[aragarna]

Guy William just being his handsome self as Diego de la Vega (Zorro, 1957, 2x02)

[yes-sir-nigel]

from 1977: exellent drama on the life of Eleanor Marx with Lee Montague as Karl Marx, Jennie Stoller as Eleanor, Nigel Hawthorne as Engels and Alan Dobie as Aveling

ep 2

[derekscorner]

Wikipedia is lost to our friends across the waters.

[ahmoseinarus]

This means that Wikipedia has been banned in the UK, because Wikipedia refuses to require age verification from users in order to access the site. Other countries, including the US, are trying to put similar regulations in place. Basically, requiring people to identify themselves to access any content on the internet that their government considers “inappropriate for children”. This was supposed to be for pornography, but now, it’s so much more…

Governments are essentially moving to make it so that they can track our internet activity. There will be no such thing as privacy and anonymity on the Internet anymore. The world governments will be watching you, not just your own, all of them, and any site that won’t comply with the governments putting these laws into effect, will be banned in those countries.

This is a matter of privacy, of data security (how many places online do you want to be keeping your ID on file? The more that do, the more likely your data is exposed in a data breach), of censorship and of the freedom of information. The UK just banned an online ENCYCLOPEDIA. Not North Korea! Not China! The United Kingdom!!! Because they said it contained information inappropriate for minors, and it had to collect its users personal private data in order to let them see it, and they said no!

S.1748 - Kids Online Safety Act has been introduced in the United States Congress, and Australia and the EU are also looking at similar regulations.

This is just the beginning. This fight is going to be world wide. This isn’t “protecting the children”. This is censorship, and conditioning us to surrender our right to privacy!

[worftothebridge]

Runs to check. Nope. Can still access it in the U.K.

[snoopyoftheday]

snoopy of the day

[snoopyoftheday]

snoopy of the day

[aragarna]

Oggi voglio che tutti sia perfetto. Oggi voglio che siano tutti calmi, tranquilli i felici.

Luca Argentero as Lorenzo in Saturno Contro (Dir. Ferzan Özpetek, 2007)

[anxeious]

[snoopyoftheday]

snoopy of the day

[hyperions-light]

Abt that unsolicited ‘concrit’ on fanfic thing

My personal opinion is that you should never offer unsolicited critical feedback to people, and you should only offer it publicly at all under specific circumstances. Why?

- Very few people actually know how to give ‘concrit’. They think it just means saying there were surface errors, or they didn’t like how someone was characterized. That’s not concrit. That’s not useful, at all. That’s an amateur review from someone with little to no relevant expertise.

- Especially where it regards fanfiction, you can’t know who you’re speaking to. You can’t moderate tone or intensity of criticism based on their experience and relative skill level. It’s possible that harsh or even moderate critique could make them stop writing forever. Why? What is the point of taking away someone’s joy in that manner? So that the commenter can feel satisfied that they corrected them? That’s cruel and childish.

- Usually fanfiction is published in only one place— maybe three or four, at most. Why should authors be expected to put up with negative criticism in the ONLY place their work is available? Are published authors expected to attach one star Goodreads reviews to their bookjackets?

- If you genuinely wish to help someone improve their writing, you can do so by speaking personally with them and offering your help. The assertion that criticism from a stranger whose opinion they don’t value and whose qualifications are unknown is going to make them better is disingenuous. If someone is sincere in their desire to assist an author in progressing on their writing journey, they should demonstrate that through investing appropriate time and effort. Otherwise, there are many places to complain away from the author’s sight. The only thing accomplished by doing so in front of them is making them feel bad— and if that is someone’s intent, that’s reprehensible.

Anyway. I’ve never gotten useful concrit in my comments or my bookmarks, and I expect I never will.

[naryrising]

For something to truly be constructive criticism, you have to know what the creator's intentions were with the piece (were they trying to have it be romantic? comedic? angsty in-depth character exploration?) and you have to know what their writing goals are (to eventually publish professionally? to get into a zine for the character they love? to just have fun and enjoy themselves?) and you have to know something about their background/experience with writing, as well as having a relationship where the person trusts you to give feedback to them that might be difficult for them to hear. Reading a stranger's fanfic on the internet, you aren't likely to know what their goals/background are, and you certainly don't have a relationship of trust with them where they're likely to listen to your feedback and internalize it and not find it rude or demoralizing.

[loveridden1999]

maybe i was made for loving things. maybe that's what life is all about.

[aragarna]

Ioan Gruffudd as Angus Oliphant-Donnachaidh in Elsbeth (2x11)

[yes-sir-nigel]

Nigel Hawthorne Quotes

"I was quite a plain boy. I stayed in work..." - Nigel Hawthorne quotes from BrainyQuote.com

Acting gives me the opportunity to be fascinating on stage or, I suppose; properly speaking, pretend to be fascinating.

I really don't like talking about me - me as me, that is. Me in relation to what I do is another matter. But me as me is boring.

[snoopyoftheday]

snoopy of the day

[edosianorchids901]

Holmes and Watson in Shoscombe Old Place. Watercolor!

[edosianorchids901]

I adore this shot of Holmes with his blankets in Musgrave Ritual, so had to do a watercolor!

[gingerlily1441]

“This is my camouflage. Security through obscurity.”

Textless version:

[yes-sir-nigel]

The M & W Show at Thames 1982 S03E07 (Requested)

Episode: Part Seven. In the opening spot it is Ern's Birthday, followed by an update of the BBC sketch Lost In The Desert, a foreign legion

The M & W Show at Thames 1982 S03E07 Episode: Part Seven. In the opening spot it is Ern's Birthday, followed by an update of the BBC sketch Lost In The Desert, a foreign legion parody; a Good Neighbours skit is followed by the Facts Of Life and a doctor routine with Valerie Minfie subtitled Just Not Myself, a guillotine quickie and the closing play, The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes with Nigel Hawthorne as Moriarty and Patricia Breke as Bertha the maid; the end song is again Bring Me Sunshine.

Hawthorne the butler

[worftothebridge]

As I recall NH does quite well on this show.