Umbrellas, Goldfish & Three Piece Suits

This blog is dedicated to Mark Gatiss, BBC Sherlock, Mads Mikkelsen, Bryan Fuller & NBC Hannibal. I'm in love with the magic of cinema, books, theatre & the telly. Content you'll find on my blog: LOTR, The Hobbit, Harry Potter, mostly SciFi and Fantasy films/series... Have you ever dared to send an email to [email protected]? Me neither!

[spelliarmus]

“To your sister I wish all imaginable happiness; to Willoughby that he may endeavour to deserve her.”

ALAN RICKMAN as COLONEL BRANDON Sense and Sensibility (1995) dir. Ang Lee

[citizenscreen]

Alan Rickman (February 21, 1946 – January 14, 2016)

[sleepy-bebby]

Rico the Porcupine eating corn at the Cincinnati Zoo.

[colorschanging]

thank you to everyone who has participated in the chain of reblogs that has allowed this angel baby to cross my dash

[fred-art-95]

A few days ago it was the birthday of a certain professor who would have done anything to escape from his party! (I'm not the one who finished the fan art late, no no!)

Happy Birthday Professor Snape! 💚💚💚

[middle-earth-mythopoeia]

Places that inspired J.R.R. Tolkien: Part II

Fangorn: probably inspired by Puzzlewood, Gloucestershire Orthanc: probably inspired by Faringdon’s Folly, Berkshire Anduin: may have been influenced by the Danube, Germany Rohan: probably based on Mercia, West Midlands White Mountains: inspired by the Malvern Hills, Worcestershire Helm’s Deep: inspired by Cheddar Gorge, Somerset Mordor: based on the Black Country, Birmingham Minas Tirith: based on Ravenna, Italy

[lady-arryn]

THE LORD OF THE RINGS costumes appreciation: ― Haldir’s armour (costume design by Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor)

[samanthamulder]

GILLIAN ANDERSON as DSI STELLA GIBSON in every episode of The Fall [10/17] 2.05 — The Perilous Edge of Battle (2014)

[samanthamulder]

GILLIAN ANDERSON as DSI STELLA GIBSON in every episode of The Fall [13/17] 3.02 — His Troubled Thoughts (2016)

[feathersandblue]

So Google banned AO3 from showing up in search results in Germany. What now?

Start using (and paying for, if you must) standard VPN services that offer a wide range of international servers to choose from.

Stop using Google. Use Brave, for example. DuckDuckGo has also started filtering content just recently, so don't go there.

For that matter, use different search engines from time to time and avoid those based on google algorithms. Startpage, for example, uses google result. They're committed to privacy but not to neutrality.

Be aware that your government wants to curate your internet experience for you. It's all about control. They treat you like children, so be aware that they're trying to install "child safety" measures that you're probably not even aware of. The internet is a huge open space, but the things they permit you to see are getting fewer by the day, whether it's people, porn, or politics.

De-centralize your own internet experience. Don't use just one social network, one platform, use ALL of them. Just so that in case you're banned somewhere, you have a space to migrate to.

Back up your works. Back up your works. Back up your works. Do not use company-owned cloud spaces as back-up, save your works the old-fashioned way on external devices.

Start looking into peer-to-peer networks and blockchain technoly. Just in case.

BE AWARE THAT THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING.

[cilil]

for those who may not be aware:

VPN won't help if the app/program in question tracks your device. if you scroll to the bottom of the Google search page you can see if it got your location from your device or your IP address.

go to your location settings and withdraw permission for Google (in this case) to use phone location.

now you can select a different location in your VPN app et voilà. looks like you spontaneously teleported out of Germany (or wherever else).

[nikashonte2]

i’ll never ever ever ever ever understand people that initiate a conversation with you via text then ignore you once you reply…fuck allat reacting to the message . idc about your like , laugh or love . that’s not a damn reply 🙄

[skewhermitian]

being on tumblr is just so cozy... you know what i mean? instagram and twitter are all flashy and loud but tumblr is as cozy as my bedroom with scented candles on a cold November night

[grahamcore]

hannibal nbc is honestly so unrealistic because explain to me how will graham is apparently the single best fbi profiler around and yet. not once did he catch hannibal staring at his ass. hannibal brought him chicken soup in the hospital and drew explicit fanart of the two of them and recited romantic shakespearean level poetry to his face for years. he literally decided that they were coparenting a child. and will still had the nerve to utter the words “is hannibal in love with me” three seasons deep?? like no disrespect to jack crawford but i would have fired his ass

[nerdisma-deactivated20171202]

“Galadriel his sister went not with him to Nargothrond, for in Doriath dwelt Celeborn, kinsman of Thingol, and there was great love between them. Therefore she remained in the Hidden Kingdom, and abode with Melian, and of her learned great lore and wisdom concerning Middle-earth.”

[artofhitjim]

Tom Bombadil and Goldberry!

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[tolkienillustrations]

Tom Bombadil by PoofyDove

[neil-gaiman]

Do you have any advice for someone to go from being mediocre at writing to actually being good? Or is it just a matter of keep writing until you stop sucking? I've been told my writing is good but I feel like a kid playing pretend who's somehow fooled everyone into thinking I'm good at it 😅 do you ever feel like that?

You keep writing until you suck less. And then you keep writing.

[truelovevip-deactivated20190324]

being as i am an idiot, and having been one my whole life, i just wanna say that i find it very easy to do nothing, and go nowhere. i eat chocolate late at night in the dark. i stand in the garden also. and i’m often waiting for something to happen. and i’m stupid.