Shamelessly reblogging my own art, because if the trailer for Thor: The Dark World is anything to go by, Loki needs all the hair-care help he can get…
Because he’s worth it.
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This will only make sense to MarieLikesToDraw but
ADRIAN LESTER JUST TWEETED US!!!!
Flails all over the office.
When do we start?
I’m loving the forest outlaw shirt and the longer hair and oh, just about everything really.
Mark Ruffalo Reacts to Science Bros, the Tony Stark/Bruce Banner Romance Meme
“Would you like a gummi worm?”
Trailer For Sony Italy[X]
DAMN this is awesome!!! Now I miss this series as much as Ripper Street!!
Ep1.1 of Perception was on UK TV last night. I have stumbled across something new to obsess over during the long wait for Season 2 of Ripper Street and Season 3 of Sherlock.
Obviously I have a huge weakness for dark, handsome, hyper intelligent men in tweed.
BLIP I FELL IN TO RIPPER STREET FEELS AGAIN! FUCKING HOBBS MAN, HOBBS!
Also I read on tumblr that David Dawson may not be coming back for series two! :(
Awww, but Reid needs Best. The way their relationship developed over the 8 episodes was understated but brilliant. They started out in a state of mutual loathing but by episode 7 they had both realised that they could be useful to each other and that in many ways their jobs were complimentary.
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Metropolitan Police officers of the 1960’s pose in replicas of the first police uniforms. Their CO, in the centre of the shot is wearing a modern uniform. The officer immediately to the right of centre is carrying a rattle in his left hand. This was the standard way of attracting attention for an officer on patrol prior to the introduction of the police whistle. The wearing of tailcoats and top hats was a deliberate move to distinguish the police as a civil rather than military force. The tailcoat morphed over time into a knee length tunic which gradually shortened into the more practical thigh length one of the late nineteenth century.
Little Ripper Street Things
-> guns
Watching Ripper Street it intrigued me just how many guns there were in the show and how tolerant Reid was of Jackson carrying his pistol on a regular basis. You see very little mention of gun crime in books on the period and the British Police have a long tradition of going unarmed - except for a night stick - because it’s always been felt that the public would not accept the authority of an armed force on the street. Even establishing an unarmed force was fraught with difficulty at the time because giving one group powers of stop, search and arrest over the rest of the populace was seen as contrary to English ideals of liberty.
I recently found out though that in the 1880’s anyone could carry a firearm in public. Yes, you had to have a firearms licence but all you had to do to get one was stroll in to the post office, hand over a few shillings and they would issue you with a licence to carry a firearm.
It makes the fact that the British police at the time considered it a point of pride that they did their job armed only with a night stick and a whistle even more amazing.
On a related note, you see in Ripper Street one of the earliest designs of police uniforms. If you’ve ever wondered why they had those stand up, mandarin style collars it was because they originally lined them with leather. The first police officers were more worried about being garrotted than being shot so the collars of their uniforms were reinforced. Roving bands of criminal garrotters turned out to be something of an urban myth, largely an invention of the press but the design of the uniforms lingered on.
A fantastic night time image of Puma Court, Whitechapel, taken by Rob Clack. This is taken from the Commercial Street end looking towards Brick Lane. if you’ve been to Whitechapel in the evening you’ll know that Puma Court looks like this even today and has pretty much remained unchanged for 200 years. Along with Fournier Street and Artillery Lane it’s one of the best preserved streets in Whitechapel.
