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DnD idea:

let your players make up the magic system as they go along, doing whatever overpowered bullshit they want as long as they give a brief in-universe explanation of why they can do that (e.g. “actually i’m immune to fire magic because i’m wearing red”).

keep track of everything they do. then use the magic system they created against them, turning every deus ex machina they ever gave themselves into a diabolus ex machina (e.g. “you notice that the giant plant monster has a red ribbon tied around its trunk, making it immune to fire magic”).

pacmastermeow

@probablygoodrpgideas

clarkworksheroes-blog

Disappointed but not with the episode...

Well looks like I’m in the very small percentage of people that actually liked The Final Problem.

The amount of time and effort that it takes every single one of the people that work on that show counts for something and for people to be slating them and saying ‘they’ve let every one of their fans down’ and that 'they should be ashamed of themselves’ is disgusting to me. They deserve better than that. Was the episode perfect? No, course not. Nothing ever is but it was a damn good episode and if people can’t see that then there’s something wrong.

I know a lot of people (not everybody) are saying the show was 'queerbaiting’ to which I roll my eyes. I’m aboslutely on the side of the lgbt community being represented in the media and in tv shows but do not blame a show and it’s writers for something not happening that was never promised to you in the first place. No ship is ever promised so when it doesn’t happen do not throw a tantrum and say you’ve been 'let down’ or that they’ve 'taken the right from you’. You never had the right. Nobody ever said it would happen.

Was Johnlock hinted throughout the show? Maybe. Maybe not. I know people that have watched the show and never even seen a hint of Johnlock and the idea of it is ridiculous to them. I, as a Johnlock shipper, have maybe looked into subtle things that I have considered hints. However, just because I have looked into that and considered it in a Johnlock context does not mean that the show intended for that. For example, I’ve seen the quote from Sherlock in ASiP about girls not being his area being used as an example of Moftiss 'queerbaiting’ thier audience. If you choose to see it as Sherlock saying girls aren’t his thing, guys are, so John and Sherlock should be together then that’s your porogative. Others might see it as Sherlock saying I’m not into people all together. It could even be seen as simply as Sherlock isn’t good around girls. Either way, it’s dependant on the person watching and what they choose to see and what they don’t. What everybody is crying about 'queerbaiting’ I personally believe to be people looking too closely into the show. Another example I found of this was when I was scrolling through Tumblr after The Six Thatchers was aired and someone had taken a screencap of the bus that John get’s off of while talking to the mysterious 'E’. They had pointed out how the number of the bus was the same as the date that gay marriage became legal in one of the US states (can’t remember now which one). Now maybe Moftiss fully intended to do this or maybe we as fans have become so obsessed with finding the hidden meanings and symbols that we’re looking far too closely into things?

Similarly, I’ve seen people saying that the characters were never Moftiss’s to use like that and they are 'ours’ and we know better. All I can say to that is don’t be so ridiculous. They are the writers and creators of the show and they can do whatever they want to with it! Just because we choose to write fanfiction, just because we can draw some fanart, just beause we have different opinions to them does not mean under any circumstances that we know better than they do. We as a fandom are being selfish and choosing to lash out at the writers for what they choose to do with their show. We have no right to get mad for our AU’s not happening or for our ships not happening. That’s what the fandom is for, so that we can create all that and take pleasure from doing it. If Moftiss just gave in and said sure do whatever the hell the fandom say then what would be the point in having a fandom at all? What fanfiction would we write if it was already being showed in the show? Don’t claim to 'know better’ about their own creation. That’s like somebody taking someone’s new invention and showing it round town, boasting about it and claiming it as their own when they haven’t even read the instruction manual. It’s rude and just makes them look the bigger idiot.

Don’t get me wrong, the episode wasn’t perfect and I have said that I didn’t think this series was as good as series past. There were a few plot holes and the show has definitely taken a more dramatic turn, straying away from the simple 'solve a case’ layout it began with. Yet, that does not warrant the amount of hate and the vile words that I have seen going around. I have been a huge fan of the show since the first episode and have always taken great comfort in knowing that the fandom was out there and have made so many friends from it but after last night I can honestly say that I am ashamed to be a part of it.

Some of the hate directed mainly towards Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffatt is absolutely disgusting and I can only hope that they see some of the positive comments coming from the few fans out there who don’t feel the need to completely disrespect the writers, actors and crew of such an amazing show.

I hadn’t intended to go on a rant but last night, after scrolling through the Sherlock tag, I was left with a sour taste in my mouth that had nothing to do with the episode, only the fans.

mayphoenix

Johnlock DID happen.

So, after watching the Russian version, the English version, and the PBS version, I sat in chat with a dear friend – a heterosexual but gay-supportive casual – as she watched the episode for the first time. She made comments as she went along, and gave me her reactions. And when the end came, I asked her what she thought, what she got from it. And I almost wept when she gave her answer.

Basically, her take on it was that John and Sherlock are in love and raising a child together with Mary’s blessing. She said she could tell they were stronger together this episode, that something had changed since last week, that they were a team again. She added that she loved Sherlock defending John’s presence to Mycroft, calling him “family.” She loved seeing them rebuilding 221B together, and the joy they shared with the baby. She noted that John wanted Sherlock to watch the DVD with him, where Mary tells them, in so many words, that they belong together. There were no other relationships other than the friends who came to see them. Even Irene was out of the picture. It was just Sherlock, John, and Rosie.

Now, if a casual can see that…well. I’m more convinced, now. It didn’t have to be a kiss or a blatant declaration of love. As I pointed out earlier, the love is there in the actions. It’s there in what they say without saying. We did get Johnlock. Maybe not the way we hoped. But it happened.

hedgehogjawn

Thank you. I'm not a super-tjlc-er...I had mostly disengaged from the fandom this past year. But I agree with this. I enjoyed this episode. I feel that any blatant declaration of love from Sherlock to John would have been out of character. He, and this site, have always worked on the minute details. DT tremors here, a bit of wet fabric there. Anything more obvious wouldn't have been Sherlock.

Me: Oh look at Mycroft being normal and repeating lines from a movie he's so cute

Me: Now fat Mycroft and baby Sherlock have doing some brotherly bonding

Me: Okay this is getting a little too creepy now, this has Moriarty written all over it

Me: I'm not liking this ghost girl.... it's uncomfortable

Me: DONT FOLLOW THAT DEMON GIRL

*Clown appears*

Me: *shuts my laptop and leaves the room* I DID NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS ABORT ABORT ABORT

benedictcumberbatchsitsinchairs

Insane fan wish-fullfillment?

Did you forget that Mark is the biggest Sherlock fan ever? So much so that he created his own fanfic and got it made into a smash hit television show? And that this episode was almost more about Mycroft than it was Sherlock?

HE WAS THE FAN WHOSE WISH HE WAS FULFILLING.

They didn’t lie to you at all, you merely interpreted it the way you wanted to.

artemispickle

Other Things To Do To A Drunken Sailor

Draw a dick on his face in Sharpie

Add his boss as a friend on Facebook

Eat the last of his Nutella

Text his ex with a “U up?” message

Tell the IRS he owes back taxes

voidbat

every single one of these fits the rhythm of the song. i sang each one of them. :D my mom’s addition was always “hit him in the face with a vick’s inhaler”

brighteyedjill

I don’t know why this is so funny, but it is. Sing it. Go on. I’ll wait.

rainbowbarnacle

EAR-LAY IN THA MOOORNIN’!

independentideals

Present for my niece for her birthday. She loves helping her momma play Neko Atsume

hedgehogjawn

Kiddo loves cats.

sixpenceee

The Shell Grotto is an ornate subterranean passageway shell grotto in Margate, Kent. Almost all the surface area of the walls and roof is covered in mosaics created entirely of seashells, totaling about 190sq metres of mosaic, or 4.6 million shells. It was discovered in 1835 but its age and purpose remain unknown. The Grotto is a Grade I listed building and is open to the public. (Source)

soulshaker007

That is fantastic!

Me On Chopped

Judges: she's just, she's just shoving food into her jacket, she's literally just here to steal food,

fuckyeahshockblanket

New details about “The Lying Detective”

i-detect-your-queerbaiting-deac

LET THEM REST

also “Your mother has a lot to answer for” “I know, I have a list. Mycroft has a file”

vanetti

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

mylittlephan-tasy

this is too good

thethroneofbooks

“ In August, 1968, the country was still reeling from the assassination of Martin Luther King four months earlier, and the race riots that followed on its heels. Nightly news showed burning cities, white flight, radicals and reactionaries snarling at each other across the cultural divide.

“A brand new children’s show out of Pittsburgh, which had gone national the previous year, took a different approach. Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood introduced Officer Clemmons, a black police officer who was a kindly, responsible authority figure, kept his neighborhood safe, and was Mr. Roger’s equal, colleague and neighbor.

“Around the first anniversary of Martin Luther King’s death, Mr. Rogers invited Officer Clemmons to join him in soaking their tired feet in a plastic wading pool. And there they were, brown feet and pasty white feet, side by side in the water. Silently, contemplatively, without comment.

“25 years later, when the actor playing Officer Clemmons retired, his last scene on the show revisited that same wading pool, this time reminiscing. Officer Clemmons asked Mr. Rogers what he’d been thinking during their silent interlude a quarter century before. Fred Rogers’ answer was that he’d been thinking of the many ways people say “I love you.”

- Carl Aveni’s FB page

harrygodzilla

Mr Rogers was one of the good ones.

apaullo95

^^^^^

knitmeapony

Considering the fraught and painful history of excluding black people from swimming pools in that era, there is no way this wasn’t a very pointed commentary to the people who were being exclusionary. This was a specifically chosen visual.

It’s not a fuck-you. Mr. Rogers didn’t do fuck-yous. But it was a clear, decisive, pointed statement. It was more than just showing inclusion; it was a deliberate response to what was going on in the world. This was him saying “you can do better. We can all do better. What you are doing is wrong.” This was a sweet, simple, and relatable thing to show little kids, to give them a view of a black man as kind and professional and a trusted adult – but also a lovely and strong statement to their parents and to the world.

It could have lost him his show, or at least his national distribution. It could have gotten him attacked both in the news and personally in person, but he did it anyway. I wish I knew if he ever talked about this, and how aware he and the show producers were of the statement this made.

Man, do we need more Fred Rogers in the world.

krisstraub

ALSO: At the end of the segment, Mr. Rogers helps dry Officer Clemmons’ feet, which is a biblical, supplicatory gesture. The scene was very, very intentionally about inclusion and caring.

keldermans

BUT WE ALL AGREE THAT MYCROFT WAS THE ACTUAL VICTIM HERE. WHERE DOES THAT BOY LIVE. EMPTY REFRIGIRATOR. WHAT IS THIS.

#season 4 sherlock #season 4 #spoilers #sherlock spoilers

otterysaintcatchpole

Who was the Potter cat?

So we all know the Potters had a cat, right?

All we have per descriptions of this cat is that 1. It was enough of a Potter to make the list when they went into hiding and 2. Harry scared it with his new broom he got from Sirius.

There is further no mention of said cat.

On the other hand, don’t we know another, really old, beaten down, ugly, sad, sad cat?

A cat that befriended Sirius Black and seemed to KNOW Peter Pettigrew’s smell, hold a grudge against him, even?

Part-kneazle, so it has a remarkable ability for finding things that are shiny and that it has a connection to, like, say, a family member.

A cat that knows it’s way around Hogwarts, around the Whomping Willow, almost like it had been there before with another owner.

A cat that absolutely REFUSED to let Hermione leave that shop without him after seeing a certain rat, was CRAZED, almost.

We have no mention of this cat/kneazle’s age, except that it had been in the shop for a while and no one had wanted it. Magical creatures live a long time. Cats live a long time. It’s within reason that this cat could be 30, even 40 years old.

It makes too much sense.

The Potter cat is Crookshanks.