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I was actually quite shy at school, and I had a stammer so I went to a speech therapist to help me with exams and we did a bit of acting and I thought, ohh, this seems good. I was in Weston Super Mare in a huge school, and I was terrible at school. I left when I was 15 without any O levels. So I had no real options. I did some comic monologues, touring round the West country, and I did alright in those. And then the circus came into town and they’d lost a clown. Very carelessly! So I got on a bus & walked into the tent and said hello! The Government actually paid me 25 quid a week on a youth training scheme, well no – they paid the circus, to train me as a clown. Drama school would have been great, but I just didn’t have any money to get a grant as I had no O levels. I was just so naive and I was just from this small West Country town so I didn’t know how to do it. So I just joined the circus as my only way.

Rupert Graves questioned onstage at Sherlocked Oct 2017 –

Compere: When
you were at school, what made you want to become an actor?

(via nixxie-pic)

I think Lestrade knew of him – he’s not easy to miss, Sherlock. So I think maybe he was aware of him and had a case and went to Sherlock with it. The one good thing about umm Lestrade is that he knows and sets his own limitations anyway, on some level, and he’s not jealous of Sherlock’s superbrain, and I think their relationship just developed from that. Anytime he has a big problem he goes to Sherlock with it.

Rupert Graves questioned onstage at Sherlocked Oct 2017 –

Question from Francine: Lestrade said that his relationship
with Sherlock went back five years. How do you think they met and was Lestrade
always friends with Sherlock since the beginning?

(via nixxie-pic)

Hell, yeah. It’s really the only way, unless you have someone with you at all times who can run them with you. … I probably have cried on the toilet. I try not to, though, because I have people in my house who would be disturbed by their dad having such a strange, isolated mood swing.

“Do you walk around the house muttering your lines?”

New Benedict Cumberbatch interview with Thom Yorke – (x)

No, but I am shortsighted. I need them for watching movies or concerts. It’s not a hipster affectation; I do have poor eyesight. This is how ridiculous my life is: I’ve had the test for contact lenses, but I haven’t found a half-day where I can go to the optician.

“Do you have reading glasses?”

New Benedict Cumberbatch interview with Thom Yorke – (x)

Oh my god does he just do shoots without his glasses then!?!

love-in-mind-palace:

“The relations between us in those latter days were peculiar. He was a man of habits, narrow and concentrated habits, and I had become one of them. As an institution I was like the violin, the shag tobacco, the old black pipe, the index books, and others perhaps less excusable. When it was a case of active work and a comrade was needed upon whose nerve he could place some reliance, my role was obvious. But apart from this I had uses. I was a whetstone for his mind. I stimulated him. He liked to think aloud in my presence. His remarks could hardly be said to be made to me–many of them would have been as appropriately addressed to his bedstead–but none the less, having formed the habit, it had become in some way helpful that I should register and interject. If I irritated him by a certain methodical slowness in my mentality, that irritation served only to make his own flame-like intuitions and impressions flash up the more vividly and swiftly. Such was my humble role in our alliance.” – Dr. John Watson.

love-in-mind-palace:

norburylibrary:

There is a quote that is often used which says much, but the story behind the telegram and how the quote came about is also quite telling.

“You may marry him, murder him, or do anything you like to him”*

*Telegram Sir Arthur Conan Doyle sent to William Gillette.

While this line is often quoted as showing how Sir Arthur did not care about how Sherlock Holmes was portrayed, it should be noted that this quote only came after William Gillette pressed Sir. Arthur on the matter.  Initially Arthur Conan Doyle stipulated that Sherlock Holmes should not be portrayed as being romantically interested in a woman.  He did not give Sherlock Holmes a female love interests and preferred that it remained so.

“Gillette read Conan Doyle’s script and asked permission to revise it. The author agreed, stipulating only that there be no love interest.”

-via the Shakespeare Festival of Utah University

Keep in mind that at the time that the telegram was written it was inconceivable that Holmes would even have the opportunity to ever marry a man.  

The possibility of Holmes having a male love interest is not something that would have -ever- been written about,  spoken of, or suggested because of the anti-lgbt culture engrained throughout society at the time.  The co-dependant partnership of Holmes and Watson was the closest that could be achieved when it came to M/M ‘Love’ interest.  

A male male relationship would NOT be referred to as a ‘love interest’.  Dr. Watson could only ever be referred to as Holmes’ ‘partner’ and ‘friend’.  Any reference to ‘love interests’ dealt with women by default.  Sir Arthur was stating his disapproval of Holmes having a relationship with a woman.

This point is significant as it is further evidence regarding how it is adaptations that try to show Holmes as being straight and interested in a woman that have to bend the stories to do so, not the ones that show Holmes as having other inclinations.  It is the -straight- adaptations that are deviating more from the canon stories and have to break canon when they try to push heteronormativity.  

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had written about having a preference that Holmes remained single and alone or living with Dr. John Watson then being romantically interested in a women.

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mollydobby:

Elephant Trumpeting on Thin Ice (Doctor Who S10E03 🐘) 

“We just called the episode ‘The Final Problem’ for s—s and giggles. We don’t know yet, and I’ve been busy working on other shows. Our show gallops along like a glacier, but expect another ice age in the future.”

Steven Moffat, Variety Interview, Sept. 15 2017

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This is for you @sagestreet​  Thankfully your memory is as good as that of an elephant.  :)))))  

Galloping like a glacier …. ICE AGE in the future ….  what a stange coincidence ….

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