A Walk on the Wild and Personal.

Filipina. Golden Girl. Writer and amateur artist. Fmjemena2 on AO3.... (I think) Older than Ben Whishaw by 18 years, 7 years than Martin Freeman, 4 years than Daniel Craig. i want to live hundreds of years like the Highlander because there are so many places to see, books to read, food to sample, things to do. I want to live under the Northern Lights or just under a star-filled sky.

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JOY AS DEFIANCE (Robert Arnold)

#tyrants #dictators #oligarchs #cruelpeople

#authoritarians #fascists

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A REMINDER...

...let us not forget what He would wish for most and let each put in his share: loving kindness, warm heaets, and a stretched out hand of tolerance. All the shining gifts to make peace on Earth.

-- Bishop Henry Brougham,

THE BISHOP'S WIFE (1947)

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You'll Never Walk Alone (Carousel)

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Bishop Desmond Tutu, the late South African bishop and theologian

Shared by Libby of Maighstir Tarot

[ao3org]

These numbers are already a bit outdated (the Archive grows just that fast), but we wanted to share our record-breaking (get it? get it?) numbers from last week before heading for our next milestones:

On Monday, we welcomed our 160,000th user, shortly followed by the 700,000th work uploaded to the Archive. On the weekend, we watched the official fandom count break the 12,000 mark.

The same weekend, we had our busiest Sunday yet, with 5,250,000 page views. The whole week saw a new record traffic of 32,600,000 page views total. This means that in any given minute, 3,000-5,000 pages (works, tag lists, user profiles, custom search results…) are simultaneously assembled for users all over the world, on servers entirely paid for by fandom, and by code written and maintained entirely by unpaid volunteers.

Thank you for making this possible!

[transformativeworks]

[ridiculouslyunintelligent]

divas hear me out on something,

ben whishaw for 16th doctor please please please

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YOU'LL BE SAFE HERE. Original Artist: Rico Blanco of Rivermaya

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Look what The Universe/Source sent me.

YOU'LL BE SAFE HERE. by Moira Dela Torre

Composed & Originally sung by Rico Blanco

[v50wed]

Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie (2024)

Ben Whishaw

[acanthawrites]

🦉

My partner critiques my fics in memes, I felt this on a very personal level.

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YEAH. Thank you for the reminder.

[everythingfox]

“Converdations with my kitten”

(via)

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HAPPY VALENTINE TO ALL!

[ddd-rrr-wntrbts]

[mrshamill]

nothing about this surprises me.

[everythingfox]

A true professional

[orchardsinsnow]

Goddammit I watched Ben Whishaw in Black Doves and now I understand what y’all have been laying down about the appeal of a poor little meow meow.

I mean he is very much a scary assassin but when he switches to vulnerable mode…yikes.

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This made me wonder how Sam Young would feel upon being called Poor Little Meow Meow. Me? I love it!

[mikyapixie]

Paddington In Peru has now surpassed $100M worldwide!!!

[dathen]

Still obsessed with Arthur Conan Doyle’s letter to Bram Stoker gushing about how wonderful a book Dracula is, but particularly how it makes such a good template for leaving fic comments, so I’m gonna to a BREAKDOWN:

Just say you loved reading it - “I am sure that you will not think it an impertinence if I write to tell you how very much I have enjoyed reading Dracula.”

Comment on a detail of the craft or structure that impressed you - “It is really wonderful how with so much exciting interest over so long a book there is never an anticlimax.“

Comment on how it emotionally affected you - “It holds you from the very start and grows more and more engrossing until it is quite painfully vivid.”

SHARE YOUR BLORBO FEELINGS - “The old Professor is most excellent and so are the two girls.”

Show appreciation for them as an author - “I congratulate you with all my heart for having written so fine a book.”

Next time you don’t know what to say on a fic you enjoyed, just use the ACD method~

[totallysilvergirl]

Brings to mind the frequent lament “nowadays writers only want to see burnt offerings on their fics.” ACD wrote the letter to highlight what he liked, not point out what he didn’t. Maybe it isn’t that fic writers “nowadays” are too sensitive, but that there’s a tradition of praising what pleased in the reading

[thegaysciences]

Ben Whishaw and Benedict Cumberbatch at the Sundance Film Festival

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...Or, older Sherlock and youngest brother Q. BONDLOCK