[erynalasse]

The problem with being in the Tolkien fandom is that Blorbo is a perfectly normal-sounding name for a hobbit

But you can’t say this without actually embodying the meme

[valasania-the-pale]

Blorbo Proudfoot absolutely sounds like a name Tolkien would have used. We have Bungo Baggins as canon, after all.

[erynalasse]

In honor of the people talking about Bungo Baggins, here are the most blorbish names I’ve seen on the hobbit masterlist:

Balbo Baggins, the first recorded Baggins

Bilbo Baggins, of course

Belba Bolger, née Baggins

Bingo Baggins

Bodo Baggins

Berylla Baggins, née Boffin

Longo Baggins

Mungo Baggins

In conclusion, given the number of similar names, it’s quite surprising we don’t have a Blorbo. I don’t think we’ll ever be quite as good at coming up with Hobbit names as Tolkien, unless you’re the Blorbo OP.

[tolkien-feels]

What I’m getting from this is that not only is Blorbo a hobbit, he’s almost certainly a Baggins

[jjjeremybrett]

JEREMY BRETT & DAVID BURKE as SHERLOCK HOLMES & DR JOHN WATSON in THE SOLITARY CYCLIST (1984)

[halcyon1796]

Too fast for demon, angel

[yakichoufd]

I made a cute embroidery today ^^

[steel-and-glass-64]

AKSFDKS it’s so cute I’m going to die!!! 🥺🥺❤️❤️

[generalsolo]

[willietheplaidjacket]

As per a request from @swissmissing, here are my Sherlock and John inktober sketches in a single post for easier reblogging

[elizamaru]

There is an unfinished piece by Sir Thomas Lawrence in which most of his process is visible. I find it very fascinating, so I tried the same thing with the lovely Ineffables in his style :)

*In the end I actually reconstructed his workflow after painting everything in because we don’t work the same way. What a perverse thing to do...*

[ghothboy]

someone: sherlock holmes is a machine, haven’t you read the books—

me, opening up my ornate copy of acd’s sherlock holmes, with its tender illustrations, pointing blindly to any line holmes says: he’s a sweet boy

[a-candle-for-sherlock]

holmes, in the books: i want to take watson’s hand and fly around the city with him

watson’s marriage was the only betrayal of me

other than that he’s never let me down

watson is my dear boy, my dear friend, my dear doctor

i should know my watson by now

if you had killed watson you would not have gotten out of here alive

all i want is watson back in his chair opposite me in baker street

*wanders around in a blooming orchard with watson for hours silently*

*asks watson to run away with him to switzerland when moriarty’s wearing him out*

watson is wounded: *cries* *his lip literally trembles* *carries him to a chair* *watson has to describe how his lip trembled and how his arm felt and how that was the defining moment of his life*

[iheartb33s]

Watson is the ambulatory external locus of Holmes’ biased judgement. Holmes might talk a big game about striving to be a perfectly objective reasoning machine but he can’t quite carry it off, and always gives himself away, especially where Watson is concerned. This is even, more or less faithfully, reproduced in all the adaptations I can think of. It’s a critical part of the story that Holmes thinks Watson is basically the Greatest Thing Ever.

And the funny thing about canon is, while Watson is recording all the things Holmes does that make this obvious, he writes about himself as “just a humble army doctor, nothing special about me, so lucky someone like Holmes lets me tag along with him, at least I can be of some use to him…” Watson isn’t short on intelligence himself and Holmes might actually be the sharpest crayon in the box but they’re both painfully dense when it comes to how each of them obviously feels about the other.

I think you can read this subtext - if you can even call it that, it’s pretty much actually just text - in a lot of ways. As somebody who leans towards the ace end of the spectrum myself, it’s easy to see how thrilled Holmes is to just take walks with Watson and never think of anything more coming into it. But it’s also super easy to see this as a more romantic pairing, I mean there basically isn’t a question as to whether or not Holmes and Watson are some kind of pairing, the only thing left to the imagination is what kind.

I think the fact that Watson writes ABOUT Holmes, and Holmes will leap tall sofas in a single bound (that’s Granada and not canon but find me a more picturesque example) to include Watson in cases, says a lot about this. It means a lot when someone who is perfectly comfortable being solitary picks the one person whom they find the important parts of their life are incomplete without.

The only point I think canon is foggy on here is HOW it happened. Which is kind of frustrating. How did we go from the sad emaciated veteran and the unnerving skinny guy sticking himself with lancets in Bart’s lab to the two of them being in some shade of love with each other??? No explanation is forthcoming, somewhere between Watson being perplexed and amused by his new flatmate, Holmes being flattered by this, and the ENTIRE REST OF CANON we went from zero to a hundred real quick. Maybe I’m only confused by it because I lean more towards the ace end of the spectrum. I’m sure somebody out there has ideas about this, and I would be interested to know.

Now’s the part of the post where I start to wonder about what point I was trying to make. Oh well. Today’s rambling exegesis was brought to you by half a cup of coffee I probably need to drink the rest of -\_(ツ)_/-

[enjoytheelephant-deactivated201]

ACD was in real life a zero to one hundred kind of guy. It would have made sense to him.

[johannadc]

This sentence

It’s a critical part of the story that Holmes thinks Watson is basically the Greatest Thing Ever.

is now my favorite ever summary of the entire canon. 

How it happened? TIme and habit, I think. They just kept going on together. 

[evenstar-ing]

Bagginshield isn't the sun/moon dynamic, bagginshield is two grumpy man deciding they like each other's brand of grumpy

[kotoinari]

羽

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

[trickster-archangel]

@tio-trile you were always right

[tio-trile]

I know.

[babel-of-screaming-sounds-deact]

Hot take: Aziraphale and Crowley aren’t even trying to pretend to behave like each other during the bodyswap. I’ve seen a lot of fics where they spend the night at Crowley’s flat teaching each other how to behave “properly” but I don’t think that’s what happened, to be honest.

Firstly, it contradicts the very notion of them being not that different and having a part of each other in themselves.

Secondly, and most evidently, after the swap they behave absolutely the same as they did before in their own bodies. 

Aziraphale doesn’t try to walk like Crowley and takes a taxi instead of driving the Bentley. Look at his smile: it’s a distinct Aziraphale’s smile, slightly anxious and shy.

Look at Crowley who doesn’t even start blinking, even in Heaven. He saunters; he continues circling Azirahale, looking for any possible signs of danger; he doesn’t change his tone of voice. Remember that neither Aziraphale nor Crowley could have known where exactly they would be captured, and yet they continued behaving like their original selves.

Does anything change upon their arrival to Hell and Heaven? Not much, actually. It’s especially obvious in the cut scene with Eric where Crowley-as-Aziraphale’s behaviour just screams IT’S NOT AZIRAPHALE. 

He still doesn’t blink; he doesn’t stutter. The only thing that he does is fix his bowtie – a habit that he knows belongs to Aziraphale and not because he spent the night training to fix it. It’s simply something that he knows about a person whom he’s been acquainted with for 6000 years. 

Keep reading

[slightlyrebelliouswriter23]

bonus points if someone comes in and interrupts you and you have to start all over.

[littlefreakelio]

Baby Watson being cared for by John and Sherlock after Mary’s gone for good and she always calls Sherlock papa and Sherlock’s like “No…no. Uncle. Uncle Sherlock. Not papa.” although it hurts like hell to say it

Until one day the baby does it again while John’s nearby and John walks over, takes her out of sherlock’s arms, and murmurs “Yes, love, I’d love him to be your papa too. How would you like that?” He looks at Sherlock. “How would you like that? Papa and dad?”

[theirglassofteaat221b]

One day at the clinic, Sarah notices that John hasn’t buzzed for a new patient in ages. Assuming he’s fallen asleep at his desk again - as he is wont to do - she opens the door, only to find John pinning Sherlock to the exam table. And he is most definitely not giving him a booster shot.

[johnwatso]

sherlock has a lot of bad days, and john has to be there to anchor him through them, ruffling his hair, making him tea, holding him tight under their duvet and whispering endearments into his ear while the world spins on around them.

[ridgewriter]

Good Omens fanfiction writers: I see your “Aziraphale interpreting Crowley saying ‘I lost my best friend’ as Crowley being sad over the death of another individual.”

And I raise you:

Aziraphale interpreting ‘I lost my best friend’ as Crowley being sad over the mean things Aziraphale said to him and Aziraphale believing that Crowley doesn’t think that they are friends anymore thus resulting in Aziraphale trying desperately to make it up to Crowley but also given him space so that they can be friends again because he is guilty and feels bad for making his husband cry.