I Could Be Reading Fan Fiction

This blog is mainly for my joint OTPs Johnlock and Merthur.  I also love Colin Morgan anything, Dwarves, Hobbits and various tidbits of information. 

[callie-ariane]

A second home for the “Sherlock” (and “Cabin Pressure”) transcripts

Well, now that I’ve got your attention with a pretty picture:

Housewarming party round at my new home!

As I announced earlier, I have migrated my entire Livejournal blog to Dreamwidth.  I have now updated all the links to the front pages and inside each page so that (hopefully) any link which you click will go to the Dreamwidth version rather than go back to LJ.

Click here for the transcripts’ new home.  

So feel free to follow me if you’re registered there, or to bookmark the front page for future reference.

(There are bound to be a few mistakes.  If you spot one, do please let me know, either here on Tumblr or on Dreamwidth.)

Any future edits (and if/when there’s a Special Edition Sherlock Season 4 DVD which includes audio commentaries) will probably only appear on Dreamwidth.  I’m not sure I’ve got the energy to update the LJ entries as well, although any new announcements should cross-post back to LJ.

The main Index, attached as a Sticky at the top of the first page, includes links to:

- Transcripts of all Sherlock episodes, including Many Happy Returns and the pilot episode

- Downloadable versions (Word and PDF) of the Sherlock episodes

- A side-by-side comparison of the broadcast episode and pilot episode of A Study in Pink

- Summaries/partial transcripts of the six audio commentaries on some of the Sherlock episodes

- Transcripts of the DVD Extra Features, including the deleted scene from His Last Vow, and the gag reel

- Transcripts of all Cabin Pressure episodes, as well as a transcript of the interview between John Finnemore and David Tyler from the CD boxset

- An index of all my Sherlock fanfic and macros

- An index of all my Cabin Pressure fanfic and macros

- An index of all my Primeval fanfic and macros

- An index of miscellaneous other stuff, including Benedict’s one-off appearance in Look Back in Anger; the Frankenstein Q&A with Ben, Jonny Lee Miller and Danny Boyle; and the two An Afternoon with Mark Gatiss events. And cupcakes of Benedict’s naked bum.

If you fancy popping in to say hullo, even if you’re not registered with Dreamwidth, click on the title of the Index (“STICKY: INDEX - LINKS TO ALL ITEMS IN THIS BLOG”) and hopefully – if I understand DW properly, which I might not – you should be able to comment.

And if you don’t threaten me with a knighthood damehood after all that, I’ll make you into shoes. ;-)

Love and hugs,

Dame Ariane

[marsdaydream]

The trouble with Mary.

The laundry list of problems with Sherlock’s last two seasons is long and convoluted, but one person seems to crop up on it frequently: Mary.

Unfortunately, Mary’s character seems to be the wrench that first threw the show out of alignment in S3. It’s not that Mary Morstan shouldn’t have been introduced, or that Amanda’s performance wasn’t well done. It’s that Mary was inserted into the show and then manipulated in a way that broke the logic of the plot, not to mention the dynamic of the two leads. More than that, the writers used her repeatedly to bait-and-switch the audience, without ever following up on the ideas they planted.

More rambling on this, below the cut.

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[renthebarbarian]

YES, YES TO ALL OF THIS

Can I just say that Moffat and Gatiss supremely SUCK at writing women?

[rominatrix]

Martin and Ben ♥ from Sherlock s4 BTS

[thenerdyfan]

Headcanon

In HLV they had to change the script to a handshake because every time they did the hug Martin would bury his head in Bens neck and Ben would rest his head on martins. Like Moffat would be like “just a proper embrace! Oh ffs just do a handshake”

[fyeahfreebatch]

This is probably a recurring theme on set 

“This scene isn’t supposed to be sexual. Stop doing that.”

“Guys, you’re making everyone uncomfortable. Could you take it down a few notches?”

“For the love of god, just look at each other like normal people. Please.”

“Pretty sure the script didn’t say anything about eye fucking.”

“Maybe we could try that without you touching his ass?”

[shacklefunk-deactivated20220623]

the biggest lie ive ever been told as an artist is that u have to be successful at it for it to make u happy. u dont. u dont ever have to make a cent. u can pursue a completely different career and paint pictures for urself on sundays, write ur own songs on the bus, whittle a thousand little sculptures that dont look like anything. if the only fucking artistic thing u do in ur entire life is make little rabbits out of pipe cleaners just for urself bc u enjoy it, that is art that is worth being made. there is inherent value to joy

[xcss]

just let them snuggle :,(

[nouralogical]

[natureac]

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[shedidnthaveaface]

Please enjoy this tiny twirling water owl.

[icecream-noodle]

Rotate your owl for science

[cataradical]

@babblingbug

[becausebirds]

round and round it goes

[princess-maverick]

@commanderholly

[tempuros]

[natureac]

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[asianfuck]

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[theymerb]

66% of white women voted for Trump.

Their whiteness is more important than their womanhood to them.

White women want the power of white men.

White women cannot be trusted.

[dramady]

Not all white women. Not this white woman. To put us all into this category won’t help. I will continue to fight for all my friends.

[hippity-hoppity-brigade]

actually, i think otherwise! to put us all into this category highlights our position of power over people whose voices were not heard at the polls yesterday. 

it’s like… 

rapists can’t be trusted, right? rapists are the absolute scum of the earth. and what’s worse is not knowing who is a rapist. someone in your circle of friends? someone you pass on the street? the person ahead of you in line at starbucks? so you close yourself off from someone who has that power over you. maybe just a little bit, but you’re aware of how you could be hurt. you make plans in your head about how you’d escape if you were attacked; you’re aware of the person behind you at the atm; you go quiet when they start talking about how they treated their dates. 

and if a guy said “not all men are rapists!” you’d say, “yeah, but all men can be rapists.” 

white women, honestly, cannot be trusted. we have endorsed and enabled slavery. we have joined the kkk and we have thrown rotten fruit at children who are walking to school. we have spit on black women who tried to fight for suffragette rights alongside us. we have formed and worked in organizations that sterilize black women without their knowledge. we turn into teachers who demonize little black boys for being too “loud” and “masculine” when they’re only being kids. we do little shitty things like try to touch black women like they’re exotic animals, and say that hispanic neighborhoods look “shady,” and tell women of color that there aren’t enough white heroines yet and that black women need to wait their turn to be important. 

it makes sense that people of color would put up their barriers and make escape plans from us. with that history, when have we really been allies? when have we been anything but fair-weather friends who love beyonce but think “ghetto” black girls are trashy? how can they know which one of us is one of the nearly 70% of white women in america who voted for trump? which one of us in starbucks or passing by on the street would betray them - has already betrayed them? 

there’s a lot that we white women have to do into order to prove ourselves to black women and black communities. it’s really hard to stand up against the status quo, especially when we’re very aware of what we could lost if we speak up. (there goes your job, your friends, your opportunities….) but if black women are living without those opportunities every day, then we have a responsibility to work until they have them and no one can take them away. it’s not up to people of color to give us leeway; it’s up to us to work with our fellow white women to help them understand change. 

[tarnished-silver-muse]

I cringed when I saw “not all white women”.  Fucking seriously?  Honey, that shit didn’t work when men tried it on us, don’t try it to our sisters of color.

I accept that women of color will be afraid/wary of me at first sight.  I don’t blame them for that.  Instead of being angry that they would class me with other white women, I’m just going to be that much more aware of times and places where I can use the privilege of my skin color to try and make them safer.  Even if the next one that sees me is still afraid.

Why?  Because, in that situation, MY FEELINGS AREN‘T IMPORTANT.   It’s not about ME.  It’s not about YOU, fellow white woman who was so insulted to be grouped with those white women.  No, I didn’t vote for Trump.  But even if I walked around wearing a shirt that claimed otherwise all the time, women of color cannot look at me and know for sure that I’m not one of those white women.

[phoenyxoftheashes]

If women of color are fearful of me as a white person (who passes as female), then I understand that. The fear born of something real that they experienced or have witnessed other’s experiencing. Who am I to invalidate their feelings?

Sure, I’ll let them know I’ll try my hardest to be an ally. But at the same time I’m not going to try to convince them of this because I want to make myself feel better or convince myself I’m not part of the problem. As a white person, I benefit from that privilege and I’m prone to doing racist shit. I accept that, and I try my hardest to fix it. But I can’t escape it entirely and it’s asinine that white people think they can escape it.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

We can and must do better. We must. Our sisters of color are in even more danger than us, and we have to stand WITH them, not next to them decrying the idea that WE’RE the good ones. I refuse to allow “not all men” to be a conversation in my hearing, and I refuse also, “not all white women.” No. Stop it. White women have harmed women of color. That is the point. We white women who don’t want to be lumped in with those white women need to amplify the voices of our sisters, not justify that we’re the good ones.

[jusooobs]

Woah, I’ve nearly to never seen a post like this

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Keep it coming ladies.

[dreadpiratekhan]

A Swedish woman hitting a neo-Nazi protester with her handbag. The woman was reportedly a concentration camp survivor. [1985]

Volunteers learn how to fight fires at Pearl Harbor [c. 1941 - 1945]

Maud Wagner, the first well-known female tattoo artist in the U.S. [1907]

A 106-year old Armenian woman protecting her home with an AK-47. [1990]

Komako Kimura, a prominent Japanese suffragist at a march in New York. [October 23, 1917]

Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer of the Apollo Project, standing next to the code she wrote by hand that was used to take humanity to the moon. [1969]

Erika, a 15-year-old Hungarian fighter who fought for freedom against the Soviet Union. [October 1956]

Sarla Thakral, 21 years old, the first Indian woman to earn a pilot license. [1936]

Voting activist Annie Lumpkins at the Little Rock city jail. [1961]   (freakin’ immaculate)

[dreadpiratekhan]

Now with more awesomesauce!

Female pilots leaving their B-17, “Pistol Packin’ Mama” [c. 1941 - 1945]

The first basketball team from Smith college. [1902]

Filipino guerilla, Captain Nieves Fernandez, shows a US soldier how she killed Japanese soldiers during the occupation. [1944]

Afghani medical students. [1962]   (man, screw fundamentalism.)

A British sergeant training members of the ‘mum’s army’ Women’s Home Defence Corps during the Battle of Britain. [1940]

and just to wrap up…

Nina Simone, one of the most talented vocalists of the 20th century.

[daddyspsycho]

this is my favorite post in the entire world

[s0lid6-deactivated20200817]

FUCKING LIFE

[aaronbleyaert]

Respect.

[nodaybuttodaytodefygravity]

BADASS LADIES

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

Turn-offs: historically inaccurate cosmetics in period dramas

[makeitstople-blog]

yeah but i feel like forcing actors to wear lead and/or bird poop on their faces qualifies as hazardous working conditions

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

I was taking more about sparkly eyeshadow in like 1311 but touché

[progressivejudaism]

[reapersun]

I realized I didn’t have any new Sherlock artworks I wanted to print at a large size for cons so I sat down and tried to draw something serious but I wasn’t really motivated and so then I drew the wedding reception from my 30day comic instead.

[-vvaste]

[natureac]

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