Edgin + being completely normal in his reactions to Xenk
If I had a nickel for every time an ethereal being realized they're in love with the person they've been dating for centuries but still refuse to acknowledge as their friend, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that Neil Gaiman did it twice.
Ben Barnes from: ‘ Ben Barnes: Five Big Firsts in His Career’, feat. Martel Francois.
Part 1. Links to part 2 and 3 below.
*hitting you with a stick* no benoit blanc movies should not interact. they should not lead up to something. you need to detox from the marvel/sherlock bbc poisoning. they should be completely independent movies (maybe w some cameos/little references for fun) and go on for as long as there are stories rian johnson wants to tell in this universe. i do not want an overarching plot i do not want a team up i dont want a benoit-focused prequel i want some good old fashioned episodic murder mysteries that have nothing to do with each other!!!!!!!!!!! also rian johnson has literally said he's not gonna do a prequel and he wants the movies to all stand on their own
My love for Benoit Blanc knows no bounds. He's just some guy, he's a genius, he's the new Poirot, he encourages women to speak their mind at people who screw them over, he hates rich people, he's married to malewife Hugh Grant, he dresses like a 70s queer man with access to online shopping, he has no consistent accent other than Vaguely American Southern, he can solve any mystery, he cannot win Among Us, and I would marry the hell out of him him if I wasn't a lesbian and he wasn't a gay dude.
It’s a crime they typecast Daniel Craig as a serious action man for so long when it’s clear he was born to play a silly little gay detective
Very funny to me Benoit Blanc seems to be just… happily married.
None of that Sherlock “his intellect distances from everyone you’ll never understand”
Not even the Poirot“ah non, je suis un confirmed bachelor, no relationships for me”
Just a nice smart guy who solves mysteries, fucks rich people up and goes home to his husband and fresh baked sourdough
Google Germany blocking AO3 in search results
I haven’t seen anything on this cross my dash, and I thought it was worth bringing here with as much accuracy as possible. (I first encountered it on Reddit.)
Currently (24.12.2022) Google is blocking AO3 from search results in Germany as a result of a complaint.
It is only Google, not other search engines. The government did not request it. It has nothing to do with copyright. It does not impact access to the site itself. ETA: If you use Chrome, it may not let you bookmark AO3 URLs (reports are mixed).
I tested it using a VPN set to Germany, searching for my AO3 username. This is a Google search for leveragehunters showing no AO3 results while connected to a German VPN:
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The same search from Australia, with the first result AO3:
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A DuckDuckGo search for leveragehunters while connected to a German VPN - AO3 is the third and fifth hit.
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The bottom of the Google search using the German VPN states:
In response to a legal request submitted to Google, we have removed 2 results from this page. If you wish, you may read more about the request at LumenDatabase.org. This is the link to read more: https://lumendatabase.org/notices/9415.
What was the complaint? You can read it here (and it is seriously light on information): https://lumendatabase.org/notices/9415, but it says:
A URL that otherwise would have appeared in response to your search was not displayed because that URL was reported as illegal under German youth protection laws.
Ihre Suche hätte in den Suchergebnissen einen Treffer generiert, den wir Ihnen nicht anzeigen, da uns mitgeteilt wurde, dass die entsprechende URL rechtswidrig gemäß deutscher Jugendschutzgesetze ist.
Like I said up there, this was not a government request. Government requests to remove material from Google say so on the notice (see, for example: https://lumendatabase.org/notices/30045178 or all of these).
Anyone can make a complaint to Google and ask them to remove something for allegedly violating local laws. I suspect what’s happened is that someone has reported the top level AO3 URL to Google through their procedures and that Google, being the knee-jerk risk-adverse devil company that it is, has blocked the site pending investigation (AKA lawyers saying yes or no) or just went stuff it, a shoddy complaint’s good enough cause we don’t actually care.
The Reddit thread is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AO3/comments/zsgt6v/is_ao3_blocked_from_being_displayed_in_google_in/, but mixed in with the reports from German users is a lot of maybe not so helpful/accurate information so, you know, grain of salt and all that.
Hey! I’m in germany and have been testing it and its true? For some reason googling ao3 will bring about everything except ao3 itself, which is concerning to say the least
if amything changes in the next days i will add on this post
I love how utterly unfuckable Miles Bron is.
Rian Johnson saw everyone thirsting over Evil Chris Evans from the first movie and was like "not again."
I want to be clear, this has nothing to do with Edward Norton's attractiveness. He's a handsome guy! But he managed to circumvent all of it for this role and I applaud him. He found that Elon Musk energy that is so essential to the character.
Heartstopper Mini-Comic: A Very Special Day
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Hey all! Been working on a little something to ease myself back into drawing Heartstopper pages. I’m so proud of this mini-comic! I hadn’t drawn proper comic pages for over six months and I’d been really worried that my drawing skills would have worsened in that time. But I think this is the happiest I’ve ever been with a mini-comic. Thanks for your support this year and I really hope you enjoy this little story.
JESSIE MEI LI & BEN BARNES Behind the Scenes of SHADOW AND BONE | New Footage
Ben Barnes showing up uninvited on the set of Netflix’s Shadow and Bone, two years ago: