And I’m tenterhooking quite hard….

Martin Freeman already has one: so I feel obliged to root for my countryman in the Best Supporting Actor category. Go Andrew Scott!

And as for Leading Actor, well, the local preference should be obvious.

…Only six hours or so to go, now. We’ll be down at the pub, but will have to stream the BAFTA feed to the laptops anyway due to the neighbors probably wanting to watch the GAA championships or something.

Ah well.

(wanders off gently jittering)

valeria2067:

abundantlyqueer:

shinkonokokoro:

abundantlyqueer:

abukkitofcelestialintent:

#your face is basically what homer was trying to say in the iliad.

look what just came across my dash. me.

john watson, your mouth is a crime. gbh, specifically.

^DEAR GOODNESS YES.

reblogging because john watson’s fucking mouth, that’s why. also, john watson’s navy blue eyes, and the crease between his brows, and that sandy blond stubble and the cleft chin and oh look we’re back to that thin, bitch mouth that broke my sense of self respect.

And when he clenches his jaw, I involuntarily clench my ladyparts.

And let’s not forget the context. This is the face of a man who has just been kidnapped and is being silkily threatened by a tall man with an umbrella, a man who could conceivably have him shot by someone hidden away in the creepy warehouse surrounding them.

This face says: “Is that all you’ve got?” This head is about to do the little tilt-itself-sideways-not-quite-working-a-kink-out-because-you-haven’t-made-me-that-tense,-don’t-flatter-yourself thing. The brain looking out through these eyes is considering the best and quickest way to clean your clock, possibly involving that umbrella and one of your orifices. Have to drop the cane first, of course, but the umbrella will be more fun.

…And the line from Homer’s Iliad is, of course, its opening one. “An angry man: that’s my story.”

[movie trailer voice] John Watson IS… The Angry Man. [/movie trailer voice]

:) 

It had to be said.

Re: Best Performance in a Leading Role:

idowhatiwantthor:

it’s pretty much martin’s f* you i won a BAFTA

but john is saying F* you I won an Oscar

As we say in this part of the world: “From madlori’s mouth to God’s ear!” Because you know Martin Freeman will be nominated for one or the other (or both) of the Hobbit films…

Normally I have great difficulty staying up late enough to see the Oscars live (they tend to start around 1 AM and end at about 4-5 AM Irish time). But when Martin Freeman goes up for “best leading”, that’s an Oscar ceremony I will be awake for no matter WHAT happens.

So roll on 2014/2015…

afrogeekgoddess:

“Keep your eyes fixed on me.” 

That one image of John, slumped over on the ground, just hurts. Still. The absolute hollowness of his eyes, his whole face, is frightening to witness. It’s like his entire consciousness got sucked out of his body.

This man is a fabulous actor. The cognitive dissonance associated with trying to identify him with younger, Comedic!Martin throwing cereal in the air and sticking chopsticks up his nose is nearly painful. (Though funny.)

Really, really I am so late to the party sometimes. Everybody on Earth has to have gotten this joke before I did. Sometimes it’s just best to confess.

I mean, this joke. The counter. The theoretically stuck counter.

Here dwell together still two men of note
Who never lived and so can never die:
How very near they seem, yet how remote
That age before the world went all awry.
But still the game’s afoot for those with ears
Attuned to catch the distant view-halloo:
England is England yet, for all our fears—
Only those things the heart believes are true.

A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane
As night descends upon this fabled street:
A lonely hansom splashes through the rain,
The ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet.
Here, though the world explode, these two survive,
And it is always eighteen ninety-five.

…I’m going to the pub now. I may be some time.  :)

Dr. John Watson’s CV:  a couple of screengrabs, with some light clinical notes.

Some thoughts about an old fictional relationship that’s suddenly grown a touch warmer.

Sherlock and Spock. I’ve been a friend of the one since my teens — maybe earlier — and an off-canon chronicler of the other for twenty or thirty years. As such, the confluence of the two universes was hardly news to me: Star Trek (and Star Trek writers) have had the hots for Holmes for a long time, and dialogue references and outright cameos are commonplace.  …There’s no denying that 1701/1701A and 221B are thematic and spiritual neighbors. The Trek universe has been nodding amicably toward Arthur Conan Doyle’s creation for many years.

But this was the first time the other universe, in mass media at least, had ever nodded back…