As promised - the article about Matthew Goode in Arena from 2009.  He’s absolutely hilarious and sweary as usual - especially when gets to talk about Billy Crudup’s character’s CGI in Watchmen.  So naughty. 

I’ve done some edits of the pics to post over the next week or so - but here is a larger version of the article - might be clearer to read on matthew-goode.net [press archive page for 2009]

I just love Sophie saying “Get those shelves up and shut up!”

📷 Arena + pics by Ian McKell

auslöser _filmverband sachsen 03 2009 (press archive: shared folder)

Y’all, the Archive admins are made up of VOLUNTEERS. And they have been working for 12-13 HOURS STRAIGHT.

I better not hear any complaints when donation period comes around. OR ELSE.

cosplay by @woahchriswoah on Twitter

EDIT: How do we show appreciation to the volunteers? For me reading these deep dives on OTW issues u guys apparently it's been said multiple times that one of their objective statements is to have paid staff for ao3 and there's a surplus of donations they haven't used up or the other community solutions that needs to address. For those more financially literate feel free to analyze, snipe me or add to the discussion etc. linked here by deepa. They’re cool and these yearly analysis they did aint no joke.

But Seriously what can we do for these volunteers? The probable burn out from this entire fiasco would be no joke. @ao3org

finding a flower meadow in the apocalypse and making the best of it with your antichrist bf

Absolutely love how the tma fandom heard Gerry say “Gerard is what my mom called me. I always wanted my friends to call me Gerry” and collectively went yeap. Gerry. Gerry my dude. Gerard? Gerard Keay? Don’t fucking know anyone called that, I only know a Gerry Keay. Gerry Gerry Gerry

If you haven't heard, otw (in other words ao3) have forced a volunteer to resign because they had "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" as their status on messaging platfrom slack, which otw use for communications.

They were denying that Israel is an apartheid settler state or that the genocide in Gaza is even happening.

This is unforgivable in my opinion, and I have sent a message to otw through their official contact form here, and I suggest you do the same. Below you'll see my message as well, in case you want to copy and paste, or just use it as a template of sorts.

I urge you also not to donate to otw anymore, unless the zionist volunteers and members of otw are removed from their positions and banned from otw.

"I am disgusted and enraged about the treatment of otw volunteer bjorn due to their pro-Palestine message status on slack, and even more so about the fact that zionists are allowed to run free amongst otw/ao3 volunteers, claiming that what Israel is doing in Gaza is not genocide, and claiming that Israel is not an apartheid settler state. As a person who has donated to the otw many times i wish I could revoke my money. But also as a donor I as well as many others demand the otw to resign fully, ban all zionist volunteers, have a written apology to bjorn and all users repudiating zionist actions in Gaza, donate to the Red Crescent to support Palestine, and reinstate bjorn as volunteer. If this is not done I as well as many others will no longer post on ao3, use it, volunteer for it and definitely not donate any more. You should be ashamed of yourselves. "

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. 🇵🇸

PS. If anyone decides to start talking about ao3 tagging systems or content allowed on the platform on this post you are getting blocked immediately. I dont care about your views on this, and you should think for 2 seconds before putting silly fanfic discourse on the same level as the murder of thousands.

hey. btw.

Have you ever wanted to find your old Ao3 comments? Easily keep track of which (and how many) fics you've commented on? Rediscover a fic that you left a time capsule of a gushing essay on?

Well, you can! And it's simple! (* Note: it only works for comments written after you turn this on.)

Go to your Preferences:

There's a checkbox labelled "Turn off copies of your own comments". This is selected by default. If you deselect it (and save your preferences) then you receive an email for every comment you leave.

But I don't want to get my inbox flooded by Ao3!

Understandable! Luckily, most email clients allow you to set up rules for incoming mail depending on their sender and contents. For instance (using Gmail), I've made it so that these emails skip the inbox, are marked as read, and moved to a label I call my "Comment Collection".

The result? A complete, organised and fully-searchable repository of any comments you leave from this point onwards! Search by fic name, author, date, that one sentence you vividly remember leaving!

I've set up other rules, too, like starring emails that are replies to my comments - I'm always excited to receive them!

I love this system, and I think it's motivated me to leave more comments. I hope that others find it useful too. Happy commenting!

Original preferences trick from this Reddit thread. Tagging @justleaveacommentfest, which motivated me to write this post!

gertrude robinson stopping peter lukas' ritual by getting him cancelled is the funniest thing to ever happen

[ID: Two digital drawings of Tim Stoker and Sasha James on white backgrounds. The first image is of Tim, a mid-sized Latino man with light brown skin, graying brown hair in a mullet style, a small goatee and body hair, and he is wearing a partly unbuttoned purple striped button-down, a long aqua cardigan, black trousers and shoes, black plug gauges and rectangular glasses. He is standing neutrally and smiling calmly with his hands in his cardigan pockets. He is outlined in a soft blue.

The second image is of Sasha, a mid-sized Afro-Latina woman with light brown skin, freckles, and long curly black hair. She is wearing red lipstick and nail polish, a yellow shirt with an orange cardigan, a red skirt, bright green tights, a bright green choker and matching belt with an orange buckle, orange shoes, big round yellow earrings and matching beaded bracelets, and cat-eye glasses. She is standing with her hands on her hips, smiling. She is outlined in green. end ID]

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drew my current tim design but with his natural hair but i also really wanted to update my sasha so i drew her as well and since they ended up in a similar style, i decided to put them together <3 they're buds <3

More praise for Matthew Goode’s performance in ‘The Offer’ - this time from his dialect coach.  

“...he just knocked it out of the park.”

Of course he did.  

Thanks to @asgoodeasgold on Twitter for passing this one on. 

Fifty-Five Hollywood Online Interactive Kits (Windows 3.1, Hollywood Online, 1994/1995/1996)

You can play them in your browser here.

Edit: my mistake, they're for WIndows 3.1, emulated in DOSBox.

THE SCANNER SERIES: THE EARLY YEARS [Official NBC Press Release including 35mm slides for Mr. Rhodes - dated: November 6, 1996]

L.S. Dunes by Ryan Bakerink for Alternative Press

(September 28, 2022)

Jon's Moving Castle by @iceeckos12

Martin Blackwood may not have a perfect life, but he does have a good one. That is, until a series of magical encounters leave him with an unfortunate curse. Out of other options, he goes to the wizard who lives in the moving castle for aid.

Life never goes how he intends it to, though.

title/chapter headings/headers/page numbers: Old Cupboard body text: EB Garamond

Ohhhh I had a lot of fun binding this one! this was the fic requested by Jay, @blueskiesbooks, for the renegade bindery bound fic exchange, and I had a lot of fun binding it as a gift both them and the author. Jay's books have been incredibly inspiring to see, as they always have such great designs and it's so interesting seeing the though put into their books. Also: I haven't bound nearly enough TMA fic and I think I need to rectify that.

As for the design, I really wanted this to look kind of pretentious but also pretty to look at. Obviously I couldn't stop myself from using green and brown together, as they are colours I think are both lovely and work well together. I got to round and back this book as an opportunity to practice my backing, and I really had some fun with the splattered edges!