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I’ve seen her before! She’s very popular in the alternative black girl scene

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Theresa Fractale
I legit gasped
@africanaquarian
I’ve seen her before! She’s very popular in the alternative black girl scene
Also how can Arthur Conan Doyle write a character like Irene Adler 1891 and have her 1. Outsmart Sherlock Holmes and get away with it and 2. Be in no way a damsel or love interest to Sherlock.. But every modern retelling not only has her be a sexual /love interest character but she is posed as being very very smart… But never smart enough to just outwit him, get away with it and move on? Women can be smart, sure, but no one is allowed to be smarter than Sherlock.
It’s been over 120 years and Irene is, at her best, never as decently treated as the original.
Arthur Conan Doyle: Here’s a story about male insecurity where the police underestimate her for being a woman and feel the need to get her because she’s a woman and Sherlock is ultimately beaten by a woman and in a bit of character development accepts it and acknowledges her intellect.
Sherlock fans: Uh no way Sherlock is smart Sherlock is so so smart she must have used her feminine wiles or her sexy things or her love to undermine him but he gets her in the end i feel a strange catharsis at changing this ending but I’m sure Doyle always meant to be this way, it just feels right.
Half of the reason that Adler was able to out-wit Holmes was because Holmes was too narrow-minded. Holmes is smart and has knowledge of many subjects, but he also strongly relies on social order and norms to solve crimes. He’s even says in A Scandal in Bohemia that:
“When a woman thinks that her house is on fire, her instinct is at once to rush to thing which she values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have more than once taken advantage of it … A married woman grabs at her baby; an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box.”
Holmes uses this social norm and order to stage an attack and find out where Adler hid the photo in her house. He drops his guard and is so proud of himself because he knew that this would work, he knew that if he created disorder, “natural” order would attempt to counteract that disorder.
Adler defies those social orders and norms: she is an untitled American woman who earned her own money through a career as an opera star, instead of relying on a husband or family to have financial security; she outwitted Holmes because she cross-dressed and indicated that she frequently did so, allowing her to have a lot more freedom roaming around London on her own terms, and her stage career aided that so that she could act like a man easily; and she didn’t care one bit about her reputation or being a “pure” woman, had several boyfriends, and was known for being an “adventuress”. More importantly, she had the ability to defy those social norms while simultaneously being able to present herself as the ideal respectable and under-estimable Victorian-era woman.
Adler literally defeats Holmes by dressing in drag then happily goes off with her new husband whom she loves very much. And Holmes respects that and is thoroughly impressed. Not only does he respect that, he realizes that he was on the wrong side of things, that he shouldn’t have agreed to take on the case for the King of Bohemia. This is the exchange that follows after Holmes, Watson and the King read Adler’s letter.
“Would she not have made an admirable queen? Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?”
“From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a very different level to your Majesty,” said Holmes coldly
Holmes takes Adler’s side and realizes that the photograph is her protection from the King, not something she intended to use as a weapon against him. Adler never exploited the King to get what she wanted, only kept it as a safeguard of her own happiness. She made sure she had a way of ensuring that she alone guided her future.
Irene Adler is “the woman” to Sherlock Holmes, not because she was sexy or he was in love with her. She was a reminder that real life doesn’t always follow what social norms and order are to be expected, that people shouldn’t be taken on face value or respected just because of their title or apparent respectability and ability to follow social order and norms, and that there are two sides to every story.
Take a lesson from Sherlock Holmes, people. Doyle knew what he was doing. If we’re going to keep making him roll over in his grave from creating Sherlock Holmes media, please, at least respect him and Irene Adler.
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And then Rue got a talking to about honesty and responsibility.
Tonight at Walmart I saw a little boy ask a little girl if he could hug her because he liked her sweater. The girl (these kids looked to be about 5, MAYBE 6) said no, so the boy said “okay. I like your sweater. Bye.” And then ran back to his parents.
He said to his Dad “I didn’t hug her because she said no, but I told her I liked her sweater!” And his dad said “Cool buddy!” And they went on with their shopping trip.
If a small child understands the ‘complex’ concept of consent, and the meaning of the word ‘no’, then so should everyone else.
one time i went to a work event with my dad and he was talking about some celebrity and one of the other guys there was like “i have no idea how you know all this stuff, i’m too old for this” and dad was like, “oh, you know, i’ve got teenagers” in a very ‘they force me to watch their garbage’ sort of way at which point i realized dad had been using me as a smokescreen for his love of mtv for years
when i was younger he would always let me bring my gameboy along to keep me entertained and then he would ask what i was up to in enough detail to establish that he had a basic understanding of pokemon, in order to establish dominance over the other, non-pokemon-understanding parents
Power move on other dads
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im totally fucking serious i want the next sci-fi movie blockbuster to be about exorcising the ghosts of malevolent dinosaurs
i just lost a follower well guess whos not getting tickets to the opening night of velocigeist: revenge of the cretaceous
What about Tyrannosaurus Rexorcist?
And there’s that classic scene that’s in every horror movie when the character goes to the bathroom and opens the mirror
and everything seems fine
but then she
closes it
Has Syfy not already done this one? How not?
They were left behind on the island. They weren’t prepared for…
THE VELOCIRAPTURE
Better start to prey.
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Are you worried about article 13 passing and what that could mean for your blog?
Hello dear!
To be honest, I’m all maxed out on the worry part, I can’t even worry about tumblr or article 13. I’ve signed what I can, I hope they will stop fucking up, but I know that the internet will adapt.
Seriously, the internet is like the flu virus, always evolving a thousand times faster than the mesure taken to control it. I don’t like change, but after all this time online, I know there is no end in sight as long as the internet exists!
tbh, this is exactly what I feel, @artemis69. You remember Jurassic Park, when Jeff Goldblum’s character says
Well. Fandom finds a way, bitches. Article 13. Tumblr. Whatever fuckery you try and pull: Fandom will find a way. We’ll find the cracks. The spaces we can make our own. We’ll hunker down and find ways round it to keep producing content and expressing our enjoyment of the things we love. And then together we’ll club together, buy a laboratory, grow some big stompy dinosaurs, and eventually one of the will break out and chase a car and eat a guy on a toilet… Wait. What this post about again?
we’re going to have to call smut ‘lemons’ again, aren’t we?
LEMONS!? WHEN THE FUCK WAS THIS?!
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FUCKING THIS POST ITSELF IS FLAGGED, I’M DYING! @staff YOUR BS IS KILLING ITSELF!!!!
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From someone who’s survived MySpace, livejournal, deviantart, and fanfiction.nets’ content purges and bad policy updates, here’s some advice on how to get through tumblr’s recent bullshit:
- don’t knee jerk delete. I know it’s tempting to peace out immediately but hang on and do the other steps first. Out right ghosting and erasing everything is how fandoms die.
- archive everything on your blog you want to keep
- tell your followers how they can archive and keep your work too. A lot of fic and art were only saved from ff.net and lj because other people saved it first. If you’re cool with other people saving your work for them to personally keep, let them know this. You can absolutely discourage reposting but I really do highly recommend you allow people to personally save fic and art they like and are worried will disappear forever. Digital Dark Ages are a real thing.
- tell people where you’re jumping ship to. Give links. Keep that info up, even if you’ve left the site.
- go through who you follow and find out where else you can follow them. Save their work if they’ll allow it. It’s tedious as hell but if you want to keep up with people on here clicking on their page to check in is the best way to do it.
- support places like ao3. This is exactly why ao3 asks for donations a few times a year. They are a 100% anti-purging, judgement free, ad free non profit run by an elected board and protected by lawyers. Places like ao3 literally save fandom so please continue to support them and other similar archives. This is exactly why ao3 is so important.
Do people need to subscribe or create an account to visit that pillowfort site? I never had an acc (tumblr, twitter or otherwise), I just enjoy visiting steter blogs and scrolling through my fav contents as any other boring anonymous lurker from time to time, so I'd like to know if I'll still be allowed to do that on pillowfort? And eventually how do I enter pillowfort. Thanks!
I actually don’t know if you can just lurk, sorry!
I can answer some of these because i already have an account
the charge is a one off fee to help them because they got big a lot faster than they thought that they would
the plan is to be back online tomorrow because there was an attack on their servers and they took everything down just in case, so ideally tomorrow you can go and have a look around
it works like livejournal just with the ability to reblog posts, but unlike tumblr every comment made on that post will show up with responses, like on livejournal in comment threads
moderated communities are a thing, where you can join to share interests [so a steter community would be a place to post links to fics, art, have discussions together even RP and just Steter even if users have other interests - so say your fave author writes both steter and sterek and sterek is your notp, you can follow their updates in the steter comm without the sterek notifications]
but because communities are modded some of them are going to be members only which means you probably won’t be able to lurk, but if you have an account you can join and watch silently from the corner]
a lot of the older members of fandom said if livejournal introduced reblogging we’d go back in a heartbeat - and that’s exactly what it is
Thank you for the info!
I can say as an older member of fandom, this is correct.
Staring King Falls AM!
Let me know what you guys think, 6 episodes in and I gotta say I’m looking forward to more.
You are in for such a WONDERFUL treat! this is a fantastic show with a fantastic story and a fantastic cast to back it up!!! ENJOY!!!