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Martin Freeman talks peer advice at Edinburgh International Television Festival (source) 

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Watch: Serena Williams shuts down a reporter who asked why she wasn’t smiling 

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HAPPY 44th BIRTHDAY MARTIN FREEMAN

44 Reasons Why We Love You

#21

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Andy Gotts with Martin Freeman (via Twitter)

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I wonder what perfume does Martin uses. did you ever heard about it?

Well, I don’t know about now but back in 2006 he said this in a interview:

What is your signature scent?

My other half bought me some Jo Malone cologne. It’s unisex so it’d suit any man, woman or plant.

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Martin Freeman in conversation with Mike Lawson (more) [x]

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Sitting next to a photographer from the Legend premiere who's going through his work on the train home. Trying not to obviously drool over the Tom Hardy pics...

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[HQ] Here is the first look at Martin Freeman as Steve Marriott.! (Short Film : Midnight Of My Life)

https://www.facebook.com/midnightofmylife/photos/a.563904257043923.1073741828.557767074324308/671176649650016/?type=1&permPage=1

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Dragons are Assholes

The Romans were the first to introduce the elephant to Europe, but most Europeans became familiar with the animal in the 1200s, through drawings in bestiaries and illuminated manuscripts.  Under the Romans, elephants were used as war machines but were later given to royalty as exotic gifts.

Here’s an early 13th century drawing of an elephant carrying people.  Looks like fun!

Let’s look at another medieval drawing of an elephant:

This seems to depict a mother, a baby and a dragon. The elephants are kind of derpy looking, but not too bad.  Not sure why the dragon is there though.

Okay, this next elephant is way more derpy than the first two.  And also has a dragon friend.

Oh wait, I see what’s going on here…

This will not end well.

After doing a bit of reading, it appears most scholars believe the medieval elephant and the dragon were mortal enemies.  

“The dragon is the enemy of the elephant, and hides near paths where elephants walk so that it can catch them with its tail and kill them by suffocation.” (source: somewhere on the internet)

I can’t find any drawings or accounts of dragons actually eating the derpy elephants they’re attacking.  I also can’t find any drawings of non-derpy elephants being attacked, so I have to assume the dragons are just being assholes and going for the lowest hanging fruit.

Somewhere in this drawing is a total asshole dragon:

Which brings me to the Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell comparison.  Guess who is the derpy elephant in this photo?

Some who have read the book or watched the tv series have expressed pity for Mr. Drawlight, especially during his final moments. Maybe similar to the pity a person could feel for the derpy elephants as they are being stalked by the asshole dragons (or Mr. Lascelles in this case).

But I don’t think Drawlight deserves any pity at all, because if you remember correctly, he threw a cat out of a window in case it might get its’ fur on his clothes.

Which doesn’t make Lascelles any less of an asshole, it’s just that the derpy elephants might have been asking for it.

NEVER FORGET

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BFI London Film Festival PSA

If you have an Amex credit card, wait until booking opens for Amex customers on 16 September. Don't bother with the BFI membership - Amex have a larger range of tickets on sale. For example, last year they had tickets to all the galas available, including the opening and closing night (whereas the BFI only ran a ballot for tickets).

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After reading this ill-informed opinion piece from the Guardian’s art critic Jonathan Jones, I had to write a rebuttal:

The article characterizes Pratchett as a symbol of society’s failure to embrace true literature, emblematic of a “middlebrow cult of the popular” that promotes “mental laziness.”

It’s essentially a bingo card of literary snob clichés, finishing up with praise for the “morally sombre plot” of Mansfield Park. Ironically, Jane Austen’s work experienced a similar reception to Terry Pratchett’s during her own lifetime: popular for its witty social satire, but rarely viewed as deep literature.

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Person: MF is so unattractive. How and why are there people liking him???

Person: *tag MF*

Fan: *browse MF tag*

Fan:

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Stuff fandom drama, I've got cobnuts :)

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october-december is the best time of the year and you can’t tell me otherwise.

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Martin: Martin John Christopher Freeman

Ben: Sorry, what?

Martin: That’s the whole of it. If you’re... looking for baby names.

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if you ever get hateful messages just reply with martin freeman swearing

seriously

look

at

this 

man

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Wow, there's people who seriously believe Martin and Amanda are jeopardising Benedict's career because they're jealous of him... With fans like that, who needs haters!