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I mostly lurk on tumblr without engaging, but sometimes fandom hyper fixation hits and then I report and write and comment. Everyone should be free to like what they like and whom they like - goes bit for real life and fandoms. I do my best to be curious not furious about other people’s opinions. No offence is ever intended.

[avfwdrugec]

Gentle reminder that the human eye is naturally drawn by noise and movement, so the next time you walk into a crowd or a bit late into a lecture or something like that, they’re not staring at you or judging; it’s just an instinctive reaction that has nothing to do with you doing anything wrong.

[amymaymusings]

This really helps my anxiety.

[hinohde-deactivated20180613]

oh.

[systlin]

It’s literally a threat assessment/food gathering instinct. The steps your brain is doing, subconsciously. 

-Check to see if movement is lion in grass.

-Also check to see if possible game animal and edible. 

-No it’s just Dave getting into lecture hall a few minutes late. 

-That’s boring. 

-Lose interest. 

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

I like to believe that for a brief second, everyone looks at me thinking I might be a snack

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

via @vibratoryblurriness, thank you. social anxiety is successfully replaced with a mild amount of mortal fear

[consumerofshorthomies]

hmmm, actually I think Dave’s a snack but that’s completely seperate from him being edible

[spillywolf-deactivated20190920]

If courage isn’t the absence of fear but doing the right thing regardless of it, maybe confidence isn’t the absence of insecurity but knowing you have real worth despite it

[oncemylove-deactivated20180625]

this is beautiful

[randomslasher]

By this same token, maybe goodness isn’t the absence of bad thoughts or impulses, but the conscious choice to behave according to your moral ideals in spite of them. 

[paxpinnae]

That last point is so important to anyone who is trying to learn to overcome unconscious bias. Your first thought is your family, your society, your environment - your programming. Your second thought is up to you. That’s the one that matters.

[spacefruit]

Rewatching The Good Place for a show that:

Successfully critiques the concept of eternal punishments/rewards in the afterlife by using the story to build up the critique. And didn’t just throw it in as a last minute justification for killing off an entire universe of people.

Never forgets that it’s a comedy, despite grappling with very deep questions and concepts. And didn’t pull a genre bait-and-switch at the eleventh hour.

Expresses a deep love for humanity by having its supernatural characters develop redeeming and lovable traits because of their interactions with humans, to the point they eventually fight alongside the humans to save the afterlife-world. And didn’t minimize the agency of human characters by reducing their role in the narrative and by implying that said traits of the supernatural characters were actually just immutable facets of their souls or something they had the whole time or whatever.

Involves the main cast of characters essentially choosing to die, but because the show let them have a prolonged happy ending/afterlife and let them freely choose when it was their time to move on, all after they changed their world for the better, it was actually bittersweet in the best way. And didn’t have every single being in existence get obliterated, including characters who never got to resolve their relationship issues or reunite with their estranged sister or get a real shot at a regular human life or or or

Man, it sure would be crazy if another show chose to do the latter, terrible thing in each of these examples, wouldn’t it? Anyways

[redstonedust]

unfortunately i dont think its queerbaiting if the creator is just so terminally heterosexual that they never remotely considered the same gender relationship their show is centered around could be read as romantic. it is deeply painful however.

[melanqueerly]

Maybe accidental queer baiting? The way someone may not mean to say something rude, but it may come off rude, so it's rude. Frustrating either way.

[phinarei]

Not being a dick, just a friendly clarification.

By definition you can't accidentally queerbait. Queerbaiting is specifically using a same sex pair from the show to market the show to queer audiences with no intention of ever following through on a romantic relationship.

There is officially licensed Destiel merch signed off on by Kripke. Teen Wolf had a commercial with the actors for Derek and Stiles draped over each other talking about being "on a ship." Both shows actively used scenes between them as marketing while actively mocking fans for wanting them together. Sherlock has multiple characters refer to Johnlock as a couple, including characters we're supposed to believe are never wrong about human behavior and pushed those scenes in marketing. Then they acted insulted when fans saw them as a couple.

That's queerbaiting.

Done on accident it would just be queer subtext. Done because they had no other choice due to censorship is queer coding.

The specific meaning of the word is really starting to get lost and it's a pretty important one to keep accurate. It describes a very specific phenomenon that was done repeatedly and maliciously for decades and is meant to examine that specifically.

Doing it on accident sucks, but it isn't a tactic of capitalism intentionally intended to suppress queer representation while making money from queer fans.

[rafflesandholmes]

Young Sherlock verse Moriarty's henchmen are exceedingly polite and gentle with Sherlock whenever possible because they never know when James and Sherlock are going to temporarily reconcile.

Like, sure the boss said to lock Sherlock in a box, but last time he swore he was going to kill Sherlock, there was some interesting noises from the room they were in and the next day James ordered his henchmen to bring him and Sherlock breakfast. So sure, they'll lock Sherlock in a box. After making sure he has a pillow, some water, and a snack.

[arilamont]

That’s my head canon as well! Also, crack head canon: spies know if they say they work for Sherlock, they might get to live. This becomes such a big problem that James starts checking with Sherlock, only to realise with frustration that Sherlock just confirms any spies as his, regardless of who they really work for. Yes, they might be working for awful criminal organisations, but he is not going to have any deaths on his conscious.

[arilamont]

So this crack head canon is not letting me go and I now have an idea for a fanfic. A very silly, smutty and cliched fanfic. Now, I don't write fanfics, so please feel free to write this if the idea takes your fancy, I just couldn’t not share it.

It goes thusly: Moriarty catches Sherlock receiving information from his spy in Moriarty’s organisation. James figures out who the spy is, but agrees to let him go on two conditions: firstly, no one else can know he was a spy - bad for discipline and for Moriarty’s image to be seen letting him go. Secondly, Sherlock must remain Moriarty’s prisoner (I know, I know, I never said the idea was fresh or original) until Moriarty renders the information useless. It’s up to Sherlock how that goes, he can choose to spend this time in a bare room maybe with a book, or… and of course Sherlock chooses “or” (otherwise this would be an idea for an introspective existential character study, not for a smutty fic).

The rest of it is basically interactions of various shades and intensity of sexual tension, with some very mild dubcon (but not really) overtones.

But also, Moran getting exasperated with his boss for wasting time and resource to urgently rebuild part of the operation instead of just killing the spy (the information Sherlock received was encrypted and given they were caught right after, James could just kill the spy; but that would make Sherlock sad and James can’t have that).

Also John getting worried with Sherlock’s continued absence and going to Mycroft, who instantly realises that James is behind it and taking John to confront James. Only for John to go: this guy might be a Napoleon of crime but he got Sherlock to eat and sleep, so whatever this is, I approve. Another week of this sanatorium for Sherlock? Yep, doctor’s orders.

[fan-a-tink]

moriarty core

Young Sherlock Season 1

[onlylostphysics]

♪ ...the best thing in nature for drowning your sorrows... ♪

Young Sherlock (2026) S01E04

[bobparkhurst]

mycroft during this dinner scene is so heartbreaking and interesting to me. he is acutely, physically distressed here, and particularly in these moments we see him flinching when silas and sherlock begin to get physical. it speaks volumes about his own childhood and they are not happy ones.

[shim-changmin]

Dónal Finn as JAMES MORIARTY in YOUNG SHERLOCK (2026-) Season 1

[niranshands]

Mycroft Holmes and James Moriarty in Young Sherlock (2026)

[rubysunnday]

Young Sherlock (2026) Donal Finn as James Morarity

[finnwaller]

If I'm not supposed to condone violence, why'd they make it so hot?

[the-oxrib-and-oyster]

in my feelings today

[ladybracknellssherry]

i love you but the glue can't be season't 3 because the glue has a warning label letting you know exactly what awfulness is in there.

[panikara]

go3 is literally the fic with "Author Chose not To Use Archive Warning" and major character death in the end

[balthazarsspacebar]

Tbh to me it felt more like the author, whether through malice or ignorance, miscategorized their story as ⬜️ No Archive Warnings Apply before killing off literally every character and hitting post 🥲

[ge0mancer]

So tragic that one of my favorite shows, Good Omens, only has one season. At least it ends with Crowley and Aziraphale dining at the Ritz on a little dinner date.

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[thepromiscuousfinger]

Y'all.

I did some digging.

The word that led to all this was "scry".

[thepromiscuousfinger]

Shit be wildin on threads this week

[hyperactivehedgehog]

You should also be able to figure out what a text is saying without understanding every word. 90% of the time you'll do just fine even if a word is unfamiliar. You should be able to understand the meaning of a word through context, or at least the meaning of the sentence or paragraph. There are some rare instances where the specific word is crucial, but most of the time it's not necessary to understand the text.

This is a skill you are taught in foreign language classes btw. When you get to a certain level, they give you texts with words you probably don't know yet, and you have to summarise the text without looking any of them up. It really helps with your literacy skills. I can really recommend picking up some books with unfamiliar vocabulary and trying to understand it without looking up words

[functionally-immortal]

@unashamedly-enthusiastic

your tags are very correct and also read like poetry to me

[arilamont]

Didn’t realise this could be a thing…

[maidenimage]

Filtering out Anthony/Asa fics on AO3

Hi friends!

It has come to my attention that the character and pairings tags on AO3 have consolidated Aziraphale with New Universe Asa, Crowley with New Universe Anthony, and A/C with Anthony/Asa. I have put in a request to AO3 to have these tags separated out. But currently, if you search for A/C pairings, you will get fics that are new universe Anthony/Asa even if they are not tagged with A/C.

However, there is a way to fix this in your own searches.

When you search for fics with Aziraphale, and/or Crowley, and/or Aziraphale/Crowley, you can filter out anything tagged Asa and/or Anthony and/or "Fellony." You can, of course, do this yourself by simply setting the search parameters as such (e.g. if you wanted all Aziraphale fics and no Asa fics), but I thought it might help to provide you with an easy link for the pairing search.

This is a search for Aziraphale/Crowley fics that excludes fics that are tagged Anthony/Asa (either solely or additionally).

https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Aziraphale*s*Crowley%20(Good%20Omens)/works?work_search%5Bexcluded_tag_names%5D=New+Universe+Anthony+Crowley+%28Good+Omens%29%2CNew+Universe+Asa+Fell+%28Good+Omens%5D%2CNew+Universe+Anthony+Crowley%2FNew+Universe+Asa+Fell+%28Good+Omens%29

Stay safe out there!

💜 M

[arilamont]

I haven’t been able to read anything about them since the finale, but when (or if) I do this will be helpful.

[mickeynotthemouse]

i want to talk about this scene from young sherlock:

because they've been dancing around sherlock and james' attraction to each other all season, and anyone who's been on the shakespeare side of the internet has probably seen and/or made posts about the gay subtext between hamlet and horatio. "sweet prince" is known to be a common term of endearment between gay men in shakespeare's time, and a student like james would probably have known that (not because he was taught it, of course, but considering how much shakespeare he quotes i have a feeling he did his own research). the choices of shakespeare quotations in this show have all been so intentional, so full of love for his works, and it makes me so happy to see that.

the line itself (and dónal finn's impeccable delivery) is so gay, in fact, that the writers needed to have sherlock kiss a girl immediately after to maintain a heterosexual image. this failed, however, as now sherlock just seems bisexual rather than flat out gay, which in all honesty i can really get behind.

(if you couldn't tell, i'm a little obsessed with this show)

tl:dr james is gay and sherlock is bi and shakespeare is great.

[izamon]

Honestly kissing a girl after did not make me think Sherlock was in any way straight

Like his response was confusion, "how am I supposed to feel?" And conformity, "I want to feel how I'm supposed to feel"

And I swear Xiao Wei knew that, she looked at him after and I could tell she was thinking exactly what I was thinking, which was "hmmm, gay, ace or just autistic?" Lol