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Hello! It is my very great pleasure today to welcome you to my blog! I know you have a wide choice of blogs to choose from and I'm delighted you choose mine! Delighted, and baffled. Perhaps one of these things has brought you to my blog: Cabin...

[cumberbatchweb]

Benedict Cumberbatch, Roger Allam, John Finnemore, Anthony Stewart Head & cast at the recording of the final Cabin Pressure episode - Zurich.

Photos of the cast are all over the net but if you wanted to avoid knowing don’t scroll down too far!

It was a wonderful final episode. Clever, witty, funny and deeply emotionally satisfying. A fitting ending to a fantastic series.

[thankyoucabinpressure]

More Zurich updates!

Bing bong.

There has been more news from the Euro Airdot Con in Milan!

Audible gasp*! A two-parter??

Well, chaps - this is Christmas, indeed. Mark those wall charts!

- goflysomeplane

* = reference to latest John and Kevin’s Sunday Papers, which is excellent if you’re in need of more Finnemore fun.

[britishdetectives]

Sam goes undercover and is no match for the lecherous Alastair Graeme, played by Roger Allam. 

[admiring-anna-chancellor]

Anna Chancellor photographed for ES Awards, ES Magazine UK (29 November, 2013)

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here it is!!!

NO SLOW MOTION Benedict Cumberbatch Ice Bucket Challenge

[hyen35-blog]

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JAMES MCAVOY ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE DONE!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[crowletto]

Oh gee, he helped them, what a cutie

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ROGER ALLAM & BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH DOING THE OPENING OF LIMERICK! (x)

it’s not mine, and it’s very soft (at least on my computer), so you may have to turn up the volume!

[wrong-end-of-a-forest]

I'm writing Roger Allam's profile for my journalism class and I accidentally found this video of the Olivier Award 2002 in which he won the best actor award for his role as Captain Terri Dennis in Privates on Parade. I'm not sure if you have seen this one before, but I'm sure you wouldn't mind seeing it again! He was -- and is -- soooo gorgeous. He appears at around 47.30. :D

[wrong-end-of-a-forest]

I made it, I made it, I said I would see it and indeed I did! (it was through pure miracle that i managed to get the ticket. It was amazing. I mean. It's Martin Freeman. I probably don't need to tell you that. But I want to. And I will. It was AMAZING. And I was in C29. So basically when Martin leant on that chair he was so close. Like, I frantically moved my bag a bit because I was afraid it'd get in his way. He was so close -- like his hand was barely a foot away from my face and he was so close my head went blank for a few minutes he was there. Like, I didn't even understand what he was talking about for two minutes -- I was just staring at his hand and wondered what'd happen if I actually reached out and touched it. (I pretty much managed to behave myself though.) It's like. You know. So close. And then there is this moment he stared at the audience for a minute -- which happened when he was just right in front of me. I know he probably didn't see me at all but I felt like he was staring right at me. And I was so nervous I had to look away not to be hypnotised. I know, I know. Not very much a Shakespearean scholar, was i? 

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Harry Potter Q&A: Reblog with your own answers

[wrong-end-of-a-forest]

My house: Hufflepuff -- well actually I was sorted into Gryffindor... but I still can't believe that. I'm a Hufflepuff at heart. 

Favourite character from the trio: Ron! Definitely! 

Three other favourite characters: Snape. I have always liked Snape. And there's this really heartbreaking fan-fiction someone wrote in my language and it was beautiful. Ron is my second favourite. And then Luna, and probably Hedwig.  

Least favourite character: James Potter, Rita Skeeter, Harry Potter 

One favourite moment: mmm... any scene with food Snape

How you were introduced to the series: I really have no idea. I think someone bought me the book because everyone knew I was such a bookworm

What would your favorite lesson be?: Herbology! Well as long as I don't have to deal with mandrakes anyway. I really hate the noise. 

Which hallow would you take?:  Resurrection Stone. Really, I would give anything to get one. 

Which character are you most like?: I suppose I'm quite like Luna

Three spells you’d like to be able to perform: expecto patronum, flying charm, pack (because i'm packing...)

Would you have entered your name in the Goblet of Fire?: i don't think so 

Would you have played Quidditch?: no... i've just been to one. i think i'd fare better at wizard's chess! 

What form would your Patronus take?: i have a vague idea that it'd be some kind of fish... jellyfish maybe... 

What would be your profession in the wizarding world?: i might be a herbalist...

[castiel-sherlock-watson]

http://tendukhu.tistory.com

young sherlock and mycroft

[ibelieveinmycroft]

Good lord, this is crippling. It is so quiet and beautiful, it’s making me immeasurably sad.

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This is beautiful.

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What’s Your Book Shelfie Style?

[eternalsojourn]

A combination of personal significance, height, and stacked.

[thebadgersnacksatmidnight]

I’ve done pretty much a mix of all these at some point. Significance+ Chronological as one example.

Currently, they’re just by colour with varied height. 

[allieboomer]

My only arrangement is by author/series

[wrong-end-of-a-forest]

For some reason it didn’t take me long at all to convince myself I absolutely need these books. For educational purposes. Nothing else. Scout's honour. 

(The essays themselves can be found on All-Allam.com. Here: http://www.all-allam.com/articles/romeocompl.html) 

[rooshappy]

I drew Sarah and Duck on my ukulele :) 

[wrong-end-of-a-forest]

I know what he's holding is not an ukulele but... to someone with a very limited basic knowledge of music, it looks similar enough. I bet he can play ukulele as well. (Because, well, is there anything he can't do???) I'd give anything to see him playing this one! >U<

[littlepocketrabbit]

Hello everyone! Greetings from Martin and Douglas! Suppose Douglas is wearing his Air England uniform ( I failed to buy him a F.O.’s uniform) and Martin doesn’t mind.😜(and also, I failed to find Martin a cap, sorry)

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[ruinedstockings]

Romeo can’t really be blamed for Ophelia’s death.

Senior English major on a Shakespeare final. (via minininny)

WELL THEY’RE NOT WRONG

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How about this, though?

[Editorial Note: This “theory” depends on believing the Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet take place contemporaneously. So, for the sake of argument, let’s all agree that the events of both plays occur in the Spring of 1517 (chosen because of Martin Luther’s 95 Theses, and the Reformational threads that run through Hamlet).]

See, in the Second Quarto and First Folio versions of Romeo and Juliet, a[n extremely minor] character appears with Romeo, Mercutio, and Benvolio at the Capulet’s Party (where, if you recall, Romeo meets Juliet for the first time).

Like Hamlet's Horatio, this Horatio is full of well-worded philosophical advice. He tells Romeo “And to sink in it should you burden love, too great oppression for a tender thing.”

Fig. 1 - Second Quarto Printing

Fig. 2 - First Folio Printing

[The American Shakespeare Center’s Education Blog discusses the likely “real” reasons for Horatio’s presence]

Let’s imagine that Horatio has travelled down from Wittenberg (about 540 miles) to Verona for his Spring Break. He hears about some guys who like to party (because, let’s be honest, besides getting stabbed, partying is Mercutio’s main thing). So, he ends up crashing the Capulet’s ball with them.

He is then on the sidelines as Romeo and Juliet fall in love, Tybalt kills Mercutio, Romeo kills Tybalt, Romeo gets banished, and both lovers are found dead in Juliet’s tomb.

This tragedy fresh in his mind, he returns to Wittenberg at the end of what has turned out to be a decidedly un-radical Spring Break and discovers that his bestie Prince Hamlet is leaving for Elsinore Castle because he’s just gotten news that his father, the King, is dead.

On the trip up (another ~375 miles), Horatio recounts the tragic romance he just witnessed in Verona. He advises (as he is wont to do) Hamlet not to mix love and revenge.

Hamlet takes Horatio’s advice to heart, breaking up with Ophelia so that he can focus is energy on discovering and punishing his father’s killer:

HAMLET Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness: this was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof. I did love you once.

OPHELIA

Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so.

HAMLET

You should not have believed me; for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it: I loved you not.

Ophelia - burdened by the perceived loss of Hamlet’s love and his murder of her father - goes mad and drowns herself.

You see, if Romeo had waited literally a minute and thirty seconds longer (31 iambic pentametrical lines) - he, Juliet, Ophelia (and possibly the rest of the Hamlet characters) would have made it.

* With thanks to roguebelle.

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Buncha fuckin nerds in this town.

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The Hamratiophelia Conspiracy Theory ftw

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