The Master of Angst

peterpopper: My, but the Master moves soooo nicely. I love The...

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:24:18 +0000

My, but the Master moves soooo nicely.

I love The End of Time - so much of Ten’s era was brilliant, but TEOT has it all - plus Added Simm, and you can never have too much of that! Great GIFs BTW!

thumbcramps: Wow. I’m sure you’ve all seen this girl’s...

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:38:48 +0000

thumbcramps:

Wow. I’m sure you’ve all seen this girl’s fantastic tardis dress floating around here the last week or so. She hand painted the inside and everything, and she just looks plain great. But of course, I see it posted on facebook, and the slew of comments begin.

I don’t think it’s a mystery as to why I, as a bigger girl, spend the week before a convention crying because I’m so nervous about what people are going to say about me just because I want to dress up and have fun like everyone else. And there is something really, really fucking wrong with that.

What a BRILLIANT dress - sod the haters and the rude people, I think your dress is fantastic - it must have taken ages to make and you should feel proud of your inventiveness and imagination. *hugs*

crazyandsexy: iamsonothere: For all those who’d rather not...

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:54:42 +0100

crazyandsexy:

iamsonothere:

For all those who’d rather not have my face disfigure this most excellent view. >.<

DAT NECK

*dead*

*thud* that is a fantastic photograph - I recognise The Crucible in the background… *sighs*

Standing in the kitchen and catching a glimpse of John Simm on the telly.

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:52:15 +0100

moriarty-jim:

Of course I stopped everything, sprinted to the living room and stared at the telly until the advertisement was over. Apparently they now have bloody re-runs of Life on Mars on BBC Entertainment. On Wednesdays. That means Gene Hunt, Sam Tyler and Chris Skelton on the telly every damn week while I’m fucking unable to see it!

I know - even when you have them on DVD, as I do, it’s very hard not to watch them or to feel you’re missing out if you can’t… the power of the Simm….!

hello :) I know you're a big Simm fan, and I wonder - are you going to see Betrayal?

Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:29:11 +0100

sorry I missed this message but I guess you know by know that I did…:-)

Oh and about Simm's smell - he smells very fresh and rich, ugh I don't know how to describe it. It's clogne and leather jacket and you just can kill me now, thank you :)

Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:28:45 +0100

*dies* thanks for that - will try to imagine it, LOL.

Important question :) I've read that you were on Betrayal on June 1st and then at the stage door. Do you have long or short hair and what were you wearing? Because I think I've go you on my photos :)

Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:27:47 +0100

oo, now there’s a question.. I have long dark brown hair, I’m quite short (5 ft 5-ish) and a bit dumpy and I was probably wearing a red linen jacket with either a dark patterned top with black trousers or cream trousers with a silver top… (have photos but am not sure which night was which, lol). Sorry I missed your earlier message asking if I was going - there’s no date on it so not sure when you sent it or where I was at the time!

"I agree 200% with everything that has been said on this subject… having now seen..."

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 18:29:25 +0100

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I agree 200% with everything that has been said on this subject… having now seen ‘Betrayal’ four times (and it’s not enough, I tell you!) I am even more in awe of him than I was before… I have just one question - “…His smell…” I can’t say I noticed, so please…. how did he smell to you?!? LOL. I think I was just so entranced that I wouldn’t have noticed if he had a stinky kipper in his pocket… although I’m assuming it was a nice smell!!! I’m just a bit peeved that I didn’t notice… What day was it when everyone was too nervous to approach and he went all pro-active for his star-struck fans??? I was there on 1st/2nd June and two weeks earlier on 18th/19th May, and I think I do remember an occasion when everyone hesitated and he hesitated and then stepped forward (he looked like he was going to bolt but bless him, he didn’t)…. not sure if it was the same occasion you describe, though.

That awkwardness is one of the things I love about him - it makes you feel almost protective, doesn’t it, even though he’s well able to fend for himself of course! There’s just something heart-stoppingly delightful about a man who is clearly not totally at ease with the whole fame-and-autographs thing yet who makes such an effort to oblige… I have to say also that I LOVE The Crucible for the fact that its possible to walk up the hill to the bar with your pals and know that John is following close behind, and then… to be able to spend the evening sitting just feet away… able to glance up and see him and hear his voice at intervals… ah, absolute heaven.

OK so that’s my massive squee session over… but do tell about the smell, please, I’m all agog! LOL. Was it aftershave/shampoo or … well, no point speculating I guess. But I need to know… ;-) (Please…) XD

crazyandsexy replied to your photo: I DID! :) WASN’T IT INCREDIBLE? Squeeing about the…
alksdjjashfdjaskgf definitely NEXT TIME :D oh yessss his jacket will be the death of us. And his smell. And his fingers and his fucking long neck and smile and hnnnng!!!!
I’m sure we’ll all be tempted to return to Sheffield if Simm ever does, so it’s a definite possibility. ;) And hnng, yes. The scene where he came out without a coat over his shirt? I started going “adjfhgkf neck.” Also his eyes - let’s not forget those. Dear Mr. Simm: Your (whiskey) eyes kill me.
madinthewonderland replied to your photo: I DID! :) WASN’T IT INCREDIBLE? Squeeing about the…
Yesyesyes, we are still not over it, too, just like you! And his smiiiileeeee I CAN’T and he’s so shy and so fucking adorable!!! Asjdhshjdfgdhfghdajsdahd. I’m dead.
He iiiis. :3 So adorable and shy and fidgety. Oh, oh, and - there was a night at the stage door when he came out and everyone was too hesitant to approach him, so he easily could’ve made a getaway (because he’s clearly not overly fond of that part), but he stopped and turned back and gestured for us to go ahead give him the things to sign. So as shy and awkward as he is, he’s lovely. <3
I’m really digging the photos you guys have been posting, btw! My photos came out terribly, so it’s been awesome to see some nice ones. (“Nice” is an understatement, really, since he’s just inhumanly attractive, but yes.)

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- “it’s like Spinal Tap. with a TARDIS.:

mostly10: also this because it says “to linda, with love - john...

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 12:46:43 +0100

mostly10:

also this

because it says “to linda, with love - john simm”

Hey Linda, I was there when you asked him to sign this! I was standing in front of him with my book (if it was the Friday night, when it rained) or programme (the Friday just gone, 1st June, when it didn’t) and I think you were to his left (my right). Small world! :-)

That’s a very cool ‘Men in Black’ look you...

Wed, 30 May 2012 18:13:55 +0100

That’s a very cool ‘Men in Black’ look you have going on there, Mister Simm!

mrsmustachejay: John Simm after Dominic West won the BAFTA for...

Tue, 29 May 2012 19:57:14 +0100

mrsmustachejay:

John Simm after Dominic West won the BAFTA for Leading Actor

I really felt bad for him - ‘Exile’ was brilliant and so was John’s performance, certainly deserving of the award. Haven’t actually seen ‘Appropriate Adult’ but understand that it was very good, and John did send a congratulatory tweet to his mate Dominic West the following day, as one does. Until I’ve seen it I can’t really compare the two performances but I do wonder if there shouldn’t be two distinct Best Actor categories - one for original drama (such as Exile) and one for drama based on real events (Appropriate Adult)…because a performance based on such horrific real life events is possibly always going to have the edge over something that is purely fictional… or at least that’s how it seems to me, regardless of how you might judge one performance to be more worthy of an award than another… but then I suppose you could go on sub-dividing the categories until the whole thing would be a day long, LOL. All I know is that I would dearly love John to get the formal recognition and acclaim from the industry moguls (is that an accurate description of the BAFTA panel??) that he gets from the many many people who enjoy watching him on TV, who buy the DVDs so that they (we) can watch again, and travel miles to watch him act his socks off in theatre every once in a while… one day the moguls will recognise what the rest of us have known for a good long while - that he’s something of a National Treasure! (Read that phrase in an interview with him once and it has stayed with me…). Must’ve been excruciating to sit through all those hours of congrats and applause for nothing when you could’ve been kicking back and enjoying your Sunday evening doing your own thing… :-( One day, John - one day!

John Simm as Jerry in Harold Pinter’s...

Wed, 23 May 2012 00:14:50 +0100

John Simm as Jerry in Harold Pinter’s ‘Betrayal’ - Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, May 17-June 9. Saw this at the weekend and LOVE the play, love the cast, love the costumes, love the set, love the music. Fabulous stuff, and I am so pleased to see that all the reviews so far have been positive:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/6ec4a6e0-9ef0-11e1-a767-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1vHpwaK9U

http://m.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/may/20/john-simm-pinter-crucible-betrayal?cat=culture&type=article

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/9282693/Betrayal-Sheffield-Crucible-review.html

and here be a slightly spoilery (but very interesting!) interview with John Simm about the role on BBC Radio4’s ‘Front Row’ programme:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hxh74

The supersekrit setting on the Master's laser screwdriver

Tue, 22 May 2012 22:17:57 +0100

I nearly choked on my cuppa when I saw this… :-)

dangerpro:

isaytoodlepip:

……… How did I not find this before???

Discussing Fifty Shades of Grey

Wed, 16 May 2012 22:35:54 +0100

Me: Yeah, no. I'VE written better porn than that.

Family: ...?!

Me: I mean I've READ better porn than that!

Family: ... o.0

Me: For school?

LOL - I tend to agree with your first statement...but there is something quite compelling about it too. I think I may have to adapt some of my fic and market it if its that easy... LOL

John’s face in these pix…!!!! He’s like...

Tue, 15 May 2012 19:26:34 +0100

John’s face in these pix…!!!! He’s like ‘WTF am I doing???’ LOL Liz seems to be entering into the spirit, but Phil is all ‘I know what I’m doing and I don’t bloody like it….’ I’ve actually got the magazine these appeared in and they are lush, but you do wonder how they managed to talk John and Phil into this… can’t actually remember what the theme was now but I’m guessing it was to do with Britain in space… anyway, LOL and thanks for posting it again so’s I could re-blog it… :-)

lovelymycorrhizae: Faces: The SimmSmile Edition. awesome

Thu, 10 May 2012 19:09:38 +0100

lovelymycorrhizae:

Faces: The SimmSmile Edition.

awesome

Loving 'Life on Mars'...

Tue, 08 May 2012 01:06:13 +0100

I have just spent an hour (maybe longer…) trawling through philiponmycracker’s awesome tumblr blog. It has reminded me all over again just why I love ‘Life on Mars’ and Sam and Gene so much … and of course John and Phil for being them and for loving the show so much too that almost an interview never goes by without them referencing it. It truly was (is) the most amazing show ever and there will NEVER be anything quite like it again. (in my humble opinion, at least)

I can’t quite believe either, that I have been a John Simm fan for almost six years now (I only ‘discovered’ him after the first series of LoM finished airing, to my eternal shame) and still love everything he does just as much as I did when I first saw it. Erm… I don’t mean that I’m surprised I still like him (cause that would be plainly ridiculous - what’s not to like, after all?!? He’s an extremely talented and nice man) but that it has been six years. Where has the time gone?!? But the good thing about it is that he just keeps getting better and better… and now I have only nine sleeps (nine!!!) until I see him in ‘Betrayal’ in Sheffield… oh, life doesn’t get much better, does it? :-) And with that, ‘I to bed,’ as another Samuel would say (Pepys, in case you hadn’t guessed… it’s thanks to John Simm in fact that I discovered Samuel Pepys has a Twitter feed … my OH and I read the diaries years and years ago before our son (another Sam - it’s a family name and a lovely one!) was even born and now he’s reading them for his history course at Sixth Form college… as Dirk Gently would say, it’s the ‘interconnectedness of things…’ XD

Fabulous…. what more is there to say?!?

Mon, 07 May 2012 00:22:59 +0100

Fabulous…. what more is there to say?!?

whokidpotter: John Simm is forever and always extremely...

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:20:11 +0100

whokidpotter:

John Simm is forever and always extremely attractive.

Agree 100% with that!! Just re-watched Series 2 of Mad Dogs today whilst doing the ironing and even speccy, sweaty, sarky Baxter is strangely alluring….LOL

zycroft: He only had it on Twitter for a minute, so here it is...

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 02:37:28 +0100

zycroft:

He only had it on Twitter for a minute, so here it is for anyone who missed it.

Oh how cute is he?!? I saw the convo as it was happening but must’ve missed this. That little boy could never have imagined who he would be in 2012, could he?! Lovely, thank you for sharing (and for being quick off the mark to grab it in the first place!!)