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A poem by the Nebula Award-winning fantasy writer Naomi Novik, in remembrance of Ursula K. Le Guin.
I canāt say everything, but hereās what I can say.Ā
One of my favourite writers writes about another of my favourite writers.
my kink: when a violin and cello harmonise during a solo and the cello has the upper line
yesssss
Fortune cookies??
Random weird thought: WHY does Sherlock say he can always predict the fortune cookies? Most Chinese restaurants in the UK don't even give you fortune cookies; it's much more of a thing in the US. (Some do, but in my experience it's not super-common.)
Making it work is a hassle:
āNo, I didnāt kill anyone yesterday, but if you donāt stop being boring - ā
ā - whose shirt - ā
āNo brains in the fridge, weāve talked about this!ā
ā'Of course I havenāt drugged you, you always look like that until youāve had your ā ow!ā
Working, itās a hassle still:
āThis is stupid, the bed is clearly too small. Sebastian will have to - ā
āSorry, boss, didnāt see you there. Oh, was that your nose?ā - āUngdhf!ā - āNo, didnāt catch that.ā
āIf youāre all quite finished, then maybe Johnā¦ John? John, what - ?!ā
āThis isnāt breakfast, this is a pipe bomb!ā
And everyone wears bruises and no one imagines that this is bliss, but they are broken men all, and when the night fades theyāre still there.
Ok, so while I'm amusing myself dissing ships that aren't mine (no offence intended! I know what works for me but you are all entitled to your own opinions) here's what mormorlock made me think of:
Mormorlock: like marmalade but instead of sweet, orange and good on toast it's black, sticky, bitter-salty and you keep finding it smeared on your skin or under your fingernails, days after you thought you'd washed the last of it off...
OMG I just realised something. So Marylock doesn't really do it for me: the Marylock fics that I've found plausible generally feature what I consider to be rather OOC(anon) versions of Sherlock. Not, of course, that there is anything wrong with non-canon versions! But this is about what we can learn about canon representations. OTV with John in the middle works, and I can also get behind an in-character Mary (so far as anyone has any idea about Mary's character) who fancies Sherlock, but I just Do Not See that Sherlock fancies her at all.
And that's when I realised what Mary does, in this context. I know a lot of people don't like her and found her chumminess with Sherlock in T6T to be straining belief (after all, she shot him!) -- but. BUT. Mary is Sherlock's _platonic_ (2nd)BFF. They are so similar, they understand each other, they like each other... they have no chemistry whatsoever. THIS is what a platonic friendship looks like.
And then contrast this with the dynamic between Sherlock and John. Could it be any clearer?? Mary shows us, makes us acknowledge, what we've been seeing all along. If we find Marylock more plausible than Johnlock, we desperately need to take off our het-goggles...
š didnāt need my heart anywayā¦ š
Ouch. I think I just realised why this show appeals to me so much...
Part I: Chekhov, Absurdism, and the Meaning of The Final Problem
whoās ready to love this show again
This is brilliant!
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Hemingway: drabble challenge, 100 word challenge, yes the title is included in the word count, fight me, angst, sad, baby shoes
F Scott Fitzgerald: idk what Iām doing, lol party fic, Iām supposed to be working on something else right now, the real otp is despair
Virginia Wolfe: stream of consciousness, tw: depression and anxiety, tw: food mention, not sure what else to tag this as
Sylvia Plath: esther is not like other girls, depression, suicide, hurt/comfort, fuck the patriarchy
Edgar Allan Poe: detective au, everyoneās a suspect, darkfic, this was supposed to be satire, Iām not sure what happened,
Shakespeare: historical au, for Lizzy <3 <3 <3, either everybody lives or no on lives I havenāt decided yet, dick jokes, puns, stole this from Marlow not even sorry lmao
Jane Austen: hurt/comfort, fluff, angst, true love, dancing!, slow burn, donāt worry they all get there in the end (:
Jules Verne: long fic is long, technoporn, not in that way lol, genfic, unless you have your slash goggles on
Oscar Wilde: gay sin, major character death, suicide cw, only god can judge me, oh wait iām an atheist, Ā
Dostoevsky: moral degeneration, we all spiral towards despair, tw:epilepsy, tw:drinking, tw:mortal sins, tw:Europe mention, tw:suicide, tw:character death, crime fic, Jesus Christ returns!AU
Emily Bronte: landscape is a character, everyone is a jerk, tw:racism, tw:abuse, tw:loveless marriage, tw:major character deaths
Victor Hugo: period-typical racism, period-typical sexism, infrastructure, religious themes, poverty, nuns are fucking great ok, slice of life, linguistics, rambling, this latest chapter wasnāt supposed to be this gay, OR WAS IT, i just have a lot of feelings, (about poop), the land of a million tags, i do what i want, fuck you bugpipes is a word
This got so much better since the last time I saw it.
Charlotte BrontĆ«: slow burn, fic of a fic, yes thatās yours hi Jane, hurt/comfort, child abuse cw, death cw, listen I just took this girl from janeās fic and went ahead ok, just read it, btw helen is a cinnamon roll and must be protected
Arthur Conan Doyle: casefic, multiple ones actually lol, I have no idea what Iām doing, this got long, why canāt yāall let me rest Iām tired of this idiot??, Holmes/Watson if you squint, and I know youāre squinting Oscar, I could add so much cw stuff but nah, just donāt read it youāll do us both a favour, tell me again why I didnāt let him stay dead
Lewis Carroll: chess metaphors, sports metaphors, animal metaphors, extended metaphors, everything is a metaphor, jk none of itās a metaphor, or is it?, gaslighting, anthropomorfic, meta poetry, math kink, I do what I want
Ok but I grew up on SF so letās go
Mary Shelley: dubious science, tragedy, dr. frankensteinās a+ parenting, men who play god are assholes, inspired by polar expedition, set 50% in switzerland for ~reasons~, doomed relationship, gother than thou, oh look i just invented horror and sci-fi
Isaac Asimov: robots, robots as philosophical metaphors, plotty, a little sad, i just really like robots okay?, gen work, no the robots donāt have sex sorry
Robert Heinlein: self-insert, polyamory, incest, self-indulgent, porn with plot, gratuitous nudity, trans woman written by a cis man, dimension travel, wish fulfillment, massive crossover, fix-it of my own au, pregnancy mention, babies my self-inserts donāt have to take care of, mommy issues, breasting boobily, no really iām sure thatās how iād think if i were a woman, unexamined racism, occasional cannibalism, extreme libertarianism, i like guns, and redheads
Ursula K Le Guin: environmentalism, gender issues, nonbinary society, race issues, queer characters, anti-capitalist, role reversal, you say you want a revolution, one-way time travel (except that one time), my main characters are all introverts ok, foursome f/f/m/m, pov ant (it was just the once), nonbinary society, animist religious undertones, smash the kyriarchy
Octavia Butler: non-consensual body modification, mind control, post-apocalypse, human evolution, violence for survival, psychology, aliens who act like actual aliens, not fluff, occasional tentacles, did u know brown women can be pov characters in sf?, subverting christian imagery for the greater good, when the apocalypse comes black women will save humanity, i mean obviously
Ray Bradbury: vignette, one shot collection, dialogue light, description heavy, communication issues, creepy but beautiful, disturbing ending, sf and horror liberally mixed, my head is a distressing yet lyrical place, is it a hallucination or is it real?, itās probably real
CJ Cherryh: epic, got nine sequels planned out in my head, politics, aliens who act like actual aliens, plotty, violence, major character death, mindfuck, war, revolutions, family sucks sometimes, might do a vaguely happy ending if i decide i like the main character
JRR Tolkien: epic, long, cunning linguist, thatās not a euphemism, elf kink, dwarves obviously coded jewish by a christian author, faux historical, working through my trauma, beta by lewis, except he told me to cut that bit and i didnāt sorry not sorry, fairy tale elements, historical revisionism, vaguely biblefic, bittersweet ending, i donāt have a foot fetish shut up
Sherri Tepper: environmentalism, smash the patriarchy, aliens, worldbuilding, the plot kind of falls apart at the end, i wish i could make my characters more sympathetic, but they have to serve the theme, rape/non-con, bamf women, toxic masculinity is a contagious disease, metaphors, literary allusions, if youāre not disturbed youāre not paying attention
Lois McMaster Bujold: space opera, wonāt make sense unless youāve read the earlier stories, pov disabled character, bamf women, war, mild gore, civil war aftermath, politics, class issues, complicated parent-child relationships, canāt believe uterine replicators arenāt a thing in sf wtf, one bisexual character, one trans man character, one nonbinary character, confronting ableism, mental health issues, major character death, guys i stg this is not a trek fic
it's funny because it's true
Reblog if you're not homophobic
Every url that reblogās will be written in a book and shown to my homophobic dad.Ā
Love that this has over 1.2 million notes! Wonder how long homophobic dad is going to be stuck looking at this book...
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Ahaha, love it!
w-w-when when when it tries to scoop it up and put it in its mouth :3333
@nyagosstar @maliwanhellfires @jack-the-giantkiller @warriormaggie look at this cutie!
I saw this once and didnāt reblog it like I shoud have because it is too cute for words. Look at the little baby, working so hard.
Okay, but it legit caught that little green fishie. It disappeared after it scooped it up! Way to go, floof!
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oh my goodness *dies of cute*
Korean Artist Paints Tranquil Surrealist Illustrations of Books
Korean Illustrator Jungho Lee produces surreal art that embraces the subtle beauty of magic. Books are where dreams begin and the artist gently guides his viewer through a narrative treading this path.Ā
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Love these, esp the airplane window -- familiar and instantly recognisable images juxtaposed in an entirely unexpected way.
just realised that historical fiction is basically mostly RPF about people who aren't alive any more
āVatican Cameos.ā
[2x01]
magnificent cinematography! this is one of the best scenes ever in film history! šš»ā¤ļø
But where is āJohn, the soldierā? John just ducks. Sherlock and Irene acts, but not John. So where is the soldier?
John is a doctor here first of all. First of all he ducks and protects himself from possibly being hit as he is a bit in the way of the flying bullet. And then you can see that he immediately leans and crouches forward to check on the shot agent. He saw that the whole situation and the other left agents are under control by Sherlock and Irene and that the roles are contributed and so he does what he CAN do and contribute best next and acts as THE DOCTOR. No need for the soldier in this situation. ;)
This is probably my favourite scene in the whole series and yet Iāve never looked at what John is doing!
this is why it is important to rewatch the episodes multiple times. it is nearly impossible to catch and see all the details and small things (which sometimes are not so small after all and are clues that the creators leave us everywhere) from just one viewing and at once. ;) unless you are actually Sherlock himself. š as the saying goes: we see but we do not observe. š
boy, does that sound smartarseā¦ šš I swear it is not meant in a bad way š you know what I mean š
Yup that is my excuse for rewatching for the Nth time :D
I AM STILL YELLING AND DONāT KNOW WHATāS BETTERĀ
Patti and Nina mistaking Andrew Scott for Mark Gatiss
Patti and Nina pronouncing Markās name horribly wrong and I can hear Markās heart breaking in the distance
Alexander Armstrong (the host) being like I THINK IT PROBABLY DOESNāT MATTER SAY WHATEVER
Or, the last point:
MARK SITTING IN FRONT OF THE TV, WAITING FOR HIS FANBOY DREAM TO COME TRUE, DAVID SUCHET, HERCULE POIROT ON DOCTOR WHO,Ā
AND THEN THIS HAPPENS
Because who you really are doesn't matter :D
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
T. S. Eliot, from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (via thewinedarksea)
never not reblog eliot
I love this! And the tags are brilliant :D
