#white gold bbc

[notasapleasure]

White Gold S02E05-06 (2019)

Roland Setra my beloved. 💗💗💗 SO MANY screencaps here my darlings, you deserve all the Roland Setra I can give you (so long as tumblr’s prude bots don’t intervene again)

Again, this is one I watched and responded to already, but also thoroughly deserves its own screencaps. White Gold is about double glazing salesmen in Essex in the 1980s and it revels in its setting - it’s on Netflix in the UK at the moment, 12 half hour episodes total. I never was a fan of The Inbetweeners, but at least two of them are involved in this, if that’s the kind of thing that sells it for you.

Mr Setra is a deliciously fruity money-launderer friend of the Essex gangster who owns Vincent’s double-gazing company (keep up). He likes to drop French words into conversation. He wears crisp white suits. He owns a yacht. He has that moustache. Absolute pinnacle of humanity.

hhhhhh

Vincent (iconic tbh): “I’m more offended when people don’t want to sleep with me.” But his wife would be pissed off if he left her out.

“Permission to walk your plank, Mr Setra?”

“You know you always have my permission, Vincent...”

WERK

(did I do that right?)

He asks Vincent to join him and his business partner in the time-share selling business, and he really enjoys Vincent’s complaints about the double-glazing selling scene

But there’s the matter of Vincent’s ‘dangerously psychopathic’ boss, Ronnie...

Episode 6 involves less screentime and a little wait for it, but it turns out that while everyone assumes Mr Setra has had Ronnie killed....Ronnie was just enjoying Roland’s hospitality:

Rating

Dead? No!!

Evil? NO (shush)

Affects the plot? Sure does!

500/5 perfect. Ear nibbles.

And I do recommend the show as a whole, though with reservations because the main actor is apparently a sex pest even worse than Vincent often is - it’s not clear whether they’re interested in making a third season, but my money would be against it given the lawsuit and the fact that season 2 wraps up so well. However, a (not-so-)tiny bit of me wishes we lived in a world where season 3 was desirable and would give the charming Mr Setra a recurring role.

[corinthianism]

corinthianism's fic recs

here are my personal favorite fanfics! idk how often i'll update this, but i hope you like them as much as i do :) *indicates smut

last updated: march 26, 2024

MARVEL

loki laufeyson - from the void, with love — by whirlybirbs (my fav fanfic of all time!!! i think about this fic several times in a day bro) - riptide — by starks-hero - the tailor* (series) — by birdofhermes (ao3) - time after time (series) — by goldencherriess (ao3) - a friend from work — by cozy_the_overlord (ao3)

thor odinson - god of fertility* (request) — by charnelhouse - highway don't care (but i do, i do)* (part one, part two, part three) — by spacelabrathor

peter parker (andrew garfield) - agree to disagree — by delicate-dorothea - nerdy peter (request) — by webslingingslasher - good boy x bad girl trope (request) — by webslingingslasher - hold you here, my loveliest friend* — by p3mybeloved - your friendly neighborhood sensitive spider* — by jin0 - glad you're home — by withahappyrefrain - the mechanics of a soul — by irndad - 3 is the magic number* — by withahappyrefrain - crush — by ptersparkers - as it goes — by forever-rogue - here comes the sun (part one, part two, part three) — by withahappyrefrain - stability, reciprocity, and a romance for the ages (series) — by privateanxieties (ao3 - need an account to read)

steven grant (moon knight) - hold me close — by stormkobra-5 - gift of min* — by astroboots - puzzles* — by stormkobra-5 - first time* — by luvpedropascal - domestic adonis* — by peterman-spideyparker - where it starts — by silversweetpea - fallen from heaven, grown on earth* (series) — by davosmymaster (ao3) - call me poe* — by kittyfandom (ao3) - elemental — by batsingotham (ao3) - the boy with the thorn in his side — by eating_flowers (ao3)

marc spector (moon knight) - not him — by loud-mouth-loser - it's worth it, it's divine* — by the-archxr - i'm getting to know someone — by davosmymaster (ao3)

wade wilson (deadpool) - tea and sympathy (series) — by bucketsoffrogs (ao3)

SHERLOCK (BBC)

sherlock holmes - your hidden strength — by okay-j-hannah - sublime dexterity* (part one, part two) — by daydreamtofiction - literally everything by starks-hero

SUPERNATURAL

sam winchester - playing house (part one, part two) — by uncouth-the-fifth - baby i'll stay (heaven can wait) — by uncouth-the-fifth - move over.* — by ggwritesstuff - where's your head at?* — by beau55515 - birthdays: sam winchester style* — by karleekarma (ao3) - the comforts of home — by zepskies - under the hood* — by shawslut

dean winchester - whether you like it or not — by kbeautimous (ao3) - reading you wrong — by zepskies - cherished — by thatonewriter15 (ao3) - soft touch — by wearywinchester - i love her, that's why* — by kaleldobrev - drivin' me crazy* — by lis-likes-fics

castiel - salt n' lick* — by aperfectgrace (ao3) - a bite of apple pie (series) — by ac_deanc (ao3)

THE SANDMAN

the corinthian - bring me a dream* (series, ongoing) — by placeinthemiddleofnowhere - nihil — by lis-likes-fics

dream/morpheus - sweet dreams (are made of this) — by stranger-nightmare

CRIMINAL MINDS

aaron hotchner - from eden — by heliotropehotch - gold star — by honeypiehotchner - love, an abstract concept — by luveline - honeymoon phase* (series) — by hotchsbitch (ao3)

THE BOYS

soldier boy (he's absolutely horrible but so. so. hot.) - break me down* (series) — by zepskies (go read their other stuff too!) - talk to me — by zepskies

homelander (also absolutely horrible. would sleep with him.) - if i can't have you — by watchstarscollide - milky white* — by after-witch

GAME OF THRONES

jaime lannister - i'm not made by design — by ichorai (this legitimately changed my brain chemistry)

STAR WARS

obi-wan kenobi - like turning on the light* — by full-time-make-believer (deactivated acc) (this also changed the trajectory of my life) - where it wasn't* — by 221bshrlocked - your thoughts are loud — by spidersbane - empty me out* — by 221bshrlocked - house of memories* (series) — by meshlasolus - bad idea, right?* (series) — by mischiefling (ao3) - you make me feel like dancing — by saradika (ao3) - it's a wonderful lie — by firstofficerwiggles (ao3) - temptation's kiss — by karasong (ao3) - you make my dreams* — by wickedscribbles (ao3) - like a living mirage — by karasong (ao3) - broken drought* — by rosalindbeatrice (ao3) - never grow up — by doihavetoloseyoutoo (ao3) - never ending story — by kybercrystal (ao3) - volveré* — by kxnobi (ao3)

din djarin (the mandalorian) - the savior* (part one, part two, part three) — by dindjiarin - significant — by softlyspector - touching din — by archieimagines - uncharted territory* — by pedrito-friskito - creed* — by wheresarizona - home is wherever i'm with you* (part one, part two, part three) — by saradika

DRACULA (BBC)

count dracula - the székely* (series) — by theplumsoldier

LOTR/THE HOBBIT

thranduil oropherion - a boon* (series) — by inksplots (ao3) - beauty and the beast (series) — by tamurilofrivendell (ao3)

DOCTOR SLEEP

dan torrance - of monsters and men* — by helaintoloki & obitwo - domestic life (headcanons) — by thornsinmycrown - smut alphabet* — by daincrediblegg

[foone]

whats your favourite narnia book if you have one

Since I grew up as an autistic christian, I have many Narnia Opinions!

So, my favorite book for it's own reasons is probably The Magician's Nephew. I'm always a slut for worldbuilding and backstory and that novel is basically just only that. Some guy we know from another book goes on an adventure and in the process gets to be involved with the creation of one world and the destruction of another? kick-ass.

Best book to adapt? The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. 1988 BBC version, 1979 Cartoon version, 2005 theatrical? All good, in their own ways. The BBC version is just perfectly 80s and the costumes are amazing (because they are costumes! they did all the monsters by sticking a guy in a big costume and I love it), the cartoon version captures the fucking whimsy of a story where SANTA SHOWS UP AND GIVES EVERYONE PRESENTS and the first person to offer any serious lore about the situation is named MR BEAVER. And the 2005 film has the big battles and CGI and Tilda Swinton as the White Witch which is... so much. I love them all.

But the best book adaptation is the 1990 BBC The Silver Chair. Hands down. It's got Tom Baker's Puddleglum, Warwick Davis playing an owl, 0£ BBC budget greenscreened giants (MULTIPLE TIMES), a group of people discovering IT'S A COOKBOOK and one of them being offended by the cookbook saying they don't taste very good, the bad guy turning into a giant rubber snake. a witch trying to gaslight some humans into believing the sun is a myth, and the ultimate salvation of Eustace Scrubb: a boy who almost deserved being named that.

And since I can't not list basically everything Narnia ever made, BBC's 1989 Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is pretty good too. It's a fun "road movie", in that it's an odyssey into a fictional Mysterious Ocean of Here There Be Dragons.

Lotta hits in that one. It's also got a "collect the macguffins!" plot where they're trying to collect the Seven Lost Lords.

But yeah, it's like... the first Island gets them a lord and they get to end slavery. Next up, Dragon TF island (The dragon is Greed... but it's also just a literal fucking dragon). Next, Gold TF island. Gold, it turns out, makes you go insane in your lust for wealth, even if you're already a Prince of a whole country. The gold is Greed, but it will also just fucking kill you because you'll be turned into gold.

Then it's the island of the ugly invisible one-foot guys and it turns out they cast a spell to turn invisible so no one could see how they're ugly but they're not ugly, they just think they are? and then it goes "HEY LUCY COMPARE YOURSELF TO YOUR OLDER SISTER" and she's like "I'm ugly.... unlike her. Maybe I should use magic to STEAL HER BEAUTY?!" and it's like, wow. Is there maybe a theme here about self-esteem in your appearance? and Clive Officemax Lewis is over there going I'LL NEVER TELL.

Anyway it's got the good line about how the Wizard in charge of the ugly invisible one-footed pogo-idiots is that how he eagerly awaits the day that they can be ruled by wisdom, instead of magic. It's a fun approach to magic: it's something that is a shortcut, a crutch, and it's a poor replacement for Wisdom, even when used by "the good guys". Tell me, Mr. FedexKinkos-Lewis, do you have any opinions on the complicated relationship between Christianity and magic? oh, you do? I never would have guessed!

They also find The Island Where Dreams Come True. They don't land there, they just fish a screaming man out of the ocean who is trying to escape it. The sailors hear it's The Island Where Dreams Come True and are like "wow, I could have my own ship!" and he yells no, you fools, not dreams like your wishes and imaginations, your actual dreams come true on this island.

and everyone agrees: Get us the fuck away from this island and lets never return.

Anyway I'm not gonna talk about THE ENTIRE MOVIE/BOOK but it's got a great weirdness at the end where they reach the end of the world (which is flat. It's okay, this is Narnia, a completely different world with different physical rules than Earth), and it's a waterfall, but a waterfall going up?

It turns out Heaven is on the other side of it. They turn around, but the anthropomorphic mouse is like "ehh, I'll take that journey" and becomes the Elijah of Aslan's Country, their equivalent of heaven.

Narnia, won't you?

[department-shoe-stud]

There’s gonna be a preliminary hearing before the trial in 2024

[landscaping-your-mind]

[Read by Catherine Tate.]

"Just take a look at this view!" Donna cried. The Doctor joined her at the window. "I mean what a view," Donna exclaimed. "I've never seen anything like it!"

"I have," replied the Doctor softly. "And so have you."

"The sun, flaming red and gold, across white mountain peaks and crystal valleys? I don't think so!" said Donna.

"And down there?" he asked, pointing.

"What?"

"Down there."

"Where down there?" she asked.

"There down there," he snapped.

"Well, that's– Oh my God!" she said.

"Chiswick?" he suggested.

"That's Chiswick!" she squawked. "What is Chiswick doing down there?"

"In a crystal valley below white mountain peaks above which the sun is flaming red and gold, you mean?" he asked.

"Yes."

"Well, that's the real question," the Doctor replied.

He opened the window latches, slid the pane aside, and reached out. His fingers touched something invisible and the view, mountains and Chiswick alike, rippled like water.

"It's a telesensual holocunation," he said as he closed the window.

"A what? You're just getting me back for the plywood thing, aren't you?" said Donna.

"It's feeding off our thoughts," he said. "It's bleeding our memories. And replicating a composite view to make us both feel at home."

"'It'? Who's 'it'?"

"This building," the Doctor said.

Donna looked at him. "Wait, I'm checking... nope, I don't understand what you're saying."

"Neither do I," he replied with a fragile grin. "It's just a hunch."

"How is it making us both feel at home?" she asked.

The Doctor pointed down at Chiswick. "That's you, Donna Noble," he said. He raised his hand and pointed at the mountains. "And that's me."

"You?"

"That's Gallifrey."

Donna opened her mouth. "That's what it looked like?"

"Yes," he said.

"It's so beautiful!"

"Yes, it was," he replied. "It really was."

[friendship-bracelet-collection]

Memes and fun bracelets

And then we got to some of the last bracelets in my collection for now. This is a mix of memes, general words like Phandom, and the lone bracelets that doesn't really go into any specific sets.

Starting out with a fun one is a few rings! I made more but have given them away to friends. The black one says PINOF in morse code!!!

Then there's PHAN and PHANDOM made with rainbow pattern! These I would like to make more of in the future.

Golden Pig is the first one I made before I got pig charms, so this is just fully gold beads of different kinds.

Legalise Catboys is made with pony beads, where the white ones are glow-in-the-dark. And the cat beads i got from my friend Percy.

Phaby is silver because i wanted it to be. Whoever gets this bracelets also get a loose baby, cuz i couldn't get them to be charms.

Some Nostalgia bracelets:

Placenta is a remake of one I made for the Danish show, and I chose dark red glass beads because a placenta is bloody.

BBC Radio 1 is red cuz that's the colour I think of when I head BBC1, prolly because of the BBC Play logo when I watched Doctor Who.

Square Hair is meming on Phil's hair on that gameshow. I had square wooden beads in matching colour to Phil's dyed hair and Dans mop of hair. The pattern in the beads here is taken from Dans shirt:

Vegas Vlog is based on the non existing Las Vegas Vlog, and the colours are taking from the Welcome to Las Vegas sign.

Emo Hair is just black beads because of the emo hair both of them had.

The Hand is cream because its close to a pale skin colour. I made this one because I spitted the hand charm on a random pair of thrifted earrings.

Top Dan Memes is black for Dan's branding, with a few red beads because that's usually the colour people use when doing top of something lists.

Ranch is white in different sizes with two shades of green mixed in to look like ranch dressing. I'm very proud of this one.

Slit is glassy silver all around with stars on because like phaby, i just thought it fitted.

Rat Boy Summer is based on the shirt Phil wore last summer. I added a colourful bow for a little flare, as well as an ice cream to really hit home that it's a summer themed one. The Hello Kitty beads are for Dan, and the normal small beads are just chosen at random to be colourful.

Superglue is white in different sizes and shades, which I copied off of a bracelet I traded to at the Danish show, but they had used heart shaped letter beads.

Dip & Pip is just a bracelet for the new nick names they have gotten. I used the turquoise beads I had because it paired nicely with the green i used too.

Lastly, here's one based on the Dan And Phil Beats logo. The colours pulled from the logo got used in the letter beads and the hearts the rest of the beads are pure white to make the colours stand out.

[qnewsau]

Tom Daley models jumper he's been knitting at Paris Olympics

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Tom Daley models jumper he's been knitting at Paris Olympics

Tom Daley isn’t just an Olympic champion. The gay British diver is also a talented knitter.

When he hasn’t been up on the board going for medals at Paris, Tom Daley has spent his downtime in the stands with his needles and wool.

The Olympics aren’t even finished yet but Tom has revealed that he’s already finished knitting his latest creation – a special Paris Olympics commemorative jumper.

Tom’s jumper is in the shades of red, white, and blue to match both Tom’s UK flag and the Paris flag, with the intricate Eiffel Tower Paris 2024 logo across the front.

Tom knitted his initials “TD” on one sleeve and the number 5 on the other to represent the Olympians’s fifth time competing in the Olympics.

He showed off his work – which you can see more on Tom’s separate knitting Instagram account – in new videos on social media.

@tomdaley I FINISHED MY SWEATER! What do you thunk? @Made With Love ♬ original sound – Tom Daley

@tomdaley THE MAKING OF MY SWEATER #paris2024 #olympics @Made With Love ♬ Summer Vibes – GRLN

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Tom Daley won silver medal at Paris Olympics

Last week, Tom Daley and his British diving partner Noah Williams won silver in the men’s synchronised dive at the Paris Olympics.

His first silver medal is his fifth, completing Tom’s set alongside his three bronze and the gold medal he picked up in Tokyo.

After winning gold, Tom took a long break from the sport.

But the British star said he returned for one reason – to impress his six-year-old son Robbie.

“Robbie was like, ‘Papa, I want to see you dive in the Olympics’. And that was that,” Tom told BBC Sport last week.

“When your kid asks you to do something, you do it.”

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Tom Daley’s husband Dustin Lance Black and their two sons Robbie and Phoenix cheered Tom on at the Paris Aquatics Centre.

“Doing it in front of my son who asked me to come back is so special. He’s six years old now and I think he might remember some of this,” Tom told BBC Sport.

“I now have [medals] of every colour, I’ve completed the set.”

More on Paris Olympics:

Retiring Aussie rugby star Sharni Smale wore her rainbow headgear at Olympics

Olympic pole vaulter’s bulge costs him a medal in Paris

Olympic opening ceremony queens sue after online abuse

Olympian Robbie Manson makes more from OnlyFans than sport

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[lucigoo]

Weekly Roundup: 20th January - 26th January

Ngl, I'm feeling particularly proud this week. I managed to post 5 fics this week, with a combined word count of 23,297 of my 15,000 word a week goal. Im also at 53,357 words of my monthly 60,000 word goal!

As always, recs first and then my own fics.

Haven - EyesUpMarksman - The Witcher (TV) [Archive of Our Own] (Geralt/Jaskier, AWAU)

Summary: It was a very neat arrangement; the kings of the Continent and the Witchers of Kaer Morhen had a set agreement that they wouldn’t be at each others’ throats in the coming years, and Alfred Pankratz got rid of his eldest son and heir-apparent. The latter could have been seen as a great loss. It was seen as a great loss by anyone who didn’t know the truth, which just happened to be most of the Continent. Only a select few knew why the Viscount de Lettenhove was so eager to get rid of his eldest, and only, son.

Jaskier is settled into his new life in Kaer Morhen, married to the feared White Wolf, Geralt of Rivia, and an unexpected gift is presented to the couple in the first few months of their marriage.

The Blessing of a Long Life - thinksleep - Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types [Archive of Our Own] (Geralt/Jaskier)

Summary: Five times someone accidentally extended Jaskier’s life (and one time someone did it on purpose)

Care and Rehabilitation of a Bard - theblobfishwrites - Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types [Archive of Our Own] (Gerat/Jaskier, Aiden/Lambert)

Summry: After the dragon hunt, Jaskier thought he was done with Witchers. But when life (or rather Nilfgaard) throws you into neighbouring prison cells, you're kind of bound to become friends. Which is why Jaskier would do anything to protect Aiden. Even if that means going to Kaer Morhen, home of the man that broke his heart.

Kill Me Slowly - safiraneo - Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types [Archive of Our Own]

Summary: Jaskier isn't exactly happy to dig himself out of his own grave. In fact, he'd very much like to go back in it. Unfortunately, Destiny has other plans.

who is this bard? - Sunfl0wer78 - Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types [Archive of Our Own]

Summary: No one knows what’s going on.

Eskel, Lambert, Vesemir, Ciri…. They all wonder just who is this bard Geralt keeps finding company with?

FlooFlirt (TM) - Iwritemynameinallcaps - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own] (Texting au in the wizarding world)

Summary: There's a new available feature on the very succesfull wizarding communication device PocketFloo (TM). Let the FlooFlirting begin.

So, mostly Geralt/Jaskier with suprise Drarry at the bottom lol. Have a wonderful week <3

Now to my own fics

A Party Full of Love (Bilbo/Thorin and little Frodo, written for my wonderful friends at the Bagginshield Book Club (BBC)

Summary: Frodo loves his Uncle Bilbo and his uncle Thorin and so has decided to give them a party. A party he has painstackingy crafted the invitations too. Now all that is left is to deliver them.

Please Mahal, Don't take the hobbit! (Bilbo/Thorin, inspired by the song "Don't take the irl," by Tim McGraw)

Summary: Thorin's adad was taking him fishing when he was a young dwarf.

It starts with Thorin and hi sadad and ends with Frodo and his own adad.

Snippets of Bilbo and Thorin's lives as they grow and love and live for one another.

All Shall Fade, All Shall Fade! (Pippin Took - centric)

Summary: Pippin is a young hobbit, not even an adult, alone in the world of men with orcs at Gondor's walls.

He watches as brave oy. ung Farmir marches out hoping ot earn his father's love as he is ordered to sing. To sing for this man when those he loves most are fighting against evil.

He has never felt as small as he does in that moment and all he wants is to go home, Merry, Frodo and Sam in tow.

His gaze is blinded by the gold (Bilbo/Thorin, unhappy ending, written for @flashfictionfridayofficial)

Summary: Bilbo is running from Smaug, the dragon that wants to burn him alive when he is suddenly stopped by Thorin's sword pointing right at his chest.

Thorin - Sword - Bilbo.

It doesnt make sense, none of it, including why his partner is pointing his sword at Bilbo

Of Witcher's and Songbirds and their wings (Geralt/Jaskier, wrote the final two chapters for this long fic and I'm so glad it is now complete)

Summary: The continent is changeing. After his bard left him and died on the way down the Killer, Geralt is left reeling, trying to survive day by day.

5 Years after tat fateful day, Geralt and the other witchers learn about "The Sick" and the way it is changing the fate of their world.

What are witchers if not monster killers, and nothing is more monstrous then murdering children for being born different and this time the witchers will not sit back and accept it.

[letters2fiction]

Welcome to Letters2fiction!

The concept here is to send in a question or a letter request, and you’ll get a response from your fictional character of choice, from the list below. Please stick to the list I’ve made, but of course, you can ask if there’s some other characters I write for, I don’t always remember all the shows, movies or books I’ve consumed over the years and I’m sure I’m missing a lot 😅

Status: New Characters added - Thursday March 21st, 2024

TV SERIES

A Discovery of Witches:

Matthew Clairmont

Baldwin Montclair

Gallowglass de Clermont

Marcus Whitmore

Philippe de Clermont

Jack Blackfriars

Sarah Bishop

Emily Mather

Diana Bishop

Ysabeau de Clermont

Miriam Shepard

Phoebe Taylor

Gerbert D’Aurillac

Peter Knox

Father Andrew Hubbard

Benjamin Fuchs

Satu Järvinen

Meridiana

Law and Order:

Rafael Barba

Sonny Carisi

Joe Velasco

Mike Duarte

Terry Bruno

Peter Stone

Hasim Khaldun

Nick Amaro NEW!

Mike Dodds

Grace Muncy

Kat Tamin

Toni Churlish

Amanda Rollins

Olivia Benson

Rita Calhoun

Casey Novak

Melinda Warner

George Huang

Sam Maroun

Nolan Price

Jamie Whelan

Bobby Reyes

Jet Slootmaekers

Ayanna Bell

Jack McCoy

Elliot Stabler

One Chicago:

Jay Halstead (Could also be Will if you want)

Antonio Dawson

Adam Ruzek

Greg "Mouse" Gerwitz

Dante Torres

Vanessa Rojas

Kevin Atwater

Sean Roman

Matt Casey

Kelly Severide

Joe Cruz

Sylvie Brett

Blake Gallo

Christopher Hermann

"Mouch"

Otis

Violet Mikami

Evan Hawkins

Mayans MC:

Angel Reyes

Miguel

Bishop

Coco

Nestor

911 verse:

Athena Grant

Bobby Nash

Henrietta "Hen" Wilson

Evan "Buck" Buckley

Eddie Diaz

Howie "Chimney" Han

Ravi Panikkar

T.K. Strand

Owen Strand

Carlos Reyes

Marjan Marwani

Paul Strickland

Tommy Vega

Judson "Judd" Ryder

Grace Ryder

Nancy Gillian

Mateo Chavez

The Rookie:

Lucy Chen

Tim Bradford

Celina Juarez

Aaron Thorsen

Nyla Harper

Angela Lopez

Wesley Evers

BBC Sherlock:

Greg Lestrade

Mycroft Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

Moriarty

Molly

Bridgerton:

Anthony Bridgerton

Benedict Bridgerton

Simon Basset

Daphne Bridgerton

Eloise Bridgerton

Kate Sharma

Edwina Sharma

Marina Thompson/Crane

Outlander:

Jamie Fraser

Claire Beauchamp Randall Fraser

Frank Randall

Black Jack Randall

Brianna Fraser

Roger MacKenzie

Fergus Fraser

Marsali Fraser

Jenny Fraser Murray

Ian Murray Sr.

Ian Fraser Murray

Murtagh Mackenzie

Call The Midwife:

Shelagh Turner / Sister Bernadette

Dr. Patrick Turner

Nurse Trixie Franklin

Nurse Phyllis Crane

Lucille Anderson

Nurse Barbara Gilbert

Chummy

Sister Hilda

Miss Higgins

PC Peter Noakes

Reverend Tom Hereward NEW!

Narcos:

Horacio Carrillo

Peaky Blinders:

Tommy Shelby

Downton Abbey:

Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham

Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham

Lady Mary Crawley

Lady Edith Crawley

Lady Sybil Crawley

Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham

Isobel Crawley

Matthew Crawley

Lady Rose MacClare

Lady Rosamund Painswick

Henry Talbot

Tom Branson

Mr. Charles Carson

Mrs. Hughes / Elsie May Carson

John Bates

Anna Bates

Daisy Mason

Thomas Barrow

Joseph Molesley

Land Girl:

Connie Carter

Reverend Henry Jameson (Gwilym Lee's version)

Midsomer Murder:

DCI Tom Barnaby

Joyce Barnaby

Dr. George Bullard

DCI John Barnaby

Sarah Barnaby

DS Ben Jones

DS Jamie Winter

Sgt. Gavin Troy

Fleur Perkins

WPC Gail Stephens

Kate Wilding

DS Charlie Nelson

Sergeant Dan Scott

NEW! Once Upon A Time

Regina / The Evil Queen

Mary Margaret Blanchard / Snow White

David Nolan / Prince Charming

Emma Swan

Killian Jones / Captain Hook

Mr. Gold / Rumplestiltskin

Neal Cassidy / Baelfire

Peter Pan

Sheriff Graham Humbert / The Huntsman

Jefferson / The Mad Hatter

Belle

Robin of Locksley / Robin Hood

Will Scarlet

Zelena / Wicked Witch

Alice (Once in Wonderland)

Cyrus (Once in Wonderland)

Jafar (Once in Wonderland)

Gideon

Tiger Lily

Naveen

Tiana

Granny

Ariel

Prince Eric

Aladdin

Jasmine

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Hercules

Megara

Tinker Bell

Merida

Red Riding Hood

Mulan

Aurora / Sleeping Beauty

Prince Phillip

Cinderella

Prince Thomas

NEW! The Vampire Diaries / The Originals

Stefan Salvatore

Damon Salvatore

Caroline Forbes

Elena Gilbert

Bonnie Bennett

Enzo St. John

Niklaus Mikaelson

Elijah Mikaelson

Kol Mikaelson

Rebekah Mikaelson

Freya Mikaelson

Finn Mikaelson

Mikael

Esther

Marcel Gerard

Davina Claire

MOVIES

The Pirates of the Caribbean:

Captain Jack Sparrow

Barbossa

Will Turner

Elizabeth Swann

James Norrington

Kingsman:

Merlin

Harry Hart

Eggsy Unwin

James Spencer / Lancelot

Alastair / Percival

Roxy Morton / Lancelot

Maximillian Morton / The Shepherd

Orlando Oxford

Jack Daniels / Whiskey

Gin

BOOKS

Dreamland Billionaire series - Lauren Asher:

Declan

Callahan

Rowan

Iris

Alana

Zahra

Dirty Air series - Lauren Asher:

Noah

Liam

Jax

Santiago

Maya

Sophie

Elena

Chloe

Ladies in Stem - Ali Hazelwood books:

Olive

Adam

Bee

Levi

Elsie

Jack

Mara

Liam

Sadie

Erik

Hannah

Ian

Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros:

Xaden Riorson

Dain Aetos

Jack Barlowe

Rhiannan Matthias

Violet Sorrengail

Mira Sorrengail

Lillith Sorrengail

Bodhi Durran

Liam Mairi

[merlinjoyer]

Afterlife exists in BBC Merlin and we all know that since we've seen a lot of ghosts, raised corpses, spirits etc etc.

But it is interesting how those souls look like in the real world. How does afterlife affect them? Because they are all different, I believe that real life events shape their forms. Their past affect them after death.

One of the first souls we see is Ygraine, summoned by Morgause. She died before the show but it is known that everyone loved her. She was kind, careful and, as she said, she would give up her life again for Arthur.

Here she is. She looks almost alive. She's in gold colors, glowing in light of all those candles. She can even touch Arthur as she hugged him earlier. She was pure. Her soul was pure.

She was summoned by magic and died because of magic.

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And this is how Uther looks like.

He looks like a ghost. Like a deadman in black clothes. He is there to kill people. To make their lives worse. There is no warmth from him, there is no light around him. All the candles were off the moment he appeared. If Ygraine was ready to die again for Arthur, Uther was ready to kill Arthur if that helped him regain 'Camelot's honor'.

He died in the castle and appeared in the castle.

What if he looks so creepy because of that blue-ish white filter?

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Well, this is how Balinor looks like.

He also has this blue-ish filter. But that's all. He looks pretty much alive or if it was a nighttime. Nothing has changed in him after his death (only the colors). And he is glowing.

We see him in the Crystal Cave, surrounded by magic light. Because, after all, he was a sorcerer himself.

Even his clothes. Nothing changed in him. Despite having such a cold colors he looks somehow warm. He is there to help Merlin, his son. He is there to give hope.

So yes, after all of it, I believe that afterlife does affect the way the souls look like and how they appear.

[magicaltear]

How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

As found in the original post I saw by @macrolit

My total: 43/100

[olaqueenbeeofastrology]

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[vee-lociraptor]

SO, The Maccabees are my third favourite band of all time (and you know I take my music seriously so that's quite a compliment) but they announced they were breaking up in 2016 and were going to do a final farewell tour in 2016. This meant I never got to see them live.

They released their first full length LP back in 2007 titled 'Colour It In' and IT SLAPS. It first got big when the BBC DJ Steve Lamacq (Lammo) played the track 'Latchmere' on BBC Radio 1 and the band were noticed by the artist Jamie T who was the face of British Indie music back in the day. He invited them on tour and the band received the recognition they very well deserved. Later that year they toured America with another Brit-indie group called Bloc Party (WHO ARE SO FUCKING GOOD).

Then in 2009 the album 'Wall of Arms' was released and it just became hit after hit. Not a single skip on that album (or any of them imo). They followed with 'Given To The Wild' in 2012 (which became certified Gold) and 'Marks To Prove It' in 2015. This would be their last album and they toured it twice, once for release and once for the farewell. The support act for their final gig was the post-punk band IDLES from my home town (now my 5th fav band) and after they disbanded the lead singer Orlando Weeks went on to do the album art for them.

Orlando also released his own solo music and an illustrated book titled 'The Gritter Man' with an accompanying soundtrack and I'd recommend you listen to it over Christmas rather than any other seasonal music.

The frontman Felix White also went on to make his own music but he's now most well known for his cricket podcast 'Tailenders' which he hosts with the current face of BBC Radio 1 Greg James (who was also the guy who did the funeral for the duck).

I saw every member of the band play with their new acts over the summer and each of them played a Maccabees song and I thought they were just reminiscing or something, maybe because that hurt less than deluding myself into thinking that they'd reform.

BUT ANYWAY! i'm extremely happy and I'll be the first in line to buy tickets when they tour :3

chin in hands kicking my feet lotte this is so interesting i might have to listen to some of their music now. also IM SO GLAD THEY GOT BACK TOGETHER THATS HUGE ACTUALLY

[aerialworms-art]

Trying out a new digital art style with a self-portrait (I heard a rumour tumblr is gonna allow gif pfps and went a little crazy 😅)

ID under cut!

[ID: A shoulder-up portrait of the artist. They're a white nonbinary person with short brown hair, dark blue glasses, and a white-and-green striped t-shirt. They're standing in front of a dark blue background with rainbow stars.

There's a speech bubble coming from their mouth. Inside cycles several doodles: A trans flag, a rainbow flag, Castiel from Supernatural, a black fluffy cat, the USS Enterprise from Star Trek, a sewing needle with blue thread, the gold dragon Pendragon crest from BBC Merlin, and the AO3 logo.

The artist's signature, '@aerialworms' is written on the right side of the image in blue. /End ID]

[creativecuquilu]

HAPPY 60 YEARS OF DOCTOR WHO EVERYONE! I've got into Doctor Who since May 2022. And since I got into Arts Bachillerato, I found my favourite incarnation of the Doctor: Number Three, the talented, snazzy and 725 year old wonder Jon Pertwee. Thanks to him, the TARDIS was painted blue and so was everything around him, and some of his timelord anatomy was brought to light. Althought he was exiled to earth, his stories were very memorable, he had a silky, melodic voice along with frilly snow-white sleeves popping out of his velvety jacket which housed the iconic two tiny drums tapping either side of his chest, and those factions. Neither young nor old. Beautiful, absolutely precious. Snowy hair with hints of gold, forever sparkling eyes of the color of gallium melted under the sun, and a very pointy, very mighty nose top off the face of the third incarnation of Doctor Who, all over a 1,93m stature with long legs at the bottom. Meanwhile Tom Baker is awesome, Peter Davison is neat, Patrick Troughton is cute, Paul McGann is handsome, David Tennant is astonishing and Matt Smith, which was my first Doctor before I even got into Doctor Who, is cool. And because of him, I slowly spiralled into a world full of wholesome british TV and movies - specially the British Broadcasting Corporation, the responsible of the TARDIS' landing! And he makes me appreciate the UK even more. I am really proud of how long he has come. I just hope the Doctor never turns into a mass of energy sparks. By the way, the TARDIS was hard to line up, I had to trace her from a 3D model (not all of it, her doors are made by me). Coloring her was a bit easier though... BUT THE SPACE, WHICH I DREW MYSELF, WAS A BLOODY HELL OF A PAIN. And please no judging about every Doctor's position, specially since I wanted space for the logo and to make it symmetric. At least I won't get attacked for putting Hartnell in the middle... This took me about five hours, so... Hope you like it! Happy 60th anniversary to every Timelord that's ever stepped on Gallifrey! And keep it up, Tennant! We love you, Crowley! Artwork (c) @CreativeCuquiLu Doctor Who (c) BBC WATCH IT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cle1JK0zMDM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNl2nS1PKX0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWVG2zYUROU&t

[denimbex1986]

'“What? …What?” were David Tennant’s first words when, to everyone’s surprise, including his, he regenerated out of Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor, and not Ncuti Gatwa, as we all expected. For three episodes the 10th Doctor is back as the 14th, before Gatwa takes over at Christmas, and in his first proper episode – after a neat appearance in a Comic Relief sketch – he has moved onto “Why?”

Allow me to help you there, David: falling ratings.

Oh, you feel bad for Jodie Whittaker, a great Doctor unfortunate to be trapped in a wormhole of so-so episodes and constantly under attack from galactic sized fury-bots, slamming down their GB News mugs (filled with good, white tea, love) and taking to the social medias to cry about the bloody woke mob at the BBC filling our children’s heads with stupid ideas about tolerance and being nice.

But really, the problem, to my mind, was that while showrunner Chris Chibnall threw everything at Whittaker’s Doctor, he didn’t truly hit upon a transcendent stone-cold classic episode, and the whole thing felt like it was trying too hard; it lacked a bit of easy-to-watch magic. Something which is immediately back with “the one in the skinny suit”, under returning showrunner Russell T Davies.

As Dr Who’s 60th anniversary approaches, this should turn into something of a celebration of Davies, the man who kickstarted the new Who back in 2005 with Christopher Ecclestone as the Doctor, before hitting absolute gold with Tennant. While Chibnall was working on multiple meta-levels leaving us all trying to keep up, Davies pitches this first episode as more like E.T. in Eastenders. This sense of bringing things down-to-earth is helped further by the return of Catherine Tate as Donna, easily the funniest of his companions.

Taking place in London – and I do love Davies’ London, he was a pioneer in showing positively, and accurately, a city remarkable for its peaceful diversity (don’t believe the hype) – The Star Beast sees a cute little Furby-like alien called The Meep ‘crash’ into the city, which falls under the protection of Donna’s daughter, Rose, as some other ant-like aliens hunt it down.

The Doctor is back to help, with the catch being that he has to prevent Donna from remembering who he is, otherwise She Will Definitely Die. Without getting too bogged down, the last time we saw Donna, she basically had to have her mind wiped for her own protection, after she took on Time Lord powers that were too strong for her human body – her tragedy, heartbreaking at the time, was that she’d have to live her life without remembering her time with the Doctor.

However, as we all know in post-Marvel entertainment, there’s always a way around She Will Definitely Die – but the particular way this episode plays out is really going to upset the Woke Police. For Donna’s daughter Rose is trans, people – cue GB News mugs smashing against flat screens – and her trans-ness is very much central to the plot as well as the thematic ideas of identity crises and Otherness (not least with regards to the Doctor) and what do we do, attack these people or rally around them. Oh boy, is it going to drive people mad.

It's actually an almost touching move by Davies in the way it backs up the seriously upfront progressive humanism of Chibnall’s tenure, and comes in defiance of those who thought featuring Rosa Parks in an episode was the end of the world. What people seem to forget about Doctor Who, both the Woke Police and those other furrow-browed joy deniers, the Fanboy Police, is that it is a family show, designed to be watched with kids.

Yes it should be clever and mind-bending but it’s not supposed to be careless or cool. You need a bit of Horrible Histories, you need a bit of future thinking around humanity, because, well, this is science fiction – it’s the nature of this game even more than dressing up as Klaatu.

Anyway, the truth is this episode is a little bit thin, the big twist around The Meep pretty obvious (though not to my shocked 8 year old), and the saving of Donna does end up being really quite clunky. But it doesn’t really matter.

It’s about the magic: the chemistry between Tennant and Tate is winning, the laugh out loud moments hit double figures (I particularly like Donna’s repeated disses to the cutesy Meep – “space rat”, “ferret from Mars”), the Tardis has had a rather natty Modern House renovation, and the Disney money now coming into the show is well spent on set-pieces that manage to be Spielberg-ian in uniting the spectacular with the suburban.

It’s a hoot, and as a way to drum up attention and goodwill towards the series in the run-up towards Gatwa taking over, it’s quite irresistible.

Gatwa will certainly have a lot to live up to, mind. For Tennant truly is the best Doctor ever. Yes, yes, I know you liked Tom Baker when you were a kid, but really, you're wrong: Tennant is the best. Like a Tex Avery cartoon trapped inside Camus’ Meursault, he’s an existentialist hero for all the family. Saturday night must-watch TV is back, and it’s Woker than ever, folks...'