#BBC Select

[misandriste]

KATIE McGRATH as MORGANA 𝕸𝖊𝖗𝖑𝖎𝖓 ⧽ 𝟏.𝟏𝟐 "𝔗𝔬 𝔎𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔎𝔦𝔫𝔤"

[moose-of-the-bog]

Mary, in the style of Leyendecker

Specifically inspired by this painting:

Also partly inspired by that post pointing out that most of the fandom only creates stuff about the captain (sorry I can't remember who made that post and can't find it right now) so I thought I'd try drawing my favourite ghost, Mary

[silviakundera]

brb filing my non-canon gay ships into 2 buckets:

A. they absolutely WERE gay for each other, it's the only way to make the character motivations consistent & coherent

B. ok lbr they weren't, but the narrative would have been way more interesting that way, so

[lit-in-thy-heart]

don't talk to me i'm still thinking about merlin telling balinor that arthur's name was lancelot in 2x13

[its-a-hare-pom-pom]

I was clearing out a box of stuff and I found loads of little drawings of some of the Ghosts characters when I had a different drawing style.

I’m quite proud of Mary, Robin, and Humphrey’s drawings

[sainte-melasse]

Tagged by @angelsanctuarys Thank you ♡♡♡

I tag @uncleinuyasha, @femmesweetheart, @sapphicmoonwitch and @aikycosette (no I’m not trying to subtly get movie recommendations from my mutuals what do you mean) and really, anyone who feel like it ♡

[pacificrim-verydifferent]

i finished my merlin rewatch and immediately listened to mitski - love me more

[soon-palestine]

Hostages tortured to death. Parents executed in front of their children. Doctors beaten. Babies murdered. Sexual assault weaponised. No, not Hamas crimes. This is part of an ever-growing list of documented atrocities committed by Israel in the five months since 7 October – quite separate from the carpet bombing of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and a famine induced by Israel’s obstruction of aid. And yet while the western establishment media has been chock full of the most lurid allegations of savagery directed against Hamas, sometimes with little or no supporting evidence, Israeli atrocities are excused or quickly forgotten. Accusations against Hamas are endlessly reheated to paint a picture of a supremely dangerous and bestial militant group, in turn rationalising the slaughter and starvation of Gaza’s population to “eradicate” it as a terrorist organisation. But equally barbarous atrocities committed by Israel – not in the heat of battle, but in cold blood – are treated as unfortunate, isolated incidents that cannot be connected, that paint no picture, that reveal nothing of import about the military that carried them out. If Hamas’ crimes were so savage and sadistic they still need to be reported months after they took place, why does the establishment media never feel the need to express equal horror and indignation at equivalent or worse acts of cruelty and sadism being inflicted by Israel on Gaza – not five months ago, but right now? Israel's torture of doctors, its sexual assaults of Palestinian women, it's leaving premature babies to die after its forces stormed a hospital. Where is the outrage? This is part of a pattern of behaviour by the western media that leads to only one possible deduction: Israel’s five-month-long attack on Gaza is not being reported. Rather, it is being selectively narrated – and for the most obscene of purposes. Through consistent and glaring failures in their coverage, establishment media – including supposedly liberal outlets, from the BBC and CNN to the Guardian and New York Times – have smoothed the way for Israel to carry out mass slaughter in Gaza, what the World Court has assessed as plausibly a genocide. The role of the media has not been to keep us, their audiences, informed about one of the greatest crimes in living memory. It has been to buy time for US President Joe Biden to keep arming his most useful of client states in the oil-rich Middle East, and to do so without damaging his prospects for re-election in November’s US presidential vote. If Russian President Vladimir Putin was a madman and a barbarous war criminal for invading Ukraine, as every western media outlet agrees, what does that make Israeli officials, when every one of them supports far worse atrocities in Gaza, directed overwhelmingly at civilians? And more to the point, what does that make Biden and the US political class for materially backing Israel to the hilt: sending bombs, vetoing demands for a ceasefire at the United Nations, and freezing desperately needed aid? Worrying about the optics, the president expresses his discomfort, but he carries on helping Israel regardless. While western politicians and commentators worry about some imaginary existential threat those brief events of five months ago pose to the nuclear-armed state of Israel, Israel is quite literally wiping Gaza off the map day by day, quite undisturbed.

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

for whom good omens is being written

Hey maggots and the rest of the fandom, it's the Good Omens Mascot here. Today I read a post about this tweet:

The accompanying video genuinely made me cry. And I've been thinking about this for a long while, as far back as February, when I saw a lot of conflicting opinions on what people wanted from the third season. It really is true that no matter what you do, some people will be dissatisfied. But what matters is that Neil is writing this for Terry.

And I was reminded of some paragraphs from the Good Omens TV Companion, which I'd read in Amazon's sample excerpt of the book. I know this is a long post, but I really truly do think you all need to read these, I've done my best to select only the most important parts. Here you go:

'His Alzheimer's started progressing harder and faster than either of us had expected,' says Neil, referring to a period in which Terry recognized that despite everything he could no longer write. 'We had been friends for over thirty years, and during that time he had never asked me for anything. Then, out of the blue, I received an email from him with a special request. It read: “Listen, I know how busy you are. I know you don't have time to do this, but I want you to write the script for Good Omens. You are the only human being on this planet who has the passion, love and understanding for the old girl that I do. You have to do this for me so that I can see it." And I thought, “OK, if you put it like that then I'll do it."

'I had adapted my own work in the past, writing scripts for Death: The High Cost of Living and Sandman, but not a lot else was seen. I'd also written two episodes of Doctor Who, and so I felt like I knew what I was doing. Usually, having written something once I'd rather start something new, but having a very sick co-author saying I had to do this?' Neil spreads his hands as if the answer is clear to see. 'I had to step up to the plate.' A pause, then: 'All this took place in autumn 2014, around the time that the BBC radio adaptation of Good Omens was happening,' he continues, referring to the production scripted and co-directed by Dirk Maggs and starring Peter Serafinowicz and Mark Heap. ‘Terry had talked me into writing the TV adaptation, and I thought OK, I have a few years. Only I didn't have a few years,' he says. 'Terry was unconscious by December and dead by March.'

He pauses again. 'His passing took all of us by surprise,' Neil remembers. 'About a week later, I started writing, and it was very sad. The moments Terry felt closest to me were the moments I would get stuck during the writing process. In the old days, when we wrote the novel, I would send him what I'd done or phone him up. And he would say, "Aahh, the problem, Grasshopper, is in the way you phrase the question," and I would reply, "Just tell me what to do!" which somehow always started a conversation. 'In writing the script, there were times I'd really want to talk to Terry, and also places where I'd figure something out and do something really clever, and I would want to share it with him. So, instead, I would text Terry's former personal assistant, Rob Wilkins, now his representative on Earth. It was the nearest thing I had.'

(...) As Neil himself recognizes, this is an adaptation built upon the confidence that comes from three decades of writing for page and screen. But for all the wisdom of experience, he found that above all one factor guided him throughout the process. 'Terry isn't here, which leaves me as the guardian of the soul of the story,' he explains. 'It's funny because sometimes I found myself defending Terry's bits harder or more passionately than I would defend my own bits. Take Agnes Nutter,' he says, referring to what has become a key scene in the adaptation in which the seventeenth-century author of the book of prophecies foretelling the coming of the Antichrist is burned at the stake. ‘It was a huge, complicated and incredibly expensive shoot, with bonfires built and primed to explode as well as huge crowds in costume. It had to feel just like an English village in the 1640s, and of course everyone asked if there was a cheap way of doing it. 'One suggestion was that we could tell the story using old-fashioned woodcuts and have the narrator take us through what happened, but I just thought, “No”. Because I had brought aspects of the story like Crowley and the baby swap along to the mix, and Terry created Agnes Nutter. So, if I had cut out Agnes then I wouldn't be doing right by the person who gave me this job. Terry would've rolled over in his grave.'

And, finally, this paragraph:

"Once again, Neil cites the absence of his co-writer as his drive to ensure that Good Omens translated to the screen and remained true to the original vision. 'Terry's last request to me was to make this something he would be proud of. And so that has been my job.'"

I think that's so heartwrenchingly beautiful, and so I wanted you all to read this, too, just in case you (like me) don't have the Good Omens TV Companion. It adds another layer of depth and emotion to this already complex and amazing story that we all know and love.

Share this post, if you can, please, so that more people can read these excerpts :")

Tagging @neil-gaiman, @fuckyeahgoodomens and @orpiknight, even if you've definitely read these before :)

[ghostbees]

A Study in Scarlet

Wilhelmine Norman-Neruda (1839–1911), later known as Lady Hallé, was a virtuoso solo violinist who, like Holmes, played on a Stradivarius. She was an international star at a time when the instrument was still seen as ‘unlady-like’.

As many have noted before, Chopin never wrote any pieces for solo violin, nor was he part of Norman-Neruda’s usual repertoire. If she did perform a Chopin piece, it would most likely have been as an encore or during a private concert, and would have to have been arranged before the events of A Study in Scarlet.

Theories range from assigning specific Chopin (and controversially non-Chopin) pieces to the vague “Tra-la-la-lira-lira-lay”, to suggesting that Holmes never actually said “Tra-la-la-lira-lira-lay”. In Vera Mazzotta’s extensively researched article for The Watsonian (Vol. 5 No. 2), she selects Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 34 No. 1. In the 1989 BBC Radio adaptation, the problem is solved by removing any reference to the composer and using a piece from the more recent Carmen.

I’ve always been content to think that Watson would remember the composer but not necessarily the tune, and the “little thing” could be, well, anything Chopinesque, yet there still remains a probability that Holmes himself, who has been guilty of misquoting once or twice, could as easily get it wrong.

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[dykeredhood]

Why is Mars, Bringer of War playing in the background at the planetarium when the projection voiceover says we’re looking at Jupiter

And we can have The Thieving Magpie playing while we’re planning a heist?? Make it make sense!

Finally got around to watching BBC Sherlock and I need to kill Steven Moffat with hammers

[moroniccats]

I CANNOT WITH WHATSAPP WHY IS IT THAT ALL THE GIFS ARE OF BBC SHERLOCK?????? I SEARCH ‘SHERLOCK HOLMES 1984’? BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH. I SEARCH ‘BASIL RATHBONE HOLMES’? BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH. ‘JEREMY BRETT HOLMES’? YOU GUESSED IT. BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH.

Thankfully, THIS site has an excellent selection.

See? Beautiful. Art. Majestic. I’m actually going insane. What is wrong with me.

LOOK AT THIS. DO YOU SEE WHAT YOU ARE MISSING????????

[starwolfie]

Accents hc for the LU Links 

Legend: generic British accent (“BBC accent”) because he was raised near castle town and nobility. He can do different accents to confuse people.

Wars: hylian is (kind of) not his native language. Had a Gaelic native language. ( either Irish or Scottish, can’t decide) and had a heavy accent that’s frowned on in nobility. Got trained out of it because “that’s not how the hero speaks “Really self conscious about people finding out.

Slips only when really tired or injured

Time: Scottish highland accent. ( REALLY heavy accent) If he gets annoyed with you enough, he switches to Gaelic (“faerie language “)and you think he’s growling at you. Is stunned when Wars and Rulie still understand him

Isn’t ashamed of his accent but tunes it down normally to be understood better.

Wild: weird mix between all the different accents from his Hyrule, switching from word to word ( depending on who he learned it from ) uses archaic terminology when talking about fighting. Gets annoyed when people point it out because he’s unaware that he’s doing this.

Twi: southern US accent, but more Texas than Virginia

Can tune it down to be understood better, but it gets heavier when he’s tired or wants to annoy Legend

Rulie: indistinct Gaelic accent. He speaks very softly, but it’s not on purpose.Was selectively mute until early teens and only started to speak hylian with his Zeldas. Native language is Gaelic (“faerie language”) and fairy sign, but he also learned hylian sign.

Prefers not to speak if he can avoid it.

If he’s getting sassy with you, you know that he likes you a lot 😉

Wind: speaks like a pirate. Switches to Pidgin when annoyed.

Four: has an accent, but nobody can pin it down ( it’s Minish, guys. That and being ancient hylian)

I don’t really have any for Sky. 😩