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{𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘄} ‎ ‎ ‎ Pro Snape | Anti JK | Entangled in far too many rotting fandoms of a bygone era | Engrossed with every version of a Sherlock Holmes in media

[lostandbackagain]

cannot stop thinking about "you clone the shooters??" - "oh big time, the government pays for that"

[vellichor-lover]

Actually your email finds me with half a mind to get violent

[jjadmanii]

lucy gray being a calculating performer, haymitch being an unlucky mastermind, and katniss genuinely not having a clue about whats going on

[gazpachoandbooks]

Coin: okay, so what do each of you bring to the table

Haymitch: I'm a political mastermind that started working on this revolution over 25 years ago, already blew up the arena twice and I am the best chance you have to get the victors to work with you

Katniss: I'm deadly in combat, can shoot arrows with the precision of sniper bullets and I am literally the face of the revolution

Peeta: I can get Katniss and Haymitch to eat three meals a day, maintain a semblance of a sleep schedule, exercise, stay sober, shower and actually listen when I speak

Coin: that's not-

Plutarch: no, trust me, he's our most valuable asset

[vancruejovi]

[achingless]

Snaters and Marauder stans all value words more than actions. They'll tell you James was a good-hearted Light wizard. James would say he is and condemn the Dark Arts. But what did James do? He regularly bullied and humiliated his peers using so-called Light magic all because "it's fun."

They tell you Lily defended Severus in Snape's Worst Memory and Severus cussed her out. But Lily said some choice words to James; she didn't do anything to help Severus. She didn't use her wand to help Severus get down or cover him up or at the very least put up a ward that prevented the other students from seeing Severus half-naked and humiliated. She didn't fight off James, or call for a teacher. She said things like "put him down, let him go!" but she didn't do anything.

Then they'll tell you Severus was a bad friend because he called her a mudblood. They won't mention how Severus stood up to Voldemort who was at his prime, put his life on the line when he found out Voldemort targetted Lily. Then he went on for the rest of his life holding her memory in high regard, fighting tooth and nail to protect her son. He says crude things to her son, true. But what he always does is take every necessary action to protect him, even at the cost of his own life.

Actions are louder than words. It's so easy to say something. It's much harder to actually do it.

[the-reluctant-witch]

An offering to the fandom 🌟

[ieatbreadz]

And the broken glass said, kill or be killed

[sekaithemystic]

i call them the autistic adhd trio, or police nightmares, whatever works best

[d1gitalwitness]

Rethinking Justice in Elementary — "The One That Got Away"

I rewatch this episode from time to time, and it strikes me over and again just how committed it is to non-legal means of justice, which is particularly rare given that Elementary technically operates within the copaganda genre (with some room for outliers here and there).

When Kitty is about to murder Gruner, the man who sexually assaulted and tortured her, Sherlock shows up. Typically within the police procedural, Sherlock would be the Character Who Reminds [X] That Killing Is Wrong and Legal Justice is Right. But Sherlock doesn't do any of that. He tells Kitty that she deserves to know that he has found a way to prosecute Gruner. He tells her that this is an option if she doesn't want to wrestle with what it means to take a life. While following the law is not what Sherlock thinks Kitty should do, it is an option nonetheless. What would be unfair, Sherlock understands, is for Kitty to have no way out but to resort to murder.

Kitty responds, "What does that have to do with me? With what he did to me?"

And she's right, prosecuting Gruner has nothing to do with what he did to her. What the police wants is not what she wants. Kitty's assault was a singular event, and only she can determine what justice should be. It's an oddly refreshing take, given that most procedurals would remind to Kitty to uphold the law (e.g. SVU).

Sherlock replies, "Nothing. Everything. Wish I could tell you. If you decide that killing Gruner will make you feel whole again, I won't stop you. But whatever you decide, you will always be my friend."

I've thought a lot about this scene, and how it places Kitty's decision and Sherlock's love at the center of what justice should be. It also brings to the forefront Sherlock's struggle with addiction — he doesn't have many friends which means that his gesture of love is completely genuine. It's a gesture of unconditional love from a stoic man who finds it difficult to love, to a woman whose experience of love has been destroyed by sexual abuse. It doesn't matter to Sherlock if Kitty kills Gruner because the fact that she is his friend will always come first. In the end, Kitty realises that she is offered something she has wanted for so long but thought she couldn't have. That is, someone loves her so much to the point where she feels, for the first time, that she is able to say it back and mean it. So it is beautiful that the episode ultimately conludes with Kitty saying: "Do you know what I haven't said to anyone in a really long time? I love you. Isn't that the saddest thing?"

While the heart of Elementary will always be Sherlock and Watson's relationship, stories like Kitty also reveal that sobriety requires love at its center, and it requires Sherlock to show up for his friends. He is a self proclaimed misanthrope, but his time with Joan has changed him; instead of embracing being a lone genius, he puts in the work to be worthy of the care and love that he receives in return. It may be corny or whatever, but the series is about true and genuine love, the kind that is so huge that it passes on from one person to another, healing everything in it touches.

[elementaryholmes]

He's a very important Sherlock Holmes actor for me, perhaps the most important there is. And it has nothing to do with how accurate his portrayal is to how Holmes is depicted in Doyle's stories.

[pulchrabelle]

Sherlock and Joan (elementary) are THE queerplatonic ship of all time they complete each other they cannot function without each other they would die for each other the idea of sleeping together is utterly DISGUSTING to them but they do want to climb into each other's skulls and live there forever

[icarusesdickarus]

to everyone who doesn’t understand what a queer-platonic relationship is - look no further

[captmuldoon]

“i wish we could see adaptations where sherlock holmes hates the rich and is allowed to be kind to those around him and uses his abilities to support society’s underdogs” elementary was doing this back in 2012. this was only episode 4.

[the-bedheaded-league]

Holmemes pt. 12

Took me a while to decide which Holmes picture to put this text post with and then realized that there was really only one answer:

[sad-sad-tomato]

My favorite Sherlock Holmes variant is when he's loosing his fucking mind because Watson is in danger.

[high-warlock-of-brooklyn]

One of the major ways Elementary stands out from other Holmes adaptations to me is how they wrote Watson. Like it would've been so easy to write her like any other Watson, brilliant, yes, undoubtedly, but forever attached to Sherlock. Watson is there because Sherlock wills it so, because Sherlock needs a rock and because Sherlock Holmes is a man forever in need of a partner. Usually.

But they broke that. They said this is Dr Joan Watson, and she is incandescent and ruthless. She's a surgeon and there's an episode where Sherlock says surgeons have a healthy dose of god complex and you think sure buddy and then Joan threatens Moriarty in the middle of a restaurant and you go, huh. She learns to pick pockets and watches out of boredom. She changed careers over and over again till she found the one that fit. She became a detective and could and would absolutely kill a man and vouch for someone killing a man because it's Sherlock and she loves him very much. She's a partner, in the very literal sense. She kept track of murders as a teenager. She enchanted the most dangerous woman on the planet and EARNED her protection. She's a cancer survivor. She threatens gangs and online hacker conglomerates in free time. She's a mother. She's half of two people who love each other very much. She moved across oceans for him and she would do it again.