Carnelian Corax

What a lovely thing a rose is! I cannot resist a pair of men who are unhealthily obsessed with each other. I am an adult :p

[ktae]

they couldn't write hawkeye saying goodbye to trapper john bc you couldn't show gay sex on television in 1975

[myrinthinks]

So I'm an archivist and a few days ago I got an email from a 15-year-old girl wanting to know if I've got any material on the only still-existing old mill in town (you've got to imagine this mill not like a quaint, stereotypical windmill the likes of which Don Quixote fought against but rather like an industrialisation-era factory).

I wrote back and asked if she needed this for a school project or for something else where there's a deadline looming, for the simple reason that the more time I have, the more in-depth I can go with my research and the more material I'll be able to get for her.

And she answered that no, it's for her personal use because she's interested in abandoned buildings in general.

And, like. What an absolutely excellent hobby for a teenage girl to have. I bet she's the coolest person in her class and I hope that no one ever gives her a hard time about her interests.

[chillyfeetsteak]

wheeeeee wahooooo lalalala

[lesbianbloodritual]

the humble tank top has done so much for homosexual women

[fluentisonus]

it feels so evil that you can't still access your university online library after you graduate *remembers my principles* it feels so evil that everyone can't access to that stuff all the time

[hollyevolving]

That is very true.

If it's of any help, jstor allows individual users to register for free Independent Researcher accounts with access to 100 documents per month.

[muffinlance]

it WHAT

[insidestory1]

Healthy people will never understand what a massive achievement it is to do your laundry AND cook yourself a meal in one day.

[catilinas]

i love shipping magazines and i especially love them when they sound like they were written by a mildly aggravated cargo ship

[fnordseer5]

our idiotic ancestors used to believe stuff that's not true but luckily we've now figured out all the true things to believe in

[fiercestpurpose]

There’s a quality that certain books/movies/TV shows have that leads me to say, “Yeah, I can see people making fanfiction of that.” It’s something to do, I think, with how tight the story is, how much feels open-ended or like it could be elaborated on.

Something like Breaking Bad, for example, has low squiggability (that’s what I’m calling this quality). It’s tightly written, the characters are consistent, there’s little left to interpolate or extrapolate. Obviously, people DO write fanfic of Breaking Bad, but it still has a low squiggability score. Whereas something like Supernatural has a high squiggability score. Fantasy and science fiction often have high squiggability scores. This suggests squiggability could also be related to worldbuilding and potential for people to borrow a premise or setting.

And sometimes you’ll read or watch something and you’ll say, “Ah, low squiggability,” and then you’ll open tumblr and find out that everyone else seem to think its squiggability was very high indeed.

[keepthemacramesecret]

maybe this is an 'i dont know how to have fun' situation but truly i dont get why we lend any credence at all to the idea of watson having a bunch of marriages it is blatantly nonsense and it only comes from baring-gould's extremely forced and broken timeline.

watsons marriages in canon are really not that ambiguous, watch this:

1. Mary Morstan

2. MAZA, CREE, ILLU, and 3GAB; and BLAN. These are all set pretty specifically around Sep 1902 to 1903 when Watson is suddenly 'living in [his] own quarters in Queen Anne Street' and mentions having a busy practice but says not one single word of a wife in any of his stories. (He was still at Baker St in 3GAR in June 1902.) BLAN of course has the infamous "The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action which i can recall in our association." This is much too late to be Mary unless Holmes has disguised the date of BLAN, and if he has, there's no indication of a second wife in the other 4 stories in this group.

Thats it! Just Mary and one extremely tenuous maybe around 1902. we do not need to be making up 5 to 7 unnamed disposable women out of thin air its ridiculous.

[carneliancorax]

OP's tags:

#i would also argue w BLAN that if holmes considers this the ONLY selfish action... #what would make any other marriages not also fit that description? #i just think holmes is talking about mary there #its so much tidier for it to be one marriage. one selfish desertion. #*i* wont pretend my own arbitrary moving dates around to set BLAN more around 88-89 is canon though #obv irl its just set in 1903 bc doyle wanted to write abt the war he had been personally involved in as a doctor #but the british army was fucking around in south africa the whole era #it doesnt need to be set exactly after the 2nd boer war for the actual story to work #i also have another theory on the queen anne st thing btw but it would really be a tangent #sorry i cannot shut up but ALSO ALSO ofc it was a bigger thing for women but divorce at all is such a scandal at this time #if watson was getting married and divorced and remarried every 2 yrs his reputation Would suffer #and if he had 6 wives who all kept Dying Tragically thats like. not Better implications!! ahhhhhhh!! #baring-gould when i fucking get you

[keepthemacramesecret]

#okay but what's your queen anne street theory i'm so curious

ofc! So Queen Anne St is right next to Harley Street and similarly full of well-off doctors, mostly specialists. obviously the intended reading is that Watson has set up *his own* practice there, but realistically he uh. Is not wealthy or established enough to do that. He only ran his practice for ~6 years before giving it up and saying he never did very well at it, and he's been out of it for several years by this point. Hes a good doctor but not really able to maintain a high end practice yk, certainly not in one of the most expensive and prestigious locations in London.

However ☝ that little batch of stories is all set not just around the same time but also shortly after 3 Garridebs (where he is still living at 221b), so i think one way you could take this is that Watson suddenly being unavailable to go along on cases and spending a lot of time on Queen Anne Street is a euphemism for him recovering from that injury, the severity of which was downplayed publicly for both their safety (Holmes still has enemies, if you know Watson's out of the game for the moment...)

[carneliancorax]

Interesting! I hadn't thought of that possibility. The first explanation that popped into my head when reading ILLU was, "did Watson actually move out at all, or is he just telling the public that he'd moved out of Baker Street to avoid homophobic suspicion?" However, as I'm building my chronology, I try to take Watson at his word unless it is literally impossible for him to be telling the truth (e.g. when there are direct contradictions or the stated order of events is temporally impossible) because if one believes that anything he says whatsoever could be a complete lie, then what's the point of any of the stories at all? (Right, Baring-Gould? Right??) So it's interesting to hear other theories, since I've not got my own yet.

[keepthemacramesecret]

Yesss I do love that idea too, especially with ILLU being so much about blackmail and grudges and Gruner and Holmes both targeting each others reputation ! I've def done the same thing with my chrono, like u get pretty far just with the dates watson gives you so its rly wild to me how often B-G will move a story that literally has a date and no conflicts like... u rly dont need to do all that dsfkdkfh

[carneliancorax]

It drives me up the wall that Baring-Gould's books on Holmes are relatively easily available, but I cannot for the live of me find for sale, rent, borrowing, or piracy, Jay Finley Christ's An Irregular Chronology of Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street. I can only see the dates he gives for each story on the ACD Encyclopedia website, and I almost always agree with them, so I really want to read it, but it does not appear to be available anywhere except the University of Minnesota's Sherlock Holmes Collection (which I learned of in my desperate search for this book) and I cannot get to Minnesota.

[carneliancorax]

So frustrating when you know exactly the book you want to read and it is the only book you want to read but there does not appear to exist a book with exactly the mixture of vibes and tropes and events that you have clearly in your head

[keepthemacramesecret]

maybe this is an 'i dont know how to have fun' situation but truly i dont get why we lend any credence at all to the idea of watson having a bunch of marriages it is blatantly nonsense and it only comes from baring-gould's extremely forced and broken timeline.

watsons marriages in canon are really not that ambiguous, watch this:

1. Mary Morstan

2. MAZA, CREE, ILLU, and 3GAB; and BLAN. These are all set pretty specifically around Sep 1902 to 1903 when Watson is suddenly 'living in [his] own quarters in Queen Anne Street' and mentions having a busy practice but says not one single word of a wife in any of his stories. (He was still at Baker St in 3GAR in June 1902.) BLAN of course has the infamous "The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action which i can recall in our association." This is much too late to be Mary unless Holmes has disguised the date of BLAN, and if he has, there's no indication of a second wife in the other 4 stories in this group.

Thats it! Just Mary and one extremely tenuous maybe around 1902. we do not need to be making up 5 to 7 unnamed disposable women out of thin air its ridiculous.

[carneliancorax]

OP's tags:

#i would also argue w BLAN that if holmes considers this the ONLY selfish action... #what would make any other marriages not also fit that description? #i just think holmes is talking about mary there #its so much tidier for it to be one marriage. one selfish desertion. #*i* wont pretend my own arbitrary moving dates around to set BLAN more around 88-89 is canon though #obv irl its just set in 1903 bc doyle wanted to write abt the war he had been personally involved in as a doctor #but the british army was fucking around in south africa the whole era #it doesnt need to be set exactly after the 2nd boer war for the actual story to work #i also have another theory on the queen anne st thing btw but it would really be a tangent #sorry i cannot shut up but ALSO ALSO ofc it was a bigger thing for women but divorce at all is such a scandal at this time #if watson was getting married and divorced and remarried every 2 yrs his reputation Would suffer #and if he had 6 wives who all kept Dying Tragically thats like. not Better implications!! ahhhhhhh!! #baring-gould when i fucking get you

[keepthemacramesecret]

#okay but what's your queen anne street theory i'm so curious

ofc! So Queen Anne St is right next to Harley Street and similarly full of well-off doctors, mostly specialists. obviously the intended reading is that Watson has set up *his own* practice there, but realistically he uh. Is not wealthy or established enough to do that. He only ran his practice for ~6 years before giving it up and saying he never did very well at it, and he's been out of it for several years by this point. Hes a good doctor but not really able to maintain a high end practice yk, certainly not in one of the most expensive and prestigious locations in London.

However ☝ that little batch of stories is all set not just around the same time but also shortly after 3 Garridebs (where he is still living at 221b), so i think one way you could take this is that Watson suddenly being unavailable to go along on cases and spending a lot of time on Queen Anne Street is a euphemism for him recovering from that injury, the severity of which was downplayed publicly for both their safety (Holmes still has enemies, if you know Watson's out of the game for the moment...)

[carneliancorax]

Interesting! I hadn't thought of that possibility. The first explanation that popped into my head when reading ILLU was, "did Watson actually move out at all, or is he just telling the public that he'd moved out of Baker Street to avoid homophobic suspicion?" However, as I'm building my chronology, I try to take Watson at his word unless it is literally impossible for him to be telling the truth (e.g. when there are direct contradictions or the stated order of events is temporally impossible) because if one believes that anything he says whatsoever could be a complete lie, then what's the point of any of the stories at all? (Right, Baring-Gould? Right??) So it's interesting to hear other theories, since I've not got my own yet.

[thissweetenamor]

[licaijun99]

Artfight✍

The character belongs to @bowelfly

[forthegothicheroine]

I empathize with Mary Bennet but not in the flattering nerdy girl way, in the 'having failed to be popular as a teenager, I decided I was smarter and more moral and artistic then everyone anyway, and had a reflexive snobbishness that probably made me insufferable even to those who might have been sympathetic' way. Thankfully my future life and marriage wasn't determined by who I was at 15.

[sith-shenanigans]

*looks at polyamorous triad* so which of you is the soldier and which is the poet and which is the king

[sith-shenanigans]

this is the perfect reblog post cancelled

[proteusolm]

aheem heem 🥺 whimper