endeavourneverland

12/31/2024

Happy new 2025, friends. Have a wonderful year; find miracles and warmth. Be miracles and warmth. And - however elusive - peace be with you.

12/27/2024

A filigree of light and lightness.
Of wind and feathers.

A silence.

12/26/2024

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. ― W. Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

Roger Allam and filming S9F2 "Uniform", June 27th 2022, Magdalen College, Oxford.

12/24/2024

"the glow of a joy which wasn't and isn't and won't be words"

Have a wonderful Christmas, friends. Give love, take love: it matters. It works.

12/18/2024

is hands is work

12/16/2024

All calendar orders have now been dispatched. Thank you so, so very much, everyone 💚. If you've received yours already, let us know what you think!



PS There are still a few copies left at http://endeavournever.land/2025.

11/12/2024

A reminder that there's still time to get our 2025 charity calendar - with a chance to win a copy signed by . To everyone who already placed an order - thank you so very much, you're incredibly kind 💚.

Shaun is signing three copies for us - two to be awarded for the highest contributions, and one to be given to a buyer selected at random.

This is the last year we're publishing an "Endeavour" calendar.

Order yours at endeavournever.land/2025.

11/05/2024

Voting today.

10/30/2024

Dear all,

Orders are now open for the 2025 calendar, our 8th and last. It was a brilliant run, and great fun, and we're so incredibly grateful to all who supported this project over the years. This time, like in 2022 and 2023, the profits from the sale go to Macmillan Cancer Support 💚.

The highest contribution and the runner-up will each earn a calendar signed by . Because not everything is measured in numbers, we will also give one to a randomly selected buyer.

Should you win a signed copy, Shaun will sign it specifically for you, by name - or you could choose to have it signed for someone else as a gift.

To order, click on the image below, or head to https://endeavournever.land/2025 directly.

Please share this post, and do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions at all.

Endeavour/Shaun Evans calendar 2025 by endeavourneverland

10/26/2024

repetition is a form of change

10/11/2024

(or was something we saw in the mirror)?

10/07/2024

"...who i see regularly,about twilight,
enter the garden smiling to
himself."

10/06/2024

pretty speeches

10/02/2024

as Elia "Gadg" Kazan, Michael Aloni as Arthur Miller, Faye Castelow as Molly "Day" Kazan. "Here In America" curtain call, Orange Tree Theatre.

09/28/2024

Orange tree. (Shaun did a Q&A after one of the performances of "Here in America" this week.)

09/11/2024

As they say, "I don't know who needs to hear this, but...".

Please do not engage with any pages or individual profiles that claim to be Shaun Evans. Those pages might send you messages or respond to your comments (often inviting you to message them privately). They are not Shaun, they are not even FANS of Shaun, and they are not affiliated with him in any way whatsoever. Shaun does not have any social media presence.

Here's what is really going on, with an example (see picture below). Hopefully, this will help someone to see other fake pages for what they are, too.

pages with large number of followers are bought and sold. When a page changes hands, its name is changed and all of its contents (posts, images, etc) is erased, while its followers - who are largely unaware of what happened - continue to follow it. The page's new owners then begin posting new content, often AI-generated and automated, while actively trying to engage with their target audiences. The huge number of extant followers obviously helps as it tends to make potential new followers think that the page is legitimate.

Why would anyone do this?

Facebook pays for likes; it's called a "performance bonus". In the spirit of transparency: with 10K followers, we make about $4 a month from posting original content roughly once a week. Now imagine a page with 500K followers that posts (non-original, mostly stolen) content daily, tailors it to maximize user engagement, and actively promotes it. Farmed engagement is an extremely lucrative business.

Soliciting private messages is, too, a classic scam strategy: a credulous user will be chatted up and eventually asked for money. Sometimes, more elaborate tactic is used that might lead to identity theft.

In addition, an "impostor" page might sell unauthorized merchandise.

Telltale signs of these pages:

- A page has a name that is clearly engagement bait. Fraudulent use of names and trademarks is rampant, but in our example, note the laughable - albeit obviously irresistible for some - "privatechat" part.

- A page has a large number of followers, but only a few very recent posts.

- A page has no reviews, or has irrelevant reviews.

- All its posts are bland/generic in nature: pictures are low-quality screenshots from promo materials, Pinterest, or other pages' posts. There is NO ORIGINAL CONTENT. The content writer usually shows a very superficial knowledge of the subject, but tries very hard to be relatable and "cute". In the screenshot below, an old fan picture is used with a first-person phrase utilising a bit of trivia easily found by doing a quick Google search on Shaun. (The result is a post that makes him look a preening idiot.)

- An effort is made to make the page appear genuine. In the screenshot below, the page uses a "Facebook verified" checkmark as its profile picture. It's a trick; obviously it's not verified, but a cursory glance might make one think that it is. Other strategies might include using the word "official" in the name, etc.

- A page actively seeks engagement, sending private messages and responding - often in a very cloying/solicitous manner and in ungrammatical English - to user's comments on other pages.

For your own safety, and for the sake of supporting original content as opposed to the endless flow of recycled, often AI-generated s**t, stay away from pages like this.