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Watsons and Danger

Lauren D. Estleman "On the Significance of Boswells"/ BBC Sherlock 1.01 "A Study in Pink"/ Rocco Morabito "Kiss of Life"/ John Berryman "Eleven Addresses To The Lord"/ CBS Elementary 1.18 "Deja Vu All Over Again"/ CBS Elementary 3.14 "The Female of the Species"/ RadTechOnDuty CT Angiography/ Arthur Conan Doyle "The Boscombe Valley Mystery"/ Camonghne Felix "The Therapist Asks 3"/ CBS Elementary 1.24 "Heroine"/ Emily Gallacher Viall "How to decide which human gets your last ventilator"/ Mort Garson "Sagittarius: The Versatile Daredevil"/ Evening Standard "The Red-Headed League"/ John Masefield "The Racer"/ Lauren D. Estleman "On the Significance of Boswells"/ Winslow Homer "Life Line"/ Roger Ebert "Crash (1997)"/ Arthur Conan Doyle "The Three Garridebs"/ Frederic Leighton "An Athlete Wrestling with a Python"/ C.G. Hanzlicek "Adrenalin"/ The Return of Sherlock Holmes 4.01 "The Devil's Foot"/ Tariff Faizullah "That One Time I Stayed Up All Night Making Excuses to Talk to Danger"/ Arthur Conan Doyle "The Hound of the Baskervilles"/ J.S. Coltart "The many facets of Dr. Watson"/ Robin Jacques "The Sign of Four"

All images have IDs/transcripts in the alt text

#sherlock holmes #john watson #joan watson

automatonwithautonomy

greatest dynamic in the world IS strange, eccentric asshole and their normal and polite friend who on closer inspection is actually worse in deeply weird and unexpected ways

#op said elementary joan and sherlock and whouffaldi #and they were correct asjdsakd

howtheworldcouldb

Watching CBS Elementary really just hammers home how dogshit BBC Sherlock is. Like yes here is this little man he is deeply strange and cares not for social niceties and struggles to navigate interpersonal relationships. He does not understand boundaries. He usually doesn’t care about them. He is often an ass. And he is filled with so much love and compassion and care that it is debilitating. He throws himself into friendship the way someone throws themself off a cliff. He is wrong and he loves being wrong because it means he gets more chances to be right. He is pissy. He is difficult. His sad little wet eyes hunt rapists for sport

#elementary

ashiqui

media naranja (literally, “half-orange”): soulmate; better half

francisca matos, and where were you that summer / alessia di cesare, the side effects of eating too many clementines / (x) / nina lacour, we are okay / (x) / wendy cope, the orange / dropdeaddream and whatarefears, the thirteen letters / (x) / mount eerie, tintin in tibet / amy schmidt, abundance / rafael romero barros, naranja abierta y azahar / frank ocean feat. tyler, the creator, end/golden girl / a photo taken for me by my lover / @mothscaled (x) / (x) / jean little, oranges / maggie stiefvater, the dream thieves / cressida campbell, mandarin with chinese plate / morgan rogers, honey girl / jacques prevert, alicante / hafsa qasim (x) / lorde, 400 lux / ban gilmartin, there is a light / (x) / @ritikajyala (x)

#webweave

soppingwetratboy

Best sex position is guy who’s not there but is fundamental to everything

#textposts

brawltogethernow

I’m finally running low on old scripts that can be done in this format.

#ml lovesquare #ml comics #ml favs #ml crack

kosmogrl

something in me knows where I’m going something in me knows where I’m going something in me knows where I’m going something in me knows where I’m going

#life

preacherboyd

Elementary | 1x04 The Rat Race

#elementary #joan watson #sherlock holmes #this gif right after a separate post directs me to 'love don't roam'... perfect #misc gifs

tora-the-cat

there's a team 7 dinner that ends with the adults VERY drunk, blubbering happily about the fact that they are all still somehow alive and raising little families and 30 instead of 17 and dead by each others hands. and Sasuke fondly recounts some of his and Sakura's shennanigans while they were traveling together a few years ago. And Sakura, who MAY have planned the date he's recalling with some inspiration from one of the Icha Icha novels, is contemplating leveling Kakashi's apartment building 'accidently' as a distraction before anyone can connect the dots.

Kakahsi and naruto get real quiet as a thought tries to form in their liquor addled brains. And then sai perks up curiously and goes 'oh what a coincidence, that kind of resembles a book Ino and I-' and Sakura gathers the dregs of her impulse control and simply flings sasuke over her shoulder and says they have to leave. instead of doing property damage. she's grown so much.

The rest of team seven is left dazedly looking at each other, squinting, trying to put the pieces together, making little progress as sai has started muttering to himself trying to find what he said wrong and re-calibrate his behavior. Yamato connects the dots first, pales, and refuses to present his thoughts to naruto and kakashi, who feel like something is JUST on the tip of their tongues. But Naruto hasn't read the books since jiraiya died like a decade ago and Kakashi is like ACTUALLY smashed.

#team seven #sasusaku #op this is canon to me

luluxa

lifeline

prints

commissions: open

#the pitt fan art #michael rabinovitch

soymoss

starling

#art

winry-lucy-beth

I've recently learned that escaping enshitification is actually really easy. When I was younger I would use FOSS (free and open source software) because I usually couldn't afford anything else. Back then the paid options were usually significantly better than the unpaid options so when I finally got money I started using the paid stuff and completely forgot that Foss existed.

If you don't know why Foss is awesome its not just that its free. Open source software has a huge set of advantages. Most software is proprietary meaning that its code cannot be viewed by other people. Open source softwares code can be viewed by everyone and people can contribute their own code to make it better. Open source is often more secure than proprietary because more people have more eyes on it and more people have contributed to it's security. Its also easy to know how much privacy you have with every software because you can read the code. No more "trust me bro I'm not harvesting and selling your data" you know if they are collecting and selling because the code is publicly available.

In the last two months I have been switching almost completely to Foss. I was worried at first because when I stopped using Foss over 10 years ago the average Foss software was genuinely worse than the paid proprietary alternative. Thankfully things have really come full circle. 90℅ of the software I have tried in the last 2 months works better than the proprietary alternative and is 100℅ less obnoxious.

So here is a list of every Foss software I have tried and recommend. There is way more than this available. This list is just what I have used and like personally. Anyone can feel free to add and we can turn it into a master list. Please just take these as a place to start and do your own research to see if these softwares will work for your use case before you fully ditch your proprietary software.

Operating systems

Graphene os: android alt. Security and privacy focused. The most secure and private smartphone currently available.

Linux mint: easy to use linux, 100℅ better than windows.

Pop!: The Linux distro you should use if you have nividia hardware and want to play games using said hardware. Very intuitive and easy to use.

Kubuntu: Ubuntu Linux with KDE desktop. This is the linux distro one I am currently using and I don't have any plans to jump ship again. Better than windows and better than Mac. The companion app for your phone makes life soooo easy. Its pretty and easy to customize to a ridiculously granular level. No fucking notes.

Kindle jailbreak- ko reader: use jailbreak to free your kindle from the tyranny of the bezos. It will download ko reader which is a Foss OS that has every fucking feature you always wished kindle had and let's you read whatever the fuck you want, and have whatever the screensaver you want (no more ads!). Soooo fuck amazon and use this. I genuinely cannot recommend it enough.

Linux FOSS: (some available on windows and android as well)

Calibre: Foss desktop eBook library. Packed with features. You will want to use this with koreader to make managing your kindle easy.

Manuscript: skrivner alt. Does absolutely everything I need.

Bitwarden: password manager (use a keepass fork if you want self hosted)

Next cloud: private google drive and cloud alternative that you can self host if you want but it's not required. App available

Proton VPN: to the best of my knowledge it is the only Foss no log VPN you can get. You can pay for higher speeds. App available

Quad9dns: free encrypted DNS provider. App available.

News software:

Use any Foss RSS reader and for the love of god stop getting news from social media. Take control of your feed!

Apps (I only know for android)

Fdroid: great app store to find Foss android apps and download them.

Antennapod: you can get all of your podcasts fetched to one feature rich app via RSS feed. No need to rely on spotify or music steaming services.

Openreads: it's good reads but private and 100℅ stored locally. No amazon, no social media aspect, it just tracks your reading, you can import your good reads but if you want to import from storygraph you have to make a good reads burner account, import to good reads, then import to openreads. The menus Navigation on this one is a bit cumbersome but honestly good reads app is worse.

Newpipe: YouTube frontend that let's you have YouTube subscriptions, watch YouTube in the background, and blocks all ads, without logging in to YouTube. You will want to use this one with a VPN set to Canada (or any other country) so YouTube doesn't keep blocking it in order to force you to sign in. But even with that extra step its worth it for the privacy and the lack of ads.

Proton mail: one of 2 more private gmail alts. But you should note that email cannot be 100℅ anonymous or private.

I think that's it. There are still a lot software varieties I am slowly finding.

centrumlumina

LibreOffice is a FOSS Office suite that can handle word docs, spreadsheets, presentations and databases.

prismatic-bell

I know people get mad at the name, and I understand why, but straight-up I've been using GIMP for 15 years and it's a good solid art program made under the GNU program. It's worth a look.

penrosesun

To add:

Blender is an amazing FOSS suite for 3D modeling and animation, as well as digital sculpting and motion tracking. Pros use it. It’s a staple in game development. It’s what the Academy Award winning film “Flow” was made on. It’s not the bland name alternative to an industry standard; it is an industry standard.

Krita is a fantastic FOSS application for digital painting. Everyone I’ve ever talked to who uses it has loved it to death.

OBS is the absolute go-to choice for screen recording and live streaming. You can use it to record your entire desktop or a specific window, capture audio from multiple sources, and even add overlays, webcam feeds, or transitions to your videos.

VLC Media Player is the best media player, hands down. It’s lightweight, it’s reliable, it supports virtually every audio and video format known to man, and it has built in media conversion and even basic editing. I truly can’t imagine why anyone would use a media player that isn’t this one. It’s just the best there is, easily, no contest.

Audacity is a fantastic multi-track audio editor and recorder. It’s free and it’s good, and podcasters love it for a reason.

And believe it or not, Thunderbird is a really good email client now. I’m not even joking. If you used it back in the day and hated it, please give it another chance, because the glow up is unreal.

technologistrevolution

Just tacking on that while FOSS is usually free as in costless the term "free" in open-source spaces typically means "non-proprietary". It isn't a bad idea to look into which of these projects accept donations and to donate if you can. Blender is an amazing program. Genuinely I like it better than Maya or 3DSMax and it is struggling to maintain its project because it has gotten so large in its pursuit of giving artists things that are actually needed but very few of those artists are donating on download.

Other projects (LibreWolf browser comes to mind) reject donations specifically because they don't want to be in Blender's position (often these have an ideological pursuit, like LibreWolf and privacy).

If you see a Donate option when you go to download an open-source project please consider giving them something. Anything you can afford. The non-proprietary (i.e. "free") nature of these projects is so important but I'd hate to see the best of them tank because "free" isn't actually "free".