#Gethin

[denimbex1986]

'In a world of locked rooms, the man with the key is King and honey, you should see me in a crown.'

"...I loved, loved, loved working with Benedict on that, and you know, the, the first series of that show went down so well - I only had a little bit to do in the first, first series, so I was excited to be focused on Moriarty in one of the episodes particularly because people loved the show almost immediately, and that line is an amazing line that - for an actor to say..."

'I'm in Wales, and I don't have to pretend to be something that I'm not.'

"...I always recommend Pride because I think it's just a beautiful film about how we're just so much more similar to each other than we think we are. And what was brilliant about that character, the character, was that he was one of I think 15 gay characters who are the lead characters, and it so it means you weren't just playing like a token gay because everybody was completely distinct from each other, even though they were all sort of relatively similar sexualities. He just shows that, you know, there's as much diversity within, within a sex - sexuality as there is for straight people too."

'I can't get used to calling myself queer, it was always such an insult.'

"...So much of it was, was personal, even though it was very different to me. I suppose it explored the idea of losing your parents, which at the time I hadn't - I lost my mother since - but I think that's the, the power of the sort of empathetic nature of art; that it allows us to explore things that otherwise we might be too frightened to explore. That film has helped me in a way because, since the film ended, I, I feel like there's stuff in it that I feel like I was able to exorcise in some ways..."

'Yeah, that's right, Dickie Greenleaf. It's nice to meet you too.'

"...He's a really solitary figure, and to be able to just work out what's going on inside his head, and whether he's sort of capable of love or whether, whether he isn't - I kind of believe that all human beings are in need of love in some way, but it was quite difficult in that sense to sort of access within, within him, because he was so solitary. So yeah, that's why I think he continues to fascinate people, Tom Ripley."

'You've always been against going to America.'

"Korea? Is it? That's my first film...I was 17 - first ever job; first ever film. It was lovely and there was a - an actor in it who played my father called Donald Donnelly, and he was an enormous influence on me. He was very well-known, but he was incredibly kind to everybody on the set, and I've always just - you know, you learn how to be by looking at your, you know, elders, and he was just lovely to everybody.

I remember very clearly on a Saturday afternoon watching like old MGM movies. You know, like those big things where there's, you know, lots of people doing synchronised swimming in a big pool from like, I mean like, old school, like, you know, choreography of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. And there's something about that that I just absolutely adored, and I knew immediately - I knew, I really; I remember when I was about seven saying that I want - that's something that I wanted to do, which is weird when I think about it. I was very shy, and so that helped me kind of come out of my shell so - I was very nurtured by, by, uh, my mum in that sense; she, she pushed me in the right direction. That's what I remember um, uh, inspiring me, yeah."

[ninawolv3rina]

This might be the best Gethin I've ever drawn, he's so Shaped

OC: Gethin, god of Death (he/him)

[hauntedtrait]

🌿 ⚔️👊 🏴‍☠️

top left: Serenity | firbolg, circle of spores druid top right: Gethin Wolf-killer | aasimar, devotion paladin/blood-hunter bottom left: Sigrid Stormbringer | half-elf, storm herald barbarian bottom right: Korrin Silverstrand | air genasi, drunken soul monk

[luxwood-art]

Another commission I did a while back for my dear @lightunup . I’m always naturally drawn toward smiley, mischievous, facetious , … faces . The ones that bring joy or make smile in various ways. But this original picture was so beautiful that I was really pleased by this change of emotion. Maybe I should try more of these different emotions just to see what comes out of it ! . . . . #andrewscott #fleabagart #fleabagfanart #fleabag #hotpriest #sherlock #hamlet #pride🌈 #gethin #presentlaughter #andrewscottfanart #thestag #handsomedevil #jimmoriarty #sherlocked #moriarty #jamesmoriarty #andrewscottisperfect #andrewscottislife #polychromospencils #colorpencilart #cansonpaper #fabercastellpolychromos #artistportrait #fabercastellpencils #colorpencildrawing #artofhelpingartists #colorpencilartists (at Paris, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnnENRTIs3U/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[holy3cake]

Saturday? Well, I guess it's time for the casualty review!

Great episode this week, slightly limited thoughts on this one but nonetheless, I like to keep doing these weekly and I hope you like reading them :)

Okay so first thing that got me? Ryaaaaaaaan! I was shipping him and the police guy so hard until the police guy turned out to be an ass, good on you Ryan to reject him! This doesn't help de-fuel my Cam and Ryan ship so yeaaaah. Lowkey like Cam and Jodie or Cam and Ryan? Who will prevail? We'll see, lol.

But RYAN why you gotta spread rumours about Jodie and Max? Let's not, dude.

Donna was so good this week, absolutely loved her scenes.

Dog bitten woman cracked me up, but poor Jodie for forgetting the meds. Props to Jodie too for working during such a hard time.

JAAAAN you're gonna get in trouble, plz be careful.

I am very worried about Jacob, it's nice that he's found someone but he has issues with intimacy bc of his abusive ex so let's send him some love. Be careful my dude.

Lastly, you all know what I'm gonna say. Not enough Cam, not enough Rash, but thankfully NO FAITH JUST A MENTION. Let's have more episodes without Faith :D

[no-carpets]

[whumpsmith]

Time to talk about my oc's more.

I have a vampire whumpee who cries when he has to hurt people to feed. His name is Ian. More about he under the cut

His whumper is an elder vampire known as Lord Gethin, he's currently trapped in hibernation because he forgot to instruct Ian to wake him up. His casket is buried along with his mansion.

His caretaker is called Daedalus, or D for short. D is a reincarnation of a minor deity with the ability to alter indoor spaces (maze-builder). He lurks in the underground and is one of the few who is physically strong enough to control Ian.

Ian works as a nurse practitioner for a witch named Hecate. She runs a small medical clinic based on alternative medicine, but has access to the blood bank. She makes sure Ian gets at least one unit a day.

When Ian can't get human blood he can substitute with animal blood, but he doesn't like it, gives him a tummy ache. He can go pretty long without feeding, but if he goes too long he can go feral and on a spree. For this reason it's essential that D is stronger than him, his ability to overpower him at all cost gives him peace of mind. He knows D won't let him hurt innocent people.

But D isn't 100% a saint either. Sometimes he'll use his guard dog boyfriend to get rid of bad people. He has to comfort him afterwards because even killing vile humans upsets Ian.

[donttouchmeimwriting]

I was going to go to bed and do this later buuuuuut I got this sad little elf on my mind lately so here ya go

The lack of a full bingo is because he gets a recovery arc and some healthy coping mechanisms

(meme by chronicfandombrain)

[userarmand]

ANDREW SCOTT for Interview Magazine || ph. Venetia Scott

[denimbex1986]

'When Andrew Scott came upon a role in the upcoming film Pride, about gay and lesbian activists who lend support to striking miners in the mid-1980s, he was looking to do something more “low-key,” he told EW.

That certainly doesn’t describe the role that Sherlock fans associate with the Irish actor; Scott is perhaps most recognizable as Sherlock’s arch-nemesis Jim Moriarty, which he plays in sublimely outlandish and creepy fashion. His character in Pride, however, is miles away from Moriarty, the role that has gotten him complimentary desserts in restaurants and shocked reactions in elevators.

Scott gives a quiet performance as Gethin, a Welshman who runs a gay specialty bookstore in London. When his work with Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners brings him back in connection with Wales, he begins a reconciliation with his past. Scott talked to EW in New York about learning about the history behind the film, bonding with his cast mates, and, yes, Sherlock.

EW: I loved the film. I sobbed.

ANDREW SCOTT: Yeah, it has that effect on people. We’re finding out these extraordinary reactions that are happening over the weekend, that people are standing up and clapping at the end of the screening, which just does not happen in England.

How did you first get involved with the film?

I went into meet Matthew Warchus, our director. Bill [Nighy] and Imelda [Staunton] were already attached to it, and I thought the script was extraordinary. I was looking to play a character on a more low-key kind of note, after the stuff that I’ve been doing recently. Because Gethin, my character, is very low-key, my main concern really was I wanted him to make is mark in a group of very flamboyant characters. That actually was why the character seemed to be to be very distinctive, because those characters are no less present just because they are a little less talkative. I loved the character. I thought he was very cinematic, and I loved the idea that there was a sort of sadness and a melancholy about him. I live in London, but I’m actually from Dublin, so the idea of being away from home and being estranged from my own family I found very moving. It’s something that I think a lot of people relate to.

Did you have any knowledge of the story behind it?

Not at all. None of us had in fact. It’s not a story that’s known or has been known.

Gay’s the Word, the bookstore your character runs in the movie, is still around. Did you visit?

I did. I went to see them and it was extraordinary. I’d never been there before but I went in. The bookshop has been so lovingly, incredibly restored on camera, it’s almost exactly the same. It’s beautiful. The whole production design is extraordinary.

Can you tell me about your research process?

I’m not a huge research guy. For me it’s very important to serve the script and the script is extraordinarily well researched. The thing that I did do was to look at the way gay people and miners were represented in the press at the time, which was incredibly helpful because there was just a huge amount of hatred and prejudice that was absolutely unapologetic and that was very frightening and very shocking to read, and certainly if it was for me it was even more shocking for the young 20-year-olds in the cast. They called gay people the slime of society with absolutely no admonishment or anything. That was very good to get a sense of what going on a march might be like. Both communities were bullied by the press and that’s really why their alliance was so strong because they had so much in common.

I was looking at your interview with Attitude and I saw the cover line said that Pride is “greatest gay film of all time“, and I also saw another interview with you where you said it’s not just a gay film. Can you talk a little bit about seeing that cover line and what you think of that interpretation of the film?

It’s an interesting one. I think the thing that I feel very strongly about is that everybody that I’ve spoken to is really moved by the film, and for that reason I say it’s not just a gay film. I think it’s been embraced by the gay community because I think people are very celebratory about the fact that gay people are not just seen in story lines that are related to sex or sexuality, that their attributes of kindness and bravery and compassion are the things that are celebrated in the movie and I think that’s incredibly important.

But I do remember very strongly in our read-through the enormous passion and the enormous ownership of the story from the whole cast and it was a big cast. People were very passionate and hugely moved by it. In our cast, we have men and women, we have people in their 70s and people in their teens, we have posh people and working class people, we have different nationalities, and we have gay and straight people. … You don’t have be a miner to know about union politics or be a gay person to really embrace it.

It speaks that we’re all the same really. And rather than going, “That’s got nothing to do with me because that’s not my personal experience,” my own personal experience, actually, I feel, is kind of irrelevant. It’s about our own humanity.

You’ve come out in the press and you have people asking about this film in relation to your own experience. What has that been like for you?

It’s a difficult thing with coming out publicly. Actually, that’s something that happened a long time ago. It was very low-key, something that I spoke about in a thing. It was not something that I ever kept a secret. But the nature of this film, it obviously a similar subject. I think the thing that is important to me is, depending on the project, I don’t think that’s necessarily something that I need to talk about in every interview that I do. Of course people ask me about that, and that’s absolutely to be expected on this gig, but what I am is an actor and I play lots of different parts, gay, straight, lots of different ones.

Actually, the thing that I think is interesting about my character is not somebody that’s struggling with their sexuality but someone that’s struggling with their national identity. There’s a huge amount of complexities in playing any different human being otherwise we would say that playing Rambo is the same as playing Christy Brown in My Left Foot purely by the fact that they are both straight characters. So it can be reductive in that sense. I suppose I feel it’s important not to speak too much on the subject because there can be sort of an oppression in that.

Can you talk about the filming experience? There are so many people in the film.

Oh, it’s incredibly good fun. It’s highly unusual to be in scenes every day with at least 12 people. So there was so many of us all the time, which meant it was great fun. It really helped with the spirit of the film, because everybody in the cast is so different, different ages and everything and it sort of reflects the audience that we kind of want. It’s so important to me that people reading this feel that it’s a film for them and it’s a film that they will love and they will relate to, because everybody in the cast related to each other so well, and because it’s so witty and so genuinely funny, and that’s the way we were as a cast. It is a film about kindness and compassion and friendship so we couldn’t all be disappearing to our trailers between takes. So we all ate together and hung out together and it was really genuinely beautiful.

You developed outside relationships too—

We started filming in Wales, which is always nice when you’re filming on location. We were away from London. It was very clever scheduling on the producers’s behalf because it meant that we could really experience what it was like to go away and the strangeness of being somewhere else, but also it meant that you could go to dinner with each other rather than going back to our individual lives. So that’s where we were at the very beginning. We all bonded.

I would be remiss if I didn’t—

Here we go!

I know you know.

That’s alright, I understand.

Obviously Sherlock has changed your profile, especially here and on the Internet. I also know you can’t say really anything. Can you talk a little bit about your experience with the final episode of the third season and the revelation that Moriarty is still around. Was that something you always knew was going to come back?

Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat came up with idea for Sherlock whatever it was five or six years ago and a long-term strategy. Not just a couple of seasons. So I did know that. I don’t like to know too much.

Because then you might say—

Quite. I think the show seems to have grown and grown and grown. I was here about a year ago, and walking down the street now is a completely different experience than even a year ago. I think maybe it’s the different way people watch television—they watch it on Netflix. This time around it’s been noticeably, “What the hell is going on here.” New Yorkers are so funny. This girl nearly had a heart attack. I was in an elevator and she was on the phone she was like, “Jesus!” I’ve had a lot of those kind of experiences. People are great in New York I’ve got some really nice complimentary desserts in restaurants for being Moriarty.

They want to butter him up.

Literally butter him up.

Back to Pride: What do you think the film means for the legacy of the miner’s strike?

I think the main legacy is that people talk about history, and it’s sort of told backwards in a way. I think what this film will really help with is the idea that extraordinary acts of bravery and courage and kindness, however small they may be, however unnoticed they may be and however unnoticed they were—and God knows it was unnoticed for years—do make a difference, and they are eventually noticed. I think one of the most moving things to talk about the legacy of it is the real-life heroes of it who are having such a great time with the re-emergence of the story and how much that means for them. And what’s extraordinary about them is that they are all still fighting their fight in whatever different ways.

The idea that actually we have much more in common with each other than we think is something that is very comforting to me, and uplifting for an audience. I absolutely love the idea that this very true story has happened and that it can be entertaining and full of heart and full of love.'

[ninawolv3rina]

This is basically canon, thanks @basilisk-art

[jacquelying]

walk with me. fitzjames is 1985’s mountain climber of the year. and crozier is going to put the front-page story about it on his dartboard 🎯 https://archiveofourown.org/works/53860201

[luxwood-art]

I’m starting a new commission, which is a portrait of Andrew (I will never stop drawing him !😁) and I thought it was the perfect time to repost this Moriarty (which I did for my dear @lightunup 🥰🖤) I remember being worried about how I would do that wallpaper correctly, while absolutely wanting to do it . The pattern blinded me a little 😂 but I did it !! . . • Original mixed media illustration on canson tinted paper Size : 24x32cm (9.4×12.6 in) • . . #andrewscott #sherlock #jimmoriarty #sherlocked #moriarty #jamesmoriarty #fleabag #hotpriest #hamlet #pride🌈 #gethin #presentlaughter #andrewscottfanart #thestag #handsomedevil #andrewscottisperfect #andrewscottislife #commissionopen #commissionart #opencommissions #commissionsopen #artcommissiocns #artcommission #commissionswelcome #commissionedart #commissionartist #artofhelpingartists (at Paris, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnNG5UToox-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[addaerontruther]

GAME OF THRONES 1.08 | What is Dead May Never Die

Finn Jones as Loras Tyrell and Gethin Anthony as Renly Baratheon

[medievalandfantasymelee]

THE HOT MEDIEVAL & FANTASY MEN MELEE

QUALIFYING ROUND: 89th Tilt

Renly Baratheon, Game of Thrones (2011-2019) VS. Fíli, The Hobbit Trilogy (2012-2014)

Propaganda

Renly Baratheon, Game of Thrones (2011-2019) Portrayed by: Gethin Anthony

“Renly Baratheon was sassy, well-liked, and hot as fuck. Such a good boyfriend that after his death in the books his partner Loras says of taking another lover that, "After the sun has set, no candle can replace it."”

Fíli, The Hobbit Trilogy (2012-2014) Portrayed by: Dean O'Gorman

“Gorgeous lion haired prince. So brave and loyal. I love him.”

Additional Propaganda Under the Cut

Additional Propaganda

For Renly:

For Fíli

“He's not just any dwarf.. he's a Hot DwarfTM”

“He is faithful, has an abundance of knives, and died too soon.”

[wamleather]

Gethin Jones gunged on Blue Peter