The Tea Times

Mostly Mark Gatiss and Rupert Graves, BBC Sherlock but also a bit Doctor Who and lately more than a bit Tom Hardy

[lavenderandvanilla]

Happy Gatiss Wednesday!

Our Pride is this weekend! 🏳️‍🌈 Let’s see your favorite pictures (and gifs) of Mark at Pride events, like this one of him and Ian at the Broadwick Soho Pride party last year. 🌈

[wonderholt]

[lavenderandvanilla]

Fun additions!

[notfspurejam]

Valerie Antwi’s Instagram

[johannadc]

Choose your winners in this year’s National Television Awards

Vote now for Bookish in the National Television Awards! If you keep going, you can also vote for Mark in the Drama Performance category.

[fuckyeahbookish]

Well, folks. The queue is empty, the drafts are empty. Now all that's left to do until season 2 is....HOST A POLL OF COURSE! For our first fandom event!

When Should Bookish Appreciation Week Be Held?*

May 17th - 23rd

May 24th - 30th

May 31st - June 6

June 7th - 13

Another Week (Say in the Comments)

Voting ended onMay 11

*Bookish Appreciation Week would involve writing/giffing/vidding/edits/headcanons/etc. and this blog would host and reblog them all! We could maybe have different prompts per day to make it more fun or it would just be a free for all for the whole week! (A second poll will be held to decide)

[lizclimo]

[copgirl1964]

Reminds me a bit of John and Sherlock. 😊

[lavenderprose]

On my hands and knees begging you guys to stop implying that 30 is old and close to the end. Please. I know that fandom skews young and the timeline of a professional athlete’s career is brutally short but for the love of god. Intellectually we must keep in mind that 30 is not old. I dreaded my thirtieth birthday like a walk to the gallows for THIS SPECIFIC REASON and seeing every day someone say, “Yes the best years of their lives are behind them,” about a pair of THIRTY YEAR OLDS is absolutely breaking me please stop. Safeword safeword.

[copgirl1964]

Rubbish! I'm 62, and happier than I've ever been.

[icequeenlila]

Loved him in BBC Sherlock. Love him in Young Sherlock.

Trying so hard to protect the family, never asking for help. Never appreciated and instead taken for granted.

[soulgyrl]

How it was done!

[totallysilvergirl]

OKAY THIS POST SHOULD HAVE 14K NOTES JUST TO START WITH

WHO IS GOING TO WRITE THE FIC

[elizadoolittlethings]

Bookish season 2 set to be "more ambitious" as Mark Gatiss teases stories for new episodes

The world of Gabriel Book is expanding.

Happy Gatiss Wednesday

[umka2002]

Mark Gatiss in Rehearsal For THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI

Photo Credit: Marc Brenner

[notfspurejam]

First-look: Rehearsal photos of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui starring Mark Gatiss, Mawaan Rizwa & Janie Dee | West End Theatre

Check out the latest photos and videos of the RSC's new production of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui starring Mark Gatiss.

[anonbeadraws]

Rest your bones, while you still have them. Today's warm up: Ghostly Vibes (1:30hr)

[bunchofgifhunts]

Rupert Graves gif hunt

Under the cut are #153 gifs of Rupert Graves. None of these gifs were made by me; all credit goes to the original makers.

Content warnings: guns, flashing gifs

Keep reading

[johannadc]

This page was a help because Google is useless these days - lots of Rupert Graves gifs!

[copgirl1964]

This came with a warning that it might have contents harmful to youths. Waving gun aside, Rupert is just too sexy not to add this warning. 😉♥️🔥

[mystradepromptsandscenarios]

Mystrade Monday Prompt #72

For January 19, 2026

“We can argue about this later.”

The game is to write a flash fic this weekend and post it here (or with a link to the fic on AO3) on Monday with the hashtag Mystrade Monday.

Flash fiction is a complete story that is less than 1,000 words. 360mg is complete fic of 360 words with the last two beginning with “M” and “G” in any order. Please spread the word.

Hot tip: if you tag @mystradepromptsandscenarios , we’ll reblog it.

[mystradepromptsandscenarios]

Mystrade Monday Prompts #69

For December 29, 2025

“You make every day feel like it’s Christmas.”

The game is to write a flash fic this weekend and post it here (or with a link to the fic on AO3) on Monday with the hashtag Mystrade Monday.

Flash fiction is a complete story that is less than 1,000 words. 360mg is complete fic of 360 words with the last two beginning with “M” and “G” in any order. Please spread the word.

Hot tip: if you tag @mystradepromptsandscenarios , we’ll reblog it.

[copgirl1964]

Managed to put this latest prompt into my story The Yuletide Gift as well. 😃

The story is finished now - 4 chapters, each one including a Mystrade Monday prompt.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/75486781/chapters/197365086

[neverlet]

I don't even know what to say about this video. Christmas. Ghosts. Mark Gatiss.

Link to the video

👉👈

[mystradeholidaycollection]

Mystrade Holiday Collection 2025 Update!

A new fic has been added to the collection and another has been updated! Do stop by the collection and check them out. Keep reading to find the links.

The Yuletide Gift by @copgirl1964, rated T, words 882 (WIP)

Greg is on his way home, when he sees a homeless man who needs his help.

Chapter 2 of Miracle of Archangel Lane is now available!

Book's mind returns to the memory of the prior Sunday, and the turn of events that followed.