Quick, man, take your hat!

Classic literature enjoyer | Musical enthusiast | Self-proclaimed history fan (Sherlock Holmes, The Three Musketeers, The Beatles)

[snarkiesparks]

For a badge :D !!

[thesenesx]

it must be 2014 because I've got sheriarty on the brain

[triflesandtea]

OH. OH BLAZES.

[andy-the-irregular]

OH MY WORD.

[justpaulmccartney]

[bef0re-i-sleep]

Just read that one sherlock holmes story where theres that rich guy blackmailing people and Holmes got commissioned to help a lady that he's blackmailing, and when he doesn't budge he BREAKS INTO THE GUYS HOUSE TO GET THE LETTERS HE'S BLACKMAILING HER WITH, then witnesses a different woman come in and murder the blackmail guy, and then barely escape without getting caught. And then when Lestrade comes to ask him to figure out who killed the blackmail guy Holmes is like "lmfao no he had it coming" and that's literally it. Phenomenal.

[triflesandtea]

Ah, CHAS, my beloved.

[kat9994]

[andy-the-irregular]

I just made a terrible, devastating connection.

[theniftycat]

I think The Three Musketeers has its status in pop-culture thanks to its sequels. otherwise, it would be closer to novels by Walter Scott or R.L. Stevenson.

sequels make the musketeers into truly great characters. like, og Athos? red flags all around. sequels Athos is an amazing example of character growth and infinitely lovable. og Porthos? neat. sequels Porthos is to die for. og Aramis? cute. sequels Aramis is hauntingly complex and self-centered. og D'Artagnan? a typical shonen protagonist. sequels D'Artagnan is smart, loyal, cunning, aware of his strengths and weaknesses.

the trouble is that people stopped reading the sequels.

go read the sequels!

[andy-the-irregular]

I just found out there is a The Three Musketeers series from the 60s starring Jeremy Brett as D'Artagnan???? How did I not know about this? It's just the perfect concept.

[whenyoulikeandwhereyoulike]

I watched it on the internet archive!

[andy-the-irregular]

Thank you so much!

Be sure I'll binge-watch this

[andy-the-irregular]

I just found out there is a The Three Musketeers series from the 60s starring Jeremy Brett as D'Artagnan???? How did I not know about this? It's just the perfect concept.

[e-for-annoying]

Young Sherlock has such a grip on me.

[thebeatlephenomenon]

Paul: sings a soft cover of Strawberry Fields directly towards John who's not paying attention while news clippings of John saying "i love Yoko Ono" appear

Me:

[andy-the-irregular]

I started reading The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes recently and that one plot point of The Illustrious Client hit me right in the feels, man

The fact that Watson was *ready* to beat up the crap out of the guy who hurt Holmes is so sweet

I mean, look at this:

My guy was so worried :(

I love them

[andy-the-irregular]

Back on Tumblr, heck yeah baby

[ghostbees]

Very apropos of the fabulous Chairs Against Milverton Day, a cartoon I did last year for The Watsonian!

[aregularirregular221b]

HAPPY CHAIRS AGAINST MILVERTON DAY. GO GET YOUR CHAIRS AND THROW THEN AT THAT FRICKING MONSTER OF A MAN.

@triflesandtea @inkinary @elsinorerose

[triflesandtea]

YEEESSS! All the chairs!

[andy-the-irregular]

THROW THEM CHAIRS

[future-crab]

Right now my career plan is that some type of Red-Headed League type nonsense will happen to me

[good-to-drive]

Shipping is fine but I like to imagine what would have happened if the beatles were forced to choose one member to be sacrificed before the sun rises but all four must agree or all four will be killed

[good-to-drive]

My two cents:

John and Paul would both devolve very quickly into “we’re the greatest artists of all time, our lives will be more successful and more important than yours anyway, it should be one of you two.” They would feel fucking horrible about it, but they don't want to die, and they don't want to see each other die. They would present a united front as long as there was never any realistic possibility of sacrificing one or the other of them – if George and Ringo had the sense to team up on one of them then things might be different, but they don't, so it isn't.

Ringo is the first one who would actually vote for himself. He'll even vote for himself when it doesn't make sense – Paul and John will pretty quickly team up on George just on instinct, and Ringo could probably push George over the edge if he really tried, but he's quickly resorted to pretending this isn't happening. Just keep voting Ringo. This will be over soon. Everything will be over soon. He’s quite sure that all of them will be sacrificed, so going to the quiet place inside of himself makes the most sense. Soon the waves will close over his head and he'll be warm below the storm. Happy and safe. Happy and safe. The others, too.

At one point, in a moment of either bravery or weakness, John would offer to sacrifice himself. But Ringo would vote Ringo and it would devolve into chaos. George, out of sheer contrariness, votes for Billy Shears. The argument continues.

The closest they'd come to escape is John and Paul finally, painfully, deciding to vote for Ringo. But George refuses. Partly because he feels very deeply that this is unfair, and partly because if the four of them can't agree then John and Paul both die, and he's so fucking angry at this point that he's perfectly willing to be sacrificed if it means that for once John and Paul won't get what they want at everyone else's expense.

Of course, the twist is that only the people who voted for themselves get to live, but frankly John and Ringo wouldn't take it very well. George was so sick of subservience that he chose to value his life even if that meant choosing to end it, while Paul's clever determination to game the situation and come out on top ultimately killed him. Neither John nor Ringo would ever entirely come to terms with any of this. They'd spend the rest of their lives wishing they hadn't been willing to die, since they'd rather that they'd have died.

[andy-the-irregular]

Could someone get Michael Lindsay-Hogg to direct this?