Cemetery Vamp

Mav, she/her, mid 20s Current fixation: Jeremy Brett Multifandom

[lobotomy-jpeg]

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[ID: Digital sketch of Holmes and Watson in a steamy moment -- Holmes is clutching at Watson, who in turn is muffling his face in the crook of Sherlock's neck. /end ID]

[pois0ncandy]

first base: psychosexual obsession

second base: torture

third base: holding hands

[fuckthisshit-ugh]

please read this even if you're not indian. especially if you're not indian.

you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.

first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.

now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:

in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.

and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.

and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.

it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:

• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.

• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.

• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.

• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.

• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.

• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.

and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.

what i'm asking:

if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.

if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.

india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.

we can still save her. but only loudly.

reblog. share. don't scroll past.

[moongiraffe]

Otley (1969) appears to have been taken down from YouTube so that’s great…but anyway, Ted has a small part in it, and there’s one scene where he removes his tie that really does it for me? It’s hard to explain. On the other hand, he gets murdered a few minutes later. This screencap I took a while ago sums up my feelings:

[pazithigallifreya]

Sherlock Holmes being touch averse with strangers but handsy and affectionate with His People is everything to me

Walking with his hand tucked into Watson's elbow so they can't be jostled apart on the streets of London, giving Mrs Hudson a hug when she's overwhelmed and upset, giving Inspector Lestrade a slap on the shoulder when he finally gets some deduction on his own, pestering Mycroft because they're brothers and that's just what you do to siblings so they don't think you've forgotten about them

Sherlock Holmes is literally a cat is all I'm saying. Run up to him and shove your face at him and he will hiss and swat, naturally, because he doesn't know you and What Is Your Actual Problem ew. Sit quietly, let him do as he pleases, blink slowly, and eventually if he decides you're worthy, he might deign to curl up on your lap and purr a little 🐈‍⬛

[frogmunist-deactivated20190724]

When you become famous you’re called a legend because your leg ends

[bassoon-boss]

What

[frogmunist-deactivated20190724]

Your leg. It ends.

[rikoy-11-deactivated20180110]

I’m not a linguist but I think that’s wrong

[frogmunist-deactivated20190724]

Are you saying your leg doesn’t end?

[rikoy-11-deactivated20180110]

I mean. at some point it does. yes. 

[frogmunist-deactivated20190724]

then what’s the problem

[transjudas]

never take for granted the moments when you’re not nauseous

[aru]

Tumblr Code.

[geekishchic]

If I ever see any of you in public, the code is “I like your shoelaces”

that way we know we’re from tumblr without revealing anything

I’m just going to say this to strangers until i find a tumblr person

must keep reblogering!! Im going to be so suspicious if any one tells me this now!

Remember the answer is: I stole them from the president.

always reblog tumblr identification

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[voguefashion]

Vanity Fair's largest photographic profile covering the British theatre titled “Empire of the Stage” for the November 1995 issue. Lord Snowdon was tasked with photographing these theatre luminaries, flying back and forth between Britain and New York to capture these shots.

The cast of characters featured: Sir John Gielgud, Helen Mirren, Jonathan Pryce, Jeremy Irons, Fiona Snow, Vanessa Redgrave, Sir Alan Bates and son Benedick, Adrian Noble, Richard Eyre, Cameron Mackintosh, Gillian Lynne, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, Trevor Nunn, John Napier, Sir Alec Guinness, Paul Scofield, Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir Derek Jacobi, Ben Kingsley, the cast of A Midsummer Night's Dream: Stella Gonet, Desmond Barrit and Alex Jennings. Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Stephen Rea, Jude Law, Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Alan Rickman, John Hurt, Leo McKern, Alan Bennett, Sir Peter Hall, Nicholas Hytner, Simon McBurney, Stephen Daldry, Richard Olivier, Jonathan Kent, Roger Michell, Sean Mathias, Katie Mitchell, Sam Mendes, Matthew Warchus, Nick Ormerod, Declan Donnellan, Julia Ormond, Kenneth Branagh, Rupert Everett, Rachel Weisz, Julie Christie, Phil Daniels, Alan Cumming, Paul Rhys, Joseph Fiennes, Rupert Graves, Simon Russell Beale, Michael Gambon, and Natasha Richardson.

[dridelus]

[swamp-adder]

Holmes and Watson holding hands after a brush with death in “The Devil’s Foot” (1921)

I’ve created an improved version of this gifset because I found a higher-quality copy of the film and it somehow made this scene EVEN CUTER – in the darker footage I thought Holmes was just putting his hand on Watson’s shoulder in that last gif – turns out he’s actually touching his forehead omg.

[wulfhalls]

the romance.............

[mavity]

fumbled the interaction

[ghost-bison]

skidaddled

[nostalgicemetery]

i would’ve giggled 😭

[transmanholmes]

men in bending the willow commenting on jeremy brett’s hotness: a moodboard

[a-candle-for-sherlock]

Holy shit

[msclaritea]

Mother of God

[tremendousdetectivetheorist]

“a fascination which stirred uncertain emotions within the modern man’s breast” That’s a romantic way to say that people had queer awakenings while watching Jeremy

[j-h-watsons-mustache]

I like to think that the way they look at each other sometimes causes a spontaneous rainbow...

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

I saw someone deadass demand an AO3 author to "post evidence" by recording a timescale or showing "real edit dates". Like how artists show their process of painting.

What are we COLLECTIVELY smoking? This is insane.

yeah this is just dystopian. fanfic writers don’t owe anyone anything. artists don’t owe anyone anything (unless they want to share the process themself). especially when you (general you) are privileged enough to get FREE contents to read and consume. if you don’t like it, if you suspect it’s ai-generated and if it bothers you, quietly leave.

this “witch hunting and demanding xyz from someone whose writing/creation you get to consume for free” is not only entitled and toxic but also damaging to the community you’re claiming to protect.

I don’t think these people actually care about the harm ai can cause. they only care about the possibility of themself accidentally reading an ai-generated fic and no longer being “morally pure”. it’s like the satanic panic from the 80s but make it modern.

[tremendousdetectivetheorist]

Crafting with Jeremy…

I just read on http://www.brettish.com/middle-stages.html that to research the role of Che Guevara, Jeremy Brett spent 6 months hitchhiking around South America and according to an interview:

“I worked there, too. At one point, I got some stones and polished and set them and sold them on the spot, and in Chile I got lots and lots of shells and with a pair of tweezers I made tiny little mice, which I sold for quite a lot of money.”