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Sophie Hunter on stage at "The End We Start From" Special Presentation premiere during the 67th BFI London Film Festival at The Royal Festival Hall on October 13, 2023 in Londo

#sophie hunter #sophie cumberbatch #the end we start from #SophieProducer #Mahalia Belo

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Benedict and Sophie with Anna Lapwood at Royal Albert Hall last week.

#benedict cumberbatch #sophie hunter #sophie cumberbatch #Anna Lapwood #Letters Live #Letters Live at the Royal Albert Hall #Letters Live 2022

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Benedict Cumberbatch and Sophie Hunter at Letters Live → Royal Albert Hall, October 27 + 28 2022

Benedict read several amazing letters, shared the stage with United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry, and met Little Amal (a “3.5m-tall puppet which began an epic walk of 9000km across 13 countries, to raise awareness of the countless children fleeing war and persecution across the world”). Sophie acted as the announcer/“Voice of God” again for the show. :)

Source: Footage: macfadyhands, notreallygeeky2, lichtblickpink, _ffffyang Instagram Story, ellaluciaa Instagram Story, NEIL2010UK | Photos: AllBenedict, leeannrvn (2)

#Sophie Hunter #Benedict Cumberbatch #Letters Live 2022

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A New History of Fandom Purges

On November 24th, 2018, I posted a list of major deletions of sites or of content on sites that stripped fandom of its history. A bunch of pro-shipper blogs had just been deleted, and people were nervous. I suppose I was thinking “All this has happened before…”

On December 3rd, 2018, Tumblr’s Department of Irony announced the NSFW ban. Thanks for providing this salutary lesson to The Youth and a billion reblogs to me, I guess.

Today, we have AO3 for writing. Audio, images, and video are in as much danger as ever, yet fans attack AO3 every donation drive. For those of you who forget our past…

HERE IS WHAT HISTORY HAS TAUGHT US!

1992 - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro forces a zine to be destroyed

1995 - Viacom/Paramount goes after fansites

1995 - Anne Rice gets IWTV fic deleted everywhere

1997 - Fox and Lucasfilm go after fansites

1998 - AOL goes after X-Files fansites

2000 - Warner Brothers goes after Harry Potter fansites

2000 - Anne Rice anne rices again

2001 - Tripod Massacre

2001 - Anne Rice goes after IWTV fic on FFN

2001 - The Bronze shut down as Buffy changes networks

2002 - FFN bans porn

2002 - FFN bans RPF

2003 - Gryffindor Tower implodes

2004 - FFN bans script format

2005 - FFN bans CYOA, Readerfic, 2nd person, Songfic

2005 - Sheezyart bans adult content; y!gallery founded

2005 - Viacom/Paramount goes after fansites again

2006 - Sakura Lemon Archive suddenly closes

2007 - Strikethrough, Boldthrough on Livejournal

2007 - Youtube institutes Content ID, deleting many fanvids

2008 - Slash Cotillion closes, taking much historical m/m with it

2009 - GeoCities shuts down, taking old fannish websites

2009 - Greatestjournal shuts down; RPGs deleted

2009 - Marvel gets scans_daily deleted

2009 - imeem, major vidding hub, closes suddenly

2010 - FFN forums purged for inactivity

2010 - DeviantArt purges adult fanfic

2010 - Literate Union goes after Twilight fandom on FFN

2011 - Delicious destroyed by Yahoo’s incompetence

2011 - China arrests women for writing m/m; destroys danmei.org

2012 - major FFN crackdown on porn

2012 - Megaupload deleted for piracy; also destroys vids, podfic

2013 - Max-Dan-Wiz.com purged of fan-generated content

2014 - Quizilla shuts down

2014 - China purges m/m story websites; arrests female authors

2014 - Blip.tv deletes vids

2014 - Viddler deletes vids

2015 - Journalfen’s servers become fully robust, deleting Fandom Wank

2016 - y!Gallery deleted

2016 - Elfwood goes offline

2016 - Audiofic Archive corrupted; major blow to podfic

2017 - Chinese author jailed after being ratted out over fandom drama

2017 - Parents get queer Warrior Cats fic purged from Wattpad

2018 - Tumblr deletes pro-shipper blogs

2018 - Tumblr announces NSFW ban

2018 - Wattpad deletes accounts/fics without warning

2019 - China purges weibo of m/m; more women jailed

This is only a small taste of the many times that:

Fannish moderators got bored, ran out of money, or had a falling out, deleting a site/list/forum along the way.

Sites got bought out and closed for being unprofitable.

Fandom got hit as governments targeted piracy or political dissidents.

Fans grudge reported each other.

Official forums got deleted when the canon finished.

It’s not always malicious. It’s not always about us. But we lose every time.

Some of these purges hit everyone. Many of them hit m/m content specifically or female gaze-y material in general. This is why antis are dead wrong. This is why anti-fujoshi policies end up being anti-m/m policies. This is why we need clear labeling, not content restrictions.

This is why we need AO3.

And it’s why we need a solution for audio, visuals, and video too.

#ao3

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New/Old picture of Sophie at the 2019 Creative Time Gala she had attended with Benedict. By BFA but I first saw it on @/sophiehunterstyle on IG.

#sophie hunter #sophie cumberbatch #Creative Time Gala

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Sophie and Benedict with bass Blaise Malaba who played "mother" in The Seven Deadly Sins at the Teatro Colón. Picture taken on the night of the last performance.

#benedict cumberbatch #sophie hunter #teatro colón #Buenos Aires #argentina #Blaise malaba

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Sophie Hunter and Benedict Cumberbatch at Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires - September 27 - 28 + October 2 2022

Sophie came to Teatro Colón to direct two operas, “The Seven Deadly Sins” and “Bluebeard’s Castle”. The productions received great reviews from audience and critics alike, calling her work “superb”, “excellent”, “inspired” and “daring”. Benedict was in the audience and later accompanied his wife to the cocktail party and took pictures with the creative team.

The shows ended on October 2, with Sophie again joining the cast for curtain call, and taking selfies with fans and signing autographs at stagedoor. Described as “kind” and “loving” by fans, Sophie received lots of compliments and applause from the crowd. “We love you, you’re amazing!” :)

Teatro Colón, the main opera house in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is considered one of the ten best opera houses in the world by National Geographic.

Source: With fans: brendayelen_n, prfctseI, shirkha15 | Ben & Sophie leaving: agustavomigueles Instagram story | Curtain call: cynthiacohen1 Instagram story (similar clip here) | Photos: helencsilvester, teatroenfoco

#sophie hunter #Teatro Colón #the seven deadly sins #bluebeard's castle #Benedict Cumberbatch

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Lovely selfie taken by Sophie backstage at the Teatro Colón after the last performance of The Seven Deadly Sins and Bluebeard's Castle.

#sophie hunter #sophie cumberbatch #the seven deadly sins #bluebeard's castle #teatro colón

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Benedict and Sophie Cumberbatch attending a reception at the British Embassy in Buenos Aires following the last performance of the run of The Seven Deadly Sins and Bluebeard's Castle which Sophie directed.

#sophie hunter #sophie cumberbatch #benedict cumberbatch #the seven deadly sins #bluebeard's castle #teatro colón

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1st ✧ James Rhodes shared some pics from his wedding with special guests. 

7th ✧ Benedict joined the cast of The End We Start From, film based on the book by Megan Hunter.  Starred by Jodie Comer, the movie is produced by SunnyMarch, Liza Marshall (Temple) for Hera Pictures, Amy Jackson (Aftersun) and Sophie Hunter.

8th ✧ Benedict interview for The Oracle of Time.

14th ✧ Interview for Channel News Asia.

15th ✧ Benedict spoke via video call with Volodímir Zelenski, president of Ukraine.

17th ✧ Prosthetic makeup designer, Barrie Gower shared some pictures of Benedict makeup as Dead Strange.

21st ✧ Super/Natural series, from executive producer James Cameron and narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch, started streaming on Disney Plus.

Benedict visited Argentina to accompany his wife, SophieHunter, who came to direct a douple bill opera at the prestigious Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.  🇦🇷

22nd ✧ He went to a restaurant-patisserie and took a picture with the employees.

23rd ✧ Another picture in a shoe store, in Buenos Aires.

25th ✧ Sophie interview with newspaper Clarín.

26th ✧ Sophie interview with newspaper La Nación.

27th ✧ Sophie made her debut at the Teatro Colón as stage director of The seven deadly sins / Bluebeard’s castle. (Pic of Benedict taken a pic of Sophie!)

More pics!: x x x x x x

✧ Sophie at stage door receiving fans, after the last time of The seven deadly sins / Bluebeard’s castle: Pics and vids x x x x x x x x (this was already on October, but is part of the same event, so it goes here.)

I really hope Benedict and Sophie had a wonderful time in my country, I couldnt be there, but yet, I was so excited for everyone who met them! Knowing they were getting to know our culture and people was fascinating enough!  🇦🇷 ❤️

#Benedict Cumberbatch #Sophie Hunter

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Sophie with Jorge Telerman at yesterday's last performance of The Seven Deadly Sins and Bluebeard's Castle at the Teatro Colón. Sad to see this era end. Can't wait for the next one!

#sophie hunter #sophie cumberbatch #bluebeard's castle #the seven deadly sins #teatro colón #Jorge Telerman

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You can watch tonight's performance of The Seven Deadly Sins and Bluebeard's Castle at the Teatro Colón live!

You can watch it here https://teatrocolon.org.ar/es/en-vivo, on their Facebook page and on their YouTube channel. The performance will start at 5pm local time.

#sophie hunter #sophie cumberbatch #the seven deadly sins #bluebeard's castle #teatro colón

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Benedict and Sophie at the second performance of The Seven Deadly Sins and Bluebeard’s Castle at the Teatro Colón. September 28, 2022.

#benedict cumberbatch #sophie hunter #sophie cumberbatch #the seven deadly sins #bluebeard's castle #teatro colón

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Two lovely girls greeting and congratulating Sophie in the dressing rooms of Teatro Colón yesterday ❤️

#sophie hunter #sophie cumberbatch #the seven deadly sins #bluebeard's castle #teatro colón

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#sophie hunter #benedict cumberbatch #teatro colón

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"Great job Sophie. Well done"

Enrique Bordolini

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Two lovely pictures from last night!

#sophie hunter #benedict cumberbatch #the seven deadly sins #bluebeard's castle #teatro colón