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“Listen to the tape. Do it now, listen. Just listen!”

Because John tells us to pay attention to the tape–and we really should. So I put it all together, isolated the audio, tried to tune my ear to hear what they say, and transcribed it for you guys. Maybe you can decipher the bits I couldn’t understand? But I think this is enough to get the idea.

If you follow me you probably already know I read this episode as being a product of John’s unconscious mind. With that in mind, paying attention to this conversation is truly revealing, since it’s John himself who comes up with this dialogue. The Governor is John’s mirror. Eurus deduces that he doesn’t trust his wife, that she’s selling him a fake image of her while hiding something, that he’s struggling with his feelings towards her, that he is sad, and that he has a secret. That secret possibly being his bisexuality (and his love for Sherlock). John also really seems to be rethinking his morals/ethics –which is actually a running theme in this episode. He keeps questioning himself what’s ‘good’ and ‘bad’, ‘right’ and ‘wrong’, in the scenarios he imagines, and relates them to his wife. Since he’s also figuring out Mary’s true nature in his hallucination (just like Sherlock was able to figure out a lot of things at the same time in TAB) I just think John might be reconsidering if it’s bad to feel the way he does about Mary, when he’s supposed to be mourning her. Notice the Governor saying “I like my wife”, as if that’s what he knows he HAS to say–but it’s not what he truly feels and Eurus knows he’s lying when he says that. Just like John, he never truly trusted his wife.

Also, I just clutch my chest seeing how the incredibly repressed Capt. John Watson tells himself he doesn’t need to cry–while actually knowing it’s okay to do it. Clear callback to that scene in TLD. Being embraced by Sherlock was just so important for him, because Sherlock let him know without a word that it’s okay to cry. God, my feels.

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antisocial-otaku

I really like this meta, thanks for the tag. I’ve loved the idea that TFP is in John’s mind since the start, it would tell us a lot about him just as TAB told us about Sherlock. @jawnlock-is-real @sherchemistlock

jawnlock-is-real-deactivated201

JOHN, YOU’VE JUST GOTTA TELL SHERLOCK YOU LOVE HIM AND THAT’S OKAY FOR GOD’S SHAKE.

nixxie-fic

We said very early on that what happens to John is that he falls down the rabbit hole. He comes back from Afghanistan sort of ruined, but he also wants a bit of peace. Then he discovers he’s living in this world he didn’t know about, and when you’re in the company of this extraordinary man, everything changes. He’s sort of an adrenaline junkie who claims he wants a quiet life, but actually as soon as the call to action comes, he’s there.

‘Sherlock is primarily Sherlock’s story, but I appreciate how the series can also be watched as the tale of John Watson’s story from war veteran to family man.’ - Mark Gatiss interview with yahoo - (x)

whisperedlouis

Saw this on twitter just now and my heart has never dropped into my stomach so rapidly before.

“Jews belong in the oven”

shinka

the subtlety of a truck crashing against a wall

nhlentendres

Yes but why would Sherlock be saying I love you to a mirror there are no mirrors in this show what even is a mirror

mental-leaps

“Mary… this is about Mary???!!!”

jenna221b

Omg I am hooked on all this special stuff, but I'm some of the pics (sherlock and the tea, Moriarty and eurus) don't you think they look like promo pics we've not seen? To me they just don't look like screen caps.

The tea one is definitely from the Reichenbach fall… But yeah some of the other pics feel new to me but I don’t know if that’s just cause the final problem is still a relatively new ep 😂

scottish-badger

JENNA JENNA JENNA

I don’t know if this means anything but I watched the Eurus and Moriarty scene again and those are definitely not screen caps. There are no shots like that in the scene.

The only other explanation is that they are promo pics…but these are not included it TFP promo pics!

ALSO (OMG I’M FREAKING OUT) I’ve been googling some of the images and for instance if you take the Lestrade picture (which is a promo pic) you get this:

So it recognises Rupert Graves, or if you take the header photo and google it you get this:

which shows the exact episode it is from.

BUUUUUUTTTTTT

Take the Moriarty or the Eurus photo and goodle it and you just get this:

and this:

There are no other images of Eurus or Moriarty or TFP.

THESE ARE UNSEEN, UNPUBLISHED PROMO PICTURES!!!!

jenna221b

👀👀😱

antisocial-otaku

Dying! @jawnlock-is-real @sherchemistlock

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OH GOD, WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING?

bagginses

“Look, I know you doubt me, I know you always have. And you’re right. I often think of Bag End. I miss my books. And my armchair. And my garden. See, that’s where I belong. That’s home. That’s why I came back, ‘cause you don’t have one. A home. It was taken from you. But I will help you take it back if I can.”

cumberbatchlives

Benedict photographed by Jason Bell for Vanity Fair (x)

marcelock

#KILL ME BITCH

cumberbatchlives

Claire Pritchard: “Prosthetic pieces for swelling and stitches and a contact lens for blood shot eye, I thought it would be a realistic touch.”

fideliant

every mouth you’ve ever kissed was just practice all the bodies you’ve ever undressed and ploughed in to were preparing you for me

i don’t mind tasting them in the memory of your mouth.

howiie-deactivated20200728

Bee emoji reviews

apple going for the somewhat realistic interpretation, but those wings are just… wrong, and takes away from the rest of the image. 3/5

a friend. the innocent, humble friend that beesshould be portrayed as. i can overlook anatomical errors when it ends up being so damn friendly. 5/5

i appreciate the attempted art direction here, the top-down view is a unique twist, but mamma mia could someone at microsoft hold off from selecting the thickest black border available? 3/5

this bee is curious, inquisitive, and i’m sure they could warm up to being a good friend. 4/5

that’s one fat fucking bee. how does its small wings lift its fat body off the ground? i think this bee’s going to care about what we think is impossible. 2/5

this is a much more preferable interpretation of the top-down bee. reasonable line thickness, doesn’t look nearly as threatening. 4/5

similarly, this is acceptable. focuses more on gradients than flat colors, which i think is an interesting change of pace. 4/5

that’s a wasp. an aggressive, unpleasant wasp. that wasp is not my friend - it is a threat. and we shouldn’t be portraying bees as threats. 2/5

absolute adorable friendliness trumps technical anatomy. this bee is my best friend. 5/5

what the fuck is this shit

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Hannibal Season 3 - Behind the scenes [more]

tjlc

Ok, here we fucking go:

thelostspecial.com has existed since the 31st (I believe, as just a solid black website). Yesterday, a header image appeared of Sherlock sitting across from Moriarty in TRF, with several messages hidden inside. Over the course of several hours, pages were added and removed, discoverable only by manually editing the url.

The message above was hidden in the source code of the page.

2 messages hidden in the header were “MISS ME?” in black on the TV and “40″ hidden in the wallpaper. The third alteration was a partial reflection of a creepy elephant. More on that in a second.

Some /messages only led to clues to figure out final pages. For example, /elephant led to a message that read “WHICH ONE?” /mary led to “Be more specific,” /marymoran to “Who?”, and /marymorstan to the cap of Mary with devil horns.

/tjlc and /johnlock loaded pages, unlike incorrect guesses, which would just be black with the header. At these 2 pages, an image w traffic cones read “404 Error” (4x04?)

At /cluedo, we got this image:

Many images were associated with character names and the episode finales, Moriarty-heavy, these were early on so it may have just been helping us figure out how to use the site.

At /black, there was a comment box where we could briefly communicate, which they seemed to interact with–someone mentioning norbury led to a /norbury page, for example, and I believe this is how they figured out we were “Stumped on 40” and, at the new /ineedaclue, told us “Go to the source. The real source.”

Other oddities included /januscars (cap of the logo), /old (the victorian baker street mantelpiece), /new (a hotel room bath in niagara falls), /coffee (Sherlock in ASIP drinking coffee with “WRONG WAY” superimposed over it), /dymm (moriarty on the picadilly circus screens), there are too many to cover here tbh.

At /solveme/, this message reads:

Which translates to the Henry V quote, I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. [The game’s afoot.]

So what’s with 13.9.16? Oddly enough, this is the day that the elephant, /murderousmary, was executed. The image that appeared at /murderousmary is here, it’s a smidge disturbing. Hmm… which elephant?

More of a stretch,13.9.16 is also the date that Mark trashed a Grimm’s Fairy tales Reichenbach theory in the papers, and Moriarty says “every fairy tale needs a good old fashioned villain” at minute 40 of TRF.

CANON references to 40, which seems closer to accurate, appear in TFP and The Lost Special. There’s contingency over what the 40th story is, we’re between The Valley of Fear and The Second Stain (and the Red Headed League??) at the moment, which are all relevant.

TFP: In three days, on Monday next, matters will be ripe, and the Professor, with all the principal members of the gang, will be in the hands of the police. Then will come the greatest criminal trial of the century, the clearing up of over forty mysteries, and the rope for all of them–but if you move at all prematurely, you understand, they may slip out of our hands, even at the last moment.

THE LOST SPECIAL: A telegram sent at 6:40 reads ““To James Bland, Superintendent, Central L. & W. C., Liverpool. - Special passed here at 4:52, well up to time. - Dowster, St. Helens.“it’s the telegram that says the train was on schedule and on the appropriate line, right before it disappeared” (from @edwardhardwicke)

So far, the message in the source code reads:

You see, but you do not observe. I see you like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. Murderous Mary. (Every fairytale needs a good old fashioned villain.) XXX.

Hmm. What appeared at /xxx, at the very end of the game?

Most pages have now disappeared, along with the header, leaving a mostly black site once again.

Take it as you will.

castlesbyrs

Color palette meme –> Sherlock in Candy Sunset palette. Requested by @peanutbutterandjohnlock

Choose a palette from here and send me a tv show/ship/character!

nixxie-fic

I first came across that idea in Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter books, and the British illusionist Derren Brown talks about it a lot as well. But it is one of those things you can just kind of say now without people going, “What do you mean?” It started as a way for Sherlock to remember something without him just going, “Oh, I remembered it!” Now it’s become this huge thing, which is really exciting.

‘Speaking of mind palaces, are you proud of having popularized that concept in pop culture?’ - Mark Gatiss interview with yahoo - (x)