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Richard at the London Palladium stage door after his performance as King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar. (August 14, 2026)

Behind-the-scenes photos of Richard, followed by him at the stage door and during his performance as King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar at the London Palladium. (August 14, 15, 2026)

Behind the scenes with Richard as King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar.

Exterior of Hereford Cathedral

Medieval sarcophagus in All Saints' Church, Clehonger

Carving of a monk praying to St. Katherine in Dore Abbey, Abbeydore

Exterior of St. Michael's Church, Ewyas Harold

Interesting details on a tomb slab in St. Clydwg's Church, Clodock

Apparently you can do a saliva test kit at home:

In fact anyone who's providing a service.

Yes, it's their job, they get paid for it.

guys, Andromeda for a moment please. Just andromeda tonks .

I mean that woman , born from the black family, a strictly pureblood one, went against them and married a muggle man whom she loved.

and from what narcissa and bellatrix said, “we haven’t set our eyes on her, she is no sister of ours”, and the blasted photo on the black tapestry, it is clear the family practically disowned her.

because of which I am sure she struggled. I mean she became an outcast.

and remember when Lupin said, “even her own family is disgusted by our marriage” I think andromeda obviously did not want Dora to struggle with being an outcast but she never really stopped tonks from marrying him and she wasn’t even being rude to Lupin or disowning their child or any of that shit cuz she knew how love was. She understood.

then she is obviously scared out of her life for her husband cause he is muggle born and she also faces the cruciatus curse but survives strongly .

and then her husband is on the run and she has no idea about him. And he dies. He bloody dies and tonks is pregnant and good lord.

the baby is finally healthy, her daughter and son in law are happy and she is happy for the first time in forever and then what…

they BLOODY die, her daughter and her son in law.

and from headcannons, we all know teddy lived with her. So that goddess for a woman took care of her grandson, with out even hesitating that he was lupins son and probably even became close to harry and Ginny and the potter kids because of it.

Of course there are effects on Harry. He's human and a still young one at that.

I want to boost everything this person has said and add on.

The reason I call myself a tomboy now, despite it being seen as a childish word and having had someone swear at me over it because ‘tHeRe’S nO suCh thInG as BoY thInGs anD giRL thIngS sHut uP’ is because I couldn’t call myself that or be like that when I was a kid. It was seen as a negative thing and I was already bullied enough. “Looking like a boy” was the worst thing that could happen to a girl.

And I’m not even 26 yet. We aren’t talking 30+ years ago, we are talking 2000s and even 2010s. It’s only since trans people have become more accepted in the past few years that gender nonconformity has too.

And the people who helped me accept my gender nonconformity more than anyone else? Were trans people. They taught me, “there’s nothing wrong with how you feel. You’re still a valid woman no matter what you wear, how you have your hair or what you’re into ❤️”

And don’t even get me started on how people treat gender nonconforming men. JK Rowling has a lot of nerve to be like “uwu boys can wear dresses and only us gendercrits accept that!” when she has, even in recent works, made femininity in men a negative trait, as well as making masculinity in women a negative trait also.

A lot of people still don’t accept gnc people even now. Just last year I had someone tell me they’d never let their daughter “dress like a boy”, and I’m always terrified to walk into a bathroom in case the next JK Rowling is in there, sees my gender expression and pepper sprays me or worse.

Were the 80s perfect? Of course they weren't!

Homophobia was still rampant. The AIDS Crisis was appallingly handled, there's no denying that.

And yes. Girls who were 'tomboys' were largely expected to 'grow out of it'.

But none of this disproves the major point being made.

Tom Boys Are Girls - Why Are They Girls? - Because They Are Female.

I stand by everything positive I say about the 80s.

And I do it under zero illusions. I was old enough to know that socially there were a lot of problems. Dammit, I was a working class teen in North West England with Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister!

Personally I was bullied at school and struggled to find somewhere I fitted in.

When I say we were discovering that man/boy and woman/girl were only defined by biological sex, so therefore could be expressed however we wanted.

Of course I don't mean it happened in a flash. It was a very slow discovery emerging through the 70, 80s, 90s and into the 2000s.

My friends keep telling me that Odyssey is really good, and they want to discuss the story with me. So I finally watched it today.

I know Odyssey has done very well at the box office, and many people would said that history enthusiasts are being too picky.

But you know this: if you know a lot about cars, then when you watch a film that portrays cars in a completely nonsensical way, it becomes very hard not to notice. That is the curse of knowledge.

I genuinely couldn't be satisfied with the film's interpretations, watch it with an open mind. If I had to pick one thing I disliked the most… Not the costume, or the casting. I never expected much from Hollywood in those anyway.

What bothered me most was Athena…

All that Athena should be there were absent. I mean she is the goddess of wisdom and strategy, the deity who guided Odysseus in direction. Yet everything that should have been Athena's role is instead given to other humans.

"It is really good" or even "it is good" are not those things. "It's a movie" and "It earns a lot at the box office" are more accurate.

I think a lot of people online said what there is to be said but I particularly like how Nolan himself basically admitted in one interview that he made another Oppenheimer. A story about human regret about "destroying the world" that "this is what the audience expects".

Back in The Iliad she and Hera were staunchly in support of The Greek Forces.

Artemis being in support of Troy, because she helped Paris get Helen, in return for his declaring her the Most Beautiful Goddess.

So yes! Athena should have been acting as his Patroness on Odysseus quest for Home.

The honking technique on this Canada goose couple is absolutely unparalleled. I've never seen anyone else do it like that. Amazing.