Just another human

I might be stuck inside my dreams, but at least they're not the nightmares I'd have when I wake up.

[ofkingsandlionhearts]

“So, I need your help in expressing my feelings.”

(#and here we have our first ever instance #of the CLOTPOLE mating dance)

[noortjen-blog]

After a visit back home, I can officially say that I am back on Tumblr... After a year of being pretty much non-existent...

[consultingbeekeepers]

Smith: I have a question for you. Why are you here? Sherlock: You know why I’m here. Smith: I’d like to hear you say it. Sherlock: I want you to kill me

[addigni]

this was one of the most heartbreaking scenes in this episode…..but then again this entire episode is heartbreaking

[moonjoy26]

Okay but can you imagine John and Lestrade listening to this recording???

[addigni]

I almost hope they do. Especially John. Because I think hearing this will really remind them that Sherlock is still just human like everyone else. They seem to easily dehumanize Sherlock and see him as just an addict, or a cock, or a liar, or whatever. That they sometimes forget that Sherlock is human with fears and feelings too. So yeah I hope if John does listen to it, that John would realize how human Sherlock is. And I hope John won’t dismiss it simply as “it’s Sherlock. He’s a good liar”

[vulgarweed]

What I get when I watch this scene is that it’s a MAJOR turning point for Sherlock.

As long as we’ve known him, he’s always been reckless with his own life. He’s willingly put himself at fatal risk so many times - yes, sometimes for love but also sometimes just a solve the puzzle, as we see in the ASiP.

His revelation here, and the moment when he breaks, is when he sees his own death in intimate terms, slow moving and close up, cruel and ugly and enjoying his terror and pain, with no redeeming motive of sacrifice just joy in destruction, demanding his attention and not allowing him to deflect or dissociate or intellectualize.

Sherlock breaks because he finally realizes that he is not ready for his life to end. It’s not even about John or Mycroft or anyone else close to him. It’s him realizing that death is the END, and he is not ready to end. He’s been suicidal and flirted with death for so long that he ceased to take death seriously. Now that he must, he knows for sure that he DOES NOT want it.

Sherlock does not want to die. And now even Sherlock knows this.

I hope that in TFP, we’ll see Sherlock eager and willing to fight for his own life. Because he knows now that he’s important to himself. (As well as yet another belated realization once again of the fact that he’s no help to his loved ones if he’s dead, but that’s secondary.)

[iwantthatbelstaffanditsoccupant]

^. One of the most beautiful things I have read in a very long time.

[sleepingexplorer]

Reblogging for excellent commentary as well as for beautiful gifs

[addigni]

Everything @vulgarweed said 😭💖

[macleod]

List of words containing “meow”: meow, meowed, meowing, meows, homeowner

[tastetheraenbow]

This is literally destroying my life.

[detectivedirks]

[yanfeiimpact]

What a time to be alive

[shpideypool]

THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED. 2017 I’M STARTING ENJOYING YOU.

[brown-scully]

my name is milo and i like to scream

[rigbyxd-elmapache-deactivated20]

[bent-duck]

he has a gun. he will win

[aegoniitargaryen]

social anxiety is realizing you’re lonely, not wanting to be lonely, being handed and opportunity not to be lonely, and still choosing to be lonely because despite every previous indicator that you would be welcome to join in on other people’s fun and stop being lonely, you’re still afraid that no one wants you around

[stunningpicture]

[sasquatchbeefjerky]

wats he doin

[mens-rights-activia]

his very best

[cosmicrystalwitch]

he smol

[tolkienpressure]

Tolkien Pressure 98/?

[flawlessbeautyqueens]

I guess as an actor you’re not always reacting to things that are right in front of you or that are really tangible. Sometimes you’re already kind of existing or free-floating in a story that you’ve constructed for yourself and the character. I mean, it’s always nice to have the actual tangible thing to react to, but you’re already coming from a place that doesn’t really exist. Your emotions are there for what you created for the character, but it’s a “make believe world,“ in a sense – that’s a silly way of saying it, but it’s true.

[chrisriddellblog]

Dark Sonnet by Neil Gaiman.

[neil-gaiman]

I love that Chris Riddell is drawing illustrations for some of my poems for no better reason than pure enjoyment (and what better reason for making art could there be?)

[eroscestlavie]

do you ever wonder what people say about you behind your back but like in a good way? like what are the #reviews 

[the-right-writing]

How to make a character's death sadder

 Don’t have them die of old age after a long, fulfilling life. Many people don’t even think of this as sad (note that this can still work if you have enough of the other factors).

 Leave one of their major goals unfinished. The more enthusiastic they are about completing the goal, the sadder.

 Give them strong relationships with other characters.

 Make them fight against whatever is causing their death. Their ultimate loss is sadder if they struggle.

 Kill them in the middle of their character arc.

 Don’t describe their funeral in detail. Maybe it’s just me, but I find that long descriptions of funerals kill the sadness.

[artistizzyrae]

That’s enough Satan’s publisher…

[iceb0x]

>B)

[theirisianprincess]

7. If possible, try to kill them off in the middle of the story, so we had time to like them and we will have time to let the loss settle in.

8. Also, place surviving characters in a situation where having the deceased person there would help them get out. You can choose whether you will point this fact out or if you want the audience to make the connection themselves.

[thehellspawnhero-deactivated202]

[peachdoxie]

9. Make them die by sacrificing themselves to save someone they love from a danger created by the antagonist.

[socialjusticeprincesses]

based on a few deaths that made me blub like a baby…

10. have their loved one, broken hearted, tell the team to stop fighting because “its over.” 

11. have their pet come looking for them. 

12. have their loved one perform a popular song at their funeral so it makes the fans cry whenever it’s played.

13. family witnessing the death and/or blaming themselves.

~ Mulan

[asbehsam]

so… let’s add some frustration to your dear readers’ sadness, shall we?

14. kill the character in the middle of making a joke, smiling, or expressing/experiencing joy/happiness.

15. make the character’s death slow and painful, but make them unable to call out for help even though they can literally see the other characters nearby.

16. after killing the character, have others think the character had betrayed them so they’d always hate them and remember them as traitors and never say nice things about them… Give your readers no chance to have group-therapy with other characters by making them the only ones who know the truth.

17. right before their death, show a side of them nobody has seen. (someone who is always tough and brave being genuinely scared of dying alone; someone who is always laughing being in tears before dying, etc.)

18. make them the only person who knows a big important secret that would help other characters in the story.

19. have them being lied to before dying. (thinking they’ve been betrayed; thinking they weren’t loved; thinking they’ve lost their loved ones, etc)

20. make the character very enthusiastic/passionate about a certain goal, constantly put stress on their goal, have them die unexpectedly before they can reach their goal. 

and the best one…

21. have another beloved character kill them–better be a close friend to your character, one that absolutely nobody suspects, one that everyone can’t help but love, one who is always enthusiastic about things and encourages your character. THEN

reveal the truth only later when it’s too late and the a-hole character has already escaped.

have a cowardly character know the truth and never tell anyone else

have another character find out the truth and have them die before revealing it to others. 

have the said character ^ not actually die, but go through something so they’d forget the friend of the deceased character is actually an asshole. 

This way only your readers will know the truth, thus the frustration would be… most enjoyable for you.

Satan out.

[bobby-phantom-blog]

based off of the one character death that physically pains me to think about

23. Make the character a very loving and caring family person, whether it’s with their siblings or parents, their partner, or their children. Make them talk about how much their family means to them frequently. Kill them off before they could even say goodbye.

Bonus points if they have a very young child who means the world to them.

More bonus points if their family member kills them, or they believe their family member to have killed them.

[how-to-art]

24. After their death show characters who helped them and who the readers believed were their allies or friends celebrate their death and make jokes of it.

25. And another for not killing their body: Have them come close to death and lose their memory, and after have them work/with for those they were fighting against and find a family there. Their past allies/friends are completely aware of this, except for the person who cared for them most who is drowning in despair believing that they’re dead.

[impractically-imperfect]

26. Kill them while they have told their loved ones they ‘need a break’ or are on a holiday, so it takes them a long time to even consider that the person might be missing, let alone dead, and when they do find them some time later, make sure that the person was (a) suffering and (b) able to be helped, if only they had been found earlier

[billybogshank]

@askthefreddyfazbearsowner , @itstheflock , @eatsatmidnight @mukitsune @shugochara-fandomstuck  @billy-the-kitten ((Sorry I thought you guys might get a dark kick out of this. uwu))

[dakota1435]

This is V useful for what I’m writing…

[thoseprompts]

27. Kill them because it’s necessary to start a part of the plot, but have them trying to find another way out (unsuccessfully) because they don’t want to die

28. Have them die after everyone thinks they’re safe (ex: cancer coming back after it dying down, one last monster getting through the cracks that no one saw, etc.)

29. Kill off the character, and then make that the reason another character becomes evil and/or disappears

30. If your character writes diary entries or something similar, make them die while in the middle of writing a sentence

31. Have your character “die” and then come back… as an enemy (if this reminds you of a certain race of anime ants, yes)

32. Have your character be in constant danger of dying a certain way (like being attacked by a zombie) but instead dying because of a health issue or something mild compared to that (bonus points if character states the irony before dying)

33. Have your character die from something easily treatable, if everyone was in the right place

34. Kill off your character from something that is more dangerous than society thinks (D I A B E T E S) so that you’re teaching society something while they’re crying

35. Kill your villain character right after they turn good

♤hisoka♤

[ubercharge]

approximation of tumblr staff meeting

staff member 1: ok, think. what can we do to make this website even worse than it already is?

staff member 2: you know how tumblr’s a social media site?

staff 1: yeah what about it

staff 2: what if we just. take out the social part. let’s just fucking remove the post replies and lie to them by saying we have something new and exiting to replace it with.

staff 1: fucking genius. here are my keys. go fuck my wife.