Baker Street Doctor

Julia/29/Germany. Mostly just trashposting with some feminism, animals, science and fandoms strewn in. Great Northern War enthusiast. Idk I've been on here for too long, this site has ruined me. DNI Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony, supporters! Yes, I'm a Slytherin. Ex-edgy teen. Unironically straight edge. If you need anything tagged, message me! I'll do my best about it. If you want to avoid seeing my blorbos please block 'max and karl', any post by me is tagged 'personal'. My inbox/IM is always open to all of you and I appreciate every message I get. It's to be seen if you appreciate my answer though.

[bakerstreetdoctor]

In my freak era

Educate yourselves

[skoomabong]

sure

[centuriespast]

Indonesia

Eastern Java

Piggy Bank, 14th/15th century

Art Institute Chicago

[milkywayes]

i think there’s a fundamental difference between revenge for yourself and avenging someone else. there’s different implications about what’s most important to you. who are you doing this for, yourself or someone else? which is to say that i think the language matters when we talk about garrus’ loyalty mission.

fandom loves to compare it to zaeed’s quest for revenge, but i don’t think it’s easily comparable. zaeed was betrayed and left for dead by this man and he would kill any number of innocents to exact his revenge. it’s entirely about his own ego. what garrus is doing is far more complex, considering turian social mores of accountability and absolute loyalty to your team, which garrus is trying to uphold and which sidonis broke. he’s not the sole victim, and he never talks about it in the sense of what sidonis did to him. it’s about the deaths of his squad that he is trying to avenge, taking responsibility as their leader to rectify his mistake of trusting someone that he shouldn’t have trusted, and delivering a sentence that for all we know, turian courts would have upheld. i don’t believe for a moment that betraying your team and causing their deaths isn’t one of the worst crimes you can commit in turian society. as garrus points out, no one who knows what happened cares about it but him. they weren’t turians in the hierarchy, they were outlaws on omega. no one is going to deliver justice if garrus won’t, and his upbringing says this is a crime that cannot go unpunished, and it’s his responsibility, and his fault.

you can draw parallels about what it does to a person to put all their energy into chasing one person to execute them, especially someone who they once considered a friend or team mate. we see the toll it takes on garrus. we see how he reaches for violence first. all fair things to discuss, and i will always argue that talking garrus out of taking the shot is the best thing you can do for his longterm mental health and development.

but they’re fundamentally not the same. zaeed, as much as i like him, is a ruthless killer who thinks only about himself. garrus is trying to repay the trust that was once placed in him and do right by his squad after their deaths. the core motivator is not his own pride, though it gets tangled up in that when it comes to his self view (if he fails to do this, then what does that say about him, what kind of man is he, how could he ever take a leadership role again? he owes these people justice, and he doesn’t know if he can live with himself if he doesn’t deliver it.)

we have no reason to believe garrus would ever let a factory full of innocents burn just to put a bullet into sidonis. he is not zaeed, and this is not petty revenge.

[emptyskiff]

Grace's bike of "i ride a bike to work, and it's not for exercise" fame

[diamondeyes-deluxe]

I work with kids and sometimes we have to do safety lessons with them about like, not telling strangers on the internet your home address or something. And sometimes the kids wont understand why, so you have to impart upon them that, well, some adults want to hurt children. And thats kind of difficult to do, because you have to beat around the bush, both because you dont want to scare them (while still making them understand how serious it is) and because you might lose your job if you explain it too straight forward.

Luckily, for some reason, the villain of one of the most popular franchises with children for the last 10 years happens to be a serial child murderer. So when a kid asks why they shouldnt trust strangers, instead of hand wringing and humhawing my answer out, I can just say "we dont always know when a strange adult has good intentions with children, or when they are William Afton."

[imaginarylands4000]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

it's cool how in the 6 years since this tweet was written it's become significantly less useful not because anything has gotten better but because the majority of products on Amazon are now from fly-by-night brands called "ZZPORK" and "GLUM4PANT"

[bettybeagettymcclanahan]

okay. if you are a woman living in a country in which women have certain rights. and your family or lover wants to sweep you away to a country in which women have fewer rights.

well. don’t do that.

[purplepints]

Oldest human footprint discovered, made 153,000 years ago in South Africa.

Oldest human footprint in North America, made 21,000 years ago in New Mexico, USA.

Oldest human footprint on the Moon, made July 20, 1969 on the Sea of Tranquility, Earth's moon.

[damnprecious]

I had the funniest customer interaction today

A family of german-speakers came to buy ice cream, and were figuring out our Finnish flavor list on their own very successfully since many of the words look similar enough, and only had to ask abt one flavor and confirmed that they deduced another one correctly, and then proceeded to place their orders, at which point they decide to start translating the words into English, at which point I just stood there basically going "no no no it's fine, you want the lakritze and you want the schokolade apfelsine, pls don't throw me off with your licorices and oranges, lakritsi and suklaa-appelsiini it is!"

[jotainjotain-muuta]

kaikki muut maailman kielet, kun englanti puuttuu keskusteluun ananaksesta

[torillatavataan]

#No siis englannin kielen puolustukseksi #Ananas = mänty omena ei ole edes kamalan huono kun ajattelee että omena/apple oli ennen niiden yleissana hedelmälle #eli ne käytännössä nimes sen mänty hedelmäks #ja ananas kyl muistuttaa vähän männyn käpyä joten nään nimeäjän logiikan #Ja on meilläkin putoja hedelmän nimiä vähän mutkan kautta #Esim meidän (ja saksan) sana appelsiinille tarkoittaa kiinan omenaa #Muistaakseni kiinan omena oli myös tovin ihan virallinen nimi sille

[royalty-nobility]

Equestrian Portrait of Charles XII

Artist: King Stanislaus I Leszczynski (Polish, 1677-1766)

Date: n. d.

Medium: Gouache on wood

Collection: National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

Charles XII of Sweden

Charles XII (1682 - 1718), was the king of Sweden from 1697 until his death in 1718, notable for his military prowess and absolutist rule. Born into the Vasa dynasty, he ascended to the throne at the young age of 16, quickly demonstrating a strong-willed and ambitious character. His reign is most prominently marked by the Great Northern War (1701-1721), a conflict initiated by Peter the Great of Russia, where Charles initially showcased his military genius, earning him the title "Lion of the North." Despite early victories against Denmark and Poland, the war eventually took a significant toll on Sweden, culminating in Charles's defeat at the Battle of Poltava in 1709.

Throughout his reign, Charles spent the majority of his time away from Sweden, focusing on military campaigns rather than domestic governance. His single-minded pursuit of glory led to the decline of Sweden's absolutist monarchy and the rise of parliamentary power, as his sister Ulrika Eleonora assumed leadership in his absence. The war concluded with the Treaty of Nystadt in 1721, which saw Sweden lose significant territories and marked the decline of its status as a great power, paving the way for the emergence of Russia as a dominant force in Northern Europe. Overall, Charles XII's reign represents a complex interplay of military ambition, personal sacrifice, and political transformation that shaped the future of Sweden.

[bakerstreetdoctor]

wtf am I being recommended here (disgusting man content, below the cut)

[riverlarking]

15k likes?

[its-terf-or-nothin]

“Why do you keep your body hair?” because I’m an ape and apes are supposed to have hair on their bodies, hope this helps. 👍

[fuckyeahchinesegarden]

Jiuzhaigou Valley in summer, Sichuan Province, China (photos by 茄茄轻松出门)

[mapsontheweb]

Every place worth the detour: 111,956 ruins, sacred sites, castles, natural wonders, museums and gardens, mapped from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. https://detourmap.com

[mapsontheweb]

River flow anomalies in Europe, July 2026

(by Anadolu Agency)