[dogpuppy]

[pansyfemme]

maybe this is too woke but i really hate the trope of naked older women = scary or vomit inducing or gross or whatever. like you even see it used in horror on occasion like oooooo so scary theres a woman with saggy boobs and wrinkles. There is something to be said for unconsensual veiwing of nudity. sure. it’s uncomfortable and violating for someone to be nude in front of you that you don’t want to see. but rarely that’s seen as the issue and instead the real ‘horror’ or gross out joke is the very idea of a woman who does not have a body that is sexually desirable to men. The very idea of an older woman’s body is treated like it’s something that we should all know is gross, sick and wrong. It’s just something that really bothers me

[leeeen-90]

people who only use conventional social media are so funny bc they’ll casually be like “can I see your tumblr??” are you Insane. this is no instagram or twitter. this is my vault of secrets

[onyxstorms]

Baby Appa in Avatar: The Last Airbender ↳ 2.07 - "Something Broken"

[crabussy]

you are alive on a planet with insects and whales and diatoms and mycelium networks and puppies and your human friends. literally so awesome to be a living thing

[fella-lovin-fella]

i hate it when people mistake "etymology" with "entomology." like, i know where they coming from but it still bugs me

[boitterfly]

it’s so special to me that so much of fan culture is textual analysis for the love of the game. like thank god there are people in my phone who are also thinking about this thing i love so much that they are writing transformative fiction as character studies and setting clips of the show to music with theme-relevant lyrics and writing long text posts analyzing every line of dialogue like!! yay!!!

[thepoisonroom]

love is insane you feel like you’re always subtly asking “do you still love me even though i’m flawed” and the answer just keeps being yes

[mattoidmeerkat]

[whereareyourightnow]

[sailermoon]

having unwashed hair will have you believing shit like i can’t be saved

[birdsareblooming]

[fangirlsovertoomanythings]

The way that most of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories’ most horrible villains are rich dudes that are abusive to women, in a time such as the 1880’s, compels me.

[gardnerhill]

There’s a whole subset of Sherlock Holmes stories that could be labeled Asshole Guys Try to Control Women’s Money.

[three--rings]

Yup, there’s a huge number of times where Sherlock Holmes is the ONLY person to take a young woman’s complaint or worry seriously and finds out someone is up to some serious evil.  Holmes also shows a lot of compassion and empathy with the victims over and over again.  (This is why I find “Secretly a woman” or “Trans” Holmes headcanons much more convincing than “sociopath” Holmes.)

[waterhobbit]

I am never going to shut up about how much I specifically love The Adventure of The Copper Beeches because it is literally Sherlock Holmes listening to a young lady he does not know except as a potential client, agreeing with her that a potential job she has interviewed for that she thinks is SUPER SKETCHY is, indeed, sketchy as fuck and when she says she’s probably gonna take the job anyways because the money is good and she needs it going “OKAY I GUESS but for the love of god please write to us so we know you’re okay we will literally drop everything and jump on a train if you want us to”.

The job turns out to indeed be sketchy as fuck, she writes to them, Holmes and Watson drop everything and jump on a train when she asks them to. I read this story for the first time when I was twelve and it made a HUGE impression.

[three--rings]

This is also the basis for a lot of speculation about Holmes’ family life.  The idea that he has been a victim of abuse, or his mother was abused (or even murdered by his father.)  There’s definitely SOMETHING that makes him very aware of how dangerous isolated families can be, and the dark things that can happen behind closed doors.  Plus, of course, the motivation to devote himself to stopping crime.  And yes, so much of it is of the personal type. 

[volkswagonblues]

dude see this is one aspect of the original books i NEVER understand why modern remakes (cough cough) don’t go all in on. Like, in the 21th c we HAVE all the dumb forensic shit that made Victorian Holmes stand out, but we STILL DON’T HAVE uh….you know, compassion for women and minorities, or the willingness to believe them, adequate community support for domestic violence or hate crimes, etc. etc. which you’d think is exactly where a renegade consulting detective would come in handy. A good modern day Sherlock Holmes remake, instead of trying to convince us that Holmes is some super genius for being better than fingerprint analysis or whatever, could have him just be…a good person who helps out people the police can’t and won’t help. There you go. That’s how to write a relevant modern Holmes.

[fahbee]

One thing that annoys me is how much the BBC version of Sherlock (and the fandom around it) focus on police cases or cold cases.  In the stories, Holmes’ bread and butter cases had fuck-all to do with the police and in a few stories, he actively works around/against them, or outright lies to them.  Of the many, many things I wish that show had done differently, this is one is particularly obnoxious since it’s such a gimme.

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

There were very few actual murder cases in the Canon, and Holmes handled them either one of two ways:

Option one: The murder victim was innocent while the killer was an abusive bastard, see Speckled Band. Conclusion, arrest and have the killer charged (Or in the case of Speckled Band, indirectly murder him yourself then shrug and go home)

Option two: The victim was murdered to protect someone that the victim was abusing, or for vengeance, see Boscombe Valley, Devil’s Foot, Abbey Grange. Conclusion, Oops, I don’t know who the killer is, I am suddenly incompetent, oh look a pheasant.

[faejilly]

#my favorite murder in holmes canon#is when they straight up witness a lady murder her blackmailer#do nothing except destroy his other blackmail material#and then straight up lie to lestrade about it#sherlock holmes#more of this in modern adaptations pls (via @cactusspatz )

[muffinworry]

Let’s not forget the time Holmes helps a young woman who’s being catfished by her own stepfather to steal her inheritance, and when the villain sneers that the law can’t touch him, Holmes grabs a horsewhip out of sheerest chivalry.

[smokingtigerhiddengun]

So, the most canon-accurate iteration of Sherlock Holmes in the last few decades is actually Benoit Blanc….

[marzipanandminutiae]

I think it’s also important to note, and complicates our ideas about what the highly patriarchal/misogynistic society of 19th century England looked like, that these stories SOLD

they were POPULAR

the Victorians LIKED reading about women who won out over shitty men in their lives, even when that plotline reaffirmed a woman’s power and agency or put an active sexist in his place (ie Irene Adler besting Holmes)

which is fascinating in light of. you know. [gestures broadly at all of Victorian gender dynamics, laws, etc.]

[figtreeandvine]

One of my favorites is one where the woman’s husband is actually a good person, the Adventure of the Yellow Face.

Husband comes to Holmes, tells him that someone is blackmailing his wife and she refuses to him who or why, but can Holmes help his wife?

The story turns very Gothic for a bit–wife going pale at the sight of a “hideous face” leering at her from the upper window of a neighboring house, mysterious letters, strange payments of large sums to unknown people, her sneaking out in the middle of the night to visit the house with the face. Holmes and Watson and husband force their way into the house to confront the blackmailer….

Turns out the “hideous face” is a child wearing a mask. Her daughter from her first marriage in the US, in fact. To a Black man. The money was spent getting her child to Britain and setting up a home for her so the wife could see her, because she thought her new husband wouldn’t accept a mixed-race child.

Husband’s response:

…when [Munro’s] answer came it was one of which I love to think. He lifted the little child, kissed her, and then, still carrying her, he held his other hand out to his wife and turned towards the door. “We can talk about it more comfortably at home,” said he. “I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.”

Holmes’s response:

Watson, if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little overconfident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper ‘Norbury’ in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you.

[mister-dancer]

As a Black guy in an Interracial relationship, it’s hard to express how much reading this story as a kid, meant to me – then, and now. That’s not to say Doyle has anything like a modern understanding of why Racism sucks; he was Knighted, after all, for writing a very pro-British history of the Boer War. There’s a horrific amount of Sadian Orentalist ideas in his works, including at least one “fun” foray into Phrenology.

But then you get a story like this one. Or the anti-KKK message of the Five Orange Pips. And I think there’s more to this than the kind of “don’t bring your toxic Otherness to Britain” approach that some Sherlockian scholars have accused ACD of. Just because he and Stoker were friendly doesn’t mean they were playing with the same themes.

Holmes praises the US at at least one point. Irene Adler – The Woman – is an American! Doyle does dive into racist (and gendered!) stereotypes, but he also weirdly does this bits of nuance that speak of something more enlightened, like he’s not just another Victorian-era man.

He is, and allows Holmes to be, a man of complexities. Not fully of them moment he lived in, and not really seeing what we see today, save thru the idea of sheer human decency to the least of us.

Doyle wrote works that, from time to time, transcend the age they came from. That’s a hell of a legacy.

[beardedmrbean]

[jessaerys]

hate when im reading and theres a word i dont know so i search it in the dictionary and its like: beuperer. noun. a person who beupers. i'll fucking kill you

[loveridden1999]

top 3 hobbies for young adults:

1. borrowing misery from future

2. carrying grief of the past

3. agonizing over the present

[mook-eyes]

treasure hunt 4x12

[stillzombieromance]

Unpopular opinion but I honestly liked Gabriel and Rosita together. I mean, it was random AS FUCK. but whatever. IDC. The way that man looked at my girl and how he turned into a badass compared to when he started on the show. Like, yes. I loved them. Judge me all you want but argue with Jesus, your mama or a wall.

[linusbenjamin]

Receive her into your arms of mercy, into the blessed rest of everlasting peace. And into the glorious company of the saints and light. May her soul, and the soul of all those departed, in the mercy of God rest in peace. Amen. THE WALKING DEAD | 11.24 — Rest in Peace