"I Love You"- S. Holmes, 2016

Elisa | Poet & PhD in Nerdery | Johnlock Preacher | Cat enthusiast | Queer Human Woman

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PASS THIS ON.

The first transgender suicide hotline is now up and running in the U.S. You can reach Trans Lifeline at 877-565-8860.

[fangirlnerd101]

With trump winning this is especially important. Please reblog even if it “doesn’t fit your blog theme”

[the-7-percent-solution]

John Watson yelling “WHAT DO YOU NORMALLY SAY? YOU’VE TEXTED HIM A LOT” at a sexy woman hitting up Sherlock is honestly all the Johnlock proof I need, thank you very much

[ithelpstodream]

[darcylindbergh]

anybody else totally straight and reading famous bohemian literature while waiting worriedly for your totally platonic flatmate to come back? no? didn’t think so

[babyanimalgifs]

[fistfights]

Not to be dramatic but I just keep thinking about how Holmes said he had never loved but if he did he would kill for them and when Watson got shot he was like “bitch I’m murdering you”.

And Watson was like “wow the love and loyalty in his eyes, my bro, I’d get shot again just to see it”.

Like they’re in love thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

[feminismandmedia]

Advances in medicine only help if people have access to them.

[thememacat]

The United States is the only major country on earth that does not have universal health care for its citizens. Think about that, and wonder why.

[amarakaran]

[fellshish]

They told us they wouldn’t do a big Hollywood shooting in Sherlock. Then killed Mary off in a ridiculous way.

They told us “Childhood trauma masked by an invented memory. Boring!” when Henry told Sherlock about seeing a Hound. Then turned Redbeard into a boy.

They told us Sherlock thinks the “best man” is Billy Kincaid, a garroter who did so much for charity and children that it “evened out”. Then wrote Culverton Smith.

They told us “If I had to hit that face, I’d avoid nose and cheekbones too”. Then wrote the abusive morgue scene.

You were told. But did you listen?

Yes. Yes.

[fellshish]

This is one of my older posts, but i’ve been thinking about it a lot. When i rewatch old episodes, i often come across sentences or scenes that are the exact opposite of what happened in s4. It’s as if they took their whole show and turned it inside out.

For example, they have John say he rescued Sherlock from Culverton because “Mary taught him to be the man she already thought he was”. This is in direct contrast with John shooting the cabbie in ASIP. He was already that man; from the first hours they knew each other.

Or they have Sherlock joke about the baby’s name (“well you know what i think”) and John and Mary joke back in an overly happy way (“It’s not a girl’s name!”) while we all know the depth of emotions Sherlock and John showed on their faces during tarmac hell.

Or we have Mycroft throw up after seeing the Governor kill himself, while he watched emotionless (the iceman) in Serbia while Sherlock was tortured. He’s the British government - he’s seen worse things.

Or John “I can break every bone in your body while naming them” Watson who didn’t recognise children’s bones.

They took BBC Sherlock and gave us Opposite Day in Hell. I bet we could make a very long list of opposites.

@monikakrasnorada @tjlcisthenewsexy @sagestreet @possiblyimbiassed @ebaeschnbliah @88thparallel

[hubblegleeflower]

Almost like it’s some sort of reversed story, some sort of…what shall we say…mirror image.

[feministkutti]

“Colorism isn’t real.”

[pilambdaod]

Colorism? Wow because the term “racism” is so blase.

[xekstrin]

pilambdaod Colorism specifically refers to people of their own race valuing lighter skin over darker skin. For example in latina culture, valuing “good” straight hair over “pelo malo” or bad, curly hair.

Racism would imply we’re talking about at least two different races here; colorism specifically is about racist ideals within one race, people of one race policing others appearance within their own race. 

(since this is an indian book, presumably made by indian people for indian children to read, depicting a light skinned indian woman as more beautiful than a dark skinned one, it’s colorism.)

[pilambdaod]

One of those is clearly Caucasian the other Indian.

Creating random new “isms” only makes legitimate grievances seem petty and stupid.

[belligerentbagel]

“One of those is clearly Caucasian”

Aishwarya Rai, Kareena Kapoor, Kangana Ranaut 

Karisma Kapoor, Shruti Haasan, Zarine Khan

All actresses/models born in India to parents who were also born in India (or Pakistan), in a narrow view of “race.” 

If a Papua New Guinean hooks up with a Swedish person all you get is a human.  There’s no new thing you’re going to get. You just get a human. 

- Bill Nye: Race is a Human Construct (and don’t look at the comments; it’s the usual cesspool of bigots) 

Ideas on “race” have been in slow development over the years, but colourism is a real thing (often with roots in imperialism, especially as Western ideas of beauty began to intrude upon countries). 

The 100 Years of Beauty: Philippines has a jarring jump where April Villanueva (who has light/medium-toned skin) gets her skin darkened for the 1910s-20s aesthetic, then becomes powder-white when US/European colonial interests make a stronger influence on Philippine society in the 1930s (more in the research video). 

Two more examples of skin tone variation between famous women in countries where colourism has become prevalent in celebrity culture (ie, it was a lot harder finding photos of a dark-skinned Korean actress than a light-skinned one): 

Koreans: Song Hye-kyo and Lee Hyori 

Filipinos: Valerie Garica and Nicole Scherzinger (active in the US; Filipino father, Hawaiian/Samoan-Russian mother) 

Variation in skin colour across a “race” is as real as variation in eye colour (”oh, you have brown eyes? I guess you’re not a real Caucasian”). 

Colourism also pervades a lot of modern beauty marketing. 

What’s underneath your dark skin? A prettier, lighter version of yourself! Everyone should strive to be more fair and lovely because only then you’ll be happy with your flesh prison!! 

tl;dr colourism exists and isn’t some bogeyman made up by “”es jay double-ews,”” and if you’re the person bemoaning how it “delegitimizes racism” then it’s likely you actually don’t care about racism at all and are just trying to devalue the arguments with the classic “but so-and-so people have it worse! how could you be so self-centered and selfish??” 

[ghostmistake]

Also “colorism” was coined by Alice Walker in 1982. This is not some new internet fad.

[darlingtonsubstitution-deactiva]

… for I should have considered it my first duty to do so, had I not been barred by a positive prohibition from his own lips, which was only withdrawn upon the third of last month.

Dr. John H. Watson, The Adventure of the Empty House

That’s…… one hell of a long kiss, Dr. Watson. 10 years? You lucky dog.

(via darlingtonsubstitution)

[internationalemeteorologie]

Gatti di Roma

calendar and postcards by Giancarlo Gasponi 

[incurablylazydevil]

anderson thinks that Sherlock would ruffle his hair right before kissing a girl, but in reality he ruffles his hair right before going to see a bunch of handsome soldiers

[love-in-mind-palace]

Well..damn

[inevitably-johnlocked]

And checks himself in a window to make sure it’s suitably ruffled.

[alexxphoenix42]

LOL

[love-in-mind-palace]

“The relations between us in those latter days were peculiar. He was a man of habits, narrow and concentrated habits, and I had become one of them. As an institution I was like the violin, the shag tobacco, the old black pipe, the index books, and others perhaps less excusable. When it was a case of active work and a comrade was needed upon whose nerve he could place some reliance, my role was obvious. But apart from this I had uses. I was a whetstone for his mind. I stimulated him. He liked to think aloud in my presence. His remarks could hardly be said to be made to me–many of them would have been as appropriately addressed to his bedstead–but none the less, having formed the habit, it had become in some way helpful that I should register and interject. If I irritated him by a certain methodical slowness in my mentality, that irritation served only to make his own flame-like intuitions and impressions flash up the more vividly and swiftly. Such was my humble role in our alliance.” - Dr. John Watson.

[marcelock]

Inktober: Johnlock Edition Day 2

[spacefall]

An old pic of Holmes/Watson hand-holding waist-hug. Yep, still re-blogging oldies in vain attempt to motivate myself to finish any of my stalled images… bolts of inspiration gratefully received.