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Sameera. 26. Desi girl. Med student. Unreliable narrator. This tumblr has basically devolved into an Elementary/Lucy Liu fanblog with occasional posts about fashion/hot ppl, and even more occasional writing of varying quality. On AO3 @notablyindigo. ------------------------------------------------------- Elementary || PacRim || ATLA || Steven Universe || Parks & Rec || The Mindy Project || Sleepy Hollow || Miyazaki || Secret Diary of a Call Girl --------------------------------------------------------- I like yarn, books, science, big dogs, and snark. Come say hello!

[feyrealms]

I agree john mulaney is probably an immortal akin to beings such as keanu reeves and jeff goldblum but he’s like a new born baby immortal who is looking at the long long expanse of a lifetime he has in front of him and is already tired

[newtgeiszler]

jeff golblum is thousands of years old and loving it. john mulaney was born in 1901 and ever since 1924 it’s gone downhill for him

[wombatking]

So to be clear, the immortal timeline seems to be:

John Mulaney - early 20th century

Eric Andre - Probably 17th century or so.

Taika Waititi - Elizabethan age, probably hung out with Shakespeare

Keanu Reeves - We think sometime around Alexander the Great, but he seems to have just sprung up fully formed.

Jeff Goldblum - 100% Biblical times, may or may not be King Solomon.

Tommy Wiseau - Indeterminate, may be the first Homo Sapiens.

[strangehorse]

this is david lynch erasure

[hubblegleeflower]

Who are the female immortals?

[artisanbloodbank]

Jenny Slate - Jazz Age Darling, bffs with Alice Roosevelt

Helena Bonham Carter - Refused an invitation to dine with Queen Victoria based on her treatment of the Irish

Lucy Liu - ran away from home to join Ching Shih, 19th century Pirate Queen’s crew. Was considered too soft for fighting and was given an accordion

Bjork - 14th century Icelandic healer accused of witchcraft, also possibly a selkie

Whoopie Goldberg - present during the Conquest of Constantinople but don’t bring it up around her, it’s too fresh in her mind

Tilda Swinton - found sleeping in a peat bog. Carbon dating inconclusive

[221brownstone]

Matt’s Inside Line: Scoop on Elementary (May 2)

The return of Joan’s half-sister Lin in this Monday’s episode marks the beginning of a big Season 6 journey for the P.I.

“Joan will have a lot going on, personally,” executive producer Rob Doherty says. “Specifically, we are going to explore several of her family connections this year. We’re going to delve a little deeper into Joan’s family. We’ve talked a bit over the years about her father and his various afflictions that kept him out of her family for a very long time. We’re going to revisit that.” 

Plus, Joan will get reflective and “take a closer look at the things [she] feels she may be costing herself by living with her partner, working for the police, committing herself to their work to the degree that she does,” the EP adds. “We’re going to see her take stock and try to address the areas where she feels absences.”

[notablyindigo]

Papa où t'es?

compelled by the events of s6e2, ‘once you’ve ruled out god’. spoilers ahead.

—

she has dreamed of this moment.

(she has dreaded this moment.)

presses flower to lips and thinks of Lin’s eulogy: ‘we should have had you for longer’.

we should have had you at all.

Keep reading

[notablyindigo]

Papa où t'es?

compelled by the events of s6e2, ‘once you’ve ruled out god’. spoilers ahead.

---

she has dreamed of this moment.

(she has dreaded this moment.)

presses flower to lips and thinks of Lin’s eulogy: ‘we should have had you for longer’.

we should have had you at all.

...

she has gone through many versions of how she thinks of him in relation to her. 

he’s my father. he’s a stranger. he’s my dad. he’s a loser. he tried. he didn’t try hard enough. he is nothing. 

and sometimes, in those rare moments when he remembers--when her own eyes stare back at her from a face slackened and aged beyond its years--

he is everything. 

...

she cries when she gets the letter, chicken-scratch characters running off the page in all directions. the musings, ramblings, and chastisements of a madman. she has always thought about the timing of his departure, of her mother’s descriptions of her colicky babyhood--there were some nights you didn’t stop crying at all--and, in some small corner, let grow the thought

what if I--

and here, written in a slant across the top of the first page, in penmanship without a trace of the elegance her mother sometimes used to boast about (he used to write the most beautiful calligraphy), is proof. 

the spare, jagged characters are the most carefully written.

‘INSUFFICIENT’ 

yes. she knows.

...

but, at least he thought of her? Mary pours her daughter a cup of tea, pushes it to her across the kitchen table, smiles and shrugs. “Oren never got a letter.”

no, she thinks, letting her spoon clink against the cup’s edges. just the best three years. winces at the ugliness of the thought.

“I guess that’s true.”

...

she turns forty and breathes a sigh of relief.

safe. 

if it hasn’t happened to her yet, it won’t. 

probably.

...

of course she knows the letter was carefully written. and of course sherlock won’t allow her her excuses.

but the wrong words, even (especially) written carefully, can still dismantle a heart. can take a thing that was already in pieces and shake it even further beyond repair. 

she doesn’t want to allow voice to the piece of her that hopes--that sits in her chest, still shaped like the seven year old Joan whose father for the first and only time remembered her birthday and came home clean and clear-eyed. but it speaks anyway, sneaking in around the edges of her concentration. 

 he might, after all, give you a reason to miss him. 

which is, more than anything, what she’s worried about.

...

no dirty bomb.

sigh of relief.

she stands at the kitchen window with the letter in her hands for several minutes. neatly slices open the envelope with a paring knife. 

no bombshells there either. 

sigh of...what? reliefconfusiondisappointmentunderstanding

she decides on gratitude, and slips the letter back into its sleeve.

...

oranges in a bag. feet in shoes. soft tread over the uneven ground beneath the pines where the headstone rests.

searches Lin’s face for their father’s, finds it in the corners of the mouth, the straight length of her eyebrows, the shape of her (their, she realizes) nose. 

smiles.

“he wanted us to be sisters.”

[notablyindigo]

sanguinarysanguinity

Hello! You're here! You're back! I'm so excited!

sanguinarysanguinity

AND LOOK AT YOU ALL DOCTORY

HI HI HI

omg Sang I was on vacation in Portugal with my mom and I saw this flower in a rose garden and was like !!! and forgot to send it to you til now so here it is

But also in the interest of full disclosure this is not exactly a return to the tumbs--I’ve discovered that as much as I want to be able to keep up with y’all here AND do my work AND maintain a relaysh, I can’t--but I’ll continue to pop in from time to time!! 

[maakomori]

@notablyindigo BB ARE YOU BACK ON THE TUMBLS

[notablyindigo]

omg I have no idea when this was posted but no tbh I’m v intermittently on the tumbs because I sort of had to swear it off in order to make sure I like...passed my exams and finished med school (successfully done, by the way), but I am very findable on instagram fwiw! TT_______TT I do miss y’all

[iwilleatyourenglish]

theory: the rest of the world in the Mad Max universe is totally fine and Australia just did that

[iwilleatyourenglish]

one lone wastelander manages to sail to new zealand only to find out everything there’s just like… normal

“how did you all manage to survive?”

“survive?”

“the nuclear war??”

“the what”

[clarkonly]

LMAO but wouldn’t the rest of the world send help or something like that?

[iwilleatyourenglish]

nah australians instantly switched over to leather fetish gear, frankenstein trucks, and machine guns the minute shit went south. the UN aid workers got there and saw this

and just turned right the fuck back around

[notablyindigo]

arright y’all so how’re we feeling about the start this season of elementary is off to? 

I will start with:  1) I guess my medical education was worth all the money I spent on it because I successfully diagnosed Sherlock at the end of last season lmao  2) clearly this is yet another Sherlock season. I struggle to see how they’re going to offer us any plotlines devoted to Joan herself but tbh why do I keep hurting myself by hoping  3) sherlock’s characterization (more emotive/expressive, possibly even tinged with a bit of humility?) in this episode is a departure from previous, which I’m cautiously interested by  4) joanxsuits is my new forever ship 

[ruebella-b]

Cosmic Love [a Doctor/Rose comic via Florence + The Machine]

[our-lady-of-space]

[ithelpstodream]

[m--ood-deactivated20181217]

[hoopyfrood]

im watching planet earth and theres this one small scene where the most round seal ever swims past and id just like to thank david attenborough for bringing us this good good orb seal

[hoopyfrood]

ok so i did some seal research tm and it turns out these are the baikal seals and they can only be found in the freshwater lake baikal. i love them

[viridiansunlight]

@meradorm

[ewanmrozny]

They look like torpedos

[anarchycox]

writing fanfic at 27: Here’s the beloved protagonist and their new adventures including a slow burn reunion with their OTP and squaring off against the Big Bad once more and and and —

writing fanfic at 47: Here’s the beloved protagonist. Asleep. Deeply asleep. The other half of their OTP ferociously defends their right to sleep in as long as they want

[andreii-tarkovsky]

Fresh Off the Boat - “Hi, My Name Is…”

[thecringeandwincefactory-deacti]

My kids go to a doctor whose last name is Chantalangsy. She just tells everyone to call her by her (more typically “American”, I guess - even though that name’s origin is actually Hebrew) first name. And, to be honest, she looks defeated when she tells people to do that, and I don’t like that.

I make my kids call her Dr. Chantalangsy because you know what? It ain’t that fuckin hard. CHAN-TA-LANG-SY. Four fuckin syllables, that’s all you gotta remember.

Learn other people’s “ethnic” names, for chrissake.

[obimomkenobi-deactivated2020062]

i can’t see/hear the phrase, “you’re beautiful” without the primitive part of my brain producing a perfectly clear rendition of James Blunt going “YAH BYÜTEHFA'AL”

[notablyindigo]

I MATCHED!

COMING TO A CERVIX NEAR YOU IN SUMMER 2018.