marurenai:

My portrait of Benedict Cumberbatch in BBC’s “Sherlock”
I
used the photo on the left as a reference but to make the picture more
personal I’ve put my efforts in changing the light source direction and
the head angle, and other minor particulars.
The full image and also a “step-by-step” pic will be uploaded next.
made in 2014 with photoshop CS3 and Wacom bamboo tablet
 

stephrc79:

thunderboltsortofapenny:

thunderboltsortofapenny:

thunderboltsortofapenny:

If I see one more fucking guilt tripping ‘why are you sleeping on X’ posts about net neutrality, the tax bill, healthcare, the judiciary, Sinclair broadcasting or ANYTHING ELSE I’m gonna walk off a pier

Because honestly, what are you doing? What is your goal? People are angry, and scared, and feel hopeless, and your plan to get them to protest is to make them feel guilty for being angry and scared and feeling hopeless. That’s not fucking motivating, it’s crushing.

‘but I put in good info in that post too!’ Yah, but you made everyone reading it feel like shit first so now instead of feeling like ‘wow this is fucked up and it’s hard but here’s a tool I can use to do my part’ ppl think ‘everything is useless and I’m a bad person god I can’t believe how fucked we are there’s no hope anyway’ and then! Not only do some of us fall into the spiral of self loathing so hard we can’t protest, the content we do send out is flat, it doesn’t provide any sort of reinforcement, but it sets up activism in the same purity culture that’s debilitating to long-term engagement. It builds up our apathy, it makes protesting *that much harder* because no one is perfect and no one can protest 24/7, no one can corner every single issue, we will quite simply die if we do.

You gotta build people up. Shit is fucked, we all know that! We don’t need the reminders! Just give us the tools and point the direction and Build. People. Up.

God Damn.

Bless every square inch of this goddamn post. Because this and the whole ‘bet you won’t reblog this’ rhetoric actually violently makes me not only want to not reblog the thing, but to actually block it. I’m not pushing your guilt trip forward.

finalproblem:

“There’s a little joke in there about Nurse Cornish, who’s named after the Cornish boatman,” Gatiss revealed, “who famously, when Conan Doyle’s being rowed across a river in Cornwall, this man says ‘do you write Sherlock Holmes?’

“And he said yeah. And [the man] goes ‘he was never the same after he came back from the dead, was he?’ So he was the first kind of critic.”

“He was the first comment section in the world,” Steven Moffat deadpanned. (x)