~Mirage Black~

atropabelladonna1120:

Okay, this is going to be sappy, so you’ve been warned.

I look at this photograph and I’m reminded that there’s one other thing that makes Benedict stand out among other actors and celebrities of his generation.

There is a fundamental innocence about him.

I don’t mean that in a sexual sense, although for someone who probably has women (certainly female fans) falling at his feet, he strikes me as being remarkably unassuming about his attractiveness. (Even when he’s been photographed with a girlfriend, I’ve never seen him look smug or act like a lady’s man; he just always seems genuinely happy to have this person, whoever it is, at his side).

Here is a man who has grown up around famous names; walked dozens, if not hundreds, of red carpets; been styled and photographed and interviewed countless times. He’s traveled the world, taught English at a Tibetan monastery, been abducted by thugs and lived to tell the tale.

And yet for all that, he’s remarkably guileless and open and decent. Doesn’t he strike you as being such a decent man?

Someone who sees good in most people in spite of having been stuffed into the trunk of a car and not knowing if he’d make it out of there alive.

Someone who, in the commentary for ASiB, could have taken a joke about Lara Pulver’s nudity (a joke that Lara herself started) and run with it, but who chose instead to steer the conversation toward safer ground.

Someone who sincerely wishes a friend well, even when that friend has taken on the same role in a rival production.

I look at this picture and I see all of this. I see the focus, but I also see that remarkable guilelessness, that fundamental innocence and decency, that essential … unspoiledness, if there is such a word.

Yes, that’s it. He’s unspoiled: by fear or trauma, by fame and celebrity. When he sings, “Come with me, and you’ll be/In a world of pure imagination,” you can really see that this could be close to what his inner life is like: that sense of wonder, of gratitude at being alive and being able to do the things he loves.

And I hope that never changes.

Wow…. Overcome with emotion….

Can i just chip in and say also how proud i am to be a Benedict Fan.. Ok a ‘Cumberlady’. We’ve all come in to this world of Cumberbatch at different times but to see his career really taking off right now is really, really special. He DESERVES it. He deserves every damn bit of recognition he gets. He’s been doing ~this for years. He’s got a degree in it. He’s worked SO HARD to get where he is. Although he is desperate for ‘other’ things in life, he’s getting his head down and making a life for himself, and for his family when it comes. And it will. In time. Although he’s done this by himself, he’s now got a load of Cumberladies to help support him, and you know that means the world to him. He’s such a special whatsit. And i, for sure, am not going anywhere fast! Loyal Cumberfans unite!

Oh for gods sake, let’s all just have a cuddle!!!??

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17th May 2012

Chat reblogged from normal people scare me with 43,867 notes

person: cursing isn't very ladylike you know.
me: does it look like i give a fuck.

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17th May 2012

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totallycumberbatched:

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cumberbatch-s:

Ohmygod O_____O

This is the cutest glance I’ve ever received and that I will ever see in my life.

Yes, you can marry me.

Well, FUCK MAN.

Please, have my babies.

What are ovaries.

I can actually imagine passing him in the street and this happening.