#// that uses david gandy

[lxvvie]

y'all, I made the mistake of revealing that I write fanfiction as a hobby, and when asked about the fandoms I write for, I broke it down as I know best: into cliques. I realize I might be shaking the table but it is what it is.

This is what I said for CoD (I've since add some more stuff):

You got the forever war between Gaz Nation and Gaz Deniers. May or may not be rooted in his attractiveness as a person of color, opinions vary (read: it most definitely is). Bonus points if the racism comes out in full force. DOUBLE/TRIPLE those points if it's expressed using butchered ass AAVE. 🥴

You got the Masked Men Lovers Brigade of which König, Ghost, and Keegan are the patron saints and arguably the holy trinity.

You got the Peepaw Price Lovers who absolutely adore his chonky cheeks, peepaw mannerisms, lumberjack body complete with the slutty waist, and relative long-suffering thanks to the shenanigans of the rest of the crew.

You got the Soap Suds who, I think, have found that relative balance between Johnny being a destructive-as-all-hell force to be reckoned with and the quintessential golden retriever boyfriend. His VA doesn't make it any better apparently lmao.

You got the Ghost lovers who've pretty much diversified him so he can run the gamut of Daddy Dom Extraordinaire™, Babygurl™, Sassy Simon™, and the list is endless. What IS consistent is that someone parked a dump truck on that ass and he has some big ole titties. There's also the subset of people who REALLY, REALLY love Ghost but also think his VA is ugly (which he isn't) while simultaneously thinking that he (Ghost) is supposed to be David Gandy levels of immaculate despite being in active combat. Make it make sense.

There's the Gravediggers who, for the most part, acknowledge their love-hate relationship with Graves and I think that is both hilarious and endearing.

You have the Kult of Köthulhu, König's devoted followers who have allowed him to transcend his gremlin nature to become the long-lost progeny of Cthulhu. Move the fuck over, Cthylla. I kid but he, like Ghost, has also been diversified in terms of his portrayal. And no, he's not a part of 141. Some followers of His Gremliness are also embroiled in a forever war with Gaz Nation so please be safe out there, y'all.

You got the Valeria girlies who want her to sit on their faces. I don't blame them. Please do.

You have the Los Vaqueros crew who need more love shown to them and Pony by Ginuwine is their official theme song thanks to Alejandro Thee Stallion. The less said about the butchered Spanish I've read in some fics, the better.

There's also the Farah Fanatics who rightfully adore her and deserve their flowers just like the rest of the cliques.

There's the Keller Kollective who, I think, tends to intersect with the Farah Fanatics. This lot also deserves their flowers because Keller is a sub absolutely underrated as a character. You'd also be forgiven for thinking he and Price are elated.

You also got the Horangi Horde who, just like Gaz Nation, will RISE TF UP. I think. Hopefully. lmao

And then there's the self-righteous crew who, for whatever reason, seem to think they're above it all and love to police writers on what they write and how they write the characters (we're talking in terms of rather innocuous subjects in the grand scheme of things; the sus shit absolutely needs to be and should be called out). Interestingly enough, this group also seems to forget that they're in the same damn boat by being in the fandom, consuming, and writing about the same characters. The ones who have all the energy but none of the courage even if they say or think they do. Bonus points if they also move like fans. Double/Triple those points if they, too, also use butchered-ass AAVE to make their points. 🥴

The girlies who can't separate fiction from reality and insist on harassing the VAs and their significant others and families because how DARE they have a regular degular life outside of *checks notes* their job. Baby, it was never gonna be you. It will never. be. you.

did I get them all? lmao

#2queued4u. #cod fandom #call of duty #call of duty modern warfare #call of duty modern warfare 3 #call of duty ghosts #call of duty modern warfare 2 #cod modern warfare #cod mw2 #cod mw3 #task force 141 #los vaqueros #kortac #it reads much better as a post because I sounded a hot mess and was flustered as I was explaining it but this was the gist of it lmao.

[sgiandubh]

Context, always the context

After we had gagging fun - and some, a small and unjustified heartbreak, too - with the newest 🎪 pic, let's put it a bit in context. I confess I am more and more immune to these: they are aimed at this fandom, of course - just to fuel further web wars and talks: never forget Xmas is round the corner, too. But they are also aimed at the Casuals, who still can't place McIdiot on her map and do not really care, to be honest.

So, what exactly do we have, here?

This:

After more than ten years in showbiz, our C still needs a pointer to tell ignoramuses like me where exactly she is, on that picture?

How odd. How unfair. But let's imagine I am from Mars. I have no idea who these people are, including to each other. The legend tells me nothing: just C and T and zero details. They could very well be co-workers, acquaintances, friends...? Oh, she's married to him. Oh. Ok. For sure, they ooze bliss and happiness. For sure. I've seen broomsticks act more convincingly than this.

Also, the photographer. As a very trusted friend pointed out (thank you, forever indebted to you), this Bennett guy was all over the place, yesterday. According to Getty Images (https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/search/photographer?photographer=Dave%20Benett&assettype=image&sort=best&license=rf%2Crm), he attended at least seven other high profile London events yesterday and was paid to cover them, too.

Their list immediately places this minor happening in its right context and at its right place:

"Leave The World Behind" - UK Special Screening and afterparty. The one she attended with McIdiot.

Hackett London x David Gandy Wellwear Launch Party - Savile Row tailors, established in 1983. Huge success story from a humble Portobello Road clothes stall to a 160 shops global network and a part of LVMH group (remember? LOL). The one she did not attend with McIdiot.

"Femme" - Gala Screening - After Party - UK thriller, premiered at the Berlinale last spring. Will be released tomorrow in the UK and IE. 95% approval rate on Rotten Tomatoes. The one she did not attend with McIdiot.

Skye McAlpine Celebrates The Opening Of Tavola's Christmas Pop-Up Shop, in Knightsbridge (along with Fitzrovia, my favorite London spot). Tavola is a high end tableware collection, carefully curated by Skye McAlpine - celebrated British cookbook author and an expert in Italian cuisine and fine dining. You should think two gin entrepreneurs would be thrilled to meet her, at another event she did not attend with McIdiot.

A Reception By The All Party Parliamentary Group Honouring Elton John For His Dedication To The Global Fight Against HIV AIDS. No further comments needed for this very, very posh event she did not attend with McIdiot. I doubt she has this type of connections.

The Anti Slavery Collective Inaugural Winter Gala at the Battersea Arts Center in London. Attended by royalty (yeah, ok: Fergie - but also, her two Princess daughters!), aristocrats (Count Nikolai von Bismarck comes to mind), showbiz people (Ed Sheeran - hello?) and of course, the press. But this is another very high profile event she did not attend with McIdiot.

Longines Dolce Vita Exhibition and after party - aimed at the high end luxury crowd. Another event she did not attend with McIdiot.

Smirnoff Celebrates New 'We Do Us' Initiative In Partnership With Tilting The Lens And Sink The Pink. Smirnoff, that legendary vodka which story started in Tsarist Moscow and now continues as part of the behemoth Diageo spirits group. Mhm. Now with an event tailored for the well-heeled LGBT+ and Generation Z crowds, organized in partnership with Tilting the Lens,  Sinéad Burke's consultancy firm with an absolutely spectacular client portfolio, featuring Gucci, Starbucks and -hey, nice to see you! - Soho House. LOL. You would think they could have grabbed a black cab and do anything to at least drop in and say hi. You would think they would be interested to meet with the other, less obvious, partner of this event, Stonegate, a major player on UK's hospitality scene. What a pity this was another event she did not attend with McIdiot!

Make no mistake. London is a real global metropolis. Une ville-monde (a World City), a notion coined by one of my masters, the wonderful French historian Fernand Braudel. As such, it currently stands at the epicenter of all that is trendy, new, exciting and expensive and it offers an endless array of opportunities for the brave and the bold. That was but a very incomplete sample of a Wednesday night on the London scene, busier than usually with all those end of year events. Out of the other seven of this sample, she had a profitable and realistic choice between at least two or three other events. She could have even coupled that after party with at least another one of those, if she had the right network to attract an invitation.

It is also plain to see, by now, TMcG is by no conceivable means the successful, multimillionaire businessman and entrepreneur. He is nowhere to be placed on this very rich, very diverse event scene. He does not attend any events by himself, whereas she carefully attends events all alone and does it very well - wouldn't that be because she has a name in her own right, too? He apparently does nothing, he apparently is Nobody. You should think a successful, multimillionaire, ambitious businessman would be proud to be seen just about everywhere with his up-and-coming actress wife, isn't it?

The sad truth is this clown only makes it to a cursory mention in a Daily Fail picture gallery when dragged along by C. At an event she most probably managed to get an invitation via Rami Malek, her co-star in The Amateur:

That, my friends, is not C playing her Greta Garbo. That is C squandering every shred of sympathy capital she ever managed to acquire, with absurd determination.

But sure, keep on screeching, Stans. Keep on screeching. All of the above are cold, hard FACTS your queens carefully keep out of your reach. God forbid you come to the realization.

[probablyasocialecologist]

The rationalisation of space under capitalism is one facet of the ideology of progress which has had a profound impact on the spatial organisation of society in nature. Marxist geographer David Harvey writes that ‘capital accumulation and the production of urbanisation go hand in hand’. For Harvey, urbanisation is a physical manifestation of the drive to produce a ‘rational landscape’ in which barriers to the turnover time of capital accumulation are removed. In this sense then, letting space lie fallow introduced unacceptable friction into the capitalist system. Highlighting this shift, urban and environmental geographer Matthew Gandy notes that ‘the very idea of rest, and of resting space in particular – letting the earth sleep – counters the accelerative and all-encompassing momentum of late modernity’. The incongruity, however, isn’t just a question of an anxious space of late modernity. The instrumentalisation of space is already apparent in the mid-19th century, when Ildefons Cerdà’s opening statement for urbanisation sought to ‘fill the earth’. And by the early 20th century, this programmatic vision for design was fully institutionalised when Ebenezer Howard’s seminal Garden Cities project ‘sought to maximise functionality through territory saturated with activity’.

Time is also rationalised and subsumed under the growth imperative, which legitimates practices used to force people into reconfigured social relations. As critical urban theorist Alvaro Sevilla-Buitrago remarks, for example, ‘improvers couldn’t stand idleness, regardless of whether it referred to a quality of land or to poor commoners “wasting” productive time by contemplating their grazing livestock instead of embracing wage discipline as day labourers’. It was the capitalist project to proletarianise the population that transformed social relations connected more with ecological rhythms into the realm of the abstract rhythms of capitalism. Put another way, wresting productivity from humans – and non-humans – through labour discipline has always been a central feature of the project of capitalism, from the Enclosure Acts in England until today. Capturing ‘wasted time’ also had another social dimension: the production of new forms of citizenship meant to underpin the bourgeois vision of the modern metropolis. In New York City, for example, Sevilla-Buitrago interprets the construction of Central Park as a ‘special kind of enclosure … [that was meant to] shift behaviors from one regime of publicity to another’ in a battle that pitted the elite against the commoning practices of the New York City streetscape by recently arrived immigrants. While geographer Tony Weis has shown that the slow rhythms and periodic pauses of fallowing can influence social organisation in potentially progressive ways, we see above that the devaluation of idleness has instead promoted a capitalist subject synchronised to the rhythms of capitalist time.

Taken as a whole, the move to valuing progress over fallowing signalled a regime change that rationalised space and time, which, in turn, produced radical social, ecological and continuous urban transformations that, today, are felt on a planetary scale. Viewing the planet as a kind of perpetual growth machine with a core purpose of chasing profits, an ever-growing metabolism, is churning the earth in successive waves of creative destruction. This results in both acute and chronic pathologies of devalued human social relations, diminished diversity of the biosphere and a continually transformed urban fabric at ever larger scales. What impact has the growth imperative had on the design professions? Embedded in, and arguably a tool of, capital, the design professions have been criticised as largely geared towards solving the problems of wasted space to restore class relations and processes of accumulation. Can a design culture that sees itself as inextricably linked to growth retrain its analytical lens on social and ecological value production that exists outside capitalist sociospatial relations, rather than viewing moments of inactivity merely as opportunities to promote the next growth cycle?

#growth #capitalism #time

[loneher0]

Apologies for the deja vu to anyone who saw these before, but just reposting these on a newer account just for the art dump accounts after deleting the older ones

just a zoom in higher res of it

just the skretch of it, kinda wish I didn't make it as stiff tbh, but what's done is done as usual

Edit: References images that I primarily used for it:

That cheeky grin of his and yet the soften look following it, thanks again to Backseat Gaming for the videos

Primary reference for pose, for some reason, it's always David Gandy for me on Pinterest for me now after saving a few shots of his. Still good at making it end up stiff though, need to try to loosen things and just get better a just attempting it. Left arm/hand is a bit long as well.

Edit: Originally done: 2024 - March - 17th

#cid highwind #ff7 rebirth #ffvii #ff7 #ffvii rebirth #skretch #krita #digital art #fanart #my fanart

[amortentiaopenheart]

Meet my LI

Meet: Dr. Ethan Ramsey

Full name: Dr. Ethan Jonah Ramsey

Nicknames: Eddy (Dad), E (Catherine)

Age: 30

Birthday: 19/02/1993

Ethnicity: British

Birthplace: Exeter, United Kingdom

Hometown: Exeter (born and raised till age 15) | London (till age 20) | Baltimore (till age 24) | Boston (current)

Height: 6'3"

Weight: 68 kg

Appearance: Tall, muscular, athletic build

Education: Exeter School | King's College London | John Hopkins Medical School

Profession: Diagnostician, Internal Medicine | Junior Fellow on The Diagnostics Team at Edenbrook Hospital (former) | Head of The Diagnostics Team at Edenbrook (former) | Chief of Medicine (present)

Personality: INTJ

Love interest: Catherine Annabelle Valentine (Engaged) | Harper Emery (Edenbrook- intern and resident years) | Victoria Jameson (Med school, JHU)

Marital status: Engaged

Face claim: David James Gandy

Family: Louise Addison Ramsey (Mother- baker- estranged) | Alan Greyson Ramsey (Father- cable repairman) | Jenner Ramsey (Retriever)

___________

Facts:

Only child

Loves cooking. Specialises in Italian/French/Japanese/Indonesian/Chinese/Indian/Thai/Korean/Turkish cuisine

Did a double internship at UNICEF and WHO

Favourite word: euthymia

Favourite colours: Green, black

Aesthetic: Light and dark academia

Hates social media with a burning passion

Sherlock Holmes, Neuromancer, The Broken Earth and Jules Verne works clutter his bookshelves

Likes listening to medical podcasts while cooking

Favourite movie- Terminator (surprise, surprise)

Likes squishmallows and soft toys

Likes opera and classical music

Plays the piano and the flute

Bilingual- English, Italian

Early bird

Loves sunrises

Loves mountains and forests

Begrudgingly uses a public Pictagram account because of Catherine's persuasiveness

Secretly, he's a cat person as well

_____________

@choicesficwriterscreations

#ethan x mc #ethan ramsey #open heart #ethan ramsey x mc #choices #jamespotterthefirst #open heart choices #choices fic writers creations #ethan ramsey x catherine #dr ethan ramsey #dr catherine valentine #ethan ramsey x catherine valentine #ethan x catherine valentine #ethan x catherine #meet my mc #meet my ocs #meet my characters

[cariantha]

33, 61 and 73 for bb ethan pls 🙏

Hi there! Thank you for sending these. I've been completely immersed working on a new fic and needed a little break.

Make Me Admit Stuff

#33 Are you one of those people who never drinks soda?

Ethan: "I'll drink a Coke once in a blue moon, but I'm not much of a soda drinker. Sawyer on the other hand..."

Sawyer: "I do love my Dr. Pepper. It's like a comfort food for me. And for the record, I don't drink nearly as much soda as he drinks coffee."

#61 Wear a bath robe?

Ethan: "No."

Sawyer: "When it's just the two of us? No."

Ethan: "What do you call the puffy robe you wear in the winter?"

Sawyer: "My David Gandy Wellwear duvet coat? That's not a robe. It's more like a snuggie. And I only wear it when you're not around to cuddle with."

#73 Have you ever cried because you were so happy?

Ethan: (locks eyes with Sawyer) "Yes."

Sawyer: "Stop looking at me like that. You're going to make me cry right now."

Tagging: @potionsprefect @jamespotterthefirst @annfg8 @peonierose @socalwriterbee @tessa-liam @jerzwriter @quixoticdreamer16 @mysticalgalaxysstuff @inlocusmads @txemrn @trappedinfanfiction @mvalentine @takemyopenheart @openheartforeverinmyheart @coffeeheartaddict2 @genevievemd @starrystarrytrouble @hopelessromantic1352 @kyra75 @lsvdw-blog @rookiemartin @headoverheelsforramsey

#thanks for the ask! #make me admit stuff #ethan x sawyer

[gutsfics]

sure David Gandy is hot but all of the photos yall use of him for ur Ethan faceclaims are always too clean and well put together

he should look like this 👇

#listen ill die on my “Open Heart is romance drama House MD” hill. except i wont bc ill be killing on it. #Ethan Ramsey needs to look like House. he needs to look like roadkill who came to life took an ambien and crawled into work #for legal purposes this is a joke or something. i actually dont give a shit if u have Gandy as your ethan faceclaim

[domnorian]

Hii, just wanted to say you're the first person I see who uses David Gandy as a face claim for Dracula and THANK YOU. I've been obsessed w him as a face claim for a while, he fits perfectly. I just casually stumbled upon the manip pic you made, it's amazing

You're very welcome. David Gandy has the most perfect face for Dracula!

#thanks for the ask! #dracula #vlad tepes

[seductionofthefourthkind]

I'm looking for new writing partners to write with! Here are the list of my pre made characters:

GYM - full name: Mr Leon Lynch - size: 9 inch + thick as a can - face Claim: CM PUNK - position: Top leaning versatile

HISTORY - full name: Mr Nathan Shaw - size: 7.5 inches - face Claim: Jonathan Bailey - position: Bottom leaning versatile

PRIVATE TUTOR - full name: Mr Everett Carpenter - size: 8 inches + semi-thick - face Claim: David Gandy - position: Versatile

BAKER - full name: Mr Killian Brown - size: 7 inches - face Claim: Matt Bomer - position: Bottom

AUTHOR - full name: Mr Austin Gavins - size: 8 inches - face Claim: Antoni Porowski - position: Bottom leaning versatile

STUDENT- full name: Mr Dylan Powers - size: 7 inches - Face Claim: Joe Keery - position: Bottom

BATH HOUSE OWNER - full name: Mr Taylor Walsh - size: 9 inches + thick - face Claim: Luke Evans - position: Versatile

Below is a list of fcs I have resources for and willing to use:

>Alexander Skarsgård >Antoni Porowski >Cody Christian >Ben Price >Bradley Cooper >Chris Evans >CM Punk >David Gandy >Joe Keery >Jonathan Bailey >Luke Evans >Matt Bomer >Michael B Jordan >Miguel Angel Silvestre >Milo Ventimiglia >Pablo Schreiber >REGÉ JEAN PAGE >Richard Madden >Ryan Kwanten >Sebastian Stan >Shemar Moore >Skeet Ulrich

If any take your fancy either; join my discord server HERE or send me a message on here. :) P.S. I do prefer writing on discord but I do write on here aswell. Whichever platform you want to write on, i'm there :)

#indie gay rp #gay rp #indie smut rp #discord 1x1 #mxm rp

[lokilickedme]

8/1

Okay, after a lot of thought I’ve decided I’m going to put Here And There up at AO3.  It’s been published (Kindle and paperback) for a few years but has never done well (55 copies sold since August of 2017, yikes) and since this month marks its 5th birthday, I’ve decided to bring Baltho, Keene, and Holly into the fandom.  This serves two purposes:

1) Several of my followers have told me since its release that they have no access to Amazon for various reasons (not available in their country, no credit card/bank account, shipping cost prohibitive to their location, etc) and they really wanted to read it, and

2) I have this wild idea that if I put it on AO3 I’ll be motivated to work on the sequel, which I’ve been promising since 2018.  Meaning it’ll be on AO3 as well, and then be released to Kindle and paperback once it’s done.

A little background info on this series:

Technically it belongs in the Tom Hiddleston fandom.  The faceclaim for Baltho is Tom, circa OLLA-era - but that’s about as far as it goes.  Baltho (and Keene and everyone else in this) is an original character who just happens to have a familiar face...because you know how I feel about TH’s face :)

Holly was purposefully left un-described and un-faceclaimed.  She’s whoever you want her to be, I never chose anyone to “be” her, though I think there might have been a passing reference to her hair color at some point from Keene’s POV.  I also think in book 2 she might end up being described a little more in-depth.

Keene’s faceclaim is David Gandy.  He was the first and only face I ever considered for this character and all these years later I can still only see him in the role.

A very old post with a very general moodboard is HERE.

Jason Momoa, Chris Hemsworth, Joe Mangianello, Andrew Hozier-Byrne, Can Yaman, and a few others are faceclaimed in books 1 and 2.  I’ll be posting photo edits of the characters at a later date.

The official summary:

When a mysterious man calling himself Keene falls from a thirty story building onto the hood of her car, Holly Blake’s life promptly flips upside down. She’s in grief counseling to recover from the loss of her fiance, who, according to the mysterious stranger, was “one of us” - the Strada, a race of non-humans existing in a parallel dimension, separated from humans by just a few seconds of time and a barrier called the In Between.

Holly doesn’t believe any of it…which makes it that much easier for her to just give in and go with it when the ruggedly handsome stranger initiates an intimate connection with her.  But when his best friend and worst enemy follows him across the barrier with the intention of causing trouble, Holly finds herself helping them solve the mystery of who and what exactly her fiance was…innocent victim, or cold blooded killer?

.

Book 2 (Now And Then) is about 1/4 written and I’m hoping having it run in a regular-updating fic format will help me finish it, since it’s been in my WIPs for so stupidly long.

Book 1 (Here And There) is complete and will post chapter by chapter on a weekly schedule.

There is a book 3 planned, but not promised.

For those who have already read Here And There:  consider this a workup to the sequel you’ve been waiting for for the last four years :D  I’ll probably also change some stuff or add things as I go because you know I can never leave anything alone.

Warnings:  Well, I mean, there’s sex.  The Strada are pan/omnisexual, they’ll hop on anything if it stands still long enough, plus there’s that whole recharge thing.  Also multiples.  And blisskas, which I won’t explain here but you who’ve read it already know what I’m talking about.  There’s a fairly large emotional trauma in the protagonist’s past that is discussed at the beginning.  Some violence.  Okay, a fair amount of violence once Baltho comes on the scene.  One particularly rotten bit of skullduggery - a character takes the form of another character to have sex with the female character, which is incredibly uncool but serves to let you know what kind of person/being we’re dealing with.  And book 1 ends with a cliffhanger, which is why I’ve got to get book 2 written...some of you have been waiting a LONG damn time to find out what happened next lol (sorry).  The plan is to have book 2 mostly finished and ready to start posting by the time book 1 is all up.

Language, sex, violence, supernatural stuff.  You know the drill.  A fair bit of light blasphemy from Baltho as well because he’s just like that.

Here And There is 35,450 words long, 23 chapters plus a very necessary glossary (you’ll understand why pretty quick).

Classified as erotic sci-fi fantasy according to its category designation at Amazon, so we’ll go with that.

The plan is to start posting it next weekend, so if you want to be added to the regular tag list now’s the time to let me know.

#Here And There #Hiddleston fic

[socalwriterbee]

Hi! Do you have a FC for Tessa? and for Ethan are you using DG? :)

Hi!!!!

I do have a FC for Tessa.

Actress Inbar Lavi

For Ethan 1,000 times yes to David Freaking Gandy! I mean

Thanks for the ask! 🥰

#asked and answered #anon ask #choices open heart #ethan x tessa #open heart ethan

[sgiandubh]

S on BBC 4's Saturday Live: 'anything but a quiet life'

As you all know, S was today on BBC Four's Saturday Live radio talk show, sharing the scene with people like super male model David Gandy, Catrin Finch - a Welsh harpist of international repute and the ever fascinating Lucy Worsley, a strong contender (along with Mary Beard) for the title of personal favorite (living) historian.

You can listen (as I dutifully did twice) to it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001t96r. I don't know how to embed it on this page, but that shouldn't be a problem.

The show is always interesting and I strongly suggest to let it play along and not rely only on my summing up & comments. I particularly enjoyed Lucy Worsley's Medieval and Baroque musical selection (flawless!) - but enough said, we're here for S, who was live on show from BBC's London studios.

As usually, I am going to transcript it as much as I can, primarily for those reading this post and using Google Translate (@bat-cat-reader, you are served!). So, you will kindly excuse the length, thank you.

At the 07:40 mark, a half jocular mention when prompted by the host: not a cricketer and not a harpist either (you can say many things about S, but not that he's got no humor - always a big plus in my book). But then things quickly get emotional, when he immediately mentions his mother (the question generally asked was 'what did your parents sacrifice for you?'), who 'sacrificed a lot (...) [as] a single parent, (...) she gave us everything, I think'. And then he quickly gets emotional, mentioning Chrissie H. again:

'(...) can I give my mom a shoutout, it's her birthday, on Monday [Nikki Bedi, presenter: 'aww, of course you can!'], so happy birthday, Chrissie, and thank you so much and I wish... I'm glad you never got me a harp, because I would have never dedicated myself. I think that's why I became an actor, because I didn't have to work too hard at one thing.'

It's then David Gandy's turn to talk about his own rural childhood in Billericay (Essex), his close knit family and his parents' endeavor of building a business and the now incomprehensible need to use faxes, something he has now to 'explain to the younger ones'. Then Nikki Bedi turns to S (13:08): 'Sam's laughing at that. Do you remember faxes?' Answer: 'I do.. I mean, I remember faxes getting scripts through or couriers bringing you know, scripts to your door, it..it's just a completely different world, now, and I am sure the fashion world is completely different now, isn't it, David, I mean it's changed so much'.

Onwards to more questions asked by Mrs. Bedi. This one was interesting (19:16): 'Sam, do you fear that each job you do is an act that could be your last? Is that always in the back or front of your mind?' Answer: 'Yeah, I think.. David, I mean...um... earnestly, everything you're saying there kinda rings true for my career as well... I am sure for Catrin being, you know, being a musician, I think it's, you know [Nikki Bedi: is it true, Catrin? CF: yes, absolutely, yeah, many things David said... it's the same (...)'].

Huw Stevens mentions alternatives to 'gigs', the need to plan for the future and the fact 'you always have to remain busy', mentioning S's whisky. Gandy also mentions S ('you've got quite a few businesses [...] a man after my own heart, we'll then gonna have to go out'), immediately cued in by Nikki Bedi ('whisky, tequila, gin').

Just after Lucy Worsley's superb intervention (easily my favorite of the whole program!), cue in to the kilt on a glacier part of S's chit-chat I am sure we all dutifully 🙄, by now. I noted the slight hesitation in his voice, while mentioning 'my...my friend, Graham McTavish', so I will not - yeah, sue me-, I repeat: I will not transcript this verbatim, simply because it doesn't really bring anything new or important to what we all know, already. Sitting on a glacier 'in a kilt, in commando, yes, it's my claim to fame'. Disgruntled Tumblrettes, beware - he poked fun at himself (shall I sign this to you, or are you able to read my lips?) and that is something only very intelligent people are able to do without sounding pathetic. Another interesting thing is the way Nikki Bedi presented S ('the actor, award-winning liquor maker and writer'- 36:00), roughly midway of the whole broadcast.

His dedicated segment begins at the 49:10 mark and lasts until the end, about 10 minutes in all. He was introduced by Huw Stevens: "Sam Heughan, it seems, would like anything but a quiet life", plus some cursory bio elements, mentioning his mother's influence on his own creativity, his breakthrough as JAMMF, but also TCND (Nikki Bedi watches it and 'apparently the third episode is the most steamy' 🤦‍♀️). 'He is also a philanthropist, businessman and thrill seeker, and of course, as mentioned earlier, has his own whisky and is a best-selling author'. Mentions his 'parents, characterful people, hippies, in the Seventies, with a love for Tolkien'. S: 'my mum would probably kill me if I called her a hippie' - also, 'she is not the best singer, but there was always music around'. Stevens mentions the Gandalf's Garden Soho hippie community both his parents were a part of before he was born, but S doesn't develop it. The rest (difficult childhood, loner, using his imagination sparked his creativity, etc) we know from Waypoints. The very Scottish concept of 'stravaigin'' comes along in the conversation, which is not exactly a drifter and a bit more than a wanderer (if I understood correctly) - perhaps a good title for a second personal memoir, S? I'll leave this idea float in here for free, heh. OL comes along then, and by far the most interesting thing he mentioned about it is that "it is my life, it's taken over my life', hoping it would sparkle at least some conversation in the comments' thread. OL 'has also been hugely beneficial for Scotland, increased tourism by 200% in some locations (...), and it's all down to the magic of Scotland'.

Next projects: exciting not to really know what is next, but 'I am also saying no to a lot, because I am in a place now where I think the next decision is really important (...). I enjoy being in control now (....), producing my own shows and you know, my own products. (...) once you take control of that creativity (....) there's a lot of freedom and yeah, we shall see'.

And then Huw Stevens makes a joke - but was it really a joke? it's the BBC, after all - and says that all four of the guests could contribute something to what 'could be the next generation of Bond', (S: 'the finest British production'). Cue in an anecdote about S being invited to present an event to Buckingham Palace and taking a cab to a pub, right afterwards. MPC and tomorrow's book signing at Saint Pancras station wrap off the show.

Quickly, my 50 cents on it: way, way better than expected and S always delivers when they ask no weird questions about his private life (hallelujah, maybe they listen to us, after all?). The question about the fear of each job being the last reminded me of one of his answers in a very early interview: 'your biggest fear? getting the sack'. This time, his answer, whatever he intended to say, got lost in the brouhaha, but I suspect not much has changed, essentially, even if the 'after OL' part of the show strives to tell a more optimistic story.

But the thing that impressed me the most and in a very good way is the attention he got from all the other people invited in that studio. Unlike the social nobodies of Tumblr, they did not find bizarre the fact that he created his own spirits business and is actively promoting it. They were far from judging him: in fact, I even think he made a new friend of David Gandy, who had quite positive and nice and honest things to say about him. S was articulate and graceful and very moving every single time he mentioned Chrissie. And I am also sure he would have loved to share more things, especially when David was lovingly talking about his wife and daughters. But he couldn't. And that is a shame. But this too, shall pass - The Boy is slowly learning to say no to a lot of things, as he just let us know. Probably the best news we've got from him in a good while.

And now, onwards to a particularly venomous Anon I am still pondering the answer to.

[boysbygirls]

Days wrapped in silence. To be both part and whole, to not reach home until you go outside. Each moment in the grass not taken for granted. The pulse of the Earth against wet fingertips.  This is 'School Days', our latest fashion story by Bex Aston. Now on our website. https://bit.ly/3aKS7wm

Photography Bex Aston.  Fashion Toni Caroline at Eighteen Management. Words by Jire Saffron. Grooming Ross McLaughlan at Eighteen Management using Oribe.  Photography Assistant Nina Close. Fashion Assistant Rhea Nathan. Retouching Nina at Post. Models Shin Dongyen at Elite Models, Milo Kester at The Squad. Montell at Select Models and Oscar Mathias and Gabriel Pitta at Next Models. 

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[jerzwriter]

Do you mind if I use the same FC for Trystan that you did?

Hey Nonny,

Of course not!

99% of us use David Gandy for Ethan in OH-land, and just about everyone uses Jesse Williams for Tobias... go for it! I don't mind at all. :)

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[amortentiaopenheart]

Meet my LI

Name: Ethan Jonah Ramsey

Date of birth: 19/02/1980

Place of birth: Providence, Rhode Island

Education: Francis Holland School (London, UK), UCLA (LA, California), John Hopkins University (USA)

Profession: Doctor, Head of Diagnostics Team at Edenbrook, Attending.

Department: General internal

Disorders/Chronic diseases: N/A

Notable achievements: Author of 'Diagnostic Principles'; Research on rare diseases and syndromes

Siblings: N/A

Family: Father, Alan Ramsey; Mother, Louise Ramsey (estranged); Retriever, Jenner Ramsey

Marital status: Engaged; Dr. Catherine Jane Valentine

Relationships: Dr. Raeesa Jordan (JHU), Dr. Harper Emery (Edenbrook), Dr. Catherine Valentine (Edenbrook)

Nicknames: E, Honey

Ethnicity: British

Religion: Christianity

Height: 6'3"

Weight: 78 kg

Appearance/physique: Fair skin, blue eyes, blackish-brown hair, minimal stubble, sinewy physique.

Face claim: David James Gandy

Random facts about Ethan

His name means 'firm'. (He lives up to it lol)

He initially wanted to be a homicide detective, then a journalist.

He was, needless to say, an extremely quiet kid in school, solely focused on academics.

He was socially awkward and dealt with trauma and anxiety after his mother's abandonment.

He plays cello, piano and flute prodigiously well.

He's a natural dancer.

He loves operas and classic literature.

He had two Alsatians, Leo and Bella, when he was in middle school.

He loves Indian, British and American delicacies.

He needs high quality coffee. He can't stand the Edenbrook 'caffeinated dishwater' coffee.

He prefers scotch to any other drink.

Developed separation anxiety disorder when he was betrayed by Tobias and the girl he fell for in med school.

He's a total dog person, although he loves every animal.

He's an international level martial-arts fighter.

He was the student judge in the Global Science Exhibition.

Ask him to draw something, and he'll run to the other end of the world.

He's a great cook, but can't make pancakes without burning them.

His favourite scent is the Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Intense Perfume.

His favourite colour is blue. He also has an attraction for green and white.

He was, obviously, hated and feared throughout his school and college life for being a prodigious student.

He was a troublemaker, but was so lovable that he got away with almost everything.

His way of getting over stress? Bro. He doesn't get over stress. He just pushes it to the back of his mind and bottles it up. Well, he used to. Now he's a bit more open since Catherine entered his life.

He can't use social media properly, and thus had many accidents on media he would have given anything to avoid if he had known.

His favourite gemstone is sapphire.

He loves formal wear. Though his closet is diverse, a major section is filled with suits and tuxes.

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