#charlie yates

[richardarmitagefanpage]

IG Stories shared by BFI Southbank, Charlie Murphy and Sam Yates.

[dreamings-free]

speaking of simpin-for-louis indie boys.. calm down, james

21/11/22

[cinemaquiles]

TOP 10 DOS DIRETORES COM AS MAIORES BILHETERIAS DA HISTÓRIA DO CINEMA

[dismaltouch]

ships for lauren 1.0

[queer-dw-tourney]

CANONICALLY QUEER DOCTOR WHO CHARACTER TOURNAMENT !!!!!!!!

POLLS WILL BE UP IN THE MORNING.

GROUPS FOR ROUND ONE:

GROUP ONE:

LIZ SHAW VS JENNY FLINT

MADAME VASTRA VS RIVER SONG

JACK HARKNESS VS YASMIN KHAN

MIKE YATES VS ADRIC

CLARA OSWALD VS TOSHIKO SATO

BILL POTTS VS TRUDY

IANTO JONES VS ROGUE

CARLA SUNDAY VS ROSE NOBLE

GROUP TWO:

OWEN HARPER VS OLIVER HARPER

GWEN COOPER VS FITZ KREINER

ACE MCSHANE VS BERNICE SUMMERFIELD

HELEN SINCLAIR VS VALARIE LOCKWOOD

LIV CHENKA VS SAM JONES

TANIA BELL VS NORTON FOLGATE

LUKE SMITH VS CHARLIE SMITH

BLISS VS TEGAN JOVANKA

GROUP THREE:

CINDY WU VS CALYPSO JONZE

CHRISTIAN PURCELL VS CHRIS CWEJ

MATTEUSZ ANDRZEJEWSKI VS IZZY SINCLAIR

NYSSA OF TRAKEN VS JANE AUSTEN

TANYA ADEOLA VS COMPASSION

THE MAESTRO VS BEEP THE MEEP

ROANNA LOCKWOOD VS PATRICIA HAGGARD

PENNY CARTER VS HEATHER

THE WINNERS OF ROUND ONE WILL PROGRESS TO ROUND TWO . OBVIOUSLY .

[legok9]

My favorite genre of Doctor Who image is ones featuring all of the Doctors:

Doctor Who Special illustration by Peter Brookes (1973):

Timeslip by Paul Neary (1980):

Birth of a Renegade by Mark Thomas (1983):

DWM 111 poster by Alister Pearson (1986):

Doctor Who Pinball: Time Streams by Linda Deal (1992):

Happy Deathday by Roger Langridge (1998):

The Legend Continues (2005):

The Forgotten by Kelly Yates & Kris Carter (2008):

Endgame by Kelly Yates & Charlie Kirchoff (2013):

LEGO Dimensions (2015):

The Target Storybook by Anthony Dry (2019):

Doctor Who Day promo (2022):

Doctor Who Day promo (2023):

[macaronis-telegraph]

Queer WWI Literature

This is a very niche and limited category, so I’ve been trying to throw together a list of what I can find out there for anyone else who might also be interested. What follows are all books that contain LGBTQ+ rep of any kind, that also involve the First World War as a central theme.

Titles with an asterisk* are the ones I have personally read, and would be more than happy to talk about/answer any questions about their content/rep!

Written in the 20th Century

Alf, by Bruno Vogel (1929)

Despised and Rejected, by Rose Allatini (pseud. A.T. Fitzroy) (1918)*

Lads: Love Poetry of the Trenches, edited by Martin Taylor (1989)

The Memorial, by Christopher Isherwood (1932)

My Father and Myself, by J.R. Ackerley (1968)

The Prisoners of War: A Play in Three Acts, by J.R. Ackerley (1925)*

The Regeneration Trilogy (Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road), by Pat Barker (1991, 1993, 1995)*

A Scarlet Pansy, by Robert Scully (1932)*

Strange Meeting, by Susan Hill (1976)

Written in the 21st Century

The Absolutist, by John Boyne (2011)

Across Your Dreams, by Jay Lewis Taylor (2016)

Alec, by William di Canzio (2021)

Ashthorne, by April Yates (2022)

Awfully Glad, by Charlie Cochrane (2014)

Bonds of Earth, by G.N. Chevalier (2012)*

The Boy I Love, by Marion Husband (2005)*

The Daughters of Mars, Thomas Keneally (2012)

Eleventh Hour, by Elin Gregory (2016)

The Fallen Snow, by John J. Kelley (2012)

Fighting Proud: The Untold Story of the Gay Men Who Served in Two World Wars, by Stephen Bourne (2017) – (I know I said fiction, but I’m going to leave this one here anyhow)

Flower of Iowa, by Lance Ringel (2014)*

The Great Swindle, by Pierre Lemaitre (2013)*

The Indian Clerk, by David Leavitt (2007)

The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing, by Mary Paulson-Ellis (2019) *

In Memoriam, by Alice Winn (2023)

The Lie, by Helen Dunmore (2014)

The Paying Guests, by Sarah Waters (2014)

A Pride of Poppies, short story collection published by Manifold Press (2015)

Promises Made Under Fire, by Charlie Cochrane (2013)

The Shell House, by Linda Newbery (2002)*

Spectred Isle, by K.J. Charles (2017)

The Stranger’s Child, by Alan Hollinghurst (2011)

The Warm Hands of Ghosts, by Katherine Arden (2024)

Whistling in the Dark, by Tamara Allen (2008)*

Wild with All Regrets, by Emma Deards (2023)

The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon (2023)

This is a dynamic list, which I will continue to update whenever I find something new. If you know of anything that isn’t on this list and needs to be, please let me know!

[queer-drwho-showdown]

Queer Doctor Who characters Showdown

This will be a series of polls where you can vote for your favourite canonically queer doctor who blorbo. As you can see there is no form for submissions; this is because your humble host has noted all characters from TARDIS wiki's lists of Non-heterosexual characters and Non-cisgender characters and written them down in an EXCEL document to prepare. Some characters didn't make it to the poll however, here's why:

no real people (in-universe versions of dr who personalities like authors are an exception)

people who appear in less than 4 stories¹

¹ notes: multiple versions (e.g. audio adaptations of books) count as one story; a character with 3 or less stories may be included if I think it would be really funny or I liked them a lot or if they're the only representation of a certain identity/label

The characters have been split into groups such as NuWho/Classic Who and popular EU/obscure EU and will at first face off in their own categories.

ROUND ONE

Casssandra vs Rose Noble

River Song vs Clara Oswald

Nardole vs. Yaz

Bill (& Heather) vs Jenny & Vastra

Charlie & Matteusz vs Luke Smith

Jack & Ianto vs John Hart

Toshiko Sato vs Mickey Smith

Adric vs Liz Shaw (& Patsy)

Mike Yates vs. Harry Sullivan

Ace vs Tegan & Nyssa

[justforbooks]

The actor Lou Gossett Jr, who has died aged 87, is best known for his performance in An Officer and A Gentleman (1982) as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley, whose tough training transforms recruit Richard Gere into the man of the film’s title. He was the first black winner of an Academy Award for best supporting actor, and only the third black actor (after Hattie McDaniel and Sidney Poitier) to take home any Oscar.

The director, Taylor Hackford, said he cast Gossett in a role written for a white actor, following a familiar Hollywood trope played by John Wayne, Burt Lancaster, Victor McLaglen or R Lee Ermey, because while researching he realised the tension of “black enlisted men having make-or-break control over whether white college graduates would become officers”. Gossett had already won an Emmy award playing a different sort of mentor, the slave Fiddler who teaches Kunta Kinte the ropes in Roots (1977), but he was still a relatively unknown 46-year-old when he got his breakthrough role, despite a long history of success on stage and in music as well as on screen.

Born in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, Louis was the son of Helen (nee Wray), a nurse, and Louis Sr, a porter. As a child he suffered from polio, but became a high school athlete before a basketball injury led to his joining the drama club. His teacher encouraged him to audition professionally, and at 17 he was on Broadway playing a troubled child in Take a Giant Step, which won him a Donaldson award for best newcomer.

He won a drama scholarship to New York University, but continued working, in The Desk Set (1955), and made his television debut in two episodes of the NBC anthology show The Big Story. In 1959 he was cast with Poitier and Ruby Dee in Raisin in the Sun, and made his film debut reprising his role in 1961. On Broadway that year he played in Jean Genet’s The Blacks, in an all-star cast with James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, Roscoe Lee Brown, Godfrey Cambridge and a young Maya Angelou; it was the decade’s longest-running show.

Gossett was also active in the Greenwich Village folk music scene. He released his first single Hooka Dooka, Green Green in 1964, followed by See See Rider, and co-wrote the anti-war hit Handsome Johnny with Richie Havens. In 1967 he released another single, a drums and horns version of Pete Seeger’s anti-war hymn Where Have All the Flowers Gone. He was in the gospel musical Tambourines to Glory (1963) and in producer Mike Todd’s America, Be Seated at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

His plays became more limited: The Zulu and the Zayda and My Sweet Charlie; the very short run of Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights, in which he played a black man owning a white slave; and a revival of Golden Boy (1964), with Sammy Davis Jr. His final Broadway part was as the murdered Congolese leader Patrice Lamumba, in Conor Cruise O’Brien’s Murderous Angels (1971). Gossett had played roles in New York-set TV series such as The Naked City, but he began to make a mark in Hollywood, despite LAPD officers having handcuffed him to a tree, on “suspicion”, in 1966.

On TV he starred in The Young Rebels (1970-71) set in the American revolution. In film, he was good as a desperate tenant in Hal Ashby’s Landlord (1970) and brilliant with James Garner in Skin Game (1971), taking part in a con trick in which Garner sells him repeatedly into slavery then helps him to escape.

In 1977, alongside Roots, he attracted attention as a memorable villain in Peter Yates’s hit The Deep, and got artistic revenge on the LAPD in Robert Aldrich’s The Choirboys. The TV movie of The Lazarus Syndrome (1979) became a series in which Gossett played a realistic hospital chief of staff set against an idealistic younger doctor. He played the black baseball star Satchel Paige in the TV movie Don’t Look Back (1981); years later he had a small part as another Negro League star, Cool Papa Bell, in The Perfect Game (2009).

After his Oscar, he played another assassinated African leader, in the TV mini-series Sadat, reportedly approved for the role by Anwar Sadat’s widow Jihan. Though he remained a busy working actor, good starring roles in major productions eluded him, as producers fell back on his drill sergeant image. He was Colonel “Chappy” Sinclair in Iron Eagle (1986) and its three dismal sequels.

But in 1989 he starred in Dick Wolf’s TV series Gideon Oliver, as an anthropology professor solving crimes in New York. And he won a best supporting actor Golden Globe for his role in the TV movie The Josephine Baker Story (1991). He revisited the stage in the film adaptation of Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class (1994).

Gossett twice received the NAACP’s Image Award, and another Emmy for producing a children’s special, In His Father’s Shoes (1997). In 2006 he founded the Eracism Foundation, providing programmes to foster “cultural diversity, historical enrichment and anti-violence initiatives”. Despite an illness eventually linked to toxic mould in his Santa Monica home, he kept working with a recurring part in Stargate SG-1 (2005-06). A diagnosis of prostate cancer in 2010 hardly slowed him down.

Most recently, he played Will “Hooded Justice” Reeves in the TV series Watchmen (2019), in the series Kingdom Business, about the gospel music industry, and in the 2023 musical remake of The Color Purple.

His first marriage, to Hattie Glascoe, in 1967, was annulled after five months; his second, to Christina Mangosing, lasted for two years from 1973; and his third, to Cyndi (Cynthia) James, from 1987 to 1992. He is survived by two sons, Satie, from his second marriage, and Sharron, from his third.

🔔 Louis Cameron Gossett Jr, actor, born 27 May 1936; died 28 March 2024

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at Just for Books…?

[podcastjam]

Project Spotlight #4: The Ichorous Rot

Time for another project spotlight! Today, we're chatting with Sam from The Ichorous Rot.

Tell us a bit about yourself and your teammates!

@spinning-logic: Hey-o, I'm Charlie. I will be voice acting, sound editing, and assisting in some writing for our Podcast Jam entry! My first ever fiction podcast was Welcome to Night Vale (as it is for many, I'm sure), and my current favorite is pretty squarely tied with Malevolent and The Magnus Archives--though I'm truly loving Protocol too. I'm dipping my toes into hearing even more podcasts, like WOE.BEGONE and Old Gods of Appalachia. This is the first Podcast I've ever worked on, and hopefully what I learn from it will lead to creating more!

@moookar: Hi hi hello, I’m Mooo! I’m voice acting and writing. I’ve never worked on a podcast before TIR, but boy oh boy do I have lots of experience listening: WOE.BEGONE, Malevolent, and The Grotto are some of my current favorites, and I got started listening with The Magnus Archives and Dimension 20. Most of all, I’m just a fan of any speculative fiction I can get my hands on.

@gooboogy: I'm G! I do the music and some of the voice acting for The Ichorous Rot. I've been listening to audiobooks for ages and I listened to The Adventure Zone but only really started listening to audio dramas about a year ago with The Magnus Archives and Malevolent. It's not until I listened to WOE.BEGONE that I considered doing one myself! I don't have a fav podcast, but I have some fav characters such as Lucas Miller, Elias Bouchard, Kayne, and Ty Betteridge respectively. My fav genre is when Shit Gets Weird and I love it best when there's fucked up little blorbos :3

@fluxoid: Hey there! I'm Niall! I'll be doing some of the voice work for the Ichorous Rot. I've been listening to audio drama (and actual play) podcasts for over a decade now, starting with Welcome to Night Vale (of course). Current favorites are probably WOE.BEGONE and Midst, though I'm listening to many more. This is my first foray into the creative side of things and I'm excited to see where it goes!

@falloutcoys: Hello, I'm Sam! I'll be co-writing for The Ichorous Rot. I got started listening to WTNV in 2014 but really got into audio dramas when I picked up TMA in 2021. My current favorite pods have to be Midst,Not Quite Dead and WOE.BEGONE! This will be the first show I'm involved being published, but I'm writing my own passion project as well (@aboardtheichthyoid).

What's your podcast about?

Our project is set in 1880s West Virginia. Dr. Theodore Yates as he's overwhelmed in his duties as Janesville’s only doctor by a mysterious illness spreading through the town. We follow him through a combination of his own medical notes recorded on a wax cylinder, and snippets of audio following him and his best friend Alonzo as he tries to find a way to resolve The Ichorous Rot. It's a mystery that explores the effects of working class life and generational trauma through a supernatural lens.

What are you most excited about in this event?

This event has been such a great learning opportunity and way to collaborate with others! Everyone has had great ideas and we're able to bounce off each other and flesh out the story together, which is a really unique experience.

Any advice for other participants, or those on the fence about joining?

If you've been on the fence about joining, go for it! This is a really fun experience and it has the lowest possible stakes. Worst case scenario, you've met some great people and learned about producing a podcast. Best case scenario, you make an episode you're really proud of that grows into something much bigger.

While this team is no longer looking for new members, you can follow their project here on Tumblr @theichorousrot. Additionally, with a couple days left to sign up, there's still time to join the fun and work on a Podcast Jam project yourself - find out more information here!

[mercury-prince]

fancams I'm glad I don't have the skills to make:

- a rly emotional Sisko/Yates edit to Running Up that Hill by Kate Bush

- Data + Telephone by Kraftwerk

- Alexander + any Linkin Park song

- a cunty edit of Bashir + Hot Girl by Charlie xcx

- I am not well

- Garak + Fashionista by Jimmy James

- another Garak edit but to Nobody Likes Me by The Northen Boys

[richardarmitagefanpage]

IG Story shared by the director, Sam Yates.

[phonecall-fromgod]

average charlie W i love the smiths‼️ what do you think of their song Cemetry Gates? its one of my favorites and it kind of reminds me of you and a certain someone lol. but in all seriousness good luck with him :3

-🎸

A DREADED SUNNY DAY !! SO I MEET YOU AT THE CEMETERY GATES !! KEATS AND YATES ON YOUR SIDE !! WHILE WILDE IS ON MINE !!

and thx guitar anon. i saw what he said but im still terrified for some reason. we've been best friends for ages??? i'm scared that if anything changed it'll be different and i wont like it.

[amadaans]

WHAT COLOR IS YOUR AURA?

MOIRA O'DEORAIN.

crimson. rose vines, blood, apples, velvet, sharp nails, galaxies, dripping jewelry. your essence is crimson: you are the strong, defiant and avoidant. you crave some sort of deviation; to walk in another's footsteps feels mundane, a waste of your time. you are possessive and never look back at the things you've lost or forgotten. you are the rebel. you are the one who will change the world. you find kinship in like-minded individuals of red, blush, garnet, and bronze, who share your impassioned existence. you are also drawn to the confident souls royal and gold, who will help you grow and show that not everyone seeks to break you. however, you may struggle to get along with the slow-acting personalities of navy and umber who never seem assertive about anything.

EITHNE MARKEY.

ashen. old newspapers, smoke, quiet cities, pale cheeks, pebbles, chalk, the clouded moon. your essence is ashen: you are warm but vacant, an empty canvas waiting to be painted. your heart is soft; there is a peace that seems just out of reach, but it is worth striving towards. perhaps lost, you comfort yourself by what you can, and you are never unwelcome. you are the dreamer. you are the wanderer. you find kinship in like-minded individuals of chiffon, hickory, beige, and ivory, who share your aspirations for goodness. you are also drawn to the inspiring and kind lavender and peach, who will help you grow and open you to find yourself. however, you may struggle to get along with the strong-willed personalities of periwinkle and tawny who put themselves first.

OPHELIA YATES.

honey. friendship bracelets, beehives, school busses, children's books, flower petals, honeyed toast, polaroids. your essence is honey: you are devoted and endlessly enthusiastic. your friendships are your security; you shroud yourself with people who make you smile and feel lost at sea without them. often you are quick to dedicate yourself to whatever hand feeds you. you are the companion. you are the confidant. you find kinship in like-minded individuals of peach, marigold, yellow, and orange, who share your love of teamwork. you are also drawn to the streamlined souls terracotta and chiffon, who will help you grow and discover your own confidence. however, you may struggle to get along with the heedless personalities of orchid and chartreuse who seem like fair weather friends.

tagged by: no one tagging: @sorrowsick (yan and rosie), @redridcr (tahno and charlie), @clawsextended, @miidnighters (hartley and lulu), @epistrefei, @hegrowth @chrcmatics (parker), @fangmother, @soulmissed, @rcjoice, @monmuses (ana), @torntruth (kristen), @starlyht (sol), @wildskissed, @unclejackworthing, @zheurgeist, & you!

[a-skirmish-of-wit-and-lit]

Book Review: The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center

With The Rom-Commers, Katherine Center has officially cemented herself as one of my must-read authors. Am I a sucker for romcoms about writers? Yes. Will I read hundreds upon hundreds of stories about writers falling in love while they're writing? Also yes. (What can I say? I'm predictable like that.)

Even so, there was something so endearing, amusing, and surprisingly moving about this story featuring two screenwriters - one, an amateur named Emma Wheeler who has put her dreams on hold for a decade to be her father's sole caretaker only to now land the writing opportunity of a lifetime with her idol; the other, a Hollywood legend named Charlie Yates who has won multiple literary awards but can't seem to write a good romcom because he doesn't believe in love, because he thinks it's nothing more than a senseless, distracting affectation.

All in all, this was a grumpy-sunshine, opposites attract, workplace DESSERT of a story. Not only were Emma and Charlie stuck together inside the same house for six weeks, but there was witty banter, line dancing, swimming pool antics, kisses for "research," and an adorable but food-resistant guinea pig called Cuthbert. On top of that, there was nuanced sensitivity paid to issues surrounding ailing health, devastating loss, and family, which I felt added significant weight to the story as well as to the characters.

This was so cute, so sweet! Funny in spades, too. It's definitely the sort of book that makes readers believe, with their whole hearts, that love stories matter. So three cheers to that!

Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for the ARC in exchange for my review.

4/5 stars

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[queer-dw-tourney]

hello !!!! i would like to welcome everyone to the queer dw characters tournament !!! i thought it would be a fun thing to do for pride month :)

ran by @victoriawaterfield !!!

you're able to submit characters through my askbox, i'm going to keep submissions open for probably about four to five days. any doctor who characters are welcome EXCEPT the doctor and the master, for a few reasons, but mainly because i think they'd sweep. if you are submitting a character please make sure to include the source in which they are said to be queer, this tournament is open to extended universe characters as well, they don't just have to be from doctor who.

auto-qualifiers:

liz shaw (sapphic, lesbian or bisexual depending on the source)

mike yates (achillean, gay or bisexual depending on the source)

jack harkness (pansexual / omnisexual / bisexual depending on the source)

river song (bisexual / pansexual depending on the source)

yasmin khan (sapphic, presumably a lesbian?)

jenny flint (lesbian)

madame vastra (lesbian)

clara oswald (bisexual)

toshiko sato (bisexual)

bill potts (lesbian)

ianto jones (bisexual)

rose noble (transgender)

carla sunday (lesbian)

rogue (gay)

submissions:

gwen cooper (bisexual)

owen harper (bisexual)

oliver harper (gay)

ace mcshane (bisexual / lesbian depending on the source)

bernice summerfield (bisexual)

liv chenka (bisexual)

helen sinclair (lesbian)

tania bell (trans and sapphic)

sam jones (bisexual)

adric (bisexual)

leela (bisexual)

luke smith (gay)

valarie lockwood (bisexual)

cindy wu (bisexual)

fitz kreiner (bisexual)

christian purcell (gay)

chris cwej (bisexual)

calypso jonez (non binary, bisexual)

charlie smith (gay)

matteusz andrzejewski (gay)

nyssa of traken (sapphic)

tegan jovanka (sapphic)

izzy sinclair (lesbian)

trudy (transgender, lesbian)

jane austen (sapphic)

tanya adeola (bisexual / pansexual)

compassion (aromantic, asexual)

beep the meep (non binary)

bliss (bisexual)

heather (sapphic, presumably a lesbian)

roanna lockwood (sapphic, presumably a lesbian)

patricia haggard (sapphic, presumably a lesbian)