSON AND SIMON COWELL © SHUTTERSTOCK 12) Louis has approximately 1 minute and 30 seconds of solos on ‘Up All Night’ – the second least behind Niall Horan.

13) Louis auditioned on The X Factor by singing a version of Plain White T’s ‘Hey There Delilah’. He got a clean sweep of yeses from the judges.

14) Louis's parents are Johannah Deakin and Troy Austin. They split up when Louis was young, and he eventually took on his stepfather Mark Tomlinson’s surname. Johannah sadly passed away in 2016, Louis paid tribute to his mum on the anniversary of her passing.

15) Louis has five younger half-sisters - one on his father's side (Georgia), and four on his mother's side (Charlotte, Félicité, and twins Daisy and Phoebe).

16) When he was just 11-years-old, Louis had a role as an extra on ITV drama_**_ Fat Friends. His newborn sisters Daisy and Phoebe starred as babies on the show.

17) Spurred on by his appearance on Fat Friends, Louis attended acting school in his spare time and eventually had small parts in 2006 ITV drama If I Had You! and Waterloo Road.

18) When he first auditioned for The X Factor, Louis was a sixth form student at Hall Cross School in Doncaster.

19) Louis also attended The Hayfield School in Doncaster, but dropped out when he failed his first year of A-levels.

20) Louis had a number of part-time jobs before The X Factor, including working at a local cinema and as a hospitality waiter at Doncaster Rovers Football Club.

21) As a student, Louis played the lead role of Danny Zuko in a high school production of Grease. He says playing the part gave him the confidence to audition for The X Factor.

22) When he was younger, Louis wanted to work on a farm.

23) Louis would love to copy Michael Jackson and have a pet monkey. He said, "I'd like to adopt a chimpanzee and build an eternal friendship, that would be amazing."

24) Louis’s favourite colour is dark red.

25) Louis is a big fan of Las Vegas rockers The Killers. After seeing them perform at V Festival, he tweeted, "Watching Mr Brightside live last night was unbelievable. LOVED The Killers!!"

Louis Tomlinson ✔ @Louis_Tomlinson Watching Mr Brightside live last night was unbelievable. LOVED The Killers !!

22.8K 6:09 PM - Aug 20, 2012 Twitter Ads info and privacy 30.4K people are talking about this 26) Louis suffers from a ringing noise in his right ear. Although yet to be officially diagnosed it’s thought it could be tinnitus which can lead to deafness if untreated. He once said, "I am going slightly deaf in my right ear. It’s tinnitus, something like that," before joking that it was because of screaming fans.

27) According to his bandmates, Louis has the smelliest feet in One Direction! Niall once said, "Louis wears plimsolls with no socks so his feet get very sweaty and the sweat is captured. If we are on a bus or something and he takes them off we all pretty much start gagging."

28) Louis was given a telling off by police when filming the ‘What Makes You Beautiful’ video Los Angeles in July 2011 for his erratic driving. Afterwards, he explained, "I got pulled over by the US police. They thought I was all over the place. The officer goes, 'Listen, man, I can shut this thing down if you carry on driving like this. You're driving like a maniac.' And I was like, 'Man, put the gun down. I don't want no trouble.'"

WATCH: One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful (Official Video)

29) Louis says that he and his 1D bandmates are like brothers. Admitting that they occasionally bicker, Louis told Digital Spy, "Because we're around each other so often it's like arguing with your siblings. You fall out with them, go away and have a bit of a paddy, then come back and get over it."

30) Just like Zayn and Harry Styles, Louis supports Manchester United Football Club.

31) Louis’s favourite track on ‘Up All Night’ is the Ed Sheeran-penned track ‘Moments’. The track appears on the deluxe version of the record.

32) If Louis could give anyone a tip when auditioning for The X Factor it would be "just be yourself and really try and get your personality through in your song choice and interview."

33) Louis once owned a Porsche Boxster and sold it on eBay in 2012 for £30,000.

34) When Zayn’s ex-girlfriend Rebecca Ferguson took to Twitter to complain about being overworked by her management, Louis had very little sympathy! He wrote in a now-deleted tweet, '@RebeccaFMusic Success is impossible without proper hard work.'

Rebecca Ferguson REBECCA FERGUSON © SHUTTERSTOCK 35) Louis loves to party! He once told TOTP magazine, "To be honest, I’m sure the majority of 20-year-olds go out and party. I’m not going to feel oppressed."

36) Louis is a giver and not a taker. In fact, there’s nothing he enjoys more than giving his friends and family presents. His late mum Johannah once told Sugarscape, "He’s not a materialistic person himself, but he likes to give people things. He spoils me and the girls and he's happiest doing that."

37) Louis once said that he likes snuggling up in bed with one of the One Directioners... HARRY! He said, "A few weeks ago I made a cup of tea, then went and got in bed with Harry and we watched a show called something like The Top 50 Boybands Of All Time." Nice!

38) Apparently, Louis has revealed that his least favourite food is baked beans.

39) Louis once said his favourite country is France.

40) Louis is an avid fan of surfing. In fact, he loves the beach so much he says he’d like to get married on one.

41) It takes over 30 minutes for Louis to get his hair ready in the morning.

42) Louis admits he’s a really bad cook. Despite this, he appeared alongside Harry in a cooking segment on This Morning in September 2011.

Louis Tomlinson HARRY AND LOUIS WITH THIS MORNING PRESENTER RUTH LANGSFORD IN 2011 © 

43) One of Louis's favourite mottos is, "Live life for the moment because everything else is uncertain."

44) The two traits Louis looks for in a girl are confidence and a good sense of humour.

45) In 2011, his mum Johannah and stepdad Mark split up. Speaking about his mum, Louis said, "It must be so much harder for her because I’m living this fantastic life and being so busy every day whereas she’s still in the old life I was in but without me... It must be really difficult for her not to get upset."

46) Louis’s pet hate is when people chew their food too loudly.

47) Louis has size 10 feet.

48) A man who works in the music industry once tried to have a snog with Louis! "It was a press guy.... he just started going in for a kiss!" said Louis.

49) Louis loves Marmite and has big dollops of it on his toast.

50) Louis admits that he’s a messy person. In fact, he hasn’t met anyone who’s messier than him!

51) Louis is pretty decent on the piano and he loves to play ‘Mr Brightside’ by The Killers.

52) Louis says he’ll "never get used to" the adoration he receives from fans. He once said, "At the end of the day we’re doing something that we really love and to be appreciated for that is really nice."

53) Louis’s favourite TV shows are Misfits and One Tree Hill.

54) If Louis wasn’t a multi-million selling pop megastar, he reckons he’d be training to be a drama teacher.

55) If Louis could visit any planet it would be... Narnia. Erm, it’s a fictional place Louis!!

56) Louis hates rumours, especially when they involve Harry and himself. In a Tumblr interview he explained, "Me and Harry are best friends, people look into our every move. It is actually affecting the way me and Harry are in public, We want to joke around but there seems to be a different rumour every time we do anything."

Louis Tomlinson LOUIS AND HARRY SINGING TOGETHER IN 2015 

57) Louis is prone to sleepwalking and once tried to get into Niall’s bed!

58) Louis once said that if a movie was made about his life, he’d like Leonardo DiCaprio to play him.

59) The first time Louis ever spoke to Harry was in the toilet at The X Factor auditions in Manchester.

60) Louis is a big fan of silly string! He’s sprayed it on stage at gigs, press conferences and even at a security guard who refused to let him speak to fans.

61) When he was 14, Louis played lead guitar in a band called The Rogue with his schoolmates.

62) When One Direction formed, Louis’s big ambition was to go "straight to the top." Proof that dreams come true!

63) In August 2012, Tulisa prank called Louis during a live webchat. When Louis answered she spoke to him in a Donald Duck voice in front of thousands of viewers. The N-Dubz star tweeted afterwards, 'soz babe we had 2 get ya! Thanks 4 being a laugh n entertaining us!'

Tulisa ✔ @officialtulisa @Louis_Tomlinson soz babe we had 2 get ya! Thanks 4 being a laugh n entertaining us!

266 8:23 PM - Aug 5, 2012 Twitter Ads info and privacy 579 people are talking about this 64) Louis was fined £80 for speeding on the way to V Festival in 2012. It’s reported that he was going 48mph in a 40mph zone. He’ll also get three points on his licence. Ouch!

65) Despite having smelly feet, Louis is a big fan of shoes! His favourite types are chinos and Toms.

66) Another of his favourite mottos is "live fast, have fun & be a bit mischievous."

67) If Louis was Simon Cowell for the day, he says he’d go on a date with Susan Boyle.

After his successful stint on last year's The X Factor, Louis delighted his fans in March when he dropped his amazing new single 'Two Of Us'.

The song, which is adored by fans, is a tribute to Louis' late mum Johannah Deakin. Johannah left behind seven children, including Louis, at the end of 2016, when she lost her battle with an aggressive form of leukaemia at the age of just 42.

Louis' track 'Two Of Us' features the lyrics, "I know you'll be looking down, swear I'm gonna make you proud. I'll be living one life for the two of us."

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[gaiatheorist]

Dejected.

On Thursday night into Friday morning, my son going to bed woke me up from my half-sleep. I came downstairs so that the clatter-click of my keyboard didn’t disturb him, also so that I could watch the election results come in, and not worry about any out-loud swearing happening. As it turned out, I needn’t have bothered. A little before midnight, he came halfway down the stairs, then back upstairs, then all the way down.

We sat, staring at our screens, flicking between platforms, and repeatedly hitting ‘refresh’ on the news. I’d dug a little deeper into the exit polls than he had, and found that our constituency was predicted to show 99% Conservative. Now that’s A Very Big Thing, because since its actual inception in 1918, this area has been Labour-landslides. 101 years, staunch Labour, I’ve joked about “I vote Labour because my Dad voted Labour.”, and I’ve also mis-remembered about the racist shop-keeper, that was the town council election, not parliament. My son and I had been quite excited when our MP announced his retirement, and even more excited when a young woman was voted in to replace him. It’s not a male/female issue, it’s the fact that he was 73 years old, and fairly consistently either abstained from parliamentary votes, or voted against the Labour party. He was a dinosaur, we were excited about the young woman, my son had been sniffing around her social media, and she seemed to be the right kind of rabble rouser.

We watched the bars on the graph chase each other red-ahead, then blue, then red again. My son tried going back to bed at one point, but couldn’t sleep, so came back down, and faffed about making herb-infused milk, and asking me for natural sleep-aids. I’m not best placed to advise on that, my sleep issues are at the other end of the spectrum, I can fall asleep anywhere, but when I wake up, I can usually tell within a minute or so if I’m going to be able to get back to sleep, if I’m not, I just get up, ‘trying’ to go back to sleep frustrates me. Under normal circumstances, I can just potter around the house quietly until the boy gets up, generally around mid-day. Both of us being awake at daft o’clock in the morning is not a good thing, especially with the tension of the election as background-noise. 

I can’t quite remember what time the chanting started, but I imagine I must have given him ‘the look’. Only the two of us in the house, so every time he spoke, I looked up, in case he was saying something that needed a response, he wasn’t, he was muttering ‘Labour majority’, and ‘I refuse to acknowledge the Tory votes, they are not real.’ I had more of an idea of which geographical areas were historically held by Labour, and did occasionally mutter ‘Fuck!’ under my breath, all the boy saw was more of the map turning blue. There was a brief period of him shouting ‘No, NO, that is not what I voted for.’, predictably enough, his anger/denial lapsed into bargaining, twittering away like a Maths-budgie, doing complicated things with numbers. (He’d also tied a scarf around his head, when he’d tried to go back to sleep, and kept peeping one eye out when he was speaking, absolutely ridiculous.) There were lots of tears from him, I stayed calm and neutral, distanced and watchful, waiting for him to either stop chanting, or say something concerning. It turned out to be the latter, he’d been cycling up for quite a while when he shouted “I don’t want to live in a place like this, they’re voting to kill people-like-you!” That’s a trigger-phrase, and it needed some unpicking. You can live somewhere else/You’re young, you have a whole life ahead/You’ve just graduated with a hard-science degree from a Red Brick university/I’ve had three years of them trying to kill me, you know I’m resilient/This situation makes me even more determined to help other people.  I can’t remember how many times I have used the ASIST suicide-aversion strategy, I never thought I’d need to start it with my own son. He jumped up from his seat, and ran into the kitchen, I could hear his breathing between the sobbing and muttering, I knew he needed space, but also knew that he was now in the room where most of the knives are. No knife-noises, which is lucky, because he’s bigger and heavier than I am, I know I wouldn’t be able to overpower him if it came to that. He stomped back into this room, and, for a minute-or-so that seemed like hours, he punched the fuck out of the sofa. (I was trying not to let the “Please don’t break that, I can’t afford to replace it.” show on my face.)

He cried some more, and ranted some more, doing that weird thing he does when he’s highly emotional, of following me around the house like a lost lamb, he knows how much that annoys me, but at that point, it was down to me to convince him that there was a point to anything at all. A human the size of a whole man, following me around the house in jogging bottoms that had been part of his school PE kit, and a T-shirt that was too small for him, exposing a VERY hairy belly, that’s from my DNA, not his Dad’s. We were both back in the living room when the count from our constituency came in, we were obviously looking at different count-sites at the time, because I was the first to say “Oh, shit.” he looked up at me, and said “Has it gone?” It had. For the first time in 101 years. For the first time ever, because the ward/borough/whatever had only been in existence since 1918. Back to bargaining, he’s very good at Maths, and hope springs eternal. “We only need ‘x’ number of these votes to take the majority.” “If there’s a coalition of Labour and the SNP we can do it.”  When he started chanting ‘Labour majority’ again, I responded “Will you stop doing that, please?” Another melt-down, full on leg-swinging and snotty-snorting-sobs. “That’s all I’ve got, Mum, why are people doing this?�� (People are idiots.) “Some of it is the EU, some of it is people with money knowing that the conservatives won’t increase taxation, some of it is fatigue/apathy, and some of it is people who dislike Jeremy Corbyn.” “It’s WRONG, though, it’s going to KILL people-like-you.” “It hasn’t killed me yet, and it won’t, as soon as I have more idea of the next medical intervention time-scales, I’ll volunteer with one of the local advocacy places, and help other people get through this.”

We crossed the point of no return on the graphs, and then the conservative party broke through the majority line. The boy and I chatted a little about how stoic Jeremy Corbyn has been in the face of unfounded allegations, and how insidious the conservatives have been in turning public opinion, with no fight-back mud-slinging from labour. “However this plays out, we’ll know we voted with our consciences, to give other people help, not harm.” “Is that enough, though, Mum?” “It will have to be for now.”

He went back to bed, I was so anxious about leaving him alone in that state that I was late to my gym appointment, which was a cancel/reschedule from earlier in the week when I’d blind-sided myself with a migraine from filling in the second of two 40 page forms, and cross-referencing 35 pages of additional evidence. This is conscious cruelty, there’s every chance that, buoyed by the confidence of a conservative majority, DWP might order me to another Work Capability Assessment for my UC, or a face-to-face for my PIP. I have permanent brain injuries, confirmed C-PTSD, and probable ASD, I’m not going to ‘get better’, and if DWP want to declare me fit-for-work based on my ability to pick things up from the floor, I’ll be taking names. 

This is horrible. I ‘lost’ most of yesterday flitting in and out of fretful sleep, the house is a tip, and, to make it even worse, I ordered in a take-away last night, and managed to eat a grand total of 4 chips before I felt nauseous. Saves cooking tomorrow, I suppose.